The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-03-30
THE BOLIVIAN TROUBLE.
Expedition From Brazil VIII BE Cour'
teously Received and an AMIGA
BILE Adjustment Probable.

BILE Adjustment Probable.
RIO JANEIRo, March s4-(Corre-
spondence Of the Associated Press.)--
DR.. Inocencio Sorzedello Correa, dep
uty from the state of Para, and for
merly a minister. published recently
the following article, which win show
the feeling of the greater part of the
Brazilians OF the northern states Of
Brazil in regard TO the vast region OF
the upper Amazon at present under
the rule Of Colonel Braks and others,
who deposed the president OF the re-
public OF Acre:
There has never been any revolu-
ton against the Brazilian authorities
in Acre. The population Of almost the
whole Of that region. composed Of
about %. 900 Brazilians. demand guaran-
tee for their property and the payment
OF such duties to the Brazilian gov
ernment as they were always aecus-
toned to pay. The mixed Brazilian
Bolivian commission will meet every
facility and aid in carrying out the
survey and making plants of the head
waters of the Javary.
"The Brazilian naval force will be
met with festivals which are already
prepared. and not gun will be fired.
You need have no fear that Acre will
prove to be another Canudor. The
laboring people have not practiced a
single act of violence, and all the news
of combat and deaths so plentifully
published at Rio Janeiro and here are
also unfounded.
Commanders Cardezo. Quiorez, and
Parente and General Galvas have al
ready arrived from Acre and confirm
what say. The Tupy will go up the
river in March and will return loaded
with rubber in April, Just as all other
steamers have gone up and come down.
The desire is not to pay duties to the
Bolivians at their improvised custom
house at Purto Alonzo. All declare
this.
"All the Brazilian merchants and
laborers trust the the Brazilian gov
ernment win not force them to pay,
but they affirm should the govern
ment send orders to the gunboats and
forces under Baptist Franco, they will
not resist while the vessels are here,
but when the waters recede, obliging
the gunboats to come down, they win
again throw of the Bolivian Jurisdic-
ton"
Moyses Santivane, Bolivian consul at
Para, has published the following in re-
gard to the Acre question:
''The final termination of these
events suggested to the government
Of Amozane, the idea of expelling the
Bolivian authorities from Purto Alon-
20, and to this end orders were sent to
the judge at Antimary and to the dele
gate of police. the highest state au-
thorities in that region and those car
ried out faithfully the instructions
sent.
"At the head Of eighty or one hun
dred Brazilians of Acre they entered
Purto Alonzo, which was wholly un-
prepared for an attack of any kind
and unsuspicious of any i'll will on the
part of the Brazilian citizens, who are
in a large majority. When the acts
were consummated their only desire
was to inform the supreme federal gov
ernment at Rio, so confident were they
that these would be cOnsummated and
Bolivian authorities replaced by the
Brazilian government. And, in fact,
this was the attitude at first assumed
by Campos SALES, who gave orders to
Ramalho to chastise the delinquents
and replace the deposed members Of
the delegation but as this measure
would mean the abandonment Of what
was later to be his right, the agent
OF the government had recourse to
astuteness in order to prevent the
Bolivians from reoccupying the dis
trict and from this the idea Of the Gal
vez expedition was born. prepared and
realized at Maais, without the least
scruple: so much so that even before
the arrival Of the president of the in
dependent republic at Purto Alonzo we
already knew of the famous indepen-
dence movement organized by agents
of an unknown syndicate, whose mana
ger was the then editor of the Com
mercio do Amazonas, Alberto Mereira,
Jr.
"Galzes was accompanied by thirty
adventures, nearly all Spaniards, well
armed and provisioned at cost Of
$4,000. He carried with him his mani
festo printed at Manais and constituted
the same newspaper his organ. These
and other adventures have constantly
received aid OF all kinds from Manais
and even in Para. So far every means
mas been employed TO prevent The re-
placement Of the Bolivian authorities.
1T Is too early to declare that Boil
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