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Show PRESIDENT WILSON TO URGE CLEMENCY WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. White House officials said today that the resolution passed by the senate requesting President Presi-dent Wilson to urge clemency "to Irish offenders will be cabled immediately through the state department for preset! pres-et! fat km to the British foreign office. Through executive formalities t he reso-Jut reso-Jut ion did not reach the president until today. Michael Francis Boyle of Philadelphia, counsel for Roger Casement, called at the White House during the dav to urge that everything possible be done In helm he-lm If of the convicted man, who fs sentenced sen-tenced to die next Thursdav. j |