Mr. Egan to Mr. Blaine.
Santiago, January 21, 1892.
Mr. Egan reports that the minister for foreign affairs promised him, in the course of an interview he had with him on the 18th in the matter of having Mr. Matta’s telegram of the 11th of December withdrawn, to consult with his colleagues of the cabinet and return his reply in another interview specially appointed. He says that this promise has not yet been discharged, and that the answer is still withheld. He asks whether the telegram was withdrawn in Washington in terms entirely satisfactory to President Harrison and Mr. Blaine, as a correspondent of the New York Herald was to-day told by the undersecretary.