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Show URGE DELEGATES TO ASSIST IRELAND SVASHiXGTO.W. Dec. 2.-Presi.lent Wilson and the other American re; re-sentatives re-sentatives at the peace conference were ui-Bed to insist that the right of self-determination self-determination be granted the people of Ji-land In two resolutions introduced today to-day in the house and in appeals made by (lie Catholic university through its rector, Bishop Shane, and In- the national board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Uidies' Auxiliary. Patrick MeOartan, us envoy of tile, provisional government of Ireland." presented to the president a request re-quest that Ireland be given representation representa-tion at the conference. The resolutions, which were introduced by Representatives Mcbaimhlin of Penn-sylvania Penn-sylvania and Lundeen of Minnesota, were referred to the foreign affairs committee. The Catholic universitv asked the president presi-dent to propose that the Irish people be I permitted to determine through a plebiscite ple-biscite their form of government. |