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Show SPEECH OF BARNES HEIS THE IRISH Federal Scheme of Home Rule Certain to Be Rejected Re-jected in the South. LONDON, May 14. The speech on Sunday, in which George Nicoll Barnes, j labor member of the war cabinet, aclvo-. aclvo-. cated a federal scheme of home rule for ! the United Kingdom, has attracted much attention in political quarters here and in Ireland. The lobby Interests at Westminster say the utterance was a "trial ballot" to test the country's opinion and declare that, although the government has not decided definitely on a federal scheme, individual members of the cabinet, Including Pre-I Pre-I mler Lloyd George, are Inclining more i and more to such a solution of the Irish I problem. This is due partly. It Is said, because they believe the scheme affords the only chance of winning Ulster to home rule. The suggestion, however, Is rejected absolutely In Ireland, according to dispatches dis-patches from Dublin, where, it is said, Mr. Barnes's speecli was received with angry contempt. It is declared that if the Irish parliamentary party accepts such a scheme It will be repudiated utterly ut-terly by the Irish people. There is, however, how-ever, not the slightest probability of the Irish members of parliament giving the leat attention to such a proposal. On the other hand, it is said, the northern unionists will accept such so-luction so-luction if Ulster is treated as a separate state under it. |