The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-03
FRENCH CABINET SUDDENLY QUITS Premier Briand and Minis try Resign Under Pressure STRIKE CAUSES DOWNFALL Bitter Attacks Made By Socialists and other Opponents of the Admin
 fstration Are Too Much for
 the Ministers
STRIKE CAUSES DOWNFALL


 Paris, November 2.-Following the unexpected resignation of the Briand cabinet today. President Fallieres re- quested Premier Briand to retain his office and form a new ministry. This task is proving a somewhat difficult one. In making up the new cabinet the premier has been in consultation with former leaders, such as Leon Bourgeois, former premier, and exMin- ister of Foreign Affairs, M. Clemenceau, whom M. Briand succeeded in office, and Jean Sarryen, ex-premier and ex- minister of justice. It Is probable that no announcement of the personnel ot the cabinet will be made until tomor- row.
 In addition to arranging a cabinet committed to the settlement of press ing social problems, M. Briand must changing republican majority where a number of Jradicals-the followers of ex-Premier Combes--are not attracted by what they term Briand's tendency to extra conservatism.
 The Temps insists upon the impera- tiveness of a broad programme of so- cial and republican defense against an- archy, with legal means for the set clement of labor conflicts without re- sorting to a strike.
 In it's opinion the paralyzation of national life by strike of public ser vice employees should be regarded as the crime of "lese patrie."
 Cause of Resignation
 The cabinet of Premier Briand. which succeeded the Clemenceau ministry on July 23, 1909, resigned in consequence of the bitter attacks made in the charn- Der of deputies upon the governments IS action In suppressing the recent rail- road strike and its proposed legisla- ton for the avoidance of similar crises.
 strong republican minority In the chamber voted confidence in the min istry but at a meeting of the min isters dissensions developed and I,rian,i announced that new and serious prob lems, growing out of the labor trou- bles, must be, met by united min istry, Accordingly he suggested tho Fs- tlreme aL Of htin5olf and a associates.
 It is probable that President Fai- Heres will ask Briand to form a new cabinet and 1t is expected the latter will remodel the retiring ministry in harmony with his views on a parlia- mentary programme to meet crises re- sulting from strikes. e
 It is likely that Foreign Minister Pichon, Minister of Commerce Dupuy Minister of War Brun and Minister of the Navy LaPayrere will remain in the new cabinet
 Permanent Retirement
 M. Millerand, minister of public works, posts and telegraphs, and M. Vi viani, minister of labor, dissented from Briand's programme, and their retire ment is likely to be permanent. Mil lerand especially was dissatisfied, in- sisting that the principle of arbitration should be recognized more broadly by the government.
 Just what Briand's programme of fu- ture organization provides had not been made known to the public when the res ignation of the cabinet was announced
 At the meeting at which Briand sug gested the resignation he thanked his comrades for having stood together in the national crisis and shouldered unitedly the harsh attack in the chamber. He said that he had been violently accused and even charged, with nourishing an ambition to throttle public liberty II was true that these attacks had been Ttpuuldtcu py d blfOnB TcpuplCdH IudJOT- ity which voted confidence in the gov ernment but nevertheless out of the rail road strike and out of the debate In the chamber, whose character was so ex- ceedingly grave. new and serious prob lems had arisen, which must be met by united ministry For this reason the premier suggested the retirement of the cabinet
 Members of Cabinet
 Briand's cabinet was as follows:
 Premier and minister of interior and public worship, M. Briand.
 Minister of justice, M. Barthou.
 Minister of foreign affairs. M. Pichon.
 Minister of finance. M. Georges Coch- cry.
 Minister of education. M. Doumergue.
 Minister of public works, posts and tel egraphs, M. Millerand.
 Minister of commerce. Jean Dupuy.
 Minister of the colonies. M. Trouillot.
 Minister of labor, M. yiviana.
 Minister of war, General Brun.
 Minister of the navy, Boue De La Pey- rere.
 M. Ruau, the minister of agriculture in this cabinet, resigned October 19 last.
 The first important speech made by Brand after he attained the premier ship was at Perigueux, on October 10, a year ago. At that time he announced that the government would pay special and immediate attention to social ques- tions its first care being to remodel the laws of the trades unions, giving them a. right to hold and administer properly thus transforming them from political agitation centers into useful and prac- tical bodies He also promised Legislation to facilitate and promote the participa ton of workers in the profits which un- der the law was then impossible. The religious question, he asserted, had been regulated with justice. leaving the Cath olics masters of their consciences and churches. Briand. who was socialist was made more conservative by the re- 1af