The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-07-25
Conference Between Leaders Fail
to Bring About Any Accep-
table Proposals.
Criticism Of King is Bitter. Liberals
Declare He is Mixing in
Politics.
Permanent Exclusion of Ulster
Asked by Carson. Nationalists
Refuse to Consider
Proposals.


Premier Asguith Wednesday as
sumed in the house of commons full
responsibility for the speech made
by the king Tuesday to the political
leaders who had met at Buckingham
palace to confer on the Home Rule
problem.
The premier said:
'"The speech was sent to me in the
ordinary way by his majesty, the day
before it was delievred, and I take
the entire responsibility for it,"
The king left it to the discretion
of the conference to determine
whether his speech should be pub
lished and the conference decided
unanimously in favor of its publica-
tion.
ellis majesty throughout this
matter has followed the strictest con-
stitutional practices. He has not TAX
en- any step, from the beginning un-
til now, except in consultation with
and on the advice of his ministers. -
Premier .Asquith said that all at
tending the conference did so uncon-
ditionally. -.m.
When asked whether there would
be opportunity for discussion of the
subject in the House, he retorted
that "time will show"
Public interest in the crisis over
the Home Rule question overshad-
owed everything else in the British
Isles Wednesday. When the repre-
sentatives of liberals, Conservatives,
Irish nationalists and Ulster union
lists arrived at Buckingham palace
with view to pacific settlement of
the problem they found an enormous
crowd assembled.
Disposing of the preliminaries of
the conference at Tuesdays formal
meeting, the conferees prepared to
tackle the crux of the problem-the
area of Ulster to be excluded from
operation of the Home Rule bill and
means Of carrying out this exclusion.
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster un-
ionist leader, will fight to have the
county of Tyrone included in this
agreement and this proposition will,
it is believed, provoke conflict.
Liberal newspapers in the prov
inces appear to be particularly irri-
tated at the phrase in the kings
speech, "the cry Of civil war is on
the lips of the most responsible and
sober-minded of my people," which
they say might have been taken
from speeches of the Ulster leaders.
These, says the Manchester Guard
ian, a leading liberal paper, the king
Thought fit to summon to his pres.
ence without word Of rebuke. The
king has been unduly alarmed by
reports of certain of his unofficial
counselors and the impression thus
made on his mind may, unless he
wisely determines to be guided
henceforth by his official counselors,
have consequences more serious than
any that have yet been produced"
At Wednesdays meeting the
CLAIMS of the two opposing Irish
parties. led by Redmond and Carson.
on the crucial question of the area
to be excluded from the operation OF
the Home Rule bill. were presented
to the conferees.
The Standard published Wednes-
day morning an important state
ment Eat the request of high au-
thority in close touch with court cir.
cles' declaring that the king is
greatly anonyed at the action of
certain newspapers in bringing his
name into the home rule controversy
and especially at the assertion that
he would refuse to give the royal as
sent to the Home Rule bill unless it
was accompanied by the amending
bill.
ION the contrary" says the state
ment, Ellis Majesty in conversation
with his ministers and personal
friends, had been careful never to
disclose his own opinions on the
home rule question and it is particu-
larly unwarrantable that it should
be assumed or suggested that his