Mr. Mizner to Mr. Blaine.
Guatemala, June 25, 1890. (Received July 11.)
Sir: I have the honor to confirm my cable to you of the 23d instant.
I called upon the President and secretary for foreign affairs for this Republic yesterday, in order to obtain such facts as may have been secured in reference to the Salvadorian revolution, but they only knew that one General Ezeta, of the army of that Republic, had in some way been proclaimed, or proclaimed himself, Provisional President of Salvador.
That during the night of the 22d instant an attack had been made upon the presidential palace, and that the President and others had been killed; some accounts stating that the President had died from apoplexy during the fight in defense of his home. The wires being under the control of the revolutionary party, no further details have as yet come to hand.
President Barillas and Minister Sobral were quite plain and positive in their denunciation not to recognize it in any way; considering that Guatemala is under moral obligation to aid Salvador in maintaining a lawful organization, being, as she is, one of the three Republics which has adopted the union compact, and necessary to complete the majority of Central American States in that union.
They especially objected to a revolutionary president, such as General Ezeta now seems to be, becoming eligible to the presidency of the new Republic, and stated that they had moved 2,000 troops towards the frontier of Salvador and were well prepared to send large additional forces, if necessary. They also expressed the fear that the credit of the Central American States would be disastrously affected, and the pending loan of $21,000,000, and construction of the proposed Northern railroad, would be interfered with, at least for the present.
I have, etc.,