The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-27
FRIENDS WITH CHILL
Mckinley and the New Min
lister Swap Compliments.
BUSINESS Is BUSINESS
ViCuna Announces His Coun-
try Solid on This Axiom.

Washington. Aug. 2s.-Senor vicuna,
the new minister from Chilli TO this coun-
try was accompanied to the White House
today by Secretary Day and presented to
the president. There was the usual ex-
change of diplomatic greetings incident
TO the reception OF a new minister. Senior
Vicuna in presenting his credentials said
in part:
Mr.. Presilent-The mission which has
been confded TO me has for its principal
object as is expressed in tbs text of my
credentials, TO maintain and draw closer
day by day the amicable relations which
happily exist between the two republics.
The people and government OF Chile
oeheld in this great nation a model wor-
thy Of being initiated in its just and lib
eral institutions, in its spirit Of ample
tolerance and tenacious energy with
which 1t proceeds with even course IN all
the paths Of progress, amazing the world
with its prodigious and rapid develop
ment
Chile has experienced from the earliest
years of her independence life the efficacy
of the influence of this powerful republic
to preserve peace or to restore it when it
has ben interrupted-not only between
states Of this continent and European
states, but also between the American
states themselves.
THE treaty of indefinite truce nego-
tiated between four South American re-
publics and Spain in 1870 in this same
city of Washington under the auspices
OF this government; the treaty which.
having been negotiated through the in
termediary of the ministers of the United
States in Santiago and Buenos Ayres fur
nished in 1881 the means for a pacific So
luton of the question of boundaries pend
ing between Chile and the Argentine re-
public-are a proof of this beneficent in
luence.
1.-The financial and commercial relations
between this country. the emporium of
every class of productions and wealth
and Chile have scarcely been initiated
and are. in the opinion of experts. sus-
ceptible OF mediate and considerable de-
velopment. My instructions charge me to
bring about this development and I will
do so with the zeal aroused in me by the
conviction that economical interests are
constantly acquiring greater preponder-
ance in international relations.
II trust, sir, that 1 will meet from your
excenency and your government the
favorable welcome ane the benevolent as
sistance indispensable for the successful
discharge and accomplishment OF my mis-
sion"
The president replied in part as fol-
lows:
"Mr. Minister-That you accomplish the
object of your mission in drawing closer
the friendly ties that have long existed
between your republic and ours. cannot
permit myself to doubt, inasmuch as the
same high purpose inspires the govern
ment of the United States and to that
end 1 can assure you of the hearty CO.
operation of myself and of my associates
in administration. in faithful fulfillment
of the will of the people of the United
States to dwell in peace. in friendship.
and in close community of interests with
their neighbors on the great western con-
tinents.
"You agreeably recall occasions when
this cordial spirit of our government and
people have been manifested toward the
commonwealth of South America in the
interest of peace and good will among
them and between them and foreign
states. Springing as it does from wholly
impartial motives of friendship, that
friendly disposition cannot but continue
in the future as in the past whenever
fitting occasion for it's expression may
arise. without initiative or OF solicitation
on our part.
THE enlargement Of the economical (
and commercial ties between the states of
this hemisphere. 10 which you advert. is
a matter Of very kindly feeling on the |
part of this government and people, /
whose existing egislation looks to a share /.
in this beneficent and progressive move /
ment on the basis of mutual accornmo- {
dalton and equitable reciprocity not mere /
ly with the American states but with all I
n-.,,- .--.o. - IA r.--.-L.A