Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-16
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l

Special Telegram TO the Gl0D2.
WAsHINGroN,Jan. 15.-The election COM
mittee heard arguments in the Cooke
Cults case from the Sixth Iowa district
this morning, Cooke appearing in his own
behalf. The case will occupy several days
before the committee, and probably will
not get acted upon by the house before the
closing days of the session.
CORRUPT OFFICIALS.
1t is whispered that the recent develop
ments regarding queer operations on the
part of the detectives of the city are not
to stop with that class of officials. The
committee appointed to investigate the
matter are said to have struck it rich, to
use term familiar to some of the Western
members, and will, when they have finished
the detectives, turn their attention to
the higher circles. It is stated that docu-
mentary proof exists showing that for
mer head of the police system of the city,
and person of high standing here, is as
deep ia the mire as the detectives, who
have been so much denounced all around.
sHoE-Box MILLER.
Last spring much attention was attract
ed to the ingenious escape of convict
named Miller from the Western peniten-
tiary of Pennsylvania. He was employed
in the shoe shop and succeeded in conceal
ing himself in shoe box, in which he was
carried off from the penitentiary to the
depot. He escaped to Canada and the
original efforts to extradite him failed, be-
cause he had been convicted of burglary.
and that crime is not enumerated in the
Canadian extradition treaty. A charge of
felonious assault was then trumped up
against him on the assumed ground that
when he committed his burglary he en-
dangered the lives of the people in the
house. The indictment made no mention
of felonious assault, but that offense was
extraditable, and so it was made to serve.
On this ground Miller was extradited in
June last, but no effort to try him for fell
oniou5 assault has ever been made. He
was returned to the Western penitentiary
of Pennsylvania to serve out the rest of his
sentence of eight years, which began in
1881. The statutory period of six
months has elapsed, and now Miller's
Canadian friends have induced the Cana
dian parliament to adopt a resolution re-
questing the British government to look
into the case and recommending that the
extradition treaty be suspended. 1t is
claimed that the American government has
acted in bad faith. It has generally been
admitted that a returned prisoner could
only be tried on the charge on which he was
tried to convince the British government
that if returned prisoner we're tried ih
good faith on the charge on which he was
extradited, he might thereafter be tried on
any other charge. The British government
would not assent, and the attempt to
extradite Winslow fell through. In
the case of Watts, Judge
Hoffman, of California, recently decided
that the prisoner could not be tried on any
charge on which he could not have been
extradited. The case of Miller is fiat
violation of the principles of extradition
as understood by the British government
and by many American publicists. The
British minister and Secretary Frelinghuy
sen are in correspondence regarding the
case.
GERMAN NATURALIZATION.
Representative Deuster, referring to the
resolution reported by him from the for
eign affairs committee to provide for a
treaty of naturalization with the German
empire for the protection of the rights of
| American citizens in the German
empire. said that when the
present treaty was concluded
| in 1868 it was rightly considered an
achievement of. American diplomacy. By
it Prussia admitted the right of extradi-
tion. Article of the treaty provides that
| citizens of the North German confedera-
tion who became naturalized citizens Of
| the United States, and resided in the United
States for five years, should BY the oon-
| federation be treated as American citizens.
Reciprocally, citizens of the United States
who became naturalized and resided Ave
years in North Germany should be treated
by the United States as citizens Of the
North German Confederation. The article
applies as well to those already naturalized
in either country as those hereafter
naturali1sd. Article 4 provides that
| if German naturalized in Amer
lea renews his residence in North
Germany without the intent to return to
America, he shall be held to have renounced
his naturalization in the United States
Reciprocally, the same is agreed upon in
behalf Of American citizens renewing their
residence in America. Since the treaty
was made in 1868, the German empire has
come into existence, and experience has
also shown, in the belief of many persons
that a new treaty could provide more
definitely not only against abuses of citi-
zenship, but for the protection of those
who are bona fde citizens The fourth
article has been made subject of COM
plant in number Of instances because it
leaves it to the judgment of a foreign gov
ernment to decide whether an American