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Show MOVE TO RESTORE FEAGEjNJRELAND PLAfJ CONTEMPLATES INDUCING ULSTER LEADERS TO AQREE TO PARTITION PROPOSAL. Negotiations Said to Be In Prooreti Between British Prime Minister and Ulster Leader with Hope of Reaching Settlement. Dublin. Interesting rumors nro clr-.culutlng clr-.culutlng In Dublin with regard to fresh efforts tho government Is reported to be maislng to effect n settlement with Irclmul. The boiler: Is growing that nn Important development mny cdine to light when parliament reconvenes. According to ono report, tho government govern-ment is trying to bring tho Ulster lenders lend-ers Into lino with a woll-formuliited scheme to pcrsuado tho south to accept ac-cept tho partition provided for In tho home rule act nud work under it. This version of tho reputed plans lias It I that tho prlzo to bo offered for acceptance ac-ceptance Is a grant of full fiscal autonomy to both sections of Ireland. This would bo coupled, so far as the couth Is concerned, with an offer to release political prisoners and grant .amnesty to IrlsA republicans generally, general-ly, Including members of the Irish republican re-publican army, nnd oven men "on the run." ' Negotiations to this end nro uow proceeding, pro-ceeding, it is said, between air. Lloyd George, the prIno minister, nnd Sir Edward Cnrson, Ulster lender, In the British parliament, on tho outcome of which depends whether the plnn will Ue formally nnnounced. Other concessions nro said to be contemplated, con-templated, particularly with regard to , the amount of. taxes payable to England Eng-land under tho now net. ltcpresentntlves of tho Sinn Fein bare mfuscd to trent tho reported scheme seriously, Haying thnt until lonio concrete, bona fide proposals hud actually been mado they would not waste time In speculation. H rromlncnt Nationalists, when their tIcws wero sought in tho same eon-Hiection, eon-Hiection, said they had no doubt tint n concession of fiscal autonomy would p far toward satisfying the Irish people's demand for Independence, tad, If offered In a generous spirit, would greatly weaken the position of H fte Sinn Fein If the republican parlla- ' Brunt should reject It. R |