New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
FRENCH CABINET FORMED
By RAYMOND PO|NCARE
r,.o Former PremierS, MN.
Bourgeois and BRAND, En-
ter His Combination.
oeLCASSE STILL AT MARINE
v.w Head of Government Will
Re His Own Minister of For
eign Affairs-War Port
folio for Millerand.
rRr Cahle 10 The Tribune.

paris Jan. 13.-Raymond Poincare
..nsa upon President Fallieres this
~.-ring and accepted the latter's invita-
.,or 70 form a Cabinet. Late. this after
.oon he returned TO the Elysee and an
.ounced that he had succeeded in form
..r what is considered in Paris the
,trongest government in several years.
:, includes two former Premiers as well
.s NM. Delcasse and Millerand. The
new Cabinet, with the exception Of the
,sadships of the Ministries of Com
rerce and Public Instruction. which will
he awarded to politicians of secondary
Importance is as follows:
Premier and Minister OF Foreign Afairs-M.
fy,riats snister Of Labor LEON BOURGEOIS
Minister Of Justice-ARISTIDE BRAND.
Minister OF War-ALEXANDRE MILLER
ASRi Minister Of Marine - THEoPHHE DEL
cASsE. or,
Minister Of the lnterior--JULES STEEG.
Minister Of Public Worls-JEAN DJPUN.
Minister Of Agriculture-JCLES PANS
Minister Of Colonies Nj LEBRUN.
NM DeIcasse Klotz and Lebrun re-
tain the portfolios held by them under
the Caillaux regime.
The roster is not yet. however, official
and IL is possible that one or two shifts
NAV be made over Sunday. AS it is, the
Poincare combination Is composed Of
men of great political experience, who
st the same time will command the inI-
i Ia In
tsgrity and ability. 1t represents broad
republiCan concentration, ranging from
the Parliamentary Centre to the extreme
Left.
Raymond POincare is one Of the fore
most lawyers If the Paris bar. He is
man of sound judgment, never acting
until after mature reflection. He is an
Academician. not yet ffty-two years old.
his first Cabinet offices being those of
Minister of Public Instruction and Min
ister Of Finance, i'm 1898 and 1894. In
all the ministerial crises of the last seven
years he has been spoken Of as a possi-
bic Premier
Leon Bourgeois. the new Minister cf
etorial committee of investigation which
esused the fall of the CaillauX Cabinet,
and VI. Poincare having been its rap
porteur. drastic reform of the former
diplomatic system of occult negotiations
and secret treaties is assured.
The return to office of Aristide BRAND.
Appropriately enough as Minister Of Jus
tee. is extremely annoying TO the revo-
Iutionarv Socialists, but is hailed with
ioy bv all lovers of law and order. NJ.
Delcassk. notwithstanding the bitter per-
sonal enmity of Georges Clemenceau
and Of Castor Calmette. editor Of lie
Figaro" is regarded by the nation at
large as one of the ablest statesmen the
French Republic has produced, and his
retention of the portfolio Of Marine
enormously strengthens the combination.
Altogether it is a ministry representing
common sense. dignity and the ripe
Judgment of liberal minded French Re-
publicans.
The Cabinet crisis, which thus passes
into history, is one Of the most i'm
portant and at the same time one Of the
most salutary in its conse seluences that
has taken place in FraDce for twelve
years. Thanks to the fearless, drastic
and imperial investigation of the Sei.a-
torial Commission, it was proved that
methods Of individual bargaining and
negotiations at the instigation of NJ
CaillauX, or of separate members OF his
Cabinet, had been undertaken behind
the backs o, the recognized official diplo-
matte representatives of the nation.
The public Indignation against under
hand propositions and secret conventions
or agreements where the vital interests
Of the nation are concerned is to-day un-
mistakable The average thinking
rrenchman now believes that this
Machiavellian system if carried TO IS
logical conclusions would completely
paralyze the foreign policy Of the re-
public and result in the diplomatic isola-
tion of France.
In these circumstances the fall Of the
Caillaux Cabinet became inevitable and
was surprise to nobody. A condition
Of diplomatic neurasthenia being re-
vealed, the nation demanded a thorough
cleansing Of abuses, and insisted that the
real dlplomatists and officially accredited
ambassadors, with an able, strong willed,
diplomatic chief at the Quai dOrsay,
should be exclusively intrusted with the
foreign affairs Of the nation. NJ. Poin-
care is the man.