Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-07-25
Redmond Declines to Go Beyond
the Concessions Asquith
Made.
Interest i'm Crisis Overshadows
Everything Else i'm British
Isle.
CONFLICTING RUMORs HEARD

Thursdays London dispatches say
that at the close of Cabinet coun-
Gil late Wednesday night it became
known that there is only the smallest
prospect of the nome rule confer
ence arriving at an agreement, and
its termination after it reaSsembles
tomorrow is regarded as certain. Sir
Edward Carson, 1t is understood,
stands out for the complete ex-
clusion of six counties in Ulster
from the operation of the home rule
bill, including Fermanagh and
Tyrone, while John Redmond de-
clines as firmly to go beyond the
concessions Premier Asquith already
has made in permitting county
referendums, and unless some way
out of the difficulty is discovered at
the eleventh hour it is believed
Premier Asquith will be obliged to
announce the failure of the confer
ence.
All kinds of rumors are current,
one that Winston Spencer Churchill,
First Lord of the Admiralty, repre-
senting the minority in the Cabinet
favoring the clean-cut exclusion of
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another that the King will make
another dramatic move at the con-
ference, and that a speedy general
election has become inevitable.
Premier Asquith's assurance to
Parliament, in which he assumed
full responsibility for the Kings
speech, and declared no constitu-
tional precedent had been con-
travened, allayed much of the angry
feeling among the Liberals, or at
least transferred it from the King
to the Premier himself.
Premier Asquith, on being ques-
toned as to the calling of the
conference, said with emphasis that
all attending the conference did so
unconditionally. He declined to-
discuss why it was being held in
Buckingham Palace instead of the
House of Commons. When asked
whether there would be an oppor-
tunity for discussion of the subject
in the House Premier Asquith re-
torted, "Time will show"
Active negotiations are proceeding
outside Buckingham Palace between
the party leaders. Premier Asquith
had an interview with Lord Lans-
downe and Andrew Bonar Law, the
opposition leaders, between two
separate sittings of the Cabinet,
which it is presumed is engaged in
preparing proposals for submission
to the adjourned meeting of the
conference.
John Redmond, the Nationalist
leader, received tonight resolutions
adopted at conference at Omagh of
Nationalist delegates from the
counties of Derry, Tyrone and Fer
managh, affirming unabated conf
dence in the Irish leader, and de-
claring that at the risk of their
lives Ulster Nationalists would never
consent to be separated from the
Irish nation.
Public interest in the crisis over
the Irish home rule question over
shadowed everything else in the
British isles. When the representa-
tives OF the Liberals, Conservatives,
Irish Nationalists and Ulster Union
lists arrived at Buckingham Palace
to continue their conference with
view to a pacific settlement of the
Ulster problem, they found an enor-
nous crowd assembled in the great
open space before the gates of the
palace. The various statesmen as
they passed in were respectfully
greeted by their sympathizers.
Having disposed of the preliminaries
OF the conference at Tuesdays for
NAL meeting, when King George ad-
dressed the assembled statesmen,
the conferees arrived Wednesday
prepared to tackle the crux of the
problem-the area of Ulster to be
excluded from the operation of the
Irish home rule bill and the means
of carrying out this exclusion. Some
clearing of the ground had also been
effected during the informal con-
ferences. Openly of course the two
sides declare that they can not
withdraw from their present posi-
tions, but II is understood that
Premier Asquith is likely to submit
TO the conference proposal to- al
low the Protestant counties of Ulster
to vote together on the question of
exclusion from the Home Rule Par
lament, and that he may also go so
Tar as TO change the time limit OF
six years embodied in the attending
bill.
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster
Unionist leader. will make a fight TO
have the County OF Tyrone included
In this agreement, and this PROPOSE
tion will II is thought provoke a
conflict which will decide the fate
OF the conference. The conferees
were again In session for an hour
and a half Wednesday and then ad-
journed until Thursday. At
Wednesdays meeting the claims OF
the two opposing Irish parties. led
| by John u. Redmond and Sir Ed
ward Carson, on the crucial question
OF the area to be excluded from the
operation Of the home rule bill. were
presented to the conferees. As
neither the Nationalist nor the
Ulster Unionist leader possesses
| plenipotentiary powers. however,