The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-16

Spccia, Correspondence Of tie Associated Press.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Jan. 0.-At the
timo Of tho Inauguration OF President
Jorge Montt, OH December Goth last,
there was considerable doubt expressed
about the ability TO form q new cabinet.
There was a. very evident unwillingncss
on tho part OF n number of prom
inent men to enter tho new cabi-
net and attempt to carry out tho
policy in reference 10 the United Statcs
which had been adopted by the prori-
sional government. The men who nc
cepted tho various portfolios finally did
SO with the understanding that they
should bo permitted to adopt policy
in accordance with their own views
without reference to what had been
dono by tho preceding administration.
Just about the time OF the appoint
mcnt OF this cabinet there was an un-N
easy feeling existing in official circles
here as well as among The public gem
orally. Reports had been received hero
in various ways OF considerable naval
activity in the United States and to tho
effect that men OF war and transports
were being fitted out to send 10 Chile.
Mr.. KENNEDY's ADVICE REJECTED.
1t was just about this time also that
several dispatches OF similar nature
were received by Mr.. Kennedy, tho
British minister, from his government.
The former cabinet had not retired
when Minister Kennedy callcd.upon
Minister Malta and informed him that
he had received official advices which
indicated that the United States was
preparing to enforce certain demands
which would place Chile in an embar-
rassing position.
Minister Kennedy also intimatcd that
it might be we'll for Chile to assume a
more reasonable attitude toward the
United States before it was too Iate to
do so. Minister Nlntta received tho
British minister's communication in a
most defiant manner, and gave him to
understand that Chile was not alarmed
at the attitude Of the United States aud
was prepared to meet any emergency.
Other cabinetministers were known
to express similar views and display
most hostile ieeling towards the United
States. Tho substance OF this confer
ence between the British minister and
the minister OF foreign relations found
its way into the local. newspapers and
increased the general feeling OF alarm.
MArTA NOT TO BLAME.
There has been recently an evident
disposition TO lay upon Mr.. Malta, the
ex-minister OF foreign relations, all tho
censure tor causing the present state OF
affairs between the United States and
Chile, and the greatest condemnation
which he has received has been
on account OF the public telegram
OF instruction which he sent to Minister
Montt at Washington on December IL.
But Americans in Chile are disposed
TO regard this general criticism OF Mr..
Malta as entirely just, for hc stated dis.
tinctly in speech before tho senate
when several other cabinet officers
were present that kilograms had
been sent after receiving tho
approval Of his colleagues, and he also
afterwards informed Minister Egan by
letter that the telegram was an official
actof the Chilean government. Minister
Peirari assured Minister Egan that he
wasnotdissatisfed with the policywhich
the foreign office had pursued recently
in respect to the United States, and
that he had entered the cabinet only
with tho understanding that ho was to
be permitted to adopt policy in ac.
cordance with his own view.
The spies who have surrounded tho
legation for several months past have
been removed within the past week,
though there are still eight policemen
constantly on duty in the block in which
the legation is situated. This is tho
only change which has como from ofIi-
cial sources.