Note 12 — Chapter XV

The Chilean correspondent of a London newspaper gave this illustration: “Valparaiso, February 11. The changes effected in the composition of the Chilean Ministry, and especially the Finance Department, have at times been so frequent that not very long ago both the British and the United States Ministers informed the President that for the future they would be unable to recognize any change. They complained, not without sufficient reason, that no sooner had they entered into arrangements with one Minister of Finance than these had to be suspended and commenced de novo with his successor, who, again, at the final stages, referred the foreign representatives to his successor at the Treasury Department.”