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exchanged except that of the new governor, and the short one of the minister of the interior. The submission to the government is absolute and complete within the limits of the constitution.

The attributes of the President of the republic have been entirely recognized, subject to no private or public arrangement.

The President of the republic has announced, through the minister of the interior, that he will not arouse any political or military trials, in order to stop animosities and secure peace. When making these declarations, the President used a faculty conferred on him by the constitution, exclusive of the privileges he enjoys as commander-inchief of the war operations, and of the circumstances tending to their termination. It is inopportune here to answer the seventh question.

The commanders and officers who did not obey the summons of the government, and those who served in the rebellion, have been struck off the army roll.

The same happens to the employés of the government who have lost their positions through a deliberate and spontaneous decision of their own. Strictly speaking, no dismissals have been made. When the government officers were removed to Belgrano, all the employés were summoned to occupy their respective posts. Each chief of department personally notified them of this resolution. A subsequent decree accorded to them a further term to present themselves, after the expiration of which they were considered to have abandoned their posts.

As regards the second question, the answer is simple. Whatever concerns the internal arrangement of Congress is not within the jurisdiction of the Executive; therefore nothing could be decided upon in this matter. The Executive has recog

The third question finds its answer in the recent events. nized as governer of the province of Buenos Ayres the president of the senate, which signifies the recognition of this body and of the legislature.

The fourth question is already answered; the fifth and sixth ditto. The President of the republic has liberated the prisoners, according to his faculties as commanderin-chief of the armies of the republic. This has been done without conditions, and not conditioned on the disarming of the rebel forces, taking on himself all the respon sibility of the act.

The eighth and ninth questions are quickly answered.

The arms of the rebel forces shall be deposited in the arsenal of the nation, comprising, naturally, those which were violently landed on the 2d of June ultimo.

The joint disarmament of the national army could not be stipulated, as its formation and numbers depend on the laws of Congress.

As regards the national guard mobilized, it will remain in arms as long as deemed necessary by the Executive, or until a law of Congress dissolves it.

In reference to the tenth question, the executive power declares emphatically that there is no truce, but peace. The republic has not been convulsed to its very confines, nor has the noble blood of its sons flowed in vain; it has been spilt to guarantee its prosperity and existence from future commotions. It would be a crime to render these great efforts barren of the essential condition of our existence-peace for the province of Buenos Ayres and for all.

The Executive trusts to the honor and patriotism of the governor of Buenos Ayres, and thinks that he will soon give a definite policy to his government, basing it on pacific and sound elements, and especially in the sentiment of peace, which is the aspiration of all and a supreme necessity.

Up to the present the internal situation of the province has changed but slightly, and the public peace remains in the same hands which opposed the government of the nation.

The Executive wishes the province of Buenos Ayres to return to its former normal condition, and will make every effort towards this result, hoping that prudent and peaceful measures will open the road to facilitate action.

The eleventh question refers to a determination which entirely depends upon the turn of events. It is difficult to fix the day of the return of the government to Buenos Ayres, since up to this moment no communication has been received as to the disarming of the forces. The trenches are not even yet leveled.

The twelfth occasion depends on the deliberation of Congress.

The Executive might have refused to answer several of the questions put to it, it prefers that on this occasion its conduct may be known by all. God preserve your honors.

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N. AVELLANEDA.

B. ZORRILLA.

No. 296.]

No. 24.

Mr. Osborn to Mr. Evarts.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,

Buenos Ayres, September 6, 1880. (Received October 30.) SIR: The national interventor, General Bustillos, having taken possession of the provincial chambers, while the legislature was taking a recess, with an armed force, by orders of the President, and prohibited the legislature from assembling again, on the 1st instant, Governor Moreno and his ministers, with the municipal authorities of the city and the chief of police, resigned their offices. Governor Moreno issued an address to the people of the province-a printed copy of which I inclose herewith-giving his reasons why he and his ministers can no longer retain their offices.

It is said the President will also issue an address denying many of the statements in the address of the governor, and at the same time will set forth that since the close of the rebellion the provincial legislature has been guilty of acts both treasonable and revolutionary. The national interventor has summoned the people of the province to elect a new legislature on the 26th instant. The complexion of the new legislature will undoubtedly be in conformity with the desire of the national government, as the opposition will very probably refuse to vote.

At any other time the sweeping changes of the provincial authorities would probably have led to serious consequences, but as a result of the suppression of the late rebellion, the people accept the situation with becoming silence and resignation. Gold in the market has fallen, Argentine stocks have advanced, and business men look forward to the administration of President Roca with confidence.

I have, &c.,

THOS. O. OSBORN.

[Inclosure with No. 296.-From the Standard, February 2, 1880.]

ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF BUENOS AYRES.

When the vice-governor assumed power on July 1, circumstances clearly traced his line of action. After the bloody events of June, negotiations for peace, the details of which the people already know, were opened with the President of the republic, who, as constitutional commander-in-chief, commanded the army operating against Buenos Ayres.

The reciprocal obligations contracted in those negotiations included the submission and obedience of the province to the national government, the city forces to be disbanded, and their arms to be deposited in the arsenal, the President, on his part, recognizing the existing public powers of the province, and refraining from any civil or military prosecutions, without prejudice, however, to his administrative and military faculties.

The details of the due execution of the foregoing bases were arranged privately, as the people already know.

The government at once adopted every means to loyally carry out the obligations entered into, and to insure complete pacification. The vice-governor officially announced the submission of the province to the national authorities, and this was fully accepted by the President of the republic in documents already published. All measures necessary for disbanding and disarming the city forces were subsequently taken, and the details set forth in a note to the national government, stating that each and every one of the obligations entered into by the province had been duly fulfilled, according to the bases agreed on with the President of the republic.

(Here follows the governor's note to Minister Zorrilla, the contents of which are already known.)

To this hour no answer has been received to this note. On the contrary, a national commissioner has ruled in the camp districts, since the 18th June, whose chief duty was to protect life and property while the governor of Buenos Ayres was in armed resistance and the war lasted, and whose authority should have ceased when the circumstances to which it was due had disappeared.

The Government of Buenos Ayres has made every effort, privately and officially, to induce the national government to fulfill its obligations, but every day there was some delay, while the public authorities of the province were curtailed in their attributes, and at last the legislature was dissolved by an act of congress, declaring it in rebellion, although since peace was made it had done no legislative act to warrant such a declaration, and without congress having any legal or constitutional right to make it.

Buenos Ayres has laid down its arms, disbanded its forces, submitted to the national government, and resumed the regime of peace, relying on arrangements which, although wanting the formality of a treaty between political entities, were not the less solemn and binding on Argentine honor and the good faith of the nation.

The president has twice corroborated this, first in congress, when he said that in recognizing the vice-governor he recognized the legislature; and, again, when he declared that, as commander-in-chief, he had accepted the submission of the Buenos Ayres revolutionists, while leaving the public authorities of the province intact. This incinded the legislature and condoned its previous acts.

These declarations, which are in exact conformity with the agreement made, show, that the act of congress maintaining the intervention and dissolving the chambers is in direct opposition to them, disclosing quite a different system of pacification, tending to a dissolution and reconstruction of the public bodies of the province. To this end a special commissioner has summoned the people to elect a new legislature, ignoring the provincial executive and riding rough-shod over article 105 of the constitution, which allows the provinces to elect their own governors, legislators, &c., without any interference by the federal government. In this way the basis on which the government that succeeded Governor Tejedor's was to restore order and its regular institutions to the province has disappeared and the dignity of the province, with which is linked the dignity of its government, imperiously demands that the latter should abandon a post which they can only consent to retain on the conditions stipulated with the national government.

The legislature has been dissolved by national troops, without any intimation to either chamber; and, as no public body now exists in whose hands the members of the executive can place their resignation, and it being impossible for them to fulfill their constitutional duties, we hereby declare before the people of Buenos Ayres that we leave our posts with the consciousness of having done our duty in the present critical times, with regret at not being able to accomplish the task set us by public opinion and necessity, and with the hope that more elevated ideas of justice and political honesty may soon produce happier days for the province and for the country.

JOSÉ M. MORENO.
F. ALCOBENDAS.
F. L. BALBIN.

BUENOS AYRES, September 1, 1880.

No. 25.

No. 300.]

Mr. Osborn to Mr. Evarts.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,

Buenos Ayres, September 22, 1880. (Received October 30.) SIR: On the 17th instant, Col. W. P. Tisdel, the agent of Mr. Roach's line of American steamers from New York to Rio de Janeiro, arrived in this city, for the purpose of examining into and reporting upon the feasibility of extending the line of steamers to this city. After the colonel had had conferences with our merchants, I had the pleasure of presenting him to the minister of the interior, and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs B. Zorrilla, on the afternoon of the 20th instant, and in the evening to the President and the other ministers, at the President's private residence and at the President's request.

In the interview at the executive mansion, the President said that under the administration of President Sarmiento the Argentine Congress had voted a standing subsidy of $20,000 a year to any company that would place a line of steam vessels from Buenos Ayres to any port of the United States, and that during his administration, on the 19th of June, 1878, after an interview with me on the subject (see my dispatch No. 193), he sent a message to congress asking for $25,000 as a subsidy for such a line, and that congress did not hesitate a moment to vote it. The President further stated that not only he and the authorities, but the people of the Argentine Republic, felt the liveliest interest in the project to draw closer the commercial and social ties between the two countries through the medium of steam communications, and that if Colonel Tisdel-although his administration would go out of power in a few days-would present a petition, he would send it to congress at once, with a message asking that the subsidy be increased, and that if congress could reach it before the close of its session, it would undoubtedly be passed.

The present administration closes the 12th of next month, when General Roca will be peacefully inaugurated the next President. He probably understands the wants of this country and is as progressive in his views as, if not more so than, any President this Republic ever had.

In view of these facts, Colon 1 Tisdel will postpone the presentation of his petition until the next administration is under way.

In this view of the matter, I am in full accord with him. From our merchants and shippers in the River Plate, Colonel Tisdel has received good and strong encouragements in favor of extending the line to this port. The extension of Mr. Roach's line to this city will doubtless meet with strong opposition. Lamport & Holt now dispatch, and have for the past year, two steam vessels per month with cargo direct for New York, but the steamers so dispatched return by way of England; hence our products which would and should find a direct route to the River Plate are shipped to England and reshipped to this market as English products.

It is a notorious fact here that American hams, cheeses, and many other articles of American products find their way to this market as English products, simply for the want of steam communication between this port and New York, or some other port in the United States.

It is believed here that if Mr. Roach will extend his line to this point, and it can live for one year, it will be a success.

I have, &c.,

No. 26.

THOS. O. OSBORN.

No. 301.]

Mr. Osborn to Mr. Evarts.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,

Buenos Ayres, September 24, 1880. (Received October 30.)

SIR: On the 21st instant the national chamber of deputies, after a discussion of several weeks, passed a bill declaring Buenos Ayres the permanent capital of the Argentine Republic, subject to its previous cession for that purpose by the provincial legislature, to be elected the 26th instant.

A bill known as the convention bill, which provides that in case the new provincial legislature should refuse to cede the city, a national convention shall meet in February next at the city of Santa Fé to change article 3 of the constitution, so as to make the settling of the capital at Buenos Ayres without the consent of the provisional legislature legal was also adopted. Both bills had previously passed the senate.

The election of deputies to Congress for the province of Buenos Ayres, to replace those who were unseated during the late rebellion, took place on Sunday, the 19th instant, without any disturbance whatever. The deputies elected are some of the most distinguished and prominent men of the province, and in full accord with the incoming administration. Congress returned from Belgrano to this city on the 22d instant. The President, his ministers, and Congress all have returned to their old quarters occupied before the rebellion.

I have, &c.,

THOS. O. OSBORN.

No. 138.]

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

No. 27.

Mr. Evarts to Mr. Kasson.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, November 28, 1879. SIR: Your dispatch No. 256 of the 31st ultimo, inclosing the reply of of His Highness the Prince of Roumania to the letter which the President addressed to him on the 15th of August, 1878, has been received. In connection with the subject of Roumanian recognition, I inclose for your consideration a copy of a letter under date of the 30th ultimo, from Mr. Myer S. Isaacs, president, and other officers of the board of delegates on civil and religious rights of the Hebrews, asking that the government of the United States may exert its influence towards securing for the Hebrew subjects and residents in Roumania the equality of civil and religious rights stipulated in Article XLIV of the treaty of Berlin.

As you aware, this government has ever felt a deep interest in the welfare of the Hebrew race in foreign countries, and has viewed with abhorrence the wrongs to which they have, at various periods, been subjected by the followers of other creeds in the East. This Department is therefore disposed to give favorable consideration to the appeal made by the representatives of a prominent Hebrew organization in this country in behalf of their brethren in Roumania, and while I should not be warranted in making a compliance with their wishes a sine qua non in the establishment of official relations with that country, yet any terms favorable to the interest of this much-injured people which you may be able to secure in the negotiations now pending with the Government of Roumania would be agreeable and gratifying to this Department.

I am, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.

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