New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-03
UrVG4RyS NEW MINISTRY.

Tho good IMPRESSION produced by the sen
Ministry a Budapest is suspicious OF beneht 10
the Dual Realm II means that soon' alter
uapv weary months of wranglinG and menace
the Auscleich. or Act of Union between Hun
cary and Austria. will be renewed. The Aus
trian Rcichsrath disOrdcrly as IT was. Notcd
TINT measure long ago but the Hungarian Far
lament has thus far refused 10 do So Inc rea-
son for its refusal has been chiefly personal.
The Opposition. led by Count Apponyi. NJ. KOS
smith and others. has openly declared that the
Auseleich should not be voted while Baron
Family remained Prime Minister And the yarl-
ous Onnosition factions were able 10 execute
that throat. For weeks matters were at dead
loci, Then a fortnight ago. the Banhy Min
ietrv resigned and after a few days delay the
King summoned NJ Kooman dc Sell 10 form
another The choice was an admirable one
silcb rs that wise sovereign usually makes. NJ
DO Sell entered public life as a protege ana
nupu of Francis Deak. He married daughter
Of the author of the Hungarian National hymn.
He has been in Parliament thirty years. For
four years he was Finance Minister under the
first Tlsza Administration. and in that capacity
MANAGED the renewal Of the Ausglelch and the
reorganization of Hungarian finances For the
last few years he has been the chief paclhcator
and intermediary between contending factions
in Parliament and there was scarcely dissent
ing voice against his accession TO office at the
head of a stop-gap Ministry whose chief If not
cole mission is compromise and Cancellation.
The tasks before NJ. de Sell are, first, TO
odont the Ausgielch and after that TO amend
rho ruIos of the Chamber so as 10 strengthen the
authority of the President. to pass law for
L. no q
CORPORATIONS. and a few other measures. The
chances are that he will be able 10 do these
things promptly. with practically no opposition,
for all factions seem agreed that they should
be done. Then he may be expected to resign.
That will be partly FOR private and partly for
nublic reasons. He says frankly that, as he is
rot rich man. he cannot afford to stay long IN
office. lie has been director of several banks
and other companies from which he has de-
rived n good income, and that income he cannot
afford to renquish. He has now resigned the
directorshps. of course. since he is pledged to
mass law forbidding Ministers to hold such
places. But the corporations will elect no one
in his place. but will keep the chairs vacant
until next fall. by which time, II not earlier, he
will be ready to resume them and to resign the
Prime Ministership.
sign are chiefly that he will have the support or
the various factions only for the performance OF
these first urgent tasks The moment they are
disposed Of the factions will be at war again.
and he will be left without n majority. The
Liberal Party is dominant in Hungary and he
does not command It's confidence. save for this
special occa sion lie IS too ready 10 ally him
self with the Nationalists, led by Count APP
ponyi They are strongly tlnctured with Cler-
icalSm. and have bitterly opposed the civil mar
rage laws and other measures for religious
freedom and equality which Liberal govern
monts have enacted in recent years. They are
also the unrelcnling foes Of the Grand Old
Man" Of Hungary. KolOman Tisza who. in re-
tircmcnt is still The greatest political force in
the kingdom NJ. de Sell doubtless realizes
these things. and on account Of them, as well
as Of his personal interests. will retire from
Office as soon rs ne has accomplished the spe-
ca work for which he IS called 10 it. But that
special work Is of the most important any
Hungarian Minister has had 10 do for many
year.