Office of the Historian

Mr. Uhl to Mr. Bayard.

Department of State,
Washington, May 14, 1894.

Sir: I inclose herewith for your information copy of an agreement* between the Government of the United States and the Imperial Government of Russia for a modus vivendi in relation to the fur-seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, concluded on May 4, 1894.

I also inclose translation of a note of the 4th instant† from the Russian minister in this capital, wherein he declares that the Imperial Government is prepared to negotiate and sign with the United States, England, Mid Japan a treaty, in virtue of which the principles and regulations of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration shall be applicable, indifferently, to all the waters of the Pacific Ocean situated north of the. thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude.

I am, etc.,

E. F. Uhl, Acting Secretary
  1. See page 158.↩
  2. See page 190.↩