723.2515/1075: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 15—9:20 a.m.]
81. Chilean Foreign Office has furnished me following official text of resolution approved today by Chamber of Deputies by vote of 78 against 26 with 2 blank votes and 8 absentees, this being nearly three-fourths of those present and voting and exactly two-thirds of total membership:
“The bill of the Senate is approved with the correction of striking out the following (here follows text of reservations to the protocol adopted by the Senate October 16 last).
Consequently the approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the Chilean-Peruvian agreement at Washington is of the following tenor: The protocol of arbitration and the supplementary act signed at Washington on July 20, 1922, by the plenipotentiaries of Chile and Pure are approved.
The ratifications of the protocol and supplementary act shall be exchanged in Washington, notwithstanding the expiration of the period stipulated in article 3, within the new period which the Government of Chile will agree upon with the Government of Peru.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs informs me that no request for extension will be made until after final action of the [Senate]. He is hopeful that Senate will not insist on reservations and is confident that if it does Chamber of Deputies will sustain ratification without reservation by a two-thirds vote which Senate cannot override.