Mr. BULLITT.  At the conference?  I do not believe the Irish question was ever brought up before the conference or discussed.  There was considerable said on the side, attempts to let down the Walsh mission easily without antagonizing the Irish vote in this country. [Laughter.] I think that is the only consideration that Ireland received.

Senator NEW.  There was a cheerful willingness to do that, was there not?

Mr. BULLITT.  I think so.

The CHAIRMAN.  Is there anything further that anybody desires to ask
Mr. Bullitt?  We are very much obliged to you indeed, Mr. Bullitt.

Mr. BULLITT.  Mr. Chairman, if I may just say—­I do not know whether it is a matter of first interest to the Senators or not—­but on this trip with me to Russia there was Capt.  Pettit, and at the same time the journalist, Lincoln Steffens, and I have documents which they prepared and which might be of interest to the committee.

The CHAIRMAN.  If you will hand those to the stenographer, we will print them with your testimony.

Senator KNOX.  What are your plans, Mr. Bullitt?  What are you going to do in this country now?

Mr. BULLITT.  I expect to return to Maine and fish for trout, where I was when I was summoned by the committee.

Senator BRANDEGEE.  Did Mr. Steffens go to Russia with you?

Mr. BULLITT.  He did.

The CHAIRMAN.  He held no official position?

Mr. BULLITT.  No.

Senator BRANDEGEE.  Who advised him to go?

Mr. BULLITT.  I did.

Senator BRANDEGEE.  Is he in the country now?

Mr. BULLITT.  I do not believe so.  I believe he is still in Europe.

REPORT OF LINCOLN STEFFENS

(By order of the committee the report of Lincoln Steffens referred to is here printed in full in the record, as follows:)

     REPORT OF LINCOLN STEFFENS

     APRIL 2, 1919.

     Politically, Russia has reached a state of equilibrium;
     internally; for the present at least.

I think the revolution there is ended; that it has run its course.  There will be changes.  There may be advances; there will surely be reactions, but these will be regular, I think; political and economic, but parliamentary, A new center of gravity seems to have been found.

     Certainly, the destructive phase of the revolution in Russia
     is over.  Constructive work has begun.

We saw this everywhere.  And we saw order, and though we inquired for them, we heard of no disorders.  Prohibition is universal and absolute.  Robberies have been reduced in Petrograd below normal of large cities.  Warned against danger before we went in, we felt safe.  Prostitution has disappeared with its clientele, who have been driven out by the “no-work-no-food law,” enforced by the general want and the