The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-26
NEGOTIATIONS
DECLARED OFF.
England Will Now Name
Terms to the TranSvaal.
LATEST NOTE in
FORM OF ULTIMATUM
Declares That the Beers Are Re-
sponsible For Present Situation.
In the Meantime Members of the
Volksraad Are Urging the Govern
ment to Take the Initiative and
Warn Great Britain That the Fur
Their Mobilization of Troops In
South Africa VIII Be Regarded
AS An Unfriendly Act.

London, Sept. 25.-The officials of the
foreign office this evening gave out the
text of the letter of the secretary of
state for the colonies, Mr.. Chamber
lain, to the British high commissioner
in South Africa, Sir Alfred Miner,
dated Sept. %.
The British reply will express regret
that her majesty's offer number of
Sept 8, had been refused and says:
THE object her ma esty's government
had in view in the recent negotiations
has been stated in manner which
cannot admit of misrepresentation, viz,
to obtain immediate representation for
the OutlanderS as will enable them to
secure for themselves that fair and just
treatment which was formally promised
them in 1881 and which her majesty in
tended TO secure for them when she
granted privileges of self government
to the TranSvaal. No conditions less
comprehensive than those contained in
the telegram of Sept. can be relied
on to effect this object.
All Negotiations Off.
1.-THE refusal of the South African
government to entertain the offer thus
made, coming as it does after four
closes five years of extended agitation
and makes it useless to further. pursue
the discussion on the lines hitherto
followed and the imperial government
is now compelled to consider the Situa-
ton afresh and formulate its own pro-
posals for final settlement of the is
sues which have been created in South
Africa by the policy constantly followed
for many years by the government of
South Afrfca.
= 4s.They vfllsconruunicate the result of
their deliberations in a later dispatch. .
!, In a Eater communication dated Sept.
%, the imperial government takes up
the charge of breach of faith insinuated
by Secretary Of State Reitz Sept. 16,
which we Cannot pass over in ST
lence." chamberlain then says:
Statements Are Denied.
THE proposals made by the South
African republic in its letters of Aug.
10 and 20, were not induced by sugges-
tions given by the British agent from
the state attorney as claimed. On the
contrary, the state attorney sounded
the British agent both in writing and in
conversation as to the conditions of
which the imperial government would
waive the invitation to a joint inquiry
and the result of these communications
was the proposals made by the South
African government in these letters.
ut is impossible that the South AT
rican government could have had any
doubt as to the imperial governments
answer to the conditions named and my
reply was actually the same as the
British agent had foreshadowed to the
state attorney and which therefore the
South African government must have
anticipated'in making the proposals.
1.-The imperial government also de-
MES that it's telegram of Sept. substi-
tuted an entirely new proposal for the
invitation to the joint commission Of
inquiry"
No Ground For Misrepresentation.
The imperial government then quotes
the dispatch from South Africa of Aug
10, containing an alternative proposal
identical with. that which the imperial
government is said to have substituted,
and the communication then proceeds
as follows:
1.-THE imperial government sees no
ground for misrepresentation on the part
of the South African republic as to its
answer regarding non-interference and
suzerainty as the imperial government
had already stated that it would not
press for the appointment of a joint
commission of inquiry in view of the
fact that such an inquiry would, in the
opinion of the government of the South
African republic, prejudice the right of
full independence recognized by the i'm
perial government.
"As to the use of the English Ian
guage in the volksraad, the imperial
government regards this as reasonable
and is astonished that the government
of the South African republic should
deem it unnecessary and make a point
of denying that the government of the
South African republic ever proposed
the same to the British agent"