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Show PRESIDENT BOOSTS WIRELESS SERVICE Urges Congress to Pass a Law Requiring Re-quiring Proper Equipment of All Ocean Steamers. Measure Has Been Introduced by Representative Burke of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Requiring Equipment of Ocean-Going Vessels. Washington. To prevent the loss of life by catastrophes at sea, such as 60 nearly happened when the liner Republic went down recently, the president on Monday sent to congress a message urging the passage of a bill similar to that introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Burke of Pennsylvania, requiring the equipment of ocean-going vessels with a wireless telegraph apparatus. Before sending the message, the president conferred with Mr. Burke on the subject. The president had been advised by the commissioner of navigation that, in his opinion, such legislation was most urgently demanded, de-manded, and he argued in strong language lan-guage the passage of this or a similar bill. The closing paragraphs of the message are as follows: "The subject is now under consideration consid-eration by the congress and I am advised ad-vised legislation to effect the same general purpose is under consideration considera-tion abroad. "Our interest in its enactment is keen, on account of the great number of steerage as well as cabin passengers passen-gers who annually arrive at and depart de-part from our ports. What we have already done along practical business lines warrants the United States in being first among the nations to enact en-act a statute requiring the use of this safeguard of human life." |
