Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Uhl to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, March 7, 1895.

No. 48.]

Excellency: Referring to your communication of the 6th ultimo, inclosing a copy of a note from the Russian ambassador at the court of St. James, stating that the Government of Russia can only adhere to the regulations prescribed by the award of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration for the protection and preservation of the fur-seal species, provided they shall be extended to the whole of the Pacific Ocean north of the thirty-fifth degree of latitude, I beg to say that correspondence with the Government of Japan on the subject in question shows that it also takes substantially the same position as Russia.

I have, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.