The New York herald., 1922-10-24
B0NAR LAW ACCEPTS,|
Ministry TOMORROW;
ELECTIONS ON NOV. IS
Dissolution of Parliament
Probably Announced
OH Thursday.
BUT FEW REAL ISSUES
Conservatives and Liberals
Agree OH Ireland and
Free Trade.
LABoRITEs OPPOSE DATE
Say Mid-Week Election Is Tory
Job to Keep Them From
Polls.
LABORITEs OPPOSE DATE
Special Gable to TIE New York HERALD.
Copyright 1929, by THE NEW YORK HERALD

Spectdf CuOfc 10 lie NEW tohh iirhaip.
Copyright. 1923, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Oct. 23.
Nobody knows who is directing
England tonight. Mr.. Lloyd George
left No 10 Downing street with grin
on bis face and his golf clubs over his
shoulder. Andrew Bonar Law-again
selected the leader of the Conservative
party at meeting to-day after
speech plainly appealing. for the CO.,
operation of his old Coalition colleagues
went to see King George with his
acceptance of the Premiership, but
with his Cabinet SO far from formation
that the King was unable to issue a
proclamation dissolving Parliament.
Tn fact nobody knows where the seals
OF office lie. Mr.. Lloyd George is re-
ported to have delivered them, to the
King when the sovereign took formal
leave of the retiring Prime Minister,
but the King has not yet given. them
10 Mr.. Bonar Law.
A privy council probably will be held
Wednesday, when if the new Cabinet
has been completed the dissolution of
Parliament will be proclaimed. The
election is tentatively fixed for No
vember 10, and a new session of Par
lament in time to pass the Irish treaty
before December 6.
Tomorrow Mr.. Bonar Law moves in
on the ground floor Of No. 10 Downing
street with the Cabinet room. sccreta-
rial offices &c. but Mr.. Lloyd George
sleeps there. possibly for the last time,
tomorrow night.
Conservative Boilers Meet.
This evening the lonely thirteen"
Conservative Ministers who followed
Austen Chamberlain after the Carlton
Club revolution debated what they were
to do. Many men, including the Earl
Balfour, "Galloper Smith" U4ord Bir-
kenhead) and Mr.. Chamberlain himself
made speeches sounding a passionate
Keynote of unity. But when the meet
ing was over nobody was able TO say
whether that meant unity with the Con-
servatiye party and Bonar Law or unity
with the coalition and Floyd George.
Cooperation was the essence of all
tho maze of the days utterances, ex-
cept from the Labor camp; and there
disunion showed it's head. with John
Robert Clynes. parliamentary chairman
Of the party, vigorously disowning Ar
thur Henderson's declaration that labor
was at war with private enterprise.
Mr.. Bonar Laws speech at the
| gnionist meeting. however, sounded
definite keynote that is likely to go far
in helping him with the country If not
with the many factions from which he
,,.;iI hax- IN rhnoSp his ('ahinpt He
declared that one reason he broke up
the Coalition was because he felt Eng
land had better get back to the basis
of two parties, the one Liberal and the
ether Conservative. than that the Coali-
ton should dam the tide OF radicalism
until one day radicalsm broke the dam.
lie said that what Great Britain
wanted was a period of tranquillity--a
surcease from adventures abroad and
now ventures at home.
lie spoke in terms OF feeling friend
ship with LLOYD George, and announced
that diehardism would not control his
administration, whose first pledge was
that the Irish treaty would be ratified.
He said he would not~choose in form
ing u Cabinet whether useful man
was a diehard or one of those who voted
against him.
No Real Issues Involved.
While neither side has announced its
program there Is really no great division
between them on issues, both agreeing
on Ireland and favoring continuance
OF free trade. The question OF coalition
or not is the real dividing line.
II Afr. Lloyd George does not wish
to spend a very lonely time in the
wilderness II begins to look as IL he
would have to go with the Conserva-
tives. Mr.. Bonar Law was all modera-
tion to-day--he was not even plqued
over Mr.. Lloyd Georges reference to
holding the horse by the tail--and he
sent plain invitation to not only the
Conservative cx-Ministers to come with
him but an appeal to the Ll0d
Gcorgians.
The Labor party Is in an uproar over
the election taking place in mid week,
saying Il VIII prevent many of its men
from casting their ballots. and charging
that It is Tory trick to weaken them
at the polls.