The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-15
And Will To-Day, with the Assistance ef Lead
ing Members of the Conservative Party,
Begin the Organization of Ministry.
Pei, the Murderer of His Mother and
Other Women, Sentenced to Death.
Annual Dinner of the Golden Club-Speeches
by Messrs Dixie and Chamberlain Bid
ding for an Irish Alliance.
SALISBURY ACCEPTS,
And Will To-Day Begin the Formation of a
Conservative Ministry.

Conservative Ministry.
LONDON, June 14.-The Marquis of Salisbury
has decided to form Conservative Ministry
and is in active negotiation with Sir Stafford
Northcote, the Duke Of Richmond, Mr. Rowland
Winn member of Parliament for North Lin
colnshire, and Mr.. Edward Stanhope NJ. P, for
Mid Lincolnshire. Lord Salisbury will come to
London tomorrow, when consultation of the
leading members Of the Conservative party will
be held.
Arthur Balfour member Of Parliament for
Hertford borough, and nephew and confidential
representative of Lord Salisbury, joined the lat
ter at Hatfield Lord Salisbury met with oya-
tions at various railway stations, at which stop
pages were made on his way to Hatfield His
secretary arrived in London yesterday, and Wis
tied Sir Stafford Northcote. The Conservatives
were active all day Sunday, Sir Stafford being
in communication with Lord Salisbury by wire
The Times says Lord Salisbury has not ac-
cepted Office Internationally Nothing will be-
definitely settled until the Queens arrival. The
Conservatives will require some kind of guar
anty from their opponents that they will leave
the new government unmolested until the gen.
eral election
The Standard is not sure that the Marquis of
Salisbury will succeed in forming Cabinet
with SO many Conservatives averse to accepting
Office under the existing circumstances
In an editorial the Standard says:
Conservative craftsmanship can not strike
out line for itself 1t must, as matter of
good faith, follow with honesty the lines laid
down by the Liberals. The Russian difficulty, if
1t only slips step either side, will inflame the
smoking fax. We may be compelled to fight the
Mahdi, and to preserve Egypt from international
control. The domestic difficulties are still more
acute In front of all stands the question Of
coercion in Ireland. Can the coercion bill be
passed in the teeth of a Radicai-P -Parnellite con-
federacy2"
The Daily Telegraph states that the Marquis of
Salisburys acceptance of the Office Of Premier is
unconditional
The Standard says it is unable to conceal ap-
prehension as to the result Of Salisburys at
tempt to establish a government with affairs in
the present state, with the Conservatives in a
minority in the Commons, and with the Liberals
and Radicals openly refusing assistance.
THE COMING CHANCELLOR.
The Right Honorable Stafford Henry North
cote, Bart, who is to be Chancellor of the Ex-
chequsr in the new Cabinet, is the Conservative
leader of the House of Commons He is a native
of London, and is in his sixty seventh year. He
was the private secretary of Mr.. Gladstone while
that statesman was President of the Board of
Trade, 1S43 to 1s45, and on being called to the
Odr dt Cne inner Ieuple IN Io4|, ne became legal
secretary to the Board of Trade. He succeeded
to the family title and estates on the death Of
his grandfather. the seventh baronet in 1851
He was engaged for several years with Sir C. e.
Trevelyan in investigating the condition of the
civil establishments of the crown and they drew
up, in 1854, report which resulted in throwing
open the civil service to public competition, so
that he may be regarded as the father of civil
service reform in England. Sir Stafford
represented Dudley in the House of Commons as
a conservative from 1856 to 1857, and sat for
Stamford from 1858 to 1866 when he was re-
turned for North Devon, constituency which
he has represented ever since He was Finan.
cial Secretary to the Treasury in 1859, and was
appointed President of the Board of Trade in
Lord Derby's third administration in 1866 From
March, 1867, to December, 1868, he served as
Secretary of State for India. He was member
of the joint high commission whose labors re-
suited in the treaty of Washington, in 1871.
When Mr.. Disraeli formed his Ministry in Feb
ruary, 1874 Sir Stafford Northcote was made
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and after the eleva-
tion of the Premier to the Peerage as Lord Bea-
consfeld, Sir Stafford became leader of the
House of Commons. After the fall of the Dis
raeli Cabinet and the elections of $780, he took
the leadership of the opposition, and has main
tanned that position ever since.