The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-22
SE TIL EMENT 0F IRISH CRISIS IS
 DELIBERATE Newspapers Rap King George for Talk About
 Civil War REGIMENT CHEERS FOR HOME RULE HEADERS Claims of Rival Parties Are Submitted In Confer
 ence By Chiefs

London, July 22-Pubnc interest in the crisis over the Irish home rule question overshadowed everything else in the British Isles today When the representatives of the Liberals. Conservative Irish Nati onalists and Ulster Unionists arrived at aBucking- ham Palace this morning to continue their conference with a view to paci- fic settlement of the Ulster problem for which they had been called to- gether by King George, they found an enromous crowd assembled in the great open space before the gates Of the palace and the various statesmen as they passed in were respectfully greeted by their .sympathizers.
 Having disposed of the prelitpinar ies of the conference. at yester g formal meeting when King George in d brief speech referred to the fact that talk Of civil war was on the lips of many of his subjects, the conferees today were prepared to tackle the crux of the problena-t1ae area of 2U1- ster to be excluded from the opera tions of the Irish Home Rule bill and the means of carrying out this ex- clusion-
 Openly. of course, the two sides de clare that they cannot with hdraw from their present positions but it is un- derstood that Premier Asquith is likely to submit to the conference a proposal to allow the Protestant counties of Ulster to vote together on the question of exclusion from the home rule parliament and that he may also go so far as to change the time limit of six years embodied In the amending bill which already has been dealt with by the House of Lords.
 Sir Edward Carson. Ulster Unfonfst leader, will make a fight to have the county of Tyrone included in this agreement and the fate of this pro- position will, it is thought decide the outcome of the conference.
 The Liberal newspapers in the pro- yinces continue to critictse King Georges speech which most of them will not believe the cabinet was re- sponSible for. They appear to bo particularly trritated at the phrase ''the cry of civil war is on the lips of of my people," which they say might have been taken from the speeches Of the Ulster leade CTS.
 These, says the Manchester Guar dian, a leading Liberal newspaper, the King thought fit to summon to his xx, The King has been unduly alarmed by the reports of certain of his unofficial fcopnsellors and the i'm pression thus made on his mind may, unless he wisely determines to be guided henceforth by his official counselIors, have consequences more serious than any that have yet been produced"
 The conferees were again in session for hour and a half today and then adjourned until tomorrow.
 At today's meeting, the claims of l the two opposing Irish parties, led by John E, Redmond and Sir Edward Carson, on the sub ject of the crucial question of the boundary of the area to be excluded from the operations Of he 1Ai- .Tare &1 the conferees. As neither the Nation aist nor Ulster Unionist leader pos sesses plenipotentiary powers, how ever, these claims must be submitted to the consideration of their respec- tive party caucuses at each stage so that the progress of the conference necessarily must be deliberate.
 John Redmond and John Dillon, as they left Buckingham Palace and passed along the walk in front of Wellington Barracks, were given great reception by the men Of the bat talion. of Irish guards stationed there. The soldiers crowded to the windows of the barracks rooms cheering wildly and waving their caps.
 The King left it to the discretion of the conference to determine whether or not his speech should be published and the conference decided unanimous 1y in favor of it's publication. His Majesty throughout this matter has followed the strictest constitution al practice. He has not taken any step from the beginning until now ex- cept in consultation and on the ad- vice of his ministers was added.
 Premier Asquith, on being question: ed as to tf1@ calling of the confer ence said with emphasis that all at- tending the conference did so uncondi- tionally. He declined to discuss why it was being held in Buckingham Pal ace instead of S AAe House Af Com mons.