Señor Pedro Montt
to Mr. Blaine.
[Translation.]
Legation of Chile,
Washington, November 24,
1891. (Received November 25.)
I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of an autograph letter, by
which Señor Don Jorge Montt, president of the Government Junta of my
country, communicates to His Excellency the President the submission of
the entire territory of the Republic to the legal authority.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
President Montt
to President Harrison.
Great and Good Friend: It gives me great
satisfaction to inform Your Excellency that, legal authority being
reëstablished throughout the territory of the Republic, the Council
of the Government over which I have the honor to preside has fixed
its seat at the capital of the Republic. In communicating to Your
Excellency the change provisionally made in the rule of the Chilean
nation, it devolves on me to state to you that the Council of the
Government desires in every way to secure and to strengthen the
exalted relations of friendship of the people and Government of
Chile with the people and Government of the United States of
America.
Given at my office, the 31st day of
August, in the year of our Lord 1891.
- Jorge Montt.
- Isidoro Errazuriz.
