Peking, Oct. 19.
The question of impending Cabinet changes has been in abeyance for some days owing to the imminence of the President's birthday which was very quietly celebrated yesterday, but it is likely to come to the surface again now.
There seems to be no an mediate occasion for any change, since no political or diplomatic action has warranted a change, but the whole turmoil is very obviously promoted by an unruly minority in Parliament and by Tsao Kun's highly objectionable following in tientsin. which is Jed by his brother Tsao Jui and by the notorious Pien brothers, one the chairman of the Provincial Assembly, the other the chairman of the Chihli Chamber of Commerce.
The Cabinet of course resigned en bloc on the 10th of the month when Parliament reopened. This was slumply a matter of form, until at the opening @ few of the niembers, substituting for others—took it upon' themselves to make virulent attacks upon—individual membera of the Cabinet.
Then it} was that the Premier, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, announced that his resignation was effective. The President was nota party to any the subsequent efforts to bring kent changes and has been doing all in his power to hold the present Cabinet intact, but the Tsao Kun following took advantage of the Cabinet's embarrassment after the opening of Parliament to make 2 bold push for jobs. It is prob-; ably a mistake to attribute this movement to Tsao Kun and his evpposed jealousy of Wu Pei-fu, because Tsao Kun is not a con-spirater by temperament and not inclined to hunt trouble except at the urgent instigation of his} kinsman and their clique. They vented to push him into the Pyesidency or the Vice-Presidency for what there was in it for them. Having failed there, they now vant a dominating majority in the Cabinet.
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