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Show ! 11118 BILL IS j PASSED BY LORDS Amicable Settlement of the Home Rule Question Regarded Re-garded as Probable. ONLY TEN "DIE HARDS" Nationalists and Ulsterites Continue to Make Preparations Prepa-rations for War. LOXDOX, July 6. The house of lords today passed by 273 to JO the second reading of the bill to amend tlie Irish home rule bill. That the house of lords would pass the bill, iu order to amend it in committee, com-mittee, was a foregone conclusion, but there was surprise that only ten "die hards" could be found to vote for Lord Willoughby de Broke 's motion for : its rejection. ' The Martinis of Crewe, in closing the debate for the government, challenged . the opposition to guarantee that there ; would be no civil war in Ireland, even j if the bill w-as amended totally ex cluding Ulster. Concerning the possibility possi-bility of a solution by conference, if dropping the amending bill and breaking break-ing down the government 's policy was to be a preliminary, it would be impossible im-possible for the government to accept it, but short of entailing such a sacrifice, sacri-fice, the government was most anxious to facilitate a conference, he said. Irishmen Could Settle It. For himself, he did not hesitate to say that if John Redmond, the Irish nationalist leader; Sir Edward Carson, j the Ulster unionist leader; William I O'Brien and two or three other Irish-; Irish-; men, could get together it would be a j better augurv for some permanent arrangement ar-rangement than any other kind of a conterence. i After division was taken notices of several amendments were handed in, providing for the exclusion from home rule of the whole of Ulster. The amendment, if carried, will make the exclusion of the whole province of Ulster absolute, without any referendum referen-dum or election, and the excluded province prov-ince will be placed under the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the new secretary of state in the imperial parliament, "whose administrative admin-istrative orders would require the sanction sanc-tion of the British parliment. More Preparations. The increasing probability of an amicable ami-cable settlement of the home rule question ques-tion has not been allowed to interfere with the speedy organization and the equipping of the rival volunteer forces in Ireland. Dublin tailors have been overwhelmed with orders for uniforms for the nationalist volunteers. It is reported that 200.001) rounds of ammunition were landed todav on the County Down coast under the very noses of the destroyers patrolling this coast. The ammunition was for the Ulster volunteers and was concealed in 'ia! haj.-s on hor.rd a oilier. |