Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Thompson to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Petropolis, September 7, 1893. (Received September 9.)

Mr. Thompson reports that on the previous night the representatives of France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal all, with himself, declined, for the purpose of maintaining a strict reserve with regard to political events in Brazil, to attend a conference to which they had been invited by the vice-president of Brazil in which measures to adopt in the event of bombardment were to be discussed with him.