Sir Julian
Pauncefote to Mr. Uhl.
British
Embassy,
Washington, June 2,
1895.
My Dear Mr. Uhl: I have the honor to transmit a
copy of a telegram which I have received from the Earl of Aberdeen,
Governor-General of Canada, in which his excellency asks that the United
States Government should oblige the Canadian Government by granting
certain customs facilities in the passage of an assignment of stores,
including rifles, through the United States territory.
I trust that the request which I have now the honor to lay before you
will meet with the same favorable consideration on the part of the
United States Government as similar requests made by me on previous
occasions.
I have only to call attention to the somewhat urgent nature of the matter
in the hope that, should there be no objection, the required
instructions may be telegraphed at the earliest possible moment.
Believe me, yours, truly,
[Inclosure—Telegram.]
Governor-General of
Canada to Sir Julian
Pauncefote.
Ottawa, Ontario, June 1, 1895.
A detachment of twenty members of the mounted police leave Regina
to-day en route for the Canadian section of Yukon country. To arrive
at their destination by the most convenient route at present
available, they must embark at Seattle, State of Washington, and
transship at St. Michaels, Alaska; their stores, including rifles,
being forwarded as freight by the same route.
It would greatly facilitate the passing of such stores through the
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United States of
America if instructions were issued by the Treasury Department to
the customs officers at entry and at place of transshipment.
The object of the expedition being the maintenance of order in
Canadian mining country adjacent to the United States Territory of
Alaska, I hope no difficulties in having requisite instructions
telegraphed.
Full particulars by post.
