Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-06

General Samuel Pearson, the Boer repre-
sentative in this country, has placed the
proofs in the hands of the Governor OF
Louisiana that The British government is
maintaining camp at New Orleans. This
report has been turned over by the Governor
TO Secretary of State Hay.
The Governors communication is volum-
nous comprising statements and affidavits
intended to disclose the character of the
alleged camp. By direction of the Presi-
dent it has been referred to the Attorney
General, with a view to securing an opinion
on certain legal points involved, and mean
while it will not be given out for publica-
ton.
General Pearson says touching the
evidence in the hands of the State Departs
ment: The work of the British agents in
New Orleans almost surpasses belief.
There now are one British general, two
colouels and sixty captains and lieuteuants
in this country, with headquarters at New
Orleans Their influence spreads every
where They hire large numbers of men
as muleteers, whom they hope to impress
to fight against the Beers when they get
them to South Africa.
The methods by which they obtain these
men show how desperate is the situation.
Several months ago l addressed letter to
the President calling attention to the fact
that in Louisiana the British government
had in violation Of the laws Of neutrality,
set up a regular military establishment,
from which the army in South Africa was
being furnished with men, horses, mules
and other supplies, an institution that diff
fers in no wise from those in London or
Liverpool, except that in New Orleans the
officers are not in uniform, and as a general
thing are kuown by titles and names other
than military. On receiving this letter
President Roosevelt sent it TO Governor
Heard, requesting that he investigate and
report on the matter, and he in turn called
upon me for proofs in support OF the allie
cations in my letter to the President This
/ lost no time in doing. Procv eding to
New Orleans, / set about gathering proof.
In a very short time Ihad a mass of evil
dence that more than proved all that had
charged.
1t has all along been denied that British
transports were loading men and horses in
New Orleans; that the stock 'eaying that
port was not intended for use in wi or that
the vessels on which the animals were
shipped were not part of the British navy,
etc, so that this was one of the first things
that l had to prove The proving was an
easy task"
Here the general showed an extract from
the evidence which Gov. Herd has sub
mitted to Secretary Hay and which relates
to the case Of Patrick Dunno VS.. The
Steamship Milwaukee, tried March. 1901,
before Frank H. Mortimer, United States
commissioner. II appears that Dunno and
a number of others had answered an ad
vertisement in one of the New Orleans
papers, calling for men to take care of stock
on the steamship Milwaukee, bound for
Cape Town Dunno called on the agent
and was engaged on the understanding that
as soon as he and the others reached Cape
Town they would be returned to New Or
leans on the first steamer leaving that port
for New Orleans.
On reaching Cape Town, Dunno and the
others learned that the FIRST steamer return
ing to New Orleans would be the Mont
calm, and IN consequence he and his COM
panions made arrangements to take passage
on that vessel Notwithstanding, when il
came time for the Montcalm to leave they
were refused passage, and It was not until
after several months Of vexatious delay,
during which period every influence was
brought 10 bear on them to get them to en-
list in the British army, that they finally
secured passage on a steamer bound for
New Orleans.
Reaching New Orleans Dunno brought
suit against the Milwaukee to recover what
he had lost by enforced detention in Cape
Town, and during the trial Captain George
H. Webster master of the steamer Mil
waukee, stated under oath that the reason
why Dunno was not allowed to return on
the Montcam was on account of the fact
that the latter was not a passenger ship,
but a transport of the British navy, and
that as such was liable TO have her orders
on reaching St. Helena and
receive others in their stead directing her
to proceed to some port other than New
Orleans. Speaking of this phase Of the
question, General Pearson said:
., In the British navy the transport ships
are known by numbers only and not by
names, and so open and aagraut are the
British in the manner in which they are
their New Orleans establishment
that the masters Of these vessels do not try
TO conceal the fact that they are transports
by painting out the number on the steamers
bow.
When the war was declared in South
Africa the United States aud Portugal were
Two of several nations that announced their
To show you how both have
acted since will call your attention to an
incident in the hearing Of the case of Dunno /
ysySRS the Milwaukee, which like the