APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. vey 
A close time to the east of the line in the result will also recruit the 
seal fishery to the west of it, and Russia, therefore, will find her interest 
in acceding to our request. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
(Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 10, 1891. 
Behring’s Sea modus vivendi. I have received your telegram of yes- 
t-rday. 
We assent to the insertion in Article 3 of the words, ‘ outside ordi- 
nary territorial limits,” and also, though reluctantly, to the omission 
from Article 2 of the words, ‘as food skins, and not for tax and ship- 
ment.” 
We cannot, however, consent to leave the Joint Commission in doubt. 
It may be recorded in the form of a separate note; but if the United 
States will not agree in principle that inquiry shall be made by a Joint 
Commission as to what permanent measures, if any, are necessary for 
the preservation of the seal species, it is useless for us to involve our 
people in the inconvenience and cost which a close time for this year 
would entail. 
The modus vivendi is rendered much less valuable by the reply of the 
President with regard to Russia. 
No. 26. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 10.) 
{ Telegraphic. ] 
WASHINGTON, June 10, 1891, 
With reference to my telegram of last night, relative to Behring’s 
Sea, [ have the honour to inform your Lordship that I called this morn- 
ing on Mr. Wharton, the Acting Secretary of State. I explained that 
the words, “ food skins, and not for tax and shipment,” had been inserted 
in Article 2 for the purpose, not of preventing the sale of the 7,500 
seal-skins, but of prohibiting the process which has been described by 
the United States agents as the chief cause of the depletion of male 
seal life, namely, the driving and re-driving for selection. I was 
informed that the President still objects to the words, but that he would 
probably agree to the substitution of the phrase, ‘to cover the cost of 
food, fuel, clothing, and other 1ecessaries for the natives,” which I sug- 
gested in order that the humanitarian object of the reservation might 
appear on the face of the document. 
1 presume that your Lordship will not object to the substitution of 
this phrase, or to the insertion in Article 3 of the words, “ outside the 
ordinary territorial limits.” Should your Lordship have no objection 
to these alterations, I venture to urge strongly that I may be at once 
authorized to sign the Agreement for a modus vivendi, to consist of the 
preamble and the first four Articles, as contained in your Lordship’s 
telegram of the 8th instant, with the alterations given above, and the 
