Show T CENTRAL AMERCAN CUMOINE f CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION METS MAi OBSTACLES Salvador Wants a Rakeof On tl i Reveuette May Refuse t I Surrender Their Ams I Correspondence of the Associated Press Managua Nicaragua Sept 5The I delegates who are daily holding meetings I meet-ings at thIs place for the purpose of I decidIng upon the articles of the constitution con-stitution to be formulated for the proposed pro-posed United States of Central AmerIca Amer-Ica to be composed of the states of Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua have had serious diferences the rep resentatves of Nicaragua and Hondu rs voting in some instances solidly or nearly so in opposition to the views of the delegates from Salvador One contention con-tention was in regard to the finances of the proposed federal governmentAl government-Al the delegates conceded that the red cral government should control the custom cus-tom houses and collect the duties but Uwse delegates declared that onelmlf of the duties collected from their state sHould be returned to Salvador because be-cause that country imported as muCh or more than Nicaragua and Honduras combined The convention voted against this however but the next day as a disruption was evident from a protest published in the newspapers by the Salvadorean delegates the convention conven-tion agreed In order to smooth matters mat-ters over that onehalf the revenues collected by the federal government through the custom houses in each state should be paid to the state The Salvadorean representatives are evi denU not satisfied with several articles arti-cles that have been adopted over their vetoes by the other delegates The members of the convention have declared themselves at present the sole and supreme exponents of the will of the states and people of Salvador Hon dnras and Nicaragua and therefore Ignore Ig-nore the edict of the Greater Repub lie of Central America which they apply through the state governments and will not submit the constitution nominally formulated for the states and people to the people for approval or disapproval I Many critics of the work of thecon I yenUon declare that when the presidents presI-dents of the states are ordered by the federal government on its organization organiza-tion in compliance with the new constitution con-stitution to deliver to the federal government gov-ernment the cannon riles and munitions muni-tions of war and soldiers in the various tons states there wi be much opposition and that some or the presidents will d I lay or refuse altogether to comply with the order and thus prevent the estab Ishment of the Unied States of Central Cen-tral America It is believed the positions posi-tions and even lve of some of the presidents of the Central American countries depend solely upon the fact that they vigilantly control personally or through paid satellites all the arms munitions of war and soldiers in theIr respective states I |