The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-23
NO HOPE is GIVEN THEM
The President Confirms the Assurance
Given by Hay.
THE ENJOYS MADE A DEEP IMPRESSION
Only Plain Demands of Neutrality Prevented
officials Yielding to Their Appeal. An
swer Given viii Probably Hasten
the Closing Of The War.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, May 22.-Messrs. Fischer.
Vessels, and Womorans, 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 en-
voys were received in the blue parlor no
one being present but themselves, the
President and Secretary CorteIyou. At
first the conversation touched upon a
variety of subjects. The Beers talked
about Washington, told how they adj
mired the city and the President escor-
ted them to the porch at the rear of the
Executive Mansion, where splendid view
is obtainable of the Washington monu
ment and the Potomac River. Presi
dent Kruger's name was finally mention
ed and the visitors then stated their
purpose in coming to this country. They
said they understood that what Secretary
Hay told them yesterday was final and
that 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 Govern
ment of the Transvaal that this Gov
eminent should interfere, he offered his
good offices to England to bring about
peace) he took with great pleasure in the
hope that it 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 Uni
ted States could do in the premises.
The ENJOYS intimated that they were
glad to feel they had friends in this
country and then babe the President good
bye.
Is The State Department does not ex-
.pect to have any further communication
with the Boer delegation. Such inter-
Achange as occurred was purely unofficial,
sit is stated If the Boer delegates had
any credentials giving them of official
status, they failed to present them, or
even to mention them.
Having had reason to anticipate the
declination of the United States Gov
+ eminent to intervene in behalf of their
republics and having thus failed in the
primary object of their mission to the
United States, it is surmised that the
delegates refrained from endeavoring to
establish diplomatic character in order
to reduce the liability of interrupticn
in the propaganda they are about -
conduct in the country at large. Al
though 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 that there IS no
likelihood of any such action being taken
so long as the agitation is conducted
by private individuals. But it is said
at the State Department, the precedent
established in the case of Genet. The
agent sent to this country by French
rcvolutionists, would require the Govern
ment to peremptorily stop the prosecn
ton by fully accredited diplomatic agents
of belligerent nation of efforts TO aid
their cause within the United States
through public demonstrations
1T is evident that the delegates made
deep impression upon our officials. and
it is said that it was only the plain de-
mands of neutrality, as laid down in
Secretary Hays response to the Bosr rep
reservations that prevented the return