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President Coolidge of the U. S., arbitrator of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru, handed down his award last week after 15 months of consideration by the U. S. State Department...
...Provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna and Arica, were seized by Chile in the Chile-Peruvian War. According to the Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified 1884), which ended the war, the fate of the latter two Provinces was to be decided in 1894 by a plebiscite, after they had been under Chilean authority for ten years. If the Provinces reverted to Peru, the latter was to pay Chile $5,000,000; if the plebiscite favored Chile then Chile's right to the Provinces was to be considered absolute...
...matter. They failed to point out the economic background of the struggle. Two thirds of a century ago the desert provinces which later bred war and whose present place as a storm center of controversy was emphasized by the award, were regarded as worthless, and the boundary lines of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in that territory were but roughly defined. Then the spread of scientific farming methods, and the inadequacy of the South American guano deposits to meet the demand for fertilizing nitrates, led to the discovery and exploitation of the vast desert deposits in the Tacna-Arica districts...
...from $720 to $1,200.* (Went to House.) ¶ Adopted the conference report on the Appropriation Bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. (Went to the President.) ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Alanson B. Houghton to be Ambassador to Great Britain. ¶ Ratified a convention with Chile for the mutual protection of trademarks. ¶ Gave up a precious afternoon and evening of work in respect to the memory of the late Senator Medill McCormick (see below). ¶ Extensively debated the McFadden Bill, which would allow National Banks to establish branches. ¶ Debate on the Isle of Pines Treaty...
...additional appropriation of $10,000 (making the total $25,000) was requested by the Government for the Prince of Wales' forthcoming trip to South Africa and South America. The additional amount was made necessary by the acceptance of invitations from Chile and Uruguay. The appropriation was carried 295 votes to 87, majority of 208 but not before some of the Laborites Opposition had attacked the Prince's visits...