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Show PUKES WW FOB REGULATION OF OCEflNTRAFFIC Senate Agrees to the Maritime Resolution Proposing- Treaties Treat-ies With Other Great Nations of World. RAYNER'S SPEECH BRINGS PROTEST! nator McCumber Off North Dakota Objects to Trial. Conviction, Sentence and Execution of Ismay. WASHINGTON. April 20. The -emit.- paved the way today for international co-operation n more complete regulation pi ocean brattle. Pv OBMumau vo, it Agreed to the Martina reHohition , a-is Mug tki president that the senate , would favor treaties with other mari j tint government to refnlats lane t .. DCU travel. the ipeed, lifeboat, wir" less, .earehlight and other equipment of pMMnjr0renying ''raft. In tho hou-o a ntinil.rr of bills dSM sincd to accomplish the same end i ren Introduced, Senatoi ICeCumber of North Dakota, Da-kota, a member of the foreign relu ti.-n- committee, condemned the speech made yetterfgr by senator Rsynej censuring J. Birnce Isjnay, m on aging i rector of the White s'rir line. Registers Protest. Approving the Martiue resolution, Mr. lleOnmoer said: 'Yes-terduy one man connected with the Titanic diaaster sras tried, eon-vietsd, eon-vietsd, senteneed and executed here in the lenate of the United state, Ud :,s i SSBatOT and a citizen, I delta de-lta t.i register my protest against the trial Of unvone connected with the running of the boat without fair, lion- -i and full consideration. The Lord knows that the babit of condemning public """11 without a bearing ia bud enough, but it is not fraught with so . much danger :i our condemnation in a " crisis when public feeling is wrought up and demand.- a victim. At such :t time we certainly should suspend .iudg- meat. 1 1 .Mr BCe Cumber declared the Ameri-oaa Ameri-oaa people to be more in blame than nnyon ele for the Titanic catastrophe. catastro-phe. "We eondnct every enterprise iii the spirit, of sporl, ami constantly demand an increase- of size ami speed in our boats, ' he said, "when the EriiBitaaia made be record trip, we applaaded regardless of the fact thai her course may have been the same hs that of the Titanic, and her equipment equip-ment no better. Says Law Is to Blame. Senator Lodge said the law had been largely responsible for the Titanic Ti-tanic accident, and that the proposed treaties would encourage better laws. St-uator Martin, of N'W JersSV, ' x i thor of the resolution, said it would tend to promote better conditions gen rally in oceanic navigation. He ctiar-actcrized ctiar-actcrized as barbarous the practice of Supplying ocean-going vessels with only one-fourth of the lifeboats ncccs- sarv to accommodate the people aboard The Alexander resolution calling on t - president to invite the maritime nations of the world to an interna tional conference to establish .-hip rand in the north Atlantic ocean, was reported favorably by the house committer com-mitter on merchant marine today, "'Teat the danger from fog and ice to vessels hag been known, and that t dridrablt to lay down mutes by international agreement and make them compulsory for -wifr -tenmers, has long neen regarded 9 neeessarv tn the safety of life and property ai m m, ' ' the report .a v s. |