The judges protested in a body that they would not submit to such treatment.

The High Court was suspended and all legal business adjourned.
Sir Henry de Villiers, Chief Justice of Cape Colony, came to Pretoria to endeavour to avert the crisis.

Mr.Krueger promised to refrain from enforcing Law I.of 1897, and to introduce a new law.

The judges resumed their functions.
In February, 1898, a year later, President Krueger had not introduced a new law; President Kotze wrote to Krueger reminding him of his promise.
Mr.Krueger at once applied to him Law I.of 1897, and dismissed him.
Kotze was replaced by Mr.Gregorowski, who, at the time the law was passed had solemnly protested that no honourable man could continue to act as a judge in the Transvaal until the law was repealed.
Now what does Dr.Kuyper think of the Volksraad's mode of legislation, and of the manner in which Mr.Krueger, that man "of intelligence and superior morality," interprets respect for justice?
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