The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-26

Wis OouIttry UT IN Onlil IN CrlllClSm Oh
Egan, our minister at Santiago. the
true history of this exciting period in
CHILEAN affairs, from the outbreak of
the revolution until this time. disclosed
no act on the part or MIR. Egan I'M
worthy of his position or that could
justify the occasion of serious animal
version or criticism. He has think. on
the whole. borue himself in very trying
circumstances with dignity. discretion
and courage, and has conducted the
correspondence with ability, courtesy
and frmness.
THE REFUGEES.
The President follows this with q
discussion OF the condcut of Minister
Egan toward the refugees and in the
controversy growing out of this. After
Justifying the action of the Government
and the minister, he says:
After the.date of my annual message,
and up to the time of the transfer of the
refugees to the orktown, the legation
promises seem to have been surrounded
by police, in uniform. and police agents
or detectives, in citizens dress, who Of
fensively scrutinized the persons enter
ing Or leaving the legation, and on one
or more occasions arrested members Of
the Minister'S family. Commander
Evans, who, by my direction, recently
visited Egan at Santiago, in his tele-
gram to the Navy Department described
the legation as "a veritable prison.
and states that police agents or detec-
tives were, after his arrival, withdrawn
during his stay. 1t appears further,
from the note of Mr.. Egan of November
70, 1891, that on one occasion at least
these police agents, whom he declares
to be known to him, invaded the lega-
ton premises, pounding upon it's win
dows and using insulting and threatening
language towards persons therein. This
preach OF right of the 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
1T, felt called upon to protest against it
to the CHILEAN minister of foreign af-
fairs
TIE BALTIMORE AFFAIR
OF the Gillian investigation of the as
sault upon tie Baltimore's sailors, the
President says:
I'VE have now received from the
CHILEAN government an abstract Of the
conclusions of it's fisca, general. lam
unable to modify tho conclusion an
nounced i'll my annual message.
II am still of the opinion that our
sailors were 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. If that be tho true aspect of the
case the injury was to tho government
OF the United States, not to these poor
sailors who were assaulted in manner
so brutal and so cowardly."
Tho legal phase of tho matter is dis
cussed at some length. The President
lrt1n fhof
to the legality of the position of this
Government
The incidents of the affair are given
as follows:
GOING INTO DETAILS.
son the 10th of October last Captain
Schley, commanding the United States
steamer Baltimore, gave shore lea 70 to
III petty officers and sailors of his ship.
The men left the ship about 1910 D. m.
NO outbreak occurred until about G
o'clock.
Captain Schley states that he was
himself on shore and about the streets
until $50; that he met very many of his
men who wore upon leave; that they
were sober ana were conducting them
selves with propriety, saluting CHILEAN
and other officers as they met them"
The Sisters of Charity at the hos
pital to which our wounded men were
taken, when inquired of, stated they
were sober when received. If the stu
alton had been other wise we must be-
lieve that the CHILEAN police au thorities
would have made arrests
about p. m. tho assault began. and
1t is remarkable that the investigation
by tho judge of crimes, though so pro-
tracted, does not enable him to give any
more satisfactory account OF it's origin
than is found in the statement that it
began between drunken sailors"
The President goes into minute de-
tails of the assault at great leghth,
taking up Chili's representation Of the
case and comparing it with evidence
given by the sailors of the Baltimore
and other witnesses, showing the incon-
sistency of Chili's claims.
Tho President quotes from the La
Patria, newspaper,ss description of the
riot, placing the brutality of the as.
sault so strongly that he concludes that
no amount of evasion or subterfuge is
able to cloud our clear vision of this
brutal work"
GILLIAN ANIMOSITY.
Many minor incidents are related to
show the luminosity of Cnilians toward
Americans. and an incident is given to
S"o" o"ao Ills leellhS was shared by
men of high rank.
Surgeon Stiett. Of tho Baltimore.
after tho battle of Placilla, with other
medical officers Of tho war vessels in the
harbor, WAS giving voluntary assis-
TANGO to the wounded in the hos.
pitfalls. son of Gillian army ofIi-
Ger OF high rank was under
his caro- and when tho father discovered
it he flow into passion and said he
would rather have his son die than have
Americans touch him, and at once had