Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-10
WHATBOERSWANT
List of Eleven Subjects For warded to Sec. Chamberlain.
AMNESTY FOR REBELS FIRST.

-Conditfons Agreed Upon Hereto
 fore Could Not Be Reopened-The
 Boers Disclaimed Any Intention to
 Alter the Terms of Surrendere
 London, Sept 10.-A parliamentary paper issued this morning gives full report of the recent conference De- tween the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, and the Boer generals, Botha, De Wet and Delarey. Prior to agreeing to the interview which the Boers asked for August 20, the colon ial secretary requested a list of the subjects which it was desired to dis cuss and the generals forwarded list of eleven subjects, including the fol- lowing:
 Complete amnesty to the rebels.
 A yearly grant to all Boer widows and orphans and maimed burghers.
 Equal rights for the English and Dutch languages in the schools and courts.
 That equal rights with the British be conceded to burghers complying with the terms of surrender, including the right to return to South Africa
 The immediate release of all prison CTS of war.
 The reinstatement of the officials of the late South African republics or compensation for. their loss of office.
 Compensation for all loss occasioned by the British troops by the use, re- moval, burning or destruction by other means of all private property.
 The reinstatement of the burghers fnrF l. 14-. 4 1T
 nscated or sold under the proclamation of August z. 1901.
 Compensation for the use of the properties of burghers taken by the British authorities.
 Payment of the lawful obligations VI tue late South African republics, war.
 The reseission of the decision to add a portion of the TransvaaI to Nata1
 Granting an extension of tima for tne payment of all debts due bv inc t,e neis to The late governments of the South African republics.
 Mr Chamberlain, in renlvtno av. plessen great surprise at the number ana character of the proposals. point
 out that the conditions agreed on e vereenlging were duly accepted by tne ourghers and the British povarn. ment and that they could not ha TO. opsneu, nor could proposals rejected as tnat tlme again be discussed. If .ns interpretation of the agreement as open 10 question his majesty's gov ernment would agree to remove aI1 doubts. oFe an
 Al the opening of the conference the f1 a1af~. to alter the terms of surrendar ,n nesa s,r5 rebels GenStal Botha expressed 1S5ts dts.. - poinenent tnat after the promise giv- en Dy Lord Kitchener that the rehals 1o no. Deen granted amnesty at the silne oI hlng Edwards coronation. in epiy .o when Mfs Chamberlain prom lseu that the imperial government "ouiu nor hinder any generous inten- llons or the governments of Natal and cape Colony in regard to rebels.
 AS to the return of burghers to south Africa, the colonial secretary declared it was the governments in- tention to retain tl.e right to prevent tue return ct d.s!oyai persons who had not frankly accepted the terms of peace. 1Dstancing former State Secra- tary Reitz cf the TroEsvaal as a case IT point and saying that MT Reitz was using language Gil the continent in. consistent with the declaration he hal signed at Eeraenieing.
 Ieueral Botha said he hoped thst .ne sins or one man would not be yis- lted on others" adding
 IT one man says foolish things let him suffer therefor alone.'
 Mir Gha 5arlaf,. :. erals that there was no truth in the re- port Inat the government intended to sell iarms belonging to burghers. Re- garolng some farms sold in the Orange hlFer colony under the proclamation oI August z, 1901, MT Chamberlain promised that the farms bought bv ina government would be re-transferrad to their former owners.
 General Botha criticised the comno- sitfon of the commission appointed to allot the grant of $15.O00. 900 flor tbe purpose of assisting burghers and their families to return to their homes and Tor restocking their farms etc) and objected to national scouts serving as commissioners. But MT Chamberlain maintained that the government must be true to those who supported it. Rela- tive to the transfer to Natal of part of the Transvaal, General Botha said the burghers proposed to trek therefrom. He lived there, but he saw no chance of remaining, the feeling of the British Tn Natal being so strongly anti-Boer.
 On the subject of martial law. MT Chamberlain said 1t would not be con- tinued much longer.
 The colonial secretary refused to recognize as burghers foreigners who mad been naturalized during and just before the war. saying they had been bribed by the resolution of the Volks- raad giving them burghers' rights as reward for taking part in a conflict in which they were not concerned.
 General Botha concluded with an ap- peal for the widows and orphans and said he considered that the appropria. ton of S15,000,000 was inadequate
 Replying to this, Mir Chamberlain compared Great Britain's treatment of the Boers with the treatment of the south with the north after the civil war in America
 T would remind the general, said --r Chamberlain. ''that we nave under taken already more obligations than have ever before been undertaken un- dor similar circumstances. tlsO take