Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 258.
Mr. Boutelle to Mr. Bayard.

[Telegram.]

House of Representatives,
July 10, 1886.

I have just received a dispatch from Eastport, Me., stating that American boats after herring for sardines at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, were driven away last night by the Dominion cruiser Middleton, and it is announced that no American boats will be allowed to take herring for any purpose. I earnestly invoke the immediate attention of the Department to this matter.

C. A. BOUTELLE.