ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 5

ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

RESIGNATION OF GIOLITTI CABINET. By Telegraph.— Press Ansociation.— Copyright. ROME, 3rd December. Owing to an adverse vote in the Italian Chamber in connection with the Reform Bill, the Giolitti Cabinet (which has held office since 1906) has resigned. The Italian general elections took place in March of this year, when Signor Gioletti, who had assumed office in May, 1906, came back with a large majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Gioletti has been three times Prime Minister of Italy. According to Hazell,' he was born at Mondovi in 1842, of an old but poor family of mountaineers, and has preserved the simple habits of his early years. He became a barrister, and, after holding minor legal posts, entered politics in 1882 as Deputy for Cuneo, and soon came to the front as a man of great independence and ability, and also as an orator. Although he became Minister of the Treasury under Crispi in 1889, he subsequently fought the Crispinian policy with the greatest determination as Prime Minister. During his second administration (1903-5), he introduced several notable administrative and economical reforms, and in particular improved the condition of the proletariat.