1 of 1897, by which Mr.Krueger was empowered to exact from the judges a declaration that decisions of the Volksraad would be enforced by them as legal enactments, whether they were in agreement with the constitutions or not, and to dismiss at a moment's notice any one of them whose response might seem to him unsatisfactory.
"We have already spoken of the concluding sentences in the Memorandum.Messrs.

A.Fischer, C.H.Wessels, A.D.W.

Wolmarans "appeal to the _Conference de l'Union Interparlementaire_ to take in hand their cause." The Executive Committee has, as has already been said, ruled the question out of order.

This decision is not to be regretted considering the tendencies of the delegates' Memorandum; it does not help their cause any more than does Dr.
Kuyper's article." M.Pauliat complained bitterly of the decision.

A progressive member of the Belgian deputation, Mr.Lorand, tried to revive the question on the 2nd of August by means of the following resolution: "The tenth Conference of the Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration now meeting in Paris being cognisant of acknowledging the resolutions of the Conference at the Hague, and being desirous to express its gratitude to all who have contributed towards its results; trusts, that in future the Powers will avail themselves of the means put at their disposal for the amicable settlement of international disputes and regret that "they have not done so" in the actual conflict between England and the South African Republics." Upon this, M.Beernaert, with all authority conferred upon him by his position as the delegate of the Belgian Government at the Hague Conference, observed that the Transvaal was not in a position to avail itself of the resolution arrived at by the Conference--because that Conference was no longer in existence, and because the Boers had not been a party to it.