Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-07
PRESIDENT HELD
ROT TILTS WITH
IRISH DELEGATES
Foreign Relations Committee
Receives Report Of Spir-
tied Discussion at Paris
Conference.

Washington, Sept. 6.-While pri-
vate negotiations proceeded today
between senator's favoring Strong"
or mild" reservations to the Ger
man peace treaty, the foreign rela-
tons committee received report of
q spirited discussion of the Irish
question at Paris last June between
President Wilson and Frank P.
Walsh and Former Governor Dunno
of Illinois, who sought to secure a
hearing before the peace conference
Tor the Irish nationalist.
The report was transmitted by
the Irish national bureau, supple
menting recent committee hear
ings. 1t said Mr.. Wilson declined
to use his influence to get a hear
ing for the Irish representatives,
declaring that Messrs. Walsh and
Dunno. by incorporate speeches in
Ireland, had made it impossible.
Efforts Impeded.
Treaties in existance, he also was
represented as having declared, i'm
peded his efforts to procure self-de
termination for subject peoples.
No meeting of the committee was
held today, the memorandum made
by Walsh and Dunno after their
conference with the president. being
submitted informally, and there was
little discussion of the treaty in the
senate, Senator Norris, republican.
Nebraska, making the only adj
dress. He called attention to the
statement Of the president in his
St. Louis speech that Japan's sec
ret treaties with the allies were
made to induce her to enter the
war, The Nebraska senator said
the treaties were made two years
later
Mild Reservationists Meet.
The group of republican senators
advocating mild" reservations con-
ferred during the day and were
said to have agreed to oppose the
committee reservations, particularly
that relating to article 10 of the
league of nations covenant
The Irish memorandum, described
as notes on the conference between
President Wilson and Messrs. Walsh
and Dunno made by the latter
afterward, teemed with sharp ex-
changes regarding the attitude of
the president and others of the
American peace commission on the
Irish question.
Mr.. Walsh, the memorandum re-
cited, suggested that the president
visit Ireland and the president was
said to have replied:
"Now, Walsh, if it is your inten-
hon to go back to America and try
20 put me in bad. | am going to
lay when l 60 back that we were
well on the way of getting Mr.. De
Valera and his associates over here;
we were we'll on the way, when you
made it so difficult by your
speeches in ireland that we could
not do it; that it was you gentle
men, who kicked over the apple
cart"
Mr.. Walsh, in reply, referred to
discussions in the British parlia-
fnent Of the efforts to secure safe
conducts to Paris for Eamonn De
Valera and other Irish nationalists,
and the president was represented
as responding:
Won't Discuss Question.
Nov, Walsh, | am not going to
discuss anything that was said in
the British House of Commons or
House of Lords except to say this:
That | was making an effort
and Colonel House was making an
effort and that we thought we were
on the way of getting De Valera
and his assistants over here, but
s1fe speeches of you gentlemen gave
such offense that the whole thing
had to be abandoned"
The president, the memorandum
declared, said he had not discussed
with Lloyd George the question of
aiding the De Valera mission and
Mr.. Walsh asked the president to
give his aid. The president, &C
cording to the document replied:
There is no use in discussing
that l don't know what the Brit
ish government would say and l
have said all can say on the sub
ject."