The age-herald., 1900-02-15
MACRUM MAKES
 HIS STATEMENT
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mission; that would forfeit my post if the reasons which I would make to the de- partment did not prove satisfactory. This cable was delayed by tine censor until the 2d of December, when had advices that 1t had just been followed.
 On the 18th of November I again filed a cable, stating that three of my cables had been unanswered, and stating that substi- tute would answer as consul during my ab- sence and requested a reply. To this re- ceived a reply immediately, which was a reiteration of the reply to the first cable. Upon receiving this reply, which was on the 20th of November, immediately wrote to the treasury department accepting the refusal ito grant my leave and stating in that letter that would abide by the de- cisfon of the department, and attempt to- convey an intelligent idea for the govern ment's guidance of the conditions there in mail dispatches. On the 4th of December, I received reply from the department to my cablegnam of the 4th which had been in- formed two days previously, had just been forwarded. It read follows:
 "You may come home. Put Atterbury in temporary charge. Department will send man from here."
 'This was signed Hay. Thereupon ca bled the department as follows;
 Sail 18th by Naples.
 "Tlhis cable was sent on the Sth, and in l later received a telegram from Hollis, consul at Delagoa Bay, stating that he had been instructed to come to Pretoria to take charge of my office during my ao- Sence and unth man should arrive from Washington. MT. Hollis arrived on the 14th of December. and was thoroughly post ed in the routine of the office, and intro- duced him to the heads of all governmental departments and to my consular col leagues I left Pretoria the night of De- cen.ber 16th I went straight to Paris, noti- fled the department of my presence there while waiting for the American line boat to sail for New York. arrived in Wash ington on Monday, the 5th of February, and reported to Assistant Secretary HIM of the state department who officially 1n- formed me that Secretary Hays son had been appointed in my place. and that he was on his way ito Pretoria
 Believed Himself stin Consul
 q appreciated the seriousness of the con- ditaons in South Africa to the extent that on my way to Washington believing that I was still consul in Pretoria, I refused to make any statement that would in any way involve the department or embarrass it. My one object was to lay the informa- tion before the department as to the true state of affairs in South Africa. If the department thought these facts were of value sufficient to warrant the expense or the trip had taken, expected to be re- munera ted and to return to Pretoria, leay- ing the department to act as 1t saw nt upon the facts which laid before it.
 "Instead of this, find that Secretary Hay, whether acting upon the reports in the newspapers or upon advice from the British government or some other motive I do not know, saw fit to walt until could present my reasons in person, and has been a silent or conniving partner to disered- iting reports of my official acts. come home to find an attempt has been made to tear down my personal reputation. I wish my post as consul 1 knew nothing of any secret alliance between America and Great Britain, and that had seen nothing in the regulations which made the consul of the American republic subject to tine whims and caprice of an English military censor at Dmban. I came to America with a mos tive of which am not ashamed.
 "There is not one soul who can point to a single official act of mine which de- parted from the strictest neutrality. My confidential dispatches to the department contained information which will show my sympathy for the republic, but which in time will prove to be unbiased. as to actual facts.
 My acts as public official are all re- corded at the department. My acts now as a. private man can in no way involve the public service, and simply make this statement in my own defense against those which have come from the depart ment secretly and officially.
 tSigned) ''CHARLES- E. MACRUM.''-