Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-03
Udkty NSiaiA$O~< JONAI Iots
GIVE AND TAKE.
Parliament Greatly Wrought
Up Over the War.
Bitter Charges Made Against Govern
ment by Its Opponents.
Sturdy Defence Made-lrish Members Still in
C med to Be Fractions.

London, Feb. In the House q
Commons. today. the under secretary
Of state for foreign affairs. Mr.. VIM
81. John Frederick. confirmed the ac-
curacy Of the statement of Count Won
BueloW the German minister of foreign
affairs in the Reichstag. as 70 the Hrit-
ish engagements regarding Scarchin2
vessels He explained that the COY
eminent undertook that there should
be no search at Alden or at points more
distant from the seat OF war because
there was nothing to prevent the ship
ping of contIaband from Intervening
ports. The government. he added. had
moi surrendered any right. but on the
representations Of the German govern
ment and the assurances Of the mail
steamer company, Great Britain had
agreed pending further arrangements,
not to arrest mail ships, except on the
gTavest suspicious.
Mr.. Frederick also declared the gov
eminent had no knowledge Of any com
munication having passed between
the Netherlands and other govern
ments with reference to the war or of
the mutual relations of European pow
ers with respect to the war.
Attempts made to illuminate the con-
nection of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain
with the Jameson raid did not meet
with much success.
Mr.. Chamberlain. being asked re
garding a letter sent by Mr.. b. F.
Hawkesley counsel for the British
South African 90. to Earl Grey. under
date of Feb. %. 1897. in which he said
that Mr.. Chamberlain would have no
one but himself to blame if the cable
dispatches referring to the negotiations
Of 1898 We're produced before the Par
liamentary committee of inquiry, re
piled that they Were communications
between third parties and he had no
knowledge of them at the time they
We're exchanged He assumed that the
cable dispatches We're those which Mr..
Hawkesley had declined TO produce.
The cable messages We're sent to him
in 1896 for confidential perusal and he
returned them with letter saying
there would be no personal objection
to their publication.
Mr. John MacNeill, anti-Parnellite.
enlivened the session by asking ques-
tons regarding the Irish militia.
Among other things he asked why
the Irish miltiamen We're sent away
from Ireland, to which Mr.. VIM. Johns
ton Conservative member for South
Belfast. promptlv interiected: Be
cause they are rebels
This caused Mr. Holm Dillon to ex-
claim: Irish rebels are good enough
for Won to fiobt bphiud in the Trans
vaal"
Mr.. Timothv IIcaIv Nationalist. also
Joined in. asking. WHY doesn't Saun-
derson. ,mcaninr Nr Edward j. Saun-
derson Consa,.,. ti,.., member for North
ARMAGH and CON If tho oraat Orange
leader Col caun,l.,.sonl On tn the
front y"
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the enya,p,,..,+ f,r ..rrovolting an I'M
inst v,,r MI p,,.na rnn,,dioted the
impntatfnn that thp opposition was en-
deayorinc to make marty capital cut of
the situation The fusion Of races in
south Afri,, i. cain vas proceeding
I'D 70 thn time Of Tho raid which upset
,.varvtbiru ana ,,,,-a the Transvaal a
mstjtic,tinn w, ite ornaments ana
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