The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
CABINET MAKING.
1t is the Absorbing Subject in
London Political Circles.
There is Much Dissatisfaction
With Existing Ministry.
GREATER STRENGTH
1t is Believed Would Have Been
Gained With Chamberlain
Occupying the Place Of Lord
Salisbury's Successor.

Occupying the Place Of Lord
Salisbury's Successor.
London, July 19-Cabinet making is
the absorbing subject of discussion here.
During the week the public was regaied
with more or less shrewd prophecies but
no intimations were given out by tue
inner circle of the intentions OF the
premier, A. J. Balfour, regarding the
successors of the ministers who have
already resigned or as to how far the
changes in the ministry may be expect
ed to extend. 1t is undeniable that
very large section of the conservatives
and liberal unionists are strongly dis
satisfied with the ministry as at present
constituted, and it is increasingly ap-
parent that in spite of all the parlia-
mentary eulogies of Mr.. Balfour many
unionists believe that government of
greater strength and capacity could
have been established with Joseph
Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, as
the leader. The opinion is freely ex-
pressed on all sides by Unionists as we'll
as the Liberals that the interest of the
empire nowadays are SO vast and com
plex that they are sorely In need of the
oversight of a man of broader and more
forceful powers.
The appointment of Mr.. Chamberlain
to the premiership would have been re-
ce1V6Q with cOlQ OlSIdtOT Dy Tie OPpOSl-
ton and would have been a red rag to
the Anglophobes, but nevertheless there
is multitude of government support
ers who would be glad to have him as
chief and the Associated Press is in
formed from sources of undoubted au-
thenticity that Mr.. Chamberlain's claim
to the premiership would have been
recognized as being better than Mr. Bal
four's, had he not whenever occasion
presented itself, urged Balfours success
sion against his own.
One important and strong point of the
late administration which has not yet
become generally known and apprec1-
ated and which it is feared Mr. Balfour
will not fully inherit, was Lord Sails
bury's persistent resistance to Emperor
Williams efforts to entangle Great
Britain in alliance with Germany.
These efforts have been made at inter-
walls since 1895 and are likely to be re-
newed now that Lord Salisbury has re-
tired.
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 19, or make sweeping
changes in 1t. Nowhere Is it's complete
reconstruction more earnestly urged
than among the conservatives them
selves, some of whom profess to fear
that unless the ministry is strengthened
its support in the house of commons
will rapidly dwind1e. The conservatives
are doubtful whether Mr.. Balfour is
sufficiently reSolute to recreate the min
istry against the wishes of most of his
present official associates. The consen-
suS of best informed conservative opin-
ion points to a list of appointments
something like the following as being
the most likely:
Mr. Hanbury, the president of the
board of agriculture to succeed Sir Mi
chael Hicks-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 filled by man
| committed to the principle Of preferen-
| tial trade with the colonies.
Other candidates mentioned for the
| exchequer are the Rt Hon. James w.
| Lowther, former parliamentary secre-
tary for foreign affairs; Lord George
| Hamilton, secretary of state for India,
| who is not considered to be financier,
! and Edgar Vincent, former financial ad-
| wiser to the Egyptian government and
| ex-governor of the imperial Ottoman
| bank at ConstantinOple.
1t is now considered probable that
| Earl Halsbury will be succeeded as
Lord Chancellor by Sir r. B. Finlay.
! at present attorney general. The n an
| ner in which Lord Halsbury exercised
| his prerogative in the appointments
| of judges has caused considerable dis
satisfaction. 1t is asserted that many
| of the appointees do not reach the high
standards 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 wifes s
| popularity as much as to the duke $
| merits. The dukes name is also men
| toned as the possible successor of the
| Earl of Hopetoun as governor of Au-
! stralia
Should Ritchie resign the home secre-
| taryship, George Wyndham now chief
| secretary of Ireland, is considered a
| promising candidate.
/ Lord Ashbourne's position as lord
| chancellor of Ireland is acceptably
| filled.
The 'Rt Hon. Sir Edward Carson, the
solicitor general and the Duke of Bed
James of Hereford in the anomalous
cabinet position of chancellor of the
duchy of Lancaster. Lord Hopetoun ii
| a secondary possibility.
The resignation of Lord George Ham
ilton as secretary of state for India Is
| considered probable
J. Austen Cha n ber1ain eldest son o.
Joseph Chamberlain and financial sec.
retary of the treasury, will doubtless
become a cabinet minister in some sec
/ ondary position
The Rt. Hon. Gerald Balfour, presi.
dent of the hoard of trade and brother
of the premier. cannot be said to b.
popular with his party, but he is no
| expected to retire from the cabinet
The retention of Lord Landsdowne a.
foreign secretary and the Duke o
Devonshire as president of the counci
is considered foreordained, and it Il
not believed that the changes will g
beyond those mentioned.
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