The Portland daily press., 1892-01-29
IN CONCLUSION.
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a domestic communication, of which or
dinarily no foreign state has cognlzance
and in more recent cases the great i'm
propriety of making such communities
tions subject of correspondence an
diplomatic discussion has been fully
shown"
The circumstance of publicity does not
change the character of communication,
in the opinion of Mr.. Webster, because
such is the common and usual mode OF
proceeding in the communications OF
the President and the Senate.
1t was, therefore, on the nature of the
note, and on no other reason, that
based my abstention from communicat-
ing to YOU the instructions which MI
Malta had sent to me on the 18th OF De
cember, and had the honor so to inform
you. I added, however, that it was fa
from being the purpose of my govern
ment to act in a matter at all
Offensive to the President
of the United States or to any member of
his Cabinet, and that Mr.. Matta's note,
if rightly interpreted, admitted of no
such construction.
YOU that [ had received instructions
from nv government to inform that of
the United States that considering the
views expressed by Messrs. Buchanan
and Webster in 1949 and 1850, that the
messages sent by the President to Con
gress are domestic communications
which cannot serve as basis for the IN
depreciation of foreign powers or theirre
resentatives, my government had no ob-
lection to striking out of the note of De
cember II, such words as might be con-
sidered disagreeable by the
United States government On
the 18th inst. an official tele-
gram was published which had been adj
dressed by the commander of the York
town to the Secretary of the Navy. 1t
was couched in terms that were offensive
to the government of Chill, and in view
of what we had said concerning the note
of December II, deemed it my duty to
call your attention to that telegram. The
lofty spirit of justice which character
ICES you did not permit you to hesitate
to tell me that the wording OF the
Said Telegram Was Improper
and Objectionable. This declaration on
your part, which was as impartial as it
was Just terminated the incident.
Since the early part of the month OF
October, when had the honor to be IN
vited to unofficial conferences with the
representatives of the Department OF
State las the credentials which accredlt-
ed me as Minister of Chill had not yet
arrived. it has been repeated to me on
various occasions by the United States
government that if the representative of
the United States at Santiago was not a
persona grata to the government of
Chill it was sufficient for the government
of Chill so to state, and that the repre-
sentative would be succeeded by another.
tits rule based upon the nature of di-
plomatic relations and designed to make
them frank and cordial, that the repre-
sentative of nation must be a personal
grata to the government to which he is
accredited.
In the conference with which you
were pleased to favor me on the 10th
inst, had the honor to state that the
representative of the United States at
Santiago was not persona grata to the
government of Chill, which would be
very glad to receive another representa-
pleased to acknowledge that the govern
ment of Chill had a right to ask that a
change should be made. Afterwards,
having your notice, I addressed to you
In wTlting the same communication
which I had made to you verbally.
have deemed it my duty to state in
this note the foregoing facts, which
show the friendly and cordial purpose OF
our conferences, in which you took a
most important part.
With sentiments, etc.,
PEDRO MoNTT.
j Hon. James G. Blaine, etc., etc.