Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1882

No. 50.
Mr. Trescot to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

[Telegram.]

Special Mission of the United States,
Santiago, February 24, 1882.

Frelinghuysen, Washington:

Chili will not modify peace terms, alleging they are, in deference to the United States, better than the offer at Arica and Lima. Terms are extreme, but Chili is so strong, Peru so weak, that mere friendly intervention will not have effect. Telegraph at once definite instructions what to say and what to do. No use remaining here. Shall I go to Peru and to Bolivia? Shall Blaine remain or return?

TRESCOT.