NY AM' SOt'Tll AFKK'A. 



A warlike expedition into t ho Transvaal, the 



CCgt Of Wl. <M. \crnmellt Would 1)001- 



peeted to share. The Cape ministry acquiesced, 

 aiming to bear half tin- total expense MM to fur- 

 nish a fair contingent of the fighting force. The 

 v . - M: i; . lea, heft red thai I.-- ooold 



lit tO 



support such at;n. In foapoaat to tha threi 

 ingmeseage of Mr. ChnmU-rlain. the Transvaal 

 Government opened the .In ft* <n Nov. 6, 1895, and 

 announced tlmt they would not again be closed 

 without consultation" with the lint. :uent. 



; roteeted in a subsequent communication that 

 u had M r -uUU' the ports of entrance, 



offering to submit the quest ion to arbitration. The 

 Cfcpe ministers requested th.it the assurances th.-y 

 had given with n-fervnce to hostile action bo re- 

 ... . , ; : . i.-..,:. N,,r wn- it ever 



known how ready the Cape Government had been 



to go to war with tin- Transvaal until Mr. M.-rri- 

 man on April 6, 1897. demanded the production of 

 t !,.- |per* in the Cape Parliament in order to show 

 that tin- Rhodes ministry promised on a paltry 

 mutter of i arms an ultimatum 



of the hn|Hrial Government. 



When the British Minister for the Colonies, 

 Joseph Chamberlain, finally proposed a parlia- 

 mentary investigation of the Jameson raid and the 

 mpanv he declared that the situ- 

 ation in South Africa mid not improved, that I 

 dent Krugvr. though he had stated that his desire 

 was "to heal sores, to forget, and to forgive," still 

 withheld ' d full and favorable consid- 



eration to the friendly representations of the Mrit- 

 ish Government, and that recent laws of the Volks- 

 raad were contrary to the London convention and 

 wnild create, if they were enforced, a situation 

 that would require "'all our prudence, all our im- 

 partiality, and all our |ati< v The I'riti-i 

 rrtan ilirmcd that the raid wasindissolubly 



Vied with the discontent in Johannesburg. 

 which was founded on the grievances of the I'it- 

 landers. and any inquiry into the origin of the raid 

 would be a sham unless' it went carefullv into this 

 Question of grievances and determined hove far 

 these afforded a justification for that discontent 

 and agitation in Johannesburg which made the 

 raid possible. 



In consequence of the Jameson raid and the 

 Johannesburg revolution the Yolksraad had pa--ed 

 a law for the expulsion of any foreigner who by 

 w..rd or writing excites to disobedience or trans- 

 gression of the Taw or takes any steps dangerous to 

 public peace and order. Another law empowered 

 the President to prohibit the circulation of printed 

 iblished matter the contents of which are in 

 hi- judgment contrary to good morals or a danger 

 to the peace and order in the Republic. There was 

 also a law establishing a censorship over press 

 telegrams. Another law required aliens traveling 

 in th S.uth African Republic to take out pass- 

 ports. An alien immigrants law, based more upon 

 -rex-ailing in South Africa. 



rvotiired of aliens intending to settle in the Re- 

 public that th-v should bring n certificate from 

 their h- -me ant h ritiei : hat 1 1,,-y possessed the means 

 or the ability to support themselves and would not 

 become a burden uj-.i, the community. 



Mr. Chamberlain found in these- new laws viohi- 

 "f the on .f 1884. The alien immi- 



grants law, ho wid. imjowl a new condition on 

 the entrance of British MibjWt- into the Trai 

 besides that of conforming to the laws of the Re- 

 public, which alone WH- defined in the London 

 convention, and this new condition it would be 

 difficult for many of th, i* rfectly 



respectable immigrants to satisfy. The other alien 



:ipo^-d burdens upon aliens traveling or read- 

 ing in the Republic in excess of t he coiulit ion laid 

 The Slat.' Secretary, hr. 



-.contended that these were police laws, hut 

 this Mr. Chamberlain would not admit. Tin 



in >t el hat the Government of the South 

 African Republic would be grateful if the P.riiish 



:nment would propose some other practical 

 measure for the exclusion of undesirable immi- 

 grants. Eventually the immigrant In 

 pealed without any admission that it was an in- 

 'ii of i he convention, after an agreement with 

 the governments of Natal and Cape Colony, in 

 conformity with which the latter enacted in th,. 

 summer a law restricting immigration. Mr. Cham- 

 berlain, in the convs|,,,ndence. al: \ iola- 

 tioiis of the convention. A t n at - utioii 

 with the Netherlands, signed "n N"\. '.'. i s !'". had 

 not been submitted to the I'.riti-h (iovernmcnt for 

 until attention was railed to the omission 



the exchange of ratifications, The extradi- 

 tion treaty with Portugal, signed on N'..\ . :;. is'.CJ. had 

 not \ ibmilti-d for t : 



On S. >!. the S.utli African Rei.ublie, 



without waiting for the invitation of the British 

 rnment. formally communicated to the Swiss 

 Government its act of accession to ti 



ntion. The aliens expulsion law was like the 

 immigration law. declared to be contrary to the con- 

 vention. Like exec | it ion wa- taken t" t he pjv-- law. 

 and when the l> Cril i<- " and " Star." t he Uitlandei 

 papers, were suppressed, the Briti-h (i<>v. rnment 

 demanded explanati 



The claim of the South African Republic upon 

 the British South Africa Company for : 

 account of Dr. .Iame-on\ raid amounted 

 938, of which IMS77.938 represented ex; 

 nected with putting rinnimuuln* in the field and 

 compensation for the commandeered burirh- !-. and 

 1,000,000 represented " moral or intellectual .lam- 

 age." President Kriiger in-isteil .n the right of 

 the South African Republic to submit to arbitral ion 

 the question of indemnity and ot her matter- of mn- 

 troversv. Mr. Chamberlain asserted in Parliament 

 that arbitration on the convention was out of the 

 question, such being unprecedented between a BU- 

 /erain and a subordinate power. This fiv-h assump- 

 tion of suzerainty, whicn was expunged from the 

 convention of iss-J by the omission of the . 

 contained in the convention of lv*l. rai-e.l a -torm 

 of protests in Pretoria, ami drew from Pn-ident 

 r an explicit denial that the relation of su- 

 ity sj ill ^ulisi^ted. 



Treaty nith the Oran-c Tree state. 1 

 of the menacing attitude of the Briti-h (; 

 ment. President Kri'i^eri, in P.loemfoiitcin 



a defensive alliance between the South Africa 

 public and the i Irani:'' Kn-e Slate and the prelimi- 

 nary arran^'cinents for a closer political union be- 

 tween I he republics One article of t ho 

 treaty provides that the burghers of each stal 

 to have the franchise in the other. If either 

 i- attacked the oth- U) come to its .. 

 ance with its full fighting f.-rc... \vhi<-h wonl-i 

 a combined army of about H.OIMI men I.etween the 

 ages <f eighteen and fifty, the Tran-vaal c.,ntrib- 

 nting 'JT.(KK) and the (i: 



This treaty \va< ratified by the two Yolk-: 

 Each state* undertakes to help the other win i 

 its independence is threatened either from without 

 or from within. Interstate laws about f>,,t,,/,<tn</'> 

 and other subjects connected with the alliance shall 

 be passed by the legislatures of hoth countri' 

 federal council shall IHJ created, consisting of 10 

 delegates, half of them nominated by the Pre-id-nt 

 of the Ora- ^tate and half by the Pi-esident 



of the South African Republic, and this council is 



