Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-01
THE PRESIDENTS MESA GE ON
CHILEAN AFFAIRS.

nj MONDAY 1aSU, Pr6S1denU harrison
rbmitted to congress a message on
he controversy with Chill, which will
fommend itself to every true Ameri-
In for its candor, justice, and patri-
bic good sense.
HAfter referring to his annual mes
fge in regard to the matter, and his
promise of special message, if the
tase demanded it, he says:
In my opinion the time has come
Fhen I should lay before the Con-
tress and the country the CORES
bondence between this government
md the government of Chill, from the
he time of the breaking out of the
against Balmaceda, to-
ret ther with all other facts in the pos
5ession of the Executive Depart
|nent relating to this matter.
do not deem it necessary in this
Communication to attempt any full
bnalysis of the correspondence, or of
he evidence. A brief restatement of
he international question involved
nd of the reason why the responses
W the Chilian government are unsat-
'6factory, is all that deem necessary.
1t may be we'll, at the outset, to say
hat whatever may have been said in
his country or in Chill, in criticism of
lie. Egan, our Minister to Santiago,
he true history of this exciting peri
bd in Chi1ian aggression, from the
Outbreak of the revolution until this
lime, discloses no act on the part of
MIR. Egan unworthy of his position,
br that could justly be the occasion
pf serious animadversion or criticism.
1t is worth while also at the begin
hing to say that the right of Mr.. Egan
10 give shelter in the legation, to GER
J ain adherents to the Balmaceda
government who applied to him for
Bsylum has not been denied by the
Chilian authorities, nor has any de-
hand been made for the surrender of
these refugees. That there was
heed of asylum is shown by Mr..
Egan's note of August "a, 1891, des-
eribing the disorders that prevailed
[h Santiago, and by the evidence of
Capt. Schley as to the pillage and
Violence that prevailed at Valparaiso.
The correspondence discloses, how
over, that the request of Mr.. Egan for
\ safe conduct from the country in
behalf of these refugees was denied.
4 These refugees have very recently,
Without formal safe conduct, but by
NE acquiescence of Chilian authori-
les, been placed on board the York
tpwn and are now being conveyed to
rallao, Peru. This incident might be
Considered wholly closed but for the
disrespect manifested toward this
Government by the close and often
i've police surveillance of the lega-
Jon premises which was maintained
6uring most of the period of the stay
pf the refugees.
After the date of my annual mes
age and up to the time of the trans
Ter of the refugees to the Yorktown
been surrounded by police in uniform
nd police agent or detectives in citi-
lens dress, who Extensively scrutini-
led persons entering or leaving the
|egation, and on one or more occa-
Ions arrested members of the Min
<ster's family. Commander Evans,
Eho by my direction recently visited
Egan at Santiago, in his telegram to
Navy Department, described the le
eation as "a veritable prison. and
tated that the police agents were,
! hfter his arrival, withdrawn during
bis stay.
But the most serious incident dis
Aosed by the correspondence is that
n the attack upon the sailors of the
Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso
on the 10Th, of October last. In nv
nnual message, speaking on the in
Prmation then in my possession, I
bid: $50 far as 1 have yet been able
learn, no other explanation of this
body work has been suggested than
lat it had its origin in hostility to
hese men as sailors of the United
tates, wearing the uniform of their
[Pvernment, and not in any individu-
y act or personal animosity"