Electric Boat Company getting no orders from the US Navy according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 19 May 1907

An item reported that the US House of Representatives decided that the Electric Boat Company would not get the order for building 8 submarines (costs 3.500.000 US dollars) for the US navy. The reason was the discovery that the firm used illegal methods persuading representatives to give her the order. The was now public offered.