Mr. Egan to Mr. Elaine.
Santiago, December 4, 1891.
Mr. Egan acknowledges the receipt of the telegram of the 3d, and says that he is unable to explain the incorrectness of the statement of the minister for foreign affairs; that he had no personal knowledge of the circumstances attending the assault upon the men of the Baltimore and has not been asked for his testimony; that he did receive from the foreign office on the 9th of November a note bearing upon certain information derived from previous letters written by Capt. Schley and the testimony of the sailors transmitted in those letters. As Capt. Schley had been instructed by the Navy Department to treat the matter directly with the local authorities at Valparaiso, and was doing so, he so informed the minister of foreign affairs, on whom he called, and who agreed to the course thus taken and said that it would not be necessary to write a reply to his note. He adds that Capt. Schley furnished all the information supplied by him in his letter of the 3d of November and by sending his men before the judge.