The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-24


afterward Mr.. Cham berlaln received visits
from several of his Liberal Unionist fol-
lowers. 1t is not doubted that a Joint
Ministry will be formed of Liberal
Unionists and Conservatives and that it
will be called a Unionist Government.
When it became known in the clubs this
evening that Lord Salisbury had been
summoned by the Queen, it was said that
he would not consent to form Ministry
with the present House of Commons and
that he would recommend the Queen to
dissolve Parliament. The Unionist rank
and file advise a prompt appeal to the
country. They believe that they will be
able to maintain a majority of eighty in
the next Parliament. They are now very
enthusiastic and sanguine.
Following are the members of the retir-
ing Ministry: Lord Rosebery, Prime Min
lister and First Lord of the Treasury and
Lord President of the Council; Lord Her.
schel, Lord High Chancellor; Right Hon.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor
of the E1chequer; Lord Tweedmouth,
Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the
Duchy OF Lancaster; Earl of Kimberly,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs !;
Right Hon. Herbert Asquith, Secretary of
State for Home Affairs; Marquis of Ripon,
Secretary of State for the Colonies; Right
Hon. 81. Campbell-Bannermann, Secretary
OF State for War; Right Hon. Henry
Fowler, Secretary of State for India; Earl
Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty :;
Right Hon. James Brice President of the
Board of Trade; Right Hon. A. H. Dyke
Acland, VicePresident Committee of
Council; Right Hon. George Shaw-Lefevre,
President of the Local Government Board !:
Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Secretary
for Ireland; Right Hon. Sir George Trevel-
yam, Secretary for Scotland; Right Hon.
Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General.
This Ministry, except Lord Rosebery as
Prime Minister, and the Earl of Kimberly
as Foreign Minister, was formed by Mr.
Gladstone in August, 1892, when he be-
came Prime Minister for the fourth time
During Mr.. Gladstone's stay at Biarritz
in February, 1894, the Pail Mall Gazette
VIM. Waldorf Astor's paper, announced his
retirement from office, but the report was
denied, though in very guarded terms. On
March 1, 1894, Mr.. Gladstone made his last
speech in the House of Commons as Prime
Minister. The next day his resignation
was made public, the chief cause of his re-
tirement being the discovery that he was
suffering from cataract in both eyes. On
March he had an audience with the
Queen and gave up the seals of office.
Lord Rosebery held the post of Foreign
Secretary in Mr.. Gladstone's Cabinet and
succeeded him as Prime Minister. Two or
three changes were then made in the Cab
met by the transposition of members to
different offices.
1t has been often stated and as often
denied that Lord Rosebery was anxious to
drop the cares of office, and it was thought
probable by many persons that he would
retire during or after his recent illness,
without waiting for an adverse vote in the
House of Commons. 1t was also said that
there was considerable friction between
Lord Rosebery and Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, who had at one time been re-
garded by many as Mr.. Gladstone's legiti-
mate successor in the premiership. With
Lord Rosebery as Premier. the anomaly
was presented of peer as the head of
Government party pledged in measure to
mend or end the House of Lords with its
inherited legislative rights.
Lord Roseberys retirement again calls
to mind the prediction he is said to have
made concerning himself when he was
schoolboy. He then declared that he
would marry the richest heiress in Eng
land, win the derby and become Prime
Minister. He in 1878 married Hannah,
deceased 1890), only daughter of the late
Meyer de Rothschild, who was then the
richest heiress in the country; in 1894 he
won the Derby with his horse Ladas, and
repeated the victory this year with Sir
Visto, and filled the office of Prime Minis
ter for little over fifteen months Lord
Rosebery is only 48 years old.
The Court Circular contains the follow
ing: ''The Earl of Rosebery, first Lord of
the Treasury and Premier of the Council,
arrived at Windsor Castle Saturday and
offered his resignation to her Majesty by
whom it was accepted"
Speaking to his constituents in Batter
sea last night John Burns, socialist men,
Der of the House of Commons, urged the
Government to stick to the work it had
undertaken to perform and not to go to
the country until vote of confidence was
carried again.