1 MAY 1920, Page 2

The papers this week have contained forecasts of the recom-

mendations of the Speaker's Conference on Federal Devolution. The letter from the Speaker to the Prime Minister will contain two separate schemes as well as various reservations by individual members of the Conference. The Speakers scheme proposes the creation of subordinate Legislatures for England, Scotland, and Wales out of the membership of Parliament. The other scheme, which sprang chiefly from the brain of Mr. Murray Macdonald, proposes separately elected subordinate Parliaments. Ireland was omitted from both schemes, owing of course to the fact that the Home Rule Bill was held to prohibit her inclusion. We need not say more till the schemes are officially published.