Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-31
WALSH, DUNE AND
RYAN ARGUE THE
CAUSE Of IRISH
FREE GOVERNMENT
Speakers Appearing Before
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Tell of Britain S
Alleged Ambitions,
EMERALD ISLE NOW
UNDER IRON RULE
Statements of PIeaderS APP
pIauded and On Motion of
Senator Fall Time Is In
definiteI y Extended,


Washington, Aug. 30.-Impassion-
ed protests against the league of ma
| tions were presented on behalf of
American Irishmen today at a hear
! ing before the senate foreign relations
committee.
In u series of dramatic appeals
which repeatedly drew cheers from
| the crowd jamming the COMMITTEES
| room, the spokesmen declared the
covenant sought to pronounce a death
sentence on the aspirations of the
Irish people ard to fasten fore yer
upon Ireland what they characterized
q yoke of British oppression.
Among the speakers who said they
voiced the sentiments of more than
900 Americans of Irish origin
were Frank p. Walsh, OF Kansas
City; Michael j. Ryan, of Philadel-
phia, and Edward L. Dunno, former
governor of Illinois, members of the
American commission which sought
to get hearing for Ireland at Ver-
sailles. An opening statement was
made by Daniel f. Cohalan, justice
of the New York supreme court, and
the legal aspects of the covenant as
they affect Ireland were summed up
by Bourke Cochran, also of New
York
Representatives of various Greek
societies also appeared before tbs
committee today and made a state
ment of the claims of the Greek pe3-
tsts rogdTaiEgs the peace settlement.
Ask It's Rejection.
Outright rejection OF the peace
treaty was asked by the Irish speak
ers, who charged that under the Gov
Dt prff OF trn kaft
guarantee that no outside nation
ever would help Ireland gain her in
dependence. The domination of the
British fleet over the seas, they also
declared, would be made so complete
by the treaty, as to be a direct menace
to the United States.
In the Versailles negotiations,
Walsh, Ryan and Dunno declared,
President Wilson's ideals all had been
brushed aside by the other powers.
At the open session when the league |
covenant was approved, they said del |
egates in all parts of the hall tried to
make protest, but were silenced by |
the steam roller methods" of the !
controlling figures of the confer
erce.
OF conditions in Ireland, where the /
commission spent some time, the
three speakers painted a gloomy pic |
ture. Civil law had been suspended |
they declared, and local officials
were being arrested and their homes
searched without warrant, while wo
men and children were ground be-
Eeath a "despotie" military rule whose
excesses, they declared. the censorship
had concealed from the United States.
Referred to Col. House.
The three commissioners said they /
had been referred to e. M. House,
when they tried to get hearing with
President Wilson in Paris, and that
later Secretary Lansing had written
them that it would be useless TO press
their requests further since their ut
terances while in Ireland had offend
ed British statesmen.
Great Britain, the speaker said,
had drawn the United States into the
league to help guarantee such "out-
RACES" as she was committing In Ire
land. At the same time, they assert
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