Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-02
IRISH-AMERI RICANS
 WIN IN FIGHT FOR
 ACTION IN HOUSE
Delegation Fails to See Presi- dent, but Gain Promise
 of Meeting

! gatiOn of prominent American citizens
 of Irish descent, appointed at the recent Irish race convention in Phila- delphia. won its fight today for ac- | ton by the house rules committee, to give right of way in congress to a resolution instructing the American delegates at Paris to urge Ireland's cause before the peace conference.
 After hearing the delegation, which was headed by Justice John W. Golf and Daniel F. Cohalan Of New York, the rules committee agreed to report out a rule making the resolution in order in the house before adjourn ment.
 Later the delegation, which arrived in Washington Tuesday, called at the White House to see President Wilson and personally present to him resoIu- tiOns and memorials adopted at the Philadelphia convention. They failed to see the president. but were told he would receive them sin New York next Tuesday night after he speaks at the eMtrOpOlitan opera house on the league of nations
 Tonight John P Grace, former mayor of Charleston, s. C., and a member of the delegation, gave out statement saying:
 "AH during the war it was pre- sumed that among the small nations America was fighting to establish in security was surely Ireland, to which. as Washington, and the patriots of America acknowledged, they owed more in the fatefUI hours of the rev, olutiOn than all other powers com bined, but when the committee from Philadelphia convention got to Wash ington it was met with a strong series of fOrbidding difficulties.
 Twenty-One men from as far west as the Pacific coast and from New England and the south, soIemnly left their important affairs and arrived in Washington Tuesday night, according. as they supposed, to an appointment at the White House on Wednesday to receive them Wednesday passed, Thursday passed, Friday passed and practically the whole of Saturday and they have not yet seen the president They had great difficulty even in see ing his secretary
 Demans Show Down"
 Word had come % them throuz., many supposedly authentic channels that they would be seen at this hour or that hour, or on this day or on that day They approached the sub ject through senators and attaches of various degrees of importance at the White House and elsewhere, but there was an impenetTable barrier At last the committee, in indignation. made up it's mind that dignity, if nothing else, required show down; either Ihe president, through his buffers. was trifIing with the time and the rights of American citizens or some one was falling properly to put the matter be- fore him Whatever was happening. days were passing and he was about to sail for Europe, with the case of Ireland absolutely untouched
 Meantime. the press carried re- ports that. at the White House ain ner he had excluded Ireland from the program This was speedily denied by Mir Tumulty, but at once reaffirmed openly on the floor of the senate
 Wilson -Nery Busy Man"
 The committee went to the White | House at 12:30 today Received by Ar. Tdmulty. it was told that the president was a very busy man. Judge l Golf said that of course he knew this. ] but this was a tremendous issue for those interested MT Tumulty said he 1 vas as much interested in the issue as anybody But that did not get the com l mittee anywhere He said he had been ] pressing the matter 10 the presidents ! and expected to hear from ] lim at most any moment Judge Golf l said that we could wait no longer 1 Jut that, as a matter of courtesy, the I committee would return at o'clock 1 for a definite answer
 Meantime, Mir Tumulty had the Iact communicated 10 the committee | that if it returned at 3 o'clock il would 1 be informed that the president would 1 receive it not in Washington, but on 1 next Tuesday night in New York, aft I CT his speech at the Metropolitan the l ater- The committee. nevertheless, went back at o'clock to be assured f n person of this fact.
 ln6orsed by Committee
 The national democratic executive l committee, at it's session this week, I had unanimously indOrsed the posi- i ton of the committee and Chairman l Cummins had an earnest interview l with Sir. Tumulty showing him the | gravity Ot failing to treat the commit tee with proper respect- The commit tee on foreign relations of the house /. had reported a resolution sympathiZ- \ ing with the case of Ireland, but this ! was held mn in fhe cOTr r7iffpes on ruleS II on the ground that business was too | pressing for its submission to the \ whole house The committee on rules. Il however, graciOusly received a delega- ton from the Irish -ace convention -esterday and alter earnest argument fl iecided to report out the resolution -f the foreign affairs committee.
 For the last four days there has been an amazing change of sentiment In certain quarters, under which il is 1oW- clear that whatever may be ac- II