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Show " THE IRISH PROBLEM BEFODEGOiRESS CLAIM OF IRISH REPUBLIC TO RECOGNITION CAUSE OF TEMPESTUOUS TEM-PESTUOUS DEBATE. Crowds Jam Corridors and Committee Rooms and Punctuate Proceedings With Cheers and Hoots as Speakers Speak-ers Present Arguments. Washington. The claim of the Irish republic to recognition as an independent indepen-dent nation was brought to congress again on Friday and was debated in militant fashion throughout a tempestuous tempes-tuous all-day session of the house committee com-mittee on foreign affairs. A crowd which jammed the committee commit-tee room and blocked adjoining corridors corri-dors punctuated the proceedings with cheers and with hoots of disapproval as the opposing speakers presented their arguments, and many times threw the session into disorder by yelling yell-ing gratuitous advice to the committee and witnesses. It included many leaders lead-ers of the cause of Irish freedom in this country and manifested in many ways its sympathy with the plea for recognition. The occasion was committee consideration consid-eration of a bill by Representative Mason, Republican, Illinois, which would appropriate funds for dispatch of diplomatic and consular representatives representa-tives to the government set up by the insurgent Irish republicans. Its supporters sup-porters declared it presented an opportunity oppor-tunity for congress to do all it could constitutionally toward a full diplomatic diplo-matic recognition, and its opponents condemned it as an effort to involve the United States in a dangerous foreign for-eign situation. Late in the session charges of pro-Germanism pro-Germanism on the part of the Irish republican leaders and some of their supporters in this country threw the meeting into a furore, which the committee com-mittee quieted with difficulty after the chairman- had warned against insults to any of the witnesses. Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of the New York state supreme court and Frank P. Walsh, who headed the Irish-American Irish-American delegation sent to Paris during dur-ing the peace negotiations, appeared to espouse the cause of Irish freedom and ask for passage of the bill. The arguments ar-guments in opposition were made by George L. Fox of New Haven, Conn. ; George T. Lemon of Troy, N. Y., president of the National Federation of Presbyterian Patriotic Societies, and others. |