536 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
7. In respect of the said scizure and detention, and of the losses thereby resulting, 
and for the expenses incurred by reason of such seizure or detention, I, as managing 
owner of the ‘ Pathfinder,” claim of and from the Government of the United States 
as damages the sum of 3, 000 dollars. 
And I, William Munsie, make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing 
the same to be true, and by virtue of the Acts respecting extra- judicial ch alee 
[L. 8.] (Signed) Wn. MuNSIE. 
Declared at the city of Victoria, British Columbia, this 3rd day of en A.D. 1890, 
before me, 
(Signed) Artuur L. Breiyra, 
A Notary Public by Royal Authority in and for the Province of British Columbia. 
No. 363. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 16.) 
WASHINGTON, June 6, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 3rd instant, I have 
the honour to inclose copy of a further note which I have received from 
Mr. Blaine on the subject of the proposed exclusion of British sealers 
from Behring’s Sea during the present season, together with the reply 
which I have sent thereto. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) J. PAUNCEFOTE, 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 363.] 
Mr. Blaine to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, June 4, 1890. 
Srr: I have your favour of the 2nd instant. 
The President sincerely regrets that his considerate and most friendly proposal 
for adjustment of all troubles connected with the Behring’s Sea should be so promptly 
rejected. 
The paragraph in your note in which you refer to Lord Salisbury’s position needs 
explanation. I quote it in full: 
“Tt will suffice for the present purpose to state that the further examination of 
the question which has taken place has satisfied his Lordship that such an extreme 
measure as that proposed in 1888 goes far beyond the requirements of the case.” 
I do not know what may have been the ‘examination of the question” that ‘has 
satisfied Lord Salisbury that such an extreme measure as that proposed in 1888 goes 
far beyond the requirements of the case.” I only know that the most extreme meas- 
ure proposed came from Lord Salisbury himself, in suggesting a close season as far 
south as the 47th parallel of latitude, to last from the 15th April to the Ist October 
in each year. 
485 At the close of his negotiations with Mr. Phelps, in September 1888, his Lord- 
ship, still approving the ‘‘ measures to prevent the wanton destruction of so 
valuable an industry,” declared, apparently with regret, that “the Canadian Goy- 
ernment objected to any such restrictions” (i. €., as those which his Lordship had in 
part proposed and wholly approved), and that, ‘‘until its consent would be obtained, 
Her Majesty’s Government was not willing to enter into the Convention.” It is evi- 
dent, therefore, that in 1888 Lord Salisbury abruptly closed the negotiations because, 
in his own phrase, ‘‘the Canadian Government objected.” He “assigned no other 
reason whatever, and, until your note of the 2nd was received this Government had 
never been informed that his Lordship entertained any other objections than those 
expressed in September 1888. 
It is proper to recall to your recollection that at divers times in personal conyersa- 
tion I have proposed to you, on behalf of this Government, a close season materially 
shorter in point of time than was voluntarily offered by Lord Salisbury, and much 
