The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-29
ANOTHER MESSAGE
Further CHILEAN Correspondence
Sent to Congress-
PERIERA'S POSITION STATED
Blaine Does Not Agree With Mont in Regard
TO the Proposition to Submit Mat
tiers to Arbitration.

tiers to Arbitration.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The following is
the President message transmitting ad-
ditional CHILEAN correspondence to Con-
gress:
~ transmit herewith the additional cor
respondence between this government and
the government of Chilli consisting Of the
note of Montt, Gillian minister at this cap
ital, to Blaine, dated January %, the reply
of Blaine thereto of the date of January
%, and the dispatch from Egan, our minis
ter at Santiago, transmitting the response
of Periera, Gillian minister Of foreign
affairs, to the note of Blaine of January q,
which was received by me the Goth inst.
The note of Montt to Blaine, though dated
January %, was not delivered to the state
department until after u o'clock meridian
of the 25th and not translated and it re-
celpt notified to me until late in the after
noon of that day.
THE RESPONSE OF Mr.. PERIERA
to our note of the 2lst withdraws with &C
ceptable expressions of regret the offensive
note of Malta of the 18th ultimo ana also
the request for the recall Of Egan. Treat
ment of the incident of the assault upon
the sailors of the Baltimore is so concIlla-
tory aud friendly that am of the opinion
there is good prospect of the difference
growing out of that serious affair can now
be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this
government, by the usual methods and
without special powers from Congress.
This turn In affairs is very gratifying to
me as l am sure it will be to Congress and
to our people. The general support OF the
efforts of the executive to enforce the just
right of the nation IN this matter, has
given an instructive and useful illustration
or the unity and patriotism of our people.
Should it be necessary l Will again com
munlcate with Congress upon the subject.
(Signed) BENZ. HARRISON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S, 1882.
MoNTT TO BLAINE:
LEGATION OF CHILL,
Washington, Jan. %.
"SIR-I have had the honor to receive
your note Of yesterday with an enclosure
which you are Pleased TO transmit TO me
as the instructions sent to EGAN on the day
previous. In the conferences withwhich you
have been pleased to favor me have in
formed you that Immediately after the oc-
currence of the events of October 10 at
Valparaiso, winch my government most
elHC6ISIN u6plOT6u, lu6 yuulCldl duIuOrlIl6S
Instituted an investigation necessary to
throw light upon the facts ard to detect
and punish the guilty parties. From ante
cedentS which the government Of Chilli has
been able to collect al tue very outset, it
appeared tue disorder of October 10 began
by quarrel among drunken Sailors which
assumed considerable proportions, owing
to the condition Of the locality IN which it
originated, and the police performed their
Ir1rrr nv ra- 10 N iGb
placing the persons who seemed to have
been concerned in the disorder at the dis
posal of the court. The government of
Chill has no data authorizing it to think
the quarrel due TO any dislike of the uni
form of the United States or that the po-
lice failed TO perform their duty On the
contrary it is a well demonstrated fact
that sailors get drunk when they 60 ashore
after having been on board their vessel for
long time.
THIS Is ALSO QUITE NATURAL.
'"The intoxication OF seamen and the af-
trays TO which it gives rise, although they
NAV assume serious proportions aud oc-
cason very lamentable offenses as, I'm
fortunately, was the case at Valparaiso on
the 10th of October, cannot be an insult to
the nation in whose services are the men
who have taken pratt in the disorder, al.
though they certainly do not justify the
offences committed during the disorder.
The government OF Chill could not, how
ever, form a final opinion concerning the
nature of the occurrence IN question or as
to whether the police had or had not i'm
properly participated therein. or had failed
TO perform Its duty, until the termination
Of the judicial inquiry initiated without de
lay and which was pushed forward as
speedily as compatible with the provisions
Of the law. With the obligations of col
lecting all the elements of proof that it was
possible to collect III order to throw full
light upon the matter, and with the neces.
sity OF Furnishing the perpetrators of the
outrage which had been committed anC
which had been in part suffered by person:
in the service Of a friendly nation, it wal
the desire aud duty Of the government o.
Chill to discover the truth in order TO make
its future proceedings conform thereto
and in order that the United States gov
ernment might be satisfied that nothin,
had been neglected in order
TO DO FULL JUSTICE.
''You were pleased, with your high sens
of rectitude, 10 remark to me that this pro
ceedure of the government of Chill was
correct and although you desired the iu
cial investigation might be brought to
close with as little delay as possible yo,
understood it was necessary ordinary lepa
proceedings, which are not as rapid il
Chill as in the United States, should b.
held.
~ have taken occasion at sundry times {,
inform you of what the Chilian authorize
were doing TO bring the investigation TO
close. In the criminal trial held at Val
paraiso, not only have landsmen bee
heard. but also seamen of the Baltimore
botn have been confronted with each other
reports of physicians and experts hav
called for: the opinion of the surgeon of tn
cruiser likewise has been invoked, and il
q word, nothing has been neglected tina
could tend to bring the whole truth I
light. The seamen of the Baltimore mad
their statements with the assistance of
AN INTERPRETER DESIGNATED BY THEM
SELVES,
who was an officer of the cruiser. so tina
the oath taken by the witnesses, their con
frontation with each other, the reports O
experts concerning the cause and nature O
the wounds, and a hearing granted bot
Chilians and Americans, so that all Nigh
present their complaints and charges an,
be heard in their own justification, give il
contestable authority to the trial held a
Valparaiso. Z.
''In the course OF our conferences w
sometimes considered case in which tn,
government of the United States and tina
of Chill should fail to agree when the in
VeStlgallon snoulu De terminated and tn
two governments should have formed thei
final opinion, and we agreed arbtratio
was the best means of settling the diff
Guilty, and, advancing farther in this cor
ciliatory spirit, we even formally agree
that the differences that might arise shout
be submitted to arbitration. This agree
ment 10 accept arbitration has been tn
basis of our conferences, especially tina
of the 18th instant, and no antecedent G
fact interfering herewith has come TO IN
knowledge.' On the contrary took occs
sion to inform you on January / my gov
eminent has authorized me TO conclude q