Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-07
WILL COOPERATE
W|THA. bONAR LAW
IN UNDERTAKING
Birth of New Government
Creates Additional Fac
tional Differences.
PARTY LEADERS CALLED
TO CONFERENCE By KING
Inference Most Natural One
That He Tries to Arrange
Reconciliation.
LATEST MINISTRY COALITION
announcement Follows Day Of In-
tense Suspense and Interest
Throughout Country.
PARTY LEADERS CALLED
TO CONFERENCE BY KING
LATEST MINISTRY COALITION
Announcement Follows Day Of III
tense Suspense and Interest
Throughout Country.
iBy Associated prcss.l

| By Associated Press
LONDON December G.-David Lloyd
George has ovcrthrown the Asqui,h
Cabinet. and will hccor" Prime Min
lister himself. The new govcrnmcn,
will nc coali,ion. like tho old one. bu,
probably without the Same measure
Of Harmonious support which attended
the formation OF the first coalition gov
crnment, because its birth has created
additional factional differences.
This result has emerged from an
other day OF active and hurried party
conferences and day az intcns" sus-
pcnse and interest throughout the
country.
There was a prospect this afternoon
that the personal Offices OF the King
might solv" the situation. and many
thought that the AsIuith regime might
he continued. The King called the
party leaders To Buckingham Palace
and conferred with them for more than
AN hour. Mr.. Asquith and Lloyd
George. OF tho Liberals: Mr.. Law and
Mr.. Iialfour. of the Unionsts. and Mr.
Henderson. of the Labor part, were
with the sovereign
II is many years since British ruler
assembled the representatives of the
they had shown themselves unable TO
settle their difficulties.
KING i.HOBARI.l TRIED no
ARRANGE REtO\CIIItTIuN
Whatever passed in council is hold
secret, but tho inference that the King
tried TO arrange reconciliation ap-
pears most natural one The five
statesmen departed separately, four in
their motor cars. and the workingmen's
spokesman afoot.
Afterwards the King gave an audi
cncc To R"nar Law. who declined to
undeItak" the formation OF a new min
istry. and then 10 Lloyd George. who
accepted the responsibility as every
one anticipated he would Il tho on
rortunity came to him.
Tn" official announcement tonight
that Lloyd George had undertaken th"
task. with the "o-opcration Of Eonar
Law notification tha, the nov
government would he coalition Auy
party government would bc impossiblc
because neither tho I'nionistS nor tho
liberals have majority in tho House
"f Commons: either ono must attach
.hc Irish Nationalists or tho I.aboritcs
TO itself to command a ma iority. Tho
NaiionalfSis hav" refused to partici-
pat" III tn" government until home
rule becomes established. The La
horitcs arc sworn enemies to LLOYD
George because they resent his accusa-
tons that tho working men have nut
their personal interests above the ma
tiona! Interests at times during the
war.
CHANGE MEANS SCRAPPINt:
or THE ELDER STATF:SiEN
The country awaits the rising of the
curtain on tho next act of this his
torical and remarkable crisis with an
expectancy which never surrounded
the birth throes of any previous gov
crnmcnt. 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 as a matter of
course
Mr. Asquth. Mr.. Halfour Viscount
Grey and Lord Lansdowne must 60"
the Lloyd George press has been cry
ing. Fut their going will be attended
ny NIuSSpTt'iu nlSSlNllSS among the
people.
Lloyd George is committed to the
formation OF war council. and .he
membership Of that dictatorship will
he the most important and crucial
work he will have. Andrew Honar
Law. the Earl Of Derby and Sir Ed
ward Carson. all Of them Comserva-
tivcs. are most talked Of. Bonar Law
and Lord Derby would be generally
approved. but Sir Edward Carson has
many critics
WILL HE BECOME MEMBER
OF OWN WAR COUNCIL.
The new Premier is confronted with
the problem whether he will become
n member of his own war council His
scheme for the council. which he pre-
sented to Premier Asquith as the price
Of his continuance OF the Asauith
Cabinet, excluded the Premier on the
ground that the general duties of the
Office did not leave time for daily ses-
sions. The question whether Lord
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