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

M. de Buisseret to Mr. Gresham.

[Translation.]

Legation of Belgium,
Washington, December 23, 1894.

Mr. Minister: Your excellency did me the honor to address to me, under date of the 20th of August last, the regulations for the protection of fur seals in Bering Sea, adding that the United States Government invited the Belgian Government to adhere thereto.

As no Belgian vessel ever visits the regions in question, my Government thinks—and it has instructed me so to inform your excellency—that there is no reason for proposing any special measure to the legislative body of Belgium.

It adds that it nevertheless renders sincere homage to the efforts that are made by the United States, together with Great Britain, in behalf of a cause which interests the entire world.

I beg your excellency to accept, etc., for the minister,

Conrad de Buisseret.