Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-26
RHODES CREATED A Scene
Violent Talk in the Assembly at
Cape Town.
MEMBERS DENOUNCED.
Guilty of Treason and Nothing More
than Scaveagers--Cape Town
Supports England.

London, Sept. pa special dispatch
from Cape Town today says there was
an extraordinary scene in the assembly
Friday, during the debate on the regis
tration of the bill Cecil Rhodes, who
hitherto has deprecated the ACCESSIBILITY
of hostilities, repeated the statement that
several members had accepted money
Tor elecuoneering purposes from the
1ransvaal government with which Eng
land is now on the verge Of war" This
statement created q great impression.
Later, speaking on the same bill Mr.
Rhodes pointed out that some of the
members were practically guilty Of trea-
son, that they were supporters of q min
isterial party who lived entirely on of
iai and were nothing more than polit-
zeal scavengers." He called ON the pre-
mier to hold these in check.
The departure of more officers for the
Cape and the denial of the Portuguese
minister that Great Britain is to take
DelagCa bay are the only developments
In the Iransvaal situation this morning.
The cabinet ministers have left town.
Ihelr action yesterday evokes nothing
noteworthy IN the way of comment. The
expectation that their meeting would be
followed by a border outbreak has so far
been unfulhlfed.
In spite of the Portuguese minister's
Great Britain will lease Delagoa bay.
The most notable among the officers
who sailed today was Maj.-Gen. French
A number Of staff officers, special service
officers and war correspondents accompa-
MED him.
England will Make One.
Cape Town. Sept. 23.-The Ons Land.
the Afrikander Bund organ, commenting
on the British cabinet meeting, heads it's
Mi AITNvn Tl1r,, M
More Dumdum Bullets" 1t says there
is no casus belli. but that the British
troops on the border are likely to make
one, and hopes the Afrikanders' protest
will be needed before it is too late.
At a meeting Of forty-eight progressive
members of the assembly, yesterday even
ing, resolutions were passed deprecating
any encouraging the Transvaal and
pledging the imperial government the
strongest support
johannesburg, Sept. % delayed in
transmission).- The feeling and uneasi-
ness here has not abated. There is more
rowdyism and street barricading is pro-
ceeding. /
Bombay, Sept. 23.-The Second bat
TALON of the Gordon Highlanders and
other detachments of troops sailed today
on three transports for Natal.
Continue Preparations.
The government. 1t is understood, ca
bled Sir Alfred Miner, British high COM
missioner for South Africa yesterday
lFriday] afternoon a message in accord +
ance with the ca binetS decision, as out /
lined in the Pail Mall Gazette. 1t is said
that the message also protests strongly
against the accusation of bad faith on
the part of Conyngham Greene.
The Standard says it believes the gov
eminent has decided to convene Parlia-
ment next month.
The Johannesburg correspondent of the
Morning Post says: 1T is asserted here
that an understanding exists in Pretoria
that the Cape Colony government will at
the last moment declare in favor of the
Transvaal"
A dispatch in the Pail Mall Gazette
from Cape Town says it is said there
that the Transvaal government has as |
sured its supporters in the Orange Free
State and in the Cape Colony that it will
not begin a war. If the British attack
the Transvaal, however, the Beers expect
that all the Dutch in South Africa will !
support Them
Kruger Hopes for Peace.
The Berkshire battalion, it is reported, !
will be moved tomorrow from King Will
liams Town to the Orange Free State
border, apparently in response to Presi-
dent Steyn's speech at the opening of the
raad yesterday.
Writing to an intimate friends here.
President Kruger says:
Things are serious and will become
graver, but a pea ceful settlement will be
attained"
Allahabad, British India, Sept %
The Pioneer yesterday printed a dispatch |
saying negotiations have been concluded |
by Great Britain for taking possession /
of Deagoa bay November l.
st. Petersburg, Sept 22.-Believing
that war between Great Britain and the |
Transvaal is imminent, most Of the Rus
sian newspapers make no attempt to con
ceal their sympathy with the Beers.
The Novoe Vremya raises the question |
Of the maintenance of the Suez canal as
an international waterway if the whole
of East Africa, from Cairo to the Cape
of Good Hope, is to be formed into a
compact British coloney.
The Novosyi comments in bitter terms
upon "England's grab policy and warns