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Simple Resolution 283 in the Senate of the United States
April 17, 1912
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce, or a subcommittee thereof, is hereby authorized and directed to investigate the causes leading to the wreck of the White Star liner Titanic, with attendant loss of life, so shocking to the civilized world.
New York Herald
April 19, 1912
This country intends to find out why so many American lives were wasted by the incompetency of British seamen, and why women and children were sent to their deaths while so many British crew have been saved.