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Wal No. 16. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 6.) 
{ Telegraphic. ] 
WASHINGTON, June 6, 1891. 
This morning I delivered to the Acting Secretary of State a Memo- 
randum communicating the contents of your Lordship’s telegram of 
yesterday, and I have just received a reply to the following effect: 
[See text of Mr. Wharton’s note of the 6th June in Sir Julian Paunceiote’s despatch 
of the 9th June, 1891: Inclosure in No. 47, infra. ] 
No. 17. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received June 8.) 
WASHINGTON, May 28, 1891. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to inclose copy of a note which I have 
received from Mr. Adee, Acting Secretary of State, expréssing the 
earnest desire of the President for an early response to the proposal 
contained in Mr. Blaine’s note of the 4th instant for a modus vivendi 
during the coming sealing season in Belring’s Sea. 
Mr. Adee, as your Lordship will perceive, informs me of the departure 
of the United States revenue-steamer “Rush” for the sealing islands 
and of the approaching sailing of the “Corwin” for the same destination. 
I have also the honour to inelose copy of the reply which I have 
returned to Mr. Adee’s communication. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 17.] 
Mr. Adee to Sir J. Pauneefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF StatTE, Washington, May 26, 1891. 
Sir: In my personal note of the 20th instant, and on several other occasions in 
oral communication, I have had the honour to express the desire of the President to 
be informed, at the earliest possible moment, of the response of Her Majesty’s Gov- 
ernment to the proposal, which formed the subject of Mr. Blaine’s note to you of 
the 4th instant, that seal-taking on the islands and in the waters of Behring’s Sea 
be limited, as in said note expressed, as to citizens of the United States and subjects 
of Great Britain, pending the arbitration of certain questions in controversy between 
the two Governments. 
In several interviews with you since the 20th instant, the desire of the President 
for an early response to the note of the 4th May has been reaffirmed. 
The situation evidently calls for prompt action. Each day’s delay increases the 
existing difference in the ability of the respective Governments to make the pro- 
posed limitation of seal-taking effective. It is reported that a large fleet of Cana- 
dian sealers has been for some weeks or months on the seas. They are daily going 
further out of reach. The revenue-cruizers have awaited definite orders. Their 
presence is urgently needed in the Behring’s Sea. Any further delay tends to defeat 
the very purpose for which the Agreement is sought. It is quite incompatible with 
fairness and justice to our citizens that this should be permitted to continue. 
Ample opportunity has been afforded to Her Majesty’s Government to bring this 
condition to a close by an effective Avreement; but the result is still uncertain, and 
to all appearances remote, The President would be glad to know that it is near at 
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