We are sorry to say that in our opinion the
Senate Com- mittee is not worthy of the body from which it proceeds, and American dignity would have been better consulted if reason- able precautions had been taken with the composition of the Committee to ensure useful and relevant questions being asked with perfect understanding. The knowledge of nautical matters possessed by the Chairman of the Committee may be measured by his questions whether any passengers took refuge in the watertight compartments, and whether the 'Titanic' wont down "by the head or the bows." Further, it seems to us that the treatment of Mr. Isma,y has been very unfair and ungenerous. He has been addressed by one member of the Committee, and spoken of in a few American newspapers, as though he wore a criminal. The evidence, however. shows merely that he helped with the filling of the boats till no more women and children answered the call, and then took a seat himself.
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