The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-10

Dublin. Jan. 1O-(By the A. P.)-Arthur Griffith was elect ed president of the Dail Eireann today.
 Ramon DeValera and his fol- lowers walked out while the vote was being taken, in pro- test against the nomination of Griffith. Speaker MacNeill put the motion for Griffith S election and he was unanimous ly chosen.
 Griffith was placed in nomi- nation by Michael Collins, shortly after the beginning of the session. As matters stood, said Collins, Ireland was with out a leader. He again charg- ed the opposition with obstruc- tionist tactics and declared its desire was to create the im- pression that Ireland was still unfriendly to England and to discredit the supporters of the treaty. The present course of the Dai1, if persisted in, would give England an excuse for re- maining in Ireland, he declared.
 The move to elect Griffith was op- posed by John MacIntee, Griffith moved the appointment of the fol- Minister of Finance. Michael Col fins.
 Foreign Affairs. George Gavan Duffy.
 Home Affairs, Eamon J. Duggan.
 Local Government. William T. Cos grave.
 Economic Affairs, Bryan O'Higgins.
 Defense, Richard Mulcahy.
 MacIntee Against Griffith
 John MacIntee, who said he ques- toned the wisdom of putting up, in Grifffh, man who was bound by his signature to the treaty to wreck the Irish republic. He declared no man who had signed the peace agreement, should be president of the Dail. It was proposed to do gratuitously in carrying out the treaty which at John Redmond was coerced into doing in 1914, added MacIntee.
 Eamonn DeValera asked Griffith whether he intended, if elected, to act as the executive of the republic. The Dali Eireann, he said, was repre- sentative of the republic and of noth- ing else. Peace was not established by the treaty, hee declares, as the struggle for the republic would con- tinue.
 ''This body" added DevaIera, has no right to give away its powers un- less it is established as a republican gOvernn ent.
 To Garry Out Terms
 Answering the questions of the op- position, Griffith said that if elected he would use his position to give ef- feet to the constitutional vote of the Dail to carry out the terms of the treaty.
 MT. Devalera continued to press for a definite answer to his questions whether Griffith would act the ex- ecltive of the republic.
 ''The republic of Irela11d," replied Griffith, remains in being until the free state comes into being and there is any opportunity to put the question before the electorate"
 Griffith said the Da5 had provided the treaty and that it must be car ried into effect. Therefore" he add ed. i've must have provisional gov arnm ent''
 Miss Mary Macswiney said -Grifthp had made it clear he intended to get Lloyd George to endorse the DaiI as he provisional government.
 The speedy formation of a provis- Iona1 government for Ireland was urged upon the Dai1 Eireann by Michael Collins shortly after the open ing of today's session.
 Pope Benedict Pleased.
 The DaiI resumed its sittings at 1:30 o'clock with the reading by Speaker John MacNet1 of a cable mes sage from Cardinal Gaspari, on be- half of Pope Benedict, saying His Holiness rejoiced with the Irish peo- ole at the agreement that had been cached. and sent his blessing to them 1 after they had passed through their 1 ong period of sorrows faithful to the l Catholic church.
 Another message read was from the l irish Labor Party asking the Dail to 'ecefve a deputation for a conference regard the economic and industrial situation.
 Collins Urges Harmony.
 Michael Collins then rose and said