Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23
DOM PEDRO'S PLEA,
Through an Embassador He
Requests Permission to
AGAIN RESIDE IN BRAZIL,
Some Of the Provisions of the Con-
stitutiOn of the Republic.
WILD RUM0RS OCCASION ALARM
AGAIN RESIDE IN BRAZIL.
WILD RUMORS OCCASION ALARM
rBY CABLE TO THB DIsPArcH.i

PARIS, March PA gentleman holding
Q governmental position in Brazil, and {
close friend of General da Fonseca, whose
name 1 am not authorized to mention, ha!
just arrived here from Brazil. bringing with
him some interesting news. He was met by
The DISPATCH correspondent at the Bra.
lillian embassy and engaged in conversation
on the affairs of Brazil.
He said a letter, undoubtedly inspired by
Dom Pedro, but signed by the Duke oi
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, has been received by
General da Fonseca, thanking him for the
consideration he had shown the Emperor
during the period of the revolution, which,
the writer states, was the most trying in the
lie of the aged monarch. The writer goes
on to state that Dom Pedro fully appreci-
ates the kindness and generosity of General
de Fonseca, and regretted that circum-
stances under which he had no control COM
PEELED him to decline the offer of the 5000
eantos the new Government, through its
chief made as a condition of his Danish
ment
A QUESTION OF DIGNITY.
Further explaining the ex-Emperor's
declination, the writer states that although
exiled, Dom Pedro could only, with dignity,
accept the annuity the constitution granted
him; that to have accepted the 5000 cantos
under the circumstances under which it was
rendered, would have compromised his dig
Nity and cost him the esteem of his friends
abroad.
"Dom Pedro" the letter continues, sis by
no means a bankrupt, in spite of the severe
losses he has sustained by the change in
Brazil. He has large income from extern
sive investments abroad, of long standing,
which is more than sufficient to supply his
present wants. Consequently, when it is
stated that it is the desire of the Emperor to
return to Brazil not as the claimant, but as
q private citizen, where be could, with con-
tentment, pass the remainder of his days
among the people he so much loves, and to
whose government he has sacrificed nearly a
half century of his life, it is not because he
needs anything OF them other than a con-
tinuation of that esteem he has always en-
joyed and sympathy in his declining years.
AN ANXIOUS REQUEST.
"He, therefore, hopes that the honored
chief of the new Government will respect
the desire of the ex-Emperor and use his in
huence to have an exception in the decree
of Punishment recently promulgated made
In his favor that he may be free to return
whenever he desires. In return for this
kindness Dom Pedro would present all of
his real property, except his home at
Petropolis, to the State, and if the Brazilian
people insist by actual demonstration he
would renounce all claims to the throne of
Brazil and annul all hereditary claims
thereafter. This is sufficient proof that the
only wish the ex-Emperor has is to die in
the land of bis birth in the midst of his
countrymen."
while General da Fanseca," says my
informant, lis disposed to treat the ex-Em-
peror with the greatest consideration and
entertains profound respect for his wishes,
he is inclined to regard the letter as device
of his heirs, who deem it advisable to stoop
TO conquer. He will pay no attention to
the appeal unless Dom Pedro makes his de-
sire known over his own signature"
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
In further conversation the gentleman
said the new Constitution winch is to be
submitted to the people has already been
drawn up according to Republican ideas,
and is largely modelled after that of the
United States of North America. The fol-
lowing are three of the clauses relating to
the formation Of the States:
First-The provinces which existed under
the empire are classed as Federal States
Second-Two or more provinces may unite
and become single State with the consent of
the Federal Congress.
ThiId-A province which does not possess
sufficient revenue and population to justify its |
becoming State, or which does not wish to |
unite with Others to form State, snail be con-
sidered as Territory subject to the jurisdic- |
tion of the Federal Government and its Gov
ernor shall be named by the President of the |
union.
A cablegram from Rio Janeiro says: The
air here is alive with rumors. People are |
saying now that il is the intention OF the |
Provisional Government to annul the decree |
convoking the Constituent Assembly, and |
to prolong the distatorshIp for five years.
AN UNRELIABLE RUMoR.
At dinner given some days ago to the |
ex-Mlnister of Agriculture, the Minister of |
War took occasion to allude to this report. |
The people of Brazil, he said, should be |
more grateful and not insult the Govern
ment and the army by circulating such ru-
mors. Neither in the Government nor in
the army was there any one who desired the
banelul supremacy of the sword. What the
Government most earnestly desired was to
return as soon as possible to private life.
himself there was no inducement sufficient
to reconcile him to remaining permanently
in the place he occupied. The Minister of
War has since published card stating that
his speech was not correctly reported.
The many reports in circulation in regard |
to the boundary treaty with the Argentine
Republic have caused the Government to
publish an article on the subject in the
official paper. This article deDrecates dis
cussion of the question at present as prema-
ture, since the terms of the treaty have not
yet been made known, and states that all |
apprehensious in regard to those terms are
groundless, since the Government has full |
sense OF its responsibility in SO important a
question. Besides, the treaty, before be-
coming operative, has to be ratified by the
legislative assemblies of the two countries,
If it is not ratified, the boundary question
will be settled by arbitration, the President
of the United States being requested to act