The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26
SALISBURY'S LIST.
He Announces the Names of the
New Cabinet.
Jos. Chamberlain Secretary of
State for Colonies.
BALFOUR FIRST LORD.
Takes the Place ROsebery Held
in the Treasury.

LONDON, June 26.-The new ministry
as far as completed, and officially an
nounced, is as follows: Marquis of
Salisbury, premier and secretary of
state for foreign affairs; the duke of
Devonshire, president of the council;
A. J. Balfour, first lord of the trea,-
ury; Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
secretary of state for the colonies; Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of
the exchequer; Ri Hon. George J.
Goschen, first lord of the admiralty.
The Marquis of Salisbury has for
mally accepted the premiership made
vacant by the resignation of Lord
Rosebery. Robert Arthur Talbot
Cascoigne-Cecil, third Marquis of
Salisbury, was born in 1880 and mar
ried the daughter of the late Baron
Anderson. He was educated at Oxford
and is chancellor of that university.
He has been twice secretary of state
for India and twice secretary of state
for foreign affairs He was premier
in 1885 and formed his second ministry
in 1886. He resigned in 1892. He
proceeded to Constantinople as a spe-
cial ambassador at the conference
there in November, 1876, and he and
Lord Beaconfeld, in 1878. were the
represen tatives of Great Britain at the
conventions of Berlin.
The Ri Hon. A. j. Balfour, the new
first lord of the treasury, is a nephew
of the Marquis of Salisbury, his mother
being a daughter of the second Mar
quis of Salisbury, and a sister of the
present marquis. He was born in 1848,
and was educated at Elton and at Cam
bridge. He was appointed president
of the local government board in 1886,
and was secretary for Scotland, with
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1887. He became chief secretary
for Ireland on the resignation
Of Sir Michael Hicks Beach in
1887, and retained that position until
1891, when upon the death of Mr..
William f. Smith, he became first lord
Of the treasury and leader of the house
of commons, retaining that position
until 1892, when the Salisbury govern
ment resigned. He was elected lord
rector of St. Andrews university in
1887. of Glasgow university in 1890
and was elected lord chancellor of the
university of Edin burg in 1891.
The Ri Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
the Unionist leader in the house of
commons and the newly appointed
secretary of state for the colonies, is
.one of the foremost and most daring
men in British politics at the present
time. He is credited with having en-
gineered the downfall of the Rose berry
government, and is undoubtedly man
of great political ability. He was
born in London in 1886, and has been
married three times, his present wife
being a daughter of Mr.. w. c. Endi-
colt. formerly secretary of war of the
United States. He was educated at
the University college school,
London, was formerly a manufac-
turer in Birmingham and retired
from business in 1874. Mr.. Chamber
lain had been three times SUCCESSFULLY
elected mayor of Birmingham in 1874,
1875 and 1875, and was appointed presi-
dent of the board of trade in 1880 and
president of the local government
board in 1886, resigning the latter post
shortly afterward. In August, 1887,
he was appointed one of the commits
sioners to settle the fisheries dispute
with the United States and is Fellow
Of the Royal society. He has sat for
Birmingham in the house of commons
since 1876.
In the house of lords the seal fisheries
bill passed its second and third
readings.