The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-28

sAHS al COIISS pOuueuc6 WIN the Qe-
partment closes with the following
telegram, dated Santiago, Jan. Is, i'll
which he acknowledges the receipt
on the previous day of the Geographic
instructions of the 10th, and reports
that on that morning he had Oh the
subject in question an interview with
minister of foreign affairs, whom he
found well disposed, and who promised
to return an answer at the earliest
possible moment, without consulta-
ton.
The second division of the CORE
spondence, that between the Chilean
minister at Washington, Senator Las
casno, and the department of state,
does not contain much of interest at
this time, as it relates mainly to the
events attending the revolution and
the efforts to prevent the purchase of
arms for the revolutionists in New
York, the potency of the blockade
proposed to be made by the Baima-
ceda government, and the request for
the detention of the Itata and Robert
and Minnie.
THE JUNTA's ACTION.
Injected into this correspondence
is a telegram from President
Luca, of the Junta, dated
Iquique, March 81, requesting
Blaine not to permit the shipment
Balmaceda's silver on an Ameri-
can war vessel. The third and last
phase of the correspondence begins
with notification from President
Montt of the junta to Blaine, dated
Iquique, that Richard l.. Trumbull,
representative of the Chilean congress,
had powers from the junta to repre-
sent it in the United States in the ca
pacity of a confidential agent.
A telegram dated Iquique, June 8,
from Senior Errazuriz of the junta an
nounced the arrival of the Itata and
her delivery in compliance with the
written promise of her arms and crew
to Rear Admiral McCann, who stated
that the vessel was preparing to re-
turn to San Diego. The president asks
that the arms and ammunition be al
lowed to remain under the charge of
the admiral at Iquique until the re-
suit of the law suit instituted in. Cali.
fOrnia.
Senior Montt first appeared officially
in the correspondence, August 81,
when he submitted to Blaine tele-
gram announcing the surrender of
Valparaiso. December |, Senior Montt
left the secretary telegram received
from Malta, stating that Egan's testi-
mony had been asked for twenty days
before. -
MONTH TO BLAINE.
In communication with Blaine, Dec.
| OIL hnr II MAntt cnnoI-u Af hthn In
mentable ev nts at Valparaiso which
my government had deeply deplored."
He says "the investigation is pro
crossing according to law, that the
proceedings had not been completed
that the appearance of the officers of
the Baltimore had delayed it for some
time and that upto the present time
the evidence which was asked of
Egan on the 8 of November has not
been furnished. He insists that even
events like those of the 10Th of October
are not rare in ports visited by sailors
of different nationalities, and there
! are no grounds whatever for attribut-
ing to the affair any motive offensive
to the United States. He says if the
result of the judicial investigation
should show the culpability Of the
Chilean citizens, the government OF
the United States may rest
, assured that they will be punished,
, and if that investigation should
show the responsibility on the part of
the sailors of the Baltimore, my gov
eminent entertains the conviction
that the United States would not
wish them to go unpublished. The
repression of crime is social interest
of high importance, whatever the ma
, tivity of the guilty parties or the vic
, tims.n
T Dec. Transmitting to Blaine
, copies of the correspondence between
himself and Malta, Senior Montt, in
3 summing up Matta's reply to Egan's
! first protest, made at the direction of
r Mr.. Wharton, says:
| "He (Matta) promises to inform
: Egan of the result of the investigation
when it should have been concluded,
, and stated that out of regard for har-
3 mony, which it was his duty and de-
r sire to maintain between the United
> states and Chile, he passed in silence
the improper expressions used by
{ Egan in certain portions of his note.''
D Further on in the note, Montt, re-
f viewing the testimony as to the as
/ sault, insists the police did nothing
{ more than quiet the tumult, arrest
> those most drunken and most riotous
, and dispense the crowd. The local
authorities, he says, could not have
{ done more than they did. He dwells
> at length upon the peculiarities of the
) Chilean law in explanation of the Sc
, crecy attending the investigation, and
says the commander of the Baltimore
] informed the intendente that Egan
, could furnish list Of the names OF
witnesses of the assault. He says the
criminal judges state that neither the
f American consul nor the commander
, of the Baltimore, nor any persons
whatsoever imputed before his court
to the authorities or police participa-
ton in, or responsibility for, the &C.
currence of Oct 16; neither has q spe-
cific or general charge been preferred
against them, because of their not
having endeavored to prevent those
occurrences or its deplorable and ulti-
mate consequences. On the contrary,
the greater part of the sailors testify
that the police rendered them timely
aid and endeavored to protect them
by removing them from the action of