Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-29
OUR ULTIMATUM.
The President Sends His Message to
Congress Regarding the
/ Chilean Affair.
It's q Firm, Decisive Document and
Created Applause From Both
-- Parties.
1t Asks Congress to Back the Presi-
dent in His Demand on
Chile.
The Presidents Message.

The Presidents Message
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The following
is President Harrison's message on the
Chilian situation sent to congress on
Monday:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
e. tives:
In my annual message delivered to
congress at the beginning of the pres
snt session, after brief statement of
the facts then in the possession of this
government touching the assault in
the streets of Valparaiso, Chilli, upon the
sailors of the United States steamer
Baltimore on the evening of Oct Is last,
said:
'This government is now awaiting
the result of an investigation which has
been conducted by the criminal court at
Valparaiso. It is reported unoficially,
that the investigation is about COM
pleted, and it is expected that the result
will soon be communicated to this gov
ernment, together with some adequate
and satisfactory response to the
note by which the attention
of Chill was called to this incident.
If these just expectations should be dis
appointed or further needless delay in
tervene, I will, by special message
bring this matter again to the attention
of congress for such action as may be
necessary"
In my opinion the time has now come
when should lay before the congress
and the country the correspondence
between this government and Chill, from
the time of the breaking out of the revo-
luton against Balmaceda, together with
all other facts in the possession of the
executive department relating to this
matter. The diplomatic correspondence
is herewith transmitted.
Well Pleased with Egan.
It may be we'll at the outset, to say that,
whatever may have been said in this coun-
try or in Chill in criticism of Mr.. Egan,
our minister at Santiago, the true history
of this exciting period in Chilian affairs,
from the outbreak of the revolution until
this time, discloses no act on the part of
Mr.. Egan, individually, or in his official
position, that could justly be the occa-
Z p1OA VI oCAlOuo dAlLAduScIS VI IL.
It is worth while also at the beginning
to say that the right of Mr. Egan to give
shelter in the legation to certain adherents
Of the Balmaceda government who applied
to him for asylum has not been denied by
the Chilian authorities, nor has any de-
mand been made for the surrender of
these refugees. That there was urgent
need of asylum is shown by Mr.. Egan's
note of Aug "A, 1891, describing the dis
orders that prevailed in Santiago, and by
the evidence of Captain Schley as to the
pillage and violence that prevailed at Val
paraiso
35Iss Safe Conduct Denied.
The correspondence discloses, however,
that the request of Mr.. Egan for safe
conduct from the country, in behalf of
these refugees, was denied, These
refugees have very recently, without for
NAL safe conduct, but by the acquiesence
80f Chilian authorities, been placed on
board the Yorktown, and are now being
\ conveyed to Callao, Peru. This incident
might be considered wholly closed but for
the disrespect manifested towards this
government by the close and offensive po-
lice surveillance of the legation premises,
which was maintained during most of the
period of the stay of the refugees therein
Z But the most serious incident disclosed by
the correspondence is that of the attack on
I the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets
spf Valparaiso on the 10th of October last.
We have now received from the Chilian
government an abstract of the conclusions
$of the fiscal general upon the testimony
taken by the judge of crimes in the inves-
tigation which was made to extend over
nearly three months. livery much regret
to be compelled to say that this report
does not enable me to modify the conclu-
&Hion announced in my annual message. I
am still of the opinion that our sailors
we're
Assaulted. Beaten, Stabbed and Killed,
not for anything they or any one of them
had done, but for what the government of
the United States had done, or was charged
with having done, by it's civil officers and
naval commanders. If that be the true
aspect of the case, the injury was to the
government of the United States, not to
those. poor sailors, who were assaulted in
- manner SO brutal and so cowardly The
Bal ltimore was in the harbor Of Valparaiso
byyirtue of that general invitation which
nations are held to extend to the war YES
sels of other powers with which they have
kiendl relations Captain Schley testis;
~ thst hen by t,l vessel returned to Val
ss