The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-25
Ministers BelieveIt Will
Help to Restore
Peace.
ALL / N @ E FICE
FOR MANY YEARS
Revolutionists Long Have Insist
ed That President Should Sur
round Himself With Men
Younger and in Closer
Touch With Mexico's
Needs,

Mexico City. March 2t.--Thc DisH
Cabinet resigned In body at a spc-
ciaI meeting 81 tbat board To-Day.
The President deferred seton upon
the resiEuatIouS.
The reason given Tor the action In
nm official announcement Is the belief
that II VIII contribute to the rc-cstnb-
iishmcnt cf peace and facilitate tho
reforms which are jp contemplation
Enrique G. Creel. minister OF foreign
relations. presented the resignation in
behalf of all the ministers. General
DiaS thanked the retiring members for
their efficient and patriotic CO. opera
ton IN the past. and announced. that
ne would postpone his acceptance or
rejection until later.
Tho designations Included that OF I.
Ramon Corral. MS minister Of tho de-
partment of Goberna cion. corrcspond-E Z
ing to the Department of the Interior
IN the United States, hut not as Vice.
President. 5|
All Aged Men. ssj
Not one of the men who UNI. to-
day formed President Diazs Cabinet
is less than sixty-ivc years OF aga
and number of them arc much older.
With the exception Of Enrique c. Lrecl,
Minister OF Foreign Affairs all have
heen members of tho Presidents Off III
il Autt'AAs wi Slcdt iudny years,
and this fact alone has been one or
the grievances c. the rcvotutlcnists
| who have insisted that the Chief Exec
utlve should surround himself with
representatives OF the younger gener-E
alton, men more closely in touch with
the affairs OF the people.
Following arc those whose resirpa
nons were received: Enrique c. Crecl.
Minister Of Foreign Affairs; Ramon,
Sorral, Minister OF the interior: ose
4 v Il mi ~ tSi =
| OieEarce Molina. Minister of Agrlcul,
lure; Justo Sierra, Minister OF Educ;I
non; Manuel Gonzalez Cosio. Minister
OF war and Marine; Leandro Hernandez.
Minister of Public Works and COMM.
nlcations; Justine Fernandez Minister
| OIL Justice. %at -
| Feeling Against Them
| Without exception all OF these men \
nave contributed valuable services to
put the popular feeling against them
has been growing steadily since long :
n .,a. the beginning Of thes revolu-
his age can he used as an argument
against his. usefulness; but iii health
curing the last few months has served
~ IS taken into consideration that tho
man has not been popular among a s
great proportion of the people from
whose ranks tho revolutionists arc
| drawn. -, -
Enrique G. crccl is not by any means
n n m, inc deoreplt ciass but he, too, has
L
forces opposing the administrator and {
his age serves rs an excuse what has
contributed more than age, however, IS
to his unpopularitS among the masses; q
Is the fact that he is a rich man and a
incurred the hostility OF many in his q
own state, Chihuahua. That Mr.. Greet
conduct of his Office as nmba ssador%to
inc United States; and his record as
4 u, cabinet otilccr was considered good
pS the conservative element
lose Yves IimuntOur, who II ~ rr
ported Will be the only cabinet mems
ner to remain. is an old man, hut yot
reSarocd as one OF the shrewdest and z
ahlcst men i'll the republic re Is An
element which will not be pleased 1T
MS retention, but there Is none who
says he should be retired solely on $ar-
count OF ha age fs-56s5.
Justo ssicrru, Minister OF Education.
entered the cabinet many years ago.
and to him is due largely the credit q
LOT building up MeNico's schools. To- Il
wards him objection has rarely been
made. -
Three men against whom The masses
nave cried old age, are Lcandro Fer 81
; nandez, Justine Fernandez and Genera,
T IeSn IN yenrs gone by, these men 4
spectivc offices; but 1T is nm omen SO -4$
crct that for the last three or four.
Years their duties have been materially
! lightcned BY distribution among subor- \
dinates. 49, I'll
The news that the cabinet had re
signed. spread rapidly throurhomt tl1s
city. In all quarters it oiicifed favors
able comment. but not all would go so
! far as TO repeat the motto or OPTIMISM II
sounded in the official statement OF tfla +
designations, that 1T would serve
a#M Comment Hcfnsed. s
Members Of the cabinet refused ~
comment on their action, but IL /. #
stated semi officially that the ini-H
iiatlye was taken not by them bur
! by the president. who, it is said 2,Ir-
posed to surround himself with youfl cor,
, men in the hope that such action Viii 4
serve To unite all elements OF tho ma 55
ton q
II is probablc that the acccptapca
Of the designations will be coincidont 3
with the announcement Of tho ramo., is
OF the now ministers. @
This announcements NAV not bo mad, s.
Who Will compose tho now cabinet 4
is not publicly known, but they prob q.
ably will be men who have not taken 3.
a prominent part in tho government Is
include any who have been identffied &
With the revolutionary movement In Is
Stituted By Madero. 8
1t 4; reported on good authority thar Il
Nico- President Corral will sail on AprU
IL for Europe. }5t{4E3
T! The announcements OF the cabinet
designations has revived tho rnmor q
that Presdcn, Diaz has recalled Gem
oral Bernardo Reyes from Europe bus
] this could not be substantiatcd to-
night
Not Unexpected
Washing on. u, G., March a1~--Whae a Il
| Secretary Norton was Informed by tht, s
Associated Press of tho resignation Of y
tho Cabinet OF PRESIDENT Dioz, OF nIey..ss
| leo. no hurried 70 the White House to-
tell President Taft The prosidot,t \
/ was attending . musicale when he y
! heard the news. 5G3
Senior de y Barra, the Mexican .:tt -. (.
said ho expected teleRranH from hid 81