The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

crGcia in Santiago. December q, on the
American complication in entirely differ
ent IN tone from that published is other
papers. lt took the government to task
for its conduct in the affair, and says the
government at Washington City did not,
1t thinks, desire anything more than a
prompt and expeditions judicial investi-
CATION, so that the guilty might be pun
lsned, and that there might be an offer of
equitable indemnity and an expression
OF regret. Ii refers to the judicial pro-
ceedlngs as conducted apparently with a
desire 10 surround this affair with silence
or mystery, invoking 10 this end the
ancient Spanish laws on the summary.
Another unfortunate circumstance, saws
the article, and which ought not to have
existed. is the conduct of the investigation
by Judge of Crimes Foster, son of Julio
Foster, at present in the United States,
where he is making great outcry against
Mr.. Blaine and Minister Egan and the po-
litical party to which both belong. Is it
strange that the people in the United States
regard with distrust the result of an in
vestigation conducted by man so closely
connected with Julio Foster? The article
says. in regard to the foreign Offices stand
on the right of asylum. that it was far
from corresponding with historical pre-
cedents. 1t refers TO Matta's now famous
dispatch as the stupidity that eclipsed all
previous efforts. In closing, it says:
II is frankly believed that the question may
be arranged in peace; that the good Will OF the
American government and the magnaninlity of
the American people are sufficient and re-
peated proofs of both have already
been given, but il is necessary that
men of good feeling. patriotic men, shall
put themselves to work. and, forgetting
quarrels and passions, lend their aid to averting
this great calamity The nation that gave
Grant birth, the nation that was nourished by
the lessons of Washington, Franklin and Ian
coin, cannot but be magnanimous in the treat
ment of sister republic.
The article was written by a man who
was chief of cabinet under Balmaceda and
at one time Chilean minister to Washing
ton City.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.-The Inter-
national Navigation Company has ordered
Captain Sargent commander of the steam
ship Ohio. recently impressed by the
United States government. to hold him.
self in readiness to resume command
of his ship. The import of this
order is that the government has no i'm
mediaIe use for this ship since the Chilean
troubles subsided, and she may be ordered
back to Philadelphia at any moment An
official said by our contract with the
United States government, the latter must
keep the boat for ninety days and pay us
the sum of $500 per day for the use of her.
This will be $4,000 that the government
will pay u.s."
LONDON, Jan. 30.-The Spectator, in the
course OF a long review of the American
Chilean question. says: The tendency here
is to blame the United States for pressing
Chile overmuch. America, it adds, is one
of the greatest nations in the world,
and Chile is one of the weakest.
Any demand, therefore. on the part
of the United States which is
couched in firm language is sure to look
harsh and unfair. But, admitting every
thing regarding to harshness, the fact re-
mains that the United States originally
suffered substantial injury to which no
powerful civilized state could be expected
to submit. In conclusion, the Spectator
says this incident killed Blaine's policy of
harmony.