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Show USE FIRS HEHJUUG Adopts Resolution Urging Peace Conference to i; Consider Problem. A.SHIXCTOX, March 4. By a vote oCl(5 to 41 the house early today adopted the resolution expressing the hope that tho peace conference would "favorably consider tho claims of Ireland to the rifrht of self-determination." When the house resolution was received by' the sennte, Senator France of Maryland, Mary-land, Republican, asked unanimous con-ffwit con-ffwit for its immediate consideration. IS-itiator Sniiih of Georgia, Democrat, ob-y-iacl and demanded tiiat she resolution t'Q to the foreign affairs committee, where a similar resolution has been pending pend-ing for several months. The resolution failed to be disposed of before congress fcdjou rned. Adoption of tho resolution in the house c;(me after a turbulent all-night session, In; which an organized effort was made to keep the resolution from coming to a ote. Tho attempt was abandoned shortly "mjfere six o'clock. Only one riiemben l:epre.enia( ive Connally of Texas, ex-pcessed ex-pcessed opposition to tho purpose of the r 'Solution, but Republican Leader Mann, Jit-presentative Moore of Pennsylvania and others atttempted parliamentary delay throughout the niht. ; ."Representative Mann charged that ' Jjp.mocratie supporters of the resolution had delayed the bringing of it to a vote uO lil j'.:st before adjournment so that it wpuld not he passed by the senate and fc.tr that President Wilson would not be called upon to approve or disapprove the Irwin sure. ;; desire to advise the political party-t party-t rtat attempts to throttle this resolution Tlit it is dealing with dynamite," said Representative Oalhvan of Massachubetts, Iw-mocrat. "I appeal to the house to stop t It is nonsense and give consideration to a ".resolution for the relief of a peonle vho have been suffering for several centimes, cen-times, and to let tho world-know that wc .believe in President Wilson when he said ' we entered the war 'to make small nations na-tions free.' " In opposing the resolution Representa-- Representa-- five Connally said the internal affairs of i "(Ireat Britain were no concern to the peo- plo of the United States. The people of this country, he asserted, would resent a ' resolution in tho British parliament proposing pro-posing self-determination for Porto Rico. k Representative Oallagher of Illinois, author au-thor of the 'resolution, said that, even if the measure were not approved by the innate, favorable nction by the house might obt;:in sympathetic consideration for Ireland at the peace conference. . |