The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-02

ritory was necessary and acknowledged
incident Of the asylum These refugee.
have very recently, without formal safe
conduct. but with the scquescence Of the
Gillian authorities, been placed on board
the YORKTOWN and are now being conveyed
TO Callao, Peru.
Offensive Police Surveillance.
This incident might be considered
wholly closed but for the disrespect mani.
Tested toward this government by the
close and offensive police surveillance Of
the legation premises, which was main
tanned during most Of the period Of the
stay Of the refugees therein. After the
date OF ny annual message, and up
to the time Of the transfer of the
refugees to the Yorktown, the legation
premises seem TO have been surrounded by
police in uniform and police agents or de-
tectives in citizens dress, who extensively
scrutinised persons entering or leaving
the legation and on one or two occasions
arrested members OF the minister's fam
lily. Commander Evans, who by my dircc.
ton recently visited Mr. Egan at
Santiago, in his telegram to the
navy department described the legation
as "a veritable prison" and states that
the police agents or detectives WERE after
his arrival, withdrawn during his stay.
1t appears, further. from the note of Mr..
Egan of November -, 1891, that, on one
occasion at least, these police agents,
whom he declares to be known to him, in
vsded the legation premises, pounding on
its windows and using insulting and
threatening language towards per-
sons therein. This breach of the
right OF a minister to freedom
from police espionage and restraint
seems to have been SO fragrant that the |
Argentine minister, who was dean of the
diplomatic corps, having observed it, felt
called upon to protest against it to the
Gillian minister Of foreign affairs The
CHILEAN authorities have, as will be OBJ
served from the correspondence. charged
the refugees and the inmates of the leya-
ton with insulting the police; but it
seems to me incredible that men whose
lives were in jeopardy and whose
safety could be secured BY retirement and
Quietness, should have sought to provoke
, collision which could only end in their
or to aggravate their condi-
lion BY intensifying popular feeling that
It one time so threatened the legation as
10 require Mr. Egsn to appeal to the min
ster Of foreign affairs.
A Brutal and Cowsrdly Att aek.
But the most serious incident disclosed
~ the correspondence Is that of the at.
ack upon the sailors Of the Baltimore in
he streets Of Valparaiso ON the 10Th Of
october last. In my annual message,
peaking upon the information then in nv
said:
$50 far as have yet been able to learn.
10 other explanation of this bloody work
as been suggested than that it had its
rigin in hostility to these men as sailors
the United States, wearing the uniform
their government, and not in any indi-
idual act or personal animosity.
We have now received from tho Gillian
overnment An abstract Of the conclusions
the fiscal general upon the testimony A
aken by the Judge Of crimes in IN inves- 4
cation which was made to extend over h
carly three months. l very much re- a
ret TO be compelled to say that this y
eport does not enable me- to modify the q,
announced in my annual mes !.
lgs. am still Of the opinion that our !.
slors were assaulted, beaten, stabbed .,
nd killed, not for anything they or any n
10 Of them had done, but for what the "
'vernment of the United States had VI
'ns or charged with having done, by its a,
vii omoors and naval commanders II q.
at b the true aspect Of the case the in o,
~ was to the government Of the United N
tates, not these poor sailors who were e.
'saultsd In . manner 50 brutal and so Is,
'wardly.
Before attempting 10 give IN outline Of m
% facts upon which this conclusion rests e.
think 1t right 10 say . word or two upon IN
% legal aspect Of the case: NJ
The Baltimore was In the harbor Of Val ~
'raiso BY virtue Of that general invita- 6e
IN which nations are held to extend to mr.
o war vessels Of other powers with IL
hich they have friendly relations. This AZ
vitaton, think, must be held ordinarily in
embrace the privilege Of such communi-
ton with the shore as reasonable, an
and proper for the comfort tn
d convenience of the officers and bu
On Of such vessels. Captain Schley tes- Of
les that wnon his vessel returned to tn
alparaiso September ~ the city officers, fel
Is customary, extended the Inequalities
the city TO his officers and crew. 1t is .sv
claimed that every personal collision vic
injury In which sailor or officer Of ful
CD naval vessel visiting the shore may on
involved raises an International cues vi
n, but l am clearly of the opinion be
1T where such sailors or officers are ar,
sautcd by a resident populace, animated by
hostility to the government whose uni VIC
m these sailors and officers wear and in in
sentiment OF acts done by their govern wo
mt, not by them, their nation must take he;
tice OF the event as one involving an of
raction Of its rights and dignities, not the
secondary way, as where a citizen shi
injured and presents his claim 4
'oush his own government but me
primary way precisely As ext
its minister, or consul, or fai
. flag itself had been the object Of the pa,
ne character Of assault. The officers as
sailors Of the Baltimore were within the
J ha-bor OF Valparaiso under the orders Of
their government not by their own car
'ice. They were upon the shore by nal
} implied invitation Of tho government we
Chilli and with the approval Of their An
officer; and il does not dis csc