Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-07-31
ULSTER PARLEY
UTTER FAILURE
Asquith Tells Commons Fight
Must Go On IN House.
CIVIL WAR SEEMS NEAR
Orders to Mobilize Reported to Have
Been Sent to Carson's Volunteers
In Ireland.

Been Sent to Carson's Volunteers
In ireland.
King Georges efforts to bring peace
in the home rule warfare and avert
civil war in reland have failed.
Premier Asquith announced In the
house of commons that the poliucal
!.aders who participated in the four
conferences at Buckingham Palace
had been unable to agree on the area
to be excluded from the operation OF
the home rule bill.
Orders for the mobilization of Sir
Edward Carson's Ulster volunteers
are reported to have been flashed to
Ireland as soon as the premier made
the announcement that brought the
greatest crisis that has yet developed.
No hope of further peace negotia-
tions was held out by the premier. He
said that the conferences had been
ended, thus confirming the belief that
prevailed when the meeting of the con-
ferees adjourned. Fears that civil war
is near were intensified by the pre-
mier's announcement.
The galleries of the house were
filed when the premier arose and Vir-
tually every member was In his seat.
The premier went directly from cab
met meeting to the house, his wife and
daughter accompanying him.
The premiers statement follows:
1.-THE possibility of finding an area
to be excluded from the operation OF
the Irish home rule bill was consid-
cred, but the conference, unable to
agree in principle or in detail on such
an area, brought its meeting to
close"
"That is thes report made, Mr..
Speaker, by the chairman of the con-
ference to the king" he added.
Mr.. Asquith then announced that
second reading of the bill to amend
the Irish home rule bill would be TAX
en- on July %.
The premier was invited to inform
the house as to the exact differences
of opinion which had prevented the
attainment of settlement by the con-
ference, and in reply said: Il can
make no statement on the subject at
the present moment" The house then
adjourned.
Except among the extreme radicals
and labor members, who are opposed
to a conference of any kind, it is felt
in parliamentary circles that the meet
ings of the political leaders in Buck
ingham Palace have done much good
1t was pointed out that they had
shown how far the opposing Irish par
ties would go and that this would as
sist the government in reframing its
bill to amend the home rule bill.
A leading Liberal said:
There is no reason to assume that
the last word has been aid. The gov
ernment probably will proceed to en-
body in the amending bill the results
achieved at the conference as far as
they go, and these, added to their own
concessions, can then be thrashed out
in parliament"
James Keir Hardie, Socialist and in
dependent Labor member of parlia-
ment, in an angry attack on the king
in a Labor paper, accuses the king Of
calling the conference in the interest
0: the reactionary and rebellious Ul
stelites. Among other things he says:
"The king is not pleasure-loving
scapegrace, as his father was, but,
like his father, he is destitute of even
ordinary ability. Born in the ranks Of
workers, his most likely fate would
have been that of street corner
loafer."