Show THE IRISH PROBLEM BEFORE CON RESS CLAIM OF IRISH REPUBLIC TO RECOGNITION CAUSE OF TEMPESTUOUS TEMPESTUOUS TEM TEM- DEBATE Crowds Jam Corridors and Committee Rooms and Punctuate Proceedings With Cheers and Hoots as Speakers Speaker Speak Speak- er ers P Present sent Arguments Washington The The claim of the Irish republic to recognition as an nn independent dent nation was brought to congress again on Friday and was debated in militant fashion throughout a tempestuous tempes tempos all all day day session of the house committee com coin on foreign affairs A crowd which jammed the committee commit commit- tee room and blocked adjoining corridors corridors corri corn dors punctuated the proceedings with cheers and nd with hoots hoots- of disapproval as the opposing speakers presented their arguments and and many times threw the session Into dIsorder disorder by ye yellIng yell yell- 1 Ing lag gratuitous advice to the committee and witnesses It Included many le leaders leaders lead lead- ders d- d ers of the cause of Irish freedom Inthis in inthis inthis this country coutry and manifested In many wa ways s 's its sympathy with the plea for recognition The occasion was committee consideration consid consid- of pf a bill by Representative Mason Iason Republican Illinois which would appropriate funds for dispatch of diplomatic and consular representatives tives to t the e government set up by the Insurgent Irish republicans Its supporters sup porters declared declared It presented an opportunity opportunity opportunity for congress congress to do all it could constitutionally toward to a full diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic recognition and Its opponents condemned It as an nn effort to involve the United States In a dangerous foreign foreign for for- eign situation Late In the session charges of ot pro- pro on he part of ot the Irish republican nn leaders a and d some of their supporters in this country threw the meeting into a furore which the committee committee com corn quieted w with with difficulty difficulty after the chairman chairman had warned against Insults to to tonny any of th the witnesses I Justice Daniel F. F F. F- of of- the theNe New Ne York state te supreme court and Frank P P. Walsh who vho headed the Irish Irish- American delegation sent to Paris durIng during dur dur- ing the peace negotiations appeared to espouse the cause of Irish freedom fredom and ask for passage of the bill The arguments arguments ar nr- ar- ar g ments In opposition were made mide by George L. L L. Fo Fox of New Haven C Conn nn George GeorgeT T. T of df Troy N N. Y president of the National Federation of Presbyterian Patriotic Societies and others |