Mr. Asquith appealed to .Sir John Lonsdale and his colleagues
not to disparage the Government's alternative proposal whea laying it before the Ulster Unionist Councils It offered. thaa. best. and it might be the only, chance of a settlement. Sir Edward Carson maintained that the only advances made up -to the present had been made by the Ulstermen. Whether the Unionist Council would' accept the invitation or--not, no thseaboweuld have the slightest effect upon them, and, whatever decision-they took— he hoped it would be a wise one—he would be with them-to the end. He demurred to Sir John Lonsdale's assumption that exclusion was to be ruled out at the Convention, and pointed out that it was most clearly,andspecifically stated that every proposal and solution that anybody pleased to bring forward was to be received and considered.
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