Willmar tribune., 1900-05-30
SEE IH b ESIDE ENT.
No Hope, However, Is Given to the
Boer ENJOYS.

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secretary Hays statement That the
United states#1Vill Maintain Neu-
| tral Position II Confirmed at
49, the White House. ~. +.
Washington, May 23.-Messrs. Fisch:
er, Vessels and Wolmarans, the three
Boer ENJOYS, who are now in this
country, visited the white 1euse at
ten o'clock Tuesday morning, according
to previous arrangement, to pay their
respects to the president. No official
presented no credentials.
The ENJOYS were received in the
blue parlor, no one being present but
themselves, the president and Secre-
tary Cortelyou. At the first the con-
versation touched upon variety of
subjects. The Beers talked about
Washington; told how they admired
the city and the president escorted
them to the porch, at the rear of the
executive mansion, where a splendid
view is obtainable of the Washington
monument and the Potomac river.
President Kruger's name finally was
mentioned and the visitors then stated
their purpose in coming to this coun-
try. They said they understood that
what Secretary Hay told them Mon
| day was final and that the position of
| the United States was that this coun-
try could not interfere in the present
struggle in South Africa. The presi-
dent 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
ernment should intervene, he offered
| his good offices to England to bring
about peace) he did with great pleas
ure in the hope that it might possi-
bly, bring the conflict to an end. This
| offer had been declined by Great Brit
| ain, and, lie said, there was nothing
further that the United States could
do in the premises.
The state department does not ex-
pect to have any further communica-
tion with the Boer delegation. Such
interchange as occurred was purely
unofficial, it is stated If the Boer
delegates hao any credentials giving
them an official status they failed to
present them, or even to refer to them
in the course of their talks with the
officials. The only sign of the possess
sion by them of diplomatic powers
was the inscription on the cards pre-
sented by them, indicating that each
one of the delegates had been sent
out as minister plenipotentiary by
the Boer republics. It is surmised that
it they have credentials conferring
diplomatic powers upon them the del
egates have purposely refrained from
presenting them, in order to avoid a
dislocation of their plans for the fu-
ture. Having had reason to antici-
pate the declination of the United
States government to intervene in BE-
half of their republics, and having
thus failed in the primary object of
their mission to the United States. it
is surmised that the delegates re-
Trained from endeavoring to establish
a diplomatic character in order to re-
duce the liability to interruption in
the propaganda they are about to con-
duct in the country at large.
Although the United States govern
ment beyond doubt has the power ec
stop this propaganda at any point.
and dismiss the delegates from the
United States, it can be stated that
there is no likelihood of any such ac-
tion being taken so long as the agita-
tion is conducted by private individ-
uals. But, it is said at the state de-
partment, the precedent established
in the case of Genet, the agent sent
to this country by French revolution
ists' 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 demonstra-
tions.
Made Deep Impression.
1t is evident that the DELEGATES
made deep impression upon the off,
Gals OF our government with whom
they came in contact Monday, and it is
said thatitwas only the plain demands
of neutrality, as laid down in Secre-
tary Hays response to the Boer rep
reservations, that prevented the re-
turn OF an answer that would have
been much more satisfactory to them.
Future Plans.
Now that the answer is returned
1t 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-
tlons in the principal cities of the
United States with view to affecting
public sentiment, and perhaps indi-
rectly influencing the terms of the
peace which will conclude the present
war. 1t is gathered that the Beers
are ready at the last extremity to
sacrifice everything for which thew
have heretofore contended: to let il
the uitlanders to equal privileges
with native Beers in the Transvaal
and Free State; to abandon the much
talked of dynamite monopoly; and, in
fact, to make any concession if the
victorious British will but allow them
independence. They hope that the
American people will bring such NOR
al pressure to bear. upon the En- glish
that this object can be attained.
4" To View the Eclipse.
Madrid, May 23.-Many scientists
are arriving to observe the eclipse. A
party of English astronomers has Sc
lected Santa Pola, province of Ali
cante, as an observation point. Sir
Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, of
the British nautical observatory, and
his assistants have gone to Plazencia.