The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-06
PRO.BOERS HAVE A HEARING
EFFORT TO GET RESOL UTIONS
 BEFORE CONGRESS.
Statements Before House Foreign Af- fairs Sub-Commtttee,- ,-- Mediation Aimed at-Dr. Hexamer Says if the Resolutions Are Pigeon oied 1t Wtii Mean n Loss of R Million German Votes.

l Mean Loss Of Mfiifon dernan votes. | Washington, May 1.-The first con- | gressional hearing to those favoring mediation for the Boers was given to- | day by subcommittee of the house committee on foreign affairs consisting
 of Representatives Adams of Pennsyl- vania, Gillett of Massachusetts, and Cousins of Iowa. The room was croWd- ed with delegations from many parts of the country, including Commandant Snyman, who was on De Vets staff, !, Charles s. Keyser of Philadelphia, chairman of the Boer legislative com
 mittee; Dr. c. J. Hexamer, president of
 the National German alliance; Consul
 General at New York Charles D. Pierce of the Free State.
 pr. Hexamer urged that resolutions
 be reported, asking the president to
 communicate to Great Britain an ex
 pression of the sympathy of the Ameri-
 can people for those struggle in South
 Africa and expressing the hope that the
 unfortunate differences may be adjust
 ed.
 Dr. Hexamer said that England
 would not at this time take umbrage, enfeebled as she was with the ugly mess, which has become running sore. He declared there was no purpose of putting the administration in a hole or of cooperating with the minority in congress, He spoke, he said, as a re- publican and not as a threat but as a statement of fact, that if these resolu- tions were pigeonholed 1t would mean the loss os a million votes of the Ger man alliance.
 MT Keyser, chairman of the Boer legislative committee, presented a large number of petitions, filling small chest, many of them bound in volumes. He said that the governors of Illinois, Louisiana and Colorado were strongly proBoer and that one of the most az gressive Boer sympathizers would be chosen governor of Pennsylvania.
 Representative William Alden Smith presented letter from Montagu White, the Boer delegate, enclosing a report by I. M. De Bruyn, representing Messrs. Vessels and Wolmarans Boer envoys, on the use of New Orleans and the waters os the United States as a base for augmenting the military SUD- plies of Great Britain.
 Representative Smith stated that the Fifth congressional district of Michi- gan was united to a man in asking that congress act and he expressed the earnest hope that the committee would respond to the universal sentiment of the country in giving the house of rep resentatives an opportunity to vote.
 Representative Sulzer declared that nine-tenths of the American people would approve a resolution of sympa- thy. In addition he urged that the president of the United States should exert his good offices and that the gov ernment should see that fragrant viola tions of the neutrality laws which MT. | Sulzer declared now existed were | brought to an end.
 Chairman Adams of the congressional | closed the hearing. He ex- | pressed the thanks of the committee | and said the only exception which | could be taken to the addresses was Ill the statement ol some that q pOiti- | cal question was involved. This was not a political question, he asserted. The sympathy of the present adminis-
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