New-York tribune., 1868-03-19
THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT.

THE MDONALD ABDUCTION-THE AsliBURT0N
TREATY-sTANDARD FOR CURRENCY.
OTTAWA, Canada, March 18.-In Parliament
last night Mr. Mckenzie moved an address for the cor
respondence regarding the abduction Of Allen Mcdonald
by United States officials In doing so he hoped that the
Minister OF Justice was in position to say whether tho
report In the newspapers true false that after tho
United States authorities had admitted the eeahty OK
the proceedings OF their officials the British Minister az
Washington had declined accept the release Of the
prisoner who had been improperly abducted rom bfsh
Sir John A. Mcdonald was bound to say that the an.
by the British Minister at Washington to Sec
out having communicated with the Government OF Can
ada he had elected not to ask for the liberation on Nc
Donald under the circumstances. The papers In THIS
had been sent him by the Government OF tne Do
mnon He had been surprised to learn that tne potSn
United States without being sent back to Canada was
due tho House and to the country 70 have some eIPa
lister at Washington (Iear, hear We should notpermls
any British Minister 70 take upon himself to say hat ne
ject whom American authorities have right TO detan
The motion was then carried;
sion OF the Extradition Treaty IL was, he explained
known to the honorable members that the Ashbur-
ton Treaty provided that the Imperial act should remain
in force In all the Colonies until the Colonial acts bad
been passed aud had given effect to @ the ,reaty & sna
ernment that then such Colonies should DE governed by
Colonial and not by Imperial act such an aet had oeen
adopted by Canada and the statute Dooh IN
Nova Scotia and NewBrunswick the Imperial act alone
applied and its working there had Deen FOUND 70 De III
great degree prsulcial The United states, In giving
effect to the Imperial act, provided at once "A
most comprehensive measure, with easy machinery 10
work out the treaty; and the Government OF Canada
subsequently adopted act almost similar As tie
measure remained in Nova Scotia and New-Brunswiek u
was not SO adapted TO meet the desired end as hs
United States Canadian measures. whenever
feon escaped from Nova Scotia, for instance, 10 the
United States there had to be an application TO the atr
Government for his surrender. That application mao to
be considered answer returned and al TINS Tune ts
feOn was at large under restraint month or Two
was spent IN this way much TO the hindrance OF Justice
II such feon escaped from Canada 1t was provided Dy
the United states that information on oath before GER
tain officers specified in the act OF Congress- the man
should be arrested and held two months necessary III
order to allow time for the application from the Canadian
Government the British Ambassador at washington,
to obtain rendition OF the criminal The object OF the
present bill would extend the provisions OF the act OF tLe
Province OF Canada TO the whole Dominion
The bill was then Tread the first time, and the second
reading was ordered for Friday.
The Hon. Mr. Ross introduced an act whose 0Dect 10 10
assmlate the currency OF the Dominion In the event
OF England and the United States not adopting the recon-
mendatons agreed to In Paris, then the bill bringing We
Nova Scotia standard up the present standard OF bs
United States ,and Canada, would be put In force by
proclamation; but the recommendations were acted
upon by the United States and England then the aet
would be put in force which adapted the currency 81
Canada to that now used in Nova Scotia, ana whleb
would then prevail in the United states.