Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-13
MUCH OPPOSITION
To FREEDOM FOR
IRISH EXPRESSED
Justice CohaIan Appears Be-
fore House Foreign ReIa-
tons Committee and Urges
Irish Rights.
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Washington, Dec. 12.-The claim OF
the Irish republic to recognition as
an Independent nation was brought to
congress again today and was debated
in militant fashion through a tenn
pestous all-day session of the house
committee on foreign affairs
A crowd which jammed the com
mittee room and blocked adjoining
corridors punctuated the proceedings
with cheers and with boots of disap-
proval as the opposing speakers pre-
scented their arguments, and many
times threw the session into disorder
by yelling gratuitous advance to the
committee and witnesses. 1t included
many leaders of the cause of Irish
freedom in this country and mani
Tested in many ways its sympathy
with the plea for recognition.
The occasion was committee con-
sideration of bill by Representative
Mason, republican. Illinois, which
would appropriate funds for dispatch
of diplomatic and consular represent
atives to the government set up by the
insurgent Irish republicans. It's sup
porters declared It presented an OPP
portunity for congress to do all it
could constitutionally toward a full
diplomatic recognition and its oppo-
nents condemned it as an effort to
involve the United States in danger
GUS foreign situation
Late in the session charges of pro-
Germanism on the part of the Irish
republican leaders and some of their
supporters in this country threw the
meeting into a furore which the COM
mittee quieted with difficulty after
the chairman had warned against in
suits to any of the witnesses. Inter
ruptions so prolonged the hearing
that the committees plan of conclud-
ing today was abandoned and the ar
guments will be resumed tomorrow.
Justice Daniel r Cohalan of the
New York state supreme court, and
Frank p. Walsh, who headed the
Irish American delegation sent to
Paris during the peace negotiations,
appeared to espouse the cause of Irish
freedom and ask for passage of the
bill. The arguments in opposition
were made by George L. Fox of New
Haven, Conn; George T. Lemon Of
Troy, N. Y, president Of the National
Federation of Presbyterian Patriotic
Societies, and others.
Eamonn de Valera, president of
e'ip II 1911 iChhbllNGil iliONGti4tils WIN
came to Washington yesterday To con-
fer with irish american lea5trs. di
rot appear at I've meeting hu' Harry
Boland, secretary OF the republics |
parliament" sat with Justice Co !
halan and Walsh and frequently adj
vised them in The presentation of
their case
The provisional government, these
speakers argued. clearly was a de |
facto government, having a complete
executive and parliamentary organi-
cation; an effective army of
one hundred thousand and united
popular support. The government,
they asserted, is functioning in many
important matters while the British
have abandoned their at
tempt to carry out many of the duties
of government.
These statements all We're denied by
Mr.. Lemon and Mr.. Fox, who said
there was a great division of senti-
ment among the Ir sh both in Ireland /
and the United States and that little |,
real Roadway had been made by the
republic as a governmental agency
They declared the Sim Fein party
backing the republic. was one of three
powerful political organizations in
ireland and had handicapped the
allies in winning the war.
An understanding between Irish
Americans and German Americans
was charged by Mr.. Lemon, and Mr. {
Fox carried the suggestion a step fur {
her by turning to Mr.. Walsh and de-
'laring that during the war this man l
vas thinking to help Germany" The {
'rowd, in which the tri-color of the I
IRISH republic was conspicuous along t
With the Stars and Stripes. hooted '
lown the assertion and cheered COM I
nitteemen when they objected. .js
Mr. Fox will continue his speech t
When the committee meets tomorrow c
nd Bourke Cochran of New York will
make the concluding address for the q
dvocates of the bill ]
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