The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-22
ID INCLUDE ALL SECTIONS,
 CREEDS AND FACTIONS
Old Animos.tios Are Lacking in the Dis. cussion Of the Question in Both characterization of a Chairman Promised to Be a Hard Job.

London, May 21.--'For the first time in modern history the destinies of Ire land are 10 be placed in the hands Of the lrshmeu alone. The British prime minister David Llyod George, an nounced to the house of commons to- day that the government will call 6 convention of lrishmen to frame con sututlOn for Ireland and if lrtshmen are able Co agree upon any scheme for tho administration of Uher country, win atteof1t t8f gna6r 1t intO legisia- ton without delay. All sections, parties, creeds and factions, with clergymen and laymen as we'd as politicians and even reyolutionists of the Sim Fein society will be invited to get together.
 If this final attempt succeeds, po- litical miracle will have been accom-. plished. There is no great optimism apparent respecting the success of the plan, for Ulster stands where she has always stood. Sir John Lonsdale, whip ot the Irish unionists, predicted the same old deadlock, declaring that Ul- ster would not be driven into a home lule parliament and predicting that the nationalists will not consent to the exclusion of six User counties.
 But if the attempts fail, the failure will deprive the ancient charge t1a, John Bull's greater island is the cop prcasor' of much of it's force. and it is pointed oJt that Ireland could hard ly be nailed before the European peace conference as another Poland, whi.e America and the colonies can no longer reproadh Great Britain with having neg 'ected to set her own house IL or der.
 Both houses of parliament discussed Ireland today with hardly ripple oi the old anrmosities and fcuds disturb
 Ing their harmony.
 The patient must administer to himseli,' sad Mr. Lloyd-Georee A noteworthy feature of discussion was an agreement ubat politicians must play secondary part to the men from other walks Of life. The premier spe- cified the nationalist factions of which John Redmond and William OBren are the leaders, the Ulster unionists, the southern unionists and the Sim Feiners a. the politica, bodies which should be represented in the conveu- ton, but said that the government con sidered 1t most important that repre- seutatives of local governing bodies, the churches, trades unions and com mercial educational interests should parucpate
 Mir. Redmond agreed in tn s policy and the veteran home ruier even of- tered to obgate himself in the in teres.~ of harmony But the house refused loudly to accept his offer.
 Even Lord LansdoWue. who has been charged by some with the Wreckage of Mr. Iloyd-George's prerous work of reconciliation. told the lords that the road to home rule had been tra'- eled too far for turning back aud re ferred to the importance of failing the task of those who are our friends in America
 The conception of the convention for all Ireland finds for its inspiration the making of the union of South Africa after the BOer war, when the British and the AtFicdnders, whose enmfty then certainly equaled that Of the
 irish factions were able to thrarh out constitution For the position Of chairman Of the convention a colonial might wield strong influence for nar- mouy, and Baron Shaughnessy, presi- 0eut Of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company, who was born in the United | States oi Irish parens, is mentioned,