IRELAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10282, 10 January 1922, Page 3

IRELAND.

THE TREATY RATIFIED. BY MAJORITY OF SEVEN. LONDON, January tl. The Dail Eireaun ratified the Treaty by 6 4 votes to .57, Mr de Valera announced his resignation. LONDON, January 7. Mr de Valera announced; —“I am resigning the Presidency, and with it goes (lie Ministry. The Dail Eireaun will have constitutionally to elect a chief executive officer. 1 intend to offer myself fur re-election pu the principles enunciated in 1918. I shall seek a Cabinet who will think with’me, and I shall demand that all resources should lie handed over to defend the Republic.” ■ Finally Mr-de Valera withdrew his resignation on a mutual agreement to take a straight-out vote on ratification on Saturday. 1 He declared that he was sure that if the Treaty were ratified there would be no acknowledging of British citizenship in Ireland. He was neither technically, nor otherwise, a British,subject, and he thanked God he: never would he! Though he had never • belonged to the '..Fenian Brotherhood he hoped to, get a Fenian’s grave. Mr Griffith objected that the business of the House was the ratification motion. Another member moved the suspension of the orders of the day to allow Mr de Valera to submit his motion. Mr Collins said; “If the Treaty is rejected Mr de Valera can have a united Cabinet in ten minutes. His motion is only a red herring. Wo won’t have Tammany Hall here. The submission of the Committee’s report was only prevented by three or four bullies.” , Mr de Valera objected to this expression, and the Speaker demanded its withdrawal. Mr de Valera: “You can withdraw .he expression, but the spoken word remains.” The motion for. suspension of the Standing Orders was withdrawn, and the debate on ratification proceeded. Fuller reports show that Mr de Valera, speaking with much solemnity when the Dail Eireaun reassembled, said: —“I think it unfair to the country and to the Dail Eirpann that the discussions since the London Conference should be continued. The Executive has become completely split. We have been trying to continue nominally as a unified executive, but the time lias come when this must be ended. Very well, T say definitely I resign the chief executive authority, and with it goes (he Ministry.. If- you re-elect me we shall slick to the Sinn Fein constitution and use every means to malm the power of England or anyone else impotent to hold tins country. Just so surely as tins Treaty goes I hough there will bo rebels in Ireland. ” LONDON, January 7. Vvhen i.iie Dail Eireaun opened today. ibe Sneaker announced a motion in bis own mime, asserting (lasovereign status of Ireland, pointing mu that (lie facilities and accommodation granted to foreign nations should he subject to the conditio:* that Ireland’s liberties would not b ■ endangered. ?,l” Boland addressed the Dail lOircann. He characterised the Treaty as the negation of everything for which i hey had fought. He admitted that a great hod;.’ ot opinion in America and Hie Dress lavour-d Hie Treaty, but he said lhal peopm there who subscribed money regarded the Treaty as a betrayal. He asked Mr Collins if ibe Treaty was m !):■ regarded as a final settlement. Mr Collins (loudly): “It is not.’ Mr Joseph McGrath tone of Air ilriltiill’s Whips) said he never ex-m-ei.-d to get a republic v. Imn h v en* into the fight. Imt lie had iii ' same object as the men who died, namely, lo awaken Hie Irish people. Mr Boland had told him, '\h“ii Hie former was about to return lo America, that he was going hack m do an awfnl thing, that was to prepare Americans for something short of a repuhie. Mr de Valera, at this point rose to explain Mr Boland’s instruction.-. !!■• told Mr Boland that the idea of an isolated republic would have to lie changed for some sort of association. Imt this must he consistent with the position which the Sinn Fein had taken up. '