The bill of conscription had been tabled in 1900, in the middle of frontier tension period with Chile, by Colonel Pablo Riccheri, Minister for the War, at the time of the second presidential mandate of Roca (1898-1904).
At the end of long and animated debates between its partisans, among whom the veteran of the war of Paraguay, Colonel Jose Dantas, and its opponents, leaded by the General Alberto Capdevila, the law was approved on October 11, 1901 by the House of Deputies. 
It was promulgated on December 5 by the Senate with the n° 4031 putting an end to the in force National Guard system and thus concretizing article 21 of the Constitution which specified that “any citizen was obliged to take the weapons to defend the Constitution…” 
Riccheri had been born in 1859. Well graduated from the Military College in 1879 with the rank “Teniente Segundo”, he wished to perfect his knowledge and was sent to Europe to integrate the Superior School of War of Belgium. Immediately on his return, he knew a fulgurating rise within the Army. Before taking political responsibilities, he thus reached the supreme rank of Staff Chief of the Army. 
If his career was brilliant, Riccheri knew the pain to see his wife sinking into madness, for long years at a time before dying. While his only daughter succumbed to an appendicitis operation at the age of 12. 
Retired since 1918, he divided then his time between the residence which he had downtown, on Lavalle street, and the estancia “el Ombu de Areco” that he had made build in 1880. Recluse, melancholic, he died in 1936, honoured with the title of “teniente general”. Honoured but unhappy.Estancia El Ombu de Areco
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