guaranteed by recognized assets. In these transactions the treasury suffered heavy losses. The secretary of the department thought to cover with the ordinary revenue the appropriations approved by congress for the following year, amounting to a little over fifteen and a half millions;[1] but he found it impossible, and the payments of the dividends on the foreign debt had to be suspended.[2]
Those who from the beginning of the independence had opposed the third clause of the plan of Iguala kept up the agitation against the Spaniards, all of whom were supposed to be accomplices of the Arenas plot, particulars of which will be narrated in the following chapter. The political parties took advantage of the situation to push their pretensions, one of them demanding the destruction of secret societies and the expulsion of Poinsett. In that party were affiliated Barragan and Santa Anna.
Esteva, after resigning the portfolio of the treasury in March 1827, was despatched as comisario general de hacienda to Vera Cruz, but the legislature of that state, composed chiefly of escoceses, refused to recognize him. Shortly before, on the 25th of June, Colonel Rincon had put the troops under arms, a proceeding which the escoceses severely condemned, and
- ↑ Alaman, Hist. Méj., v. 834-5.
- ↑ The secretary of the treasury, Esteva, had resigned March 4, 1827, and was succeeded by Tomás Salgado, who on the 1st of Nov. surrendered the office to Francisco García, who held it only one month. The department then was placed ad interim in charge of the chief clerk José Ignacio Pavon till the 7th of March, 1828, when José Ignacio Esteva resumed control as minister, and held it till Jan. 12, 1829, when he resigned, and was replaced the next day by Bernardo Gonzalez Angulo, in whose charge the office remained till the end of Victoria's administration. During these years changes occurred also in other departments. In that of relations, Juan José Espinosa de los Monteros was minister to March 1828; Juan de Dios Cañedo, from March 8, 1828, to Jan. 25, 1829; and José María Bocanegra, from Jan. 26 to April 1, 1829. In that of justice, Espinosa de los Monteros succeeded Arizpe, from March 8, 1828, to March 31, 1829. In that of war, with the exception of the period from Feb. 10 to March 3, 1827, when Manuel Rincon held it temporarıly, Pedraza retained it till Dec. 3, 1828, when his connection with it ceased. José Castro, chief clerk, held it to Dec. 7th; Vicente Guerrero from Dec. 8 to 25, 1828; Francisco Moctezuma from Dec. 26, 1828, to April 1, 1829. Mex. Mem. Hacienda, 1870, 1027-8; Cor. Fed. Mex., 1827, Feb. 8 and 14; Gaz. de Mex., 1827, Feb. 3, 13, and March 8; La Palanca, 1827, Aug. 9; Arrillaga, Recop., 1828, 200.
