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•President Harrison's Mesea^o to Congress Relating to Chili.

strong rrcscntaticn of the Case Against the South American ltepublic—History of U:e Kntire Troulilo Reviewed a

IMscussort—Reparation and Apology Demanded Front Chili—The President'*

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WASHINGTON, Jim, 25.—Not since the opening day of the session have tho gal leriea of tho IIonso beeu us crowded as they wore this morning.

At exactly 12:47 o'clock Major Prudon the President's secretary, appeared at tho door of the chamhi and announced that he bore a message from tho President. The call of States for llio introduction of bills, which

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pended, and tho Speaker directed the jlerk to report the message, which was then read, being listened to with the closest attention. It was as follows To the Sena to and House of Representatives

In my annual message delivered to Congress at the eginning of the present session, after a brief statement of the facts then in the possession of this Government, touching tho 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, I said: "This Government, is now waiting the result of an investigation which has been conducted by the Criminal Court at Valparaiso. It is reported unoilicially that ihe investigation is about completed, and It is extw'cttd that the result will soon be communicated to this Government,, together with some adoquate and satisfactory response to the note by which the attention of Chili was caiied to this incident. lf 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 bo necessary.

In my opinion the time has now come when should lay before Congress and the country the correspondence between this Government ami the Government of Chili from the time of the breaking out of •the revolution agaist, Ila.1 mured a, together

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all other facts in the possession of the Kxecutivo Department relating to this matter. The diplomatic correspondence is herewith transmitted, together with some .correspondence between the naval officers Torthe time in command in Chilian waters and the Secretary of the Navy, and also !ho evidence taken to the urn Island uavy-yard since, the arrival of the Baltimore a. San Francisco. I do not deem it accessary in this communication to attempt any full analysis of the correspond-

Mice or of iho evidence. A brief resta lenient of tho international questions inrolved and of the reasons why the responses of the Chilian government are unsatisfactory is all that 1 deem necessary.

It may be well at tho outset to say that whatever may have been said in this country or in Chili in criticism of Mr. Egan, mr minister at Santiago, the true history )f this exciting period in Chilian affairs, from the outbreak of the revolution until ihls time, discloses no act on the part of TMr.Egan unworthy of his position, or that iould justly bo the occasion of serious animadversion or criticism. He has. 1 think,

Mi the whole, borno himself, in very trying circumstances, with dignity, discretion tnd courage, and has conducted tho correspondence with ability, courtesy and fairness.

THE BIGHT OF ASYLUM.

It is worth while also, at the beginning, k) say that, the right of Mr. Egan to give iholter in the legation to certain adherents itf the Balmaceuan government-, who applied to him for asylum, has not been defied by the Chilian authorities nor has lnd demand been made for tho surrender »f these refugees, That there was urgent »eedofa9ylum is shown by Mr. Egan's •ote of August 24,1891, describing the disrders that prevailed in Santiago, and the evidence of Captain Schley as tothepilmgo and violence that prevailed at Val-

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arftiso. Tho correspondence discloses, that the request of Mr. Egan for '4 safe conduct from the, country in behalf -»I these refugees was denied. Tho precedents cited by him in the correspondence, particularly inthecaseof tho revolution fn Peru in 1S65, did not leave tho Chilian jovornment in a position to deny the right ttf asylum to political refugees, atid seemed very clearly to support Mr. Egan's contention, tliata safe conduct to neutral territory was a necessary and acknowledged incident of the asylum. These refugees have very recently, without formal safe conduct, but with the acquiescence of the Chilian authorities, been placed on board Ihe Yorktown, and are now being sonveyed to Cailao, 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 dinlug most of the period of the stay of the reiugees therein. After the date of my annual message, and up to the tune of tho transfer of the refugees to the vorluown, the legation premises seem to have been gurrounded by police in uuiiorni, and police agents or detectives in citizen's divss. who offensively addressed persons enterring or.leaving iho legation, and on one or two occasions arrested members ol the ministers lumlly, Commander Evaus. •who, by my direction, recent Iv visited .Mr.

Egan at Santiago, in bis telegram to the huvy Department, described the legation .us a "veritable prison," and .state- that the police agents or detectives w» ro, after .his ui'rival.-withdrawn during Ins stay. It -appears, further, iroin the note ot Mr. kgan of November ^!. loWl, that on one '-occasion, at least, these ponce uirents, whom he declares to be known to hiiii, inevaded the legation premises, pounding oil

Its windows and using insultnm and threatening language toward persons therein. This breach ot tho right of a ^minister to freedom trom police espionage and restraint, seems to have been so flagrant.that the Argentine minister, who was dean of the diplomatic corps, having •observed It,, felt called upon to protest against it to the Chilian Minister Kor,eign Allaire. The Chilian authorities have, as will-be observed trom the correspondence, charged the retuirees and inmates with insulting .the police, but it seems to me incredible that men whose lives were in jeopardy, and whose safety could only be secured by retirement and quietness, could have sought to provoke a icollision which could onlv end in their delU'uction, or to aggravate their condition, i)v liiiertsilying a popular leelluu. that at sow time so 'hreat.ened the legation as to :re.quire Mr. Kgan to appeal to the .Minister of Foreign Allans. lint, the most serious incident, disclosed vby the correspondence, is that of the attack upon the sailors of the Haiti more, in the streets of Valparaiso on the th of October last. In my annual message, speakinff upon the information then in my posf- tension, I said: "'So far as I have yet been v, able to learn, no other explanation ol this bloody work has Iven suggested than that, TO:-It

had its origin in hostility to these men as sailors of the United Mates wearing the uniform of their government, audnotln pj.any individual act or personal animosity."

We have now received from tho Chilian «6 government an abstract ol the conclusions of the lit'-al gensiai upon this testimouj ta-

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ken by the jndgoof crimcs in an Inrostlg.it. on which 'was made to ext««d over nearly tiiice mouths. I very much regret to bo compelled to say that this roportdocs not enable mo to modify the conclusion announced in my annual message. 1 am still of the opinion that our sailors were assaulted, beaten,stabbed and killed, not for any thing, they, or any of them had done, but for what the Government of the United States had done, or was charged with having done, by its civil oliicers and naval commanders. If that be tho true aspcct of the case, the injury was to the United States, not to these poor sailors who were assaulted in a manner so brutal and so cowardly.

The President then reviews tho legal aspects of the crime, and then discusses the crime itsself, in detail. Hesays:

On the ltttof October last Captain Schley commanding the United States steamship Baltimore, gave shore leave to 117 petty otlicers and sailors of his ship. These men left the ship about 1:30 p. m. No incident of violence occurred none of our men was arrested, no complaint was lodged against them, nor did any collision or outbreak occur until 6 p.m. Captain Schley states that he was the lirst on shore and was on the streets of the city until 5:30 o'clock, that he met very many of his men who were up on leave that they were sober and were conducting themselves with propriety saluting Chilian and other officers as they met them. Other ofticcrsof the ship and Captain Jenkins, of the merchantship Keweenaw, corroborate Captain Schley as to the general sobriety and good behavior of our men. The Sisiersof Charity at the hospital, to which our wounded men were ta ken, when inquired of stated thoy were sober when received. If the situation had been otherwise we must believe that the Chilian police authorities would have made arrests. About 6 p. m. the assault began, and it is rcmarkaple that the investigation by tho judge of crimes, though so protracted, 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 the precise cause of the riot. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Matta, in his telegram to Mr. Montt., under date of Deember 31, states that the quarrel began between two sailors in a tavern, and was continued in the street, persons who were passing joining in it. The testimony of Talbott, an apprentice, who was with Kigin. is that the outbreak in which they were involved began by a Chilian sailor spitting in tho face of Talbott. which was resented by a knockdown. It appears that Kiggin and Talbott were at the time unacompanied by any other of their shipmates.

Kectirring to the evidence of our railors. I think it, 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 fiscal-general shows that the evidence of tho Chilian officials and others was in conflict as to the place of origin. several places being named by different witnesses as the locality where the first, outbreak occurred. This, if correctly reported, shows that there were several distinct outbreaks, and so nearly at tho same time as to cause thisconfusion.

The La Patria. in the samo issue from which I have already quoted, after describing the killing of lliggin, and the fight which at that point, extended to the Mole, says: At the same time in other streets of the port the Yankee sailors fought fiercely with t'hc people of the town, who believed they saw in them incarnate enemies of the Chilian navy." The testimony of Captain .lenkins, of "the American merchant ship Keweenaw, 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 the testimony of our sailors, when he says that he saw the Chilian sentries drive back a seaman seeking shelter from a mob that was pursuing him. The officers and men of Capt. en kin's ship furnish the most conclusive testimony as to the indignities which were practiced toward Americans iu Valparaiso. When America sailers, even to the merchant ships, can only secure their safty by denying their nationality, it must be time to readjust our relations with a government that permits such demonstrations.

THE DEATH OK K5GG1N.

As to the participation of the police, the evidence of our sailors show that, our men were struck and beaten by police officers 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 Riggin was tho result of a ril'e shot fired by a policeman or soldier on dit.y is shown directly by the testimony of Johnson, in whose arms he was at the time, and by the evidence of Chas. 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 upon any par ticular person, but avow their inability to ascertain who lired it. further that it, was tired from 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 rifle ball.the the orifice of exit being as much as an inch or an inch and a quarter in width. When shot the poor fellow was nncon sc.ious and in the arms of a comrade, who was endeavoring to carry him to a neighboring drugstore 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: in fact, Riggin was not behind but in front, of the advancing force, and was not. standing in tho crowd, but was unconscious and supported in tho arms of Johnson when he was shot.

These two men were, immediately beset by a crowd of Chilian citizens and sailors, throueb which they broke their way to a si reel car and entered it for safety. They v.-ere pursued, driven iroin the car. and Itiggin was so soriouslv beaten that he. I11 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 front (.Julian .sources that almost instantly, wit.li a suddenness that, strongly implies me.litation and reparation, a mob, stated by the police authorities at one time to number 'i.(KM), and another l,0f)(, was engaged in the assault upon our sailors, who an-represented us resisting "with stones, clubs and bright, arms. The report of the intendenfe of October 30 states that the fight began at ti p. in. In three streets which ate named, that, information was received at the intendencia at (5:15 and that, th* police arrived at the scene at 6:30. lull half-hour after the assault began. At that time lie says that, a mob of !i,000 men had collected, and that, for several squares there was tho appearance of a "real battlelield."

The scene at this point is very graphically set before us by the Chilian testimony. The American sailors, who after so lonp 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, fleeing lor their lives, pursued by overwhelming numbers, and fighting only to aid thoirown escape from death or to succor some man whose life is in greater ncril. 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 bv missile thrown by one of our men or by some, of Ins fellow rioters, is unascertained.

Tne pretense that our men were fighting "wish stones, clubs and bright arms," in view of these facts, is incrediblo. Ft. further refuted by the fact that our sailors, I when searched were absolutely without, arms, only seven penknives baing found in

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thetrpossession. Tlic evidcncoo/ t.Tir sTiip's oiiioerof ho day is that oven the jackknives of tho men men wero taken from thetn before leaving the ship. As to tho brutal naturo of Ihe treatment received by our men, tho following extract from the account given of tho attair by La Patria newspaper of Valparaiso of Octobor 17, can not be regarded as grandly:

Tho Yankees, as soon as tholr pursuers gavo chase, went by way of the Callo del Arsenal toward the city car station. In the presence of an ordinary number of citizens, among whom wero some sailors,tho 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 tho North Americans had saved themselves from popular fury but such was not the case. Scarcely had the car begun to move before a crowd gathered around to stop 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 told them to get out. At the iustant tho sailors left the car in the midst of a hail of stones, the conductor receiving a stone blow on the head. One of the Ynnkee sailors managed to escape in the direction of the Piasa Height, but the other was felled to the ground by a stone. Managing to raiso himself from the ground where he lay he staggered in tho opposite direction from the station. In frout of the house of Senator Mazzim ho was again wounded, falling senseless and breathless.

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 tho American sailors arrested, after an examination, were, during the four days following their arrest every one discharged, no charge of any breach of tho peace or other criminal conduct having beeu sustained against a single one of them,

OUR MEN CLEARLY BLAMELESS. Tho judge of crimes, Foster, in a note to tho Indentendo under date of Oct. 22, beforo the dispatch from this Government the following day, which arousod tho authorities of Chili to a better sense of the gravity of the affair, says: "Having presided temporarily over this court.in regard to the seamen of tho United States cruiser Baltimore, men who bad been tried on account of deplorable conduct which took place," etc. The noticeable points here are that every sailor had been tried before the 22d of October, and that the trial risulte din their acquittal and return to their vessel. It is quite remarkable, and quite characteristic of the management of this affair by tho Chilian police authorities, that we should now bo advised that seaman Davidson, of the Baltimore, had been included in tho indictment, his offense being, so far as 1 have been able to ascertain,, that he attempted to defend a shipmate against an assailant who was striking him with a knife. The perfect vindication of our men is furnished by this report onn only is found to have been guilty of criminal fault, and that for an actclearl? justifiable. As to the part taken by the polic .' in the affair, the case made by Chili is also far from satisfactory. Whero Riggin was killed is only three minutes walk from the police station,and yet according to their official report a full half hcurelapsed after th& assault began before tho police were upon JO ground. It has been stated that all but two of our men have said that tho polica did their duty. The evidence taken at Mare Island »hows that if such a statement was procured from our men it was accomplished by requiring them to sign a writing in a language that they did not understand and by the representation that it. was a mere declaration that they had taken no part iu the disturbance. Lieut. McC-rea, who acted as interpreter, says in his evidence that when our sailors were examined beforo tho court, the subject of the conduct of the police was so carefully avoided that he reported the fact to Captain Schley on his return to the vessel.

The evidences of the existence of an animosity toward our sailors in the minds of the sailors of the Chilian navy, and of the populace of Valparaiso was so abundant, various as to leave nodoubt in the mind of any one who will examine the papers submitted. It manifested itself by insulting slurs toward our men as they passed the Chilian man-of-war in their boats and in the derisive and abusive epithets with which they greeted every appearance of an American sailor on the evening of the riot. Captain Schley reports that boats from the Chilian war-ships several times went out of their course to cross the bows of his boats, compelling them to back water. He comp ained of the discourtesy audit was corrected.

The President then refers at length to the correspondence between the two nations, and says:

On the 21st inst.. I cansed to be communicated to the government of Chili, by the American minister at Santiago, the conclusion of this Government after a full consideration of all the evidence and of every suggestion affecting this matter, and to those conclusions I adhere. They are stated as follows:

WHAT 18 DEMANDED OP CHILI. 1. 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 navy, having its origin and motive in a feeling of hostility to this Government. and not iu any act of the sailors or of any of them.

That the public authorities of Valparaiso flagrantly failed in their duty to protect, our men, and that some of the police, and Chilian soldiers and sailors were themselves guilty of unprovoked assaults upon our sailors before and after arrest. He I the President] thinks the preponderance of evidence and tho inherent probabilities lead to the conclusion hat Riggin was killed by the police and soldiers. 3. That he [the President] is therefore compelled t,o bring the case back to tho position taken by this Government on tho note, of Mr Wharton of October last,, and to ask for a suitable apology and for some iidequate reparation for the injury done to this Government.

In tho same note the attention of the Chilian Government was called to tho offensive character of a note addressed by Mr. Matta. the Minister of Foreign Allan's, to Mr. Montt, its minister at this capital, on the 11th ult. This dispatch was not officially communicated to this Government, but, as Mr. Montt was directed translate and give it to the press of this country, it seems to me that it could not pass without oHicial notice. It was notouly undiplomatic, but grossly insulting to our naval officers and to the Executive Department, as it directly imputed untruth and insincerity as to reports to the naval officers and the official communications made by tho Executive Department to Congress. It will be observed that I have notified tho Chilian Government that unless this note is at once withdrawn aiui an apology as public as the offense made, 1 will terminate diplomatic relations

The request for the recall of Mr. Egan non the ground that, he was not persona grata, was unaccompanied by any suggestion that could be properly used in supuort of it, and 1 infer that the request is basod upon official acts ot Mr. Egan, which have received the approval of this Government. Hut however that may be, I could notconsent to consider such a question until it had first been settled whether our correspondence with Chili could bo conducted on a basis of mutual respect.

THE PKESIDENT'S CONCLUSION. In submitting these papers to Congress, for that grave and. patriotic consideration, which the questions involved demand, 1 desire to say that I am of the opinion that the demands made ofijhili by tins Government should bo adhered to and enforced.

bo wholly sncrfflscd tre mnsl protect those who in foroign ports display the flag or woar tho colors of tli is Govern meat., against tho insults, brutality and death, inflicted in resentment of the acts of their government, and not for any fault of thoir own. It has been my dosire in every way to cultivate friendly and intimate relations with all the governments of this hemisphere. We do not covet their territory wo desire their prosperity. Wo look for no advantages in our re.ations with them, except the increased exchanges of commerce upon a basis of mutual benelt. Wo regret every civil cont(St that disturbs their pf aco and para'yzes their devolopement., and are always ready to give our officer for the restoration of peace. It must., ho.vever, be understood that this Government while exercisiug the utmost forbearauce toward 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 in resentment, not of their personal conduct, but of tho official acts of their government.

Upon information received that Patrick Shields, an Irishman, and proably a British subject, but at the time a fireman of the American steamer Keweenaw, in tho harbor of Valparaiso for repairs, had been subjected to personal injuries in that city largely by the polico, I directed the At-torney-General to cause the evidence of tho officers and crow of that vossel to be taken upon its arrival in San Francisco and that testimony, also, is herewith transmitted. The brutality and oven savagery ol the treatment of theso these poor men by tho Chilian police would be incredible if the evidence of Shields was not, supported by other direct testimony, and by the distressing condition of tho man himself when he was finally able to reach his vessel. The captain of tho vessel says: "He came back a wreck black from his neck to his hips, from beating, weak and stupid, and is still in a kind of paralysis and has never been able to do duty since."

A claim for reparation has been made in behalf of this man, for. while he was not a citizen of tho United States, the doctrine so long 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 circ.nmstanco that, the vessol is American is evidence that tho seamen on board aro such, and In every regularly documented merchant vessel tho crew will find their protection in the flag that covers them."

I have as yet received no reply to our note of the 21st inst., but in my opinion I ought not to delay longer to bring these matters to the attention of Congress for such action as may be deemed appropriate.

BENJAMIN HAKRISOX.

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ASHING TON, D. C. Jan. 25.—The correspondence accompanying tho President's message is of great volume, and would till moro than 100 columns of an ordinary newspaper. It dates back as far as August 15, 1890, eighteen ^months ago, and much of it has been described with sufficient accuracy ill the President's message sent to Congress at tho beginning of tho present session, and the copious newspaper publications, that have been made. It is divided into three portions—the first comprising correspondence between Mr. Blaine and Mr. Egan: sccond. tho correspondence with Senor Lassecano* tho Chilian minister under the Balmacoda administration, and lastly, notes exchanged between Secretary Blaino and Dom Pedro Montt, the present Chilian minister to Washington. The Egan correspondence begins August 15,1890, with the statement of the changes in the Balmacedaministry, which constituted a precourser to the revolution. Many chapters of this correspondence aro now ancient history, and therefore of little Interest at the present juncture. The one fact thatls established is that Minister Egan had an abiding faith up to the last moment in the ultimate triumph of Balmaceda over his enemies and the downfall of the insurgent cause. Tn a half dozen tidispatches Mr. Egan tolls the well-known story of tho downfall of the Balmaceda government, describing tho scenes consequent upon the capture of Valparaiso and Santiago, and announced that he has in asylum eighty refugees, including the wife of Balmaceda. Tho agitation of tho subject of the right of asylum led to along correspondence between the representatives of tho two governments, and while it was in iprogress, on October 16, the Baltimore tragedy occurred, and was reported ^n the 18th by Mr. Egan to the State Department. On the next day he wrote: "So far Captain Schley has not ascertained tho cause that led to the disturbance, but the general impression is that the at tack was unprovoked. Some weeks ago an attack was made upon a number of the sailors of one of the Germau ships of war, resulting in tho killing of one of the Germans, and it was understood that the attack was made because tho Chilians mistook the Germans for United States sailors." When the facts regarding the assault became known Acting Secretary Wharton instructed Minister Egan to ask for reparation. Mr. Egan sent, a telegram October 2S, which, has already been published, summarizing the reply made by Minister Matta to his presentation of the case, in the course of which Mie minister says that the United States "formulates demands and adyances threats that, without being cast back with acrimony, are not acceptable, nor can they be acceptable in the present case nor in any other of^ike nature."

Then follows at, great length all the correspondence, letters, telegrams, and evidence regarding the outrage on tho Baltimore's sailors and the placing of spies and police about the American legation.

On December 16 was broached one of tho gravest issues iu the ease, in the circular letter of Matta to the United States Chilian minister, which was as follows: "Having read the portion of the report of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the President of the United Statos. I think proper to inform you that tho statements on which both report and message are based are erroneous or deliberately incorrect. With respect to the persons to whom an asylum has been granted, they have never "been threatened with cruel treat ment, nor has it bean sought to remove them from the legation, nor has their surrender been asked for. Never has the house or the person of the plenipotentiary, notwithstanding indiscretions and deliberate provocations, been subjected to any offense, as is proved by tho eleven notes of September, October and November.

With respect to the seamen of tho Baltimore there is moreover, no exactness or cincerity in what is said at Washington. The oocuranco took place in a bad neighborhood of this city, the maintop of Valparaiso, and among people who are not models of discretion and tempeianec. When the polico and other force interfered and calmed tho [tumult there wero already several hundred people on tho gronnn. and it was ten squares or more from the plac» whore it had begun. Mr. Egan sent, on the 26th of October, a note that was aggressive in purpose and virulent in language, as !s seen by the copy and the note written in reply oi« the 27th.

If the dignity, as well as tho presligo and has over been accepted or initiated bv influence of tho United States aro not to this department, its attitude, while it

On tho 18t,h the preliminary examination had already been commenced. It has been delayed owing to tho non-appear-ance of tlio officers of tho Baltimore and owing to the undno pretentions and refusals o?Mr. Egau himself. No provocation

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has ever been oito of fir-nncss and pmdencc, has never Seen one ft' aga!'^s"iveness, nor will ',it ever-bo on •. of hu iiilation, whatever ma,y ooormav haw neau at Vvashinviio by those wh are iiiteresfced in justifying tho.r conduct or who are blinded byerro.ious views. "The telegrams, nofosand letters '.vhich have been sent, to you contain the truth tho whole truth—in connect,o:i with what has taken placo in theso matt 'i s, in which ill will and the consequent words and pretentions have not emanated from this department.. Mr. Tra?y and Mr. Harrison nave been led into error in respect, to our people and government,. The instructions recommending impartiality and friendship have not beeu complied with, neither now nor before. "If no official complaint has l»een made againsttho minister and the naval officers it is because the fact*, public and notorious both iu Chili and the United State', could not. although they were well proved, be urged by our contidential agents. Piool of this i3 furnished by the demands of tho Baltimoro. and tho concessions made in Juno and July, the whole ltata case, the San Francisco at Quinter and tho cable companies. The statement that the North American seamen wore attacked in various localities at tho samo time is deliberately incorrect. "As the preliminary examination ,3 not concluded, it is not yet known who and how many the guilty parties are. You, no doubt, have thu note of November 9, written in reply ti Minister Egan. in which I re juestHl him to furnish testimony which h"1. would not give, although ha had said that ho had evidence showing who tho murderer waa and who tho other guilty parties of the ltith of October were. All tli? other notes will ba published here. You will publish translation of them in tho United States. Deny in tho meantime, everything thai does"not agree with these stat -mmis. Wii feel confident of their exactness, as we do of the right, the dignity and the final

On January IS Minister Egan transmitted an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which the latter said that tho Chilian minister at Washington had been instructed to express regret for all that, might create unpleasantness between the two governments, and asked what tho United States desired in the premises. To this Mr. Blaine replied that his Government desired tho immediate withdrawal by President Montt of every utterance of a discourteous character. To this Chili promised an answer as early as possible.

The third part of tho correspondence relates to tho troubles about the ltata,and further messages between the representatives of the two governments.

January 20 Mr. Egan reports by telegraph that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has not yet returned an answer in tho matter of withdrawing Mr. Matta's telegram of December 13, and on January 21 telegraphs that the Minister of Foreign Affairs promised him in tlio course of an interview ho had with him on the ISth, in the matter of having Malta's telegram of the 11th of December withdrawn to consult with his colleagues of the Cabinet and return his reply in another interview specially appointed. Hesays the promise has not yet been discharged, and that the answer isstill withheld. Ho asks whetl er the telegram was withdrawn in Washington in terms entirely satisfactory to President Harrison and Mr. Blaino.

OUR GOVERNMENT'S ULTIMATUM. On tho 21st of January. Secretary Blaine telegraphed to Minister Egan as follows: "1 am directed by tho President to say to you that ho has given careful attention to all that has been submitted by the Government of Chili, touching tho afia of the assault upon the crew of the U. d. S. Baltimoro,in tho city of (Valparaiso, ou the evening of the 16th of Octobor last to the evidence of the officers and crew of vessel, ami of some others who witnessed the affray, and that his conclusions upon the whole case arc as follow: 1. That the assault is not relieved of the aspect which the early information of tlie event gave to it, viz.: That of an attack upon the uniform of tho United States navy, having the origin and motivo Iu a feeling of hostility to this Government, and not on any act of the sailors or of any of them. 2. That the public authorities of Valparaiso llagrantly failed in theirdutv to protect our men, and that some of the police and somo of the Chilian soldiers and sailors were themselves guilty of unprovoked assault upon our sailors before and after arrest. He thinks tho preponderance of the evidenco and the inheront, probabilities lead to the conclusion that

killed by the police or soldiers. 3. That ho Is thcrororo compelled to bring the case back to the position taken by this Government in tho note of Mr. Wharton of October -3 last, and to ask for a suitable apology and for some adequate reparation for the injury done to this Government,

You will assure the government of Chill that the President has no disposition to be exacting or to ask anything which this Government would not under the samo circumstances freely concede. He regrets that from the beginning the gravity of the questions linvolved have not apparently been appreciated by the government of Chili, and than an affair in which two American seamen were killed and sixteen others seriously woun led, while only one Chilian was seriously hurt, should not be distinguished from an ordinary brawl between sailois in which the provocation is wholly personal and tho participation limited. No selfrespecting government can consent that persons In its service, whether civil or military, shall be beaton or killed in a foreign territory in resentment of acts done by or imputed to their government, without exacting a suitable reparation. The Government of tho United States has freely recognized this principle, and acted upon it, when tho in ry was donoby its people to one oldi an official relation to a friendly power in resentmontof acts done by tho latter. Tn such casT tho United States has not sought for words of tho smallest value or of equivocal meaning in which to convey its apology, but lias condemned such acts in vigorous terms, and has not refused to make] other adoquat-J roparst

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cess of Chili, notwithstanding the iutrigu 'S which proceed from so low a source, a id tho threats which coaio from so high a sourcc."

December 17, Mr. Egan ceased to hava diplomatic relations with tho Chilian foreign office, and on January 1 notified the State Department that the new ministry, presumably friendly to tho United States, had been installed in o.'tlce. In answer to this Mr. Blaine s.mt the following telegram: "Mr. Blaine asks whether all that i! personally offensive to tho President and other otlicers of tho United States in tin* December circular of the lata Minister ol Foreign Affairs, will be withdrawn by tho new government. also, whether a safi conduct will be granted to the refugees who are still at the legation and finally, whether all surveillance of tho legation has been removed."

January 11, Mr. Egan announced that he placed two of the refugees on board the cruiser, and that there were five re« maining in the asylum. The next day ha sent the following telegram: •'Mr. Egan reports that ho had a convert sation with the Minister of Foreign AN fairs on this day, in the course of which he secured for ail tho refugees permission to leave the legation, and was assured verbally that no harm would bo done them, but could not obtain a written safe conduct that on the lirst question he could only receive a promise for as early a reply as possible, the absence of the President Jin Valparaiso making it impossible for him to answer at, once, and that the legation is now entirely free from espionage."

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