The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-26
French Premier and Members
of His Cabinet Will Retire
From Office Monday.
JUST WHAT WILL HAPPEN
CANNOT BE F0RET0LD
Names of Several Eminent
Statesmen Suggested as
Possible Successors.
By Associated Press.

Dy Associated HrcSS.
PARIS, Feb. 25.-Premier BRAND
and the members of his cabinet will re-
sign Monday. They reached this de-
cison this afternoon at conference
in the premier S office, when the poiit-
cal situation was thoroughly can
vassed
The bare majority Of sixteen, which
the government received last night IN
vote Of confidence in the chamber
of deputies following the premier S ar
raignment by the radical Socialists.
Louis Malvy and Paul Meunier. was n
sore blow to the premier and his asso.
ciates. who had been sustained many
times in previous crises by much larger
votes In the end NJ BRAND said that
he was ''sick of ii all.
The only reason for waiting TO pre-
sent their designations to the president
is that the ministers wish to show the
respect for their late colleague, Gen
eral Brun, whose funeral will take place
Monday.
Presidents Attitude Uncertain.
There is much uncertainty tonight as
10 what will happer-whether President
Fallicres, after taking counsel with the
leaders of the preliminary parliament
arv group. will ask Premier NJ. BRAND
TO stuy in power, or whom he will invite
TO form n new ministry.
Leon Bourgeois, former premier and
| former minister of foreign affairs, Ray
moud Poinsare. former minister OF
finance; Tbeophile Delcasse. former for
cign minister, and Former Premier
! Emile Combes are among those men
toned, although il is understood NJ
! DeIcasse is personally not liked by the
| president.
| The decision of the ministry 10 with
dga,w, mas. mas. eSelscd 81 an enormous -politlea
is6nB6tion.F Tie conservative newspaper
claim that the forces of extreme rad
1 icalism are triumphing over sane anc
progressive reform, regarding the cler
! ical issue. which was raised yesterday
as a mere preteXt to attain BRAND s
downfall.
Result Of Intrigue.
/ They point out that it is ridiculou:
| TO accuse the man who constructed the
/ separation law Of clcricalism, and now
that the church and state are com
plctely divorced, NJ. BRAND has beer
merely following out n general pro
gramme of "appeasement.
The vote in the chamber OF depu
| ties last night, therefore. is interpreted
a.
Brands adversarics in his own party
who have been plotting his overthrow
since the great crisis in the railway
strike and blocking the premier s pro
gramme of arbitration in labor dis
putcs in connection with public service
corporations.
! Physically and mentally eXbausteC
! by several years of labor in officia
! life, NJ. BRAND is sincerely anxious tt
retire. Even now he is discussing witt
| his friends the delights of a proposed
! trip to the mediterranean.
| 1t is understood that NJ. Pichon, min
! lister of foreign affairs, is equally dc
! termlned to withdraw.
The Temps. in summing up the sltua
! ton, blames parliament for taking too
much interest in the railway employees
who imperlled the security OF the coun
/ try. and not enough in the measure:
I designed to protect the nation iron
civil war.