The record-union., 1891-10-28
Dispatch Sent by Order of the
President to Egan.
NO ROOM TO DOUBT THE MEANING
OF THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Three Men Killed in an Explosion at
Cleveland. Ohio-Extensive Prairie
Fires in Oklahoma Territory-A
Against a Catholic Priest for Boy
cOttiun.
Special to the RnconD-UN1oS.


WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-The telegram
which was sent by the Presidents order
20 Minister Egan on the Esd inst, after
-'eciting the facts OF the assault on the
6altimore's sailors and the results Of
captain Schley's investigation, says:
on viii observe that the board of Off
GERS selected by Captain Schley to inves
igate this affair report that our sailors
we're unarmed, and gave no provocation;
hat the assaults upon them were by
armed men greatly superior in numbers,
and, as we must conclude, animated in
heir bloody work by hostility to these
men as sailors of the United States. You
will also notice that the character of
some of the wounds indicate that the
public police, or some of them, took part
n the attack, and you will also observe
hat other American sailors were, with
out apparent fault. arrested and for some
time held by the authorities. The friendly
efforts of a few of the police officers to
give succor to our men furnishes the
only redeeming incident of this affair.
This cruel work, so injurious to the
United States, took place on the 10th inst,
and yet no expression of regret or of pur-
pose to make searching inquiry, with a
view of the institution Of proper pro-
ceedings for the punishment of the guilty
parties, have been, so far as | am advised,
offered to this Government.
\ on will at once bring to the attention
OF the Government of Chile the facts re-
ported to you by Captain Schley, and in
quire whether there are any qualifying
acts in the possession Of that Govern
-nent or any explanation to be offered of
the event that has SO very deeply panied
The people of the United States, not only
Oy reason of the resulting death Of some
of our sailors and the pitiless wounding
OF others, but even more as an apparent
expression of unfriendliness toward this
Government, which might put in peril
Lhe maintenance OF the amlcable relations
between the two countries. If the facts
are as reported by Captain Schley, this
Government cannot doubt that the Gov
ernment of Chile will offer prompt and
1ull reparation.
You will furnish the Foreign Office
with full paraphrase of this dispatch, and
report promptly to this Government"
THE 'THUNDERER's' OPINION OF THE
MATTER.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The Times this morn
ing returns to the Baltimore affair, and
says Minister Egan's request for an ex-
Dlanation from the Chilean Government
is natural and proper, but the expression
of indignation is a little premature. The
OK parte account from the American
point of view leaves it extremely doubt
iul whether the paid servants of the
Chilean Government are guilty, and until
America is able to prove this she has no
right to prefer demands in clustering
and threatening manner. Riots are not
unknown under the benlgnant sway of
the Washington Government. Chile
might justly recall the fact that Minister
lIgan openly enrolled himself among the
DartiSans Of the defeated pretender add
ing appreciably to the difficulty of reach
ing settlement. She might also remind
America of the New Orleans affair, for
which Italy got little satisfaction. The
Times concludes by doubling whether,
apart from the Irish, any large portion of
the Americans approves of buster toward
1. country not too kindly treated in its
troubles, and too weak for self-respect-
ing adversary to strike without the great
Ist reluctance.