St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-16
The Feverish Excitement Is
Subsiding as Returns
Close Up.
Speculation on the Liberal
Cabinet Begins to Assume
Definite Form.
Sir William Vernon Hareourt
Will Practically Lead in
the Commons.

Lon DON, July 15.-With 621 out of the
G7o members of the house, of commons
elected, interest i'll the elections has to
large extent subsidized. The Liberals may
win five totem more seats, and it is prac-
tically certain that Mr.. GiadStone's ma
Jority Will be somewhere near fifty.
A leading subject of gossip is the
question whether Mr.. Gladstone will
venture to offer seat in the cabinet to
Sir Charles Dixie. In the face of the
almost inevitable elections in 1898 it is
believed he will not take this risk of
offending the religious feeling of the
country.
Lord Salisbury summons cabinet
council for next week to decide whether
the present government shall meet par
lament, or forthwith resign. A large
section of his party urges him not to
resign, on the ground that majority of
the British electors have voted against
home rule; but it is doubtful whether
Lord Salisbury will take a course that
will only prol0ng the crisis. A seat will
be found Tor Lord Salisbury's son, Wis
count Cranborne, in Kenslngton, by
comforting a peerage on Sir Algernon
BerthWick
First Conferences:
Mr.. Gladstone will return to London
at the end of next week. He has ac-
cepted an invitation to temporarily re-
SIDE at the house of Stuart Rendel, the
memoer-elect for Montgomeryshire, at
Carlton Gardens, prior to resum-
ing his official residence in Downing
street. His first conference OH the for
nation of the new ministry occurred at
Dalmeny Park. the residence of Lord
RoSebery. Before he started for Braemar
he summoned John Morley to meet
Lord RoSebery and Sir George o. IRE
velyan.
As far as can be ascertained in official
LlOerat quarters here, the deliberations
at Dalmeny Park proceeded OH the I'M
dersfandlng that Sir William Vernon
Harcourt will be the first lord of the
treasury and government leader in the
mousse OF commons under Mr..
Gladstone's direction, and that
Henry Fowler will be chancellor
OF the eXchequer. John Morley
does not desire to be chief secretary for
ireland. He wants the secretaryship of
the colonial Office, but influential press
ure has been brought to bear Oh Mr..
Gladstone to appoint James Bryce col
onial secretary, as he is In closer touch
with colonial questions than MIR. Morley.
Cabinet Forecast
The best informed Liberal forecasts
OF the ministry assign Lord Herschell to
the lord chancellership, Earl Spencer to
the ylceroyship Of Ireland. Rt. Hon.
George Shaw-Lefevre to the chief sec
fpetaryshlp OF Ireland, Ri Hon. George
o.. Irevelyan to the secretary
ship of the home office, 1t.
Hon. Henry CAMPBELL Zimmerman to
the secretaryship of state for war, Lord
Klpon to the first lordshlp of the adj
miralty, John Morley TO the secretary
ship for India, James Bryce to the sec
retaryship of the colonies, Lord Rose
berry to the secretaryship OF the foreign
office, the Earl of Kimberly to the presi-
dency of the council, and Rt. Hon.
A. j. Mundel to the presidency of the
board of trade, while Mr.. Gladstone will
take the Sinecure of the chancellorship
stitute the cabinet
The leading posts outside the cabinet
are assigned as follows: Francis A.
Charming. as president of the local gov
ernment board; Henry IIabouchere. as
postmaster general; William a. Hunter.
as secretary for Scotland; Sir Charles
Russell, as attorney general: and Mr..
Rigby. as solicitor general When Sir
Charles RusSelfs election to the bench
occurs he will be succeeded in the at
torney generalship by Mr.. Rigby, and
Herbert p. ASquith will become solicitor
general.
Radicals Suggested.
The Radical press puts forward
Messrs. Benn. Stuart and Canston. three
favorites with the London progressives,
as entitled to office. Other aspirants
are Dyke Acland and Sir Walter Foster
and MI. Burt, who probably is the best
representative OF the Liberal laborists,
will fill the place of Mr.. Broadhurts, the
under secretary in the home Office in the
last Gladstone ministry. Mr.. Glad
stone will not attempt to satisfy the
Radical clamor to give new places to
new men. He has an abiding tendency
to group around himself the tried col
leagues. Beyond accepting the half
dozen new men in the above list it is
not probable that he will go.
The most important change in the
inner administration Of the party will
be clean sweep of the whip offices.
The pre- sent whips, Arnoldo Morley and
Cyril Flower, will receive peerages.
Herbert Gladstone will become chief
whip. Rt. Hon. Edward Marjoribanks
would vacate his whipship for the posi-
ton of secretary of Scotland, but
be is too useful in his present capacity.
a ministry thus composed would give
the Radicals fair share of the places,
though short of their demands.
Among the chief court officers Count
ess Spencer will be mistress of the
robes, the Earl of Cork master of horse,
and Lord Darlington lord chamber
lain.
Short of Funds.
In deciding the ministerial pro-
gramme. Mr.. Gladstone's main diff
Guilty is the depletion of the party
finances. The present elections have
almost exhausted the party's resources.
Lord Brassey and others OF the larger
subscribers TO the election fund cannot
be relied upon to give next year
as they have this, yet if home |
Iule bill is Immediately forced through |
the house of commons, dissolution in |
the spring is inevitable. Hence the |
party managers favor postponing the |
home rule bill for year and proceeding |
with the lone man, one vote' bill, and |
also with further democratising of the |
rural vote by parish councils and COM |
pulSOry allotment measures.
Herbert Gladstone. speaking at Ha- |
warden, declared that the home rule |
bill must first be passed. and added that
as the temperance question had cost the
Liberals many votes a bill giving the
people direct veto would come next.
Herbert Gladstone is not always faith
full reflex of his fathers plans, still. il
Mr.. Gladstone gets assurance of finan-
cial arrangements sufficient for an early
renewal of the election struggle, the
home rule bill will be introduced with
out delay.
The New Commons.
The new house will have 167 members
pledged to direct veto and SUNDAY
closing-the strongest temperance par
Lament it has ever seen. AIr. Woods.
member for the Ince division of LaI,ca.
shire, Joins the Independent Liberals.
Mf. Hardie,s IN an interview today,
defined the iaborists as Socialists
IN economics and democrats in
politics and in nowise connected with
Liberals or Tories. He asserts that an