Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-04
READY TO RECOGNIZE.
The State Department Receives the
Chilean Junta ENJOYS.
HISTORIC PRECEDENTS FOLLOWED,
Balmaceda Is Said to Be Making His Way
Toward San Francisco.
MINISTER EGAN RECEIVES AN INSULT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. - Admiral
Browns cable dispatch to the Navy De-
partment, received this morning, announc-
ing the complete success of f'the Junta, was
communicated Immediately to Mr.. Whar-
ton, the Acting Secretary of State. While
Admiral Brown is not diplomatic repre-
sentative of the Government, his statement
or facts is taken as an addition to the Off
cial information before the Department of
State, to the effect that Balmaceda's s Gov
eminent is a thing of the past and that a
new regime has been established.
The requirements of diplomatic practice
have been so far met that it is probable that
the Department of State will now. proceed
to take official cognizance of the state of
affairs in Chile as modified by Balmaceda's
resignation and the victory of the Congress
sional party. At the department it is said
that there had been no undue delay in ac-
cording recognition when proper to bestow it.
FOLLOWING A SETTLED POLICY.
The settled policy of this Government
has been to avoid the encouragement or
premature recognition of revolutionary
movements, particularly in the case of the
unsettled republics of the American hem
isphere; and in the exceptional cases in
which departures have been made from that
practice the result has not always been sat-
isfactory. So in the case of the Chilean
Congressional movement the Depart
ment of State has confined itself,
the officials say, to strict observance of the
practice of this Government as fixed by
many precedents, and has awaited the re-
ceipt of the official information necessary to
lals To Ern hou o1h hnf fhn
Congressionalists have succeeded in secur-
ing absolute domain over Chile. The requi-
site information is now probably before the
department., and the nextstep is recognition.
Several cable dispatches have been sent to
Minister Egan, and there is reason to be-
lieve that when he is satisfied that
Government (even though it be temporary
Chile he will Immediately open official
intercourse with that Government. This
step, 1t is said Mt the Department, is equiva-
lent to accrediting Minister to the new
Government, and as soon as such new Gov
ernment officially notifies the Department
of State that it has authorized its special
United States, Dr. Montt and his colleagues
State.
SETTING UP A GOVERNMENT
The Chilean Congressional ENJOYS in this
city have received information which shows
that the two members of the Junta who left
Iquique Sunday have arrived at Valparaiso.
These two members are Waldo Silva, the
Vice President of the Senate, and Ramon
Baros Luco, the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. Senior Montt, the Commander
in Chief of the Navy. the other member of
the Junta, was already at Valparaiso. These
three gentlemen will now go to Santiago
where they will Ike steps for the reorgani-
Zation of the Government. in accordance
with the changed condition of affairs.
Senior Montt, the principal Congressional
envoy here, has received q dispatch, dated
Messrs. Silva and Luco, in which they say
that General Baquedano Ito whom Presf-
dent Balmaceda surrendered the Govern
ment when he left Santiago) had given up
the command. The re-establfshment of the
Constitution and the laws has been cele-
brated with indescribable enthusiasm.
BALMACEDA BOUND FOB FRISCO.
special dispatch from the City of Mexico
says the Anglo-AnsericGn stat es prominent
of st. Louis who is well known
the following dispatch in cipher:
"'vALPARAIso, Sept. g.
president Balmaceda is aboard the Con-
dell and expects to disembark in San Fran
CISCO However if he be pushed by the in
If he does extend all possible courtesies."
A letter from an officer-on an English war
ship at Valparaiso asserts that Balmaceda
insulted and Quarreled with the American
Patrick Egan, and the French
that the latter refused to accept
an apology, but that Minister Egan renewed
his relations with the Government under
threats from Senior Godoy that if Mr.. Egan
gave Balmaceda trouble they would send
him aboard an English warship.