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

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.

Newport, September 4, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, on the subject of the expenses to be borne by the three treaty powers in connection with the salaries and journeys homeward of Mr. Cederkrantz and Baron Senfft von Pilsach from Samoa, and referring, among other matters, to the proposition already put forward by your Government that provision should be made by the three powers for the payment of the traveling expenses of the new chief justice, Mr. Ide, and his family.

I have transmitted a copy of your note to the Earl of Rosebery, and I shall have the honor of addressing a further note to you on the subject on receipt of his lordship’s reply.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.