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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



ARKANSAS. 



REVENUE. 



Import duties $12,038,041 18 



Export duties 2,299,57664 



"Warehouse fees, etc 805,502 24 



Stamped paper, patents, etc 451,166 17 



Post-office and telegraphs 891,028 73 



Lighthouses, etc 85,563 09 



Government railways 445,071 01 



Interest on national funds loaned to provinces. 2J.75S 23 

 Interest and sinking fund, uninvested titles, 



Ioanofl871 611,751 92 



Interest on shares of Central Argentine Kail- 

 way 74,66400 



Sundries 1,774,775 71 



Total $13,451,897 86 



EXPENDITURE. 



Ministry of the Interior $1,815,759 55 



Ministry of Foreign Affairs 156,455 85 



Ministry of Finance 8,471,89722 



Ministry of Justice, Public Instruction, etc 987,247 19 



Ministry of War and the Navy 8,717,194 59 



Expenses extraordinary 26,064 00 



Total $15,174,618 40 



In the report already referred to, the na- 

 tional debt of the republic was set down at 

 $85,589,963.33 on March 31, 1879. 



The subjoined tables exhibit the values, 

 sources, and destinations, respectively, of the 

 imports and exports for the year 1878 : 

 IMPORTS. 



Belgium $2,714,874 



Bolivia 58,625 



Brazil 2,108,684 



Chili 506,147 



France 8,695,251 



Germany 2,182,778 



Great Britain 11,518,011 



Holland 869,588 



India 12,879 



Italy 8.527,508 



Paraguay 671,725 



Portugal. 68,576 



Spain 2,447,404 



United States 2,773,589 



Uruguay 2,000,676 



Westlndies 94,265 



Other countries 849,162 



In transitu 8,418,228 



Total $42,847,460 



EXPORTS. 



Destinations. Values. 



Belgium $9,264,167 



Bolivia 221,044 



Brazil 1,777,045 



Chili 2,072,297 



France 9,390,240 



Germany 994,136 



Great Britain 8,499,260 



Holland 101.831 



Italy. 804,431 



Paraguay 875,707 



Peru 13,030 



. Portugal 21,765 



Spain 823,700 



United States 2,547,187 



Uruguay 975,213 



West Indies 708,402 



Other countries 15,870 



In transitu 2,707,943 



Total $86.818,267 



The shipping movements at the ports of the 

 republic in 1878 were as follows : 



Entered . 

 Cleared. . 



Sailing res- 

 ult. 



1,262 

 821 



Tons. 



2R0.223 

 256,469 



Stsmert. 



1,190 



616,409 

 410,120 



The foregoing are the only returns of in- 

 terest published officially since 1878. 



The Patagonian question still remains unset- 

 tled. In a lengthy memorial, presented to the 

 national Congress in 1879 by the Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs, are found a reassertion of the 

 limits of the portion of Patagonia "belonging 

 to the Argentine Republic," namely, u the Rio 

 Negro on the north, the Atlantic on the east, 

 the Straits of Magellan on the south, and the 

 Andes on the west," and the following men- 

 tion of a treaty between the two republics : 

 " With a view to decide the pending question 

 of limits between the Argentine Republic and 

 Chili, a treaty was made at Buenos Ayres on 

 January 18, 1878, by the plenipotentiaries of 

 either nation, for the purpose of submitting to 

 arbitrators thereafter to be chosen the ques- 

 tion, ' Were the now-disputed territories in 

 the possession of the Viceroyalty of Buenos 

 Ayres or of the Captaincy-General of Chili in 

 1810 ? ' The treaty, however, was not ratified 

 by Chili, and it was agreed that the arbitration 

 should be conducted in accordance with the 

 treaty of 1856, both governments, to prevent 

 the occurrence of an armed conflict in the 

 mean time, binding themselves to refrain from 

 sending war-vessels on missions of an aggres- 

 sive character the Argentines to tlie Straits 

 of Magellan, or the Chilians to the Atlantic 

 coast of Patagonia." (See " CHILI.") 



ARKANSAS. The biennial session of the 

 Legislature of Arkansas began on January 14th, 

 and terminated on March 3d, after the passage 

 of about eighty acts. In the Senate M. M. 

 Duffle was elected President on the forty-third 

 ballot ; in the House J. T. Bearden was elected 

 Speaker. 



The election of Governor took place on Sep- 

 tember 7, 1878, and the canvass of the votes 

 by the Legislature showed the following re- 

 sult: William R. Miller, 88,730 votes; Milt 

 Rice, 5 ; J. N. Cypert, 1 ; M. L. Bell, 1 ; B. S. 

 Fox, 1; J. 0. McGuire, 5; W. P. Grace, 2; 

 E. N. Conway, 1 ; Thomas Fletcher, 3 ; Jeff. 



Rice, 1 ; Fletcher, 1 ; S. O. Cloud, 2 ; 



Martin Levy, 2 ; scattering, 15. 



A Senator to represent the State in Congress 

 was chosen by the Legislature on the sixth bal- 

 lot, on February 1st. The vote was as fol- 

 lows : J. D. Walker, 68 ; United States Sena- 

 tor Robert W. Johnson, 47 ; scattering, 6. 

 Pending the ballot Representative Davidson 

 of Sharpe County rose and stated that before 

 voting he demanded a promised explanation 

 from Representative Holifield of Clay County. 

 Mr. Holifield had a writing prepared, which he 

 read, to the effect that he had been offered 

 $500 to vote for Johnson. Representative 

 Barnett of Bradley County said he felt author- 

 ized in saying the statement was false. Sena- 

 tor Mitchell of Hempstead demanded the name 

 of the offerer of the bribe. Representative 

 Fishback moved to dissolve the convention 

 and investigate. President of the Senate Duf- 

 fle decided that the motion could not be enter- 



