[XIV-42] Félix Quiróz was chosen his substitute. Nic., Cor. Ist., Feb. 16, March 7, 1850; Costa R., Gaceta Gob., March 2, 1850. Art. 44 of the constitution, prohibiting reëlections, was revived by an act of Feb. 25, 1851. Cent. Am. Pamph., iv. no. 20.
[XIV-43] The minister of foreign affairs, in his annual report to the Salvador assembly, Jan. 29, 1850, speaking of Chatfield's course, says: 'Desatenciones, violencias, bloqueos; he aquí las relaciones y conducta que ha observado el Sr. cónsul inglés.' Salv., Mem. Rev., 1850, 5.
[XIV-44] The British had also seized, with Tiger Island belonging to Hond., several isles of Salvador in the gulf of Fonseca. Salv., Gaceta, May 17, 1850; Nic., Cor. Ist., Dec. 1, 1849; Guat., Gaceta, Nov. 30, 1849; U. S. Govt Doc., 31st cong. 2d sess., Sen. Doc., 26-99.
[XIV-45] Immediate fulfilment of the convention of Nov. 12, 1849; and a formal contradiction in a note to him of all accusations in official organs of the Salvador government against Great Britain and her officials.
[XIV-46] It offered to submit the questions at issue to the arbitration of the U. S. or any of their agents, or to accept some other device that might promise an impartial decision. The note making the offer, dated Aug. 17th, was sent to Chatfield by special courier, but he refused to receive it because it had not been transmitted through the hands of Idígoras, the Brit. consular agent at San Salvador. Nic., Cor. Ist., Sept. 5, 26, Nov. 7, 21, 1850; Salv., Gaceta, Aug. 23, Sept. 6, 1850; Guat., Gaceta, Nov. 16, 1850; Cent. Am. Pamph., vi. no. 7; El Progreso, Sept. 5, 1850.
[XIV-47] Salv., Mem. Relaciones, 1851. The blockade was removed at the friendly mediation of the American and Prussian consuls and others. Nic.; Cor. Ist., March 20, 1851.
[XIV-48] Besides arrangements with sister states, the republic maintained treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation with Belgium, the U. S., France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, and nearly all the nations of America. A concordat on ecclesiastical affairs was concluded with the pope in 1862. Squier's Cent. Am., 313; Cent. Am., Miscel. Doc., 48; Costa R., Boletin Ofic., March 7, 1855; El Rol, Oct. 27, 1854; Feb. 9, 1855; Nic., Cor. Ist., March 21, 1850; Id., Gaceta, Feb. 17, 1836; Salv., Gaceta, March 8, Apr. 12, 1850; Aug. 5, 12, Nov. 25, 1853; Id., Diario Ofic., Feb. 24, 1875; Id., Concordato, 1-20; Laferrière, De Paris à Guat., 319-37; Annals Brit. Legis., 1866, 334; Mex., Mem. Rel., 1878, 7, 11, 45-54, 119; U. S. Govt Doc., 43d cong. 1st sess., H. Ex. Doc. 1, pt 1, 112, pt 2, 796, 821; Id., 48th cong. 1st sess., H. Ex. Doc. 1, pt 1, 236-7.
[XIV-49] Congress was installed Feb. 18th, and one of the first acts of the house of deputies was to pass an act of impeachment against Vasconcelos, and the senate constituted itself as a court to try him upon the charge of violation of the constitution. On the 22d of February, pleading not guilty, he demanded a trial. The result was against him. Salv., Sen. y Cám. de Dip ... á sus comit., in Cent. Am. Pamph., vi. no. 9; Vasconcelos al Sen., in Id., no. 13.
[XIV-50] During Vasconcelos' absence the office had been in charge of Senator Francisco Dueñas.
[XIV-51] Thus we see that Dueñas, whose wont it was while he was working for popularity to use energetic language on behalf of liberalism, now that he has reached the goal of his ambition, changes his tune and calls for the assistance of Carrera against Honduras. Hond., Gaceta Ofic., June 10, 1853.