Ernest Dichman to United States of Colombia, National Executive Power , Bogotá , September 3, 1880 . The present convention is approved. The President of the Union: RAFAEL NUÑEZ . The Secretary of Foreign Relations: EUSTACIO SANTAMARÍA, September 7, 1880

No. 210. Mr. Dichman to Mr. Evarts.

Sir: The relations between Colombia and Chili having been of an unfriendly nature for some time past on account of the alleged acts of Colombian officials at Panama, which the Government of Chili has considered as violations of neutrality and of the treaty in force between the two countries, I am happy to inform you that harmony has been restored by the execution of a treaty between the two countries, a copy and translation of which I beg to inclose.

The principle which underlies the treaty is the submission of all matters in dispute to arbitration; and in connection therewith your attention is respectfully called to Article II, which constitutes the President of the United States the arbitrator.

The proposition contained in Article III, to induce other nations to make similar treaties, and to make the practice of arbitration in the settlement of international disputes a principle of international law, is worthy of consideration, as tending to bring about a peaceful settlement of many misunderstandings, the seeds of which have existed in all the Spanish American countries from the time of the colonial period down to the present day.

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