Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-13
BIG LEGISLATION
 WILL MAKE ENGLISH
 HISTORY THIS MONTH
Home Rule and DisestabIishment Bills WiIl Come up For
 Their Third Passage.

LONDON, May 12.-This month probably will see Che passage through inc House of Commons of three great controversial measures. Home Rule for Ireland Disestabllshment of the Welsh church and the abolition of plural voting The first two will have been passed for the third time under the parnament Act and no matter what the House of Lords do with tnem they will become law. The plural voting bin still has another time to pass through the House of Commons.
 or courue the greatest interest is taken in the Home Rule Bin. There has been much talk of compromise and settlement by consent but the best informed opinion Of the country is that nothing in this direction will be done in the House of Commons, and any settlement must be reached when the bill is before the Lords.
 The Nahonalists and Ulster Union ists have stated their demands quite plainly and there seems no room for compromise between them. The Ma tionalists have agreed to the tempora- ry exclusion of Ulster from the oper- ation of the bill. while the Ulstermap demand permanent exclusion. Neither side apparently win recede, although Nationalists have been heard to say that perhaps there will be little more concession to save the face Of the Ulster leaders; but no exclusion" lt was thought Mir Balfour who knows his Ireland well, would be the man to find common ground on which the oposing leaders could meet but his speech at the Hyde Park demonstra- ton, in which be spoke against conl- promise has ruled him out and now it is for the Lords to find the way out if the question is not to be settled by consent
 There has been talk of a Federal system for the whole of the United Kingdom, and 1t has been suggested that Ulster should be excluded from the Home Rule Bill until this system is inaugurated, when she could choose the state which she would join. The federal system. however. has many in- fluential opponents, and as for Ulster it raises another difficulty. Many of the great Belfast merchants do the bulk of their business with the people Of the South and Wese of Ireland These merchants are opposed 10 Home Rule but say if Home Rule must come they do not want their province excluded. The bankers of Belfast take the same view.
 Here is the opinion Of a wealthy Belfast business man:
 Sir Edward Carsons demand for the complete and unconditional eN- clusion of Ulster need not be taken seriously We all know that the Ma tionalists would never think of ac- cepting such a proposal We know quite as well that 1t would be im- practicable fl it possibly could be accepted. No one can tell better than myself how clearly the interests Of this province are bound up with those of the rest of Ireland Four commercial travellers from my house are almost continually in the South and West Within the past week we have received orders for new seasons goods from Cork, Limerick Conmel Rosecrea, and Sligo reaching S55,00O A very slight curtailment of such a trade would mean all the difference between a good profit and a loss, leading to bankruptcy The people Of the South and West are great con sumers ] should think that the vol ume ol business between the Nation alist parts of the country and Bel