The New York herald., 1922-10-20
New Government May Dis
solve Parliament or Carry
On Until January.
DIFFICULTY IN ELECTIONS
Ministers Selected Would Havc
to Vacate Seats and Appeal
TO Constituencies.

Special Ca5le to THE NEW YORK HrRALp.
Copyright, 1922, 5y TIE NEw YoEK HEELs.
New York Herald Bureau.
London. Oct. I9.
Late this afternoonA David Lloyd
George, a Welsh scho0lmaster's SON
and the political magician who has
governed the greatest empire in the
world in its hours of travail through
the great war and in its hours of
glory. rendered the seals of his Office
to King George V. at buckingham
Palace. He is tonight in effect a
private citizen again. The seals OF
Office, however, will not be trans
ferred until new Government is
formed. When the King summoned
Andrew Bonar Law to form a new
Cabinet the latter replied that he
could not do so until the Conserva-
tiyes Of both houses of Parliament
should choose their new leader in the
party meeting, which probably will
be held Saturday or Sunday.
Thus Bonar Law probably will sue
, coed Lloyd George. who attained that
Office in 1915. upon the resignation
OF Herbert Asquith, when Mr.. Law
declined the Kings request to form a
new Ministry.
II was the Conservatives at their
caucus at the Carlton Club to-day
who overthrow the coalition govern
ment, which has been in power for
seven years. and In which they were
the principal group. Pleading for
the preservation of the Conservative
party as a political unit Mr.. Law said
in that meeting that il was time to
end the coalition. Because in this
he was sustained by vote of 1S6 to
81, the Prime Minister and his gov
ernment resigned
Bouar Law Turned the Trick.
In such manner did the dour
Scottish Canadian, who for many
years stood through veal and woe
shoulder to shoulder with Mr.. Lloyd
George, as a perfect foil for the lat
ter's volatility, emerge from the
shadow of recent illness and with a
few quiet words overturned all the
carefully laid plans of Austen Cham
berlain. and sent the Conservatives
stampeding out of the staid old Carl
ton Club exultantly shouting, Lloyd
George and Chamberlain are beaten"
1t was all done nominally to preserve
the entity OF the Conservative party,
yet tonight 30 per cent Of that tradi-
tional Tory body say they will stand
by no party, but by personality; the
personality Of the little Welsh lawyer
who has led them, charmed them and
convinced them. But tonight he is
silent
Lord Curzon probably will enter a
Bonar Law Ministry but II is con-
sldercd that the split in the party by
which such men as Austen Chamber
lain. the Earl Of Balfour Sir Robert
Horne. Lord Birkenhead and Sir
1.amng worthingtou- Evans will follow
Lloyd George into the political wilder
moss 70 which he referred in his Man
chester speech win make such a Cabi-
net little moro than a maseshift.
Tonight an official statement says
The Hon. Mr.. LLOYD George was re-
ceived in audience by his Majesty and
rendered hts resignation as Prime Min
lister and First Lord of the Treasury.
which tho King was graciously pleased
20 accept. The Right Hon. Mr. Bonar
Law was received IN audience by his
Majesty this evening
New Cabinet Possibilities.
Tho immediate future Is uncertain.
Bonar Law is busy consulting his pos-
sible colleagues in new Cabinet He
had long talks with the Earl Of Derby.
Stanley Baldwin. lately Minister OF
Agriculture and Fisheries the Marquis
Of salisbury. viscount Fitzalan. for
merry viceroy Of Ireland the Earl OF
Sclborne Sir George Younger, chair
man OF the Conservative party organ
iaation. Lord Hugh Cecil. Viscount
Peel who resigned az Indian Secretary
to-day; Licut-Co Leslie Wilson and
others.
II the shouts in the course or to-day's
meeting at the Carlton Club are any
Indication. ireland may again be the
crux of English politics. II was How
about Ireland" with which the members
there silonccd Lord Balfours assertion
that the coalition had not violated any
Unionlst principles.
III Unionist Government Is formed
now 70 may be tempted 10 refuse 20
ratify the Irish constitution, though Mr.