Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — RESENT ANY INTERFERENCE [ARTICLE]

RESENT ANY INTERFERENCE

M. E. Conference Opposed to Congress Recognizing Ireland. Des Moines, la., May 4. —Resolutions urging defeat of any proposed action by the congress which would recognize Ireland as a separate republic, were adopted by the Methodist Episcopal general conference today. Other resolutions referred to a committee, would petition the congress for legislation to prevent sending race gambling odds or bets from or into any state, territory of possession of the United States, and the interstate transportation of gambling devices and machines. These resolutions went to the committee on temperance, prohibition and public morals.... — The resolution pertaining to Ireland was introduced by Dr. J. C. Nicholson of Baltimore. It recited there is pending in the congress a bill providing for salaries of ministers and consuls to the “republic of Ireland” and continued: “We hereby record our opposition to all such efforts to Induce our government to engage in this unwarranted intereference in the domestic affairs of Great Britain.” The congress was urged to defeat all bills, resolutions or enactments that propose of assume recognition qt "the republic of Ireland.” Most of the members of the uni-

flcation commission which yesterday reported on the question of union of the Methodist Episcopal church, north and south, and recommended the problem be considered by a special committee of about 150, were named as members of the special committee today.