ditional appropriation of $100,000, of which it is possible that a small part would not be expended. If it shall seem proper to Congress to provide for this additional relief, it is respectfully suggested that it is advisable that the appropriation should be available by the 1st day of April next. ROBERT T. LINCOLN, The SPEAKER of the House of Representatives. Secretary of War. 1st Session. No. 142. NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE RESTORATION OF PEACE IN SOUTH AMERICA. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN RESPONSE TO A resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State touching the negotiations for the restoration of peace in South America. MARCH 28, 1882.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday, the 27th instant, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, touching the negotiations for the restoration of peace in South America. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 28, 1882. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th instant, requesting the President, "if not incompatible with the public interests, to inform the House whether any protocol has been signed by Mr. Trescot or any other diplomatic representative of the United States, setting forth terms for ending the war in South America; and if any such protocol has been signed, to furnish the House with a copy of the same and also with copies of the correspondence relating thereto, not already communicated to one of the Houses of Congress," has the honor to lay before the President the following report in answer to that resolution: Up to the present time the Department of State has received no information, either from Mr. Trescot or from the diplomatic representatives of the United States in Chili or Peru, that any protocol of the character described by the resolution has been signed by Mr. Trescot or by such diplomatic representatives. As coming, however, within the general scope of the resolution, and in order that Congress may have all possible information touching the negotiations for the restoration of peace in South America, the Secre tary of State has the honor to submit to the President, to be laid before the House of Representatives, if, in his judgment, such a course be advisable, the substance of the telegrams exchanged with Mr. Trescot subsequent to the date of the last submission of correspondence to either branch of Congress, and a copy of an instruction mailed to Mr. Trescot on the 24th ultimo, as described in the accompanying list of papers. Respectfully submitted. The PRESIDENT. FRED'K T. FRELINGHUYSEN. LIST OF PAPERS. No. 1. Mr. Trescot to Mr. Frelinghuysen. Telegram, February 2, 1882. Telegram, February 25, 1882. Telegram, March 16, 1882. No. 1. Mr. Trescot to Mr. Frelinghuysen. [Telegram.] FEBRUARY 2, 1882. I have received from you no answer to my telegram of the 23d of January. It is very desirable that I should have one. No. 2. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Trescot. [Telegram.] FEBRUARY 4, 1882. The President instructs me to say that this government can only propose to give counsel and aid negotiations. Chili must determine for herself whether she deems it wise to listen to such counsel. No part will be taken by the United States in negotiations based both upon the surrender of Tarapaca and the payment of an indemnity of $20,000,000. The demand is looked upon as exorbitant, and it is thought that the time has come when Chili may be magnanimous and just. No. 3. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Trescot. [Telegram.] FEBRUARY 21, 1882. The President and the Department have been hoping that you would report progress by cable. You may assent to a liberal war indemnity which is not unjust. The cession of Tarapaca cannot be assented to without first cabling here for further instructions. If Chili should insist upon the cession, it is not impossible that the creditors of Peru may maintain that its revenues are hypothecated to them. The President urges moderation on the part of Chili. No. 7.] No. 4. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Trescot. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 24, 1882. SIR: I have received your No. 1 of the 13th ultimo, announcing your arrival at Santiago, and the opening of negotiations with the Chilian Government. Before answering this dispatch it will be convenient to repeat the substance of the telegrams between you and the Department since the 1st of January, to make sure that they have been properly received. On the 3d of January I telegraphed you to exert a pacific influence, avoiding any issue which might lead to your withdrawal from Chili. This was sent direct in cipher. On the 4th of January Í telegraphed you, to the care of the American consul at Panama, to be forwarded thence by the mail leaving that day, that the President desired to extend his friendly offices, impartially and alike, to both countries, and I again directed you to exert a pacific influence, and to avoid issues leading to offense. Being myself in negotiation with Mr. Martinez, I informed you that the Calderon affair and its surroundings would be attended to here, and I told you that we preferred that when you came home you should not return by way of Buenos Ayres. It was nearly three weeks before we heard from you, during which time I assume that you were occupied in carrying out your instructions as modified by my telegrams. n the evening of the 23d of January I received a cable from you, the main part of which was easily decipherable; some parts, however, were more difficult. As rendered, it informed the Department that all intention of offending by the removal of Calderon was disclaimed; that our good offices were accepted, and would facilitate conferences with the Peruvian Government, with the exception of Calderon; and that Chili was prepared to make peace on the condition of the cession of Tarapaca, and payment of $20,000,000 within ten years, Arica to be occupied until payment, and to be ceded to Chili in case of default in payment, the guano at Lobos to be appropriated by Chili. In case Peru should refuse peace on these conditions the United States were not to interfere further. You further stated in this telegram that your instructions did not authorize you to offer the good offices of the United States on these conditions, and suggested that I should instruct you not to interfere on these conditions; that you might recognize the necessity of ceding Tarapaca, but if these modifications could not be obtained, I should instruct you to carry out your instruction No. 2. As I have before remarked, it took some time to decipher this dispatch. On the 26th of January I received from you another cable informing me that the Chilian minister for foreign affairs was of opinion that General Kilpatrick's dispatches and instructions should not be published. Before the receipt of that cable both houses of Congress had called for all the correspondence relating to Chili and Peru, and all had been prepared and sent in response to the call. On the 24 February you cabled me that it was desirable that I should reply to your telegram of the 23d, and I did so on the 4th of February. I said that this government proposed only to give counsel and to aid in negotiations, and that Chili must determine for herself whether it was wise to listen to such counsel. I reiterated the substance of the former instructions of the President that the United States would not take part in negotiations which are based upon both the surrender of Tarapaca and the payment of $20,000,000. I told you that the demand was looked upon as exorbitant, and that it was thought that the time had come when Chili might be magnanimous and just. Again, on the 21st instant, I telegraphed you that the President and the Department had been hoping that you would report progress by cable. I instructed you that a liberal war indemnity which was not unjust would be assented to by this government, but that the cession of Tarapaca could not be assented to unless you should first cable here for further instructions, and I told you that if Chili should insist upon that cession it was not impossible that the creditors of Peru would maintain that its revenue was hypothecated to them. I further instructed you that the President urges moderation on the part of Chili. Since then I have received nothing from you until your No. 1 arrived a few days since. My telegrams, if they have reached you in an unmutilated form, will have possessed you of the substance of the President's wishes in this matter. He is very desirous of having the good offices of the United States made available for the restoration of peace; but he is not willing to become the medium for a proposal, which, in his judgment, is so onerous that it cannot be entertained by Peru. He is still of the opinion that it would be the part of far-sighted wisdom in Chili to accept from Peru the payment of a just indemnity in money, guaranteed, if insisted on, by temporary occupation of territory rather than peremptorily to demand cession of territory. On the other hand, he remains convinced that the United States has no right which is conferred either by treaty stipulations or by public law to impose upon the belligerents, unasked, its views of a just settlement, and it has no interests at stake commensurate with the evils that might follow an interference, which would authorize it to interpose between these parties, further than warranted by treaties, by public law, or by the voluntary acts of both parties. If Chili is indisposed to listen to friendly advice on this point, the President, as my cable has already informed you, will not take part in negotiations which are based upon both the surrender of Tarapaca and the payment of a large indemnity. To demand of Peru the surrender of the valuable province and the payment of $20,000,000 in ten years, with a disorganized government, |