Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Egan to Mr. Foster.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Santiago, July 27, 1892.

Mr. Egan reports the acceptance by the Chilean Government of an arbitration to be held in Washington. It proposes that one arbitrator be named by the President of each country, and that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States will decide all differences between the two arbitrators. Mr. Egan thinks that if the proposition is not satisfactory, the Chilean Government will agree to have the President of one of the Republics in Europe designate a third arbitrator.