St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-30
GIVING CHlLIACHANCE
The Officials at Washington
Patiently Wait for Mont
to Act.
Further Needless Delay" Is
to Be Judged Only by
Mr.. Harrison.
Equipments Of War Vessels
Being Pushed in Case
Of Necessity.
War and Navy Department
Authorities Evinee No
2 Anxiety.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Ihe feeling
in regard to Chill is more peaceful to-
day. The impression is in the air that
congress would not provide funds for a
war under the present circumstances.
There is also rumor that England has
intimated to Chill that she must make
peace with the United States and save
British interests in Chill. Secreta ry
Blame was at the cabinet meeting,
which lasted until nearly o'clock. He
had no news to give out respecting the
situation and said there was none. 1t is
quite certain that Minister Egan's alb
sence from the ceremonies attendant
upOn the Inauguration of President
MOntt was not brought ABOUT by any
order or intimation from the depart
ment of state.
The afternoon was absolutely with
out an incident that could be distorted
into relation to warlike preparation.
Secretary Blaine did not return to the
department of state after the cabinet
meeting. and Senior Montt, the CHILEAN
minister, did not make his appearance
there. No cipher dispatches came from
Minister Egan and the
Air Of Quietude
of the department strongly accentuated
the present attitude of the government
with respect to Chill as shown by the
presidents message to congress in this
paragraph:
''ThiS government is now awaiting
the results of the investigation which
has been conducted by the criminal
court OF Valparaiso. 1t is expected the
result will soon be cOmmuni-
Gated TO this government, together
with some adequate and satisfactory
response to the note by which the atten-
ton of Chill was called to this incident.
If these just expectations should be
disappointed. or further needless delay
intervene, l will, by special message,
bring this matter again to the attention
of congress for such action as may be
necessary"
Such unofficial advices as have been
received here are to the effect that the
legal authorities at Valparaiso have not
completed the revision of the formal
proceedings of Justice Foster. Just
how long those legal formalities may be
protracted before they may be regarded
as causing
'sFurther Needless Delays
is. of course, determinable only by Pres
ident Harrison, but there is reason TO
believe that there has been brought to
his attention the difficulties that sur
round President MOntt in the formation
of new cabinet, and that ne is also de-
| sirous of avoiding the appearance of en-
deavOring to interfere with the due
process of law in Chilli. if there is any
reasonable ground for the assumption
that due process is beng followed.
fNhnea on,cfHnr-aftA,,..
led him to adopt course of patient
waiting to the utmost extreme consist
ent with due regard to the dignity of
the United States, and so far as can be
learned 1t is probable that no departure
will be made from this attitude before
the reassembling of congress, unless a
further communication from the Chill
ian government should give different
aspect to the situation.
If the heads of the bureaus in the
navy department are to be believed. no
extraordinary efforts are making to put
the naval vessels in condition for active
hoStilitieS. In the construction bureau
the officers in charge say positively that
no orders have gone forward to San
francisco to hurry up the work on the
Monterey.
The TOnterey,s Equipment
III the O1UIdncG bureau lJ was
learned that the turret armOr for the
Monterey is all ready for shipment to
San Francisco at any time. Her great
guns are also ready, and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company has undertaken
to transport them across the continent.
The task is one of magnitude, as the
twelve-inch rifle without its carriage
weighs tifty-SiX tors, and the carriage
weighs twenty-five tons. Specially con-
Structed cars are necessary for the
transportation of these great masses
of metal. and much nice calculation
respecting curves, tunnels and the
strength of the many bridges between
the Washington navy yard and the Cal
lfOrnia navy yard were made to insure
the safe delivery of the guns. These
rifles are not only intrinsically valuable,
but their loss at the present time would
he serious calamity, as many months
would be coaSumec i'll the making of
guns 20 replace them.
Satisfactory progress is being made in
the production of arnor and of tOrpe-
does, but it is insisted by ordnance Off
GERS that neither armor plates nor tor
pedoeS have been or will be accepted
until they have been thoroughly tested
by the processes which have heretofore
been applied.
improved IOrpedOes.
A lot of Howell torpedoes-about
fOrty-is practically ready for use. and
the first instalment of Whitehead en-
glish pattern) torpedoeS made in the
United States will soon be delivered.
Improvements have been made in the
Howell torpedo, which is essentially an
American Invention. that will place it
in the front rank of automobile weap-
ons, and it is promised that the torpe-
does delivered to the government will
exceed the contract requirements in
speed and accuracy.
But, according TO the statements of
the naval ordnance officers, all of these
things are being done without refer
ence to immediate war, and it is said
that they are simply the satisfactory
results OF the energetic policy OF naval
rehabilitation adopted by Secretary
Tracy long ago.
In the war department matters were
very quiet. and even the Mexican front
Ter disturbance failed TO furnish an
item OF news today. Gen. SchOfieid
smiled at the war stories published in
the papers, and said that Gen. Miles
visit to Washington, Instead of being
connected with war movements was
commission of peace, for he came to
attend Miss Rachel Sherman's wedding.
& Decided Contrast.
No n no cOuid he moro radically dit