Evening star., 1922-10-19
Fall of Cabinet Pre-
sents "PrOfOund
Puzzle.'' -
MAY RESULTN
ACENTRAL PARTY
Bonar Law Or Earl of
Derby May Reorgan-
ize Government.
Rv the Associated Press.

LONDON, October 10, 7:1: pm
Andrew BOnar Law has consented
TO form a ministry In succession
to the ministry Of Prime Minister
Lloyd George, the Evening News
says 1t learns. King George sum-
mened Mr.. BOnar Law, asking
> him to undertake the task. de-
.lnres the newspaper and he
agreed to comply.
LONDON, October 19.-The govern
-nert Of Prime Minister Lloyd George
resigned this afternoon.
Several OF the unionist junior mem
hers resigned from the cabinet imme-
Giately after the unioniSt meeting
These included Stanley Baldwin. pres
,dent of the board of trade: Sir Ar
thur Griffith-B -Boscawen. minister OF
agriculture and fisheries; Lieut. Col
J.. C. NJ. s. Amory. parliamentary and
financial secretary to the admiralty;
Sir Philip I.loyd-Greame. minister ol
overseas trade: Sir John Baird. unoer-
secretary of state for the home ONCE
and Col, Leslie Wilson. joint parlia-
nlentary secretary to the treasury
and chief unionist whip.
Capt. H. d. King. another of the
unionist whips. and Col. Albert BUCK
lev, assistant unionist whip, also re-
signed.
King Accepts Resignation.
After a brief audience with King
George this afternoon Mr.. Lloyd
George returned to Downing street.
where he received a miners delega-
ton, but according to Frank Hodges,
who headed the delegation, Mr.. Lloyd
George said he could not consult them
as prime minister, since he had re-
signed.
Members of the minS's deiegatlon
said Mr.. Lloyd George mad told them
the king had accepted his resignation
Austen Chamberlain and some Of ths
other cabinet members conferred WIN
the prime minister Immediately alter
the unioniSt meeting.
The conservative members OF the
house of commons and government
ministers at their meeting in the
Carlton Club vo.ed by 1S6 TO 81 10
appeal to the country as the conserVa-
tive party.
The party lines upon which the cleo
tions will be fought present a pro-
found puzzle. One suggestion is
that Mr.. Lloyd George may form
center party. in which he could count
upon AusteE Chamberlain and Lord
Birkenhead, and perhaps Lord Bal
four. the three cabinet members
whose adherence to him has been re-
pudiated by today's conference.
This new party, it Is suggested.
se-vatives who stood by the coalition
and also of the coalition liberals.
This formation might put the labor
party in the position of the chief op-
position party.
The possibility that Mr.. Lloyd
George will try to .eturn to the
leadership of the liberals is not to be
overlooked either.
Health an Interference.
Mr.. Bonar Laws friends question
whether his health will permit him
to take office even for short time.
Lord Derby seems the most probable
alternative selection for prime min
lister. although it is suggested that
Lord Curzon, who gained greatly in
prestige by his work in the recent
near east negotiations. and is believed
TO have been lukeWarm coaltionist,
might be summoned to form a gov
errment.
The vote of the conservatives at the
Carlton Club was taken on a motion
by Col. Pretyman, unionist member
for the Chelmsford division of Essex.
which read:
Resolved. That this meeting of con-
servative members of the house of
commons declares its opinion that the
cooperate with the coalition liberals,
should fight the election as an inde-
pendent party. with it's own leader
and it's own program"
Today's vote, it is forecast, will be
proclaimed as great victory for the
parliament, who for several months
past have been advocating the with
drawal of the party from the coali-
tion and it's resumption of its normal
party organization.
Influence of By-Election.
Two events of yesterday are con-
sIdered to have contributed largely
TO today's decision. One was the re-
suit of the Newport election, which
in so for as it was any test. confirmed
the belief of the "die-hards" that the
conservatives. going into the election
as party, could sweep the country.
The second was the decision of the
committee of the unionist organiza-
tion to hold an emergency meeting
TO consider the course of the party
because of the feeling that today's
caucus, composed solely of the Goa
lition members of the party in the
house of commons with such of the
members of the House of Lords as
were cabinet members, had no right
TO assume to decide the future for the
whole party.
If the conservatives control the next
parliament they may be depended
rhe treaty made with Ireland by the
Lloyd George government. That this
would be done was stated by the
Marquis of Salisbury in his speech
last Monday.
The general results Of today's col
lapse Of the coalition promises to be
after a period Of upheaval, the length
of which Is difficult to predict, the
reversion of Great Britain to the ira
ditional system of government on