Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — WANTS IRELAND FREE [ARTICLE]

WANTS IRELAND FREE

RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED »Y HOUSE COMMITTEE. Aiki Peace Conference to Consider Favorably Claims of the Emerald Isle. Washington, Feb. 7.—The house for elgn affairs committee ordered favorably reported a resolution expressing the hope that the peace conference would “favorably consider the claims of Ireland to the right of self-deter-mination.” Four of the seventeen members of the committee attending the meeting were understood to have voted against the resolution. The text follows: “Resolved, by the house of representatives (the seuute concurring) that It Is the earnest hope of the congress of the United States of America thnt the peace conference now siting In Paris in passing upou the rights of self-determination.” The resolution was a substitute for thnt of Representative Gallagher of Illinois (Dem.), requesting the American delegates to “present and urge on the pence conference the right to freedom, independence and self-determin-ation of Ireland, predicated upon the principle laid down by the president in his plea for nn international league, that ‘all governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed.’ ”