Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-06-16

TRY TO WRECK
COALITION PLAN /
Believed Anti Treaty Party
Y WillLose Ten Seats; Pro-
III '. treatyites Five.
CONSTITUTION FOR
IRELAND ANNOUNCED
New Irish Constitution Puts
Country on Same Basis
as Canada. !
(By The Asaoc.ated press,


Dublin, June 16.-The voters of
Southern Ireland went to the polls to-
day to elect an Irish parliament. .un-
der the terms of the Anglo Irish
treaty.
Under the recent agreement be-
tween the factions favoring and op-
posing the treaty. a coalition panel of
candidates was presented to the peo-
pie, apportioning in the parliament at
approximately the same ratio as
Dali Eireann.
"A number of independents, however,
have entered the field in an attempt
to overturn the panel on the treaty
issue, and 1t was on this phase of the
struggle that interest mainly centered
as the polling began.
d Estimates were that at least fifteen
OF the independents would be sue
cessful with the anti-treaty party los
ings ten and the pro-treatyites five
seats. lS-.. sf,rsg
III The Anelo-Irish treaty, signed last
December. unASrswhich the Irish free
state is being created provided for
the formation Of an Irish, parliament.
The act to give the treaty effect,
nassed by the British parliament in
prpvisional parliament for the free
state. should be held "as soop as may
beAssaA aAtaFa the passage of,tthe ;tct.
TfSse xre The elections being held in
Ir8t1nd today.S The parliament. SO
els&ted is tN Joas5 unQn the. consA it'll
stitN for the frtet state under which
n permanent parliament for southern
Irflapd will be chosen.
Z lacking any constitutional division
3~,<~ 3ies<S. ;otc ho
prksent election, the act Of the British
parliament stipulated that the pros
peetive members be nominated from
thu, constituencies which elected
members to the parliament chosen
under the government of Ireland act
OF 1920. Elections were held in south
;era Ireland that year under this act,
but the parliament never came into
being. Instead the members elected
were declared by the Irish republican
government at that time to constitute
ytl1t mem bership of the Dali Eireann,
or republican parliament, which
sine the adoption of the Anglo-Irish
treaty, has been allowed by the Brit
ish government to function as vir.
tually the recognized legislative body
= for southern Ireland. 1t was the Dali
Ei.eann for instance, which passed
upon the Anglo-1rish treaty itself
radfying it. as will be recalled, by 9
,nRjority of seven votes.
'&t#f Coalition Cabinet.
1t was contemplated by the British
s government. and originally by the
Irish provisional government headed
fbyi Michael Collins that today's cleo.
sfions should be freely contested anc
shDuld virtually constitute plebiscite
soflsouthern Ireland on the question
ofithe treaty and the proposed con
stilution.
rhe new parliament will form {
coilition cabinet. drawn from pro
treaty faction under Michael Collins
anh an anti-treatv force under Ea
m0nn de Valera. An agreement reach
ed in May by Collins and de Waller:
prbvided among other things. for
cabinet of eleven members including
tthe president and the minister of de
fense. The nine other members. will
,be, selected five from the majorit!
party and four from the minorit!
party, each party to choose Its noml
nees.
'frhe factional agreement Of Ma.
I brought about a halt in the aggres
/ siue fight being waged by the de Va
iera faction against the provisional
government. In this situation tn
pistish authorities asked the leadin
REPRESENTATIVES of the provisiona
\ government to come to London for
Conference. and lengthy conversation
hetween cabinet members and tn
Irish representatives took place ther
n. dnrinr the week of May 28. AS re
sult Colonial Secretary Winsto
Churchill, in speech In the Brttis
house OF commons on June i, an
1,nunced what was virtually the decl
Fsinn Of the British government to le
lie elections proceed as arranged D
,tns two factions in Ireland.