The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-10
A JOINT MASS.MEETING.
Minister Thompson Declined
to Take Part in the JOY
full Exercises.
HIS POSITION PREVENTED HIM.
Telegram of Congratulation For
Warded to Baron de Rio Branco
at Washington.

RIO DE JANEIRo, Feb. 16.--The following
is an account OF the mass-meeting held
here on Wednesday, February II, to cele-
brate the decision of President Cleveland in
favor of Brazil and against the Argentine
Republic in the question of the claim to
jurisdiction over the territory of Missiones:
The committee, consisting of Colonel
Zersallo Correa, DR.. Agostinho Dos Refs,
quita and Senior de Vasconcellos, sent
written invitations to the United States
Minister, Thomas L. Thompson, and the
Argentine Minister to be present.
Mr.. Thompson, during the afternoon of
February II, called at the Foreign Office
and explained that as he represented the
President of the United States in the affair
of arbitration he could not be present.
At P. NJ. the square of ST. Frances de
Paulo, just at the head of Onvidor, was
solidly full of people, and Senior Marinho
was selected as presiding officer of the
meeting Colonel Correa, an ex-Minister,
under Marshal Floriano Peixoto, was the
principal spokesman.
The following telegram sent to Baron de
Rio Branco, Washington, was read by DR..
Dos Refs:
Rio Branco Washington: The people of Bra
I'll, in vast meeting of acclaim, amidst psalms
and your name send you enthusiastic greet
ings on account of the honorable decision of
the question of the Missiones The Brazilian
republic and the Argentine confederation
concentrating the victory OF peace and of
right by means of arbitration establish the
patriotic example of the real ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of AmericaI nations. The undersigned, in the
name OF the people who met and expressed the
unanimous sentiment of the whole nation,
salute you with the utmost enthusiasm, for the
commission of which you are the worthy chief
merits the heartfelt praise of the fatherland
and OF Republican America.
The message was signed by the commit
tee having the meeting in charge. Minis
ter Rio Branco sent a reply.
After several minutes given to vivas the
procession formed and moved on to the
presidential palace. Colonel Correa made
his address.
In reply to the speech the Argentine
Minister, DR.. Garcia Meron, made a few
complimentary remarks in Spanish.
In his turn the President of the republic,
DR.. Prudente Moraes, said in Portuguese {:
Minister of the Argentine Republic and fell
low-citizens: The enthusiasm that bursts spon-
taneously from your bosoms is just, noble and
patriotic. People are accustomed to crown
and gIorify their heroes and generals on re-
turning conquerors from the field of battle,
where they decide questions between nations
The hero whom you glorify to-day is more
worthy than any great general, because repre-
senting the Brazilian nation in dispute of
ages he has caused to triumph your right with
out leaving the field of battle strewn with
dead.
Nations maneuver with such skill and with
great wisdom, and by our hero, in this we'll
fought battle, we have constituted the invincible
and eternal principles of right. The general
who conducted the bloodless battle has there
fore, right to the homage of Brazilians and of
Argentines, who are enabled to leave off strug-
Cling and embrace one another. Your enthu-
siasm, 1 repeat, is just.
Let US profit by that lesson and show our
selves worthy of the majesty of the nature of
the fatherland Let there be no obstacle to the
realization of our conquest; let US forget our
Municipalities and look only to the holy image
of our land.
1t only remains, fellow-citizens, after this
brilliant and honorable termination to the
question which agitated the souls OF two
brother nations for SO long time, to draw still
tighter the bonds OF friendship, sincere and
fruitful, and bind them together as their rep
resentatives of this solemn moment.
Saying this the President threw his arms
around the Minister of the Argentine Re-
public in q warm embrace.
President Moraes sent a telegram to the
President of the Argentine Republic con-
graduating him on the peaceful settlement
of the trou BILE