Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-29
A Letter from the ChiIiau Minister Re-
piled to-Time of Reception.

A Letter from the ChiIiau Minister Re
piled to-Time of Reception.
A matter of some Importance i'll view of
Breckinridges resolution is the time the
letters sent to congress yesterday were re-
ceived. pereira's telegram reached the
president on the 2Gth inst, the day after
he sent his message to congress. \ letter
from Montt to Blaine written on Saturday
lest did not reach the state department
until noon of Monday, and its receipt was
not announced to the president until late
that afternoon. Pereirs's reply to the
"ultimatum" came through Minister Egan.
who had first to translate IL into English
and then into the cipher employed by the
government, which in turn had to be rem
hered into English after its receipt by
cable at Washington.
The Other correspondence.
The other correspondence >,nt to con-
greSs yesterday was letter from Montt TO
Blaine. in which the former smoothes over
Chili's part in the Valparaiso riot, but does
not justify the same, and excuses the de
lay in the judicial investigation, which
Blaine accepted as all right. but thought
1t was very slow. lie refers to conversa-
tions in which this matter of arbitration
Blaine and he agreed to arbitrate any
points in dispute. lie says that Blaine
admitted the right of Chill to demand
Egan's recall, and claims that the testi-
mony taken on board the Baltimore can
not take the place of that taken before a
| regular Judge in Valparaiso.
The offensive Malta Note.
| As to the offensive note from Malta to
| Chiliau representatives abroad, Montt
says that properly interpreted it was not
| offensive. but at any rate it was of that
! class of official documents that need not he
| taken cogniZance of by foreign govern
ment, a condition that the fact of its pub
/ licity did not change. and he refers to opin-
ions of Daniel Webster in what he claims
! were similar cases TO sustain his conten-
| tion. All through the note, however. Montt
| repudiates for Chill any purpose to act in
| IN any manner unfriendly to the United
| States.
| BIaine's Reply to Montt.
| Secretary Blaine i'll his reply dated Jan.
I 27 admits that he commended the judicial
proceedings at Valparaiso as to their ob-
ject. but calls Matta's attention to his fire.
| oueut complaints as to their slowness. AS
to arbitration he says that Months offers
were never unconditional and exact; never
reduced to writing; only informal discus
| sions of the matter, and even then MOntt
| declared that the proposal must come from
| some friendly power; IN fact the talk about
| this was always tentative and not defin-
tive Regarding Matta's note Blaine says
he never accepted what Montt said as al
all adequate as AN apology; the note was
J highly discourteous TO the president and
secretary of state. and did not admit OF
conditional or contingent apology such a
Montt offered.
/ The Question of EEan's Recall.
In reference to the proposed recall o.
Egan, Blaine says, that he admitted thai
Chill had right TO demand the same, bu
must give. reasons therefore. When tn,
United States had demanded such thine
it had always given reasons, and woulC
exact the same from Chill. When Mont
bad repeatedly referred to the subiec