The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-06
SAN SALVADOR'S WAR
Causes That Led Up to The Recent
lnSuffeCtion.
The National Capitol Was Burned
Army Generals Revoited--Sol-
diers Deserted Their Colors--
Murder and Raplne.

WASHINGTON. July 5.-Further particu-
lars, giving n complete insight into the re-
cent disturbances i'm Salvador, Central
America. have just been brought TO light
from semi-ofiicial sources.
The sudden death of General Menen-
dez, president OF Salvador, the assump-
ton of power by General Carlos Ezta and
the attitude of Guatemala in the present
crisis all have a bearing which tends To
show the possible outcome of the difii-
Guilty. This is feeling which pervades
just now, that the ratification OF the Cen
tral American union, which was agreed
upon by the delegates of the five repub-
lies of Guatamala, Honduras, Salvador,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica In San Saliva
dor, i'm December last. will not be ac-
cepted on September Is.
In the first place the treaty of the
union has To be ratified by each of the
individual congresses, of the separate
states, and this has not yet been done by
either Nicaragua or Costa Rica. The
treaty will only come before the Costa
Rica congress in next December and be-
fore the Nicaragua in February OF next
year, as there has been no session of con-
gress in the latter republic this year. IL
is pretty clearly given to understand by
those two named republics that neither
one of them will ratify the Central Ameri-
can union compact, as they are assured
that scheme is on foot whereby il is in
tended that the Guatamalian element
shall predominate. Neither the Nicar-
agIans nor the Costa Ricans have a SUPER
abundance of love for the Guatamalians.
The reasons are historical ones and need
not he repeated here.
The present unsettled state of affairs i'm
Salvador had its origin with the burning
of the national palace i'm San Salvador in
November of last year, and To this day the
cause of the conflagration mas never been
correctly understood. When the palace
was burned, all the archives OF the gov
ernment of Salvador, consisting OF treat
les and other valuable historical and pol
itical documents. as well as the accounts
of the TREASURY, were all completely de-
stroyed, nothing whatever being saved.
1t was currently rumored at the time
that the fire was the work of an incendi-
AIRY sent over to Salvador by Guatemala,
and that the object of the fire was To in
stitute a revolutionary movement to de-
pose General Menendez from the presi-
dental chair. Besides, il was also said
that there existed several secret compacts
or treaties with Guatemala, in which the
latter country had pledged herself to cer-
tain obligations toward San Salvador,
which she did not wish to keep, or rather
which she did not deem il To her interests
to have hanging over her head like the
sword Of Damocles. Suffice il to say these
secret treaties cannot now be found either
i'm Salvador or Guatemala, although they
are known to have existed up to within "a
few months past.
The secret treaties originated i'm the
way of the war of the Central American
union i'm 1885, when General Barrios was
killed and the Guatamalan armies COM
pletely routed after the death of their
leader.
Salvador then had the whip hand over
Guatamala, and the latter country, threat
ened by an international struggle, was
compelled To make peace on any terms,
and, therefore, acceded to the many
treaties stipulations which were degrad.
ing her. Salvador continued to keep
these treaties as a source of a check for
any undue influence which Guatemala
might try to exercise over her. But now
that Salyador's palace and Its contents
had been destroyed and Guatemala being
the sole possessor of the only copies ex-
tant, she was not So foolish as then to dis
play them TO her disadvantage. Zergo
quietly suppressed them.
Then began the real trouble. Guata-
mala made proposals to Mcnendez 10 con.
troll the coming Salvador congress in the
next presidential election, which should
take place next February, and then advo-
cate for General Camilo Alzertez, the high
est military chief i'm Gautamala after the
secretary of war.
General Alertze is "A native of San A.
vador and consequently eligible to the
presidency of Salvador; but at the same
time he is hand and glove with President
Barillas of Guatamala, and is consequently
not liked by the Narves of his native coun
try. President Menendez would not agree
10 this measure prope byGuatamala and
deferred to the treaties of 1856. Guata
mala boldly denied the existence OF the
treaties. and dared Salvador to do heI
worst. President Menendez then became
thoroughly terrorized and promised Guat.
amala to do her bidding. The latter hav
ing gained her point sought to push mat
tiers still further. and to the end, she com
PEELED her president. Menendez, TO entel
into triparti treaty with Guatamala, Hon
duras and Salvador, TO the effect that I
Costa Rica and Nicaragua did not ratif,
the union of the five states i'm Septembe
| next the three former were to compel tin
latter two by war-like measures.