The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-20
BONAR LAW
is SELECTING
new CABINET
Curzon, Earl of Derby
Agree to Serve
tBy Associated Press,


LONDON. Oct 20-A. Bonar Law
appeared to be making rapid progress
today informing cabinet to replace
the fallen coalition government.
This was evidenced by the announce
ment that Marquis Curzon and the Earl
of Derby both men of influence and ex-
perienced cabinet ministers, have
agreed to serve under him in any ca
pacity.
Mr.. Bonar Law cannot officially an
nounce the formation of his ministry
until he is elected head of the Union
1st party to succeed Austen Chamber
lain, but 1t is generally conceded that
this election will be only a formality
Deprived of Material
Although the split in the Unionist
ranks has deprived him of such cabi-
net material as Mr.. Chamberlain, Lord
Birkenhead, the Earl of Balfour and
some lesser lights, political experts
believe Mr.. Bonar Law viii find plenty
of timber among the younger members
of the party who have shown promise
in the political field and are marked
for advancement at a favorable mo-
ment
The premier designate was busy
seeking out eligibles at an early hour
today. His secretary declared he is
in good health again and ready to
buckle to" the work which lays be-
fore him Certainly he is giving every
evidence of his old intense energy.
though whether he is strong enough to
stand the long hard strain Of office
is problematicaI
Hint At Difficulties.
It is believed in Conservative quar-
ters that the cabinet viii be completed
before the end of next wek. This pre-
diction ignores dark hints from some
coalition sources of the difficulties
which Bonar Law may perhaps en-
counter. Prominence is given to a
story that Lloyd George proposes to
form center party with Mr.. Cham
berlafn and the leading coalition I'm
1on1sts, 1t being insinuated that this
connotes important opposition to the
regular conservatives.
Others scout this as wholly ground
less, declaring Mr.. Chamberlain and
his followers will make no attempt to
obstruct Mr.. Bonar Law In his work
4 The political expert Of the Westmin.
ster Gazette, antiLloyd George news
paper hints at the possibility of the
retiring prime minister taking a course
which viii compel an immediate elec,
tion.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O-Deyelop.
ments in the British political situation
following the fall Of the LLOYD George
government continued to hold close at
tention in both governmental and din
lomatic circles here today. Outside
OF the Immediate effect already fell
IN Washington of the postponement
OF the coming to this country of the
British debt commission, however. the
possibility of any further result a.
concerning the relations of the two
governments, it was said, was to he
gagged only in the light of deveIop
ments and the success of Premier
Designate Bonar Laws efforts to form
a new cabinet
Although it appeared doubtful to of
f1cfals today when the political situa
ton in London would be sufficiently
Clarified to permit the sending of 3
British commission to this country tc
discuss the problem of refunding thai
country's war debt to the United
: States, for which the commission
named by the Lloyd George govern
ment was to have sailed a week ago
i there was little doubt that the nego
dations ultimately would be carried
out practically on the basis already
mapped out