The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-10

With Trying to Precipitate TrOu-
BILE at Pretoria Gold Standard
for India Recommended In Re-
port of Parliamentary Committee.
CAPE TOWN, July 9-W. P. Schreiner,
prime minister of the colony of Cape of
Good Hope, says the Cape government
regards the TransvaaPs reform propos-
ais as adequate and calculated to insure
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-
beilious 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
Improvement in diplomatic relations with
the TranSVaal. There is somewhat ull-
favorable significance also in the fact
that Boer opinion continues to incline
toward the probability Of eventual hos
tilities, tnasmuch as the Beers have the
making of the situation in their own
hands. AS the case now stands their
pessimism means more than would a 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 a 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 it 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 corre-
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 complexity 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-
| clartng 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: "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 TfansvaaPs chief mag
| istrate that a settlement was still
| distant, but that the crisis was passed"