The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-23
AFFAIRS IN BRAZIL,
They Seem Yet to Be ih au Unsettle


State.
Correspondence OF the Associated Press1
Rio DE JANEIRO, Jan. 26.-When the
steamship between Matana and Parinda.
| of the Petropolis line, was steaming into
this city, full of passengers of all ages,
| sexes and conditions, yesterday, one of
the friends of the insurgent military and
naval commanders. General CaIdas,
while discussing with others the acts of
the last administration, uttered the fol-
lowing phrase: 'Oh, Floriano Peixoto
un bandido," (FlorIano PeixoLo is a.
baudit)
The words were scarcely out of his
mouth, when DIR. Santo Da Silva. with
the mouth Of pistol, politely requested
| him to retract them, which he did, much
to the disgust OF his friends. At the same
Colonel Fonteura, who was with Santi-
ago, intimated that if General 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 v-!7.le
he was still President are here called
''abyssinians," and the newspapers-
clerical, monarchist, federalist-all in
| fact, who are trying to get inn at the
cost of those who defended the legal
Government, are doing their best to de-
morallZe those who were kind and loyal
to the rapublic. Many persons here be-
HeVe the navy is being re-equipped, and
that on January I'D the Supreme Mill
tary Tribunal decided that the revolted
midshipman, called here ''aspirants,"
are Included in the decree of pardon
issued by President Moraes on January
lst.
DIR. Santiago was seen yesterday by the
Associated Press correspondent. He
a hal
His limbs are almost in their normal
state. He can walk alone without
crutches or stick. 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 a con-
ference yesterday with the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, DR.. Carlos Da
! Caryelho, in reference to the settlement
OF the claims of American merchants
who were illegally compelled to pay ex-
pedient duties on goods imported under
the special treaty. All such claims have
| been allowed.
The Journal de Brazil, the ApostoIe.
| the GGze5tO dG Iurdeur and the Gey1.lO
| de IdTde1tC have been publishing day
after day lists of insurgents said to have
been shot without trial. Amongst others
they give the names of some twenty sail
ors from the Uranus, and placed on their
bulletin boards the photographs of the
principal ones, Charles Beaman and
others. What must have been their feel
ings to see the whole number, over
twenty victims of the cowardly tyrant,
dictator, murderer, etc.," march into the
editorial rooms of the JOur7aat de B7'azlj
recently and ask the chief editor. the cler-
ical monarchist, DR.. Fernando Mendez
Almieda, to take their names out of the
dead list and not to hang out their photo
graphs, as they were still alive. The list
of the summarily shot has been reduced
by over 100, but the number grows daily
as the facility of inventing names, occa-
sions and circumstances is immense.
Colonel lnnocencio Sercedello 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-
to's period to render them eligible, and
who fully expected to be President or
Vice President, with De Mello, has writ
ten long expression of the facts as seen
through the eyes of an unfortunate
would be insurgent.