The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-26

receive correspondence.
IN telegram October 18th Egan says tn
1ntendente'S instructions authorize the arreS
OF no one except upon well-founded SuS
piclon, and that the Minister deplores all ar
rests made by tie police.
TIRE BALTIMORE INCIDENT REACHED.
A long correspondence on this point ensued
during which the Baltimore incident oc
CURED, which Egan on the very day it hap
pened forwarded TO Washington.
:, Inc next day. October 18th, he reported thai
captain Schley had not been able TO ascertain
the causes of the assault, but the general i'm
preston was that it was unprovoked. Two
weeks before German sailors had been as
saulted and one killed; and it was understood
they We're mistaken for Americans
Captain Schley and Egan corresponded, the
FORMER requesting a searching investigation
ana that the Offenders be brought to justice
More correspondence relative to safe conduct
OF refugees then enSued, Mr.. Egan saying he
awaited the resolve of Chile what it would 90
He added that the refusal of safe conduct was
not kindly received by the United States.
TROUBLE BREWS.
Then the correspondence reverts to the Bal
tlmore case. October 23d Egan tele5raphed
that Captain Schley'S report shows the assault
u nave been brutal and unprovoked, and i'm
pllcateS the police as having been n it. Whar
tons note in reply expressed surprise at his
failure to receive the notice of regret, or OF
purpose of searching inquiry on the part OF
the Chilean Government, ana requesting Egan
TO call the attention OF the Chilean Govern
ment 10 the facts, and TO inquire if there were
any qualifying facts or explanation to be of
fered of the apparent expression of unfriend
illness toward the United states, and conclud
ing as follows: IF the facts are as reported
By Captain Schley, this Government cannot
uolpt that the Governm mt of Chile Will offer
prompt and full explanation"
PREPARATION.
October goth Egan asked what reparation
would be expected if the facts were as re-
ported by Captain Schley? Secretary Blaine
here (having resumed his duties) telegraphed
Eoan as follows:
MIR. kgan is instructed TO maintain his
present position, and is authorized to draw
on the department for money to meet
the extra expense, If needed (re erring to the
refugees in the legation)."
Malta GETS MAD.
Mr.. Egan sent a telegram October 2Sth
summarizing the reply made by Malta to his
presentation OF the case. Malta says that the
United States ''tormuateS demands and adj
Van;eS threats that without being cast back
they be acceptable in the present case nor in
any other OF like nature Egan mailed to
Washington the text of the note, as well as
the report made to him by Captain Schley OF
the results of the investigation conducted by
the board of naval officers appointed to in
Yestigate the assault.
CAPTAIN sCHLEY's REPORT
Is practically identical with his statement
Cal, recently, and published in the RECORD
UNION fully. he says that q number of the
wounds were recognized as bayonet wounds,
pointing to police participation in this assault:
that 1t is believed the assault was inspired by
Chilean sailors discharged from the trans
ports, together with tue 'longshoremen, and
that it was premeditated, was shown in
the widely separated localities where 1t oc-
CURED while the men were at supper in the
hotels and restaurants.
He asserts that his men were unarmed and
defenseless, with no instruments beyond
several small pocket knives and a small iron
pestle. In communicating these facts to the
Chilean Foreign Office, Egan said that the
sailors OF the Baltimore We're unarmed We're
orderly in their conduct, gave no cause or
provocation, that the attack was apparently
premeditated and that the assaults were made
by armed men, who, mis- Government must
conclude, were animated in
THEIR BLOODY WORK
BY hostility to these men as sailors of the
United States. He says that it must be con-
coded, from the character of the wounds, that
the public police, or some of them, instead OF
affording protection to the men assaulted,
took part in this cowardly attack and gen.
orally acted toward those unarmed men with
brutality.
Therefore. in conformity with Mr.. Whar-
punishment of the guilty parties, and sug-
gests reparation.
Mr.. Egan transmits the full text of Senior
Matta'S note in reply. The summary of it
was given in his telegram to Mr.. Wharton,
already published IN the RECORD-U MON.
October 30th Egan telegraphs that the in
graphs that he had received from the Minister
of oreign Affairs d note from the Intendente
in regard to the assault, and like the Minis
ters other note, this note
EXPRESSES NO REGRET FOR THE OCCUR
RENEE.
1t states that the result of the investigation
will be communicated to Egan, and that II
the real ulpritS were discovered they viii re-
ceive punishment. The Intendente says it is
entirely impossible that the police could have
committed tie cruel and brutal excuses
which the United States Minister imputeS to
them, and that a mob of z, 1000 collected; that
the fight in which all, especially the Ameri-
cans, fought with stones, clubs and bright
weapons, was general, and that the only part
taken in it by the police and military guard
was their endeavor to quell the disturbance
and arrest the participants.
He DID NOT KNOW.
The Intendente processes ignorance of the
origin of the fight, but thinks it commenced
between drunken sailors. Neither does he
thoritieS did all they could under the circum-
stances.
November LIST Mr. Blaine, by telegraph. told
Egln 10 claim the privilege OF reading the
paper VIII CT it was alleged the American
sailors signed in secret language, which they
did not understand, and without being ac-
companied by counsel. Also, to see that no
one rom the Baltimore is allowed to testify
except in the presence of a friend acting as
counsel, and in his own language, openly not
secretly.
In November Egan telegraphs that the same
Judge who would not allow an officer OF the
Baltimore to be present at the inquiry, per-
mitted the Secretary Of the German Consulate
to attend the investigation of the killing OF a
German man-of-warsman, which took place
last month.
DECLINED TO SHOW THE PAPER
On the same day he writes that the Minister
of Foreign Relations had explained to him
that the Judge or Crimes is independent of the
Executive under old Spanish laws in use in
that CDnli Will no
request and show the document until the pro-
cess was completed.
In a note to Minister Egan, dated Novem-
Der 4th, Captain Schley gives him the names
of q number of Witnesses to the assault on the
Balt1more's men, and on the same day Cap
tain Schley wrote the Intendente that Minis
ter Egan could supply the names to him upon
application. November I'd Minister Eoan
fearful that the Intendente might take Can
lain Schley's communication as a defamation
TO furnish the names, suggested that he again
communicate with him upon the conditions,
laid down in Mr.. Blaine's telegram, and have
him directly give the names of the witnesses.
At this stage in the correspondence Secre-
tary blaine turned to the American Consul at
Valparaiso and sent him the following tele-
gram, dated November Both: '.Give me all
the facts you have and all the information
relative to the riot. Use naval cipher"
AT this stage also
THE CASE OF PATRICK SHIELDS,
The fireman of the United States steamer
keweenaw, and an American citizen, was
brought to the attention of the State Depart
menu upon Consul MeCreary's report that he
had been put in Jail without process oflaw and
brutally beaten by the police. Mr.. Egan also
tells of the attacks being made on the lega-
ton by the newspapers; of threats of violence
made without hindrance, and of a public
meeting al which resolutions were passed call
ing on the Government to request the delivery
OF the refugees. He continues that the Gov
eminent did not deny the story of the attempt
on Colonel Canto's life, the immediate cause
OF the demonstration. Prior to the meeting
and before, the legation had been permitted to
be publicly denounced.
November 9TH Consul McCreary, at Valpa-
raise, telegraphed directed to Mr. Blaine a
substantial confirmation of the story of the
riot as told by Minister Egan and Captain
Schley.
No. ember 10th Mr.. Egan reports an official
call on the President of the Provisional Gov
eminent. He says he was received most cor