Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-23
LEADERS SPR|NG SURPRISE; PARTY REMAINS IN I ACT
Agreement Reached at Last Hour Between Free State
 and Republican Heads
MIRACLE" PERFORMED
No General Election for Three Months; Provisional Gov
 ernment Still in Power

DUBLIN, Feb. 22.-lBy Associated press With dramatic Suddeness a pecce agreement, rea-ned at the eleventh hour between Free State and republican leaders, was sprung on the Ard Fheis, or national Sim Fein con- vention, today. and the huge gathering of delegates, impatient of any delay likely to endanger the pact gave it un- animous approval and adjourned for three months.
 preserving intact the party organiza- ticn, something like a miracle had been worked.
 The general feeling was that in
 The net result of the two day meet ing of the Ard Fteis is to insure. that no election can be held in Ireland for the next three months and when it is held, the issue will not simply be for or against the treaty but to determine the judgment of the Irish people on the actual terms Of a constitution in which the treaty will be embodied.
 Supporters Of the Free State have co7tended throughout that the treaty enables Ireland to frame for herself constitution giving all the essentials fo freedom. but the republicans have denied this and have quoted interpre tatiOnS placed upon the treaty in speeches by Prime Minister Lloyd George and other British cabinet ministers.
 All the obiectiUns to the agreement raised on the floor today, after Ea- mCnn de Valera had announced it's terms, emanated from prominet re- publicans and despite de Valera's as- surances that he had carefully con- sidered every point and was quite sat isfied with Arthur Griffith's emphatic declaration that no election mus -e forced upon the country during the coming three months, the republicans decided to hold meeting this eve ming 10 insist upon clarifying certain points they consider dubious.
 The British governments hurry to pass an act Of parliament supporting the provisional government. and to provide it with an elected parliment which would replace the Dali Eirean, and disestablish the Irish repTo..c, has been rendered futile, it was 5r- sued by those favoring the agreement. The possibility that elections could be held by British authority has now been negativod bH' both sides, it was argued.
 By the terms of today's agreement Arthur Griffith is as strongly com. mitted as de Valera not to appeal to the electorate. except with sanction of the Dali E;reann, and the majority within the Dali is admittedly so small and so precarious that no resolution promoting elections to which the ue Valera faction would be strongly op- posed, could be carried.
 Different opinions were expressed tonight as to which sections reaps the most advantages from the adjourn ment. On the one hand, de Valera's friends claimed he had stopped a stampede and had given the electors time to consider and vote on a defin- ite issue. On the other hand. it was pointed out that meanwhile the pro- visional government will have com plete control of the whole machinery of the Irish administration.
 NOTED PENWOMAN DIES.
 BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 22.-Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster, 92, pioneer California resident. and writer of