The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-23
CABINET MEETING YESTERDAY.
business Transacted Is Not Given
Out to the Public.

LONDON, sept. "a capinet councll
Nas held today, beginning at 1890 p
m. A large crowd assembled about
Downing street early IN the day. The
cabinet ministers were loudly cheered
the secretary of state for the colonies
Mr. Chamberlain, receiving the lion S
snare CT the applause.
Previous TO the meeting OF the cabi-
net. Baron Rothschild visited the frs
lord Of the treasury. Mr. Balfour The
circumstance is unusual. and is said Ia
lbs in connection with the money diff
cul:ies the government is encountering
regarding the prospective military cam
paign.
When the cabinet went into session
no new developments n the Transvaal
situation had transpired. The dis
patches from the Cape continued of a
warlike tone, and voiced the indigna-
ton of the British contingent against
the Orange Free State.
The IMPRESSION current here though
not based ON anything tangible. was
that, publicly. the cabinet would only
take steps tending to protract the nego-
tiations. while secretly ii would pre-
pare the details Of an aggressive cam
paign, perhaps deciding TO convoke
parliament though it was scarcely be-
lieved the latter determination would
be announced Immediately.
News from South Africa is anXiously
awaited, as many think the cabinet
council will be Immediately followed by
a Boer raid. The Pail Mali Gazette
this afternoon published a dispatch
from. Cape Town which says it is stated
the Beers have given a guarantee to
their sympathizers in the Orange Free
State and Cape Colony that the Trans
wal will be the first to make war.
Immediately after the cabinet coun-
ell the German ambassador Count Won
Hatzfeldt WiIdenburg, visited the pre-
naier, Marquis of Salisbury, and had a
long conference with him. The fact
that a similar visit Immediately fol-
lowed the previous cabinet council
leads some persons to attach signifi-
canoe to it, and to infer that Emperor
William of Germany is taking an ac-
I've part in Transvaal affairs. The Off
cial German press, however has been
so outspoken in telling President Kru-
ger that he need not expect German
aid, that it is scarcely possible to at
tach eredence to that inference. 1t is
much more probable that the question
of Delagoa bay was discussed, if the
dispatch printed today by the Pioneer
of Allahabad, saying negotiations had
been concluded by Great Britain for
ticking possession of Delagoa bay Nov,
/, is correct.
Many rlf1nors are current regarding
the result of the cabinet council, many
protesting to be based on reliable
sources. But they are vague and con-
Trajectory One news agency an
nounced that immediate and decisive
action has not been decided upon.
Later in the day various rumors were
still current regarding the cabinet
meeting. but the following, which the
Pail Mall Gazette publishes, is believed
to be correct:
The comparative short duration of
the council warrants the conclusion
that nothing of supreme Importance
was decided at it, and such we believe
TO be the fact.
Information in our possession is to
the effect that it was an ad interim
cabinet summoned to consider a dis
patch. 1t is believed this paper, which
met with the universal approval of Mr..
Chamberlain's colleagues, will be pub
lished as soon as received by the Boer
government on Monday, or at the latest,
on Tuesday"
According to the Pail Mall Gazette.
the dispatch opens with an expression
of regret at the unfavorable character
Of Secretary ReitZ's latest reply. and
continues with a very firm insistence
upon the reputation of the claim of
the Transvaal to the status OF a SOW
ereign state. once more pointing cut
British readiness to settle at once. the
nature Of the proposed arbitration tri-
bunal. provided the other British con
ditions are promptly and unreservedlv
accepted. and concluding with the init
nation that the imperial government
is now engaged in drawing UP its own
terms and that the Transvaal may ex-
pect to hear from them very shortly.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that an
other meeting of the cabinet win take
place next Thursday or Friday, when
the issues viii be presented in a more
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