Mr. Egan to Mr. Blaine.
Santiago, November 11, 1891. (Received December 14.)
Sir: The two houses of the national Congress met in session on yesterday and proceeded to organize. The three gentlemen composing the Junta de Gobierno, or Provisional Government, resigned; one of them, Señor Don Waldo Silva, was elected president of the Senate; the second, Señor Don Barros Luco, president of the Chamber of Deputies; and Señor Don Jorge Montt, who has been unanimously nominated for the Presidency, was temporarily invested by Congress with fall presidential powers, pending the regular election by presidential voters and his regular installation. The Chamber then proceeded to elect various officers and its quota of the council of state, and as all were elected from among what is known as the Liberal alliance, the Conservative members of the cabinet resigned, namely, the minister of interior and the secretary of the treasury, and up to the time of writing their successors have not been selected.
Under the new and regular Government I look for a more liberal policy, more leniency toward the vanquished partisans of the late Government, and a kindlier feeling toward the United States.
I have, etc.,