Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-11-02
YUAN-SHI-KAI is
HEAD OF CABINET
Chinese Leader Recalled from Exile
Will Reorganize the Gov
eminent.
MORE CONCESSIONS TO REBELS
New Premier Will Conduct Negotia-
tions in Person.
GENERAL OUTLINE OF PLAN
It Amounts to Union of the Govern
ment and Revolutionists.
EDICT FROM THE THRONE
New Premier IL Commanded to
Garry Out Reforms i'm Pol
titles ana All other
Matters.
MORE CONCESSIONS TO REBELS
New Premier Will Conduct Negotia-
tions in Person.
GENERAL OUTLINE OF PLAN
It Amounts to Union of the Govern
ment and Revolutionists.
EDICT FROM THE THRONE

PEKING. Nov. 1.-Yuan-Shi-Ka has
been appointed premier Of China and he
will organize a new cabinet as soon as
he assumes his post.
Meanwhile Prince Ching, whom Yuan
Shi-Kai succeeds, will continue his duties
as acting premier and have as associate
premlers Na-Tung and Hsu-Shlh-C Chang,
who up to the present have been vice
presidents of the cabinet
Prince Ching has been made president
of the privy council and Na-Tung and
HsuShih-C Chang vice presidents. Wei
Kuang Tao, formerly viceroy of Kwang-
Tung province, becomes viceroy of Hu
Peh and Hu Nan provinces, to which
office Yuan-Shi-Kai was elevated when
he was recently recalled from official
Punishment to restore the imperial au-
thority in the southern provinces.
In the redistribution of offices the
present minister of war, General Yin
Tchang, who was in supreme command
of imperial troops until he was super
ceded by Yuan-Shi-Kai, is made chief Of
the general staff.
This much of the program hastily con-
structed by the throne in the hope OF
appeasing the revolutionists, was made
effective by an imperial edict promul-
gated today. Earlier in the day a tele-
gram had been received from Yuan-Shi-
Kai in which he asked that he be APP
pointed acting premier and set forth his
immediate plans for restoring peace. He
intends to halt all the imperial forces
and order all aggressive campaigning
against the rebels stopped at once. Then
he proposes to enter without delay into
negotiations with Ii Yuan Heng, the
head of the revolutionary forces, with
view TO establishing a permanent peace.
He plans to make his overtures directly
60 General Ia. and If a personal parley
Is unobtainable in any other way he viii
visit the rebel headquarters at WI
Chang.
Yuan's proposals amount practically to
union between the government and the
revolutionists.
designations Are Accepted.
The edict accepts the designations OF
the ministers, which were rendered fol-
lowing the acquiescence OF the throne In
the demands of the national assembly and
the army league. Reference to Yuan Shi
Kars future pre-eminence is made as
follows:
when he has arranged matters little
In Hu-Peh province, let him come to
Peking and organize a complete cabinet
and carry out immediate reforms In pol
itics and all other matters"
The leaders of the national assembly
met with Yuan's close friends today and
decided that the government should be
required to accept all the, demands OF the
army league as issued from Lanchau on
October 9. 1t was also decided to re-
uuire the appointment to high offices Of
General Ii Yuen Heng, the rebel COM
mander, and -Hua-Lung, the rebel
governor Of Hu-Peh.