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Show AFRICAN AFFAIRS. lha British Gaverani'nt AilN for a Slat m ot as to Travail. IS Till. H0lK OF:0110S10AY. Ilarrourl Sara lbs Mdiih Africa ( out-pauy out-pauy Has l omiirom a d the lUpti-tatlon lUpti-tatlon of l.rrat llrllnln. I.onimin, M.y 8. The H-iu-o ur Commons waa crowded th:a attr:ioo:i aud the pee" gallery parked, this gathering belug due lo the faot that a vote on the colonial eatlrnales waa t be taken and It waa tube niada the oaoaslou of an Itnimrtaat exchange of queeilone ai.d auawers upon Cty-Hh African aflalrs. The liberal leader, Hlr William Ver non Harcourt, asked the government to niako a statement regarding tt.e raid luto Transvaal. He aald tbj opNjal Hod bad hereto not urtdu!y preuJ the gtvernment on this Important matter, I ir they thought the time bod arrived tor the II ue to ba informed of the rrovrrnmeiu's inteu lion. Tba rtspucs ble directors of the chartered HluUi Africa company at Caiatowuaud Johannesburg were, he said, the authors of lha raid aud Vt. Jameson waa only their tubor llnatc. Ibo goVf inmeiit wns responiule for the acta of the charterod c iiupany be foru Hie nation and the wor.J. (Ai plauae from the opposition iMJiuimj. llaro urt atialj ird Inn lub-grauie thai bad jsaied between Cicll ItlioJe, Col. Ithid-a, Hutherford Hnrri-, Ailiol il. lt, Liuuel Pnliltia, Dr. Jam. . mi a d others )u.l before Ihu iuvmmum or the tnirlury or the rt-udi Africa republic. Later Ihe opp sllioii leader eul'ir.xad the pr'Uiptnra, decision end coinage of the ascretnry of statu for the col oules, Joseph Cuamberlaln, and dwtot u putt lite c urae of Hie chartered company, com-pany, deaiarlug that It bad ooaiprom-leed ooaiprom-leed Ore it liritaln's leputatlun. Chanlerliii In repiy to M arcourt aald ttiat While Cecil KtloOea'- ruceul actions aie universally condemned, bla past eeivkea must not be forgotten, Hiili.-r Ktighaiimeu Ilka Ittud. a, Kug-lih Kug-lih hlalory wi.uld be much poorer and llntiaii do ui lulu us much smaller, ( Applause.) Ap-plause.) lioiti Ktighsh and tha African H ers of Cat e, continued Chamberlain, thoiiirht t cull itiioues tbegrvattat beu-etactury beu-etactury ttie colony evor had. He was puweilos lu the luture lo do mUcbler, aa not an armed man could tm moved without tha auth'jrlly of the government's govern-ment's own oil Iter a aud they were ready logiva Pree dent Krneger any reeaunablw gneraaive, wlio a view of removing every shadow of eusploion. The government had refused lu advise the chartered coin pan y relative t; Khodea'a resignation. Hut, iu view of the dts'.uthauces In lluodesle aud Ihe Irupoealbllity uf flndiug uut the opinion of the settlers, Ih-y thought It fair that tba directors should be given time to cousider lha matter. They Itioughi Uii odes was In his proper place In Houih Africa, whether as director or stockholder, and there lie was beat let aluue with the past. After the Judical proceedings were ended, the government, govern-ment, added C'bambeilaiu, would review re-view the elluaiiuo to the llgbl uf the Infurmatluu obiatneo. Chamberlain said tue goverument leliaved the proer courae lo follow would be I hat a Joint committee of both tiounev, should Immlre Into the whole situation, including in-cluding theadiuinlstratiuu of ihe British Brit-ish Chartered oumpacy, The policy ol the goverumeni, be explained, was lo prevent atolutely the recurrence of the regretabie proceedlnga aud to con tiuueoy every legitimate meana the ttlorlo to at-cure a fair aud equal treatment treat-ment of ltritlsli subjects in Iranavaal, and rcaturo amity between tba two fa cot lb lire. |
