Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Your May 12 received to-day through Buenos Aires. Desirous of joining in the tripartite offer of mediation the Government of Brazil will telegraph at once to its legations at Lima and Quito a Portugese translation of the joint note you have submitted and [Page 452] instruct each to arrange to sign a Spanish version of it with the American and Argentine representatives as soon as they are authorized.

Dudley.