Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-07
CHILI'S OFFICIAL REPLY.
The Foreign Minister'S Answer to
Secretary of State Blaine.

He Says the Legal Proceedings are Being
Actively Carried Forward to Their
Proper Northumberland Guilty VIII
be Punished.
WASHINGTON Dec. 31.--Senor Mont, the
Chilian minister, had another interview
with Secretary Blaine to-day The minister
laid before the Secretary the following
translation of q telegram from Mr. Malta,
the minister of foreign affairs, bearing on
the inquiry into the trouble in the City of
Valparaiso between the Chilians and the
sailors from the United States steamer
Baltimore:
SANTIAGO, Dec. 81, isoi.--iHinist>r Of ChRi,
Washington, d. c.: From the summary Of pro-
coedings II appears that the struggle COM
mencod between two sailors in a tavern In tho
ward "Arrayan;' that II WAS continued on the
street with the accession Of numbers Of inhab-
liants and transient parties from tho streets
"Aiamos." The disorder continued and OK
tended 20 the streets, del Arsenal and "Hsn
Martin" where the police force succeeded In
restoring order. All this North Americans ex-
cept two state that the police did their duty
and from the volaminous proceedings IL APP
pears that the court has done and is doing its
duty.
his opinion and the dino for producing EVIL
dence shah have expired, sentence will be
given, establishing who and how many nre
me guilty parties, who may only be presume
et present Whoever they may be they will
be punished.
The legal proceedings are being actively
carried forward 10 their proper termination.
malta.
The minister when asked by an Associ-
atcd Press reporter for an opinion respect
ing the statements made in the telegram
called special attention to the statement
That all the North Americans excepting
two had said that the police did their duty.
lie regards this as favorable to the CHILEAN
side OF the controversy.
1t Is noted that the CHILEAN minister of
foreign affairs promises that when the due
process vi law, according to Chilian iuris-
prudence, be observed, those found guilty
Will be punished, and says that these
Judicial proceedings are being carried
forward actively. This, in connection
with The statement that the police did their
duty, is significant as showing that the
Gillian government does not wish that the
action of individuals belonging in Chill
shall be COMPOUNDED with the actions of
these connected with the government and
having official station.
These lawless acts on the part of indi-
viduals as the dispatch says, are being in
quired into under the usual judicial pro-
ceedings of Chill, which are conducted
secretly, and, il Is said, with the cllmber-
someness attaching to nearly all laws
courts deriving their authority and prece-
dents from Spain. This government has
never asserted a right to interfere with the
ordinary judicial methods of other
nations. IL is, however watchfnl to see
that customary judicial methods are fol-
lowed, regard, Of course being had to the
extraordinary character of the offence, and
is meantime making provision for the
always possible occurrence of some I'M
toward event, such AZ undue delay or u
linal response not consistent with the
dignity oil the United States.