Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 37.
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West.

[Note verbale.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 21, 1888.

Responding to the note verbale of Sir Lionel West, dated the 18th instant, it is suggested on behalf of the United States that, as the cases of seizure of British sealing vessels in Behring Sea, therein referred to, are now in court pending an appeal from a judicial decision, it is preferable to await the judgment of the appellate court in the premises.