St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-03
NEW CABINET OFFICERS.
FORMAL INSTALLATION OF THE
SALISBURY MINISTRY AT
DOWNING STREET.
HARCoURT ON B1METALLIsM.
Strong Answer to the Arguments
Set Forth in the Leagues
Memorial.

the treasury, Rt. Hon. A. J. Bal
four, announced to the house of
commons today that parliament
would be prorogued on Saturday
next and that the dissolution of the
commons would follow on Monday.
Rt. Hon. Akers-Douglass, NJ. P,
whip Of the Conservative party, has
been appointed chief commissioner
of public works, and Mr.. Walter
Long, M. P, formerly parliamentary
secretary to the LEGAL government
board under Rt. Hon. c. T. Richie,
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 installation of Lord Sails
bury's new cabinet took place today
and attracted many sightseers to
Downing street.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, ex-
chancellor of the exchequer, has
written letter in reply to the me-
mortal of the bimetallic league, in
which he says:
Il do not share in the opinion ex-
pressed in your memorial, but this
is not q fitting time to enter into an
argument on the subject. I only ven-
ture upon one observation. The me-
mortal refers to the depreciation OF
property and the depression of in
dustry, particularly agriculture, and
attributes all the evils to the action
of France in abandoning the bimet-
allie system, which, when it existed,
you considered secured to the rest
of the world the advantages which
you believed flowed from that sys-
tenn. You do not, however, advert
to the fact that depreciation and
depression of far more serious char
acter occurred during the period
when, as you maintain, a bimetallic
system was in practical operation
for instance, the thirty years from
1915 to 1S45, when the evils to which
your memorial refers existed in far
more aggravated form than now. If
you compare the condition of the
people of the urban or agricultural
condition now, you will find that the
wages and employment Of the work
ing classes contrast most unfavora-
bly, during your bimetallic elysium
with their situation in these mono
metallic days, which you deplore.
MORE CABINET OFFICERS.
The Duke of Norfolk, Unionist, has
been appointed postmaster general, in
succession to Right Hon. Arnold Nor
ley, and Gerald William Balfour,
brother of Right Hon. A. ]. Balfour,
NJ. P. for Central Leeds, has been ap-
pointed chief secretary for Ireland. The
remaining appointments made are as
follows:
Hon. Sir John Gorst, NJ. P for Cam
bridge university, and formerly fnagl-
cial secretary to the treasury, to be
vice president of the council.
Sir William Hood Walrond, M. P
for the Tiverton division of Devon
shire, formerly a lord of the treasury
to be patronage secretary of the treas
ury.
William Gray Ellison Mccartney, NJ.
P. for South Antrim, to be secretary
to the. admiralty.
JOIlH Austen 6lUeS( son
of Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
and member of parliament for East
Worcestershire, to be civil lord Of the
admiralty.
Right Hon. Jesse Ceilings, NJ. P. for
the Bordesley division of Birmingham
Radical Unionist, formerly parliament
ary secretary to the local government,
to be under secretary for the home de-
partment.
Earle of Selbourne, more generally
known as the former M. P. for West
Edinburgh, who, as Viscount Wou-
mer, recently, upon the death of his
father, raised the question as to wheth-
er a peer could sit in the house of
commons, to be under secretary for
the colonial department.
T. w. Russell, M. P: for the South
division of Tyrone, Liberal -Unionist.
to be parliamentary secretary to the
local government board.
Joseph Powell Williams, member of
parliament for the South division of
Birmingham, Liberal Unionist, and
chairman of the executive committee
of the National Liberal union, to be
financial secretary for the war Office.