The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-27
RIVAL DIPLOMATS.
SOUTH AMERICAN COMPLICATIONS.
COrsspsnd,n.. Of tAs Two s..r.iarI.s-Th,
Change Of Troat EH.sisd By Fr,lluEhuy,sn.
The Expense. Of the Trial Of the Assassin.
Current Capital New, And GOalp.


WASIiHoToN, January 26.-The Presi
dent sent to the Senate to-day, in response
to resolution Of that body, all the CORE
spondence in full In the State Department
relative to the relations Of the United States
with the Republics Of Chill and Peru. Mr.
Frelinghuysen, in his note accompanying
the message transmitting the correspond.
ence, says that nothing Of the slightest
importance has been omitted thereirom.
The communications which have been
exchanged between ex-secretaries Eyarts
and Blaine and Secretary Frelinghuysen
and the diplomatic agents Of tho Govern.
ment in Peru, Chill and Bolivia, since 1879,
will, when printed, compose several large
volumes. Much Of the information is
merely descriptive Of the movements OF the
combatants; more relates the efforts made
by this Governpent to secure a ces.
sation Of hostilities prior to the
complete overthrow Of the Peruvians,
and the smaller and much more interest.
esting part concerns the recent trouble be-
tween the Government Of the United
States and the authorities OF Chilli, relative
to the proposed annexation OF Peruvian
territory and the interference in that pro-
iect suggested by Secretary Blaine. Before
Mr.. Blaine retired from the State Depart
ment he made public SO much OF his
correspondence with our representatives at
Lima and Santiago as was necessary to
correct the false statements published at
that time in many American newspapers.
This published correspondence Is embraced
in the documents transmitted by the Pres
ident to the Senate. The most striking
feature Of the correspondence, and one
which will attract the greatest at
tention both in this country
and in Europe is the complete change Of
policy Of the administration, with respect
to the relations OF the United States to the
South American republics since Mr.. Blaine
surrendered the State Department port
folio, and Mr.. Frelinghuysen assumed the
direction Of foreign affairs. A more radi-
cal change in this instance could not have
resulted from an overthrow of the Repub-
lican party by the Democrats, than fol-,
lowed the substitution Of Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen for Mr.. Blaine as Secretary Of State.
In November last, VIM. Fl. Trescott,
most able international lawyer and skilled
in diplomacy, was intrusted by the Presi-
deRt with the mission Of promoting har-
mony between the belligerant Republics
and toperform the more important duty Of
ascertaining the precise condition Of the
relations Of the United Suites with Chill.
The letter Of instructions under date OF
December l, 1881, to Mr.. Trescott from
Secretary Blaine, together with the subse-
quent instructions Of Secretary Frelinghuy-
sen to Mr.. Trescott, revoking in part the
instructions Of the former Secretary, are
the most important documents in the cor
respondence. The mostsingular feature of
the letter is the difference in the Presidents
views rs expressed by Mr.. Blaine in Decem-
Der and by Mr.. Frelinghuysen in January.
The former Secretary represents the Presi-
dent as entertaining views quite at valance
with those reported by Frelinghuysen.