Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-28
MATTA'S STATEMENT

OF the Status of the Gillian Affair to
Minister MOntt at Washington OF
Course Chilli is All Right and the United
States All notwithstanding to Malta
the Officers and Men of the Baltimore
Must be Pack of Liars.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-The World this
morning prints the full text of Minis
ter Matta's statement of the Baltimore
affair to Pedro Montt, the Gillian min
lister at Washington. This statement
is generally referred to as "Matta's in
sulting note" It bears the date of De-
| cemher II, and is as follows:
Being acquainted with the report of the navy
department and the message of the president
of the United States, deem it proper to tell
you that the Information upon which the said
report and message are founded Is erroneous and
deliberately untrue. Concerning the refugees.
they have never been threatened or treated
with cruelty, nor has there been any intention
to take them out of the legation or to ask that
they be delivered. Never has the house or per-
son Of the plenipotentiary knowing the calcu-
lated indiscretions and provocations), received
| any outrage, as is proved by the eleven letters
Of September, October and November.
Concerning the sailors of the Baltimore, there
| is also no accuracy straightforwardness fin
what is said in Washington. The affair oc-
| Cured in disreputable quarters of the city, the
'Maintop" of Valparaiso, among persons who
are not models of discretion. When the police
and other forces interviewed and quelled the
disturbance there were some hundreds of peo-
pie present and the riot in progress ten
blocks or more from the place where it com
| menced.
Mr.. Egan sent letter on October g. agrees
sive in design and violent in language,as is seen
by the story of the reply sent on October "a
The investigation commenced on the 18th
Of October, but it has been delayed on account
of the non appearance before the court of the
sailors of the Baltimore and on account of the
undue pretensons and refusals of Mr.. Egan.
Never on the part of this department has
| there been tolerated or initiated any provoca-
ton. 1t has maintained itself always in a posi-
| ton which, if it has been one of firmneSS and
prudence, it has not been of aggression,
nor will it be of humility, no
matter what may have been divulged in
| Washington by those persons who may have
been interested in giving different appearance
| to his conduct or who may he sc been deceived
| by erroneous impressions. The kilograms,
notes and letters sent to you contain the truth,
! the whole truth in everything concerned in
| these affairs. The ill-feeliIs and language
| connected with them did not originate in this
| department.
| Mr.. Tracy and Mr.. Harrison had been led
| into error respecting ourselves, our people and
| our government. The instruction enjoining
| impartiality and friendship have not been
observed either in the present or the past.
| If official charges have not been
| made against the minister and the
naval officers. it is because the facts, public
| and notorious as they in Chill and the United
| States, are such that our confidential agents
| have been unable to call attention to them,
| though the subjects of the charges have been
| we'll founded The request of Balmaceda, the
/ concessions made to him in June and July. and
| everything concerning the Itata, the San Fran
| cisco in Quinteros and the Calve companys are
| proof of this
| 1t is deliberately untrue that the American
| sailors were attacked in different localities ut
| the same time. The investigation not being
| finished, it is not known yet who are the guilty
persons or what is their number You will con-
| slider the letter of November 9, replying to Min
| lister Egan, in which information in his
possession was requested, and which he
was not willing to give, knowing the
fact that he had said that he had the proof as to
! who were the murderers and other guilty per-
| sons in the affair of October 16. That letter
and all the other recent letters will be published
| here. You ought to translate and publish the
same there lin Washngton.)
| Endeavor in the meantime not to give any
credit to anything which may be contrary to
these statements, being sure of their correct
| ness as we are here Of the right, the honor
and the final triumph of Chill, knowing the io-
| trigues which go. at present from SO low a
source. and threats which come from so high an
| authority. Malta