Evening star., 1924-01-23
MACDONALD TAKES
OVER GOVERNMENT
New Premier Names Minis.
terS and Calls His First
Cabinet Meeting.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, January 23-The labor
ministry headed by J. Ramsay Mac
donald as prime minister formally
, took office at noon today.
The members of the retiring Bald
win government visited Buckingham
Palace in the forenoon, and shortly
afterward Prime Minister Macdonald
and his ministry arrived at the palace
and received their seals of Office.
Premier Macdonald. wasting no time
in getting the machinery of his gov
ernment to work, called a cabinet
meeting for this afternoon, at which
it was understood the policy to be
presented to parliament when it re-
assemblies would be considered.
New Ministry Personnel.
Personnel of the new ministry fol-
lows:
Ramsay Macdonald, premier and sec
retary for foreign affairs.
John Robert Clynes, lord privy seal
and deputy leader in the house of
commons.
Lord Parmoor, lord president of the
council.
Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor.
Philip SnowdeI, chancellor of the
exchequer.
Arthur Henderson, secretary for
home affairs.
]. Thomas, secretary for the col
onies
Stephen Walsh, secretary for war.
Sir Sydney Olivier, head of the India
office
Brig. Gen. Christopher Thomson,
air minister.
viscount Chelmsford, first lord of
the admiralty.
Sidney Webb, president of the board
of trade.
John Wheatley, minister of health.
Noel Buxton, minister of agricul-
ture.
William Adamson, secretary for
Scotland.
c. p. Trevelyan. president of the
board of education.
Thomas Shaw. minister of labor.
Vernon Hartshorn, postmaster gen.
Col. Josiah wedgwood, chancellor
for the duchy of Lancaster.
F.. w. Jewett, commissioner of
works.
When Stanley Baldwin proceeded
to the palace for last official au
made to the his m
a humble taxicab. He started to
walk through the park, but had to
hail a cab as refuge from the peo-
pie who pressed around him.
Soon after his departure Mr.. Macdon-
Id descended in the palace yard from
private motor car. The Scottish
prime minister-as he now is-at-
tired in frock coat and silk hat neg
leGted none of the conventionaIities OF
office.
He might easily have been mistaken
for dour Scotch university pro-
fessor, which he Is in temperament
and learning. but with him went two
of his colleagues, James Henry
Thomas and John Robert Clynes, true
to the proletariat, typified by bowler
hats and short jackets. They at
tended in their capacity Of privy
councillors. for. a privy council was
Mr.. Macdonald was S, in as a
privy councillor.
: Mr.. Baldwin. spent half an hour in
. the royal presence; his successor, as
. was natural, had much longer audi
ence.
Parliament finished it's deliberations
by adjournment of both houses until
February IL. Almost the only busi-
ness of parliament was to receive the
kings reply to last nights address,
in which the king said:
II thank you for your loyal and
dutiful address and will at once give
it my careful considerations
Macdonald Again Called.
Later in the afternoon Mr.. Mac
donald again was summoned from a
meeting of the labor party to the
palace when he presented to the king
| the names of his ministers. His own
people gave the new premier a
warm welcome when he emerged
from the palace.
"Are you prime minister, Mac?"
shouted an old man. Mr.. Macdonald
/ nodded. Il congratulate you from
| the bottom Of my heart" shouted his
supporter.
Another called out: You've got a
good Job now" and the labor leader
drove away, lifting his hat in the
very best statesmanlike manner.
! In the house of commons, Mr..
Baldwin merely announced that the
government had rendered it's resig-
nation to the king and that its
resignation had been accepted.
| All interest 10 focused on the per-
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