The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-27

LONDON, Sept. 27.-The Cape Town
correspondent of the Daily News says:
"The Beers have begun looting on the
western border of the Transvaal A
house at Lichtenburg, belonging to a
British subject, was looted in his alb
sence, everything portable being carried
away"
a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Pie
termaritzburg, Natal, says that the col
ored muleteers at Lady Smith mutinied
and declined to go to the front with the
artillery.
MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
The Transvaal situation presents few
new features.
1t is increasingly probable that parlia-
ment will meet about the middle Of DC.
tober and it is again asserted that Gen.
S1 Eedvtrs Butler, WHO is to have su-
pr4me command OF the L .itlsh forces III
South Africa in the event of hostilities,
will start for the Cape on Oct. Z. Moth
Ing however, has been officially made
known on either point.
The Transvaal government was in con-
slant telegraphic commun cation with
Bloemfontein yesterday, on the reply to
Mr.. Chamberlain's dispatch. 1t is le-
lieved the reply will protest against the
constant dispatch of British troops as a
menace to the Transvaal.
The Pretoria Eoiksstein. the organ OF
the Transvaal government, declar>s that
he Transvaal executive ought to give
Great Britain at the most forty-eight
hours to reply to the Transvaals demand
that no further troops be landed, pend
ing the receipt of British proposals.
QUESTION OF sUzERA1NTY.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt writes
to the Times denying that the contro
versy regarding suzerainty was intro
duced by the Transyaal government. He
says it was originated by Mr.. Chamber
lain in his dispatch of Sept. Is, 1897.
The Transvaai independence says
Sir William, "Is complete. Over foreign
affairs the only thing reserved is the
final approval Of the queen to treaties
negotiated 1t is unfortunate that the
suzerainty question was ever raised, and
the sooner the whole dispute is adjusted
the better. Nothing whatever can come
of the employment OF vague terms like
'suzerainty' and 'paramountcy.' Beyond
doubt the relations of Great Britain with
the Transyaal rest upon the terms of the
convention OF 1854 and upon nothing
else. What we have to do is to get the
franchise question settled as quickly as
possible without the Importation of ex-
traneouS matter.
''If, as the government is understood
to desire, both parties can take a new
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an amicable solution
The secretary of state for the home de-
partment, Sir Matthew White Ridley
speaking this evening at Blackpool, indi-
Gated that the question of suzerainty
would not be used to force an issue in the
Transvaal. He said, however, that the
British government would insist upon the
redress of the grievances of uitlanders
under the conventions of 1881 and 1884. If
the conventions had been adhered to, he
declared, the present quarrel would never
have been heard of.
ENGLAND SEEKING DELAY.
BERLIN, Sept. 26-The publication of
Mr.. Chamberlain's kilograms to Sir AL
fred Miner, British high commissioner
in South Africa, calls forth but few com-
ments from the German press The opti-
mistic views expressed yesterday have
given way to a general feeling in many
quarters that war is inevitable and that
the course of British policy is merely
a ruse to gain time to complete the mill
tary preparations. The National Zeitung
says:
THE statements made in the Transvaal
green book are a fiat contradiction of
Mr. Chamberlain's version Of the five
years franchise offer, and each govern
ment taxes the other with perfdy re-
oordiOoc the rest
The Neuste Nachrichten says:
1.-The turn given to the suzerainty ques-
ton is really nothing but a play upon
words. The Transvaal is, of course, not
sovereign, as England's veto restricts 1t
as a treaty-making power. Nor has this
ever been denied by the Transvaal,
whose government only wants restric-
ton upon England's interference in in
ternal affairs.
Other journals consider that Mr..
Chamberlain's kilograms are destined to
afford material for further delays.