The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-26
MATrA's INSULTING NOTE
The IlI-Considered Words Which Are
Being Crammed Down Chile's Throat.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. A-FGloviag Is the
text OF the note sent on December Il by senior
Malta, then minister OF foreign Affairs, 10 the
Chilean minister IL Washington City, and
which the American government demands tnaf
the Chilean government retract-
Being acquainted with the report OF the navy
department and the message OF the president OF
the United States, dean il proper 10 tel you
that the Information upon which the SAID report
and message are founded Is erroneous ana De
Eberately untrue. Concerning the refugees,
they have never been Threatened or treated
with cruelty. nor has there been any intention
TO take them out of the legation or 70 ask tnai
they be delivered Never las the house or the
person of the plenipotentiary received any OUT
rage, IS proved By the even letters OF septem-
tenher, October and November, concerning tns
sailors OF the Baltimore There Is also no aceu-
rscy or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II what has eesn
said il Washington.
Mr. Egan sent letter on October IS, agrees
i've in design and violent IN language, as - seen
BY the copy, and BY the reply sent on October
p. Never, on the part OF this department., has
there been tolerated or initiated any prosecu-
ton. X has mainta. ned itself always In s posi-
ton which. ii It has been one OF frmness and
prudence, never has been one OF aggression. nor
VIII IL De one OF humility, no matter what may
have been diyulged in Washington City Dy
III giving q decent appearance 10 his conduct
or who may have been deceived oy erroneous
impressions. The kilograms, notss and letters
sent to you contain the truth, the whole
truth, in everything concerning these
affairs, in which the ill-will, the lam
guaee and pretensions connected with them
did not originate in this department. Mr..
Tracy and Mr.. Harrison had been led into error
respecting ourselves, our people and our gov
ernment The instructions enioining i'm
Partially and friendship have not been
observed, either in the present or the
past. II official charges have not been made
against the minister and naval officers il is be-
cause the facts, puDlic and notorious they are
in Chile and the United States, are that our con-
hdsnrial agents have been able to call attention
TO them, although the subject OF charge mas
been well founded. The requests of Balmaceds,
the concessions made TO MIN in June and
July, everything concerning the Itats, the
San Francisco, in QuinteEos, and the cable
companies proof OF this. 1t is deliberately
untrue that the American sailors were attacked
In different localities at the same time. The in
vestigarion not being finished, il is not known
yet who are the guilty persons or what ia their
numb-r. You will consider the letter o. Noyem-
Der 9, replying 10 Minister Egan, in which the
information IN mis- possession was requested,
and which he was not willing 10 give, nogwith-
standing the fact that he had said he had the
proof as TO w no were the muir erers and other
guilty parties in the affair of October 10. That
letter, and all the other recent letters, will be
published here. You ought 10 translate aud
publish the same there Qn Washington En-
deayor, in the meantime, not 10 give any credit
to anything which may be contrary TO these
statements, being sure OF their correctness as
We are here OF the right, the honor and the final
triumph OF Chile, notwithstanding the intrigues
which go at present from so low source and
threats which come from so high an authority