Show WEBSTER DAVISS DATEST J I II Said to Haye Prevent Consul Hay from Being Sent Home Kansas City Mo April IGA Washington Wash-ington dispatch to the Journal Mlales i that but for the intercession of Webster V V Web-ster bavldj itt AJIslstttiit l Secretary of the interiorAdellJort Hay sOil of the Secretary of Slate would riot have received I re-ceived his cxfiiuuturaa American Consul I 1 Con-sul at Pretoria < l V Mr Davis w H s InPretoria about the r lime Mr Buy arrlvn waa expected V The Transvaal oJllclalo Uud l already heard of the new CoiiHUls sojourn In London had been Informed that he had placed himself In communication with the Foreign office there and had actuallv had an Interview with Lord Salisbury They had been further informed I In-formed that after his appointment Mr Hay had held a throe hours conference I with John Hays Hammond convicted r 1 of high treason against tho Transvaal J 1 Government and now an active cam against the Boer cause palgner aJlnHl lI was at this stage of the case of 1 Consul Hay according to the Journals Washington correspondent that V StJjto Secretary Reltz took the Assistant Sec I iclary of the Interior into hlu confidence deuce See here Davis said Reltz It will never do for us to receive thin young V nuin and admit him to the confidential relations to l which ho is entitled as American Consul With 1 the impressions 1 impres-sions which he must have received In i London In consultation with our cue mks It would be suicidal Ve would be harboring an emnissarof Grpat Britain in our midst Tills was the status of affairs when Davis took up young TJnyfl ease Uo persuacVd Secretary Keltx to receive him partly Because ho wished to avoid any possibility of offending tu Aincrl I can Secretary of State and partly because be-cause he trusted lo the t Impressions I young Hay would rocoivo from personal per-sonal contact with the Boors to convert con-vert him Into a friend of the republics repub-lics On the pica made by Davis young Hay escaped the humiliation of being sent home as persona non grata |