Both Bills were to be placed on the Statute Book, but their operation deferred till the end of twelve months, or, if the war were not then over, till the end of the war.

During the suspensory period Government would introduce an Amending Bill.

Mr.Asquith made a flattering reference to Sir Edward Carson's action in appealing to his organization for recruits, and admitted that "it might be said that the Ulstermen had been put at a disadvantage by the loyal and patriotic action which they had undertaken."-- This meant that their preparations for resistance to Mr.
Asquith's Government were disorganized .-- He proceeded to promise that they should never have need of such preparations; they should get all the preparations aimed at without having to use them.
"I say, speaking again on behalf of the Government, that in our view, under the conditions which now exist--we must all recognize the atmosphere which this great patriotic spirit has created in the country--the employment of force, any kind of force, for what you call the coercion of Ulster, is an absolutely unthinkable thing.

So far as I am concerned, and so far as my colleagues are concerned--I speak for them, for I know their unanimous feeling--that is a thing we would never countenance or consent to." This utterance has dominated the situation from that day to this.

Ulster had organized to rebel, sooner than come under an Irish Parliament; and had refrained from rebellion because the Great War was in progress.