The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-01
GRANT TO ROBERTS
GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDs CTF1
OF 100000 POUNDS TO COM
MANDER-IN-CHIEF
IRISH MAKE THE USUAL KICK
MOre OF Secretary BrOdricIl's Re
cent Bluff to Lock Up the Whole
Force of the London
Daily Mail

LONDON, July a.-In the house of
commons today proposing a resolution
granting Field Marshal Earl Roberts
100000 for his services in South Africa
A. J. Balfour, the government leader tn
the course of an eulogy of the deld
marshal, whom he compared with such
men as Collingwood, Nelson Marlbor-
ough and Wellington, said there was mo-
doubt that but for Lord Roberts dsFiug
and strategy and the rapidity with which
his plans were carried out, Kimberly and
Mafeking would have fallen, II, 900 Brit
ish would have been starved into sub
mission at Ladysmith and there would
nave been general rising of disloyaIists
in South Africa. Great Britain might
have recovered therefrom but at wbst "a
cost? The country was sawed from thiE
by the genius of the man he now In
vites the house to reward by an unaHi-
nous vote irrespective OF political d3mer-
ences. The statement calld forth rr0.
tests from the Irish members.
The Liberal leader, Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman, concurred In the slOti0n
John Dillon. Nationalist, strongly OPP
posed the vote. he protested aGaiust
mentioning Lord Roberts In association
with such man as marlborough. He
declared Lord Roberts had shown the
greatest inhumanty in South Africa and
said ne had employed barbarOus methods
and had proved himself a dismal Culture
Mr.. Labouchere, Radical, protested
against granting gratVities to military
men while nothing was given to civilians
who were doing something for the benent
of their country
Mr.. Kier-Hardy, Socialist and hide
pendent labor, took a similar view He
declared that in the opinion Of experts
at home and abroad. Lord Roberts fail
ure primarily was responsible for the con-
tinuamce of the war.
Mr.. Swift Mcneil, Irish Nationalist.
said he considered Lord Roberts opera
tions were conducted with q maximum
of cruelty and a minimum of humanity
and that his farewell speech at Cape
Town was horrible hypocrisy and BIAS
phemy
After further debate for and against
the measure, Mr. Balfour moved the
closure, which was carried by 257 to lO8
votes. The resolution was adopted by a
vote of 281 to 49,
There is no news as to Mr.. Brodrick'g
singular attempt co discipline newspapers
suspected Of obtaining the reports of tho
war office by improper means. The laws
AFFORD sufficient means for furnishing not
only clerks for betraying the secrets OF
the office, but also those who do if
Those acquainted with the ordinary pro-
ceedure Of the war Office are amused bv
MT. brOdrlckS ingenious efforts to dis
cipline his own staff by charging certain
newspapers with corrupting clerks with
moderate incomes. The real source OF
leakage is well known. Whenever i'm
portant dispatches are held over In tho
war office for twenty-four or forty-eight
hours there Is gossip among military
men, who receive their cues from high
officials
Consequently the rumors which ara
whispered in the military clubs soon
reach the ears of journalists and find
their way into print. This is the natur-
al explanation Of any disclosures. 1'ne
best remedy against leakage would oe
immediate publication Of the bulletins re-
ceived from South Africa before the high
er officials themselves have a chance OF
talking about them. 1t Is one OF tho
requirements of red tape that nothing
shall be published from the war office
without the direct sanction Of the score
tary of war. This is a common cause
Of delay, since he cannot be consulted
readily at all times. Mr. Brodrick has
brought himself into difficulties by his
credulous and irrational coLduct I'm seek
ing to discredit the Daily Mail and the
clerks in the war office. The Daily Mail.
however, disclaims any intention to inn
ply that Mr.. Brodrick has been guilty
OF falsehood and merely considers the
secretary Of war to have been mIsinform-
cd into supposing that it had used i'm,
proper methods OF obtaining official in.
formation.