Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-26
UNCLE SAM RILED.
Chilli Must Make Proper Re-
dress for the Assault
Upon American Seamen in the
City of Valparaiso.

We Demand the Payment of Indemnity
in Money to the Families of Those
Fatally Injured, the Punishment of the
AssaiIants and Suitable Apology to
NEW YORK, Oct. 26--A special dis
patch to The Herald from Washington
says the president had conference Fri
day with Secretary Tracy, Attorney
General Miller and John w. Foster, Of
the state department, regarding the re-
port of Captain Schley on his investiga-
ton into the assault committed upon
American seamen in Valparaiso recently
. The Herald's correspondent says he was
informed ON the highest authority that
the government would take a strong and
aggressive position. President Harrison
was said to be the most outspoken advo-
cate of this course. 1t was in tone of
exceeding bitterness that he referred to
Chilis continued hostility to us. He
said the time had come when we must
teach the Chilian people that our pa
tience in dealing with them is exhausted.
He instanced their treatment of Minis
ter Egan.
The conference lasted for several
hours. At the close of the conference
a cable dispatch was sent to Minister
Egan at Santiago, instructing him to
communicate to the Chilian provincial
government the indignation of the gov
ernment at the assault upon the sailors
of the Baltimore. 1t further instructed
10 nd f1.Of ind ifXy IN
money to be paid to the families of the
dead sailors and to the families Of such
of the wounded as may die; second, the
arrest and punishment of the partici-
pants in the assault, and third, suita-
bic apology to the United States. The
tone of the dispatch indicates that the
administration will brook no delay n
securing a settlement of the matte.
Chilli must do what she Is asked to do,
and do it speedily. The situation is re-
garded as one of extreme gravity.
Chilli Has Done Nothing.
The sentences in the cablegram re-
ceived at the navy department about the
affray between the American and Chill
ian sailors which could not be descipher
ed Friday were translated in full Satur-
day and they were found to state that
the thirty-fve seamen who were arrest
ed proved to he sailors from the Balti-
more. The men arrested were detained
by the Gillian authorities and examined,
but as no proof of guilt could be ad-
duced against them they were dis
charged.
This confirms the statement that the
American seamen were sober and well
behaved. 1t cannot be ascertained
whether the American sailors were 4
together. but it is supposed that about
forty of them were on liberty.
The officials at the state and navy de-
partments will not say what action has
been taken in the matter, but it is un-
derstood that instructions have been
sent to Minister Egan, the United States
representative in Chill.
It is stated at the navy department
that there is a decided difference be-
tween this case and that of the Malta
tragedy at New Orleans.
The Italians who were killed there
were residents of this country or intend
ed to become so, and the United States
caused the arrest of the leaders who
participated in the affray and an invest
igation was made in the affair, but in
the case of the American sailors who
were killed and assaulted, no action
whatever has been taken, as far as can
be ascertained, by the Chilian authori-
ties, toward investigating the riot
caused by the Chilian sailors and, as
the attack was upon American sailors,
it is considered a direct insult to the
American flag.