The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
NEED YOUNG BLOOD
IN NEW CABINET.
Future Advisers of Diaz Must
Favor Reforms.
LIMANTOUR AS NEXT PREMIER
Only Member of Present Ministry
Who Is Likely to Retain Office.
Secretary Knox Returns from
Palm Beach and VIII Take Up the
Mexican Situation at Once.

Officers of the State Department are
anxiously awaiting Information from
Mexico City as to the personnel of the
new Mexican cabinet. According to the
POINT Of view of officers of the depart
n:ent, the membership of the cabinet Is
of great importance to the future of the
country. If reactionary and unpopular
officers are chosen by President Diaz to
succeed the cabinet which resigned Fri
day, there is no question that the revo-
luton will receive a great impetus from
the people who are looking forward to
governmental reforms.
If, however, young and popular cabi-
net officers are selected. officers of the
department here believed that the smoid-
ering discomfort among the people of
Mexico who have not taken an active
part in the revolutionary movement will
be allayed.
Wise Selections Expected.
There is practically no doubt here that
President Diaz will make wise selections
in framing his new cabinet. The personnel
of the cabinet, however, is looked for
with unusual interest 1t is expected
here that no time will be lost in framing
the new cabinet The revolution in the
northern part and the general but so
far inactive unrest in other sections, it is
said, will probably cause the immediate
formation of the new cabinet
1t is believed here that the downfall OF
the Mexican cabinet was due to d,ssen-
sions between Senor Jose Yves Liman-
tour, minister of finance, and other men,
bers of the cabinet, over a proposed pro-
gramme of reforms. It is generally be-
lieved here that Senor Limantour will
be about the only cabinet minister who
will be invited by President Diaz to re-
main as 4 member of the new cabinet
Dispatch to Am assador.
Neither the State Department nor
the Mexican Embassy has yet received
any information as to the personnel Of
the new cabinet Senior Francisco Leon
de Ia Barra, the Mexican Ambassador.
received this dispatch yesterday from
Senor Enrique c. Creel. minister of
foreign affairs:
To-day the cabinet presented its
resignation. President Diaz received
them and declared that he reserved the
right of accepting them according to
his convenience. The decision has been
very well received by the public,
which feels that peace will soon be
firmly established all over the coun-
try by the reforms that are going to
be instituted"
The only information received by the
State Department was a short dispatch
from Henry Lane Wilson, American Am
bassador to Mexico City, in which he
confirmed the press dispatches of the
resignation of the Mexican cabinet and
added that the revolutionary movement
had extended to the town of Morales,
In the state of Nueva Leone, which had
heretofore remained unaffected.
Secretary of State Knox returned to
Washington Yesterday from Palm Beach,
Fla. where he has spent several
weeks. He declined to receive news
paper men. He had a conference at his
residence last night with Huntington
Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State, on
the Mexican situation and other depart
mental matters which have developed
in Mr.. knoX'S absence