Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Wharton to Mr. Egan.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 17, 1891.

Mr. Wharton advises Mr. Egan that there are negotiations being conducted by combined English companies for the purchase of the only land line, and instructs him to use his good offices in behalf of the Central and South American Telegraph Company, which should enjoy fair and impartial consideration of their application for a line that they desire to establish and operate between Valparaiso, Santiago, and the Argentine frontier.