Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 836/86.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Dudley.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 15, 1908.

(Mr. Bacon states that the department assumes that the decree signed by President of Brazil on the 11th instant puts reduction of 20 per cent in force retroactively as from January 1, and asks if this is correct.)