Arizona republican., 1919-09-07
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 WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-While pri- vate negotiations proceeded today be- tween senators favoring strong or mild, reservations to the German peace treaty, the foreign relations com mittee received a report of a spirited discussion of the Irish question at Paris last June between President Will son and Frank. P. Walsh and former Governor Dunne of Illinois, who sought to secure a hearing before the peace conference for the Irish nationalists.
 The report was transmitted by the Irish national bureau, supplementing recent committee hearings. It said Mir. Wilson declined to use his influence to get a hearing for the Irish representa- tives declaring that Messrs. Walsh and Dunne, by incorporate speeches in Ireland, had made it impossible.
 Treaties in existence, the president also was reported as having declared impeded his efforts to procure self de- termination for subject peoples.
 No meeting Of the committee was held today, the memorandum, made by Walsh and Dunne after their confer ence with the president being submit ted informally, and there was little discussion of the treaty in the senate Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska making the only address. He called at tention to the statement of the presi- dent in his St. Louis speech that Jap ans secret treaties with the allies were made to induce her to enter the war The Nebraska senator said the treaties were made two years later.
 Reservationists Confer
 The group of republican senators ad- vocating mild reservations conferred during the day and were said to have agreed to oppose the committee res ervations particularly that relating tc Article X of the league of nations covenant The Irish memorandum de- scribed as notes on the conference be- tween President Wilson and Messrs Walsh and Dunne made by the latter | afterward. teemed with sharp exchang- es regarding the attitude of the presi. dent and others of the American peace commission on the Irish question.
 Mir Walsh, the memorandum re- cited. suggested that the president visi l Ireland and the president was said tC have replied:
 Now, Walsh, # it is your inten-
 ton to go back to America, and | try to put me in bad, am qoinQ to
 say when go back that we were
 we'll on the way of getting Mir. De-
 valera and his associates over here; we were well on the way, when you l made # so difficult by your speech i es in Ireland that we could not do | it: that 1t was you gentlemen who ! kicked over the apple cart.r
 | J Mir. Walsh ID reply referred to dis | eussions in the British parliament O | the efforts to secure safe conducts t, Paris for Ramon De Valera and othe Irish nationaists. and the presiden was represented as responding:
 BIames Walsh and Dunne
 Now, Walsh, I am not going to dis cuss anything that was said in tn i British house of commons or house o lords, except to say this:
 That I was making an effort ant i Colonel House was making an effor and that we thought we were we'll ol the way of getting de Valera and hi associates over here. but the speeche of you gentlemen gave such offens that the whole thing had to be aban doned'
 The president. the memorandum de clared. said he had not discussed witt ! Lloyd George the question of aidinl the de Valera mission, and MT. Walsl asked the president to give his aid l The president. according to the docu ment, replied:
 There is no use fin discussing that I don't know what the British govern ment would say and have said all can say on the subject.
 T want you gentlemen to understan that our position is this: That we ar dealing officially with these govern ments. You would not want us t make representations or engage in a effort that might involve the sendin of troops into Europe, and I know tha our people would not want that Wha am saving to you is that we canno and under no circumstances could W have, at any time since we have bee here, do anything in this matter 1 an official nature, but I want to sa to you that I have the deepest sym pathy for Ireland and her cause. / know I speak for the others when say that all we could do unofficial 1 we have been doing and will do.''
 Principles Only Feigned
 Regarding the presidents efforts
 to translate his announced prin- ciple of self determination of peo- pIes into the peace treaty, Mr.
 Walsh, according to the memoran-
 dun quoted from the presidents
 addresses, saying millions of people raffad an fhep4 In reptv fhe nre4-