Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Olney.

British Embassy,
Washington, December 2, 1896.

Sir: With reference to your note, No. 518, of the 13th of October last, to Viscount Gough, and to previous correspondence in regard to the arrangements for preventing the use of firearms in Bering Sea by pelagic sealers, I have the honor to inform you that I am instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to state that Her Majesty’s Government agree to postpone further discussion on this subject for the present.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.