LEADERS CONFER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7

LEADERS CONFER

ULSTER QUESTION PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION THE IRISH PARLIAMENT , ' PROVISION IN TIIE BUDGET Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrislit > _ Lcnclcn, May 6. ; Mr. Asquith (Prime Minister), Mr. Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), • Mr. Bonar La*- (Lender of tlift Oppoi sit ion"), and Sir Edward Carson mot attho House of Commons and discussed i tho preliminaries of a conference regardin}; Ulster. > Tliiy Nationalists are insistent that : tlio Bill shall be sent to tlio House of ■ Lords and passed before negotiations tako place. ; It is understood that Mr. Redmond : (the Nationalist Leader) favours federalism, but that Mr. Devlin does not. i Ono hundred Unionists mei at til* i Houso of Commons to protest Against the Homo Rule -Bill; tho majority advocated the maintenance* of the union at all costs. Tim Irish Parliament will receive an extra half-million a year under the Budget _ instead of grants to local authorities. BILL TO BE PASSED fIAPtOLY, l NATIONALISTS'POSITION. (Rcc. Jlav 7, 11.10 p.fil.) I London, May 7. | Tho newspapers indicate that tho Ulster conversation will not he resumed until the Home Rule Bill is road a third time. Mr. Asquith yesterday conferred with Mr. Redmond, and it is believed. that 3 tho Government will new pass the Home . Rule Bill rapidly, and send it to the • ■ Houic of Lords tlio week after nest, i Then tho Government will introduce and oxpedite tlio amending Bill as' 4 vehiclo of settlement—the now Bill to roach tho House of Lords as soon as possible after tho llotac- Rule Bill. The "Daily Mail" state? that IrishAmericans are patting pressure on Mr. Redmond to prevent further concessions. If Mr. Asquitli's plan is carried' out. tins Nationalists -will be seetire with tho Bill 1 and bo ablo to vote against tho Government if tho settlement proposals provo antagonistic'to thfim.