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Show El f THE II III! 'Erazilian Congress to ; Grant Amnesty and j Mutineers Surrender i Rio Janeiro, Nov. 21 The capital f.b-pt last night with the guns of Ita own navy trained n it. Th mutineers lemained seemingly masters of the situation Toward one o'clock this uorning one ot the mutinous fleet (red upon the naval arsenal Tho scout rrui.'er Dedora has joined the battleships Mlnas Cereas and Sao Pholo and the scout liahiu In revolt. re-volt. Today's session of tbe chamber ot deputies was await el with anxiety, but its vote of amnesty ..n I the surrender sur-render cd' the mutineers cleared the situation. The demands of the naval men were granted. Iist evening the Sao Paolo and the iJahla withdrew from the rarlior. supposedly sup-posedly because they feared a night attack from the loyal lO'pcdo boat destroyers. The Minas Gereas, however, how-ever, remained opposite the palace and was joined by the emiser Dedora. Per several nours everything was ! oulet. Then watchers on short noted j activity on board the Dedora and an hour after midnight the small guns of Cue Dedora awoke the town. It was at first thought the i evoking vessels were making a combined attack on the city. For a time a p'.'.nlcky feeling feel-ing was general. Then it was dlscov- ; red that the tiring was directed only j at the naval arsenal The cannonading cannonad-ing did not last long and no great damage was done. j The local garrisons and the loyal torpedo boats did not ivspon.l. al-I al-I though, according to thlx morning's p'upers. their oft leers had received ! siuister orders as lo their duty in j certain contingencies. I When the Dedora had ceased firing, 1 I fhe put to sea, accompanied by tho ; Minas Cereas.. Morning broke with the mutinous craft still o.itslde tho I ' harbor and they did not no urn to port I i. ntll some hours later. ' Congress met In extraordinary ses- ,' i iou this morning. The chamber of j 1 tii-put ies first concurred with tho sen- 1 ;-le iu granting amnesty to the mil- i tineers. Both houses then passed res- j i o!utbns. couccdlng the dem inds of the j tt.ilors. ; As soon as the action oi congress became knowif the muti.ious crews surrendered aud the revolt wa-s at an i I'd. The city was soon quiet and ' lesumlng Its normal activity. Rio Janerlo Nov. 25. The govern I ii. eni of Brazil today yk-dded to its Mutinous uavy. Congress meeting In ' extraordinary session, decided t ! meet every deniaud of the ultimatum j presented yesterday, including general j umnesy of tbe sailors who. after raur I k (.Continued on Pbj;c SlxJ j I i i i their wishes were met. It Is doubtful, ' however, that they would have takes 1 this step in any event Dccause cf th? likelihood of complications with Great Britain. At tho time of tho revolt James Bryce, ambassador to the United States, was the guest or Baron Rio Brando, the Brazilian foreign for-eign minister and he would have been as likely as any one to suffer from bombardment. On the other hand, the mutinous battleship Sao Pa.ilu 1 ad aboard several British persota ior home. At tho outbreak of the trouble, Sir William H. D. Haggard, British mb htcr to Brazil, notified the Brazilian foreign office that any atlnnpt of th loyal torpedo boats to destroy the warship would beHattended with dander dan-der to British subjects on board. It Is also known that the government hesitated to damage the bulwark of its navy. There was no attempt to five a political color to tho revolt Brazil has but two Dreadnoughts, tho Mlnas Geraes and the Sro Paolo, and these, being Joined by the coa3t defense de-fense ships Marshal Floriano and .Marshal .Mar-shal De Odoro and the scout ship Bahala, the possessors wero in prac- tical control of the fleet, and, if nece; i snry to accomplish their ends, prob-1 ably could have made short w ork cl i the smaller craft, consisting of six! piotec-ted cruisers, three torpedo I cruisers and several vessels of the gunboat class. The trouble among the sailors had ben brewing for some time ami when the Minas Geraes ran up the red ili, J Tuesday night, the other vessels 6Cgj followed her example. Captain Ner j of the Minas and two other officers j v ere killed as were several of the men who attacked the officers. The officers preferred death instead of th? surrender of the ship. Throughout Wednesday and Thurj i!ay Rio Janeiro was at the mercy cl the outlaw crews who dropped an c c sional shell into the city to autf force. END OF THE EIG MUTINY I (Continued from Page One) Bering as many cf their superior of fleers as was necessary to place them in complete control, trained the guns cf the warships on the capital. What the ultimate effect will be on the discipline in the navy, is a matter of concern. The immediate effect is to give the sailors Increased pay, fewer few-er hours of service and less work through the recruiting ol additions to the crews and to abolish corporal I unlshment in the ileet. Following the actlou of congress, the mutineers went through the formal-in formal-in of surrendering, an 1 before nocn today the city had resumed its normal jictivlties and the publi. excitement had subsided. While tbe revolt last-cii, last-cii, the people of the city were kept in u state of suspense, fearlig that tho mutineers would make t;ood their threat to demolish the capital unless |