The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-10
KING PLEADS WITH LORDS
 FOR HARMONY Regrets That Irish Home Rule Question Is Still
 Unsettled PARLIAMENT OPENS WITH BRILLIANT SHOW Vaults Carefully Searched By Police for Lurking
 Militants

London. Feb. 1O.-Kfng George today opened the fourda sesslon of the pres ent British parliament-1 session that promises to be history making one owing to the important constit attonaI questions to be decided, including that of the granting of home rule for Ire- land.
 Accompanied by Queen Mary, who, as wei as the king, wore crown and brilliant royal robes his majesty drove in the state coach of gold drawn by eight cream colored Han oyerIan horses from Buckingham Pal ace through the Mall over the Horse guards Parade and then along White hall to the kings entrance of the House of Lords. Great crowds as the procession passed. The weather was ideal.
 Tn the House of Lords the scene was a picturesque one as their majestfes, surrounded by other members of the royal family and by nefns and peer esees in their state robes and wearing rich Jewels ascended the throne from which the king read his speech out lining the governments program for the session. Only a few privileged strangers were admitted to the House and those included, beside members diplomatic corps, among them the United States Ambassador and Mrs. Page and representatives Of the off, ciaI world
 THE IRISH QUESTION
 In regard to home rule for Ireland which for the moment is the subject of paramount imperial importance, the king, by the emphasis of his words and his manner, indicateu his personal realization of the gravity of the sit uation Hessaid:
 q regret that the efforts which have been made to aEffv8 ats a solution by -agreement of the proble ems peeted with the government of He1aEd have so far not succeeded. In a matter In of my. subjects are keenly concerned. which, unless handled now with fore sight, and judgment ana Tn a. spirit of mutual concession. threatens grave future difficulties, it is my most earn est wish that the good will and CO., operation of men of AIf parties and creeda may heal the dissension and lay the foundations of 8 lasting set dement,
 The opening Of the House of Com mons today for the session of 1914 found an unusually large number of members gathered at the doors wait ing to make a dash into the chamber to secure seats for the nlomentous in itial debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne in which the question of home rule for Ireland occupied a leading positions. The doors were thrown open onry at o'clock this morning instead of at midnight as is usually the case
 Among the earliest 70 arrive were patches of Ulster UnIonsts and of Irish Niationa1ists ana these for the first day at least were able to cap ture prominent places in the House
 SEARCH FOR MIITTANTS
 The police and soldiers whose duties on these occasions heretofore have been largely perfunctory, were on the alert today when they carried out their tasks of searching the vaults. which has been done on the opening day of the session ever since the dis covery of the ''gunpowder plot of Guy Fsawkes.
 The yeomen of the1>guard, in their picturesque old time uniforms, were accompanied by the chief inspectors 0 fthe Metropolitan police. who dis l carded the ancient lanterns generally carried and replaced them by modern electric torches so as to make sure l that no hidden militant suffragettes should outwit them-