[Untitled]
Department
of State,
Washington, March 13, 1901.
Washington, March 13, 1901.
Sir: I have the honor to inclose copy of a dispatch from Mr. Herbert H. D. Peirce, counsel and agent for the United States in the matter of the whaling and sealing claims against Russia, transmitting a translation into English of the memorandum presenting the claims to the arbitrator.
The package containing a letter and the translation was forwarded to you under separate cover.
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
John Hay.
Hon. H. C. Lodge,
United
States Senate.