Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-24
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. I'RESCOT1'S MISSION. Its Result as Viewed by
 Blaine. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY LOST. American Influence AdrOitly
 Used by Chilli. PASSED AFTER A LONG DEBATE.
PASSED AFTER A LONG DEBATE.
The Chinese Bill Goes Through
 the House.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Trescott's Instructions-Their Revocation n Grand Mistake-SO Says ex-Secretary BIaine-Other Items of Interest. WASHINGTON, March 23.-The Post to-
 morrow will publish an interview with Blaine which says the general result shown ill the
 latest phase of the Chili-Peruvian question IS
 precisely what he had predicted when the
 Prescott instructions were revoked. The ac- tion of the Chilian authorities shows that
 Peru is to be despoiled and destroyed and the
 profits divided with English bondholders and
 speculators. The Chilian Treasury depart
 ment ask bids for million tons of guano from the Peruvian beds, the cargo to be paid for in English money at ninety days. One
 half goes to Chili and one half to the English bondholders, and Chili binds herself to de- posit 50 per cent. of the proceeds of the guano in the Bank of England. Blaine further says: Prescott was expressly forbidden by Mir. Frelinghuysen to say word about this thing. Naturally enough when Chii found that the United States was sure not to inter- fere she took all she wanted. She has the very richest districts of Peru, including all
 her nitrates and all her guanos, just as she designed in the outset. Only she was not | then sure as now that the United States would permit it. When Prescott was in- structed to make no authoritative utterance, but merely be seen not heard and act the part of meek humility, Chili naturally concluded that she could the power of this ! great government as she chose and thus sought to make Prescott aid her ! design on Peru. Chili advertises guano be- ! fore the treaty is concluded on the ground of absolute conquest Blaine says this result could have been easily prevented by the Uni | ted States without war The idea of war with Chili is ridiculous. Our moral power ! could have saved the autonomy of Peru if l not preserved all her territory. In any | event the active use of our influence could l have done no harm. It would have been l honorable to make the effort even if 1t failed. | AS the result stands we have acquired the l hatred of the Peruvians to the latest genera l tion and the contempt of the Chilians, and ' have also secured the self-satisfactory chuckle ! of English spectators into whose hands the ! power of the United States has played. ! Great Britain with all her powers could not l have advanced the commercial interests of l her merchants in South America so power I fully and destroyed the interests of American 1 merchants there so completely as has been
 done by the instructions by which Prescott
  ! stallment to British interest is the 1 freight on a million tons of guano | and half the profits of it's sale in Europe, l which of itself is larger than the entire war expenditure of Chili. In conclusion Mir. Blaine says Tt would have been worth ! while to find out whether if the United States l interfered to save an American republic Great Britain would have intervened to de- stroy it. In my own judgment the policy of Great Britain will never take that direction. Certainly it will not so long as British states \ men see that the United States can do by l omission more for British interests than Great l Britain can by commission. The moral power of the United States and South America would simply have been irresistible. For American interests it was an opportunity of the century and was blindly sacrificed. l The commercial interests of this country Ill South America will not in fifty years recover what has been lost and what 1t was ln it's power to acquire. Our interests not only l totally destroyed in Chili and Peru, but our l prestige is impaired in all South America in- 1 deed in all Spanish America both contlnen- l tai and insular. The present generation will l not witness the recovery of that which has l been lost within the last ninety days General and Mrs. Grant held reception
 in the red parlor this afternoon. The at
 tendance was large of army and navy and government officials and families.
 1 Several important changes are to be made
 in the Quartermaster Generals department shortly.
 Orders for Cadet Whittaker's dismissal l from the service were issued o-day. Rear Admiral Scott on the retired list IS 1 lying very low in this city.
 l Republican Senators think Teller's name 1 will surely be sent in as Secretary of the h. l terior department before long, but that delay may be caused by the arrangement of his l succession in the Senate.
 Chairman Harris says the report that the | Naval committee agreed to recommend two | and half millions to complete monitors IS l incorrect. Another member says the recom- l mendation was reconsidered and the matter 1 is still open. Still another member admits ] that such a recommendation was agreed on.
 It is reported here tonight that the Re- publican press of Colorado teem to-day with tirades against Chaffec, and insist that Gov
 ernor Pitkin cannot afford to renominate him.
 Commandant Randall at Fort Elliott ad-
 vses Indian Commissioner Price that if the
 order to Agent Miles be carried out an In
 dian outbreak at Reno is probable. Commls-
 sioner Price says that as Congress has cut
 down the appropriation he Has to cut down
 the Indian rations.
 | The cases of the United States against
 Thomas J. Brady, ex-Senator 5. w. Dorsey,
 H. M. Vail and others, defendants in the
 Star route cases, were called i'll the criminal
 court, Judge Wylie presiding, this morning
 None of the defendants were present and
 their counsel said they were not prepared to
 go on Colonel Bliss said that the govern
 mont had waited long enough for all reason
 able purposes. The court allowed the de-
 fense until Saturday to prepare their case
 and would make their appearance peremp-
 | tory