1880. Feb. 25

Mar. 8

Mar. 17

Case of Carl Weinrebe, cook of the steamer Mo-
sel; difference of opinion between the Govern-
ments of Germany and the United States as to
the interpretation to be given to Article XII,
paragraph 2, of the consular convention of De-
cember 11, 1871; discussion of the same by the
German minister.

Case of Carl Weinrebe, cook of the Mosel; a fur-
ther discussion of this case deemed unnecessary.
(For detailed statement of the facts and circum-
stances attending the arrest of Weinrebe, and
the search of his personal effects on board the
Mosel, vide Mr. Evarts' note to Mr. Von Schlö-
zer of April 17, 1879, volume of Foreign Rela-
tions for that year, page 406; also Mr. Von
Schlözer's note to Mr. Evarts of March 2, 1879,
same volume, page 404.)
Official intercourse in China; audience question
and matters of etiquette; resolution on the part
of the representatives of the treaty powers to
discontinue negotiations in regard to these
points and to confine themselves to the demand
for free access for all consular representatives
of the treaty powers to the provincial authori
ties; Germany prepared to acquiesce; views of
this government requested.

Mar. 20 Official intercourse in China; acknowledges re-
ceipt of information from imperial envoy at Pe-
king (through German legation) that the repre-
sentatives of the treaty powers at that capital
have adopted the resolution to discontinue the
negotiation in regard to the audience question,
and other matters of etiquette, and to confine
themselves to the demand for free access to pro-
vincial authorities on the part of consular rep-
resentatives of the treaty powers; adherence to
this view on the part of the Government of the
United States.

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GREAT BRITAIN.

No. 327.-Proposal of British Government for an
adjustment of expenses of extradition annually.
No. 371.-Extradition; expenses incurred in con-
nection with cases of; proposal of British Gov.
ernment for an annual adjustment; treaty of
1842, Article X, cited as making provision there-
for; while no legal objection is apparent to en-
tering into the arrangement proposed by Lord
Salisbury, it is considered inexpedient to do so.
No. 89.-Mormon emigration to the United States;
correspondence with Lord Salisbury, based on
information received from the consul at Liver-
pool of preparations for a large departure of
Mormons; Lord Salisbury's reply: steps taken
to notify the emigrants of the danger of their
course; text of the correspondence.
No. 95.-Collisions at sea; order in council of Au-
gust 14, 1879, transmitted, containing interna-
tional rules for preventing collisions, to take
effect September 1, 1880; text of the rules. (See
Mr. Drummond's note of August 24, 1880, page
524 infra.)

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GREAT BRITAIN-Continued.

No. From whom and to whom.

Date.

Subject.

Page.

Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Evarts..

1879. Dec. 27

12......do

1880. Jan. 23

33 Mr. Evarts to Mr. Hoppin.. Feb. 11

34......do

Mar. 25

305 Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Evarts.. Mar. 27

..do

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Apr. 24

May 1

No. 128. Adjustment of international extradition
expenses; correspondence on the subject with
the foreign office; declension of the British pro-
posal for an annual settlement of such accounts.
No. 139. Mormon emigration to the United States;
correspondence with the foreign office on the
subject; British government can lawfully do no
more than give warning to emigrants of the
probable consequences of violating the law.
No. 421. Mormon emigration to the United States;
acknowledging receipt of foregoing; British
government has no power to prevent; can only
give notice of illegal character of Mormon mar-
riages.

No. 432. Extradition expenses; method of settling
accounts of; approval of the plan proposed by
Lord Salisbury of preferring, separately, each
claim arising on a case of extradition, with the
proviso that payment shall be made on the spot.
No. 166. Mormon emigration; correspondence with
the consul at Liverpool concerning a departure
of emigrants; the authorities there requested
to give the promised warning.
No. 180. The United States ship Constellation.
carrying Irish relief supplies, subjected to cus-
toms requirements at Queenstown; correspond.
ence with the foreign office; promised with-
drawal of the customs-officers in charge of the
vessel and cargo.

No. 184. Action of the customs authorities at
Queenstown toward the Constellation, carrying
relief to the suffering Irish; correspondence
with the foreign office; regret expressed for the
occurrence; text of the customs law under which
the Queenstown officers mistakenly acted.

208 Mr. Lowell to Mr. Evarts.... June 16 No. 17. Murder on the high seas; case of John

Anderson. (Vide volume Foreign Relations for
1879, pages 435 and 446.)
No. 19. The supplies stored during the British
Arctic Expedition of 1875 and 1876 to be placed
at the disposal of the Howgate Polar Expedition;
correspondence with Lord Granville. (Vide
volume Foreign Relalions for 1875, part 1, pages
649 and 650.)

No. 35. Case of John Anderson; gratification ex-
pressed at the candor of the British government
in acknowledging that the action of the Calcutta
authorities was based upon a misconception of
the law, and could not, consequently, be sup
ported by the home government. (For full de
tails of this case, vide volume of Foreign Re-
lations for 1879, pages 435 and 446.)

No. 35. Carrying trade between Great Britain and
India; foreign vessels not allowed to convey
British stores; an exception made in the case of
an Italian vessel; unsuccessful effort to have
American vessels admitted to the trade; cor-
respondence with the foreign office transmitted.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH LEGATION IN WASHINGTON.

1879.

12 Mr. Sewardto Sir E.Thornton. Aug. 9 ....do Aug. 12

34 Sir E. Thornton to Mr. F.W. Sept. 8 Seward.

Depredations committed by northern Indians in
the Yellowstone Valley.
Intrusion of Canadian fishermen upon shores of
Lake Ontario; iuvestigation by Canadian gov.
ernment requested.

The South American war; Sir Edward would be
glad to know whether the United States Gov-
ernment has taken any steps toward friendly in-
tervention between the belligerents.

15 Sir E. Thornton to Mr. Hun- Sept. 13 Custody of ships' registers in Colombian ports;

ter.

law passed by Colombian legislature relative to; objection to third article of that law on the part of Her Majesty's minister at Bogota, who be lieves that it is based on the terms of a convention between the minister of the United States | at Bogotá and the late Colombian secretary for foreign affairs; Sir Edward desires to be informed whether this government has ratified that con

vention.

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CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH LEGATION IN WASHINGTON-Continued.

No. From whom and to whom.

Date.

Subject.

Page

1879.

Sept. 24

Oct. 2

Sept. 16 Custody of ships' papers; convention concluded
by United States minister at Bogotá relative to,
not yet formally approved.
South American war; mediation in the direction
of peace; co-operation with Great Britain and
Germany while desirable would be, as yet, pre-
mature; the Government of the United States
willing to use its good offices as soon as bellig-
erents are prepared to receive them.
Liberian boundary commission; British commis-
sioners satisfied that territories referred to in
deeds of cession had no existence; thanks of Her
Majesty's Government to Commodore Schufeldt,
U.S. N.
Canadian Indians; incursions by, into United
States territory; copy of approved report of
privy council of Canada transmitted.
Canadian fishermen; encroachments by, within
the jurisdiction of the United States on the
shores of Lake Ontario; copy of approved; re-
port of privy council of Canada transmitted.
Incroachments by Canadian fishermen within
United States jurisdiction: gratification at
prompt attention of Canadian Government
thereto.

Oct. 20

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Sir E. Thornton to Mr.

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Evarts.
do

Nov. 4
Nov. 14

Moorish protection: proposed conference at Ma-
drid; views of this government requested.
Mexican customs regulations; imprisonment of
captain of American steamer Newbern for
alleged violation of; letter from Mr. George
Kelly, of Mazatlan, Mexico, and copy of regula
tions above referred to transmitted.
Intrusion of British half-breeds and Sitting Bull's
men upon the Crow reservation in Moutana
Territory.

Crow reservation in Montana; invasion of, by
British half-breeds and Sitting Bull's men;
anxiety of Canadian Government for settlement
of these matters. Vide volume Foreign Rela-
tions for 1879, pages 488 and 496.]
Mexican customs regulations; imprisonment of
captain of American steamer Newbern for
alleged violation of; said regulations considered
unnecessarily severe; this government will re-
monstrate against them.

Dec. 13 Nicaragua and Great Britain; documents in the
archives of the United States relating to ques
tion in dispute between; appreciation of Her
Majesty's Government of friendly conduct of
this government in giving access to.
Jews in Morocco; irregular protection afforded by
diplomatic and consular agents of foreign
powers; memorandum of the language held to
Sir J. H. Drummond Hay by the Rev. A. Löwy,
secretary of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and
of Sir J. H. Drummond Hay's replies; the Brit-
ish minister would like to know the views of
this government as regards the proposal to refer
the further discussion of the question of regular
protection of Moors to a meeting of the repre-
sentatives of the powers concerned at Madrid.

Mr. Hay to Sir E. Thornton. Dec. 20 Nicaragua and Great Britain; application of the

former government for certain documents in the
archives of the United States relating to the
question in dispute; papers sent to minister of
United States at Vienna.

Canadian inshore fisheries; alleged trespass on
grounds of, by American schooner Emily Ste-
phenson; correspondence between the inspector
of fisheries for British Columbia and the Cana-
dian commissioner of fisheries transmitted.
Wrecking on the great lakes; desirability of an
international policy to allow the life-saving ap-
pliances of the United States and Canada to be
used for the relief of vessels in distress within
the jurisdiction of either nation; this govern-
ment desirous of carrying out this principle of
reciprocity; case of the Jane McCloud.

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GREAT BRITAIN-Continued.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH LEGATION AT WASHINGTON-Continned.

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Fires on board of cotton-laden ships in American
ports: representation by the committee of
Lloyd's; attention of this government called
to: incendiarism the alleged cause.
Apr. 17 American cattle: transit of, through Canada from
one American port to another; report of a com-
mittee of the privy council for Canada trans-

Apr. 23

May 14

341 Mr. Evarts to Sir E. Thorn May 25

June 8

mitted.

Collisions at sea; international regulations for
prevention of: Great Britain has decided, in
consequence of representations on behalf of her
fishing interests, to suspend the operation of
Article X of said regulations until September
1, 1881; copy of the Queen's order in council
transmitted.

Relief for Ireland; visit of Constellation; thanks
of British Government for.
Canadian fisheries; alleged trespass by the
schooner Emily Stephenson.
American cattle; purchase of, by Canadians, for
breeding purposes; proposed modification by
Her Majesty's Government of rules regulating
the importation of cattle into Canada, so as to
permit short-horned cattle raised west of Alle-
ghany Mountains to enter the Dominion unob-
structed.

June 9 Importation of American cattle into Canada for
breeding purposes.

June 12

Commission of liquidation for settlement of Egyp
tian debt; text of Khedival decree; course
adopted by Germany, Austria-Hungary, France,
Great Britain, and Italy, explained by impor-
tance of the interests of these governments in
Egypt; nearly the whole debt owned by sub-
jects thereof; adhesion of this government to
the joint declaration desirable. (For text of
decree, see Mr. Farman's dispatch No. 381 of
April 5, 1880, under correspondence with Tur
key.)

Fires on board of cotton-laden ships at the ports
of Charleston and New Orleans; proclamation
of governor of Louisiana transmitted.
Light-houses in the Bay of Port-au-Prince; erec-
tion of two, and the establishment of light-dues
in connection therewith; alleged unfair dis
crimination in the levying of these dues between
Haytian vessels and those of foreign powers;
British vice-consul instructed to urge upon the
Haytian Government a just equalization in this
respect; co-operation of this government desira-
ble in endeavoring to secure same.
Discriminating light-dues levied at Port-au-Prince
on foreign-merchant vessels; this government
ready and willing to co-operate with Her Maj-
esty's Government for their modification.
Fires on board of cotton-laden ships in American
ports; expresses gratification at the vigorous
measures adopted by governor of Louisiana to
repress incendiarism at New Orleans; the gov.
ernor's proclamation of May 14, 1880.
Kentucky cattle for breeding purposes; desire of
Canadians to purchase; copy of report of privy
council of Canada, relative to, transmitted.

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CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH LEGATION AT WASHINGTON-Continued.

No. From whom and to whom.

Date.

1880.

Subject.

Page.

350

Mr. Hay to Sir E. Thornton. June 29 Collisions at sea: revised international regula

tions for prevention of; deemed advisable to
await action of Congress before taking further
steps.

The Egyptian commission of liquidation: reply
to the identic request of Great Britain, Austria,
France, Germany, and Italy, that the United
States should adhere to the scheme; the views of
the United States defined: not being a party to
the negotiation of the commission, and not being
concerned as a government in the scheme of
liquidation decided upon by it, the United States
had preferred at first to reserve possible rights
of American citizens for direct settlement with
the Khedival Government, and not accept in
advance as binding decisions in which neither
it nor American interests were represented;
adhesion, however, finally given at the urgent
solicitation of the Khedive's Government.
Reform in Egypt; proposed revision of the tri-
bunals; changes called for in the constitution
of the tribunals of the reform; proposal of
Egyptian Government that an international com-
mission should be appointed to consider the
same; opinion of British Government as to com-
position of commission; views of this govern-
ment requested.

Collisions at sea: Her Majesty's order in conncil
of August 14, 1879, in relation thereto transmit-
ted. (For the text of above, vide Mr. Hoppin's
dispatch No. 95, of November 4, 1879, page 468,
ante.)
Arctic discovery ship Resolute: writing-table
made from timbers of, to be presented by Her
Majesty the Queen to the President and people
of the United States.
Arctic discovery ship Resolute: acknowledging
receipt of Mr. Drummond's note of August 26,
1880.

Collisions at sea: revised regulations for preven-
tion of; general order No. 253, of the Navy De-
partment, transmitted; that department has no
power to formally authorize the adoption of the
new international regulations so long as the
provisions of section 4233 of the Revised Stat-
utes remain in force; a compliance by vessels
of the United States with the new regulations,
while navigating foreign waters, will not, how-
ever, entail any penalties upon them. (For
text of revised international regulations vide
Mr. Hoppin's No. 95 of November 4, 1879, page
468, supra.)

Collisions at sea: acknowledging receipt of fore-
going and expressing gratification at action of
Treasury Department.

Reform in Egypt; acceptance of the proposal of
the Khedival Government for an international
commission of delegates, who shall consider and
report to the powers upon such modifications
as may appear to be expedient in the constitu-
tion of the tribunals of the reform and in their
administration of the law; two delegates to be
appointed by this government; consideration
of other essential and minor points bearing
upon the subject.

Right of American vessels laden with American
products to unlade at any ports within the Do-
minion of Canada; report of the privy council
for Canada.

Transportation of merchandise to, from, and
through the Dominion of Canada: regulations
governing the same; copy of a report of a com- i
mittee of the privy council transmitted.

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