The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-31
How TrnmsvanI Imported Arms.

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 How Trnmsvaal Imported Arms. l "Why were we to know about the inl-
 portation of arms? I believe guns were | introduced into the Transvaal in boil l ers and munitions of war in piano eases. We have small secret service l fund If you want much information you must give much money. Consider 1 the enormous amounts spent by other | governments, especially the Transvaal, which, have heard on high diplomatic
 authority, spent GS0O,O0O ($4 ,000) in a single year, and the small sums spent | by England, making it impossible for us to have the omniscience attributed to us by Lord Kimberley. l am glad he 1 has not pressed an immediate inquiry | into the action of the military author- | ities at a time when our generals in the field and many of those who could give l the most valuable information are un- able to appear We should defer an in-
 quiry to more convenient season" Call for Unity so Meet Danger.
 Later the premier admitted the de- ficiencies of the existing system, re-
 marking that the treasury had acquired power which was not to the public benefit. He had not thought of look ing into past history or examining the | amount of blame to be attached to this or that minister. Tt is,' he said, quite the right way of dealing with the
 present crisis. We must join together
 and exercise all our powers in extricat- ing ourselves from a situation full of
 humiliation and not free from danger.
 I will not say the danger may not have
 easily been exaggerated. Many
 country has commenced a war with diff
 faculties of the kind we experience.
 Reference to American Civil War.
 "We have only to look at what the
 northern states of America went
 through at the beginning of the civil
 war to See how easy it would be to draw mistaken inference from the re- verses we have met at the outset. We have every ground to think that if we set ourselves heartily to work and ex- ert all the undoubted instruments of the power we possess we shall bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion We have work which appeals to us as sub jects of the queen and Englishmen, and it must throw in the shade all thoughts of party expediency." Lord Salisbury then said he regretted that Lord Ed mund Fitzmaurice, in the house of com mons, was about to bring this great issue into party controversy, adding that the only place where his action would meet with sympathy was in Pre- toria,
 Must Retrieve Situation.
 Our effort" the premier continued, | must be to retrieve ourselves from the | present situation, which cannot be al- | lowed to last This empire is valua- ble and splendid but responsible posses sion. We must concentrate our efforts. | If we do not tame all the smaller pas sions into one great duty we run the danger of convulsons which will tar nish the empires lustre and perhaps menace it's integrity"
 Lord R"s,bery speaks.
 Lord Rosebery, who followed Lord Salisbury, spoke with great force and He asked why the pre- mier made it so difficult for the man-in- the-street to support his policy The past conduct of the government would come up for investigation some day, he hoped, adding: We have the right to know if before the crisis, the intelli- gence department supplied the govern ment with sufficient information. If not, dismiss the department. If the government possessed the information, their responsibility is heavy. I hope that when the time for the investiga- ton arrives those who have served the queen will be covered with so much glory that the eyes of the investigators will be dazZled.
 Appalled, n t Salisbury.
 "I was appalled, at the nature and style of Lord Salisbury's speech. We nave now 12OOO0 men in South Africa, yet we are with difficulty holding our ,wn. The attitude of foreign nations is described as friendly. But that does strike me as being so amicable as the word would imply. I deem it necessary o know what the government is going o do Lord Salisbury said the cause if our disasters was the smallness of ( he secret service fund and the British , But what is the govern nent's duty Some form of compulsory ,ervice must be introduced to meet the l rowing exigencies of the empire, and I ] m sure the nation will not shrink from ither that or any other sacrifice to pre- i erye the empires predominance. That l ye should not shrink from sending away ( asst masses of troops, situated as we ' re in the center of a universe by no 2 means friendly to us, without having a int from the government of the mili- I ary measures it proposes taking to face I he disasters we have met and the sac t ifices we have made, is one of the most g xtraordinary features of the British | constitution. I agree with Lord Sails ury that the country can carry this r hing through in spite of all the impedi- a lents of men and methods that have a hacked it in the past, but I venture to e ay it will have to be inspired by loftier l. nd truer patriotism than that shown a V the prime minister
 Hint Ftom Lanstioype. p The Marquis of Lansdowne, secretary s state for war followed. He said he t as prepared to make a statement a a lture date. The government, he added, t' as not prepared and had excellent req a 1ns for not pushing it's arrangements e lrther. The address ln reply to the N beech from the throne was then adopt a l.
 In the House of Commons. 5 4l,o IIo,1ca of Commons Cir IIapr,, 1 II