Show jT IRISH PARLIAMENT MEETS AT III DUBLiN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ADOPTED AND TES TO PEACE CONGRESS CHOSEN c Members of Sinn Fein Society Elec Elected ed j to British House of Commons 1 Will Have a Parliament of Their Own c. c t to s. s Dublin five members of Twenty Twenty o l the Sinn Sian Fein society elected to the f British house use of commons l j here hore Tuesday afternoon and formally constituted themselves the Dail Dall Lir I cann h Is Irish Gaelic for tor or Irish t 1 i i They elected Charles Burgess whose hose 71 Irish rii name Is Cathal Brugha speaker They also n. n adopted o ted a declaration o of independence in In- r i dependence and an address to the free i nations of ot the world and appointed n a nt nt t- t t- t z committee consisting of Count Plunk- Plunk Arthur Gr Griffiths and Professor Edward Ed Ed- I r. r f ward De Valera to present the claims chums 2 o of Ireland to self determination to the peace conference renoe at Paris The two last Jast named being In British r prisons only the venerable Count kott kett can oon in proceed to Paris staid and then only provided the British government consents to give him passports The walls of ot the hall hail were quaintly embellished with wWI the tiie classic statues n n. plaster and coats costs of arms Past lord mayors have witnessed many more exciting ex ex- ex- ex clUng citing dramas notably In recent years the eon conventions of the Nationalist National t party when there were Impassioned speeches and hot party contests That the proceedings seemed tame tam by contrast was due to the ithe fact fad that they were conducted in the dead language Ian lan j guage of the Irish tongue This was a n S tribute to sentiment but 1 tt 11 was deadening dead dead- suing ening to Interest Few v of the 2000 auditors understood the addresses I S A crowd o of perhaps a thousand inS including in in- eluding many m women and children S S wearing green white and yellow ribbons rib rib rib-I S bons bons pressed around the door of the they Man Mansion House watching th the delegates dele dole gates enter eater Only two t policemen were S visible but the Sinn Fein had hod Its Us own 5 S police youths police youths wearing white arm firm armbands bands to bands to kt keep ep order Older S The Tilie most striking feature of the program program program pro pro- gram was the reading of the declaration declaration declara declara- S tion of Independence nce First In Irish 5 with the delegates standing and afterwards afterwards afterwards after after- wards in English and mul French Irelands Ire 4 S lands land's address to the free nations wa was read rood It cooc concluded with an announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the complete Independency 41 5 o of the Irish republic against the arro arrogant Si of founded 5 gnat gant pretensions England t i in freud frand and sustained only by on an jL O overwhelming military occupation vatI n. n |