Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-02-06
TEXT OF THE ULTIMATUM.
Telegram Transmitted by Blain to Mil
isfer Epan.

Telegram Transmitted by Blain to Min
lister Egan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The Chilean
correspondence from the department of
state forms nearly 800 pages of printed
matter and is a complete history of
the alienation of the two countries.
The state department., for the conven-
fence of the press of the country, and
in order to impress public sentiment,
prepared and sent out by mail last
Wednesday a printed synopsis which
will occupy a full page of q seven
column newspaper. This synopsis is
in the main q defense Of Minister
Egan. 1t shows as O matter of fact
that he erred in judgment as to the
outcome of the revolution in Chile,
over the controversy between the legis-
iative and executive departments, be-
gun August Is, 1890. 1t Is q history Of
that revolution and of the part played
in II by the United States and other
foreign governments.
On the 21st inst. Secretary Blaine
sent the following telegram to Mr..
Egan:
am directed by the president to say to
you hat he has given careful attention to
all that has been submitted by the govern
ment Of Chile touching the affair of the
assault upon the crew OF the United States
warship Baltimore, in the city of Val
paraiso on the evening of the 10th of Octo-
Der last, and the evidence CT the officers
and crew of that vessel aud Of some others
who witnessed the affray; and that his
conclusions upon the whole case are as
follows:
First, That the assault Is not relieved
of the aspect which the early Information
of the event gave to 1t, viz: That of an
attack upon the uniform of the United
in a feeling Of hostility to this government
and not In any act of the sailors or any of
them.
Second, That the public authorities Of
Valparaiso h~agrantly failed in their duty
to protect our men, anu that some of the
police and of the Chilean soldiers and
sailors were themselves guilty Of
unprovoked assault upon our sail
ors before and after arrest
He thinks the preponderance Of evidence
and the inherent probabilities lead to ths
conclusion that higgins was killed by the
police or soldiers.
Third, That he is therefore compelled to
OuAuk VIC C6nS oASh " buC pOSltlOn y0ken
by his government in the note Of Mr..
Wharton OF October 90 last Ia COPY of
which you will deliver with this) and to
ask for n suitable apology and for some
adequate reparation for the injury done to
this government.
You will assure the government of Chile
that the president has no disposition to be
exacting or to ask anything which his
government would not under the same cir-
cumstances, freely concede. He regrets
that, from the beginning, the gravity OF
the questions involved has not apparently
been appreciated by the government Of
Chile, and that an affair In which two
American seaman were killed and sixteen
others seriously wounded, while only one
Chilean was seriously hurt, should not be
distinguished from nj ordinary bra wi be-
tween sailors In which the provocation was
wholly personal aud the participation
limited.
No self-respccting government can con-
sent that persons In its service whether
civil or military, shall be beaten and killed
In a foreign territory In resentment OF acts
done by or rcputed to their government
without exacting "A suitable r-eparation.
The government Of the United States has
freely recognized this principle, and acted
upon u, when injury was done by its peg
pie to one holding an Official relatioptto
friendly power, In resentment Of acts done
by the latter.