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. Yrigoyen to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of Peru,
Washington, August 21, 1894. (Received August 21.)

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yesterday’s date, and the documents to which you refer.

In your favor you are pleased to inform me that agreeably to the provision of Article VII of the treaty of arbitration concluded between the United States and Great Britain, February 29, 1892, the United States seek to obtain the adhesion of the other powers to the regulations which the arbitrators consider necessary for the preservation of the fur seal on the east side of the North Pacific Ocean from the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude to Bering Straits.

For that purpose you are pleased to express to me the desire that my Government should adhere to said regulations, by means of adequate legislation.

In reply, I have the pleasure to inform you that I will forward to my Government by the next steamer your highly esteemed note and the documents inclosed, and that as soon as I shall receive his reply I will communicate it to your Department.

I avail, etc.,

Jose M. Yrigoyen.