Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-12-08
eoNAR LAW DECLINES TO UNDER
TAKE FORMATION OF NEW
cABINET-WELSH STATES
MAN ACCEPTS,
new GOVERNMENT WILL BE
COALITION LIKE OLD one
Country Awaits Next Act in Remark.
able Crisis-New Ministry Means
Direction Of War by Dictator
ship in Form of Inner cout,-
Gil Of the Cabinet.

LONDON, dec. Z. - David Llody
George has overthrow the Asuuith
cabinet and will become prime minis
ter himself. The new government will
be coalition, like the old one, but prob
ably without the same measure of har
monious support which attended the
formation Of the first coalition govern
ment, because its birth has created ad,
ditional fractional differences.
King Calls Party Leaders.
This result has emerged from an,
other day of active and hurried party
conferences and 4 day Of intense sus.
pense and interest throughout the
country. There was a prospect that
the personal Offices of the king might
solve the situation and many thought
that the AsQuith regime must be con.
tinued. The king called the party
leaders to Buckingham palace and con.
ferred with them for more than an
hour. Mr.. Asquith and Mr.. Lloyd.
George of the Liberals, Mr.. Bonar
Law and Mr.. Balfour Of the Unionists,
and Mr. Henderson Of the Labor party,
WeIS Will LILO 8OV0IVlSu.
1onar Law Declines Offer.
Whatever passed In council is held
secret, but the inference that the king
tried to arrange q reconciliation ap.
statesmen departed separately, four in
their motor cars and the working
mans spokesman afoot.
Afterward the king gave an audience
to Mr.. Bonar Law, who declined to un-
dertake the formation of a new min.
istry and then to Mr.. Lloyd-George
who accepted the responsibility, as
everyone anticipated he would II the
opportunity came to him.
-. New Government Coalition.
The official announcement that Mi.
Lloyd-George had undertaken the task,
with the cooperation of Mr.. Bonar
Law, was a notification that the new
government would be coalition. Any
party government would be impossi.
BILE, because neither the Unionists nor
House of Commons; either must at
tach the Irish Nationalists or the La,
borites to itself to command a major
ity.
The Nationalist have refused to par
ticipate in the government until home
rule becomes established. The Labor
ties are sworn enemies to Mr.. Lloyd.
George because they resent his accu.
sations that the workingmen have not
their personal interests above the ma,
tional interests at times during the
war.
Country Awaits Next Act.
The country awaits the rising Of the
curtain on the next act of this histor.
lcal and remarkable crisis with an ex.
pectancy which never surrounded the
birth throes Of any previous govern.
ment. The Lloyd-George ministry
means the direction Of the war by a
dictatorship in the form of an inner
council Of the cabinet, and means the
"scrapping" of those elder statesmen,
whose supremacy In the councils of
the. nation, until they choose to With
draw from the scene voluntarily, has
always heretofore been regarded by
the British people az a matter
Of course.
Mr.. Asquith, Mr.. Balfour, Viscount
Grey and Lord Lansdowne must co.
the Lloyd-George press has been cry.
Ing. But their going will be attended
by widespread misgivings among the
people, who have thought their knowl-
edge and experience as necessary to
the government as the push and dr1v.
Ing power Of the group which will sue
seed them.