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“The President does not conceal his disappointment that even for 
the sake of securing arbitration, Her Majesty’s Government refuses to 
suspend for a single season the practice which your Lordship described 
in 1888 as the wanton destruction of a valuable industry, and which the 
United States Government has uniformly regarded as an unprovoked 
invasion of its established rights.” 
I have declined in my acknowledgment of the note to continue the 
correspondence until I receive further instructions, especially as 
474 the views of Her Majesty’s Government are clearly explained in 
your Lordship’s despatch of the 22nd ultimo, which I read to the 
Secretary of State only a few hours before his note reached me. 
No. 350. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 7.) 
(Telegraphic. | 
WASHINGTON, June 7, 1890. 
Mr. Blaine has postponed our interview arranged for this morning. 
I will endeavour to meet him in the course of to-morrow, 
No. 351. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
(Telegraphic. | 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 7, 1890. 
I regret to learn from your telegram of the 7th instant that the Pres. 
ident should think I am wanting in conciliation in the Behring’s Sea 
negotiations. I think, however, that he misunderstands the conditions 
of our law. 
There is no power whatever which would enable Her Majesty’s Gov- 
ernment to exclude British or Canadian vessels from any part of the 
high seas for however short a period of time without first obtaining, in 
the one case, an Act of the British Parliament, and in the other one, 
of the Canadian Parliament. 
We have always been willing, without pledging ourselves to details 
as to area and date, to negotiate with the hope of coming to an arrange- 
ment for the establishment of a close season so far as necessary to 
preserve the fur-seal species, but its provisions would require the 
sanction of the respective Legislatures. 
I do not recognize the expressions which are apparently attributed 
to me in Mr. Blaine’s note. 
I do not think I used them, not at all events in the context stated in 
the note. 
No. 352. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 9.) 
WASHINGTON, May 29, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 23rd instant, I 
have the honour to inclose copy of a note which I have received from 
Mr. Blaine in reply to my communication of the 23rd instant, in which 
