Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-01-28
GILLIAN CORRESPONDENCE
SENT TO CONGRESS BY THE
PRESNDENT TODAY.


Minister Months Note to Secre
tary Blaine. and the Secretary't
Response-ChiIiW Will Plainly dc
all the Ap0IOgizing Required.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-The following
is the Presidents message transmitting
additional Chilian correspondence tc
congress:
To the senate and house of representa-
tives-I transmit herewith additiona
correspondence between this government
and the government OF Chill, consisting
OF the note of Mr.. Montt, Chilian minis
ter at this capital to Mr.. Blaine, datec
January 23d; the reply of Mr. Blaine
thereto OF date January 27; and the dis
patch from Mr. Egan,y, our minister al
Santiago transmitting the response o
MIR. Perreria, Chilian minister OF toreigr
affairs to the note of Mr.. Blaine of ian
uary 21st. which was received by me OF
the 26th inst.
The note of Mr.. Mont to Mr.. Blaine
though dated January 20, was not de
livered at the state department unit
after II O'Clock m. of the 25th, and wa.
not translated and its receipt notified tt
me until late in the afternoon of thai
day.
The response of Mr.. Perreria to ou
note OF the 21st withdraws, with accept
able expressions OF regret, the ofiensiv,
note OF Mr.. Malta of the 18th ultimo
and also the request for the recall of Mr.
Eagan.
The treatment of the incident of the as
sault upon the sailors of the Baltimor
is so conciiiatory and friendly that an
of the opinion that there is good pros
pect that the differences growing out O
that serious affair can now be adjusted
upon terms satisfactory to this govern
ment by the usual methods and withou
special powers from congress.
This turn of affairs is gratifying to M
as am sure it will be to congress ant
our people. The general support of tn
efforts of the executive to enforce tn
just rights of the nation in this matte
has given an instructive and useful illus
tration OF the unity and patriotism 0
our people. Should it be necessary
will again communicate with congres:
upon the subject. Benz. Harrison.
Mont to Blaine.
| LEGATION OF Chill,
| Washington, Jam %, 1892
SlR:-l have had the honor to receiv,
your note. of yesterday as the enclosur,
to which you were pleased to transmit
to me instructions sent Mr.. Egan on tn,
day previous. In the numerous talk.
with which you have been pieased tc
favor me have informed you that, i'm
mediately after the occurrence of tn,
events of October / 6, 1891 at Valparaiso
which my government most sincerely de-
plored, the judicial authorities inititi
ated the investigation necessary tC
throw light upon the facts. and to detect
and punish the guilty parties. From the
evidence which the government OF Chill
was able to collect at the very outset il
appeared that the disorder of October
10th began by a quarrel among drunken
sailors, which assumed considerable
proportions, owing to the condition o.
the locality in which 1t originated, and
that the police performed their duty by
re-establishing tranquility and placing
the persons who seemed to have beer
concerned in the disorder at the dis
pOsal OF the court.
The government of Chill has no date
authorizing it to think that the quarre
was due to any dislike of the uniform O
the United States, or that the police
failed to perform their duty. On the
contrary 1t is well demonstrated tact
that sailors get intoxicated when they
60 ashore after having been on board o
their vessel Tor long time. This i.
also quite natural. The intoxicatior
of seamen and the disorders to which il
gives rise, although they may assum,
serious proportions and occasion very
lamentable offenses. as was untortu
nately the case at Valparaiso on the 16tl
OF October, canuot constitute an fnsul
to nation in whose service the men ar,
who have taken part in the disorder
although they certainly do not justify
the offense committed during the disor
der. The government of Chill could not
however, form final opinion concerning
the nature of the occurrences i'll question
or as to whether the public had or ha(
not improperly participated therein, o
had failed to perform it's duty, until tn
termination OF the judicial investigation
which had been initiated without delay
and which was pushed forward a
speedily as was compatible with the pro
visions of the law, with the obligation
of ollecting all the elements of proc
that it was possible to collec
in order to throw full light upon tn
matter. and with necessity of prompt
Furnishing the perpetrators of the otfense
which had been in part suffered by pei
sons in the service OF friendly nation
1t was the desire and duty of the govern
ment of Chill to discover the truth il
order to make its future proceeding
conform thereto, and in order that th
United States government might be sal
isfed that nothing was neglected in Oh
der to do full justice.
You were pleased with your high sens
of rectitude, to remark to me that thi
proce eding of the government of Chi
was correct, and that. although you ds
sired that the judicial investigator
might be brought to a close with as lii
tie delay as possible, yeu understood
that it was necessary that the ordinar
legal proceedings (Which were not a
rapid in Chill as in the United States
should be held. have taken occasio
at sundry times to int.rm you Of wha
the Chilian authorities were doing t
bring the investigation to close.
In criminal trial held at Valparaiso
not only have landsmcn been heard bu