Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
NT|-HOME RULE
FORCES WIN IN
COMP ROM|SE
Remarkable Scene in House Of
Commons as Premier Outlines
Measure Recognizing Ulster.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

l-O.NIJON+ MdTCN S.--GIelultl as
quith and his Cabinet to- day yielded
to the demands of the anti-home rule
forces of the Ulster Counties of Ire
land. In a formal address to the
House Of Commons the Premier out
lined the provisions of home rule
compromise by which the people OF
Ulster Province may escape the dom
nancy of a Dublin Parliament The
terms of the compromise are:
!. The counties of Ulster Province
will be allowed to say whether or not
they desire to be excluded from the
operation of the home rule for ireland
bill.
=. poll will be taken of the Par
liamentary electors on the question
Of exclusion before the home rule bill
becomes operative.
3. If a majority favors exclusion
the county or counties wherein there
has been such decision Will be au-
tomatically excluded for a period OF
six years from the time Of the first
meeting Of the new Parliament
4. If majority of the Ulster
Counties favor exclusion, only the as
sent of a majority of the people of
the United Kingdom can bring them
under the sovereignty of the pro-
posed Dublin Parliament
Unionists Cheer.
The declaration of terms brought
prolonged cheers from the ranks of
the Unionists and groans and Kisses
from the Liberals and Irish National
lists
In his address. Premier Asquith
said:
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clusion for Ulster Province must pro-
vide a middle way between a sur
render of privilege on the part of tna
Government and an application a.
force.
Accordingly. it has been decided
that the Counties of Ulster shall first
be allowed to say for themselves
whether they desire exclusion"
Not since the days of the Premier
ship OF Gladstone has a Parliamentary
event been awaited with such interest
as the announcement of Premier AS
quith to-day.
In addition to the ever pitch, inter-
est in the Government statement and
the excitement occasioned by the pos
sibility of violence upon the floor of
the chamber, the police were instruct
ed to use the utmost vigilance to pre-
vent suffragettes from getting into
the galleries. This caution led TO a
number of exciting incidents, where
detectives suspected the intentions Of
non suffragettes who were entering
with friends or relatives.
Ovation for Asquth
The historic chamber housing Com
mons was packed to suffocation. The
galleries were filed with men and
| urp Of thorn no
ing members of the peerage and rep
resentatives of foreign governments.
In fact, the crowd was so den3e
and the chamber so crowded that
some Of the members were unable &
get to their seats. All the members
and all the attaches Of the lawmakine
body, whose positions gave them en-
trance to the House of Commons
crowded their way into the chamber.
When Premier Asquith entered, the
Liberals and Irish Nationalists leapad
to their feet with prolonged cheers
Standing upon the benches, the Com
moners shouted until they were
hoarse. Looking neither to the right
nor left, the Premier, his ace solenl'
and tense. beneath the fringe of iron
gray hair, made his way slowly TO his
place.
Shortly afterward A. Bonar Law
leader of the opposition in the Lowell
chamber, and Sir Edward Carson
chief UniOnist leader in Ulster Prov
ince, entered.
The Unionist leaders then contin-
ued the tumult which had signalizet
the entrance of the Premier. The
Speaker pounded with his gavel, but
had to allow the uproar to run its
course.
Prospect of Strife in Ulster.
The scene was At to take rank witt
other historic incidents which have
figured in the life Of historic Par
lament.
After several matters relating tc
the foreign affairs of the Government
had been settled, Premier Asquitf
arose, amid a thunderous burst oI
applause 1t was some time before
the statesman could make himself
heard
The preamble to the Government
statement was dry and uninteresting
not giving any hint as to the i'm
port of the announcement
IF | make any suggestions in the
course of my speech, it is not becaus,
the Government is running away from
the original bill" said the Premier il
the beginning. 1T is to allow Consid.
Grafton at this stage of this measur,
to begin with the greatest chances o.
success
There is every prospect of person
| al strife in Ulster Province. and ye
| tt this bill is shipwreeked or peIma
uently mutilated or even indefinitely
| post poned, there would be an equally
| formidable outlook"