, 1891-11-13
CHILEAN SITUATION.
Events in that Little Country
Reviewed at Length.
Natives Not So Bitter Toward
Minister Egan.
Chile May Soon Give the United
States Satisfaction.
The Chilean Situation.

NEW lOhh, INONs 81 E1coOSlhtCu
Press has received from a special CORE
spondent in Chile a series of communi-
cations covering the events since the over
throw of Balmaceda's government. deal
ing at length with matters of interest to
Americans and giving many interesting
details Of events which heretofore have
been but briefly touched upon in cable
grams. Speaking of the hostile attitude
toward the United States government,
and particularly against Minister Egan.
he says a majority of the charges are ap-
parently without foundation and arise
principally from the fact hat the Ameri-
can officials in Chile did not give moral
and physical support to revolutionists dur
ing the war.
There is hardly a foreign resident at
any port along the entire coast of Chile
who did not sympathize, to a great ex-
tent, with the cause Of the revolutioDlst5
The latter assert the United States gov
erDment at Washington was not made &C.
auainted with tile true state of affairs In
Chile. The SEIZURE of the steamer Itata
was the first incident which aroused a de-
cided ill feeling and the American naval
officers who we're in lquique at the tine
express the opinion that the revolutionists
would never have surrendered the steamer
had it not been for the presence of a
strong United States naval force. The
next thing was the cutting of the cable
limo OF the Central and South American
company near lquique.
The revolutionists refused to allow
cable messages to be sent from Valparaiso
and other points controlled by Balmaceda.
The cable was owned by an American
compenY, who applied to the United
States representatives Tor relief. Capt.
Schley OF the Baltimore, directed that the
cable be cut beyond the distance of a
marine league from the shore. The
%revolutionist' s ships Cochran and Huascar
were present. but the Baltimore was pre-
pared for any resistance they might offer.
The revolutionists made a claim that
Americans had cut the cable so Bal
maceda's spies in the northern part of
Chile could send information 10 Lima by
another cable line which was intact and
then have it resent direct from LANA to
Valparaiso over the American cable which
had been cut. Consequently during the
last days OF the war the revolutionists had
come to regard Americans. particularly
the naval representatives here, as allies OF
Balmaceda and were prepared to believe
any report which might seem to
~substantiate their views.
The most violent attacks, however,
we're made upon Admiral Brown. They
assert he brought the information of their
landing at Quintero. eighteen miles north
of Valparaiso. to Balmaceda. This story
and Admiral Browns letter in ~explana
ton have already been published in this
country. The correspondent says that
when the Admiral returned to Valparaiso
that day with his flagship San Francisco,
he sent a cipher dispatch ashore for the
navy department at Washington. The
officer who took it had to have it approved
by the a~ttendentc, and within an hour or
two alter he had filed it, Balmaceda's
troops were moving toward Quintero and
the had out extras, in which
it was published that the San Francisco
had Just arrived with the news of the
landing of the revolutlonists at Qulnte o.
The revolutionary press has been very
bitter in lite attacks on Admiral Brown
and charges are still being made against
him despite his denials that his visit to
Quintero was in the interest of Balmaceda
Much capital Is being made out OF the
TACT that tome official correspondence
between Balmsceda's ministers in August
have been found. in which it IS stated
that they are trying Ito get a neutral
vessel TO get certain information regard
ing the revolutionists. In the present
state of feeling the belief is that the
general vessel referred to is the San
Francisco.
The correspondent says there is but
little doubt, but that foreign residents In
Valparaiso are assisting in tanning the
flame against Americans. In a letter,
dated Oct. 8, a correspondent deals at
length with the matter of refugees
sheltered in the American legation at
Santiago aud the trouble arising there
from. He says Minister Egan had in
structions from Washington that the
United States would continue to give an
asylum to the refugees until the Chilean
authorities guarantee their safe removal
to some neutral territory, and further that
the United States would not permit its
minister to be harassed because of the
presence of these refugees in the legation.
Capt. Schlcy OF the Baltimore had also
received instructions from the navy de-
partment.
Regarding the arrest of persons enter
ing The legation, the correspondent says
the order was revoked after Minister Egan
had entered a strong protest, but spies
we're still watching the building. There
is ground tor the belief mat a similar plan
was resorted to in the case of the Arven
tine legation, where Balmaceda was shell
tered. aud the ex president knowing es-
cape was impossible suicided rather than
subject the minister to further RESPONSE
bilitY. There is no doubt that the Chill
cans intended that the order of %surveil-
lance and arrest should impress the refu
gees in tho American legation a feeling
That they were causing Egan trouble, and
that 1t was their duty to relieve him. A
correspondent at Santiago writes there is
little doubt that the primary cause of
revolution was caused by the fact that
Engllsh interest In nitrate properties were
threatened by Balmaceda.