Show HAY FlAY ANSWERS A HUM Never Naver Reported Viola Vlola tio dl f J Mall Malli i i rP WAS W ONCE OCE OCEr r led nud nt 1 ii or litter Afternoon Washington Feb 21 answer of th the state department to the house res resolution calling Cor or information roo ro ganding certain I ade by the late lato Consul Macrum Was WIlS transmitted to the house o today hy by the tho It If I signed by Secretary Hay flay and at atter atten ten ter recitIng the tho Answering the part of the thero ro resolution The department ot of state has hll been In regular communIcation by mIdI mall and telegraph with Chlrles N Macrum late consul ot of the at South since his entrance upon tho duties of the office COllm made to hIm have been answered nd the execution tion ot of instructions sent had been roo to ported by hint him III his dl dispatches hell to the department were forwarded th ugh the tho consulate at Lourenzo Lourenso und have during that time lime been regularly received The Tho on only Instance of complaint In respect to the tho transit ot of the matte malls for tor Lourenzo and Pretoria was waa In November last when a temporary stoppage or of th mall occurred It at Cape Capetown Capetown town against whiCh Mr Macrum and the consul at lourenzo Marquee arques pro protested tested Arrangements were made mude for forthe forthe the prompt deliVery ot of the consular malls to the United States consul nt at Capetown by whom the mall mati for Mr and Mr Ir Macrum was forwarded to Lourenzo Lourenso Marques The dela delay last lasted ed but a few days and has baa not recurred so 80 for far as the department Is advised After that time the tho departments mall for L and Pretoria was sent b by neutral route which It appears was know and open to Mr and Mr os as early as 88 November 6 last No obstacle therefore Is here known to have existed since then to Mr unhampered dece with the dep ot of state I At no time while It at his poet did Mr report to the department any Instance of vIolation b by op opening i or otherwise otherl e ot of hIs mall by the censor at al Durban Durlian or by nn any e QI or Dr hal oever th thre re or Jcl Neither baa hili 11 be since line ho left ert bavin the amplest opportunity to do by mall while on the way home and in person wh when n he reported to the department upon his hili return the second part ot of the aforesaid resolution the undersigned secretary or of state has the honor to say that there Is no truth In the charge that thu thua thata a secret alliance exists between en the thc ot of the States and Ind the empire or of Britain that no form of secret alliance I is po possible under the Constitution or of the United States In asmuth as treaties require the advice adloe and amI conent or of the Senate tind Ind finally that no alliance convention nr an or understanding exists br be between tween the United States StateR and an other nation JOll JOhN HAY Department of State February 20 1900 I |