Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, May 2, 1896.

No. 381.]

Excellency: Referring to that part of your note of the 19th of March last, which relates to the affidavit of I. A. Gould to the effect that a United States revenue cutter last year failed to seize two American sealing schooners which were within the prohibited zone of the Pribilof Islands, I have the honor to state that the Department has received a letter from Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in which he says that the American officers in charge of the patrolling vessels were furnished with a copy of this statement, and reports have been received from each of them denying specifically the charge in question.

I have, etc.,

Richard Olney.