The record-union., 1891-11-12
SITUATION In BRAZIL.
Dictator Fonseca is Apparently
Emulating Balmaceda.
EXTREMELY HIGH-HANDED NEWS
PAPER CENSORSHIP.
The Expected Upheaval Awaited With
Interest in London-Reports of Fur
ther Disintegration Expected-Tarfff
Discussion Dodged in Australia
Gladstone Described as Fanatic
by Liberal Unionists.
Special TO the RECORD UNION.

LONDON, Nov. 1l.-News from Brazil
is awaited with great interest. Dispatches
reporting the revolt of the important
provinces Of Rio Grande do Sui and
Grao Para have prepared those who are
watching the progress of events in Bra
I'll for further reports of disintegration.
No news dispatches have reached Lon
don during the day direct from Brazil.
Some Brazilian news, however, appears
to be getting across the Andes to San
tiago, the Chilean capital. Dispatches
from that city which reached London this
afternoon declare that dictator Fonseca
has not contented himself with strict
enforcement of press censorship. He has
now required all papers in Rio Janeiro
which do not support his authority pre-
tensions to suspend publication
\ CIPHER AT WASHINGTON.
CHICAGO, Nov. IA special from
Washington says a long cipher dispatch
has been received by the State Depart
ment from the American Minister at Rio
Janeiro, but the department refuses to
give out any information.
NOT CONFIRMED.
been received from Minister Conger
tending to confirm the story of a revolt
Of three of the principal Brazilian pro-
Vinces, which is also reported from Eng
liSh sources. The disposition here is to
attribute to English papers desire to
embarrass the brazilian authorities, who
were responsible for the negotiation OF
the reciprocity treaty with the United
States, 1naSmuch as this arrangement
has already sonsibly extended commerce
between Brazil and the United States.
PAUNCEFOTE's IMPORTATION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE British
Minister, Sir Julian Pauncefote, has a
dispatch from the English Admiral on
the Brazilian station, saying the country
| Is in open revolution.
CENSORSHIP OF CABLEGRAMs.
New YORK, Nov. u.-An the Office OF
the Brazilian Consul it was said this
morning the fact of Il strict censorship OF
cablegrams from Brazil, by the Govern
ment, indicated the situation was very
critical. Only business messages were
received here to-day by South American
merchants.
BELIEVES THERE WAS 4 REVOLT.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Brazilian
Minister to-day received an unofficial
dispatch to the effect that it was reported
IN Rio that the State of Rio Grande do
Sui had seeded. In the absence of anv
contradictory statement from his Govern-
ment the Minister believes that the
province has revolted. lie said tonight
he did not think there was any chance OF
the revolt extending to the other States:
that the Government was as stable as
ours, and there need be no fears Of a gem
eral revolution. The disaffection in Rio
Grande do Sui, he said, was probably due
to the members of the dissolved Con-
greSs representing that part Of the coun-
try, who endeaYored to cause diSSensions
because of the dissolution of Congress.
The Minister said that the financial con-
dition of the republic was firm, and there
was really nothing to cause revolution.
STILL ANOTHER DENIAL.
NEW York, Nov. ia correspondent
at Rio Janeiro cables to the Herald. "Up
to the present writing there is nothing, so
far as can be learned here, to seriously
threaten the stability of Fonseca's die
! tatorship. If there is any revolt in Per-
nambucO, Bahia or Para, reliable infor-
nation Of it has not reached this CITY.
| There are doubtless, ] am given TO un-
derstand, disaiiected Republicans and a
number of lmperialists who would like
! to see the monarchy re-eStablished, but
they have not, 50 far as known here.
openly pronounced against the Govern.
ment.
The only signs of discomfort that the
people OF Rio are aware OF, are in Rio
Grande do Sui, the most southerly of the
States in the republic. Such disturb
ances as have broken out there, appear
from such intelligence as we have been
able to get, altogether of local charac-
ter. SO slight is the uprising officially re-
! garded that the Governor of the State is
considered fully capable of dealing with
it. He evidently thinks so himself since
q hn To oil
| the Government for assistance. 1t is be-
lieved that if the outbreak was so seri-
Gus as to imperil his power the Governor
| would certainly before this have asked
for such aid. Rio is quiet. Business is
conducted as before the dissolution OF
Congress. Fonseca still maintains that
he has no intention Of continuing the
Dictatorship beyond such time as will
be necessary to re-establish perfect peace
all over Brazil"
The correspondent of the Herald at
Valparaiso sends the following dispatch:
| ''1t is reported tonight that number OF
members of the Brazilian Congress,
which Dictator Fonseca recently dis
solved, have sought an asylum in the
different foreign legations in Rio Janeiro
and Uruguay. Uruguay has become
alarmed at the state of affairs in Brazil.
and has massed troops along the frontier
line Of that country. Generals Fernandez
and Santa Ana are said to be at the head
of the revolutionists and their ranks are
reported to be receiving constant acces-
sions. There are now two political par
ties in Brazil. One favors Dictator Fon-
SEGA, and the other is opposed to his Gov
ernment. 1t is believed that Fonseca' S
troops will act upon the defensive. The
probabilities are that the authorities will
meet with a very lively time in Ric
Grande do Sui"