Connecticut western news., 1891-11-05
Chili'a Defiant Reply.

of state has received telegram from Min ister Egan, dated Santiago, Oct. 28, in which he gives the following as the reply of the Chilian government to the presi- dents telegram of Oct. 23 asking repara- tion for the recent murder of American sailors in the streets of Valparaiso:
 Minister of foreign affairs replies that the government of the United States formulates demands and advances threats that, without being cast back with acrimony. are not accept able nor could they be accepted in the present case or in any other of like nature. He does not doubt the sincerity, rectitude or expertness of investigation on board the Baltimore, but will recognize only the jurisdiction and authori- ty of his own country to judge and punish the guilty ill Chilian territory, He says the administrative and judicial au- thorites have been Investigating the affair; that judicial investigation under Chilian law is secret, and the time is not yet arrived to make known the result; when that time does arrive he will communicate result, although he does not recognize any other authority competent to judge criminal cases than that established by the Chiian people. Until the time arrives to disclose the result of investigation he cannot admit that the disorders in Valparaiso or the silence of his department should appear as an expression of unfriendliness toward the govern ment of tho United States, which might put in peril the friendly relations between the two countries.
 
 The instructions sent Minister Egan by Acting Secretary Wharton, of the state department, on the 23d inst, in connection with the Valparaiso affray. direct MT. Egan's attention to the fact that the board of officers selected by Captain Schley, of the United States warship Baltimore, to investigate the affair, report that the American sailors were unarmed and gave no provocation; that the assaults upon them we're by armed men, greatly supe- rior in numbers, and as the United States concluded, animated in their bloody work by hostility to these men as sailors of the United States MT. Egan was also direct ed to notice that the character of some of the wounds indicated that the public po- l lice or some of them took part in the at tack, and that other American sailors were without any apparent fault arrested and for some time held by the authorities. Mr. Wharton complained that no expres- sion of regret or of a purpose to maks searching inquiry with view to the in- stitution of proper proceedings for the punishment ot the guilty parties had been offered to tue United States. MT. Egan was instructed to inquire whether there were any qualifying facts in the posses sion of the Chilian government or any explanation to be offered. "If the facts are as reported by Captain Schley," con- cludes MT. Wharton's dispatch, "this gov ernment cannot doubt that the govern menr of Chili will offer prompt and full reparation."
 | Thinks England Will Help Them.
 The Chilians are counting, in case of trouble, upon the support of Great Britain against the United States. They have no warrant for this in any intimation from the British government, but base their hope upon the large English interests in Chili and the relative sympathy the Eng. fish have shown to the popular party. They are evidently counting upon some such support in their bravado, and 1t is this which has led them to reply to Min ister Egan in a tone which one of the cab inet tersely summed up by saying, Ut sim ply means that we may go to the devil"