The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-02-03

cumstances tor our Secretary of
State to advise the Chilian govern
ment in the matter, but it would be
infinitely worse than unusual had
he dictated a reply which was in
effect. and was so regarded by the
President, an additional atfront to
his own country.
The only way to account for Mr..
Blaine's remaining in the Cabinet
after such an allegation is to assume
that the allegation is false. And
yet Minister Pereira makes it de-
liberately and explicitly through
the medium Of an official utterance,
and it stands to-day without denial
or challenge by Nr. Blaine.
There is much gossip, also, over
the prominence of
w. R. GRACE AND CO.,
in the controversy. The utmost
curiosity was aroused by the atten-
dance of Mr.. Blaine at a dinner
given by the Chilian minister at a
time when the temper of the coun-
try was in an angry condition to-
ward Chill and when, whatever Mr..
Montt and his government supposed,
there was every prospect of hostile
action by the United States, and
every disposition on the part of the
people 70 approve it. A still more
amazing circumstance was the
presence at this dinner of one
Recaido L. Trumbull,
CONFIDENTIAL AGENT OF CHILL,
and Of Mr.. W. r. Grace, of New
I York, a speculator in Chilian in
vestments and representing purely
commercial interest in the affair.
That Mr.. Blaine should have gone
to such a Ginner at such time and
to meet such people was regarded as
next to inexplicable by pers ,ns who
thoug ht about the conditions exist.
ing at the time. Nor was the mys
tiication dissi pated when, a few
days afserward, it appeared that
Mr.. Grace had telegraphed to San
tiago, Immediately after the dinner
that although the President and {
majority of the Cabinet cherished
hostile sentiments, Chill might de
pend that Mr.. Blaine would restrain
them and secure for the Montt gov
ernment settlement that would b.
, not only peaceful but
ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY TO CHILL
Further light has since beer
thrown upon this extrao, dinary de
claration of Mr.. Grace's by the re
cent utterances of newspapers un
friendly to Mr.. Harrison, in whic
it was triumphantly asserted that
=, THE PRESIDENT HAD BEEN 'TRICKEI
: all through the affair by MIR. Blaine
:. and, in ia It, entrapped into a peace
: full adjustment through that gentle
e mans superior craft.
: But all this is as nothing to th
r storm Of gossip which has broke
= out within the past few days regare
: ing certain
j. DINNER AT SENATOR HALE's,
, at which Mr.. Blaine is reported {
) having talked in a manner calcula
t ed to throw all of his previous a
> legged performances into the shad
L The secret was kept very CAREFUL
u at first. Those who We're presel
u seem to have been literally appallt
Il by what happened, and to have bee
" afraid to discuss it even amor
. themselves. These things can new
'e be wholly suppressed, however. Ii
= tie by little this story transpire
and to say that it has astound'
p everybody is to offer a CONNIE
o. that is ridiculously inadequat
Z For some days past the incide ?
i has been whispered about. 1t b
occasioned a tremendous amount
gossip in the diplomatic corps al
N about the Capitol. Every one W
as has had a hint of it is consum
Id with curiosity to hear more, a
e. those who know it all are mantle
d. ly alarmed and shocked at the ta'
es having become even partla
'le known. The story, so tar as
at Post has been able TO gather it,