The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-14
BARON KAT0
 CHOOSES ABLE JAP CABINET
Japanese Newspapers Set Up Vail, However, Against Naval Hero.
By JAMES MCLEAN, International News Service.

met has confirmed the judgment passed on that day-that Admiral Baron Kato picked a group of re- markedly strong and efficient men for hds Ministers It should be a success full Cabinet for a time, but if longer than the next meeting of the Diet it will be due to the sheer dpdn1nauon of the Premier, the same man who kept the delegates at the Washington conference guessing as to just what Japan was going to do.
 The fact ds explained when it Is shown that although the minister's are exceedingly efficient adndnistrators General Yamanashi, Ministers of War members of the House of Peers; in ehort, bureaucrats of the first order. Some were members of the short-lived :Terauoh4 Cabinet, which went in dur ing 1916, and others were assigned posts in the Cabinet that Vdscount Kfyoura failed to oomplete in 1914; following the famous naval scandal which caused the downfa-l of Admiral Count Yamamoto, a man, now re- tired, who had big influence in help ing the Genro form the Kato Min tstry.
 At first Admiral Kato absolutely refused to become Premier, but in- causing a change iof mind. This did not come, however, until after the navy man was certain that the Sci yukars promise of support were not i; InoE6 1Qle ldIh ana Cnt1I the henhyu- kat. the majority party in the House o8 Peers. was also on his side. Then Ae started to pick his Cabinet | Mzuno Important Man ConSid edng the Kato Cabinet, it seems that Dr. Rentaro Mizuno, the new Minister of Home Affairs, is to play the most important part in the { Ministry, aside from the Premier him tself He occupied the same post in tthe ill-fated Terauchf Cabinet and tsi1ce that time has been Civil Gov reGnor of Korea, there earning a rec iU<d for remarkably efficient and lib sera1 administration and becoming ac- cepted by the more liberal clements also as one of Shem.
 The new Finshce Minister, Otohiko Ichik1, was vice-Minister in the Ter auchd Cabinet He is a Satsuma ,clansrnap and a leader of the Ken Ayukai. Ichfki has also fugured pans financial interests in Siberia, Kertaro Aria, the Minister of Agri- culture and Commerce, is the same i sort of an individual. his interests i ve1oping trade in China. He has served a great deal of his life in the Finance Department. once being vice Minister. He was to have been Min ister of Finance in the Kiyoura Cab inet had the Viscount succeeded in ; completing and installing the Minis : try in 1914.
 Maeio Youngest Member : Viscount Toshisada Maeda, Minis ter of Communications, is the young 1 est member of the Ministry and is cratic leaders of the House of Peers. : He ts heavily interested in various financial projects
 Dr. Keijiro Okano. Minister of Jus
 distinguished for his work in
 =. and education of the country, , having served as university professor [ and president until a few years ago, i when he was appodnted to the Upper 2 E <7$ Ia Sa% Iii i over to politics. Dr. Eikichi Kamada goes to the Department of Education rom the presidents chair at Keio i University, which he has held for the ever, he remained active in the House or Peers. Prior to that time he was a menher of the House of Represent ! atives and identified with the Seiyu- : ka!:
 i, Count Yenktchi oki was Minister ! of Justice during the Hara and Taka- : hasha cabinets. being placed there as a i representative of the influential Ken ] kykat of he House of Peers, but was i switched to the head os the Depart 1 Inent of Railways with the formation or katos Ministry.
 Uchida Retains Portfolio Count Yasuya Uchida. remains as Foreign Minister, and General Hanzo Yamanashi. prominent in the Choshu elan, retains the post of Minister of ; War. Count Chokan Ogasawara, an other of the bureaucratic peers, is in charge of the Census Bureau, now a | post ranking in importance with the ! cabinet portfolios and unofficially a ! Inember of such.
 Just what these men will do re- mains unknown, but their natural poll : scies cannot be such as will long hold much public confidence. In fact, the press greeted the formation of the ministry with wall of disappaint- mont, and many public followers ot Admiral kato are already shakfne their heads with doubt, if to say:
 Another good man gone wrong!'
 Admiral Tomosaburo Kato has been a. national hero since the Russo-Jap-
 aness war, when he was Admiral To-
 'o's chief of staff. Since that time
 len his reduction of that program
 cooperation with the Powers al
 ashington, have further heightened
 Is prestige with the people. Admira
 ato contributed a great part in the
 reation Of the "eight-eight" naval ex.
 ansion program and did more thar
 anyone else to complete it.
 Nation RejoiceS
 Then came the Washington confer. ence last fall, and the nation rejoice6
 when he was named as one of the delegates. The vernacuIar press ha! handed Admiral Kato but little ap
 provaI since he accepted the confer
 ence naval ratios. however. whe1
 he was mentioned prominently as.
 Premier possibility their complaift
 started.
 It Is thought in Japan, however
 that Admiral Kato's reputation at tn,
 Washington conference will make hi selection welcomed in America, Bri
 tain, France and Italy particularly
 For nine years he has held the port folio of the Navy Department servinj in the Okuma, Terauchi. Hara anC TakahaShf Cabinets and again takin.
 the post, in addition to that of Pre- ! rnfer- His action in doing this, he ex ! plains. is to insure fulf1llment of tn conference naval reductions becaus another might cause his own plan t go wrong. When this mission is com , pleted he will devote all his time t : the Premiership.
 Spent Fortune in SearcI
 "I spent s1,S0O in years treat
 ing with physicians. some specialist