On January 29 and 31, 1902, Kuyper appeared in the First Chamber during the general debate on the national budget for 1902 to explain and defend the budget of the Interior Ministry (pp. 148–194). He was first confronted, however, by a question posed by a member of the First Chamber about an aide-mémoire that the Dutch government had allegedly sent to the English government (p. 141). As it was not customary to make such an aide-mémoire known before its recipient had made it public, Kuyper could not announce that the government had offered to assist the English in mediating an end to the Second Boer War. Shortly afterwards, the aide-mémoire (see also 1905.25, 1934.03, and 1957.03) was published together with the English government’s reply in, among others places, De Standaard, no. 9166, February 6, 1902. In De Standaard, no. 11379, April 23, 1909, Kuyper wrote a lead article about the origin, rationale, and significance of this aide-mémoire. On April 30 (pp. 254–255) and June 5 (p. 294), Kuyper discussed a number of smaller bills in the First Chamber.