Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Gresham.

Embassy of the United States,
London, April 13, 1894. (Received April 23, 1894.)

Sir: I have now the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegraphic instruction of to-day.

The inclosed report^* of the proceedings in the House of Lords yesterday will show you that the bill to put in operation the award and regulations of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration, having passed the House of Commons, had its second reading in the Lords, and will, as I suppose, be finally acted upon by that body next Monday.

Their methods of legislative procedure are not in formal accord with those of Congress, and there is no reference whatever in the debate in either house to the suggested discrimination from forfeiture of the sealers, who have sought by anticipation to violate the regulations imposed by the tribunal (and to the obedience to which national faith was internationally and mutually pledged). I am unable to state the exact provisions of the measure.

I will at once telegraph you the text of the act when it has been finally acted upon, and meanwhile,

I have, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.

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