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, April 21, 1891.

Mr. Egan states that entire tranquillity prevails everywhere except in the northern provinces that the President opened Congress yesterday auspiciously; that England, as well as Germany, refuses to recognize the right of the Chilean Government to close ports; that American vessels are not interfered with; and that the Chilean Government urgently requests that the proposition of the Chilean minister for the purchase of a man-of-war be favorably considered.