The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-06
Argentine Republic.
CHILEAN BOUNDARY.

CHILEAN BOUNDARY.
A long unsettled dispute as TO the ex-
tended boundaries between the Argentine
Republic and Chile, stretching along the
Andean crests TO the southern border
from the Atacama desert TO the Ma
gellan Straits nearly a third OF the length
Of the South American continent. assumed
an acute stage in the early part OF the
year and afforded this government oeca-
sion TO express tht hope that the resort
to arbitration, already contemplated by
existing conventions between the parties,
might prevail, despite the grave difficult
ties arising in its application / am happy
TO say that arrangements 10 this end have
been perfected, the questions of fact upon
which the respective commissioners were
unable 10 agree being in course of refer
ence 10 Her Britannia majesty for deter
minadon.
A residual difference touching the north
ern boundary line across the Atacama
desert, for which existing treaties provid-
ed no adequate adjustment, bids fair 70 be
settled in like manner by commission,
upon which the United States minister at
Buenos Ayres has been invited 20 serve as
umpire in the last resort.
CABLE DISSEMINATION.
have found occasion to approach the
Argentine government with a view TO re-
moving differences of rate charges impos-
ed upon the cables of an American cor
pOratiOn in the transmission between
Buenos Ayres and the cities of Uruguay
and Brazil of through messages passing
from and to the United States. Although
the matter is complicated by exclsuive
concessions by Uruguay and Brazil to for
eign companies, there is strong hope that
a good understanding viii be reached and
that the important channels OF CONNER
cial communication between the United
States and the Atlantic cities of South
America may be freed from an almost
prohibitory discrimination.
INTERNATIONAL CABLE RATES.
In this relation 1 may be permitted to
express my sense of the fitness of an in
ternational agreement whereby the inter-
change of messages over connecting ca
bles may be regulated on a fair basis of
uniformity. The world has seen the pos
tai system developed from a congeries of
independent and exclusive service into a
well ordered union, of which all countries
found the manifold benefits. 1t would be
strange We're the atoms not, in time,
brought to realize that modern civiliza-
ton, which owes so much of its progress
to the humiliation of space by the electric
force, demands that this all-important
means of communication is a heritage of
all peoples. to be administered and regu-
lated in their common behalf. A step in
this direction was taken when the inter-
national conyention of 1884 for the protec-
ton of submarine cables as signed, and
the day is. trust, not far distant when
this medium for the transmission of
though from land 10 land may Zoe brought
within the domain of international concert
as ompletely as in the material carriage
of commerce and correspondence upon the
face of the waters that divide them.
THOMAS ]. PAGES CLAIM.
The claim of Thomas jefferson Page
against Argentina, which has been pend
ing many years has been adjusted. The
sum awarded by the congress of ArCen-
tina was 81 94o *