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 Mr. Bun.

No. 82.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 26, 1894.

Sir: I inclose herewith for your information a copy of the Department’s instruction of the 24th instant to the minister of the United States at Peking, indicating the reasons which impelled the President to decline the proposal made by the British Government that the United States should join Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia in an intervention between China and Japan, and reviewing the facts and circumstances which subsequently induced this Government to make known to China and Japan its willingness to contribute its kindly offices toward the restoration of peace between them.

I am, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.