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, January 12, 1892.

Mr. Egan reports that he had a conversation with the minister for foreign affairs on this day, in the course of which he secured for all the refugees permission to leave the country, and was assured verbally that no harm would be done them, but could not obtain a written safe-conduct; that on the first question he could only receive a promise for as early a reply as possible, the absence of the President in Valparaiso making it impossible for him to answer at once; and that the legation is now entirely free from Espionage.