The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-05
PORTUGAL IS RISING
FROM DESPONDEACY
King ManueI's New Premier Has
Brought Together Factional Parts
of the Cabinet and Has Min
lstry Ready for Duty.

Lisbon. February 4.-Lisbon is begin
ming to recover from the shock and hor-
ror of Saturdays bloody tragedy, but
strong undercurrent of popular and gov
ernmenta1 nervousness remains. The po-
litical tension is s1ackening, although the
progressists refuse to join the coalition
cabinet which Admiral Ferreira do Am
aral is forming from all the monarch
ical groups, because the conservatives
are in predominance. The hitch, how
ever, is likely to be Strengthened out and
a temporary union of all the monarchlal
elements attained for the purpose of get
ting the country back on a constitutional
basis, lending agitation and restoring
tranquility" as expressed by the leaders.
Senior Bernadino Machado the leader
of the peaceful wing Of the republicans,
agrees to truce provided that his
friends now under arrest are liberated,
freedom of the press restored and tho
elections ordered. Admiral do Amaral,
the devoted friend of the Queen, who
assumes power, is committed to the re-
versal of the entire policy of the dictator
ship, the abolition of repressive meas
ures and the restoration of "the old
liberal monarchy" On Saturday gov
ernment by decree will be withdrawn,
amnesty, etc, accorded political Offend
ers not implicated in deeds of violence,
and the embargo of the press raised.
Franco Down and Out.
Francois downfall is complete. He rec
ognized that it was impossible to saddle
the youthful king at the outset of his
reign with the stern programme involv-
ing the immediate Punishment and de-
nortation of several hundred political Of
tenders. to which he had committed him
s self If he retained oafic ffs trsdt ,
friend that the assassination of the King
ended his political career. He offer ed
his services, however. but these were
refused.
Practically no headway has been made
in unraveling the plot, of which the
murder of the King and the Crown Prince
was but one step. The police now admit
that the three men arrested were not in
volved.
Every one of the desperate band ex-
cept the three men killed escaped in the
confusion. The identification of these
three throws but little light upon their
connections. While it is believed by some
that they were involved in the conspi--
acies which were unearthed in the lat
ter part of January, it is possible that
the regicide was planned and executed
on the spur of the moment after the
appearance Of decree, by a small group
of militant revolutionary or anarchistio
socialists, who may have imagined that
the obliteration of the Braganza dynasty
would cause a spontaneous uprising of
the people.
Conspiracy Fails.
The conspiracy failed in both re-
spects, as the younger Prince escaped
and the people wait in mourning for
the double funeral on Saturday.
A visitor would be struck by the abb
sence of the conventional signs of ma
tional mourning. The white and blue
flag of Portugal and the standards Of
the foreign countries are half masted
and officers have black bands on their
arms, but only here and there is there
knot of crepe at the windows. Among
the better classes the men wear black
cravats. The royal arms shops are
draped and the shutters half closed.
Most of the European states are
sending special missions to attend the
funeral these including the Prince Of
Wales and the Duke of Aosta. Two
of the ships of the British fleet at
Vigo are expected here, King Carlos
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