Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-30
General Belief in Washington That
There viii be No Hos
Utilities.
Chilli Will Probably Accede to All
Reasonable Requests That
May be Made.
Foreign Affairs Committee Holds a
Special Session to Consider
the Message.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26- The cruel
war is over-at least SO everybody in
Washington thinks The new turn Of
affairs is based upon the prevailing
opinion of the truthfulness OF the cable
from Chile stating that the Malta note
and the request for Minister Egan's re-
call will be withdrawn and that re-
quest will be made for submitting the
Baltimore affair to some neutral nation
or TO the United sta es Supreme court.
No confederation has been received at
the State Department But this is not
surprising. The government of Chile
has probably not formulated its reply.
The report is supposed to be due to the
leaking Of some one of the Chilean
cabinet MIR Blaine believes the re
port to be substantially correct
a Feeling OF Relief
There was a general feeling of relief
in Washington on all hands at what
was looked upon as the beginning Of
the peaceful ending of the controversy.
There was considerable inquiry made
as 10 whether or not the dispatch was
reliable and ali details correct. Some
members were afraid that later dis
patches might modify the statements
made in the Santiago dispatch and in
the absence of official information
many Senators aud Representatives
who were seen were chary of express
ing their views on the matter The
general concensus of opinion was that
the answer submitted If authentic,
was satisfactory Go the United States
and all that could be demanded
The Demands for an Apology.
The only point mentioned in our ul-
timatum which was not covered by the
dispatch was the demand for an apol-
ogy on this point the admiss sion that
the Malta note was an error of judg
ment and the promise 81 Its withdrawal
was considered TO be in The nature of
an apology, aud, VIXEN coupled with
the expressions Of deep regret, con-
tanned in the telegram of Minister
pereira of Jan. and the notes of Min
lister Montt of Dec, 10 and Jan. 8, were
regarded as an expression of good feel
Ing on the part of Chile and perhapsall
that ought to be demanded. There
was no desire, members said, to press
the government of Chile, and they
were disposed to accept the offer as en-
irely satisfactory,
An Unlocked for Concession,
1t was generally conceded that the
proposition Co refer TO foreign arbitra-
ton or to the decision of the United
States Supreme court the entire Balti-
more incident, is a proposition which
cannot well be rejected by this Govern
ment There is one point in the dis
patch from Santiago, however, that is
somewhat mystifying to all, and that
Is, why the Chilean Government should
deem it necessary TO recede from its re-
quest for the withdrawal Of Minister
Egan, since that was not one of the
demands contained in the ultimatum Of
the United States. This is a conces-
sion which was not expected.
Before the Foreign Aniairs Committee.
The House committee on foreign
affairs held special meeting this
morning and began the discussion OF
the Chilean situation. The correspond
ence relative to the matter was pre-
sented to members in printed form and
together with the Presidents message
was laid before the committee by Chair
man Blount. The correspondence
forms a quite "A volume, and as it is
new to the committee it will be care
fully gone over and considered before
any definite action on the matter is
taken.