Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-12
NEW MINISTERS
RECEIVE SEALS
INSTALLED AT MEETING OF
PRIVY COUNCIL
Lord Rosebery Gives His Blessing to
the Incoming Cablnet--Will Not
Serve Under Home Rule
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BY Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec 1.-THE Liberal
ministers composing the new cabinet
received their seals of office and were
formally installed at meeting of the
privy council i'm Buckingham palace at
$3.50 this afternoon.
The outgoing ministers surrendered
the seals to the king at a meeting OF
the privy council held at noon. The
ceremony was quite formal. A few per-
sons gathered around the gates of the
palace and watched the retiring minis,
ters as they arrived on foot or in cabs.
but they were hardly distinguishable
in the dense fog.
The earliest arrivals among the new
ministers was John Burns the new
president of the local government
board. who was on foot and dressed
in his customary REFER jacket and
derby hat A deputation from Batter
sea, where Burns lives, assembled at
the gates of the palace, recognized in
spite of the fog the hurley form of the
labor leader, and hearty cheers greeted
Honest john"
When the ministers assembled in the
council chamber all those who previ-
ously had not been made members Of
the prlvy council were sworn in as
members of that body, after which the
new ministers kissed hands" on their
appointment to the cabinet. The only
new appointment announced by Pre-
mier Campbell Bannerman today was
George Whitley, Liberal member of
parliament for the Pudzy division of
Yorkshire. as chief Liberal whip.
Lord Rosebery gave his blessing to
the new Liberal cabinet at the meet
ing of the council of the Liberal league
held In London this afternoon. His
lordship said that all of the offices
were well filed and the country might
now expect economy in finance and con-
tinuity of strength and dignity in it's
foreign policy and might even hope to
see an army once more.
Lord Rosebery, however, declared
that he absolutely and steadfastly"
adhered to his speech in Bodminton, in
which he said he could not serve under
Campbell l-Bannerman's home rule BAN
ner He said that he had not person
ally received any assurances from the
Liberal premier on the subject of home
rule, but he was satisfied that the vice
presidents of the league, Sir Edward
Grey, Mr. Asquith and Mr.. Haldane,
had received assurances to the effect
that his Oord Roseberys) interpreta-
ton of Campbell Bannerman's speech
at Stirling was incorrect.
Lord Rosebery, however, thought it
strange that Campbell -Bannerman had
not taken the opportunity in his more
recent speeches to repudiate his Nord
Roseberys) Interpretation If it was not
correct. His speech, at any rate. he
declare had cleared the air and with
Sir fdl d Grey and Messrs. Asquith
and Haldane as members of the gov
ernment, the country has a guarantee
that an Irish home rule bill would not
be introduced in the next parliament.
Lord Rosebery concluded with say
ing that as Liberals it was their duty
to maintain q united free t. lie party.
He hoped and prayed it might be alb
solutely Independent of the Irish VOTE.
A Liberal party relying on that vote
would not possess the confidence of
the country. Such an alliance
would not be very good for the Irish
and would be wholly bad for the Lib
erals