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Show ',1 - coOCEAN SAFETY ACT APPEARS IN SENATE. Law Designed to Cover Navigation Lessons Drawn From the Titanic Disaster. WASHINGTON, June 3. An all-in-clustvo bill to be denominated "Tho ocean safety act of 1912," designed to cover all tho navigation lessons drawn from tho Titanic disaster, was lntro duced today by Senator NclBon of Minnesota, chairman of tho commerce committee, which through a sub-committee, Investigated that disaster. Tho bill Includes stringent regulations regula-tions for better wlreloss equipment, continuously operated, on ocean and Great Lakes vessels carrying fifty or more persons just as provided In a bill which passed tho bouse today and almost Identical with a bill already passed by the sonato. This wireless section vests control of the apparatus In tho master of tho vessel, and to avoid tho wireless communication being be-ing shut oft by failure of tho engines, requires a powerful auxiliary power supply that can communicate 100 miles at all times. Tho Nelson bill would rccognlzo foreign for-eign steamship laws whenovor they are as ctfectivo as American laws and regulations; would equip every pas-i pas-i senger craft leaving an American port with sufficient life boats to nccomo-modato nccomo-modato everybody nboard,, together other safety equipment; and would create a commission of five persons to Investigate morchant marlno construction con-struction horo and abroad. It would requlro rigid port examination, examina-tion, boat drills, define qualification of seamen; penalize failure to assist any person In distress ut sea, and roako crlmlnnlly liable any master, nanaglng owner, steamship director r principal rosldont agent of n foreign for-eign steamship for sending from an Jfc Amorlcan port n vessel so unseawor- lhy as to eudanger life. |