FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE BEHRING SEA 
SEAL FISHERIES. 
[IN CONTINUATION OF “UNITED STATES No. 2 (1891):” C. 6368.] 
Nox, 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishury.—( Received April 27.) 
WASHINGTON, April 15, 1891, 
My Lorp: I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a note 
which I received yesterday from Mr. Blaine in reply to your Lordship’s 
despatch of the 21st February last,* of which I left a copy in his hands 
on the 3rd March. 
In this note Mr. Blaine states that the modifications suggested by 
your Lordship in the questions for arbitration do not wholly meet the 
views of the President, and he sets out the questions in the form in 
which they are now proposed by him. 
For convenience of reference, I inclose a paper showing, in opposite 
columns, the original six questions suggested by Mr. Blaine in his note 
of the 17th December last, and the questions, as altered and now pro- 
posed by him, on behalf of the United States’ Government. In his note 
transmitted herewith Mr. Blaine reverts to several points which have 
been long under discussion, and adduces further arguments in support 
of his contentions. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 1.] 
Mr. Blaine to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, April 14, 1891. 
Sir: The modifications which Lord Salisbury suggests in the questions for arbi- 
tration do not wholly meet the views of the President, but the President changes the 
text of the third and fifth in such manner, it is hoped, as will result in an agreement 
between the two Governments. While Lord Salisbury suggests a different mode of 
procedure from that embodied in the sixth question, the President does not under- 
stand him actually to object to the question, and he therefore assumes that it is 
agreed to. 
The six questions as now proposed by the President are as follows: 
1. What exclusive jurisdiction in the sea now known as the Behring’s Sea, and 
what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior 
and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States? 
* “United States No. 1 (1891),” p. 87. 
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