is bedroom steward, who told the committee how Mr. Andrews
urged women back to their cabins to dress more warmly and to put on
life-belts.

The steward, whose duty it was to serve Major Butt and his party, told
how he did not see the Major at dinner the evening of the disaster as
he was dining with a private party in the restaurant. William Burke, a
first class steward, told of serving dinner at 7.15 o'clock to Mr. and
Mrs. Straus, and later Mrs. Straus' refusal to leave her husband
was again told to the committee. A bedroom steward told of a quiet
conversation with Benjamin Guggenheim, Senator Guggenheim's brother,
after the accident and shortly before the Titanic settled in the plunge
that was to be his death.

On April 29th Marconi produced copies of several messages which passed
between the Marconi office and the Carpathia in an effort to get
definite information of the wreck and the survivors.

Marconi and F. M. Sammis, chief engineer of the American Marconi
Company, both acknowledged that a mistake had been made in sending
messages to Bride and Cottam on board the Carpathia not to give out any
news until they had seen Marconi and Sammis.

The senatorial committee investigating the Titanic disaster has served
several good purposes. It has officially established the fact that all
nations are censurable for insufficient, antiquated safety regulations
on ocean vessels, and it has emphasized the imperative necessity for
united action among all maritime countries to revise these laws and
adapt them to changed conditions.

The committee reported its findings as follows:

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

No particular person is named as being responsible, though attention
is called to the fact that on the day of the disaster three distinct
warnings of ice were sent to Captain Smith. J. Bruce Ismay, managing
director of the White Star Line, is not held responsible for the ship's
high speed. In fact, he is barely mentioned in the report.

Ice positions, so definitely reported to the Titanic just preceding
the accident, located ice on both sides of the lane in which she was
traveling. No discussion took place among the officers, no conference
was called to consider these warnings, no heed was given to them. The
speed was not relaxed, the lookout was not increased.

The supposedly water-tight compartments of the Titanic were not
water-tight, because of the non-water-tight condition of the decks where
the transverse bulkheads