HOME RULE CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7

HOME RULE CRISIS

ELECTION PHEDIOTEP FOR JUNE. By Telejraph-iPrese AlSooiWion-IJttreirtJpii* Lpndqri, March 4. Signatories to the JJtstet appeal are largely increasing daily. \ ■ Members of all jm'tres express tire opfuion that an eleeiioft viil. be held in June. • > - (Rco. Match S, U p.m.) Ldptfpfi, March 4. There is little doubt that Mr. Asquith's proposals With regard , , to the Homo Rule settlement will have Mr, • Redmond's cotiauiwfioe, thmtgii there are some MiiusteriaEst tears of the at* titude 'of the Nati.o&alist Convention if that body is called span*to sanation the changes. ■•••■. BRISTLING WITH PIFFICULTIES, (Roc. March 6, 0,10 a.m.) London,. Starch 5. Lord Dimravei), in. a letter to the Press, declares tfrat.il fair chance of settlement is <jnly oi>taiiK(,bl.c by refer- , ring Mr. Asqiiitii's pro.nosnls to a con- , ' ference oil the lines, of Lard liOrC.ljwn's suggestion. ' Csefcio'ij freukl be impose sible, the exclusi'fln, of Ulster wtiM bs iintliinkable, wlrilo a general clestiaia ■would ho useless as a solution.

, Lord Hugh Cecil, In. a "tetter, says that t'ho difficulty to the was: of a tonferpeco is insuperable, ,fltirt draws an analogy between General. IJotlia's action in South /Africa an.d possitslc; 'Itappeniugs in Ireland, as creating two «!litn?B l 'f sovereignty. Nobody couid deuy, ho contended," that ftp deportattoiiii wero altocother indefensible, while , uoboilv coulfl bo Mind to tlto ofltpigooHs sofadal involved -in the infliction of a perpetual exils by retrospective! enactment. "It is true that sovcroigoty, , ' lie a-dds,' "lies witli the Sotitii Africa Parliament and General Bollia, Hot with the- British Crown. Such are the c<M)sc<luencs of Home Rule."'