204 DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL 

 MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF FUR-SEALS— (Co«/iHMC(i.) 



Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 



Washington, Fehruary 10, 1800. 

 Sir: Her Majesty's Goverument have Lad for sometime iimler their 

 consideration the suggestion made in the eonrse of our interviews on 

 the qnestion of the seal fisheries in Behring's Sea, that it might expedite 

 a settlement of the controversy if the tripartite negotiation respecting 

 the estahlishment of a close time for those fisheries which was com- 

 menced in London in 1S88, but was suspended owing to various causes, 

 should be resumed in Washington. 



I now have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty's Government 

 are willing to adopt this suggestion, and if agreeable to your Goveru- 

 ment will take steps concurrently with them to invite the i)articipatiou 

 of Eussia in the renewed negotiations. 

 1 have, etc., 



Julian P7iuncefote. 



Mr. Blaine to Sir Jitlian Banncefote. 



Department of State, 

 ^ya.shilu/to)l, March 1, 1890. 

 My Bear Sir Julian: I have extracted from otlicial documents and 

 appended liereto a large mass of evidence, given under oatli by profes- 

 sional exi)erts and oflicers of the United States, touching the subject 

 upon which you di^sired further proof, namely, that the killing of seals 

 in the open sea tends certaiidy and rapidly to the extermination of the 

 species. If further evidence is desired, it can be readily furnished. 



I have, etc., 



James G. Blaine. 



(For inclosures see House Ex. Doc. No. 450, Fifty-first Congress, first 

 session, pp. 35-25.) 



Sir. Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 



Washington, April — , 1890. (Beceived April 30.) 

 Deau Mr. Blaine: At the last sitting of the Conference on the 

 Behring Sea Fisheries question, you expressed doubts, after reading the 

 memorandum of the Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Avhich 

 by your courtesy has since been ])rinted, whether any ariangemeut 

 could be arrived at that would be satisfactory to Canada. 



You observe<l that the proposals of the TTnitc^d States had now been 

 tAvo years before Her Majesty's (government, that there was nothing 

 further to urge in support of it; and you invited me to make ai counter 

 ])roposal on tiu'ir behalf. To that task I have nu)st earnestly applied 

 myscll", and Avhile fully sensible of its great dilliculty, owing to the c<m- 

 fiict of opinion and of testimony whicli has ]iianitested itself in the 

 course of our discussions, 1 do not despair of arriving at a solution which 



