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.

Legation of the United States,
Santiago, November 14, 1891. (Received December 26.)

No. 231.]

Sir: As conveyed in my telegram of this date, the ministerial crisis has passed and the former cabinet, consisting of two Conservatives and four Liberals, continues in office; but it is generally understood this arrangement will only hold until the regular installation of the President, on 26th December, after which the Liberal alliance, in pursuance of their programme of a strictly parliamentary form of government, will insist upon a ministry formed entirely from the Liberal majority in Congress.

I have, etc.,

Patrick Egan.