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. Webb to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, April 16–28, 1894. (Received May 12.)

Sir: Upon a request from Count Kapnist, the head of the Asiatic department of the foreign office, I called upon the gentleman yesterday afternoon. He imparted to me the following information.

Prince Cantacuzene has received authority to sign the agreement annexed to your instruction of March 30. He is further authorized to state that Russia is ready to enter into negotiations at any time tending to extend the terms “fixed by the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration to the Pacific Ocean as far as the thirty-ninth degree of latitude.

The first portion of this I have telegraphed to you at the earnest request of Count Kapnist. The matter that concerns the extending of the terms fixed by the Paris Tribunal to the thirty-ninth degree of latitude I did not cable, as the count said that he had cabled himself to Count Cantacuzene.

I am, etc.,

G. Creighton Webb.