 This time, in order to keep within the law (which banned unlicensed outdoor meetings), the League proposed to hold it in an enclosed space (a large circus building known as the Amphitheatre).By this time the Afrikaners were becoming ever more indignant at the uitlander's incessant clamouring.Smuts, foreseeing trouble, appealed to the leading Transvaal burghers to do all that they could to see that restraint was observed.