The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-02
RESOLUTION UPON
CAUSE Of IRELAND
HAS RIGHT Of WAY
COMMITTEE WINS AFTER
VAIN EFFORTS TO SEE
THE PRESIDENT.
SPOKESMAN IND | c ANT
Wilson Will Receive Supporters of
Movement to Put Irish Liberty Up
To Peace Conference Next Tues
day-House to Consider Measure.

Washington, March 1.-The dele
cation of prominent American citi
zens OF Irish descent appointed at
the recent Irish race convention in
Philadelphia, won its fight today for
action 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. Coahlan Of
New York, the rules committee
agreed to report out resolution
house before adjournment.
making the rule in order in the
Later the delegation, which ar
rived in Washington Tuesday,
called at the White House to see
President Wilson and personally
present to MIN resolutions and me-
1nori. s adopted at the Philadelphia
convention. They failed to see the
president, but were told he would
receive them in New York next
Tuesday night, after he speaks at
the Metropolitan opera house on
the League of Nations.
Tonight John p. Grace, former
mayor OF Charleston, S. {. who is
member OF the delegation, gave out
4 statement, saying:
"All during the war it was pre-
sumed that among the small ma
tons America was fighting to es-
tablish in security was surely Ire
land, to which, as Washington and
the patriots of America acknowl-
edged, they owed more in the fate
ful hours OF the revolution than all
other foreign powers combined
but when the committee from the
Philadelphia convention got to
Washington, it met with a strong
series of forbidding difficulties.
President Too Busy.
"Twenty-one men from as far
Pacific coast and from New Eng
land and the South, solemnly left
their important affairs and arrived
in Washington Tuesday night, ac-
cording, as they supposed, to an ap.
pointment at the White House OF
Wednesday to receive them. We'd.
nesday passed, Thursday passed
Friday passed, and practically the
whole Of Saturday, and they have
not seen the president yet. They
had great difficulty even IN seeing
his secretary.
"Word had cometo them through
many supposedly uahten authentic
channels that they would be seer
at this hour or that hour, or OF
this day or on that day. AT last th'
committee, in Indignation, made NJ
its mind that odignity. ii nothing
else, required a showdown; elthe
the president, through his buffers
was trifling with the time and th'
rights of American citizens, or SOM
one was failing properly to put tn
matter before him. Whatever wa
happening, days were passing ant
he was about to sail for Europe
with the cause OF Ireland absolutel,
untouched.
meantime the press carried re
norts that, at the White House din
ner, he had excluded ireland iron
the program. This was speedily de
MED by Mr.. Tumulty, but at ono
re-affirmed openly on the floor o
the senate.
Endorsed by Democracy,
"The national democratic eXecu
tive committee, at its session th'
week, had unanimously indorsed th
position of the committee and Chair
man Cummins had an earnest inter
view with Mr.. Tumul,y, shown
him the gravity OF failing to treo
the committee with proper respec
The committee on foreign relation
OF the house had reported a rcsolr
ton sympathizing with the cause c
Ireland, but this was held mp in tn
committee on rules. The commit
fee on rules, however, after earne:
argument, decided to report out tn
resolution OF the foreign affairs con