Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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addition to the foregoing heprovided annuities for his relatives, besides many legacies forfriends and servants. Notice that our own United States getsabout three-fourths of this endowment. These scholarshipsare to be earned by competition and examination, giving thebrightest minds among English speaking young men an oppor-tunity to get a university education. These young men willbe monuments to his memory, which will be of longer durationthan moiuunents made of marble and l)ronze. We have two3oung men of our own city now being educated at Oxford atthe expense of the Rhodes endowment. SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT We visited the Parliament at Cape Town, both the Senateand Representative Chambers, while in session. There werein the Senate about forty members, and a speech was beingmade in English on the subject of irrigation, which is verymuch needed in this country, where rainfall is usually deficient.In the house of the Representatives quite a spirited debate was 147 OLR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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o P o H OO PARLIAMENT going on over the revision of the pohce laws. Some of themembers spoke in Enghsh, others in Dutch, and some in bothlanguages. The Speaker of the House read the motions be-fore putting them to vote, first in English and then in Dutch,all of which took much time, and one would think it rather con-fusing. The English are very mild and diplomatic in theircolonies here, as well as elsewhere, but we think they have madea mistake here, in authorizing two legal languages. The Houseof Representatives is elected by the people. It is only in theCape Colony State that the negroes are permitted to vote,if they can read and write, and have two hundred and fiftydollars worth of property. The Senate is appointed by the Governor, also the PrimeMinister, and the Governor is appointed by the King of En-gland. The Union of South African States at present con-sists of Cape Colony, Orajige Free State, Natal and the Trans-vaal, with a Protectorate over Rhodesia, which may, at some-time

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