Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 January 1892 — Page 2

WEEKLY JOOSAL.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 30.1892.

"Tin*. party of 47" it is to be liopod hue held its last meeting.

EVKHTBODY thought Bill [Springer •was a fool but when he

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straight face that he expects a llc-publi-can Senate ami a Republican President to assist him in passing his free raw material bills we all know he is a fool.

THK Kokonio Journal which was started as a Republican paper with the lofty purpose of defeating Ben Harrison for renomination has died. The emphatic resolutions in Harrison's favor passed by the Republicans of the ninth district were too much for it.

THKILI* things are certain First, the Democrats said that if the McICinlev bill passed it would bring disaster to the country: second, the MeKinley bill did pass third, we are now enjoying the greatest prosperity we have had for years and Democrats can't deny it.

Mws. MCKEE, daughter of the President, gives her ideas of training young children in the Ladies' Home Journal. They are good ideas and if she practices them on that celebrated youngster Baby Mclvee, ho may succeed his grandfather as the host of tho White House.

THE new Republican State Central Committee is all right. Only one of the oommittoe is opposed to Harrison and all but three are enthusiastically in favor of his re-nomination. In every district but the thirteenth the administration was warmly endorsed. By next June the State will present a solid Republican front for her favorite son.

THE time has come for making up the programme for the February meeting of the Farmer's Institute of this oounty. All who are willing to read papers at this meeting will please rend their names and subjects to Henry M. Perry, Secretary. It will be the annual meeting for the election of officers, and a full attendance is desirable. The programme will be published in a short time.

THE Anderson Herald speaking of Senator l'effer's disclaimer of being the author of the bill to lend to Indiana farmers §100.000,000, says:

Senator "offer's disclaimer is good enough as far as it goes, but it will never bo satisfactorv to tho people of Madison county until it relieves them of the odium of having requested the introduction of the bill. Three or four men who formulated that bill are no more "the Farmers' Alliance of Madison county," than the three tailors of Tooloy street were "we the people" of London. In fact the English tailors and the Anderson Taylor are similar in some respects.

LAST Thursday night the weather got down to business and run tho thermometer down to ten below zero. It was then the natural gas failed to do its duty the pressure being so light that in some parts of tho city it was almost impossible to cook a meal or keep warm. The directors had all of the mills to shut down during the day which materially effected the pressure by increasing it. There is one consolation to Lebanon people, however, and that is, we are not freezing as they are over in Crnwfordsville.—Lebanon Patriot.

Crawfordsvillo sends greeting to Lebanon with the remark that our natural gas has at no time failed to do its full dtuy. Evon when the thermometer was twehe degrees belew zero the pressure was sufficiently strong to furnish gas to keep the people not only warm but hot. Oar people have no such complaint to send out as are made by our Lebanon friends.

Isaac P. Gray to J. B. Mn/niird, Dr. For writing Kmmelt anniversary addr's.K0.00 Kor writing Burns anniversary addr's.. 50.00 For writing Grant proclamation 10.00 Kor writing letter to TamrnaDy liali 10.00 Kor writing letter to Savannah... 10.00

Total 8130.00 Keceived payment. J. B. Maynard. The Express is not certain who is

writing his public, addresses tlieso days, but surely one on St. Jackson's day would cost as much as §.")0.

THE WAR CLOUD.

No matter how ominous the prospect for war may appear, THE JOUKNAL be lieves that the Chilean difficulty will be settled without bloodshed, but at thi same timo that it will be settled in manner in keeping with the dignity, honor and forbearance of tho United States. No reasonable man is ever desirous to have his country declare war, but every true American will ever insist that his nation's honor be preserved at whatever cost. It will be preserved, we have no doubt, in the Chilean controversary. A weak but impudent .natior has wantonly offered affront to a powerful but tolerent people. After a reasonable time patience has ceased to be a virtue and President Harrison has taken decisive and aggressive measurers. The Chilean government will retract and will do whatever tho nation demands when it learns that the administration is in earnest. So do otherwise would be annihilation, and while the Chileans are hot headed it is not to be considered that they are wholly lost to folly. It is a blue jay crying at an eagle. Presi dent Harrison's message is cool, sensible and terribly earnest. It is apology oi war, and it will bo apology. The affair has not been partisan in any sense, and all men, irrespective of party, look to the nation's honor. This fact certainly spenks well for the state of the Union.

REV. THOMAS DIXON is a young Now York preacher who is destined to become world famous although he is but little known now. His terse style is well portrayed in the following sentences concerning gambling:

It was born in he!l. All gamblers live in hell. They are the devil's scullions. In my soul, I pity them. A confirmed gambler is a lost man. Ho is lost body and soul for time and eternity. All gambling is villainy. The man who bets on a certainty is a knave. The man who bets on an uncertainty, a fool. The man who bets at all seeks the good of another without giving an equivalent, which in the last analysis is theft.

THE great campaign against the Louisiana lottery is being supported by organizations all over the country. The lottery company has millions in money at its command and the moral element opposing it should not lack for funds. Any amount sent to "The Christian Union, Clinton Hall, Astor Place, New York," will be promptly acknowledged and forwarded to the committee in Now Orleans.

Prospective Price of Hogs, Hopeful Outlook. To the Editor ol' the Crawl'ordBville Journal* There are two important factors that point to good prices for hogs during tho current year. 1st, the enlarged markets for American pork caused by the removal of prohibitory lawsjl ^This prohibition was brought about on the pretext, that our pork was unhealthy. To meet this objection the last Congress passed rigid meat inspection laws. The Government then, under the provision of this wise law, demanded the removal of the embargo on our pork when such pork had been inspected and found healthy. Germany, France, Italy and

"IT is very difficult for anyone to understand how Isaac Pusey Gray should have failed to avail himself of the splendid opportunities afforded by the celebration of Jackson's birthday," Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at says the New York Advertiser. Our Ne^ York contemporary is unreasonable. Isaac Pusey Gray is not a rich man in any sense, and when a man is impoverished in ideas it is expensive for him to deliver addresses on all public occasions. In June 1888, when he was Governor and was going on record as the first public man ever an avowed candidate for the second place on the national ticket, he paid this bill *.

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Denmark now admit our pork. This will alono givo a market for many millions of dollars worth of pork. The farmer who last fall could see no benetlt from these enlarged markets, but said "look at the prico of hogs, $15.40 a hundred,'' and hence concluded that therewas no money in raising hogs, failing to seo the factors controling the markets then, and likely to govern tho markets during the year, will get left this year. There are factors that clearly indicate that fewer hogs will be marketed in '92 than in '01. Hence I reason that less supply and great demand will insure good profits for hog raising in 1892. Governed by the foregoing reasons I have bred s:xty sows this winter. My hogs for the past year were sold, first in July at Sr., in Sept. at $4.80, and the remainder early in this month at $4. Good profits on all. sales. I hope to do better this year. |pl!l|ltt J.A.MOUNT. \^'y.

Surprise to .-Iff.

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Strong Wit nesses.

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The Chilian Aff*ir Placed Before That Body.

SPECIAL MESSAGE OF THE PlvtSJDKXT.'

To I'phold the i)ljjiii(v of tin* .Nation Wo Arc? Itound to Kiifor* Our L)oU'SIIH! for tin Apology UIKI LLCPUIMtion from Chili.

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WASHINGTON*. .Jan. 'JO.—The following is President Harrison's message on the Chilian situation sent to congress yesterday:

To THK SKNATE AND IlOUSK OK RKPUKSKNTATIVKS: In my annual message, deli vend to congress at the beginning of the present session, after a lrief .statement of tlie facts then in the possession of this government touching the assault in the streets of Valparaiso, Chili, upon the sailors of the United States steamship Baltimore on the evening of the 10th of October last. 1 said: "This government is now awaiting the result of an investigation which has been conducted by the criminal court at Valparaiso. It is reported unofficially that the investigation is about completed, and it is expected that the result will soon be communicated to this government, together with some adequate and satisfactory response to the note by which the attention of Chili was called to this incident. If these just expectations should be disappointed, or further needless delay intervene, I will, by a special message, bring this matter again to the attention of congress for such action as may be necessary.

In my 'opinion the time has now come when I should lay before the congress and tin country the correspondence between this government ami the government of Chili, from the time of the breaking out of the revolution against. Balmacedu. together with all other facts in the possession of the executive department relating to this matter. The diplomatic correspondence is herewith transmitted, together with some correspondence between the naval olllcers for the time in command in Chilian waters and the secretary of the navy and also the evidence taken at the Mare Island navy yard since the arrival of the Baltimore at San Francisco. do not deem it necessary in this communication to attempt any full analysis of the correspondence or of the evidence. A brief restatement of the international questions involved and of the reasons why the responses of the Chilian government are unsatisfactory is all that 1 deem necessary.

It may be well, at the outset, to say that, whatever may have been said in this country or in Chili in criticism of Mr. Kgan. our minister at Santiago, the true history of this exciting period in Chilian affairs, from the outbreak of the revolution until thiis time, discloses no act on the part of Mr. Kgan unworthy of his position or that could justly bo the occasion of serious animadversion or criticism. lie lias. I think, 011 the whole, borne himself, in very trying circumstances, with dignity, discretion and courage, and has conducted the correspondence with ability, courtesy and fairness.

It is worth while also at the beginning to .say that the right of Mr. Kgan to give shelter in the legation to certain adherents of the Balmaceda government who applied to him for asylum has not been denied by. the Chilian authorities, nor has any demand been made for the surrender of these refugees. That there was urgent need of asylum is shown by Mr. Kgan's note of August 24, 1S01, describing the disorders that prevailed in Santiago, and by the evidence of Capt. Schley as to the pillage and violence that prevailed at Valparaiso. The correspondence discloses. however, that the request of Mr. Kgan for a safe conduct from the country.in behalf of these refugees, was denied. The precedents cited by hiin-in the correspondence, purlieu! irly the case of the revolution in Peru inlNjr.did.iiot leave the Chilian government in a position to deny the right of asylum to political refugees and seemed very dourly to support Mr. Kgan's contention that a safe conduct to neutral territory was a necessary and acknowledged incident of the asylum. These refugees have very recently, without formal safe conduct, but by the acquiescence of the Chilian authorities, been placed on board the Yorktown and art now being conveyed to C'allao, Peru. This incident might be considered wholly closed, but for the disrespect manifested toward this government by the close and offensive police surveillance of the legation premises which was maintained during most of the period of the stay of the refugees therein. After the date of my annual message and up to the time of the transferor the refugees to the Yorktown the legation premises seem to have been surrounded by police in uniform ami police agents or detectives in citizens' dress who offensively scrutinized persons entering or leaving the legation and, on one or more Aoccasions. arrested members of the minister's family. Commander Kvans, who by my direction recently visited Mr. Kgan at

Santiago, in his telegram to the navy department, described the legation us "a veritable prison," and states that the police agents or detectives were, after his arrival, withdrawn during his stay. It appears further, from the note of Mr. Kgan of November *J(l, ISSM. that on one occasion at least these police agents, whom he declares to be known to him, invaded the legation premises, pounding upon its windows ind using insulting and threatening language towards persons therein. This breach of the right of a minister to freedom from police espionage and restraint seems to have been so llagreut that the Argentine minister, who was dean of the diplomatic corps, having observed it, felt culled upon to protest against it to the Chilian minister of foreign affairs. The Chilian authorities have, as will be observed from the corn spoadence. charged the refugees and the inmates oi the legation with insulting the police: but it seems to me incredible that men whose lives were iu jeopardy and whose safety could only be secured by retirement anil quietness should have sought to provoke a collision which could only end iu their destruction, or to aggravate their condition by intensifying a popular feeling that, at one time BO threatened the legation as to require Mr Kgan to appeal to the minister of foreign affairs.

But the most serious incident disclosed by the correspondent is that of the attack upon the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso on the Kith of October last. 111 my annual message, speaking upon the information then in my possession, I said: "So far as 1 have yet been able to learn, no other explanation of this bloody work has been suggested than that it had its origin in hostility to these men as sailors of the United States, wearing the unilorm of their government, and not in any individual act of personal animosity."

We have now received from the Chilian government an abstract of the conclusions of the liscal general upon the testimony taken by the judge of crimes in an investigation which was made to extend over nearly three months. I very much regret to be compelled to say that this report does not eruble me to modify the conclusion announced in my annual message. I am still of the opinion that our sailors were assaulted, beaten, stabbed and killed, not for anything they or any one of them had done, but for what the government of the United States had done, or was charged with having done, by its civil officers and naval commanders. If this be the true aspect of the case the injury was to the government of the United States, not to those poor sailors who were assaulted in a manner so brutal and so cowardly.

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,he case. The Baltimore was in the

harbor of Valparaiso by virtue of that general invitation which nations are held to extend to the war vessels of other powers with which they have friendly relations. This invitation, I think, must be held ordinarily to embrace the privilege of such communication with the shore as is reasonable, necessary and proper for the comfort and convenience of the officers and men of such vessels. Capt. Schley testifies that when his vessel returned to Valparaiso on September 14, the city officers, as is customary, extended the hospitalities of the city to his officers and crew.

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raises an international quesliou.butl am clearly 1 of the opinion that where such sailors and offlcers are assaulted by a resident populace, animated by hostility to the government whoso uniforms these sailors and officers wear and in resentment of acts done by their government, not by them, this nation must take notice of the event, as one ii.volving an iu.ruction of its rights and dignity: not in a secondary way, as where a citizen is injured and presents his claim through his own government, and in a primary way precisely as if its minister or consul or the flag itself had been the object of the same characterof assault. The officers and sailors of the I Baltimore were in the harbor of Valparaiso under the orders of their government, not by their own choice. They were upon the shore by the implied invitation of the government of Chili and with the approval of their commanding officer: and it does not distinguish their ease from that of a consul that his stay is more permanent or that he holds the express invitation of the local government to justify his long resistance. Nor does it affect the question that the injury was the act of a mob. If there had been no participation by the police or military in this cruel work and no neglect 011 their part t^ extend protection, the case would still be one, in my opinion, when its extent and character are considered, involving international rights.

The incidents of the affair are, briefly, as follows: On the Kith of October last Capt. Schley, commanding the United States steamship Baltimore. gave shore leave to 11" petty officers and sailors of his ship. These men left the ship about 1:30 p. m. No incident of violence occurred: none of our men were arrested: no complaint was lodged against tliem, nor did any collision or outbreak occur until about ii o'clock p. in. Capt, Schley states that he was himself on shore and about the streets of the city until 5::i0 p. m.: that he met very many of his men who were upon leave: that they were sober and were conducting themselves with propriety, saluting Chilian and other olllcers as they met them. Other officers of the ship and Capt. Jenkins, of the merchant ship Keweenaw, corroborate Capt. Schley as to the general sobriety and good behavior of our men. The Sisters of Charity at the hospital to which our wounded men were taken, when inquired of, stated that they were sober when received. If the situation had been otherwise, we must believe that the Chilian police authorities would have made arrests. About tl p. m., the assault began, and it is remarkable that the investigation by the judgo of crimes, though so 'iron-acted, does not enable him to give any more satisfactory account of its origin than is found in the statement that it began between drunken sailors. Repeatedly in the correspondence it is asserted that it was impossible to learn tho precise cause of the riot. The minister of foreign affairs, Matta, in his telegram to Mr. Monti, under date December HI, states that the quarrel began between two sailors in a tavern and was continued in tho street.persons who were passing joining in it.

The testimony of Talbot, an apprentice who was with Riggin, is that the outbreak in which they were involved began by a Chilian sailor spitting in the face of K. Talbot, which was resented by a kno-k down. It appears that Riggin and Talbot were at the time unaccompanied by any others of their shipmates. These two men were immediately beset by a crowd of Chilian citizens and sailors, through which they broke their way to a street car and entered it for safety. They were pursued, driven from tho car, and Kiggin was so seriously beaten that he fell in the street apparently dead. There is nothing in the report of the Chilian investigation made to us that seriously impeaches this testimony. It appears from Chilian sources that almost instantly, with a suddenness that strongly implies meditation and preparation, a mob, stated by the police authorities al one time to number -.000, and at another time l.ooo. was engaged in the assault upon our sailors, who are represented as resis:ing "with stones, clubs and bright arms." The report 01 the inlendente of October ,'U) states that the light began at t! \. m. in three streets which are named. that information was received at the intendencia at 11:15. and that the police arrived on the scene at 0::ia. a full half hour after the assault began. At that time he says that a mob of "J.00U men had collected, and that for several squares there was the appearance of a "real battlefield."

The scene at this point is very graphically set before us by the Chilian testimony. The American sailors, who, after so long an examination, have not been found guilty of any breach of the peace, so far as the Chilian authorities are able to discover, unarmed and defenseless, are fleeing for their lives, pursued by overwhelming numbers, and lighting only to aid their own escape from death or to succor some mate whose life is 111 greater peril. Eighteen of them are brutally stabbed and beaten, while one Chilian seems, from the report, to have suffered some injury: but how serious, or with what character of weapon, or whether by missile thrown by our men or by some of his fellow rioters, is unascertained.

The pretense that our men were lighting "with stones, clubs, and bright arms," is, in view of these facts, incredible. It is further refuted by the fact that our prisoners, when searched, were absolutely without arms, only, seven penknives being found in the possession of the men arrested, while there were received by our men more than thirty stab wounds, every one of which was inflicted in the back, and almost every contused wound was in the back or back of the head. The evidence of the ship's officer of the day is that even the jackknives of the men were taken from them before leaving the ship.

As to the brutal nature of the treatment received by our men, the following extract from the account given of the affair by the I.a Patriu newspaper, of Valparaiso, of October 17, cannot be regarded as too friendly: "The Yankees, as soon as their pursuers gave chase, went by way of the Calle I del Arsenal toward the city car station. In the presence of an ordinary number of citizens. I among whom we.. some sailors, the North

Americans took seats in the street car to escape from the stones which the Chilians threw at them. It was believed for an instant that the North Americans had saved themselves from popular fury, but such was not the case. Scarcely had the car begun to mov, when a crowd gathered around and slopped its progress. Under these circumstances and without any cessation of the howling and throwing of stones at the North Americans, the conductor entered the car and,seeing the risk of the situation to the vehicle, ordered them to get out. At the inslant the sailors left the car, in the midst of hail of stones, the said conductor received a stone blow on the head. One of the Yankee I sailors managed to escape iu the direction of the

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in an opposition direction from the station. In front of the house of Sig. Mazzini he was again I wounded, falling then senseless and breatliless."

int* assault began before the police were up )ii tho ground. It has been stated that ill but two of our men have said that the police iid their duty. The evidence taken at Mare sland shows that if such a statement, was pro:ured from our men it was accomplished sy requiring them to sign a writing in 1 language they did not understand and Dy the representation that it was a mere declaration that they had taken no part in the dis:urbanee. Liieut. McC'rea, who acted as interpreter, says in his evidence that when our sailors A ere examined before the court the subject of the .•onduct of the police was so carefully avoided :hat he reported the fact to Capt. Schley on his return to the vessel. The evidence of the exstenco of animosity towards our sailjrs in tho minds of sailors of the Chilnn navy and of tho populace oi Valparaiso ire so abundant and various as to leave no loubt in the mind of anyone who will examine the paper submitted. It manifested itself in threatening and insulting gestures toward our lien as tliey passed the Chilian man of war in their boats and in the derisive and abusive epiihets with which they greeted every appearance Df an American sailor on the evening of the riot. uapt. Schley reports that boats from the Chilian warships several times went out of their course to cross tho bows of his boats, compelling them to back water. He complained of the discourtesy, and it was corrected. That lliis feeling was shared by men of higher rank is shown by an incident related by Surgeon Stitt of the Baltimore. After the battle of Placilla he, with other medical officers of the war vessels in the harbor, was giving voluntary assistance to the wounded in the hospitals. The son of a Chilian army officer of high rank was under his care, and when the father discovered it, ho Hew into a passion and said he would rather have his son die than have Americans touch him, and at once had him removed from the ward. This feeling is not well concealed in the dispatches of tho foreign office and had quite open expression in the disrespectful treatment of the American legation. The Chilian boatmen in the bay refused, even for large offers of money, to return our sailors, who crowded the Mole. to their ship when they were endeavoring to escape from the city on the night of the assault. The market boats of tho Baltimore were threatened, and. even quite recently the gig of Commander Kvans of the Yorktown was stoned while waiting for him at the Mole. The evidence'of our sailors clearly shows that the attack was expected by the Chilian people, that threats had been made against our men, and in one case somewhat early in tho afternoon, tho keeper of one house, into which some of our men had gone, closed his establishment in anticipation of the attack, which he advised them would be made upon them when darltness came on. In a repon of Capt, Schley to the navy department, he says: "In the only interview that I had with Judge Foster, who is investigating the case relative to the disturbances, before I10 was aware of the entire gravity of the matter, he informed me that the assault upon my men was the outcome of hatred for our people, among the lower classes. because they thought we had sympathized with the Chilian government 011 account of the Itata matter. Several of our men sought security from the mob by such complete or partial changes in their dress as would concoal the fact of their being seamen of the Baltimore and found it then possibifc to walk the streets without molestation. These incidents conclusively establish that the attack was upon the uniform—the nationality—and not upon the men. The origin of this feeling is probably founp in the refusal of this government to give recognition to the congressional party before it had established itself in the seizure of the Itata for an alleged violation of the neutrality law iu the cable incident, and in the charge that Admiral Brown conveyed information to Valparaiso of tho landing at Quiutero. It is not my purpose to enter here any defense of the action of this government in these matters.

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No amount of evasion or subterfuge is able to cloud our clear vision of this brutal work. It should be noticed, in this connection, that the American sailors arrested, for an extradition, were, during the four days following the arrest, everyone discharged, no charge of any breach of the peace or other criminal conduct having been sustained against a single one of them. The judge of crimes, Foster, in a note to the Intendente, under date of October £2—before the dispatch from this government of the following day, which aroused the authorities of Chili to abetter sense of the gravity of the affair—says: "Having presided temporarily over this court in regard to the seamen of the United States cruiser Baltimore, who have been tried on account of the deplorable conduct which took place," etc. The noticeable point here is that our sailors had been tried before the 22nd of October, and that the trial resulted in their acquittal and return to their vessel. It is quite remarkable and quite characteristic of the management of this affair by the Chilian police authorities that we should now be advised that Seaman Davidson, of the Baltimore, has been included iu the indictment, his offense being, so far as I have been able to ascertain, that he attempted to defend a ship-mate against an assailant who was striking at him with a knife. Tho perfect vindication of our men is furnished by this report: one only is found to have been guilty of criminal fault, and that for an act clearly justifiable.

As to the part taken by the police in the affair the case made by Chill Is also far from satisfactory. Tho point where Riggin was killed is only three minutes' walk from the police station and not more than twice that distance from the Intendencia*. and yet. according to their official report, a full half hour elapsed aftei

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It is enough for the present purpose to say that if there was any breach of international comity or duty on our part it should have been made the subject of official complaint through diplomatic channels or of reprisals for which a full responsibility was assumed. We cannot consent that these incidents and these perversions of the truths shall be used to excite a murderous attack upon our unoffending sailors, and the government of Chili go acquitted of responsibility. In fact, the conduct of this government during the war in Chili pursued those lines of international duty which we had sc strongly insisted upon 011 the part of other nations when thi.-. country was in the throes of active conflict. We continued the established diplomatic relal'ons with the government in power until il was overthrown and promptly and cordially recognized the new government when il was -tablished. The good offices of this governiii 'iu were offered to bring about a peacefu idjitM ment, and the interposition of Mr. Kgan lo tnit'g .teseverities anil to shelter adherents th' congressional party were effective and I'p'n lent. The charge against Admiral Brown is too base to gain credence with anyone who knows his high personal and professional character.

Referring to the evidence of our sailors, I think il is shown that there were several distinct assaults and so nearly simultaneous as to show that they did not spread from one point. A press summary of the report of the tlscal shows that the evidence, of the Chilian officials and others was iu conflict as to the place Of origin, several places being named by different witnesses as to the locality where the tirst outbreak occurred. This, if correctly reported, shows that then' were several di 'tinct outbreaks and so nearly at the same time as to cause this confusion. The I.a Patriu, in the same issue from which 1 have already quoted, after describing the killing of Kiggin and the tight which from that point extended to the mole, says: I "At the same time in other streets of the port the Yankee sailors fought fiercely with the people' of the town, who believed lo see in them

incarnate enemies of the Chilian navy." The testimony of Capt. Jenkins, of 1 he American merchant ship Keweenn, which had gone to Valparaiso for repairs, and who was a witness of some part of the assault upon the crew of the Baltimore, is strongly corroborative of Upon i'.iforina the testimony of our own sailors when

he says that he saw Chilian sentries drive back a seaman seeking shelter from a mob that was pursuing him. The officers and men of Capt. Jenkins' ship furnish the most conclusive testimony as to the indignities which were practiced towards Americans in Valpaiaiso. When American sailors, even of merchaul ships, can only secure their safety by denying their nationality, il must be time to readjust our iclations with a government that permits such demonstrations. As to the participation of the police, the evidence of our sailors shows that our men were struck and beaten by police officer* be/ore and after arrest and that one, at least, was dragged with a lasso about his neck by a mounted policeman. That the death of Kiggin was the result of a rifie shot fired by policeman or soldier in duty is shown directly by the. testimony of Johnson, in whose arms he was at the lime, and by the evidence of Charles Langen, an American sailor not then a member of the Baltimore's crew who stood close by and saw the transaction. The Chilian authorities do not pretend to fix the responsibility of this shot on any particular person, but avow their inability to ascertain who fired it, further than that It was fired in a crowd. The character of the wound, as described by one of the surgeons of the Baltimore, clearly supports his opinion that it was made by a rifie ball, the orifice of exit being as much as an inch or un inch and a quarter in width. When shot, the poor fellow was unconscious and in the arms of a comrade, who was endeavoring to carry him to a neighboring drug store for treatment. The story of the police that in coming up the street they passed these men and left them behind them "is inconsistent with their own statement as to the direction of their approach and with their duty to protect them and is clearly disproved. Iu fact Riggin was not behind, but in front of the advancing force, and was not standing in the crowd, but was unconscious and supported in the arms of Johnson when lie was shot.

The communications of the Chilinn government in relation to this cruel and disastrous attack upon our men, as will appear from the correspondence, have not in any degree taken the form of a mighty and satisfactory expression of regret, much less of apology.

The event was of so serious a character that, if the injuries suffered by our men had been wholly the result of an accident in a Chilian port, the incident was grave enough to have called for some public expression of sympathy and iegret from the local authorities,

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lair was lamentable, for humanity would require that expression, even if th« Denting and killing of our men* had been justn'sible. It is not enough to say that, the incident .s regretted,coupled with the .-:::lement that tho iffair was not of an unusual character in pons tvliere the foreign sailors are accustomed to meet. It is not for a generous and sincere govsrnment to seek lor words of small or equivocal meaning 111 which to convey to friendly power an apology for an offense so atrocious as this. In the case of the assault by a mob in New Orleans I upon the Spanish consulate in 1X31. Mr. Webster wrote to the Swinish minister, MrJ Calderon, that the acts complained of were "a disgraceful ami flagrant breach of duly and propriety," and that "his government deplores them as deeply as Minister Calderon and his government could possibly do," that "these Eicts have caused the president great pain, and he thinks a proper acknowledgement is due to her majesty's government."

He invited the Spanish consul to return to his post, guaranteeing protection, and offered to salute the Spanish flag if the consul should come in a Spanish vessel. Such a treatment by the government of Chili of this assault would have been more creditable to the Chilian authorities and much less can hardly IK satisfactory to a government that values its dignity and honor. In our note of Octobor £1 last, which apiears in the correspondence after receiving the report of the board of officers appointed by Capt. Schley to investigate the affair, the Chilian government was advised of the aspect which it then assumed and called upon for any facts in its possession that might tend 'o modify the unfavorable impressions which our report had created. It is very clear from the correspondence that, before the receipt of this note, the examination was regarded by the police authorities as practically closed, it was however, reopened and protracted through a period of nearly three months. We might, justly have complained of this unreasonable delay but 111 view of the fact, that the government of Chili was still provisional and having a disposition to be forbearing anil hopeful of a friendly termination, 1 have awaited the report which has but recently been made. On the *Jlst inst. I caused to be communicated to the government of Chili by the American minister at Santiago the conclusion of the government alter full examination, and every suggestion affecting this matter, and to these conclusions I adhere they were staled 11s follows:

First—That the assault is not relieved of the aspect which the early information of the event gave to it, viz.: that of an attack upon the uniform of the United States naw having its origin and motive in a feeling of hostility to this government and not ..ay act of sailors or of any of them.

Second.—That the public authorities of Valparaiso flagrantly failed in their dut to protect our men and that some ol the police and some of the Chilian soldiers anil sailors were thems: Ives guilty of unprovoked assault upon our sailors before and alter arrest. He nhe president) thinks the preponderance of the evidence and the inherent probabilities lead to the conclusion thai Kiggin was killed by the police or soldiers.

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suitable apology and for some adequate reparation for the injury done to this government." In the same note '.he attention of the I'mlian government was called 10 the offensive character of a note addressed bv Mr. Malta, its minister of foreign affairs, io Mr. Montt, its minister at this country 011 the I lih tilt. This dispatch was not officially communicated to this government: but as Mr Monti was directed so translate it and give it to the press of this country, il seemed to me that it could not. pass without official notice.

It was no: ,::!•• undiplomatic, but grossly insulting te ir w.val officers, and to the executive depui uueii:, as it directly imputed untruth: and iuslncer'ty to .'.*.:• reports of naval officers and lo th .'.Ueial communications made by the" executive department to congress. It will be observed that I have notified the Chiluwi govern-4 ment that unless this note is at once wuli-fi drawn and an apologv is public as the offense. made .1 will terminate diplomatic relations.??The request for ihe recall of Mr. Kgan ii]wn the" ground that he was not persona grata was unaccompanied by any suggestion that coulil properly be. used in support of it. and 1 infer that the request is based upon official acts of Mr. Kgan which have received the approval of this government. But however that may be I could not consent to consider such a question until it had first been settled whether our correspondence with Chili could be conducted upon a basis of mutual respect. In submitting these papers to congress for that grave and patriotic consideration which the questions involved demand, I desire to say that am of the opinion that llie demands made ol Chill by this government should be adhered to and enforced. If the dignity as well as the prestige and influence of the United Slates are not to be wholly sacri11 ceil we should protect those who 111 foreign parts display the flag or wear the colors of this government against insult, brutality and death, inflicted 111 resentment of the acts of their government and not for any fault of their own. It has been desired in every way to cultivate friendly and intimate relations with all ihe governmentH of lliis hemisphere.' We do not covel their territory: we desire their peace and prosperity

We look for 110 advantage 111 our relations with them except to increase exchange of commerce upon a basis of mutual benefit. We regret every civil contest that disturbs their peace ami paralyzes their development, and ar" always ready to give our good offices for the restoration of peace. It must, however, be understood that this government, while exercising its utmost forbearance towards weaker powers, will extend its strong and adequate protection to its citizens, to its officers and to its humblest sailor when made the victims

of wantonness and cruelty resentment not of their personal misconduct but of the official acts of their government. lion received iliat Patrick Shields, ml probably a British subject, but at the time a llrema'i of the American steamer Keweenaw, in the harbor of Valparaiso for repairs, had been subjected to personal injuries in that city largely by the police. I directed the attorney general to cause the evidence of tho officers and crew of that vessel to be taken upon its arrival in San Francisco: anil that testimony is also herewith transmitted. The brutality and even savagery of the treatment of the seamen by the Chilian police would be incredible if the evidence of Shields was not supported by.other direct testimony and by the distressing condition of the man himself when he was finally able to reach Ills vessel. The captain of the vessel says: "He came back a wreck: black from his neck to his hips lroin beating: weak and stupid, and is still 111 a kind of paralyzed condition, and has never been able to do duty since."

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A claim for reparation has been made iu behalf of this man, lor. while he was not a citizen of the United States, the doctrine held by us, as expressed in the consular regulations is "the principles which are maintained by this government in regard to the protection, as distinguished from the relief, of seamen are well settled. It is held that the oircumstance that the vessel is American, Is evidence that the seamen on board are suoli, and in every regularly documented merchant vessel the crew will llnd their protection in tho liag that covers them."

I have as yet, received no reply to our note of the :ilst instant, but in my opinion I ought not to delay longer to bring these matters to the attention of congress for such action as may txj deemed appropriate. (Signed) HKH.IAMIN*

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