Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-28
ANOTHER REVOLUTION.
The Entire Argentine Republic In q
State OF Siege.

state OF siege.
The revolution which broke ont Saturday in
the barracks Of the tenth regiment at Buenos
Ayres has become general, and the entire re-
public is in a state Of siege, President Juarez
Celmara fugitive. and q revolutionary gov
eminent has been announced with Senior Avern
as president and Senior Romero as minister OF
finance. President Celmara is understood TO
have embarked from the Catalinas Mole on
board foreign ship with his brother, the gov
ernor of Cordova. The plot to overthrow the
government, which has been Matching for some
time, came to a head Saturday morning, when
the tenth regiment headed by its officers, re-
volted. and, marching into the street. at once
began firing. The city was garrsoned by
1000 troops and 5000 armed policemen, but
the revolutionary party had many friends
among the people, and the movement spread
with wonderful rapidlty. Ali the shops were
promptly closed and the banks soon shut their
doors.
FIGHTINa IN THE STREETS OF BUKNos AYREs.
With the aid CT few loyal soldiers and the
police the government tried to isolate the in
surgents and desperate fighting ensued. Many
were killed on both sides, but the insurgents
gathered force as they moved and steadily adj
vanced toward the Plaza de la Victoria, where
the presidents palace is located. The author
tiles managed to hold out until O'Clock in the
afternoon, when President Celmara became
panic-stricken and made his escape. The first
act Of the revoutionists was to liberate Gen.
Manuel J. Campos, who was awaiting trial on
the charge OF Conspiracy against the govern
ment He at once placed himself at the head
of the revolters and they continued the fight
against the police, even going SO far as to de-
stroy buildings, until at nightfall they claimed
to have routed the authorities and to be in full
control OF the republic.
THE INsURGENT FoRCEs.
Saturday Gems. Campos and Arredontes led
the insurgents to renewed hostiities They
seized the arsenal and barracks and intrenched
themselves IN the Plaza Lavalle. Their forces
now include six military and two citizen bat
tallons and the cadet corps. The revolution
has the sympathy of the populace and REIN
forcements are expected from the provinces
The government commands seven battalions
and expects reinforcements from Zarate. The
navy has thus far renamed neutral, but a por-
ton OF the artillery have declared for the revo-
luton. 1t is admitted that the street conflicts
ON Saturday were adverse to the government,
but II Is impossible to get at the number Of
people killed on either side.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.
Senior Pellegrini, the vice president, has as
sumed the presidency, and this afternoon the
authorities opened negotiations with the insur-
gents looking to a cessation Of hostilities. The
revolutionary party, however, claim to have
triumphed, and it is not believed that they will
accept any compromise. The governor Of
Buenos Ayres was seriously injured yesterday,
but none Of the other leaders on either side
suffered in the fight. When the revolutionary
plot was first foreshadowed the government
caused the arrest of Gen. Campos, Col. Figu-
eroa and Maj. Casargo. All denied any knowl-
edge of the conspiracy, but detectives we're at
nj in fh.a aEa and nA,o
houses. This espionage was deeply resented
by the army. lie officers who were arrested
were great iavorites with the rank and file and
the injustice which it is claimed had been
done them was deeply resented. 1t was said at
the time that the government might find diff
Guilty IN tustifying the action which had arisen
from the fright OF President Celmars's advisers.
AT that time guards were stationed about the
palace OF President Celmara but on an apparent
subsldence OF the excitement they were with
drawn.
CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
The revolution is due in part to the state into
which the finances of the republic have fallen.
The financial troubles were brought before the
world about July /, when the London Times
nouncing that the National Bank had. sus-
pended payment OF the quarterly dividend that
had previously passed the annual meeting of
the board OF directors. English capitalists are
the chief creditors OF the republic, and the i'm
mediate effect Of this announcement in the
Tunes was big drop in the shares Of the Ar
gentine National Bank and in the ''cedulas"
which are the republics promises to pay. 1t
WAS at once announced that what the
directors of the bank had really done was to
postpone the declaration of the quarterly divi-
dend until October for prudential reasons. and
there was some recovery i'll Argentine securities.
But while Argentine credit in Europe has
been good it has lately been well known that
the countrys finances we're drifting into a
rather chaotic condition. The national debt
amounts to 1886, 341, 442. while the provinces
and the city OF Buenos Ayres owe respectively
S2l3, 682.252 and S2i 044,752 On this aggre-
gate indebtedness Of S575, O6S, 446 an immense
tribute in gold has annually been paid, chiefly
to England. The interest charge on the ma
tional debt amounted to S16,024, 532. With a
decline in imports. the duties upon which are
the governments chief source of income it
has required more than one-fourth the annual
revenues to meet the interest charge