Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
ENGLISH |NTR|GUES.
The Part They Played in the
Present MiSunderstand-
Ing With Chile.
CHARGES AGAINST EGAN.
He Was Strictly Neutral When Other
Diplomats We're Partisan.
BRITISH INTERESTS AT STAKE.
A Narrative Of How the Feeling Against
This Country Arose.
ADMIRAL BROWNS OFFICIAL ACTS
CHARGES AGAINST EGAN.
BRITISH INTERESTS AT STAKE.
A Narrative of How the Feeling Against
This Country Arose.
ADMIRAL BROWNS OFFICIAL ACTS

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE ASSOCIATED
PREsS.l
VALPARAISO, CHILE, Nov. L.-During
the month which has elapsed since the over
throw of President Balmaceda and the es
tablishment of a provisional Government
by the Congressional party, the principal
excitement has been caused by the suicide
of the late President Balmaceda. The feel
ing against him was bitter in the extreme,
and there can be no doubt as to what his
fate would have been if he had been cap
tured by the opposition party.
The suicide of Balmaceda served to attract
public attention but for few days. There
is something else which is the chief subject
of interest in Valparaiso now besides the re.
construction of the government, namely.
the hostile attitude toward the United
States government, and particularly against
the official representatives of the country
here, by the party now in power and also
by the foreign residents of Chile, who
were strong supporters of the revolutionists
during the recent struggle. There is nc
doubt that there is strong feeling in Chile
against America.
Bitterness in Both North and South.
This feeling is, perhaps, stronger in
Valparaiso than at any other point, though
there are also numerous indications of it in
Iquique and other Northern ports which
were occupied by the revolutionary army a
few months ago. There is hardly foreign
resident to be found at anv port along the
Of Ia -ho or i0o
to a greater or less extent with the cause of
the revolutionists. This feeling extended
TO American residents, as well as to those
from European countries.
Several incidents occurred during the
war in which the American representatives.
were obliged to take decided action, and as
this action was against the interests of the
revolutionists the latter regarded it in the
light of hostile feeling for their cause.
The seizure of the steamer Itata was the
first incident Notwithstanding the appa-
rent willingness of the Chilean authorities
at 1quique to surrender the Itata when
the demand was made upon them by the
United States, American naval officers, who
were in Iquique at the time, express the
opinion freely that force was the only
power to which the revolutionists yielded
in connection with the affair.
Then the Cutting of the Cable.
The next thing which occurred to increase
the illfeeling against America was the cut
ting of the cable line of the Central and
South American Company, near 1quique.
The revolutionists refused to allow cable
messages to be sent from Valparaiso and
other points in the territory controlled by
Balmaceda to North America and Europe,
and to countries in South America north of
Chile.
1t was owned BY an American company,
who applied to the United States represen-
tatives for relief The work was done un-
der the supervision of Captain Schley, of
the Baltimore, who directed that the cable
should be cut beyond the distance of mar
inc league from the shore. The Cochrane
and the Huascare, two ships of the revolu-
tionist's navy, were also present at the
time but the Baltimore was fully prepared
for any resistance they might offer The
revolutionists considered this incident as
another menace on the part of the Amer
icans and they made the claim that the
Americans cut the cable so that Balmac-
eda's spies and agents in the northern part
of Chile could send information to Lima by
another cable line, which was intact, and
then have it resent direct from Lima to
Valparaiso over the American Company's
line, which had been cut.
Consequently, during the last days of the
war, the revolutionists had come to regard
Americans, particularly the naval repre-
sentatives here. as allies of Balmaceda, and
they were prepared to believe any report
which might seem to substantiate these
views. The most violent attacks, however,
which the revolutionists have. made was
upon Admiral Brown. On the day that the
revolutionary forces landed at Quintero, Is
miles north of Valparaiso, to make the final
attack upon Balmaceda, Admiral Brown
left alparaIso harbor with the flagship San
Francisco and went 10 Quintero to watch
the landing Of the troops. The San Fran
cisco steamed around Quinters for a short
time and then returned to Valparaiso. As
soon as she anchored here an officer of Ad-
miral Browns staff went ashore with dis
patch to be sent to the Navy Department at
Washington. The officer went first to the
officer of the 1ntendente to have the dis
patch approved before it could be forward
ed by cable, that being required of all mes
ssges sent from Valparaiso at that time.
How the Admiral Prayed the Spy.
Admiral Browns dispatch, which was in
cipher, was inspected by the Intendente.
who was, of course, a representative of Bal
maceda. Within an hour or two after this
occurrence Balmaceda's troops, which had
been in attendance here, were moving
toward Quintero, and there were newspaper
extras on the streets in Valparaiso in which
it wa. published that the San Francisco had
Just arrived with the news that half dozen
men-of-war and number of transports were
at Quintero, and that the revolutionists
were landing there. The details given
above are those related by the revolution
lists themselves, and also by foreign resi-
dents in Valparaiso, including several per-
sons who represent large American inter
ests here.
This version of Admiral Browns visit to
Quintero has been freely circulated in
every part of Chile, and there is no doubt
that it Is the chief cause of the present i'll
feeling toward Americans. The reyolu-
tionary press has been very bitter in its at
tacks upon Admiral Brown, and the charges
are still being made against him BY Chileans
and foreigners that his visit to Quintero was
in the interest of Balmaceda
Official Correspondence Discovered.
Considerable capital is also being made
out of the fact that some official correspond
ence, which passed between one of Balmac-
eda's Ministers and several other officials
in the Government party in the early part
of August, has been discovered, in which
the Minister referred to the fact that he is
trying to get a neutral vessel" to get cer-
tain information for him in regard to the
revolutionists. In the present state of feel
ing the belief is general that the neutral
vessel referred to is the San Francisco.
So much comment was made upon the in
cident of the trip to Quintero that shortly
before the San Francisco left here for Callao
Admiral Brown wrote a letter to United
States Minister Egan, in which he asserted
that at the time he left here for Quintero it
was generally known that the troops were
landing there: that he went simply to OBJ