The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-23
CALLED AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
PRESIDENT MET TIE BOER PEACE
DELEG ALTON.

They VIII Be Less Liable to Inter-
rupti0n in the PrOpasanda They
Are About to Conduct Here.
Washington, May 22-Mesers Fischer
Vessels and Wolmarans, the Boer ENJOYS
who are now in this country, visited the
White House at 10 o'clock this morning,
according TO previous arrangement, to
pay their respects to the President. No
official status was given the visitors and
they presented no credentials.
The ENJOYS were received in the Blue
Parlor, no one being present bat them
selves, the President and Secretary Cor
telyou AT first the conversation touch
ed upon a variety of subjects. The Beers
talked about Washington; told how they
admired the city and the President es-
corted them to the porch, at the rear of
the execution mansion, where a splendid
view is obtainable of the Washington
monument and the Potomac river.
President Kruger's name finally was
mentioned and the visitors then stated
their purpose in coming to this country.
They said they understood what the Sec
retary of State told them yesterday was
| final and the position of the United States
was that this country could not interfere
in the present struggle in South Africa.
The President confirmed this view. He
said that the action he took some time
ago, when, at the request of the gov
ernment of the Transvaal that this gov
ernment should intervene, he offered his
good offices TO England to bring about
peace. he did with great pleasure in the
hope that 1t might possibly bring the
conflict TO an end. This offer had been
declined by Great Britain, and, he said,
there was nothing further that the Unit
ed States could do in the premises.
The envoys intimated that they were
glad to feel they had friends in this coun-
try and then bade the President good
bye
Credentials Not Presented.
The state department does not expect
to have any further communication with
the Boer delegation. Such interchange as
occurred was purely unofficial, 1t is stat
ed. If the Boer delegates had any creden-
tials giving them an Official status they
failed to present them, or even to mention
them.
Having had reason to anticipate the
| declination of the United States govern
ment to intervene in behalf of their re-
| publics, and having thus failed in the
L OBJECT Oh lle1T MISSION 10 the
| United States, 1t is surmised that the del
egates refrain from endeavoring to estab
| lish a diplomatic character In order to
! reduce the liza bility of interruption In the
propaganda they are abodt to conduct in
the country at large
Although the United States government
| has, beyond doubt, the power to stop this
propaganda at any point, and dismiss the
| delegates from the United States, yet it
| can be stated there is no lil1el cod of any
| such action being taken so long as the ag-
itation is conducted by private individ-
| uals. But it is said at the state depart
| inont the urecedent established In the
case of Genet, the agent sent to this
country by French revolutionists, would
require the government to presmptorlly
| to step the prosecution by fully accredited
| diplomatic agents of belligerent nation
of efforts to aid their cause within the
United States through public demonstra-
! tons
Made n Deep Impression.
| 1t is evident that the delegates made
| deep impression upon our officials, and 1t
| is said that 1t was only the plain demands
| of neutrality. as laid down in Secretary
| Hays response TO the Beer represent atoms
! that prevented the return of an answer
| that would have been much more satis-
| factory to them The delegates were DIS
| appointed at the responses made by Sec
| retary Hay, indicating that up to the last
| moment they had cherished a hope that
| the United States government would be
| favorably moved Now, however, that the
! answer is returned, 1t is expected that the
| delegates will go at once about the second
| branch of their business and begin a
| ries of mass meetings and public demon
| strations in the principal cities of the
| United States with a view 10 affecting
| public sentiment and perhaps indirectly
| influencing the terms of peace which viii
| conclude the present war.
1t is gathered that the Boers are ready
at the last extremity to sacrifice every
| thing for which they have heretofore con-
| tended to let in the Uitlanders to equal
! privileges with native Beers in the Trans
| vaal and Free Stale; to abandon the much
talked of dynamite monopoly and In fact
| to make any concession, II the victorious
British will but allow them independence,
| and they hope that the American people
| viii bring much moral pressure to bear
| upon the English that this object can be
| attained.
Egny Have Some Eject.
Meanwhile It is the opinion In official
| circles here that the prompt action Of the
state department In dismlsSing the Beers
| application for interyeption has indirectly
| gone far towards bringing about a speedy
| termination of the South African war 1t
Is assumed that the delegates will find
some means to communicate the unfavor-
able reception of their appeal to Pretoria.
In fact it is intimated that the controlling
| British censors would not stop any such
message from passing over the cables 10
Lorenzo Marques, whence it might easily
be forwarded to Pretoria.
The state department has not yet been
addressed by any of the Powers sigma
| tory to The Hague convention, asking
our government 10 join with the twenty
FIVE Powers party TO the Peace Confer
ence in an effort to bring about peace
between the British and the Beers II
is doubted here whether more than a
very few of the Powers are in a position
10 act thus, no matter how inclined, be-
cause so far as the state department has
been informed. not more than half a
dozen in all, including the United States,
have yet given in their formal adherence
70 the Peace Convention.
According to Mr.. deBruyn the secretary
OF the Boer envoys the latters' programme
for the future has not been definitely
agreed upon. They will remain IN the city
for several days 10 come at leat.
No statement respecting the ineryieV