The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-10
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AS TO
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRO.
POSED CONCESSIONS
PREMIER HOPES FOR PEACE
THE HEAD OF THE CAPE COLONY
GOVERNMENT is SATISFIED
WITH THE OUTLOOK
ARE TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON

TransvaaI Officials VIII Prosecute
the Three Defendants Charged
With Trying to Precfp1tate TrOu-
BILE at Pretoria Gold Standard
for India Recommended in Re-
CAPE TOWN, July 9.-W. P. Schreiner,
prime minister of the colony of Cape Of
Good Hope, says the Cape government
regards the Transvaals reform propos-
ais as adequate and calculated to insure
a peaceful settlement. The colonial
premier, however, recognizes the Afrikan-
der element.
Sir Joseph Sprig, former prime minister,
declares the concessions totally made
quate to meet the just claims of the uit-
landers and altogether less than Sir AL
fred Miner, governor OF the colony and
British high commissioner for South
Africa, demanded of President Kruger.
PRETORIA, July 9.-The Transvaal
government has decided to prosecute, on
the charge of high treason, the three
principal defendants whose completely in
the recent attempt to precipitate a re-
bellious rising at johannesburg has been
for several weeks under judicial investiga-
ton.
OUTLOOK AT LONDON.
LONDON, July 9.-It is an undoubted
fact that the war office is making some
rather important preparations in South
Africa, which tend partly to offset the
in diDlOnoa relations Wit
the Transvaal. There is somewhat I'M
favorable significance also in the fact
that Boer opinion continues to incline
toward the probability of eventual hos
tilities, inasmuch as the Beers have the
making of the situation in their own
hands. AS the case now stands their
pessimism means more than would sim
liar feeling on the other SIDE
1t is a common error to suppose that
all outstanding difficulties will be solved
by granting a modified franchise to the
outlanders. There are number of COM
paratiVely minor matters which Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain intends to have
cleared up. Moreover, he is understood
to be disposed to press the Boer govern
ment for guarantees that the franchises,
once given the outlanders, will not be
taken away again or made vain by later
legislation. In this connection 1t is i'm
portant to remember that the raad
claims to be supreme over all laws, and
has on more than one occasion enforced
that claim.
According to the johannesburg CORE
spOndent Of the Daily Mail the uitlanders
regard the Transvaal governments pro-
posal as "absurdly insufficient
CRISIS COMPLEX.
All the special dispatches to the morn
ing papers from Cape Town and johann
nesberg concur as to the compIeXity and
obscurity of the Boer proposals and de-
clare that the uitlanders are profoundly
disappointed. In Johannesburg it Is be-
lieved that President Kruger is only dali
lying to gain time until the wet season
makes campaigning difficult for the Brit
ishers.
w. P. Schrenner, the Cape premier, has
addressed a letter to an Afrikander
newspaper published in Cape Town, de-
claring there is no ground whatever for
the active interference Of the imperial
government in the Transvaal, as the Boer
proposals are satisfactory. This has
aroused great indignation in Cape Colony,
where 1t is regarded as mischievous, i'll
timed and calculated to encourage Presi-
dent Kruger and embarrass Sir Alfred
Miner.
The Rome correspondent of the Daily
Mail says: 1.-THE pope has been in cor
respondence with President Kruger, ap-
pealing to him to avoid a rupture with
Great Britain, and has received a dis
patch from the TfansvaaFs chief mag
istrate that a settlement was still
distant, but that the crisis was passed"