Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-01-28

drunkenness. a charge denied by him,
kept for several days In Jail without
process of law forced TO sweep the
streets and brutally beaten by police
officers. The consul said that he had
been medically examined and found to
be in IL serious condition and that the
iocai,authorities had teen demonstrated
against. :.
The statement of Shields, the Kes-
wana sailor, to Surgeon White and the
report of the chief of police OF Vaipar-
also to Consul McCreery are included III
the correspondence and confirm the truth
of this statement. In Mr.. Egan's dis
patch later all the documents in the case,
which are set out in full in the cores
pondence. were transmitted TO Senior
Malta by Mr.. Egan, in connection with
Shields claim for $1,000 damages. The
following upon the question OF Shields
citizenship are Suggestive:
VALPARAISO, Nov. 90.
In the case Of Patrick Shields, of the
keewana, who makes a claim against the
government of Chile for injuries claimed
so have been received at the hands of the
police of this city, l desire to state that
the crew list of the steamship shows that
he was born in Ireland, and is subject of
Great Britain. WILLIAM McCREERY,
United States Consul
SANTIAGO. Nov. %.
SIR-Replying to your communication
OF the 20th inst, in reference to the case OF
Patrick Shields, of the United States
steamship keewana, beg to refer you to
paragraphs 10 and III of consular in
structions, in the latter of which you will
find the following: 1.-THE principles which
are maintained by this government in re-
gard to the protection as distinguished
| from the relief of seamen are well
settled 1t is held that the circum-
stance that the vessel is American
. is evidence that the seamen on board
are snch, and in every regularly docu-
/ mented merchant vessel the crew will find
their protection in the flag that covers
them. Shields is therefore in this case
and also in the matter of relief, he hav-
| ing shipped in port Of the United States,
entitled to the same pr >tection as If he
were United States citizen.
| PATRICK EGAN."
| On the same day, Nov. Z, Mr.. Egan
reported public meeting called to de-
nounce the United States legation and
to request the delivery of the refugees
This was due to attacks in the press.
The government sent squadron of cav
airy to protect the legation. This meet
ing was called by a proclamation which
charged that the refugees in the legation
had conspired to kill Colonel Canto.
After the meeting the intendente issued
a proclamation denying the existence of
| the conspiracy, proclamation which,
Mr. Egan said, would have been much
more valuable before the meeting. OF
this incident Senior Malta wrote to MIR.
Egan that 1.-The government does not
alarm itself, however it may disapprove
the misdemeanors of speech, spoken and
written, which, as has been observed by
the honorable minister plenipotentiary
were not borne out by the results"
ChiIe's InsoIent Attitude.
Senor Matta's reply Oct. 81 said that
the government of the United States
formulateds demands and advanced
threats that. without being cast back
| with acrimony, We're not acceptable, nor
could they be accepted in that case or
any other of like nature. He did not
doubt the sincerity, rectitude or earnest
ness of the investigation on board the
Baltimore, but would recognize only the
jurisdiction and majority of his own
country to judge and punish the guilty
on Chilean territory. He said the ad-
ministrative and judicial authorities
tAelN DCth illS hilc-ll. thdo
the judicial investigation under Chilean
law is secret and the time has not yet
arrived to make known the result; when
that time did arrive he would communi-
cate the result, although he did not rec
ognize any other authority competent to
judge criminal cases than that estab-
lished by the Chilean people. Until the
time arrived to disclose the result of the
investigation he would not admit that
the disorders in Valparaiso or the silence
of his department should appear as an
expression of unfriendliness toward the
government of the United States which
might put in peril the friendly relations
between the two countries.
, Minister Matta's Note.
On Dec. 13 Mr.. Egan telegraphed the
state department as follows: The fol-
: lowing telegram from minister of for
eign relations, sent Chilean minister,
Washington, with sanction of president,
; was read in senate aud published in pa
: pers today:
; Senior Pedro Montt, Washington:
Having read the portion of the report OF
the secretary of the navy and of the mes
sage of the president of the United States
1 think proper to inform you that the
statements on which both report and mes
I sage dTe DdStu dEe tFEOHeUttS OT uetlU6T.
ately incorrect.
With respect to the persons to whom an
asylum has been granted, they have never
. been threatened with cruel treatment nor
! has it been sought to remove them from
. the legation. nor has their surrender been
: asked for Never has the house or the
. person of the pleripotentiary, notwith
standing indiscretions and deliberate
, provocations, been subjected to any Of
. fense, as is proved by the notes of Septem
ber, October and November. With respect
to the seamen of the Baltimore there is
, moreover, NO eXactness nor sincerity il
/, what is said at Washington. The occur
renee took place in a bad neighborhood ot
the city, the maintop of Valparaiso. and
among people who are not models OF
discretion and temperance. When thu
i police and other forces interfered anG
= calmed the tumult there were already
several hundred people on the ground ant
| it was ten squares or more from the place
: where it begun.
Mr.. Tracy and Mr.. Harrison have been lee
=. into error in respect to our reople and oul
+ government. Their instructions recon-
+ mending impartiality and friend ship hav,
, not been complied with, neither now moi
before. If no official complaint has beer
, made against the minister and the nava
/ officers, it is because the facts, public
, and notorious both in Chill,
= and the United States, coult
i not, although they were well proved
a be urged by our confidential agent
, This telegram was published in tn,
official diary and transmitted by tn,
. Chilean minister at Buenos Ares to al
{ Chilean legations in Europe. On tn,
/ same day the correspondence between
: Messrs. Egan and Malta on the Balti
I more case was published in all the Val
: paraiso papers.
l Mr.. Egan at once wrote Minister Matt,
r asking if the published text of the tele
gram was correct, and the latter replied
it was, and added: ''Inasmuch as til,
telegram is an official act of the govern
ment of Chile whereby it communicate
instructions to its envoy extraordinar,
and minister plenipotentiary in th
!, United States of North America, any ex
PLANTATION or dissertation on the part O
the undersigned could add nothing +
!, its contents, which are to serve as
! guide for Don Pedro Montt at Washing
/, ton in treating of these matters
Pending. further instructions Mr.
Egan notified the state department OF
: Dec. II that he had SUSPENDED com
, munlcations with the Chilean forelg
( office.
y..t.