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PARLIAMENT Will PROVIDE WAR FUNDS

that or any other sacrifice to preserve
the empires predominance. That We
should not shrink from sending away vast
masses OF troops, situated as we are In
the center of a universe by no means
friendly to us, without having hint from
the government of the military meas
ures it proposes taking to face the dis
asters we have met and the sacrifices we
have made, is one of the most extraor-
binary features of the British constitu-
ton.
II agree with Lord Salisbury that the
country can carry this thing through in
spite of all the impediments of men and
methods which have shackfed it in the
past, but l venture TO say it will have
to be inspired by. loftier tone and truer
patriotism than that shown by the prime
minister"
Lord Kimberley urged that the gov
ernment ought to have been aware of
the importation of arms into the Trans
vaal, and ought to have informed the
Transvaal that unless it desisted it must
result in Great Britain sending large
force to South Africa. He could not be-
lieve the government was so ignorant
Of the preparations of the Transvaal,
and they would not divest themselves of
the responsibilities.
JAMESON RAID.
Baron Balfour of Burleigh said the
Jameson raid had cfosed the mouth of
the government and prevented 1t from
protesting against the arming of the
Transvaal. But, he added, the govern
ment must have known armaments were
accumulating to an extent unjustified
by fears of another raid, and 1t was the
duty of the government to communicate
on the subject with the Boer government,
but as the first step it ought to severely
punish the raiders. The country had not
reached a pass that if the government
appealed to it it would not have sup
ported the government in any prepara-
ton it thought necessary. He would do
nothing to prevent the government from
carrying on the war to a successful con-
clusion.
The Marquis of Landsdowne secretary
of state for war, followed. He said he
was prepared to make a statement at a
future date. The government he added,
was not prepared and had excellent rea-
sons for not pushing its arrangements
further
The address in reply to the speech
from the throne was then adopted.
LORD SALISBURY REPLIES
Lord Salisbury, in reply to the Earl of
Kimberley, asserted that there was moth
ing in the stipulations of the conventions
to hinder or limit the Importation of arms
or ammunition into the Transvaal
through Lourenzo Marques. Continuing
the premier said:
why were we to know about the i'm
portation of arms? l believe guns were
introduced into the Transvaal in boilers
and munitions of war in piano cases. We
had a small secret service fund. If you
want much information you must use
much money. l consider the enormous
amounts spent by other governments, es-
pecially by the Transvaal, which have
heard on, high diplomatic authority spent
GS00,000 in a single year, and the small
sum spent by England, making it impos-
sibe for us to have the omniscience at
tributed to us by Lord Kimberley. / am
glad he has not pressed an immediate in
quiry into the action of the military au-
thorities at time when our generals In
the field and many others who could give
the most valuable information are unab BILE
to attend. We should defer an inquiry
until a more convenient season"
Later the premier admitted the de-
fciencies of the present system, adding
that the treasury had acquired a power
which was not to the public benefit. He
had not thought of looking into past his
tory for estimating the amount OF blame
to be attached to this or that officer.
"It was not" he said, "quite the right
way of dealing with the present crisis.
We must join together and exercise all
our powers in extricating ourselves from
a situation full of humiliation, and not
free from danger. I will not say that the
danger may not have easily been eXag-
gerated. No country could have conduct
ed the war in a different way with the
difficulties we have encountered. we nave
only to look at what the Northern states
went through at the beginning of the
Civil war to see how easily it is to draw
A mistaken inference. of the reVerses we
have met at the outset. we have every
ground to think that if we set ourselves
heartily to work and exert all the avail
able instruments of the power we pos
sess we shall bring the war to success
ful conclusion We have work which ap-
peals to US as subjects of the queen and
| as Englishmen, and it must throw into the
! shade all thoughts of party expediency..
Lord Salisbury then said he regretted
that Lord Edmund Fitmaurice, in the
house of commons, was about to bring
this great issue into party controversy,
adding that the only place his action
would meet with sympathy was in Pre-
toria.
"Our efforts" the premier continued,
"must be to relieve ourselves from the
| present situation, which cannot be allow
ed TO lax This empire is valuable ana
snIendid and responsible possession. We
must make use of our advantages. IL we
do not tame all the smaller passions INTO
one great duty we are in danger OF con-
yulsions which will tarnish the empire
luster and perhaps menace its integrity =
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The gentleman usher of the black rod,
| Gen. Sir M S. Biddulph, summoned the
commons to the house of lords at 200 p.
M. where the lord high chancellor, Earl
Halsbury, read the queens speech.
The attendance of the peers and of the
public was not extraordinary.
After the reading of the speech the
house adjourned until p. m, ard the
oommoners returned to their house, which
also similarly suspended its sitting until
o'clock.
When the proceedings were recon-
menced in the house of commons Mr..
Balfour, the first lord of the treasury
and government leader; Sir Henry Camp
bell Zimmerman, Liberal leader, and 9TH
ers were loudly cheered by their respect
i've followers. James Lowther made his
annual motion relative to the interfer-
ence of people at elections. 1t was re-
! jected by vote og 3S7 to ITO.
The speaker read the queens speech at
4:45 p. m.
Subsequently Capt. Ernest G.. Pretty
man. Conservative member fer the Wood
bridge division of Suffolk, moved the adj
dress in reply to the speech.
The entry OF the secretary of state for
] the colonies Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
was not cheered from any part of the
house.
Capt Prettyman, in moving the ad-
dress III reply to the speech from the
throne, expressed the deepest sympathy,
which he said was shared by both sides
of the house, with the sufferers from the
war and the sufferings in Natal. He
further referred to the feeling of admir-