The Chilean Minister to the Secretary of State.
Washington, November 26, 1908.
Sir. I have had the honor to receive your excellency’s courteous note of the 24th instant in which, referring to this legation’s communication of July 31 to the department and to the department’s note of August 28, both relative to the claim of Alsop & Co., your excellency is pleased to say that the department would be glad to receive the information and antecedents held by the Government of Chile that would justify the reduction proposed in the amount due under the agreement between Mr. Wheelwright and the Government of Bolivia.
In reply I have the honor to say to your excellency that the legation duly informed its Government of the wish expressed by your excellency in the said note of August 29 and that it will also acquaint it, by the next mail, with the contents of your excellency’s note of the 24th instant to which this is an answer. I will promptly communicate to your excellency whatever information or antecedent I may receive, from my Government regarding this matter.
In the meanwhile I venture to repeat to your excellency the wish I have had the honor to express to your excellency on a previous occasion to the effect that the Government of Chile, sensible of the justice of its cause and of the elevated and upright discernment which prevails in the chancellery of the United States, attaches special interest to his excellency the Secretary of State taking personal cognizance of the antecedents of the case and especially of the note of April 9 to the American minister at Santiago in which the claim of the Chilean firm of Alsop & Co., is analyzed and the attitude of our chancellery toward it defined.
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