Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-03-16
DEADLOCK IN
IRISH HOME RULE
Settlement of Difficulty Lit
tie advanced by Conces-
siOnS.
D EFIANT A TTITUDE.
Premier Asquith's Scheme Dcclar-
ed TO be Absolute Limit of Terms
of the Government.

VI luS
London, March 16.-.A settlement
of the Irish hcrIe rule difficulty ap-
parently has been little advanced by
the British governments great con-
cessions to the Ulsterites, AMI taking
the assertions Of both political par
ties at their face value, the dead
lock now remains as immovable as
before Premier Asquith's corciA Als-
tory offer was made in the House
of Commons on March 9th.
The signers of the Ulster covenant
declare strongly that nothing less
than the permanent exclusion of the
Protestant countries of Ulster from
the Irish government at Dublin, in
stead of the proposed six-year option,
will be considered by them.
The more radical coyenanters Ge-
mand not only the exclusion of the
four counties-Antrim, Armagh, Lon
donderry and Down-in which the
Protestants are in the majority, but
they want the entire province of Ul-
ster excluded. Anything else, they
say, woull be desertion of their
comrades in counties where Protest
ants are in the 'ninofity, and would
be treason to their covenant.
Sir Edward Carson, leader Of the
Ulster Union, sent a message to
Belfast saying, "If anything neces-
states a still more forward move
ment this year, we are gong 10
make good in action all we have been
saying and preparing for during the
past two years"
On the other side the government
newspapers assert that Premier AS
uuith's scheme is the absolute limit
Of concessions, and is not basis for
further negotiations.
Winston Spencer Churchill, First
T ord of the British Admiralty, speak
ing at Bradford, Yorkshire, yester-
day, said:
i at seems to me that in principle
II don't speak in details--that 1t is
the last offer his Majestys govern
ment can or ought to make"
Sir Edward Russell, who is close
friend of Premier Asquith, writing
in the Liverpool Daily Post, of whicA
! he is the editor, takes different
view. He says: I'm nonIpohtlcal
clubs everybody is confident that Pre-
mier Asou:th has made up his own
mini to let the Nationals go; thaC
sooner or later he will tell Mr.. Red-
mond that the only feasible home rue
is the one with the entire exclusion
of Ulster
Irish Nationalist newspapers de-
,|are that John Redmond, the irish
Nationalist leader in the House Of
Commons, and mis- colleagues, coula
= not possibly support bill conta'n'hs
fr,+bor s,,rrenders from the original
g., scheme of home rule. Some OF the
Nationalist organs bitterly denounce
thc Nationalist members for submit
tirr to Premier Asquith's terms.
little talk is heard that the Or
anpemen's preparations to hght are
gigantic bluff The covehantef
claim, to have 10000 men drilling IN
> Sir Edward Carson's army, with
6O00O rifles and some pieces Oh
artillery. .r
The London newspapers are 1li'ea
l with pictures of Ulstermen IN civil
ilian clothes, and with rifle and ca'r-
ridge belts, executing skirmish and
other drills like trained soldiers. j.
Mr.. Churchhill, in commenting IN
. his Bradford address on the prepara-
: tions being made in Ulster to resist
t nome rule, said:
E "The first British soldier or coast
: q,,ard who is attacked and killed by
e the Orargemen will raise such an ex-
;. plos:on in this Country as the Torres
s little appreciate, an;. it will shake the ne
e foundations of society
! Percy Holden 1llingworth' the
e chief liberal whip in the House,
e I'speaking at the same meeting, SAID
D there would be no generel election un-
: til some rule for Ireland, the Welsh
disestablishment and the plural vot'
ing bills had been passed by Parlla.