Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
FALL OF CLEMENCEAU'S CABINET.

The Clemenceau cabinet fell suddenly
July %. 1t was the unexpected that
happened. 1t is recalled that
Sudden the same chamber on the
18th voted an order of the
De1eat. day of confidence in the gen.
eral policy of the ministry. adopting u
by the enormous majority of ls2
The Goth. during the debate on the re-
port of the commission of inquest on
the state of the navy, M Clemenceau.
weary perhaps Of his protracted length
Of power. i'll with an irritated liver. ana
replying to a thrust by his rival NJ. Del
casse charged him with having been the
cause of the humiliation of France at
Algeciras. The provocation was insult
Ing to NJ Delcasse and his friends. and.
notwithstanding the crushing majority
which sustained the cabinet on the 18th.
| provoked by the invocation of an Incl
| dent which rankles in the soul of every
| French patriot, the chamber on the Goth
refused It's confidence by a vote OF III
against 116.
| The resignation Of the Clemenceau cah-
| met followed President Fallieres' first
! thought was of NJ. Leon Bourgeois. who
| was absent and reported In bad health.
He summoned, however. NJ. Aristide
| BRAND who was minister of justice and
worship in the retiring cabinet. NJ. Bri-
| and quickly effected the following fOrma-
| ton: Premier and minister of the in
| terror and public works, BRAND; justice,
Barthon; foreign affairs. Pichon; finances.
works. posts and telegraphs. Millerand:
commerce. Dupuy: agriculture, Ruau:
colonies Trouillot: labor Viviani: war,
Gen. Brun: marine, Admiral Lapeyrere.
The announcement Of the names Of the
last two members is accepted as a
pledge that there is to be no hesitation
| in maintaining the military strength for
! the defense of government, and conse-
quently no Irritation or concession to the
| anti-mtlitarists. For SO much M. Glenn
enceau deserves the thanks of all
| France.
The socialists. as might be expected.
are greatly troubled over the nomina-
| tons to the posts of army and navy of
professionals rather than some socialist
and anti-patriot selected from their own
ranks.
| NJ Aristide BRAND by profession was
an avowed socialist and suspected OF de-
| cided tendencies to collect
The New ivism. His accession to the
| p.,:u premiership. however, as is
generally the case with the
orists of such a nature. like NJ. Clemen-
ceau. who develop something akin to con-
| ScA NdlsIiis VIII Undoubtedly also CNdnS0
NJ. BRAND. 1t has been proved a thou
sand times that the views Of a man in
| office and of the same man out of office
| differ materially. The new premier
has already given evidence that he will
not he directed by radical socialists by
the statement imputed to him, namely: 81
| intend to complete the work Of the Glenn
enceau cabinet and carry out the wishes
of the president and form a republican
cabinet, committed to republican poll
cies."
In foreshadowing the policy OF the new
| premier 1t will prove interesting to report
the text Of a dispatch Of the 23d ultimo
which gives in a few lines the views Of M
| BRAND:
| "A ministerial declaration which was
| formulated and unanimously accepted by
the members of the new cabinet contains
| an important statement indicating that
the cabinet Is committed to an attempt to
end the war between labor and capital
| which has disturbed France for so many
years. An official note says this declara-
ton. after quoting the famous remark OF
NJ. Waldeck Rousseau, Capital must
work and labor possess insists upon the
necessity Of an alliance between labor and
| capital, and the avoidance of every cause
of conflict: that the members of the cabi-
net, regardless Of their political aff1lia-
tons. resolve, with the aid Of parliament
to ameliorate the moral and material we'll
| being of the workers as far as in their
power lies but that the accomplishment
of this end will depend upon the support
Of the workers themselves; that the lat
ter must give security to capital, or other
wise undertakings will be abandoned and
the economic development of the country
arrested