Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-02-04


"AszIsoros, D. Che presidents mes
sage On The Gillian situation has been sent
70 congress.
Ihs president says be again lays the facts
o. the imbroglio with Chill before congress
n fnlhllment Of a promise made in his an
cual message that he would again address
ne national Legislature on the question, if
Chill did not soon make adequate and salts
FACTORY Response to the demands of the United
States government.
ne president says that he desires to in
form congress that the true history of the
recent exciting period in Gillian affairs shows
no act on the part of Minister Egan un-
worthy OF his position or that can be the &c
casion Of serious criticism.
Inc night OF Egan to give shelter in the
American legation to certain Balmacedan
reInqgeea has never been denied by the Gillian
aornor1tles, nor has any demand been made
Tor their surrender. There was urgent need
OF an asylum, but the correspondence shows
that Egan's request for the safe conduct of
me refugees nom the country was denied,
notwithstanding all precedents that an
acknowledged safe conduct is an incident of
asylum
The refugees had been conveyed on board
the Yorktown 70 Cailao, Peru, and this Incl
dent might be considered closed, but for the
disrespect manifested toward this govern
ment by the Close and Offensive police sur
ye1llance of the legation by the Gillian au-
thorities during most of the time the refugees
were therein This breach of the right of a
minister to freedom from espionage and re-
straint was hagrant, and the Gillian charge
that the refugees were plotting against the
government seems to the PRECEDENT, IN the
light of facts given in the correspondence, to
be incredible.
The president says the report of the Gillian
government on the attack made upon the
Baltimore sailors does not Justify q modifea-
ton Of the conclusion reached in his annual
message, that this bloody work had its origin
IN hostility to these men as sailors of the
United States, wearing the uniform of their
government. and not IN any individual act or
personal amnesty.
II am still of the opinion says the presi-
dent, that our sailors were beaten, stabbed
and killed, not for anything they or any one
OF them had done, but for what the govern
ment of the United States had done, or was
charged with having done by its civil officers
and naval commander.
'.If that be the true aspect OF the case the
injury was 70 the government of thu United
States, not to these poor sailors who were as
sanlted in q manner brutal and cowardly.''
The presidents then gives an outline Of the
legal aspect of the case; showing that the
Bal6mOre's officers and sailors were in Val
paraiso hRrbor under the orders of their gov
eminent, and were on shore by implied invi-
tation OF the governments of Chilli. Their
case was similar to that of the consul and
the fact that the latter's stay is more perna-
nent or that be holds the expres. invitation
of the local government, does not make q
distinction between their cases. Nor does Il
Affect the question that the injury was the act
of mob.
The president criticized the report of the
Judge of crimes and says it ia remarkable
that this Investigation, though so protracted
does not enable him to give q more satisfac-
tory account of the origin of the trouble than
Is found IN the statement that it began be
Wuuas n Kan alunNr
All the testimony of Americans shows the
American sailors were net drunk, and that
the trouble had its origin in q Gillian
sailor splitting In the face of an American
apprentice named Talbot, who, in company
with Riggin, the American sailor who was
shot and killed, was peacefully walking the
streets The insult to Talbot was resented
BY hggins- who Knocked the insulter down.
The president says the Gillian CORES
pondencs has not taken a formally satisfac.
tory expression Of regret, much lees Of
apology.
The president then quotes his note of tn,
list instant, stating that the United States
government held that the attack upon ths
Baltlmore's sailors had its motive in feeling
OF hostility to this government; that the
| Gillian sailors and soldiers were guilty OF
unproyoked assault upon our sailors, anC
who the president believes, killed Riggin
that the police hagrantly failed to protect ths
Amerlcansi and that the president asked TO
| suitable apology and adequate PREPARATION
| for the injury done this country.
The p esident also says that he has replieC
| to the Gillian demand that Egan be with
drawn, by stating that he would not considel
such question until it had been settleC
whether our correspondence with Chill coulC
be conducted on the basis of mutual respect
The president rays the demands made upor
the Gillian government should be adhered to
In conclusion he says: 81 have a. yet re
celTed no reply to our note of the Dist inst.
but IN my opinion / ought not to delay longe
to bring these matters to the attention o
congress for such action as may deemed ap
propriate-"
lSignedl BENJAns1,S HARR1soS.