Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-06
NOT WARLIKE.
More Peaceful Tone to the News
About Chilli.
The New President of That Republic
Being Given Time
met Before Making 1t Warm About
the baltimore Outrage - Moving
Great Guns to San Francisco.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3o.-It is quite
certain that Minister Egan's absence
from the ceremonies attendant upon
the Inauguration of President Montt
was not brought about by any order or
intimidation from the. department OF
state.
The afternoon was absolutely with
out an incident that could be distorted
into relation to warlike preparation.
Secretary Blaine did not return to the
department of state after the ca biuet
meeting. and Senior Montt, the CHILEAN
minister, did not make his appearance
there.
No cipher dispatches came from Mr..
Egan. and the air of quietude in the
department strongly accentuated the
present attitude of the government
with respect TO Chilli. as shown by the
presidents message to congress in this
paragraphs:
This government is now awaiting
the results of an investigation which
has been conducted by the criminal
court of Valparaiso"
Such unofficial adviccs rs have been
received here are TO the effect that the
legal authorities at Valparaiso have not
completed the revision of the formal
proceedings of Justice Foster. Just
how long those legal formalities may
be protracted before they may be re.
garded as causing further needless de-
lay" is, of course determinable only by
President Harrison, but there is reason
TO believe that there has been brought
TO his attention the difficulties that sur
round President Montt in the formation
of n new cabinet, and that he is also de.
sirous of avoiding the appearance OF
endeavoring to interfere with the due
process of law in Chilli, if there is any
reasonable ground for the assumption
that due process is being followed.
These considerations have doubtless.
led him to adopt the course of patient
waiting to the utmost extreme consist.
ent, with a due regard to the dignity Of
the United States, and so far as can be
learned it is probable that no departure
will be made from this attitude before
the reassemblinG of congress unless a
further communication from the Gillian
government should give different
aspect to the situation.
II the heads of the bureaus in The
navy department are TO be believed. nc
extraordinary efforts are making to put
the naval vessels in condition for active
hoStilities In the construction bureau
the officers in charge say positively that
no orders have been forwarded TO San
Francisco to hurry up the work on the
Monterey. AS n matter of fact there
are fewer orders passing through the
bureau ut present than for any date
during the past three months. In the
ordnance bureau il was learned that the
turret armor for the Monterey is ready
for shipment to San Francisco at any
time.
Her great guns are also ready, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has un.
dertaken to transport them across the
continent. The task is one of magni-
tude, as the 12-inch rifle, without its
carriage, weighs fifty-six tons and the
carriage weighs twenty-five tons Spe.
cially constructed cars are necessary
for the transportation of these great
masses Of metal. and much nice
calculation respecting curves, tun-
nels and the strength of the many
bridges between the Washington navy.
yard and the California navy-yard were
made TO insure the safe delivery of the
guns These rifles are not only intrin.
sically valuable, but their loss at the
present time would be a serious calam.
ity, as many months would be con.
sumed in the making of guns 20 replace
them. Satisfactory progress is being
made in the production of armor and OF
iorPedoes but il is insisted by ordnance
officers that neither armor-plates nor
torpedoes have been or will be accepted
until they have been thoroughly tested
by the processes which have heretofore
been applied.
A lot of Howell torpedoes, about forty.
is practically ready for use. and the
first installment of whitehead (Englisl
pattern) torpedoes made in the United
states will soon be delivered. Improve.
ments have been made in the Howell
torpedo, which is essentially an Ameri
can invention. that will place IL in the
front rank of automobile weapons, and
1t is promised that the torpedoes de.
livered TO the government will exceed
the contract recruitment in speed and
accuracy. But according TO the state
ment OF the naval ordinance officers
all OF these things are being done
without reference 20 immediate war.
and IL is said that they are simply salts.
factory results of the energetic policy
Of naval rehabilitation adopted by Sec.
rotary Tracy long ago
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