The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
BRAZIL IS SAFE.
Attempt at Revolution Meets With
Little Favor.

Little Favor.
Correspondence of Associated Press
Rio Janeiro, March 12.-After denying
time and again that there was or had
been any plot or conspiracy against the
government and that all that had been
discovered was simply small breaches
in the police brigade, the government,
on the 10th of March, Is days after the
facts mentioned, through the medium of
the minister of interior. Dr. Epitacio
PessOa sent out the following state
ment:
I'm the course of investigation held
in the police brigade. it has been proven
that citizens belonging to the monachist
class furnished money to certain indi-
vidCalS to enlist forces and organize an
attack against the constituted inStitu-
lions. The attempt found no aid or as
sistance, either among armed or civil
classes. The investigation is being car
ried on. The whole OF the country may
remain perfectly tranquil and confident
in the security and firmness of the in
sJitutions."
Up to March 10 the formal Do Brazil
and lnprensa published articles accus-
ing the government of the most arbi-
trary and high handed and illegal acts
in the attempt to obtain evidence
against the innocent men who were
Fernades Mendes, recently dismissed
from the command of the national
guard, ONO Pfeto, Andrade Figueira,
Basson and others; but none of the Re
publican papers had acknowledge that
any conspiracy had been unearthed. On
the 10th and 18th, however, the Gaze1a
De Noticios, the Paiz, the Noticia, the
Tribuna, and the formal Do Commerce.,
published full particulars which are
substantially as given in previous ad-
vices.
The substance of the article of the
formal Do Commerce., published on the
18th of March, the first time that this
| newspaper has referred to any way t.
| the subject, is as follows:
| There have hppn really fhroo Of
| temptS. First, the strike of the car
| drivers, which was fortunately entirely
| premature; next, an insignificant plot
| of a very few, confined entirely to thu
! police brigade, and due to dissatisfac-
ton on the part Of several officers who
| thought themselves entitled to more
than the government was disposed to
grant, and then the proposed attempt
to depose the president and members of
| the republican government on Fetru-
| airy %, % and "a.
obviously we can not give the names
| of all the implicated persons, but the
public already knows that several Officers
of the army and navy arS to be court
| martialed for the part they took. a mum.
| Der of sergeants and Subalterns in sew.
| eral of the battalions are also to be tried
Several private citizens implicated have
been released, not because they are in
nocent but because the government
| thought it better not to declare state O.
siege, which is probably the only way Il
gather in such game Amongst the name.
given by the plotterS We're those of Wis
count de ONO 8reJO, General Fernando.
Mendes. Counsellors Andrade Fugeiro
Joas Alfredo and Basson, and Candida a.
Oliveira-
The treasury of the group seems t.
have been quite full, as we hear of sum
running up into the hundreds of thous
ands; and it seems to have been lust a
freely drawn on, for Mayor Franco open
" confessed that he and a large mum
Der of his needy friends had made rui
on the bank to . large amount.
| "A very large number of the residence
of the citizens known to be monarchist
have been carefully watched and a larg
number of dispositions taken, some freel
and some sorely against the will of tn
witnesses. Thus Andrade F'igueiro an
Candida de Oliyeira are described as cor
tumacious, While Basson, JoaS Alfred
and others seem to have been perfect
willing to tell what they knew, some ott
ers as Fernandes MendeS have discreet
kept out of the way.
I'VE also see by the investigation the
the plans and ideas of the plotters we1
almost as varied as were the people. som
wanted a 'junta governativa' of monarch
lists; some of republicans; others Wante
5 a triumvirate of monarchjes, others of T,
L publicans. Others again proposed mike
junta of six chosen from all polite:
creeds. We are even told that polite
were so mixed that they fought in coul
ciln