It worked with grains, farm items, and haberdashery supplies, besides being an obligatory stop for the muleteers who came to negotiate their products, providing a farmyard for the animals to rest.

When Caxias was emancipated in 1890, from the condition of district of São Sebastião do Caí to autonomous town, a Government Board was installed, which had to start the structuring of the new municipality amidst a turbulent scenario, reflecting both the recent proclamation of the Republic and the dispute for power between federalists and republicans.

In addition, the settler population was massively Catholic and a large part followed a conservative and radical current, the ultramontanism, which fiercely resisted the Freemasons, the positivists and the liberals, who dominated the main public offices.

At this time, however, the Association was beginning to face a crisis, divided by internal disputes that led to the removal of several members, and with the ascension of merchants to the Vice-Intendency and the council, its role as a claimant faded away.

However, he would only return to effective government on December 1, 1911, with the resignation of Feijó, handing over the post on August 12, 1912, to José Pena de Moraes, whom Rovea had appointed vice-intendent when he reassigned in 1911.

[11] His administration was notable for being the beginning of a process of consolidation of power of Italian descendants, since, until that moment, the Intendency had been regularly handed over to agents of Luso-Brazilian origin.

[12] Vicente was praised for being able to pacify the situation after many years of intense agitation, actively collaborating "in the definitive consolidation of local politics, which resulted in the congruence of the Caxias family".