The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-27

London, July 26.-The house of COM
mons was crowded this afternoon in
! expectation Of a spirited debate upon
the report of the select South Africa
committee, appointed to inquire into
the circumstances of Dr. Jameson's
raid into the Transvaal, and into the
general conduct of the affairs of the
British South African Chartered COM
pany.
The peers and the ladies' gallery
were crowded with well known women
who displayed the liveliest interest in
the proceedings.
After d number of questions the Hon.
Philip James Stanhope, Radical mem
Der for Burnley, moved, amid loud
Radical cheers. resolution that the
house regretted the inconclusive char
aceer of the Teport of the committee,
more particularly its failure 90 recon-
mend shat specific steps be taken with
regard TO the admitted completely of
Cecil Rhodes, and asking that Mr..
Hawksley, the attorney of Rhodes be
ordered TO attend at the bar of the
house and to produce the kilograms
which he refused to show the COM
mittee.
Mr.. Stanhope. who has been described
as a revolutionary aristocrat without
being Mirabeau," supported his reso-
luton in vigorous speech.
WILL BE MERE TALK.
The debate promises to be long and
but ineffective as the gov
eminent has no intention of allowing
the matter to go beyond mere talk
MI S.anhope, in speaking of his mo-
ton, attacked the chartered company
Joseph Chamberlain secretary of
state for the colonies, and Cecil
Rhodes. and expressed a desire that
the latter should be deposed of his
membership in the privy council He
also wanted the charter of the COM
pany materially modified.
Henry Labouchere spoke in the same
strain. He said that he thought if Can
ada should be raided by the secretary
of state of the United States without
the assent of the president, England
would not be satisfied if the secretary
of war was treated as Cecil Rhodes
had been.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chancellor
of the exchequer, said the government
would have to consider whether Rhodes
should remain in the privy council;
but, in dealing with him, it must take
into consideration the services he had
rendered generally. All the damaging
rumors alleging completely on the part
of the colonial office had been exploded,
as far as they had been produced.
HARCOURTS DEFENSE.
Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal
leader. defended the committee and
said he thought the report conclusive
or all important points. He strongly
defended Mr.. Chamberlain and de-
clared that his action at the time the |
raid occurred disproved all insinuations |
Of completely. The charges that the |
committee had plotted to suppress GER |
tain evidence were worthy only of |
He hoped, he said, he would |
not live to see the day when a ma
iority of the house should declare by /
vote that they did not trust the words
IF its statesmen.
Sir II. Campbell Bannerman. Liberal,
supported the committees report.
and Mr.. Chamberlain reminded the
opposition that it was due to their in
;istence that the committee had been
appointed. and that he himself had
been made g. member of 1t. He had
been in a position. he said. in which he
elt like Judge. witness and defendant.
md he thought he deserved the SYM
oathy of the house from the fact that
Turing the IS months of difficult South
African negotiations, he had been wor-
led by constant irresponsible charges
Ind suspicious, and he was glad that
lie was able TO speak at last as a free
man, As to the kilograms he said he
lad nothing against their publication.
Whatever they contained was no evil
lence against the colonial office. He
vas convinced that while Cecil Rhodes
allure was such as a great politician
nd statesman could commit. there was
othing that affected his personal char