The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-01-30
THE MATTA LETTER.
Full Text of an Important Piece of Cor
resp0ndence.

December 13 was brOached one of the
graYeSt issues in the case. winch is still
orcn in the shape of the Malta note to
Chiiian ministers abroad. Mr.. EGdn SAYS
in his telegram that this was sent IL the
ChllIan minister at Washington with the
sanction OF the President, was read in the
Senate and published IN all The papers.
lis text IN full is as follows:
Having read the portion OF the report Of the
secretary OF the navy and OF tn message
OF the President OF the United ~tute-, /
think proper TO in.o:m you that The
statements on which both report aud
message are based are erroneous or d"iiocratcIy
incorrect. With respect to the persons Ia whom
an asylum has been grated, they / ave never
been threatened with cruel treatment, nor has il
been sought 10 remove them from the legation.
nor has thtlr surrender been asked 1or. Never
has the house OF the person OF the plenlpoten-
iiary, now 3the tsnalug inlI>CrctiOns und deilb-
crate pToyocations, been subjected 10 any ot-
fense, is proved by the eleven notes OF sep
tembcr, october and November.
VIE respect 10 the SeAmeu OF the Baltimore
there is, uUreny er, n6 cXHCtuesS nor sincerity /
what i said at Washington. The occurrence
took place IN a bad nelghborhood otthe city, the
inulntOp of Valparaiso, and among people who
not models ct discretion and tempe -alce.
" hen The police and other force, intcrtcred aad
aimed the tUHsult there were already several
hundred people there, ami II ten
squares or more from the place where ii hud be
gun. Mr.. gan sent. on the 26th OF October, II
noIe that Was aggressive III purpose all VIII
lent III language, as l. seen by the copy and the
note written III Tep.y on rhe nth.
ON the 18th the preliminary examination ha
already been commenced; II has been delay d
owing the nOn-appeurInge OF the officers OF the
Baltimore. and owing TO undue pretcnsjons and
Tciusals OF Nh gan himself No Pr,a"catOa
has ever been accepted or initiated by this de
partment. It's attitude. hiIe 1t has ever been
one Of tirmness and prudence has never been
one of aggresstyeneSS. nor Will II ever be-
one OF humiliation. whatever may be have
been said at Washington Dy those mo are in
terested in justitying heir conduct, or who are
blinded 10y erroneous views.
he kilograms, notes and letters which have
been sent To you CoutaiE the tTuth-the whole
truth-lu connection with what has taken placc
in these matters in which iIl-wiiI and the con-
sequeut words and pretensions have arisen.
nave not einanated from this department Mr..
Tracy and Mr. Harrison have been led into cr-
Tor in respect TO our people ana government
the instructions recommending lmpaIuallty
and friendship have not been complied with.
neither now nor before.
limo official complaint has been made against
the minister Gni The naval officers IT is bccFuse
the facts. public and notorious, both in Chlll
and the United states, could not, although they
were well proved, be urged by our confidential
agents Proof OF this Is furnished by the dc
mands OF the Baltimore. and the conccs ions
made in June and July, the whole ItHta case
the San Francisco ri Quintero. and the cable
companies. The statement that the North
American seamen were attacked in various 10
caLtIes at the same time is deliberately .ncor-
rect.
AS the preliminary examination is not ye:
concluded, it is not yet known who and how
many the guilty parties are. You no doubt
hsye the note OF November 9, written in reply
10 Minister Egan, in which / request him To
furnish testimony, which lie would not gt.e, al
though he had said that he had evidence show
ing who the murderer WAS and VINO the. other
guilty parties OF Ihtn OF october were. mat all
the other notes VIII be published here. You
viii publish translation OF them In the nited
States. Deny i'll the meantime everything < that
does not agree with these statements, being as
sUrcd of their txaCtncsS as OF the
night, the dignity and the final success OF
Chilli. notwithstanding the iutrIgUcs which
proceed fIon 50 low a source. and the threats
" hich cOInn from O hign u Anlrce