The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-24 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES

NEW EXTRADITION TREATY.
(From the Standard correspondent.)
NEW YORK, Sunday Night.
The Tribune announces that Mr. Phelps, the
American Minister in London, and Lord Rosebery,
the English Minister for Foreign Affairs, signed, upon
June 25th, a new Extradition Treaty between the two
countries. President Cleveland sent it to the Senate
an the Bth inst. with an appreving message. The
Foreign Affairs Committee has not yet reported upon
the subject, bat the delay does not justify a fear that
it will not be ratified; and there is reason to think
that the ratification will be effected this week.
Scarcely any opposition will be offered to the
new Treaty in the Senate. :The document is
very brief —it merely adds four crimes to the
list in the existing treaty, which was concluded
in 1542. These four are—manslaughter, burglary,
embezzlement, or larceny, involving amounts of up-
wards of fifty dollars, and the malicious destruction
of property so as to endanger human life. At pre-
sent it is doubtful whether the last-named crime is
comprehended in the Statute law of either country.
It is not known yet whether the wording of this
Clause is relied upon to prevent the surrender of
political offenders, or whether a new section will be
required to safeguard this point; but it niust be pre-
sumed that this matter has been carefully attended
to by the diplomatists, because the defects of the old
Treaty in this respect are very glaring. For the last
ten years the United States has contended that
criminals surrendered for crimes named in the Treaty
were "surrendered to justice generally," and
hence were punishable for any offence. In con-
sequence of this contention the Treaty was once
actually suspended under these circumstances. The
United States had obtained the custody of a fugitive
upon a charge of forgery, and then punisloyi him for
an offence against the municipal law which was not
comprehended in the list of crimes in the Treaty.
When the mistake they had made was pointed out to
the United States they refused to engage not to repeat
this sharp practice, and consequently the Treaty was
practically suspended for a short time. But the
United States abandoned the position they had taken
up before it was perceived that under this contention
they would be unable to protect the Irish refugees if
England should take advantage of the blunder of the
States to demand them. From this side namely, the
influence of the new Treaty upon the Irish refugees
—troubles which are unexpected now may gather
with the rapidity of a summer storm. Even such
respectable organs of public opinion as the Neu) York
Times and the Tribune, while favourably inclined to
the new Treaty, contain such guarded hints as that it
is "dangerous to make conspiracy for murder or man-
slaughter, or the destruction of property, a convenient
cover for the surrender of political offenders." At
the other extreme are such organs of democratic
opinion as the News and the Sun, which say: "Even
a charge of this kind of crime (dynamite) should not
suffice to obtain the surrender of a revolutionary
refugee when politics and not dynamite are the real
reason for which a foreign Government seeks to get
him." If the Treaty once falls under suspicion
upon this head, even though suspicion shouli be
maliciously created and the Treaty intrinsically
above reproach, its fate would be, at best, doubtful.
The uproar which followed the attempts to effect the
extradition of Tynan, Walsh and Sheridan affords
ample proof of this, notwithstanding the recent rapid
progress of public opinion under the influence of such
incidents as the Chicago riots and the conviction of
Herr Most. The new Treaty is not to be retro-ac.tive.
It is to take effect ten days after its ratification.
The inclusion cf the fourth mentioned offence in the
new catalogue is understood to be directly traceable,
, first to the effect of the Westminster explosion upon
Mr. Secretary Bayard, and secondly, to the scandalous
number of refugees now in Canada.
(Through Reuter's Agency.)
WASHINGTON, July 17:
A member of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs says that the Extradition Treaty was signeFl in
London on the 25th June by Mr. Phelps, the American
Minister, and Lord Rosebery, and was sent by Pfe-
sident Cleveland to the Senate on the Bth July with
a message advising its ratification. The Foreign
Affairs Committee, to which it was conferred, has not
yet acted upon it; but there can be no doubt but the
Treaty will be favourably reported upon and
ratified by the Senate without material opposition.
Both the State Department and the Senate
Committee refuse to divulge tl se details of the
Treaty, and the reports which have been printed on
the subject are merely speculations based on the dis-
cussion which has been going on for some years as to
the deficiencies of the Treaty of 1812. There is,
however, reason to believe that the proposed amend-
ments in the new Treaty cover the extradition of
absconding defaulters, embezzlers, and of persons
guilty
of having caused the loss of life, which provi-
sion would cover dyna.niters.

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