The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Believed Conference Will
 Terminate After To- days Session
MANY RUMORS OF ALL
 KINDS ARE CURRENT
Reported Churchill Had Threatened to Resign, That King Would Make Dramatic Move and That Gen
 eral Election Will Be Called

London. July 2-At the close of a cabinet council late tonight it became known that there is only the smallest prospect of the home rule conference arriving at an agreement and it's terminf tion after it reassembles tomorrow Is \ garded as certain. lu Sir Edward Carson it is undersf[l stands ont for the complete exclS of six counties in Ulster from tn '; eration of the home rule bill, inqO' Q Fermanagh and Tyrone. while Jofk<,S + nond declines as firmly to go 6 1 nd the concessions Premier Asqnith z tds has made in permitting county's fen. dums, and unless some way the difficulty is discovered at the .. senth hour 1t is believed Premier Asquith to- morrow will be obliged to announce the failure of the conference
 All kinds of rumors are current. one ttat Winston Spencer Churchill. first lord of the admiralty, representing the minority in the cabinet favoring the clean cut exclusion of Ulster. had threat. cred toresign; another that the Kins will make another dramatic move at the conference and that a speedy genera election has become inevitable.
 London, July PA more hopeful feel ing prevails tonight with regard to the home rule conference, for which the King Is sponsor Premier Asquith's s assurance to Parliament today. in which he as sumed full responsibility for the King speech, allayed much of the angry feel ing among the liberals, or at least trans ferred it from the King to the premier.
 Prealier Asquitii aard:
 The speech was sent to ne in the ordinary way by his august majesty tn, day before it was ,,c.ivcred, and l iukf tAe ent're responsibility for it.
 The King left 1t to the discretion Of tl:s ccnfel cnce to determine whether his speech should 'se published and he cs,gl ference decided unanimously in favor .ol It's publication,
 His majesty throughout ths matter ha. not taken any st7p from the pesIn s..ss .si il rsssv saxesrt.t 9t1 ansstsi l - ! aiti and on the aovsce os his minister, t VAS said.
 l'reu Ter Asquit'i .lyt lived to diseuas Hih, the conference was being held in Buck. ingham palace. instead of the House o Commons
 When asked whether there would be ar opportunity for discussion of the sub jeci in the House, Premier Asauith re tcrted:
 Time will show
 Premier Asquith conferred tonight wiii Lord Lansdowne and Andrew Bonar Law the opposition leaders.
 John Redmond, the nationalist leader received tonight resolutions adopted at 5 conference at Omagh, of nationalist dele gates from the counties of Derry, Ty. rone and Fermanagh. affirming unabates confidence in the Irish leader and declar ing that at the risk of their lives Ulster nationalists would never consent to b, separated from the Irish nation.
 Public Interest Great
 Public interest in the crisis over tn, lush home rule question overshadowec everything else in the British Isles to day.
 When the representatives of the lib erals, conservatives, Irish nationalists ant ulster unionists arrived at Bucklnehan n palace early today to continue their con ference with view to pacific .ettie. ment of the Ulster problem, they foune an enormous crowd assembled before t,, gates of the palace
 Having disposed of the prelininar.es of the conference at yesterdays forma meeting. the conferees today were pre- pared to tackle the crux of the problem ihe twin area of Ulster to be xcliideo from the operation of the Irish home rule bill. and the means of carrying out ths exclusion.
 Some clearing of the dust bespeckco ground already had been over in informal conferences yesterday evening and aft ernoon.
 Openly, of course. the two sides de clare that they cannot withdraw from their present positions, but it is un derstood that Premier Asquith is like ly to submit to the conference a pro posal to allow the Protestant counties of Ulster to vote together on the ques- tion of exclusion from the home rule Parliament and that he also may go as far as to change the time limit of six years embodied in the attending till
 Sir Edward Carson Ulster unionist leader, will make fight to have the county of Tyrone included in this agreement and this proposition, 1t Is thought, will provoke a conflict which will decide the fate of the conference
 Liberal Papers Criticize
 The liberal papers in the provinces continue to criticize King George $ speech which most of them will not be- tContinued on Page Eight)