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

Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, July 17, 1896.

My Dear Sir Julian: With reference to your note of the 27th of April last, concerning the question of the shipment of cattlemen on British steamships at New York and Boston, I beg respectfully to inquire whether Her Majesty’s consul-general at New York has yet received instructions from the British Board of Trade concerning the placing of cattlemen on the shipping articles of British vessels at that port.

This information is urgently desired by the Secretary of the Treasury.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney.