Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-20
CONSERVATIVE PARTY VOTED Is7
 TO se AGAINST COALITION GOVT

London, Oct. 1s.- (By, The A. P.)- The representatives of the conservative party who met in the Carlton club to- day at the call of Austen Chamberlain, declined to support Mir. Chamberlain in his adherence to the coalition govern -rsents and. voted 1S6 to ST to appeal so the country as ar independent party with, it's own leader and it's own programme.
 In consequence the coalition govern ment has fallen. Premier Lloyd George and his ministers handing in their resig- nations to the king, and Andrew BonaI Law, the old conservative leader, be-, ing summoned to form anew cabinet ing, but sent a letter of apology to the
 Lord Curzon did not attend the meet ing, but sent letter of apology to Mir. Chamberlain, explaining that owing to protests he had received from members of the house of lords at their exclusion from the, meeting and against his par ticipation in a meeting from which they had been excluded, he thought it advis- able to abstain.
 Mir. Chamberlain in his speech declar- ed that no government could be conduct ed with credit to itself while it was be- ing constantly subjected to adverse criti- cisms from the ranks of its own sup porters. The government therefore had arrived at the conclusion that the time had arrived to appeal to the country for fresh mandate, and, he added, T de- sire to ask you to consider under what conditions that appeal is to be made" ] Stanley Baldwin, president of the board of trade, entered strong plea against further continuance of the coali- tion. Mir. Lloyd George, he said, had been described as Tive wire" or | in the lord chancellor's more stately language as dynamic force"
 t"I accept that description he added but it is from that very fact that our troubles arise
 Mr. Bonar Law suggested that MT Chamberlain should allow them to sub nit their decision to the whole party and declared that unless this course was adopted a split in the party was unavoid- able.
 "It is more important to keep our party united than to win the next cleo tion,y he exclaimed. Lord Balfour. speaking in favor of the coalition, argued that instead of MT. | Lloyd George dynamic force'' in fuencing conservative policy, the fact was that whatever there had been 8 was that wherever there had been pro. found modification of views that modi-
 ication had taken place on the part oi tho upremier much more than in the l part Of his conservative colleagues. One of the surprises of the meeting was the strong stand taken by Leslie Wilson, chief unionist whip, against the coalition.
 l Before the vote was taken, and in re. ply to questions, MT. Chamberlain ex. plained that support of the resolution
 would mean that in the event of tht
 conservatives winning at the elections
 as an independent party there would b, a conseryatice cabinet and conservativ. premier. (This would exclude Mir. Lloys George from the premiership, should tn,
 conservatives win, unless he withdrew from the liberals completely and be, came whole-hearted conservative.) I After card vote was taken MT Chamberlain thanked the meeting for it. courtesy and announced that he and hi,
 colleagues must now consider their DO sition.