The Uruguayan General Assembly appoints Juan Idiarte…

The Uruguayan General Assembly appoints Juan Idiarte Borda (1894-97), a member of the inner circle of the departing administration, as the new president in 1894, after much internal debate, but Herrera y Obes and Borda had succeeded in irritating the National Party, when the latter is granted control of only three of the four departments agreed on in the 1872 pact between the two rival parties.