Argentina has 14 Provinces and 11 National Territories, including the district of the Federal Capital, the city of Buenos Aires. Each of the Provinces has a Governor and a Parliament of its own, chosen by the local electorate, and possesses, as has been said, a very large measure of autonomy in the management of its own fiscal and other internal affairs. Other large areas which are not yet judged by Congress to have attained sufficient development to be able to support the financial burdens and status of autonomous Provinces have remained _National Territories_ under the direct control of the National Government. The Municipal Council of the Federal Capital has wide administrative powers, always subject, however, to the sanction of the National Executive, and the “Lord Mayor” (Intendente Municipal) of Buenos Aires is appointed by the National Government. The National Territory likely to be the first promoted to the rank of a Province is that of the PAMPA CENTRAL; now one of the chief cereal areas of the Republic. The Argentine Provinces and National Territories are the following: PROVINCES 1. Buenos Aires. 2. Santa Fé. 3. Entre Rios. 4. Corrientes. 5. Córdoba. 6. San Luis. 7. Santiago del Estero. 8. Mendoza. 9. San Juan. 10. La Rioja. 11. Catamarca. 12. Tucumán. 13. Salta. 14. Jujuy. TERRITORIES 1. Federal Capital. 2. Misiones. 3. Formosa. 4. Chaco. 5. Pampa Central. 6. Neuquen. 7. Rio Negro. 8. Chubut. 9. Santa Cruz. 10. Tierra del Fuego. 11. Los Andes. It should be added that all Public Acts and Judicial Decisions of one Province have legal effect in all the others. Sometimes, however, conflicts of jurisdiction afford matter for the decision of the Federal High Court. Uruguay is divided into 19 DEPARTMENTS, each of which has a Governor appointed by the National Executive and an administrative Council chosen by local popular vote. The Departments of Uruguay are: Tucuarembo. Cerro Largo. Durazno. Paysandú. Salto. Minas. Florida. Artígas. Rocha. Rivera. Treinta y tres. Soriano. Rio Negro. San José. Colonia. Flores. Maldonado. Canelones. Montevideo. It is perhaps not convenient here to discuss the comparative advantages of the two systems; but it must be said that evidence of the defects inherent to the qualities of both is not lacking. In Argentina the Provinces and in Uruguay the National Governments have frequently shown and still show a disposition to make ells out of the inches given them by their respective constitutions. In Argentina this disposition was considerably scotched though not killed by the Centralizing policy of Dr. Figueroa Alcorta, the immediate predecessor in the Presidential chair of the recently deceased Dr. Roque Saenz Peña. Dr. Alcorta’s policy was fundamentally good and was carried out by him with, doubtless, the best of motives, if the manner of its execution was rather Gilbertian.