906 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
IT am in entire accord with the President in objecting to the submis- 
sion of any points to the Arbitrators which the Agreement does not 
embrace. 
Whenever Mr. Blaine is willing to do so you are authorized to sign 
the Agreement. 
129 No. 186. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 17.) 
[Telegraphic]. 
WASHINGTON, December 17, 1891. 
Your Lordship’s telegram of yesterday received last night. 
I am addressing a note to Mr. Blaine in that sense, and expressing 
my willingness to sign. 
No. 187. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 18.) 
[Telegraphic]. 
WASHINGTON, December 18, 1891. 
I have the honour to report, with reference to my telegram of yester- 
day, that Mr. Blaine and I signed this morning the text of the seven 
Articles to be inserted in the Behring’s Sea Arbitration Convention, 
and also the text of the Joint Commission Article. 
No. 188. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 19.) 
WASHINGTON, December 10, 1891. 
My Lorp: On receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of the 4th instant 
I sought an interview with Mr. Blaine. Owing to the pressure of 
business connected with the opening of Congress, I was unable to see 
him until the morning of the 8th, when I had a long discussion with 
him at the State Department on the subject of his note of the 2nd 
instant respecting the 6th Article of the proposed Behring’s Sea Arbi- 
tration Agreement. I pointed out to him that the danger which your 
Lordship apprehended was not so much from the non-acceptance by 
other Governments of the Fishery Regulations as from the practical 
difficulty of enforcing them without the power being given to British 
and American cruizers of arresting vessels under foreign flags found 
to be violating the Regulations. That was a power which foreign Gov- 
ernments would be unlikely to grant in view of the jealousy which 
exists respecting the right of search on the high seas. If your Lord- 
ship’s apprehensions should be realized to such an extent as to cause 
serious injury to the fishery, the Agreement must necessarily collapse, 
as it could not be expected that either Government should continue to 
enforce on its nationals Regulations which were being violated with 
impunity under foreign flags. 
