The age-herald., 1900-05-23
NO CREDENTIALS
 WE'RE PRESENTED
Boer Envoys Will Now Begin
 Their Meetings.
MADE A DEEP IMPRESSION
The Dele gates Were Disappointed at the Response of s cretary Hay, as They Had Confidently
 Hoped for Help

Washington, May 22.-4The state depart ment does not expect to have any further communication with the Boer delegation. If the Boer delegates had any credentials giving them an official status they failed to present them besides the inscription on their cards indicating that they had been sent out as ministers plenipotentiary by the Boer republics.
 It is surmised that if they have creden- tials conferring diplomatic powers upon them the delegates have purposely re- trained from presenting them, in order to avoid a dislocaton of their plans for the future. Having had reason to anticipate the declination of the United States govern ment to intervene in behalf of their re- Dublics, and having thus failed in the prl- mary object of their mission to the United States it is surmised that the delegates refrained from endeavoring to establish a diplomatic character in order to reduce the liability to interruption in the propaganda they are about to conduct in the country at large.
 Although the United States government beyond doubt has the power to stop this propaganda at any point and dismiss the delegates from the United States, there is no nkc ihood 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 reyolutionists, would require the government peremptorily to stop the prosecution by fully accredited diplomatic agents of belligerent nation of efforts to aid their cause within the United States through public demonstrations.
 haae a .e p Impre ssion
 It is evident that the delegates made a deep impression upon the officials of our government with whom they came in con tact yesterday, and it is said that it was plain that demands of neutrality, laid down in Secretary Hays response to the Boer representations, that prevented the re- turn of answer that would have been much more satisfactory to them. The dele gates were disappointed at the response made by Secretary Hay indicating that up to the last moment they had cherished a hope that the United States government would be favorably moved. Now, that the answer is returned, it is expected that the delegates will go at once about the second branch of their business and begin series of mass meetings and public demonstra tions in the principal cities of the United States, with view to affecting public sentiment and perhaps indirectly influencing the terms of the peace which will soon conclude the war
 It is gathered that the Boers are ready at the last extremity to sacrifice everything for which they have heretofore contended; to let in the Uitlanders to equal privileges to the native Boers of the Free State; to abandon the much talked of dyn- mite monopoly and, in fact. to make any concession if victorious British will but allow them independence. They hope that the American people will bring such moral pressure to bear upon the English that this object can be obtained.
 Meanwhile it is the opinion in official cir cles here that the prompt action of the state department in dismissing the Boer application for intervention ilas indirectly gone far toward bringing about a speedy termination of the South African war 1t is assumed that the delegates here will find some means to communicate the unfavora- ble reception of their appeal to Pretoria In fact, it is intimated that the controll- ing British censors would not stop any such message from passing over the cable to Lourenzo Marques from which 1t might easily be forwarded to Pretoria. The state department has not yet been addressed by any of the powers signatory to the Hague convention, asking our government to join with the twenty powers party to the peace conference in an effort to bring about peace between the British and the Boers.