Mr. Egan to Mr. Blaine.
Santiago, January 22, 1892. (Received January 23.)
Mr. Egan acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Blaine’s telegram of the 21st, which he states he will deliver to the minister for foreign affairs to-morrow. He further states that in an interview on the 15th instant the minister of foreign affairs pressed upon him the acceptance of the withdrawal of Mr. Matta’s telegram on the bases stated in Mr. Egan’s telegram of that date, saying that those bases were entirely acceptable to Mr. Blaine and were in fact suggested by him. Notwithstanding these assurances, Mr. Egan would only consent to submit the proposition, as he had done.
With regard to his being persona non grata, Mr. Egan says that at a diplomatic banquet at the home of the minister of foreign affairs on the 11th instant Prime Minister Luco told him, with approbation of some of his colleagues, and in the presence of the English minister and Spanish minister, that the present cabinet entertained most cordial feelings for the United States and for himself personally.