Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An ba da umarnin sabon jirgin ruwa na pre-readnought,, a karkashin sabon shirin gini a 1889. Zuwan yakin basasar Chile na 1891 ya sami matsala tsakanin rassa biyu na sojojin Chilean, yayin da yawancin sojojin ruwa suka goyi bayan jam'iyyar majalisa, yawancin sojojin Chilean sun kasance masu aminci ga José Manuel Balmaceda. Lokacin da yawancin majalisa na kasa suka yanke dangantaka da gwamnati, Jorge Montt ya dauki iko da rundunar a Valparaíso kuma tare da sanannun 'yan siyasa, irin su Ramón Barros Luco, a cikin jirgin, rundunar ta tashi zuwa arewa zuwa yankin Tarapacá mai arzikin nitrate, wanda Chile ta kwace daga Peru shekaru 10 da suka gabata. Tarapacá ya kasance, a wancan lokacin, yankin mafi arziki na Chile dangane da albarkatun ƙasa kuma ba tare da rundunar jiragen ruwa ba kusan ba za a iya kaiwa ga sojojin Chile ba. Daga nan, rundunar sojan ruwa ta shirya sojojin da suka hada da masu hakar ma'adinai, waɗanda suka ba su makamai da kuma horar da su don su fuskanci Sojojin Chile na maza 40,000. A watan Agusta 1891, sabon sojojin ya sauka a Quintero kuma ya ci sojojin Chile a yakin Concón da kuma
Yaƙin Placilla kafin bangaren shugaban kasa ya rushe kuma bangaren majalisa ya karɓi iko. A zaben Oktoba 1891, an zabi Jorge Montt a matsayin shugaban kasa.