The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-27
DRINKS BUT WATER
CECIL RHODES TEsTIrIEs REGARD
ING DON PAUL'S HABITS.
hat Imperturbable Dutchman Spoke Ad-
visediy When He Made His ROTTERDAM
Speech Which SO Alarmed tho South
African Imperial Fedora ists- Rhodes
10 Not Convinced, Even by Failure. That
His Scheme Is Either = Rad One in Itself
or That it VIII Not Ultimately Com
mend Itself-Foreign News.

London, Feb. 26.-The inquiry OF TIE
parliamentary committee into the Jane
son raid was continued today in West
minister Hall. There was crowd OF
peers and members Of the house of COM
mons present. but the Prince of Wales
was absent.
Mr.. Edward Blake's examination OF
Colonel Cecil Rhodes was continued The
witness admitted that he had instructed
his agent in London, Mr.. Rutherford
Harris, 10 confidentially communicate
the plans Of the secret movement to GER
tain persons in England, but he refused
TO divulge their names. Asked whether
having a force ready TO march into the
Transvaal was considered consistent with
his conduct as premier. Colonel Rhodes
provoked laughter by replying: 1t is for
this committee 10 be the judge Of my con
duct. II does not appear to me 10 be in
consistent"
Further questioned in regard to the
imperial character of the proposed feder-
alton. Colonel Rhodes said:
Mr.. Blake must remember that when
we federated Canada it was local peo-
pie federated and the imperial govern
ment finally sanctioned it,
Questioned as 10 whether he thought
the end justified the means, the witness
replied
IF had succeeded we would have had
a union of Africa and the Chartered com
pany would have greatly profited. AS
l failed, l must take the responsibility,
and / hope that the future will accom-
plish the union"
The witness asked the committee to
consider in their deliberations the OBJ
jects which he had in view.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere next examined
Colonel Rhodes. He asked:
WAS Germany the power you believed
President Kruger favored?"
Yes was the reply.
Asked for evidence in support of his
speech delivered by President Kruger
before the German club of Pretoria on
the occasion of Emperor Williams birth
day in 1885.
Mr.. Labouchere suggested that Presi-
dent Kruger's speech may have been an
after-dinner GRAFTON.
But" remarked Colonel Rhodes,
President Kruger drinks only water"
Replying 70 further questions, Colonel
Rhodes referred TO the objections of the
German minister for foreign affairs,
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein. iii the
reichstag, 20 a commercial union of the
South African states as being likely to
lead 10 a political protectorate and The
exclusion of German goods. The witness
denied that protection policy existed at
the Cape, and added: Protection means
bad factories and bad articles for the
benefit OF privileged few
In answer to another question, Colonel
Rhodes said that they proposed employ
cause they are best acquainted with the
Ceep levels
RATHER HIGH-HANDED.
London, Feb. Pa special dispatch
from johannesburg says that consterna-
ton had prevailed there since the Rand
adopted yesterday a new high court law,
by which any judgment of the high court
can be annulled by the Rand. Business,
ii is added. is demoralized, as no con-
tact or concession is regarded as safe.
The English newspapers maintain that
the law is brkeach of article q of the
convention, and even the Dutch newspa-
pers counsel moderation.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Madrid, Feb. 26.-Advices received
here from Manila say that an insurrec-
ton broke out there yesterday. Bands Of
Tagales and natives attacked the bar
racks of the revenue officers and gen d
armes and murdered military officer
and four Spaniards in the streets. The
troops restored order. killing zoo OF the
insurgents and arresting many others
The object Of the rising was TO prevent
the troops from attacking Cavite.
THE NEW GUINEA MASSACRE.
Brisbane, Queensland. Feb. 2s.-Fur-
Their details from New Guinea OF the !
massacre OF the natives OF Manzbare. in
which the governor resident was killed, |
say that in addition SIX miners and forty |