Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894

Mr. Uhl to Prince Cantacuzene.

Department of State,
Washington, May 12, 1894.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, and to express to you the gratification with which this Government accepts your declaration that the Imperial Government is prepared to negotiate and sign with the United States, England, and Japan a treaty in virtue of which the principles and regulations of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration shall be applicable, indifferently, to all the waters of the Pacific Ocean north of the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude.

Accept, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl, Acting Secretary.