The Indianapolis journal., 1895-07-03
IT is NOW COMPLETE
SALISBURY FINISHES THE WORK OF
SELECTING A CABINET.
and Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland Named-Rumors
as to Bismarck's Health.

bury's Cabinet Is now complete. The Duke
of Norfolk, Unionist, has been appointed
Postmaster-general, in succession to the
Right Hon. Arnold Morley. and Mr.. Gerald
w. Balfour. brother of the Rt. Hon. A. j.
Balfour. and NJ. p. for Leeds, has been
appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. The
Right Hon. Akers-Douglass, member of
Parliament for the East division of Kent
and whip OF the Conservative party, has
been appointed chief Commissioner of Pub
lie Works, and Mr.. Walter Long, member
of Parliament for the West Derby divi-
sion of Liverpool. and formerly parliament
airy Secretary to the Local Government
Board under the Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie,
now president of the Board of Trade. has
been appointed president Of the Board of
Agriculture. Both Mr.. Akers-Douglass
and Mr.. Long have seats in the Cabinet.
The remaining appointments made are as
follows: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Gorst, NJ.
r. for Cambridge University, and formerly
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, vice
president of the Council. Sir William Hood
Walrond, NJ p. for the Tiverton division
or Devonshire, formerly a Lord of the
Treasury, patronage Secretary of the Treas
ury; William Grey Ellison Mccartney, NJ.
r. for South Antrim, secretary Of the Ad-
miralty: John Austen Chamberlain, eldest
son of Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and
member of Parliament for East Worces-
tershire. Civil Lord of the Admiralty; the
Rt. Hon. Jesse Coltings. Nj. p. for the Bor-
desly division of Birmingham, Radical
Unionist. formerly Parliamentary Secretary
to the Local Government Board, Under Sec
retary for the Home Department. The Earl
of Selbourne. more generally known as the
former NJ. p. for West Edinburgh, who. as
viscount Wollner, recently, upon the death
of his father. raised the question as to
whether a peer could sit in the House of
Commons, Under Secretary for the Colonial
Department; T. w. Russell, NJ. p. for the
South division of Tyrone, Liberal Unionist,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Gov
errment Board; Joseph Powell Williams,
member of Parliament for the South divi-
sion of Birmingham, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the National Liberal
Union, financial secretary for the War Of
flee. The first meeting of the new Cabinet
took place to-day and attracted many
sightseers to Downing street.
The Right Hon. A. j. Balfour an
nounced in the House of Commons to-
day that Parliament would be proroguad
Of Parliament would follow on Monday
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, ex-Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, has written a let
ter In reply to the memorial of the bimetal-
lie league. in which he says: II do not
share in the opinion expressed in your
memorial, but this Is not fitting time to
enter into an argument on the subject. 1
only venture one observation. The memo
n iofi of
ty and the depression of industry, particu-
evils to the action of France in abandoning
the bimetallc system which, while il ex-
listed. you considered secured to the rest of
the world the advantages which you be-
lieved flowed from that system. You do
not. however, advert to the fact that a
depreciation and depression of far more
serious character occurred during the Pc
riod, when as you maintain, the bimetal-
lie system was in practical operation-for
instance, the thirty years from 1915 70 lS45
refers existed in far more aggravated form
than now. If you compare the condition of
the people of the urban or agricultural
now. you will find that the wages and en-
ployment of the working classes contrast
most -nfavorably during your bimetallic
elysium with their situation in these mono
metallic days which you deplore."
Lord Rosebery, the retiring Prime Minis
ter, in addressing the Eighty Club. this
feated, but were not discounted and not
disgraced. He did not pretend to lament
their position. for to him there was no COM
united and facing the constituencies from
which alone it could draw it's power. and
the position of a party engaged in the ar
duOus, If not impossible, task of forcing
through a reluctant House of Commons,
with narrow majority. measures which
it would have to force across the impassa-
BILE rampant that faced all great measures.
He had never tasted the sweets of place
with power, but his experience of place
without power was purgatory, II not a