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Show WfWMgjiHggHL 'ONE IRISH FREE STATE DEPUTY I KILLED, ANOTHER WOUNDED IN I FIRST INAUGURATION VIOLENCE Rr:r.rcT. Dec 7. (By Tim Associated Asso-ciated I'rc-s) Botll hniiMH of the i Ulster parliament voted unanimously ; foiay t "contract out ' of the Irish BVee state! as permitted under tlx-liifflo-Irish treat , CORK, Doc. 7. (By The Associated irfs) powerful bomb was thrown nt n military car this afternoon. Tin-missile Tin-missile diii not reacli mark, but exploded ex-ploded nearby, wounding two men ami two women, The bomb thrower escaped. DUBLIN. Dec. 7 ( By The Assocl-jated Assocl-jated Press) President Co?grove an-I an-I nouneed to Urn parliament this afternoon after-noon that Deputy Sean Hales had been shot nnd billed and Deputy Pat-jrlck Pat-jrlck O'Mallle. who was deputy Speaker, Speak-er, had been WpUnded while they were Ion their way to the parliament ses-I ses-I sion. The two victims wore on n car proceeding pro-ceeding alons the quays when they were attacked with revolvers, Deputy Speaker O'Mallle'fl wound Ih serious. After President Cosgrave's an-nouncemont. an-nouncemont. Minister of Defense Mui-cahy Mui-cahy aroso and said: These men did not have a priest, nor were, they asked n they would see their relatives." All the members of tho parliament rose as a mark of sympathy. ( Note These are the first acts of vlolonro reported during the Inauguration Inaugura-tion of the Free state povornment. O'Mallle was elected deputy sponker of the Dail Elnann or lower house of the Preo state parliament .at Wednesday's Wednes-day's session, when the members took tho oath of allegiance. Hales was returned from South Cork In tho last parliamentary' elec- i i .Upas, runnlnK as a pro-treaty eandl- on the pan- I ticket framed by I the opposlnp factions). FREE STATE ORGANIZED. Inawfiiratlnn ( the Irish IVee Slate, as one of the dominions of the British i 'empire took place Wednosday. The I cere mony was simple and unmarred by hostile demonstrations from the re-I re-I publican minority. The oath was ndrnlnlstored to Tlm- othy Healy as governor general by the lord chief justieo at Mr. tlealy's resi-Idence, resi-Idence, three miles west of Dublin, and afterward the now j-Tvernor cenoral administered the oath to Professor I .Michael Hayes as speaker of tho Hall I There were no crowds outside the parliament house when the Dail met at nipht. Tho members assembl- d punctually at 5 p. m. William T. js-grave, js-grave, prrsldpnt of th" Dail cabinet, ami Kevin O'Hljjglns, minister of homo aft airs and Bephow of tho new governor gover-nor general; were among tho first arrivals, ar-rivals, and occupied the same scats as in the old Dail Elroann. At 5:10 o'clock Speaker ITayos announced lie was authorized by the govornor Rfn-eral Rfn-eral to administer the oath to the deputies. dep-uties. COSGRAVE SWORN IN. Mr. CoSgrave was the first one to be sworn and to sl(?n the roll. Tim form of the oath of allowance was primarily pri-marily to tho eonstltution of the Irish Free State and then to ktk c;eorf las tho head of the peoples forminc; tile I British commonwealth. oo |