Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I
No. 130.
Mr. Roberts to Mr. Bayard.
Santiago, October 28, 1887. (Received December 8.)
Sir: In my dispatch No. 162, dated the 7th instant, referring to the international claims tribunals, I stated that the Anglo-Chilian had adjourned sine die, the remaining twenty-one claims having been settled diplomatically by Chili paying $100,000 gold in liquidation of the same.
I added, that as near as could be ascertained the amount of these claims so settled was about $6,000,000. This was arrived at by deducting the amount of the claims decided, as published in the Diario Oficial, from the sum total as given over a year ago.
On the 14th instant, the Diario Oficial published another decision of the English Tribunal, on the largest claim before it, namely, The Peruvian Guano Company, limited, for £792,233,13s. 5d for losses sustained in not being able to carry out its contract with the Peruvian Government in the carrying and selling by assignment 1,900,000 tons of guano, on account of the war between Chili and Peru, claiming a damage of [Page 173] £4 15s. a ton on the unfulfilled part of the contract This being in the nature of consequential damages, the tribunal declared itself incompetent to try the case, not being.” directly caused by the operations of the land or sea forces of Chili on the coast or territory of Peru.”
This decision, of which I had no knowledge when writing the dispatch referred to, entirely changes the figures as given, which, corrected, should read thus: Twenty claims, amounting to £50,125, and $49,666 silver, or say in all $300,291, were settled for $100,000 silver, and not gold as was published in the press at that time.
I have, etc.,
List and amount of claims presented to and decided by the Anglo-Chilian tribunal.
No. | Name. | Where. | Character of claim. | Amount. | Amount in silver dollars. | When decided. | Decision. | ||
£ | s. | d. | |||||||
1 | Richard T. Anderson | Lima | Interest on bonds | $11,200.00 | July 5, 1884 | Disallowed. | |||
2 | James Noble | Chimbote | Merchandise | 1,669.00 | Aug. 23, 1884 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
3 | Thomas Lawlor | Lima | Horses | 3,000.00 | July 19, 1884 | Allowed, Chillian arbiter dissenting. | |||
4 | James Kirkwood | Tacna | Furniture, etc | 6,000.00 | Sept. 16, 1884 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
5 | Duncan, Fox & Co | Chorillos | House | 1,000 | 00 | 0 | Sept. 16, 1884 | Disallowed. | |
6 | do | Pisco | Bale of osnaburgs | 157 | 11 | 9 | Sept. 16, 1884 | Allowed. | |
7 | J. Stafford & Co | Mollendo and Callao. | Tea and beer | 132 | 15 | 3 | Sept. 24, 1884 | Disallowed. | |
8 | David Genno | Callao | Losses | 173 | 00 | 0 | July 19, 1884 | Disallowed, President Lopez Netto dissenting | |
9 | John Farquharson | Cerro Azul | Trunk | 462 | 00 | 0 | do | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
10 | William Fry | Mfsollendo | Merchandise | 4,554 | 10 | 6 | Jan. 10, 1885 | Disallowed. | |
11 | do | Quilca | Sugar, etc | 2,742.45 | Sept. 22, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |||
12 | Huth & Co | Mollendo | Merchandise | 327 | 10 | 0 | Sept. 27, 1884 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
13 | Cockburn, Roxburgh & Co | Payta | Cotton | 70 | 16 | 5 | Aug. 23, 1884 | Allowed. Chilian arbiter dissenting. | |
14 | John Mathison and others (Chorillos Gas Company). | Chorillos | Losses | 1,819 | 18 | 0 | Oct. 1, 1884 | Do. | |
15 | John Mathison | Barranca | House | 1,000 | 00 | 0 | Oct. 11, 1884 | Do. | |
16 | do | Payta | Sherry | 90 | 00 | 0 | Nov. 15, 1885 | Disallowed. | |
17 | William B. Minhimmick | Miraflores | Furniture | 800 | 00 | 0 | Jan. 10, 1885 | Disallowed. English arbiter dissenting. | |
18 | Willam Simpson | do | House | 1,000 | 00 | 0 | do | Do. | |
19 | James Bishop | do | House and furniture | 1,596 | 13 | 4 | Nov. 15, 1885 | Do. | |
20 | Alfred Brierly | do | do | 415 | 19 | 6 | Aug. 27, 1884 | Do. | |
21 | William E. Aicken | do | Furniture | 1,825 | 00 | 0 | Aug. 30, 1884 | Do. | |
22 | Philip Rosenthal | do | Property | 416 | 13 | 7 | Aug. 16. 1886 | Allowed. | |
23 | Blemish & Nelson | Chorillos | Merchandise | 1,963 | 16 | 11 | Nov. 15, 1885 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
24 | Benjamin J. Smith | Miraflores | Furniture | 111 | 13 | 00 | Aug. 30, 1885 | Disallowed. | |
25 | Lima Railways Company | Lima | Stations, etc | 8,423 | 2 | 10 | Nov. 15, 1885 | Disallowed. English arbiter dissenting. | |
26 | Samuel Peake | Huanillos | Lighters | 13,835 | 1 | 7 | Aug. 16, 1886 | Tribunal incompetent. | |
27 | John James Harris | Callao | Sundries | 46,165.00 | Nov. 21, 1884 | Allowed $25,000, Chilian arbiter dissenting. | |||
28 | do | do | do | 14,600.00 | Oct. 8, 1884 | Disallowed. | |||
29 | Robert Reid | Chorillos | Furniture | 482 | 15 | 00 | Nov. 29, 1884 | Allowed,Chilian arbiter dissenting. | |
30 | Bates, Stokes & Co | Huancayo | Wool | 774 | 00 | 00 | Oct. 31, 1884 | Disallowed. | |
31 | Scott & Long | Chorillos | Workshops | 1,922 | 00 | 10 | Nov. 15, 1885 | Disallowed: British arbiter dissenting. | |
32 | John Scott | do | House, etc | 1,500 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Do. | |
33 | William Tweddale | Pisagua | Clothes | 500.00 | Sept. 6, 1884 | Disallowed. | |||
34 | Charles Baker | Arica and Azana | Sundries | 31,483.00 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Disallowed. English arbiter dissenting. | |||
35 | Frederick Peede | Barque | La Plata | 31,981.00 | Aug. 16, 1886 | Incompetent. | |||
36 | Williams S. Main | Tourbo de Mora | Furniture | 1.530 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Disallowed. | |
37 | Charles H. Williams | Miraflores | House, etc | 5,000 | 00 | 00 | do | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
38 | Gunston, Edsmundston & Co | Mejillones | Mortgage on railroad and customs receipts. | 44,336 | 2 | 5 | do | Incompetent. | |
39 | William Long | Chorillos | Furniture | 800 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 8, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
40 | George Elster | do | do | 6,311.00 | Aug. 11, 1886 | Do. | |||
41 | Miller & Co | Tacna | Ten barrels fuse | 64 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 16, 1886 | Incompetent. | |
42 | William S. Stanley | Iquique | Losses | 37,922.65 | Nov. 2, 1886 | Allowed $12,000. | |||
43 | George E. Steel | Cerro del Pasco | Carts, etc | 2,000.00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
44 | Mary Watkins | Barranco | Clothing, etc | 6,047.00 | Aug. 16, 1886 | Disallowed. | |||
45 | Gerard Garland | Chorillos | House and furniture | 4,609 | 18 | 4 | Aug. 25, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
46 | Mary P. de Maclean | Arica | do | 71,690.00 | Oct. 11, 1886 | Disallowed. | |||
47 | Peruvian Guano Company | Losses of freight on contract. | 792,233 | 13 | 5 | Sept. 15, 1887 | Incompetent. | ||
48 | do | Guano, tools, etc | 46,413 | 7 | 4 | Settled outside of tribunal. | |||
49 | John Meikle | Tourbo de Mora | Sundries | 534 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Disallowed. | |
50 | Robert Bishop | Mollendo | Furniture | 800.00 | Aug. 16, 1886 | Do. | |||
51 | Roger Davis | Mejillones | House and furniture | 4,500.00 | do | Do. | |||
52 | John Treager | Arica and Tacna | Goods, merchandise | 11,270.33 | Nov. 2, 1886 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
53 | Edward Chirineo | 13,917.30 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||||
54 | Charles Watson | Mollendo | Property | 220,645.18 | July 4, 1887 | Disallowed. | |||
55 | Robert K. Jeffery | 2,035 | 00 | 00 | July 7, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
56 | Thomas Wheelock | Chorillos | House | 30,000.00 | July 14, 1887 | Do. | |||
57 | Simon, Israel & Co | Mollendo | Merchandise | 1,688 | 3 | 8 | Aug. 25, 1887 | Disallowed. | |
58 | John T. North | Ship | Marañon | 74,000.00 | Nov. 2, 1886 | Incompetent. | |||
59 | do | Pisagua | Property | 12,585.93 | do | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
60 | do | Papellan de Pica | Water-condensing machinery, etc. | 12,500.00 | do | Allowed $6,000. | |||
61 | Thomas S. Tuffield | Tacna | Furniture | 764 | 8 | 00 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
62 | John Brithwaite | do | do | 4,740.97 | Sept. 22, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |||
63 | Henry H. Nagle | Barque | Lilly Grace | 4,583 | 6 | 8 | Aug. 18, 1887 | Incompetent. | |
64 | Lebbeus Sumpter | Pigs | 183 | 6 | 8 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Allowed. | ||
65 | William Hill | Ancon | Property | 6,940.00 | July 14, 1887 | Disallowed. | |||
66 | Dugald McLellan | Furniture | 141 | 15 | 00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | |||
67 | Alexander Stenhouse | Mollendo | House | 3,000.00 | July 14, 1887 | Disallowed. | |||
68 | Alice Gallagher de Carrol | Chorillos | Half house | 3,000 | 00 | 00 | Oct. 11, 1886 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
69 | Virginia M. de Swain | do | Property | 40,120.10 | Nov. 2, 1886 | Disallowed. | |||
70 | do | Cañeta | Damages | 23,645.20 | do | Do. | |||
71 | do | Callao | Duties | 17,740.65 | do | Do. | |||
72 | Samuel Peake | Hardware | 244.70 | Aug. 2, 1886 | Do. | ||||
73 | William Spedie | Mollendo | Lighters and property. | 358,954.00 | June 27, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
74 | Brooking, James & Co | Pisagua | Losses | 13,124 | 11 | 00 | July 14, 1887 | Do. | |
75 | London Bank of Meixco | Lima | Deposits withdrawn by order of Chilian officers.* | 5,302 | 15 | 00 | Aug. 18, 1887 | Incompetent. | |
76 | John Briggs | Tacna | Sundries | 3,955.00 | Aug. 2, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |||
77 | Thomas Chapman | do | Animals, etc | 4,219 | 7 | 7 | Aug. 25, 1887 | Disallowed. | |
78 | Campbell, Jones & Co | Mollendo | Merchandise | 78 | 18 | 00 | Aug. 18, 1887 | Do. | |
79 | do | Arica | Hides | $10.600.00 | Sept. 15, 1887 | Do. | |||
80 | do | Dynamite taken from the ship Knight Templar. | 1,376.02 | Aug. 18, 1887 | Incompetent. | ||||
81 | Jerrerson & co | Quilca | Merchandise | 77 | 19 | 00 | Aug. 26, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |
82 | John Jefferson | Arica | Furniture and effects | 1,278 | 00 | 00 | Oct. 11, 1887 | Disallowed. English arbiter dissenting. | |
83 | William Sutherland | Cajamarca | House and jewelry | 7,900.00 | July 18, 1887 | Do. | |||
84 | James Canny | Pascopampa | Animals | 1,420.00 | Oct. 11, 1887 | Allowed. | |||
85 | Anthony Delolme | Chorillos | House and property | 30,000 | 00 | 00 | Disallowed. | ||
86 | The Lima Railway Co | Callao | Import duties | 1,388 | 12 | 3 | Withdrawn. | ||
87 | Francis A. Kelly | Papellan de Pica | House and property | 21,162.00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
88 | James Taylor | do | Property | 4,000.00 | July 7, 1887 | Disallowed. | |||
89 | W. S. McClellan | do | do | 275 | 00 | 00 | June 27, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |
90 | Andrew Jackson | do | Merchandise | 100 | 00 | 00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||
91 | James A. Clarke | Mollendo | Property | 85 | 12 | 00 | Do. | ||
92 | Barclay Burns | do | Personal property | 29 | 3 | 4 | Do. | ||
93 | Francis Boyd | do | Property | 1,358.00 | Do. | ||||
94 | Archibald Barclay | do | do | 195 | 00 | 00 | Do. | ||
95 | J. Jefferson, R. Smart, and J. Robillard. | do | Lighters and buoys | 1,235.00 | June 27, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |||
96 | James O’Connor | do | Furniture | 1,809.00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
97 | W. A. Smith | do | Wine | 91 | 4 | 00 | Do. | ||
98 | J. W. Lonergen | Arica | Furniture | 2,060 | 00 | 00 | Withdrawn. | ||
99 | Jefferson & Co | do | Office, etc | 2,700 | 00 | 00 | July 4, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |
100 | Julia Maclean de Outram | Tanca | Losses | 8.525.00 | do | Do. | |||
101 | David White | do | Personal property | 1,914.50 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
102 | Benjamin G. Chapman | Cañeta | Sundries | 2,108 | 11 | 1 | Do. | ||
103 | Thomas Keppel | Supe | Clothing | 2,209.00 | July 4, 1887 | Ordered to be filed. | |||
104 | Henry Gray | Payta | Furniture | 2,044.00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
105 | Ibbotson Bros. & Co | Chimbote | Hardware | 109 | 10 | 00 | Do. | ||
106 | A. T. White | do | Clothing | 1.530.94 | Do. | ||||
107 | Campbell, Outran & Co | Pisagua | Coal. etc | 10,000.00 | Paid and withdrawn. | ||||
108 | Wholey Bros | Ancon | Property | 851 | 8 | 00 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||
109 | John Farmer | Chorillos | House and furniture. | 3,000 | 00 | 00 | Aug. 8, 1887 | Disallowed, English arbiter dissenting. | |
110 | Frederick Ford | do | Furniture | 1,000 | 00 | 00 | do | Do. | |
111 | Dr. Maclean’s heirs | do | Death of the doctor | 10,000 | 00 | 00 | do | Ordered to be filed | |
112 | Thomas E. Dallas | do | Furniture | 2,162 | 10 | 00 | Sept. 22, 1887 | Do. | |
113 | Edward Irving | Calllao | do | 732.50 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
114 | Crown Periumery Co | do | Perfumery | 143 | 13 | 00 | Sept. 22, 1887 | Ordered to be filled | |
115 | Frederick Buzaglo | do | Duties | 3,197.60 | Settled outside of tribunal. | ||||
116 | Susana Flecknoe | Chorillos | Death | 20,000.00 | Incompetent. | ||||
117 | A. M Fisher | Miraflores | Property | 875 | 00 | 00 | Ordered to be filed. | ||
118 | Mrs. Mercedes Reid | Chorillos | do | 32,435.00 | Sept. 15, 1887 | Incompetent. | |||
Total | 1,034,028 | 14 | 3 | 1,246,268.92 |
* Also $228,295, Peruvian paper dollars (very little value).
Note—For sake of convenience counting the pound as $5 (although it is worth more than that in silver), the 118 claims would amount to $6,416,410. The secretary of the tribunal had reduced the pound at $7.50 to paper currency, which was wrong.
[Page 178]Disposition of claims submitted to the Anglo-Chilian tribunal.
In pounds. | In silver dollars. | ||
60 | Claims disallowed | 99,735 | $959,989 |
11 | Thrown out on account of incompetency of the tribunal | 860,355 | 159,742 |
14 | Ordered to be filed (papers not in proper shape) | 19,683 | 19,452 |
13 | Allowed | 4,131 | 57,420 |
Total | 983,904 | 1,196,603 | |
20 | Settled outside of tribunal for $100,00 silver | 50,125 | 49,666 |
118 | 1,034,029 | 1,246,269 |
Or in dollars, at $5 to the pound, $6,416,410.
Taking the one hundred and eighteen claims, amounting to $6,416,410 (counting $5 to the pound), on which was allowed $178,075, or 2.78 per cent.
Deducting from the one hundred and eighteen claims ($6,416,410) the eleven thrown out by the tribunal ($4,461,517) on account of incompetency, leaves $1,954,893, upon which the tribunal allowed $78,075, and outside of same $100,000; a total $178,075, or 9 per cent.
Twenty claims settled outside of tribunal ($300,291). Allowed, $100,000, or 33 per cent.
Under the presidency of Señor Lopez Netto on the tribunal seven claims out of twenty-five were allowed. Under the presidency of Señor Lafayette Kodriquez Pereira five out of thirty-five were allowed. Under the presidency of Baron d’An-drada out of thirty-five none were allowed.
Résumé.
Twenty-five claims decided under Señor Lopez Netto; 35 claims decided under Señor Lafayette E. Pereira; 35 claims decided under Señor Baron d’Andrada; 3 withdrawn (one of them paid); 20 withdrawn, settled outside of the tribunal.—Total, 118.