Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.

No. 122.]

Sir: Referring to my No. 119, of the 8th instant, in regard to the revolutionary movement that began here on the morning of the 4th instant, I have the honor to report that the same terminated with the events recounted in my dispatch above referred to. From the moment when the revolutionary forces of Cordoba gave up their cause as lost and dispersed, the revolution, or mutiny as it is preferably called here, has been considered an episode of the past, and the government has been occupied solely with the judicial phase of the movement. A council of war was at once appointed and proceeded to try the offenders and to pronounce sentence upon the leaders. Thus Maj. Anibal Villamayor has been condemned to eight years, Lieut. Eduardo Gibelli to five years, and Lieut. Horacio Guillermon to three years imprisonment and others to shorter terms, and a large number of prisoners is awaiting trial. The state of siege that was declared on the morning of the 4th instant for a period of thirty days continues, and the censorship [Page 30] of the press has been extended, so that besides other subjects that of the attitude and actions of the vice-president of the Republic during the days of trouble, the 4th to the 8th instant, is exempted from comment of any sort.

A matter that occasioned considerable discussion and might have led to a misunderstanding between this country and the neighboring Republic of Chile was the disposal of the revolutionary fugitives from Mendoza, who took refuge in the latter country, carrying with them some 300,000 pesos from the National Bank of Mendoza, particularly Dr. Jose Nestor Lencina. Doctor Lencina with others was arrested by the Chilean authorities and held for some time apparently awaiting the demand of this government for his extradition. It being impossible by the terms of the treaty in force between the two Republics to secure their extradition as political refugees, it was thought that they might be brought back on the charge of bank robbery. It is, however, probable that the robbery of the National Bank of Mendoza will be viewed as an incident of the revolutionary movement, and hence as a political offense and the matter be dropped as outside the treaty provisions. In the meantime the good feeling between the two countries does not seem to have suffered any change.

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I am, etc.,

A. M. Beaupré.