New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-16
FIGHTING IN ARGENTINA.
CONGRESS TO PROCLAIM A STATE OF SIEGE


CONFLICT BETWEEN RADICALS AND TROOPS IN
LA PLATA-FLIGiT OF THE PRoVls-
IONAL MINISTER'S.
Ruenos Ayres Aug l5-The Federal Congress
has resolved to proclaim the state OF siege throush
out Argentina and to promote federal Intervention
throughout the disturbed provinces Of Santa Fe and
San Luis
A dispatch from La Plata tells Of fight between
n Radical crowd and federal troops at the railway
station in that city. The civilians fought desperate
ly and did not give way until three OF them nao
been killed and forty others had been wounued'
The federal troops occupying all the puphc
buildings in La Plata. The Radical froVis'o'"'
Ministers have fed
London Aug ia dispatch received In this
city by way of Paris says that General Ohvera
has been appointed Governor OF the Province OF
Buenos Ayres in place of General Costa, VINO was
recently deposed by the Radical insurgents anu
fled to Montevdeo to escape MS enemies Inc
dispatch adds that it is stated in Buenos Ayres
that state of siege Will soon De prociaimeo
throughout the Republic.
The troubles In the city Of La Plata have not yet
ended. Combats between armed men are OF fre-
quent occurrence in the streets.
This dispatch repeats the same old story about the
political condition of the Argentine Republic. but
adds that this condition has become so much ag-
gravated that state of siege may soon be pro-
claimed throughout the country. This would DE
benefcent measure indeed but 1t Is not likely II
proclaimed at all. to be practically enforced py
President Saenz Pena. He is old man. thor
oughly honest but lacking the energy Of a states
man willing to set aside temporarily, in the su-
preme interest Of the republic. the mild and lawful
methods OF government which are n consequence or
his education. Still the history Of the Argentine
especially since the revolution of July, 1890
shows that the Federal Government must employ
Ia, To-. ol che
to deliver the republic from the constant revou-
tionary movements which break out in the differ-
ent States.
AS Senior Pellegrni. the Vice-President under
Juarez Celman. and who acted as President In
lsO-92 after the latter's overthrow, said in his
latest message "The evils OF which we COM
plain have existed from the beginning, and they
must still longer continue TO exist, since they nave
their origin in our social and political organism
President Pena in his inaugural address of October
1892 urged every one to work in order to Tor
get the hatred engendered by party divisions
This might have been expected since he himself
was not the leader of any political party lie trieo
10 govern as the representative or national aspra-
,ons and TO conciliate the Mitrstas az well as the
| Rouuistas (the Radicals and the Conservatlves).
Unfortunately. the politicians. seeing that the!
could not succeed in gaining the Presidential or
Federal support for this that party. transferred
their animosties and bloody quarres to the spheres
OF the local governments, and 1ve or siN otateS
,,ore at the same time convulsed by revolutionary
| movements The President used the Federal forces
TO put an end to of these local troubles when
endangered the welfare and peace of the Republic
| Rut they have been renewed lately on such a
dangerous scale that the pacific Senior Saenz Pena
may be driven at last to place the whole country
under a state OF siege. The only question IN this
80 is ,.he,hor or not his timid and vacillating
! character will permit him to apply sternly the
| measures Of public safety which his honesty ana
| Intelligence may impcl him TO proclaim.