The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-03
Conciliatory Over the Home
Rule in House Of
Lords
UNIONISTS AND LIBER-
AIS WANT PEACE
Conservative Amendments
Are to Be Mild-More
Time Desired

London, July 3.-The precise effect o.
the House of Lords proposed amend
ments to the governments amending
bill will not be known until the home
rule bill reaches the committee stage
next week, but favorable omens are
drawn by the London morning newspa-
pers from the coneiliatory tone of the
speeches on both sides of the House of
Lords Wednesday for renewal of the
negotiations between the party leaders
which it is believed will result in an
agreement. The Daily Mail asserts that
Premier Asquith's attitude has under
gone modification and that he now Ia
ready to grant exclusion to Ulster by
statute instead of by the ballot.
When the bill TO amend the Irish home
rule bill came up for second reading in
the Lords, the Marquis OF Lansdowne,
the Unionist leader, announced that az
Ireland was one vast armed camp it was
necessary to find way out of the ca
lamity which was threatening. The I'm
ionists therefore, he said, would give
the amending bill second reading and
introduce amendments during the com
mittee stage in regard to the area to be
excluded from the operations Of the home
rule bill, the duration of the exclusion
and the government of the excluded
area. The Unionists, he concluded.
would not agree to the second reading
Of the home rule bill itself.
Lord Lansdowne added that their ac-
ton in passing the second reading of the
amending bill would be misunderstood
and misrepresented in many quarters,
but there was no other way by which
breathing space could be obtained with
the prospects of ayerting the horrors OF
civil war. The amendments to be in
PRODUCED in the committee stage would
be directed solely to making the bill a
really adequate exclusion bill.
With touch of pathos, he said; "The
peers are so fast bound by the meshes of
the Parliament act that there is no 9TH
er course open to them which would be
likely to prove effective"
Most of the other speakers were |
equally conciliatory in tone A notable |
exception was Lord Willoughby de
Broke, the leader of the "die hards," who |
moved the rejection OF the bill
The archbishop OF York said that what |
the country wanted now was not the |
rejection Of the bill but settlement in
some form. Irish self-government, he |
was now inevitable.
The earl of AKRON announced he could |
not vote for the second reading, because
i would be in violation of the oath OF
The Ulster covenanters.
Lord Bryce, in the course OF the de-
,ate, expressed the belief that the diff.
,ulties could be surmounted. He adj
ntted that some form of exclusion was
but declared that he did not
attach much Importance to the time
INIT.
Rosalind, dowager countess of Carlisle,
las sent to John Redmond, leader of
he Irish Nationalist 81 500 for the Ma
ionalist volunteers fund. Accompany
ng the donation was a letter in which
he countess says; "Since the Conserva
i've party is trying to over-awe the gov
mment by threats of civil war it is high
ime that force should be created to
rotect if necessary, the rights secured
o Ireland by the home rule bill"
A rImor was current that $4,000 rifles
ad been landed on the coast of county
iayo for the Nationalist volunteers. It
ould not be confirmed.