Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-18
MAY DECLARE WAR
Congress Will Promptly Back
Up the President.
INSULT ADDED TO INJURY
Commander Evans Dispatch Regarding
the Balmacedan Refugees.

He Considers the Criticism of the Gillian
Foreign Minister Offensive and I'm
worthy the Representative of q Serious
GOvernment--The Reported Withdrawal
of Matta's Impertinent Message Dis
credited in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan 1S.-The programme
and work of Congress this week will de-
pend almost entirely on the Gillian cor
respondence.
Within "a hourt of its receipt Congress
may declare war. Nearly everything de-
ponds on the tone of the Presidents let
ter of transmittal, in which, it is pre-
sumed, he will embody some recon-
mendations. So patriotic is the feeling
among members of Congress that it is
reasonable to suppose that suggestions
made by the President will be promptly
endorsed by Congress.
The correspondence, will, in it's line of
ordinary procedure, go to the Committee
on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House, but the situation of affairs has, it
is thought by many, assumed such a
grave aspect, that both Houses will prob
ably take up the correspondence and give
it immediate consideration.
The correspondence itself is said to be
of such a nature that it will serve to fan
the war-like flame that has warmed up
the patriotic feeling of Congressman. 4
member of Congress who has assisted
the President in pseparing some of it is
authority for the statement that the
Legislative branch of the Government
would declare war without delay upon
hearing the correspondence read, without
even a suggestion from the President.
The following dispatch was received by
the Secretary of the Navy last evening:
VALPARAISO, Chilli, Jan. IS
Secretary of the Navy, Washington:
The American Minister informs ME
that the CHILEAN Minister of Foreign
Affairs has changed his mind about re-
fugees now on the Yorktown, and that
they may be taken out of any merchant
vessel touching at CHILEAN port by local
authority.
arrangements had been made for all
of them to sail to-day, but this change
of base on the part of the CHILEAN Min
lister of Foreign Affairs compels me to
keep them, which crowds me very much
Shall I land them at Callao, Peru, or
Molendo, Peru? No steamers from here
go direct to neutral territory.
This unexpected act of the CHILEAN
Minister of Foreign Affairs is due, he
states, in part to my saluting the Spanish
Minister when he came /. BOARD to deliver
two refugees. I have requested the
American Minister to say to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs that am responsible
to my own government, and not to that
of Chilli in such matters, and that I con-
slider his criticism offensive and 1 will
not accept it. His action seems unworthy
of the representative of a serious govern
ment. EvANs.n
The repeated statement in VALPARAISO
dispatches that Minister Montt has been
instructed by President Montt to with
draw the offensive circular note of Senior
Malta finds no credence here. The per-
sistence of this statement is supposed
here to be inspired by the CHILEAN Gov
eminent for the purpose of influencing
public opinion in this country. 1t is to
be presumed that if Senior Montt had re-
ceived any such instructions he would
not delay, but would rather hasten to
make them known to Secretary Blaine
and the President. Certainly this Gov
eminent has no knowledge either official
or unofficial of any intention on the part
of Chilli to retreat from it's insulting atti-
tude, to say nothing of granting the
apology and indemnity which have been
demanded by the United States.