The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-01-30
TALKS RIGHT OUT.
President Harrison Transmits His
Message onthe Chilian Difficult
ties to Congress.

ties to Congress.
Recites the Insults That Have Bee
Heaped Upon American Citi-
zens Of Chill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-The presi
dents message on Ohilian sffairs wa
sent to congress today and referred h
the foreign committees of each house.
The president opens with the repeti
tion Of his mention of the subject in hi
annual message, and calls attention t,
the accompanying correspondence, ant
says:
1T may be well at the outset to 60,
that whatever may have been said il
this country or in Chill in criticiem o
Mr.. Egan. our minister at Santiago
the true history of this excit
ing period in Ohilian affairs
from the outbreak of the revolution
until this time discloses no act on tn,
part of Egan unworthy of his position
or that could justly be the occasion O
serious criticism. He has. I think, OF
the whole borne himself in the very
trying circumstances with dignity, dis.
cretion and courage, and has conducted
the correspondence with ability, cour
tesy and fairness. It is worth while
also, at the beginning to say that the
right of Egan to give shelter in the lega.
tion to certain adherents OF the Balma.
ceda government who applied to
him for an ssylum has moi
been denied by the Ohilian authorities
nor has any demand been made for the
surrender of these refugees. That there
was urgent need of the asylum is shown
by Egan's note Of Aug. "a. 1891, de
scriblng the disorders that prevailed in
Santiago and by the evidence of Gap
tain Schley as to the pillaQe and violence
that prevailed at Valparaiso. The cor
disclosee. however, that
the quest of Egsn for the eafe con.
duct from the country in behalf Of theee
refugees was denied"
The president indorses Egan's claim
that the right of asylum meant the right
to save and conduct to neutral territory,
and says: '"Ihis incident might be con.
sidered wholly closed but for the disre-
spect manifested towards this govern
ment by the close and offensive police
of the legation premises
which was maintained during most OF
the period of the stay of the refugees
therein. After the date of my annual
message and up to the timeof the trans.
fer Of the refugees to the Yorktown the
legation premises seem to have been
surrounded by police in uniform and
police agents or detectives in citi
zens' dress, who extensively scrutinlzed
the persons entering or leaving the lega-
ton, and one or more occasions ar
rested the members of the minister's
family. This breeoh of the right Of the
to the freedom from police es.
poinsge and restraint seems to have
been SO aagrant that the Argentine
who was dean of the diplo
matic corps, having observed it, felt
called upon to protest against it to the
Chilian minister of foreign affairs.
Regarding the Baltimore affair, after
what he said in his snnual
the president says: I'VE have
now received from the Ohilian govern
meDt an abstract Of the conclusions Of
the fiscal general upon the testimony
taken by the judge Of crimes in the in
vestigation which was made to
extend over nearly three months. I
very much regret to be compelled
to say this report does not enable me to
modify the conclusion announced in my
annual message. am still of the opin.
ion that our sailors were assaulted,
beaten, stabbed and killed, not for any
thing 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 its civil officers and
naval commanders. If that be the true
aspect Of the cate. the injury was to the
government of the Uniteo States. not to
these poor sailors, Who were assaulted
in the mannerso brutal and so oowardly.
Regarding the legal aspect of the case
the president tsys: 1T is not claimed
that every personsl collision or injury in
which sailor or officer of such naval
veseei visiting the shore may be in
volved raises an international question,
but am clearly of the opinion that
where such sailors or Office re- are as
saulted by the resident populace. sni-
mated by hostility to the government
whose uniform these sailors and officers
wear, and in resentment Of the acts done
by their government. not by them,
their natlon must take notice
Of the event as one involving an
lnfraction of its rights and dignity; not
in secondary way, as where the citizen
is injured and presents his claim
through his own government, but in q
primary way. precisely as if it's minister
or consul, or the flag itself had been the
object of the same character of assault.
The officers and sailors Of the Baltimore
were in the harbor of Valparaiso under
orders of their government, not by their
own choice. They were upon the ehor e
by the implied invitation of the govern.
ment of Chill, and with the approval Of
their commanding ofioers; and it does
not distinguish their case from that of
the consul, whose stay is more pe1ma-
ment or that he holds an express invita-
tion Of the local governments to justify
his longer residence. Nor does it affect
the question that the injury was the act
of mob. II thu re he'd been no partici
patton by the police or military in this
cruel work and no neglect on their part
to extend protection the case would
still be one. that in my opinion, when
the extent end character is considered,
involvs international rights"
The president recited the facts OF the
assault of the sailors Of the Baltimore,
giving it very fully. as shown by the
government investigation. also giving
the excerpts from Ohilisn papers and
from the Ohilisn official report. The
president finds the OLilian authorities
vindicated the American sailors, and the
latter indicted one named Davidson be
cause be defended companion from
being cut with 9 knife He finds, 40.
cordlrg to the Gillian report, that the
police fell short of tht ir duty and had
10 ground for the statement that the
American sailors endorsed the action Of
the police. The existence Of animoeity
20 our sailors is alluded to as having