The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-02

The Annual AssessmontS
amount to between 1926, 900, 900 and $685..
100000 and yet only about half OF this
amount is collected. The Spanish bank
loans the deficit at a high rate OF interest
and then farms out these arrears to. un-
principled sharks at a percentage. Arrears
thus collected necessarily involve q COM
ascation OF property. :.
Accusations Against the judiciary
Have been very frequent of late. La Tri.
bMna. for instance, openly arraigns one Of
the highest officials in the country. "This
man." it says, has served Her Majesty for
gig years at . salary varying from $2,5OO
to $4,000. To-day he is worth 100000.
Through a n agent he buys property ex-'
tensively and secretly. Lawyers help him
and his own name never appears in these
questionable transactions. He was once,
publicly charged with selling justice, and
we do not hesitate to say that 1 prison cell,
would be his reward it heSwers to deuseanii
himself thus in the United States.S For
publishing this article the proprietors Of
La Tribuna were prosecuted and the paper
was suppressed.
Another paper, La tucha, has also been;
suppressed, because il contained extracts
from a private letter Of the late Capt. Gen.
Salamanca to the minister Of Ultra Mar
Previous to its suppression La Iucha an.
nounced that the treasury intended to ore.
fer charges against the clergy. i g al
legged that churches which have only ons''
priest and ~janitor have been drawing
salaries for three priests. As the clergy
are very powerful these charges may Npt 30
pressed. aud even if d dec,siox.,sh8 ald b.
given against them it is q~uitesasGely thai.
the court itself would be suppressed ~ the
government. The supreme court was e.,
gently suppressed because it found A-yS&
dict in favor Of one Prado, who was
charged by the government officials with q;
heinous crime. Sanchez Fuentes, presi.'
dent of the court, was placed on the rs.
hired list, Ramon de Armas was removed
and Valdez Pages was sent to Puerto
Principe to preside over a branch of the
court there. Pralo meanwhile had been
rearrested and will be tried again on the
same charge.
The l'an-Alnerican Congress.
The conservative newspapers here are
jubiiant over what they term the shipwreck
of the Pan American congress at Wash.
ington, and their New York correspond
ants never fail to attribute the meanest
names to all Americans who have taken
part in the congress. These men pay no
iced to that article of the constitution
which authorizes the reigning monarch to
separate, cede or exchange any part Of
Spanish territory and to incorporate any
sther territory with the Spanish Kingdom"
According to La Tarde it is perfectly law
ful to discuss the expediency of incorpo-
Eating Cuba with the United States, and a
popular petition ought to receive attention
from the king aud cortes. Conservatives,
meanwhile, denounce Anglo Saxons aud
the Monroe doctrine, and call loudly for
an Anglo Latin alliance. Opposed to them
are thousands of young Spaniards whom
modern. thought Is irresistibly impelling
toward liberty and progress.
: Liberal editors are doing their work
boldly, in spite Of arrest and impris-'
onment. Many Of these arrests are con-.
trary TO Law, ard the authorities have been
severely denounced on account Of them. A
notable case is that Of the editor Of La
TriLMna. He has been placed in solitary
confinement, though it ia claimed as yet no
charge has been preferred against him.
From all these facts you can infer how
this unfortunate island is governed at
.,resent.