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. Gresham to Baron Saurma.

Department of State,
Washington, January 22, 1894.

Dear Mr. Ambassador: I beg to hand you herewith a memorandum, in response to the one of the 18th instant delivered by Baron Ketteler, in regard to the proposed extension of the Samoan land commission.

I will send suitable instruction by cable to the United States land commissioner when informed that your Government and that of Great Britain are about to do or have done the same thing.

Very cordially yours, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.

Memorandum.

The suggestion contained in the German ambassador’s memorandum of the 18th instant that the Samoan land commission be extended to the close of the present year in order to enable the completion of its labors was directly brought to the notice of this Government through its ambassador at Berlin. An inquiry of the British Government having elicited a favorable response, and the German Government having requested an answer by telegraph, an instruction was cabled to Mr. Runyon on the 20th instant to acquaint the Imperial Government with the concurrence of the United States in the proposed extension.

Department of State, Washington, January 22, 1894.