Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-01
COUNTY COUNCIL
Of CORK VOTES
FOR TREATY BY
NARROW MARGIN
Amendment That "AS There
Is No Alternative to AC-
CeptanCe,H Pact Should
Be Ratified, Carries,
SlNN FEINERS ARE
SERIOUSLY DIVIDED
Whatever the Decision Of
the Dali, the Country VIII
Be Ranged in Two Hostile
Camps, Is Belief,
rEx The Associated PressO

! Dublin, Dec. 81 (by the Assoclat-
ed Press. )-One of the narrowest
matorities in favor of ratification
Of the Irish treaty was recorded to-
day by the Cork county council,
which voted 16 to IA, at meeting
Summoned by the lord mayor,
A resolution was moved propos-
ling to leave the decision to the dali
icireann, but after long discussion
an amendment was carried that ''as
there is no alternative to accept
lance, the treaty should be ratified
After a ratification resolution
was carried by the Donegal county
lCounCil, one member Mr.. Duffy,
presented his resignation. saying he
| was unable to accept the treaty,
but realized a great majority of his
constituents desired ratification.
Others Favor Ratification.
The Cavan council, the Leitrim
county council and the Tipperary
urban council were among many
iother bodies adopting resolutions in
favor Of ratification.
Owing to the uncertainty of Ire
lands future, recruiting has been
suspended temporarily to all Irish
infantry regiments, except the Irish
guards.
In Ulster the feeling in favor of
the treaty is reported as even
stronger than in south Ireland.
The treaty also is being debated
in the county committees of the
sim fein organizat ton and all those
which have already met have de-
clared in favor of it. But the dis
cussions have reached a division of
opinion similar to that in the dali,
showing active minority disap-
proving.
1t is evident that the sim fein
organization is seriously divided,
and whatever the decision of the
dali, the country will be ranged in
two hostile camps unless a compro-
mise is speedily affected, of which
there is vet not a sign.
Ratification is regarded as cer-
tain, but that will not terminate
the controversy.
No official Step Taken.
Technically no official step for
ratification has been taken. 1t will
be the duty of the British govern
ment. acting in ireland, to summon
the ratifying body, which will con-
sist of the members elected to the
house of commons for southern
Ireland. That house Of commons
itself as such does not exist and
could not come into being unless
the members took the oath of allie
glance to the king; hence, the
phrase in the treaty defining the
lratifying body merely as members
elected to serve 1t.
The meeting will be only for ratl-
fication and the members will not
meet again. There will thus be
during the tenure of the provisional
government no Irish representative
body to which that government can
be responsible exist in the dali
which technically is still an illegiti-
mate organization.
Difficult situation.
Arthur Griffith and his coll
leagues might recognize the author
ity of the dali, but the provisional
government will by agreement in
clude some representatives of the
former unionist minority in Ireland,
who could not be expected to do so,
and would recognize their author
ity as derived solely from their
own. The republican army depends
on and takes orders from the dali.
If the dali dissolves, the people are
asking what will become of the
army.