APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 911 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 192.] 
Mr. Blaine to Sir J. Pawncefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, December 14, 1891. 
Sir: I have the honour to advise you that I submitted your note of the 11th instant 
to the President. After mature deliberation, he has instructed me to say that he 
objects to Lord Salisbury making any reservation at all, and that he cannot yield to 
him the right to appeal to the Arbitrators to decide any point not embraced in the 
Articles of Arbitration. The President does not admit that Lord Salisbury can 
reserve the right in any way to affect the decision of the Arbitrators. We under- 
stand that the arbitration is to proceed on the seven points which are contained in 
the Articles which you and I certify were the very points agreed upon by the two 
Governments. 
For Lord Salisbury to claim the right to submit this new point to the Arbitrators 
is to entirely change the arbitration. The President might, in like manner, submit 
several questions to the Arbitrators, and thus enlarge the subject to such an extent 
that it would not be the same arbitration to which we have agreed. The President 
claims the right to have the seven points arbitrated, and respectfully insists that 
Lord Salisbury shall not change their meaning in any particular. The matters to be 
arbitrated must be distinctly understood before the Arbitrators are chosen. And, 
after an arbitration is agreed to, neither of the parties can enlarge or contract its 
scope. 
an prepared now, as I have been heretofore, to sign the Articles of Agreement 
without any reservation whatever, and for that purpose I shall be glad to have you 
eall at the State Department on Wednesday, the 16th instant, at 11 o’clock a. M. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 192.] 
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 
WASHINGTON, December 15, 1891. 
Sir: [have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, 
in reply to mine of the 11th instant, respecting t the signature of the seven Articles 
of the proposed Behring’s Sea Arbitration Agreement therein referred to. 
I will transmit a copy of that reply to the Marquis of Salisbury by to-day’s mail, 
but I beg to state that, pending his Lordship’s further instructions, it is not in my 
power to proceed to the signature of the Articles in question, as proposed at the 
close of your note. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
134 No. 193. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 28.) 
WASHINGTON, December 18, 1891. 
My Lorp: Immediately on receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of the 
16th instant I addressed a note to Mr. Blaine, of which I have the hon- 
our to inclose a copy, and [ delivered it to him in person yesterday. 
After reading it, he at once made an appointment for this morning at 
11 to sign the text of the seven Articles of the Behring’s Sea Ar bitr a- 
tion Agreement and of the Joint Commission Agreement, as settled in 
the diplomatic correspondence. 
Accordingly, I proceeded to the State Department at the appointed 
time, and, after the usual verification, the document was signed in 
duplicate by Mr. Blaine and myself. 
I shall have the honour to transmit a copy of it to your Lordship by 
this mail in a separate despatch. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
