372 



GUATEMALA. 



NATIONAL REVENUE. rial examination of the ministry ; and not only 



Customs duties $??2X tne manuscript, but the printed copy thereof, 



ToSoSoropoiV::::::'.'.:'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.::: SH BO that m case the Government should refuse 



Sundries 7,013 permission to publish, the writer would be un- 



totlSi^oTn::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 'Sffl necessarily obliged to pay the cost of printing ; 



consequently, no one wrote, nothing was pub- 

 Total $1,885.532. lished, and dissatisfaction was general through- 



The expenditures were as follows : out the country. It was reported that the 



Executive, etc $49,069 better judgment of President Granados rebelled 



Ministry of the Interior, etc 05,944 against the measure; and that he only sanc- 



p^bifcwor 6 nip : ' : .' "::::: &m tion . ed U in obedience to the influence of his 



Army '.'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'..'.'. 282,'326 ministry, and others who are still believers in 



p i bii?debt C mmerCe 1 29? 404 the law of force - T wo newspapers had sus- 



Sundries . . .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' ' 77^020 pended in consequence of the decree. 



The United States minister, Mr. Hudson, 



Total $1,885,232 presented himself to the Provisional President 



The public debt, in 1865, was $2,461,978, of in the Government Palace, for the purpose of 



which $1,489,379 composed the floating debt, delivering the letter from President Grant, in 



The outlays on the public debt were as fol- reply to that from General Garcia Granados 



lows in 1865: announcing his elevation to the Executive 



Consolidated debt $31,716 power in Guatemala. On the occasion of the 



$tJS&pf& : I::::::::::'.:::: : SIS Presentation, Mr. Hudson made a speech in 



Loan guaranteed by customs' duties 141,561 English, full of sympathy for Guatemala and 



Amortization 555,700 j^s Government 



pgESS of SS 9vS$^*^::::.\" ToS The Provisional President, who understands 



- English well, made an appropriate reply in the 



rotal ' ' $1,297,404 same i an g uage> 



The indebtedness of the republic to Great Members of the Assembly were to be paid 



Britain, which, in 1862, was $1,500,000, had $100 per month during the session, and om 



reached $3,000,000 in 1872. dollar per league going and returning. 



The public debt was reduced last June, by An attempt at revolution was made at Pe- 



$31,354.09 ; and the total debt, on July 1st, tapa in the early part of the year by one An- 



was $5,043,988.72. tonio Munoz ; but the plans of the insurrec- 



A writer at Panama, on March 5th, says: tionists were disconcerted and defeated, and 



" The Republic of Guatemala, as well might three of the principal ringleaders were shot, 



be expected, is, at present, passing through a A treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, 



real crisis. After a struggle, which ended in was made by Guatemala with the Republic of 



overthrowing a government of thirty years' San Salvador, the most noteworthy stipula- 



duration, the march of modern civilization, the tions of which were : complete interdiction of 



ideas of the age, all have conspired to make the the Jesuits in both republics, in any capacity, 



situation a difficult one. Not only in Gua- and under whatever circumstances they might 



temala, but in all Central America, there is a be found ; mutual protection against interna" 



tendency to lay aside the things of the past dissensions, with the privilege for Guatemala 



and begin another life." to levy troops in Santa Ana, and for San Sal- 



The Government issued various decrees for vador to do likewise in Chiquimnla ; and the 



promoting the culture of sugar in the depart- connecting the two republics by means of tele- 



ment of Sacatepeque, and that of coffee in graph-lines. 



Atnatitlan ; also another for the promotion of The collection of inland duties (customs) was 

 the cultivation of the sugar-cane and tobacco abolished, and all cities were opened to corn- 

 in Chiquimula and Zacapa. A bridge is to be merce, except those on the frontiers of Chia- 

 built over the Rio Negro. pas, San Salvador, and Honduras. 



Corporal punishment was forbidden in the The Order of Jesuits was declared extinct 



schools. by the Government, and their property was to 



The Government assigned $700 a month to be sold at auction. 



the improvement of the port of Champerico, Dr. Gilbert Totten, son of Colonel Totten, 



and the road leading from it to Quezaltenango. of the Panama Railroad Company, died at 



With the expectation of correcting the un- Quezaltenango on the 29th of May. 



healthiness of the port of San Jos6, water was The republic was still at peace in June, but 



to be brought for the use of the population the Government had promised support to that 



from the river Guacalate. In view of the of San Salvador, in the event of a war with 



state of siege existing in the departments of Honduras. 



the east and centre, a law was passed in A contract for a railway from San Jose 1 to 



March restricting the liberty of the press, and the capital was signed with Mr. Kelly, 



enacting many unnecessary and tyrannical A decree of the Government, for the expul- 



measures. For instance, all manuscripts must, sion of all priests who should in future touch 



before publication, be submitted to the censo- upon political subjects of a reactionary nature. 



