Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Señor Infante.

Department of State,
Washington, November 17, 1899.

No. 26.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 11th instant, advising the Department that your Government would endeavor to have the appropriation to pay the claim of the heirs of Patrick Shields, as well as the claims convention, passed upon by the Chilean Congress at its present extra session.

In reply I have the honor to inform you that the Department received, on the 15th instant, a cablegram from the United States minister at Santiago, stating that the Chilean Congress had ratified the claims convention, with two amendments.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay.