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Mr. Redmond went on to say that he 'agreed With

the Prime Moister that -every class, creed, and interest should her represented: -County Councils, Corporations, Chambers of Commerce, Churebecii Irish Peers, Universities, leading bodies. He was strongly in favour of a strictly limited political representation, in which the Ulster Unionist Party should be treated as liberally as the Irish Party. He weloomed. the proposal to admit .Sinsi Feiners, and entirely approved of the Prime Minister's idea to have a nominated element as a means of including individuals who might not happen to be elected, but ought to be on such a body, and also of increasing the representation of what used to be called the Unionist Party in Ireland. He saw no other conceivable course of appointing a -Chairman than by Crown nomination.