The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-01-28
CHILL MUST COME DOWN
THAT Is WHAT PRESIDENT HARRISON
49, SANS, AND HE MEANS iT.

! THAT Is WHAT PRESIDENT HARRISON
- SANS, AND HE MEANS IT.
II Complete Satisfaction Is Not Given
the United States Government, Dipio.
naatto Relations with Chill Must b
Wholly Formulated.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.--The following
is President Harrison's message on the
Gillian situation sent to congress on
Monday: s7a..
To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tives: sgss
In my annual message delivered e
congress at the beginning Of the pres.
emit session, after brief statement Of
| the facts then in the possession OF this
government touching the assault II
tho streets Of Valparaiso, Chill, upon the
sailofs Of the United States steamer
Baltimors on the evening OF Oct. i6 last,
said:
'This government is, now awaiting
the result of an Investigation which has
been conducted by the criminal court at
valparaiso. IT isreported unoficially,
that the investigation is about COM
pleted, and it is expected that the result
will soon be communicated to this gov
eminent, together with some adequate
and satisfactory response to the
note by which the attention
of Chilli was called to this incident.
If these just expectations should be dis
appointed or further needless delay in
tervene, will, by a special message
bring this matter again to the attention
of congress for such action as may be
necessary" s.-
In my opinion the time has now come
when I should lay before the congress
and the country the correspondence
between this government and Chill, from
the time of the breaking out of the revo-
luton against Balmaceda, together with
all other facts in the possession of the
executive department relating to this
matter The diplomatic correspondence
is herewith transmitted. 49,.
|srFG Well Pleased with Egan.
It may be well at the outset, to say that,
try or in Chill in criticism of Mr.. Egan,
our minister at Santiago, the true history
of this exciting period in Gillian affairs,
from the outbreak of the revolution until
this time, discloses no act on the part of
Mr.. Egan, individually, or in his official
position, that could justly be the occa-
sion of serious aniEadversion or criticism.
@ It is worth while also at the beginning
to say that the right of Mr.. Egan to give
shelter in the legation to certain adherents
of the Balmaceda government who applied
to him for asylum has not been denied by
the CHILEAN authorities, nor has any de-
mand been made for the surrender OF
these refugees. That there was urgent
need of asylum is shown by MIR. Egan' 8
note of Aug. "a, 1891, describing the dis
orders that prevailed in Santiago, and by
the evidence of Captain Schley as to the
pillage and violence that prevailed at Val
paraiso.
Safe Conduct Denied.
The correspondence discloses, however,
that the request of Mr.. Egan for safe
conduct from the country, in behalf Of
these refugees, was denied, These
refugees have very recently, without for
NAL safe conduct, but by the acquiesence
of Chilian authorities, been placed on
board the Yorktown, and are now being
conveyed to Callao, Peru. This incident
might be considered wholly closed but for
the disrespect manifested towards this
government by the close and offensive po-
lioe surveillance of the legation premises,
which was maintained during most of the
period of the stay Of the refugees therein.
But the most serious incident disclosed by
the correspondence is that of the attack on
the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets
of VALPARAISO on the 10Th of October last.
We have now received from the Gillian
government an abstract of the conclusions
Of the fiscal general upon the testimony
taken by the judge of crimes in the inves-
tigation which was made to extend over
nearly three months. livery much regret
to be compelled to say that this report
does not enable me to modify the conclu-
sion announced in my annual message. !
am still of the opinion that our sailors
were .... liz.
Assaulted. Beaten, Stabbed and Killed,
not for anything they or any one of them
had done, but for what the government of
the United States had done, or was charged
with having done, by its civil officers and
naval commanders. If that be the true
aspect of the case, the injury was to the
government of the United States, not to
those poor sailors, who were assaulted in
a manner so brutal and so cowardly. The
Baltimore was in the harbor Of Valparaiso
by virtue of that general invitation which
nations are held to extend to the war YES
sells of other powers with which they have
friendly relations. Captain Schley testt-
fies that when his vessel returned to Val
paraiso on Sept. IA, the city officers, as is
customary, extended the Inequalities OF
the city to his officers and crew. The Of
ficers and sailors of the Baltimore were in
the harbor of Valparaiso under the orders
of their government, not by their own
choice. They were upon the shore by the
implied invitation of the government of
Chill. and with the approval OF their COM
manding officers; and it does not distin-
guish their case from that of consul,
that his stay is more permanent or that
he holds the express invitation of the To-
cal government to justify his longer res
idence. Nor does 1t affect the question
that the injury was the act of mob. II
there had been no participation by the POI
lice or military in this cruel work, and no
neglect on their part to extend protection,
the case would still be one, in my opinion,
when it's extent and character are consld-
-grg Incidents of the Attack.
The president then proceeds to recite
the incidents of the attack on the Balti-
more sailors at Valparaiso, as follows:
On the 10th of October last Captain
Schley, commanding the United States
steamship Baltimore, gave shore leave to
III petty officers and sailors of his ship.
These men left the ship about 1:30 p. m.
No incident of violence occurred; none OF
the men were arrested; no complaint was
lodged against them, nor did any collision
or outbreak occur until about o'clock p.
| m. Captain Schley states that ne was
himself on shore and about the streets OF
the city until $50 p. M; that he met very
many of his men who were upon leave;
that they were sober and were conducting
themselves with propriety, saluting Chill
ian and other officers as they met them.
Other officers of the ship and Captain
Jenkins, of the merchant ship Keweenaw.
corroborate Captain 'schley as to the gen.
| eral sobriety of our men. The sisters 81