Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — Down in Honduras. [ARTICLE]

Down in Honduras.

Honduras Congressmen are paid $5 a day while in active service, and they can only override Gen. Bogran’s veto by a two-thirds vote. The standing army of Honduras is 3,000 men, but every man from 18 to 35 is a soldier and compelled to drill in his village every Sunday morning. This brings the troops available up to 43,000 men, well drilled.and armed with Remington rifles. 'lhe artillery of the army is not much of an establishment. It consists of six batteries of breech-load-ing field pieces and eighteen Gatling guns. Ihe navy is just a trifle behind that of the United States. It is a single man-of-war, iron, built in England, and carries four Krupp guns of small caliber. It carries a crew of eightyfive and is named the Morozan.