The Question of the Pacific

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: has not been brought about by our diplomatic ability, but from its own virtue. THE TREATY OF 1874. All of the foregoing incidents which had given rise to so much ill feeling pn either side, and which had been productive of very lengthy and tedious diplomatic negotiations, were finally embodied in a...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: has not been brought about by our diplomatic ability, but from its own virtue. THE TREATY OF 1874. All of the foregoing incidents which had given rise to so much ill feeling pn either side, and which had been productive of very lengthy and tedious diplomatic negotiations, were finally embodied in a protocol drawn up between both parties on the 5th of December, 1872. According to this protocol the Chilean Government extended its claims to the interior of the desert of Atacama towards the east, and thereby altered the original nature of the question, which, as has been seen, was one relating only to the littoral. Now, the question was more properly one of boundaries, it being the desire of Chile to fix permanently its northern frontier, and to this effect she claimed by Article I. that the eastern boundaries of Chile, mentioned in Article I of the treaty of 1866, shall be the highest peaks of the Andes, and, therefore, the line of division between Chile and Bolivia is the 24 of south latitude, from the Pacific Ocean to the summit of the cordillera of the Andes.'' This protocol was not approved of by the Chilean Congress or by the Bolivian Assembly, and further negotiations becoming necessary in order to reach a final understanding, in 1874 the following treaty was celebrated: Article I. The parallel of the 24 from the ocean to the cordillera of the Andes, in the divortia aqiiamm, is the boundary between the Republics of Bolivia and Chile. Article II. For the effects of this treaty the lines of the parallels 23 and 24, established by Commissioner Pissis and Mujia, and to which the acts of the proceedings of February loth, 1870, bear testimony, shall be considered as holding and subsisting. Should there arise any doubts as to the true and exact location of the C...