Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Egan to Mr. Blaine.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Santiago, December 21, 1891. (Received December 22.)

Mr. Egan reports that two gentlemen who had called on the refugees were arrested at different times on going out of the legation and taken to the police barracks, but were liberated on account of the absence of any reason for their being detained. He says that on the previous day the minister of the Argentine Republic called at the legation at his request, saw how the police are surrounding the legation, and promised to have a consultation with the diplomatic corps, of which he is dean, and a talk with the minister for foreign affairs.