The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-29
TALK OF
CAB|NET rs
BaIfour's Plans in
the Dark as
Yet.
|CHAMBERLAlN'S
FRIENDS STRONG
Colonial Secretary Would Have
Made a Better Leader But he
Favored the Premier.


here. During the week the public was
RECALLED with more or less shrewd
prophecies but no intimations were Civ
en- out by the inner circle of the inten-
lions of the premier, A. j. Balfour, re-
garding the SUCCESSORS of the ministers
who have already resigned or as to
how far the changes in the ministry
may be expected to extend 1t is unde-
niable that a very large section of the
Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists
are strongly dissatisfied with the minis
increasingly apparent that in spite of
all parliamentary eulogies of Mr.. Bal
four many Unionists believe that
government of greater strength and ca
pacity could have been established with
Joseph Chamberlain. the colonial secre-
tary. as leader. The opinion is freely
expressed on all sides by Unionists as
well as the Liberals that interests OF
the empire nowadays are 50 vast and
complex that they are sorely in need
of the oversight Of man of broader
and more forceful powers, who should
be dissassociated from the atmosphere
of constant debate over the details or
such measures for instance as the edu-
Patrick A. McHugh, the member of
Parliament from North Leitrim, from
the penalty of contempt of a petty Irish
court
The appointment of Mr.. Chamberlain
to the premiership would have been
received with cold disfavor by the OPP
position and would have been a red rag
to the Anglo-phobes, but nevertheless
there is a multitude of government sup
porters who would be glad to have him
as chief, and the Associated Press is
informed from sources of undoubted
authenticity that Mr.. Chamberlain $
claim to the premiership would have
been recognized as being better than
Mr.. Balfour's had ne not whenever oc-
casion presented itself urged Mr.. Bal
tours succession against his own.
One important and strong point of
! the late administration which has not
vet become generally known and appre-
ciated and which it is feared Mr.. Bal
four will not fully inherit, was Lord
Salisbury's persistent resistance to
Emperor Williams efforts to entangie
Great Britain in an alliance with Ger
many. These efforts have been made
at intervals since 1895, and are likeiy>to
| be renewed now that Lord Salisbury
has retired
The chief immediate cause of appre-
hension, however, is that Mr.. Balfour
| will be unwilling to either radically re-
duce the size of the unwieldy cabinet.
now numbering 10, or make sweeping
| changes in it. Nowhere is its complete
| reconstruction more earnestly urged
than among the Conservatives them
| selves, some OF whom profess to fear
| that unless the ministry is strengthen
| ed it's support in the House of Com
mons will rapidly dwtndle. The Con-
serva tives are doubtful whether Mr..
| BaIfour is sufficiently resolute to re-
1 20 he ir,ic a oSainCf the wishes
| of most of his present official assocl-
ates. The consensus of best informed
| conservative opinion points to list OF
appointments something like the fol-
| lowing as being the most likely:
Mr. Hamburg, the president of the
Board of Agriculture. to succeed Sir
! Michael IIicks-Beach, the chancellor of
| the exchequer, the announcement of
| whose resignation was not received
| with favor by the Conservatives, with
| the exception Of those who desire to see
| the post of the exchequer filed by a
man committed to the principle OF
| preferential trade with the colonies.
! Other candidates mentioned for the
! exchequer are the Rt. Hon. James w.
| LoWther, former parlia secTe-
| tary for foreign affairs; Lord George
| Hamilton, secretary of state for INDIA,
who is not considered to be hnancler,
| and Edgar Vincent, former hnancIal
adviser 70 the Egyptian government
ard ex-governor of the Imperial Otto
man Bank at Constantinople.
| IT is now considered probable that
| Earl Halsbury will be succeeded as
Lord Chancellor by Sir r. B. Finlay, at
| present attorney general The manner
| in which Lord Halsbury exercised his
| prerogative in the appointments of
| judges has caused considerable dissat-
| isfactiOn. It is asserted that many OF
| the appointees do rot reach the hlSh
| standard previously maintained in the
| English courts.
| Earl Cadogan, the Lord Lieutenant of
ireland. will probably be succeeded by
! the Duke of marlborough, the Earl of
| Pembroke and Montgomery, or the Earl
| of Dudley. If the Duke of Marlborough
| is appointed it will be due to his wife S
popularity as much as to the duke 5
| merits The dukes name is also men
| toned as the possible successor OF the
| Earl OF HopetCun as governor general
| OF Australia
Should Mr.. Ritchie resign the home
| secretaryship George Wyndham. now
| chief secretary for Ireland. is consid-
| cred a promising candidate.
| Lord AshbOurne's position as lord
| chancellor of Ireland is acceptably fill
! I'd.
| The Rt. Hon. ST. Edward Carson. the
| solicitor general. and the Duke of Bed
ford are strongly urged to succeed Lord
1 James Of Hereford in the anomalous
| cabinet position of chancellor of the
| duChy of Lancaster. Lord HOpetOun
| is q secondary possibility.
| The resignation Of Lord George Ham
| ilton as secretary of state for India is
| considered probable.
| ]. Austen Chamberlain eldest son OF
| Joseph Chamberlain. may have place
| in the cabinet.