[Telegram.]
Mr. Thompson to Mr. Gresham.
Legation of
the United States,
Rio de Janeiro, January 2, 1894. (Received January 2.)
Rio de Janeiro, January 2, 1894. (Received January 2.)
Mr. Thompson reports the resignation of the Brazilian minister of marine and says that Saldanha da Gama now declares that he is ready to support a plebiscite, and charges that his first pronunciamento, the original of which he fails, however, to publish, was falsified.