To organize the Cabinet, MATSUKATA stated that he could not take on it without full cooperation by predecessors and insisted on all the Cabinet members staying in the Cabinet as the condition to assume the prime minister.
松方は、組閣にあたって前任者たちの全面協力無くしては引き受けられないと述べて全閣僚の留任を唱えて、総理就任の条件とした。