Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
TALK ABOUT BRAZIL
Mr.. Charles Page Bryan Con-
fers With Secretary Hay.
AN ECONOMY REGIMEN
THE REPUBLIC rs NOW PASSING
THROUGH ONE.
German Colonists Not Helping Mother
German Colonists Not Helping Mother
Country to Territory-Good Feel
ing for United States.

Mr. Charles Page Bryan, late United
States minister at Rio, and now minister
to Lisbon to succeed Mr.. LOOMS, has
arrived in Washington, and called at
the Department of State today to talk
with Secretary Hay over the conditions
in Brazil as he left them. Mr.. Bryan
is an ardent admirer of President Rodri-
guez Albes, whom he described as one of
the strongest and most safely conservative
statesmen In all Of South America, while
he has only praise for the minister of for
eign affairs, Baron Rio Brancha, well
known in the United States in connection
with the labors of the joint commission
which met In this city several years ago.
Brazil is now passing through a severe
regimen Of economy, according to MIR.
Bryan, and while the enforced reductions
in every branch of the public service have
necessarily caused some depression, yet the
general results of the policy are proving
most beneficial. and the republic is slowly
but steadily gaining financial prestige and
laying the foundation for future national
prosperity.
Exhibit at st. Louis.
1t was great concession to the United
States. secured through Mr.. Bryan's repre-
sensations. that caused the Brazilian gov
eminent, in the midst of these economical
practices, to reverse its first decision and
appropriate the sum of $3.50, 600 to insure a
fine Brazilian government exhibit at the
st. Louis exposition, news of which has
just reached the retiring minister. Mr..
Bryan has also been informed that the
Brazilian government has just ratified the
extradition treaty with the United States,
which has been pending about eight nine
years.
Touching the complex Acre dispute be-
VI on ~ al 10 and prr-n ~,
had nothing to say, although American
money is involved in the settlement of the
boundary question beyond the statement
that climat!cally the climate of Acre is
totally unfit for Americans. 1t lies directly
under the equator. the heat is awful and
constant. and the insect pests are numerous,
besides the poisonous rivers, and altogether,
even the Boivians suffer from fever and
berri berri in the proportion of about 60
per cent.
Germany's Intentions.
Mr.. Bryan was able to throw some strong
light on the mooted question Of German
intentions respecting that part of South
America which fell within his observa
ton, and that was the most important by
reason of the fact that there are nearly a
quarter million of Germans settled in one
single Brazilian state Mr.. Bryan declared
that there was not the slightest sign of
any disposition of these Germans to uti
lZc lEeT as COlOnlStS 10 Iurtn6r
any schemes for the acquisition of terri
tory by the mother country in South Amer
lea. On the contrary he asserted that
more than % per cent of the German I'M
migrants in Brazil had become naturalzed
Brazilians and were proud of their new
country, although, of course, they retained
the admirable Germanic traits which have
made them such welcome immigrants in the
United States. The Brazilian government
has shown its confidence in the future by
the appointment as a member of the cabi
net of Laura Muller, a statesman of Ger
man parentage, who is force in the state
Another Evidence of Good Feeling.
One other evidence of the good feeling of
the Brazilian government toward the United
States which Mr.. Bryan had to cite was the
agreement of that government to raise the
Inhibition 1t had placed upon the business
of the New York Life Insurance Company,
formerly of considerable amount but for
some time entirely suspended owing to ad-
verse legislation. The Brazilian govern
ment, at Mr.. Bryan's request. had just is
sued a decree permitting the company TO
resume business.
Mr.. Bryan will be in Washington about a
week. and after a short visit to his home
in Chicago will proceed to his new post at
Lisbon.