Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Tower to Mr. Sherman.

British Embassy,
Alan Chester, Mass., June 30, 1897.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Day’s note, No. 713, of the 28th instant, stating that the proposal of Her Majesty’s Government for a renewal of the arrangement of 1894 relative to the sealing regulations in Bering Sea is not acceptable to your Government.

I shall not fail to bring the contents of this note to the knowledge of Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs.

I have, etc.,

Reginald Tower.