The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-08
No CABINET CRISIS
M. Combes Ministery Takes
Office Without a Ripple.
R0UVIER HAS FINANCES
Which is the Big Thing in
Present French Politics.

Paris. June France has passed
tStish cabinet crisis and the Combss
ministy has been formed without a ripple
Of excitement among the general public
or even in the lobbies Of the chamber If
deputies Senator Combes was the first
name mentioned as a successor 10 N.
Waldeck-Rousseau. and Immediately af-
ter the latter's resignation as premier
became official and as soon as NJ. Brisson
announced that he could not form a cab
met, Combes ministry became a Ger
tainty. As was Inevitable after the YER
! Gict of the country ana the unequivocal
vote in the chamber OF deputies in the
election of n. Bourgeois as president, the
new cabinet was chosen almost entirely
/ from among the radicals. NJ Domergu
being the last advanced member of II.
! NJ. Domergu and PeIleton represent the
! socialists and ~. Mougeot the minister
( OF agriculture represents the radical left,
NJ Comes, Delcasse. Troulllot. Vale.
Chauime and Maruenjouts are Repubn-
can radicals.
NJ. Combes physically Is the smallest
member of the cabinet but in spite OF his
g. years he .s very active and energetic
and lives modestly mar the senate house
He is president OF ths Democrats group
in the senate The positions ne has held.
chairman CT the committee Of the law
of associations and reporter Of the bni Oh
secondary education, marked him out
for the premiership. He is an eloquent
orator, and while little known himself
selected his principal colleagues from
among the best known and qualified rad
ical leaders. In the selection of NM.
Delcasse, Rouvier and Chaumie he coun-
terbalanced the cabinet with a moderate
element that viii guarantee it against the
adventurous fulfillment Of the drastic in
novations which figured largely in the
electoral promises of several OF the new
ministers. These promises. il carried out, |
would heap a hundred millions on the |
annual expenditures, whereas. the policy |
demanded by the majority OF the country. !
and promised in the ministerial declara- |
tion, Is one of serious retrenchment, in /
order TO retrieve the already embarrass-
ed financial situation. The presence Of /
N. Rouvier, who enters the cabinet in the 4
role Of the savior Of his countrys finan- I
ces, is a distinctly reassuring feature,
though many politicians question wheth-
er the divergent views Of NJ. Rouvier and
the advanced radicals promises long life /
for the ministry. The Temps says:
THE future viii show whether the un-
ierstanding between NJ. Rouvier and his
will last and suffice to restore
the country to the calm IL needs and pre-
serve and develop its prosperity. The mo-
ment has came when policy OF sound
finances Is the beginning and end Of all
French politics"
The Journal Des Debats. which repre-
sonts moderate opinion. thinks a conflict
5 near and inevitable. and says:
The policy of the ministry. as outlined.
s a negation appeasement- We are prom
sed a brutal application Of the law Of as
and the suppression Of liberty ]
# teaching We have serious reasons to
believe the ministry win not last three ]
ears, as did its predecessor"