Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
LETTER HIDES GUILT
Chamberlain May Be Compelled to Produce
the Telltale Missive.
STANHoPs WILL EXHAUST EVERY RESOURCE
May Ask the Commons to Call for Entire
Correspondence on Raid. IN.
SECRETARY WILL BE lNAWKWARD POS
Refusal Would Be Admission that cad
Impending Disclosures
RI0T0US SCENE IS SUDDF
Furious Commoncrs Curb Their Pas
sion out of Respect to Dead Sol
dicrs on Field of Hattie and
Vote War Revenue.

sion out Hespctt W pthu
dicrs on Field of Hattie and
Vote War Revenue.
Copyright, 1899. by Press Publishing Co)
LONDON, oct. 2l.-(New York World
ablegrain-special Telegram,) )-IIon. Philip
Stanhope has resolved to exhaust every
means of compelling Secretary Chamberlain
to produce the letter received by him from
Bourchier Hawkesley, solicitor to the Cecil
Rhodes company, charging the colonial Of
fee on the evidence of cablegrams received
during the preparations for the Jameson
raid with direct knowledge of Connivance
at the raid conspiracy. When Chamberlain
for public purposes denounced the raid and
raiders after it failed Hawkesley, in anger,
told Chamberain's political opponents Of
incriminatory cablegrams and threatened to
produce them when on the witness stand be-
fore the Jameson raid committee, but
Hawkesley was deprived of the opportunity
by decision of the majority of the COM
mittee, which would not insist upon pro-
ducton of the cablegrams and agreed to a
sudden hushing up of the investigation.
Chamberlain and Rhodes then became
good frienG. again and now Hawkesley
would not give any aid to unearthng the
conspiracy. Chamberlain's offer to show the
correspondence to Bannerman or Harcourt
is mere subterfuge, as both have declined
to interfere. They were both on the raid
committee, both voted against production of
the cablegrams and don't want to stultify
themselves.
Stanhope said today: II am not done with
Chamberlain. A motion may be made in
the House of Commons for the production
OF the whole correspondence. He can only
refuse at the cost of virtually admitting
that he is afraid of the disclosures This
is no mares nest If l were Mr. Cham
berlain I would only too willingly take ev-
erything to the public.
Mr. Stead charges deliberate falsehood in
his speech Thursday with reference to the
raid inquiry. In proof he cites Mr. Cham
berlain's only reference to the Hawkesley
letter in his evidence as AN ordinary COW
ering letter. sent with the suppressed ca
Diagrams, in consequence of which Mr..
Chamberlain was not asked to produce it
and Hawkesley did not have the ch -nce.
This issue is clearly joined. II there is
no such correspondence, or if it consists only
of an ordinary covering letter, Chamberlain
can prove il by simply producing the letters
which passed between him and Rhodes So
licitor between the beginning of June and
the end of October, 1897. Should he refuse
the subject then becomes a question nvolv-
ing the honor of the House of Commons"
Raising Revenue for War.
For the moment the exciting news from
Natal has submerged this Hawkesley letter,
but the scandal will crop up again in the
House of Commons next week. The chan
color of the eXchequer, Beach, will explain
on Monday the financial proposals of the
government to raise the $4,000, 600 voted for
the preliminary cost of the war. He will not
propose new taxation, but is expected to ap-
ply about $15,000,0 900 savings on revenue to
immediate requirements, borrowing the bal
ance ultimately. The cost OF the war will,
by common consent, fall on the Rand and
the vast hitherto undeveloped gold reefs
throughout the Transvaal, which will be ex-
plotted Immediately. England has gained
! possession of one of the richest of the runs
under control OF Pretoria, but Kruger always
steadfastly resisted its exploration, saying
one Johannesburg was enough for South
African mining spectators.
He calculates that the Transaval gold out
| put the first year after British occupation
| provided the Beers don't explode the mines
| will be doubled in five years and quadrupled
in seven. In other words, it will increase
from $50,000O 600 to $500 OOO. 900 annually.
One of the most impressive scenes ever
| enacted in the House of Commons was wit
| messed there last night The Irish members
! with Dillon and Davitt were to the fore
| front, offering the sternest resistance to
every step of the government war policy.
| Their open avowals of sympathy for the
| Beers, their reiterated charge OF war de-
liberately provoked aroused the fercest re-
sentiment and hostility among the minister
ialists. The proceedings last night threat
ened to terminate in some violent outbreak
of passions Both sides We're getting rap
idly beyond control when Colonel Kenyon
Slaney, n tory member, with a record for
conspicuous bravery in the field rose and
in few brief, simple words spoken with
profound emotion, prayed for a truce to
contention for that night out OF respect to
the dead and dying Englishmen, Irishmen
and scotchmen lying on the battlefield, as
we'll as their gallant foes. The effect was
instantaneous, the clamor was stilled and
Dillon, acknowledging the manly spirit OF
Slaney's speech which recognized the valor
OF England's foes. appealed TO the Irish
members to fall In with the suggestion
Then Arthur Balfour acknowledged the gen.
erous attitude of Irishmen and read touch.
ing telegram announcing tn, mortal injur-
les of General Symons, to whose gallantry
British success is due.
The whole money for the war was ther
voted without further discussion and the
House adjourned The swift transformation
from the angry tumut and apparently ir-
reconciable bitterness to solemn calm and
mutual forbearance was indescribably affect
ing
The dramatic bloody victory at Glencoe
has somewhat sobered the lingo feeling here
and scenes Of the departure OF the guards
from London today were much more sub
dued than in the cases OF earlier detach-
ments.
Other PeriIs Are Impending.
Simultaneously with the publication OF ar
apparently inspired scheme for a fedora
union of South African states on the line!
OF the Dominion OF Canada comes the in
telligence that the paramount pretensiout
set up in Chamberlain's speech have causeC
Russia, Germany and France TO address
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