PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL, MEASURES, 1887-^88. 185 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. ITnhhard. 



No. 15G.] Department of State, 



Washington, ISqjtcmber 30, 1SS7. 

 Sir: The Bepartmont is glad to infer from your telegram of the 29tli 

 instant that the Government of Jajjan has favorably received the prop- 

 osition of the United States to negotiate for the protection of the seal 

 fisheris^s in Behring Sea. 



A memorandum on the subject is now being prepared in reference to 

 my suggestions and will be transmitted as soon as it is completed. 

 1 am, etc., 



T. F. Bayard. 



Mr. Huhhard to Mr. Bayard. 



1^0. 303.] United States Legation, 



Tolcio, Japan, Octohcr 10, 1887. (Eeceived November 2.) 



Sir: I have the honor herewith to inclose for the information of the 

 Department of State, copies, respectively, of my note to Count Ito, and 

 liis reply thereto, relating to the fur-seal flsheries in Behring Sea. 



I am requested to call the attention of my Government respectfully 

 and especially to the pro])osed reciprocal protection of the sea otter, 

 and to enlarge the protected zone so as to embrace the known habitat 

 of that animal. 



I took occasion to say unofficially to Count Ito that I had no hesita- 

 tion in giving him the hopeful assurance that my Government would 

 cooperate with his excellency's Government in the proposal to include 

 sea otter as well as fur seal in any reasonable arrangement which would 

 prevent unregulated and indiscriminate slaughter of this valuable ani- 

 mal in the waters of Behring Sea as well as on the coast of Japan and 

 in their conterminous waters. I shall have the honor to await, in def- 

 erence to Count Ito's expressed request, your instructions in response 

 to the respectfnl proposition of the Japanese Government before enter- 

 ing upon any formal negotiations on this snbject. On receipt of this 

 dispatch by the Department of State, I have tJie honor to suggest that 

 if the reply to my cablegram of the 2!)th ultimo has been mailed to this 

 legation by the Department, tliat in that end a brief telegram signify- 

 ing your willingness to include the sea otter in the said negotiations 

 would advance the negotiations and gratify this Government as well, 

 who manifests a deep interest in securing an early arrangement by our 

 respective governments for thebetter protection of the fur-seal and sea- 

 otter fisheries of American and Japanese waters. 

 I have, etc., 



Richard B. Hubbard. 



[Inclosure 1 in No. 393.] 



Mr. Huhhard to Count Ito Hirolmmi. 



United States Leoation', 



Tolio, October 6, 1SS7. 



Sir: I have the. honor hcrowitli to forward to your excellency, and to beg your 

 early and favorable consideration of, a copy of an instrnction which I have had the 

 honor to receive from the Department of State of my Government. 



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