The herald., 1895-02-23
Hot Words Swallowed at the
Point of a Pistol
EPISODE ON A RIO STEAMER
Brazil on the Eve of Another Revolu.
tionary Overthrow
The Newspapers and People All Talking
Fight-A Presidential Row Is
the Result

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 22.-When the
steamship between Mana and Parinka, of
tive Petropolis line, was steaming into
this city full of passengers of all age, sexes
and conditions yesterday, one of the
friends of the insurgent naval and mill
tary commanders, General Caldas, while
discussing with the others the acts of the
last administration, uttered the following
phrase:
20 Floriano Peixoto un bandido,"
-Floriano Peixoto is a bandit.
The words were hardly out of his mouth
when DR.. Santo da Silva, at the mouth OF
a pistol, politely requested him to retract
them, which he did, greatly to the dis
gust OF his friends. At the same time,
Colonel Fonteura intimated that if Gen
eral Caldas had any friend in the crowd
who wished to repeat what he had said and
retracted he was at his disposal to compel
him to swallow the words. Those people
who aided Peixoto while he was still
President are here called "Abyssinians,
and the newspapers, Clerical, Monarchist,
Federalist, all, in fact, who are trying to
get in" at the cost of those who de-
Tended the legal government, are doing
their best to demoralize those who were
kind and loyal to the republic.
Many persons believe the navy is being
re-equipped and that on January 23d the
supreme military tribunal decided the
revol ed midshipmen, called here 'aspir-
ants, are included in the decree of par
don issued by President Morales on Janu-
ary list.
DIR. Santiago was seen yesterday by the
Associated Press correspondent. He said:
The marshal is now convalescing. His
limbs are almost in their normal state.
He can walk alone without crutches or
stitch. On fine mornings he takes rather
long walk. He usually spends some
three hours each day in reading the Rio
papers.
The United States Minister held con-
ference yesterday with the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs DR.. CarGoda
Carvelho in reference to the settlement OF
American merchants who were illegally
compelled to pay expedient duties on
goods imported under the special treaty.
All such claims have been allowed.
The Journal de Brazil the Apostolic,
the Gazetta da Tarde and the Gerrio de
Tarde have been publishing day after day
lists of insurgents said to have been shot
without trial. Among others they give
the names of some twenty sailors from the
Uranus and placed on their bulletin
boards the photographs of the principal
ones, Charles Beaman and Others
What must have been their feelings to
see the whole number, over twenty,
victims of their cowardly tyrant, die
tator, murderer" etc, march into the edi-.
recently, and ask the chief editor, the
clerical monarchist, DR.. Fernando Mendes
de Almeida to take their names out Of
the dead list and not to hang out their
as they were still alive. The
list of the summarily shot has been re-
duced by over one hundred, but the num-
Der grows daily, as the facilities for in
venting names, occasions and circum-
stances are immense.
Colonel Innocencio Serzedello Correa,
ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, ex-Minis-
ter of the Interior, ex-Minister of Finance
under Peixoto, who resigned at the same
time as Admiral De Mello, that is, long
enough before the termination of Peixo-
tos career to render them ineligible, and
who fully expected to be either President
or Vice President with De Mello, has
written a long explanation OF the facts, as
seen through the eyes of would-be in
surgent.