Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-21
FEEL HOME RULE
QUESTION WILL
Be SETTLED NOW
Unionist Chief Expects to Be
Supported in General EIec-
ton 10 Be Called.


| LONDON, July 21.-<While the lead
srs Of the Liberals, Conservatives,
Nationalists and Ulster Unionists
were in conference today at Bucking-
ham Palace, eudeavoring TO find o
solution of the home rule problem,
preparations were being made by the
chief Unionist organizer for a gem
eral election. He sent orders to all
the constituencies to prepare for an
election three weeks after the con-
ference, as the leaders are convinced
that no matter what may be done at
Buckingham Palace the House Of
Commons soon must be dissolved.
During the time the conferees sat
around the table in buckingham Pal
ace they found an opportunity to dis
cuss many points of difference, and
before adjourning touched or the
question of the exclusion of the
county of Tyrone from the opera
tions of the Irish home rule bill,
point which everybody recognizes as
the most thorny one of the whole
subject.
The general impression prevails
that the conference will settle this
matter since nobody believes that
the exclusion of one county would be
allowed by eight politicians, possess
ing the ability of the conferees, to
turn the scales for civil war.
At the same time 1t is not thought
that Parliament will accept any COM
promise going beyond the offers al
ready made and refused. and If the
House of Commons did do so Ireland
itself would not fall into line.
A Liberal caucus summoned, as one
of the leadars put to buck up" the
British government, was attended by
upwards of one hundred Liberal mem
bers of the House of Commons. A
resolution was passed to the effect
that the members unswervingly sup
ported the claims of Ireland as put
forward by the Nationalists and en-
bodied in the Irish home rule bill and
the gathering showed a determination
to see the cause finally won. The
meeting further expressed the opinion
that it was the duty of the govern
ment to complete it's whole program
before making an appeal to the COR
stituencies.
So deep is the interest taken by the
public of all classes in the crisis which
has arisen over the Irish home rule
question that great crowds gathered
today outside Buckingham Palace to
witness s the arrival of the various
party leaders. The conference, after
D0lilS Iii SSSSiOtl lOT dbOul an iiOuI anu
a half, adjourned until tomorrow.
The Right Honorable James Low
ther, speaker of the House of Com
mons. who was chosen to preside over
the conference. was the first to put
in an appearance. He was quickly
followed by the eight men who repre-
sent the various parties-Liberal,
Unionist Nationalist and Ulsterite.
All came in motor cars with the
exception OF the Marquis of Lans-
downe, who walked.
King George, with Baron Stamford
ham, his private secretary, received
the statesmen in the chamber where
the privy council always meets, and
he shook hands cordially with all of
them Probably this was the first
time that John E. Redmond and John
Dillon, the Irish Nationalist leaders,
had ever exchanged greetings with
their sovereign, as it had been the
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