The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
NEW TREATY.
THE DOCUMENT AGREED
UPON BY ENGLAN AND
THE UNITED STATES
MADE STRONG ENOUGH TO COVER
DYNAMITERS, ANARCHISTS
AND OTHER CRIMINALS,

WASHINGTON, July 0. The convention recently
signed in London by Minister Phelps, and the Earl
OF Rosenberg, extending and adding to the extradi
uon provisions OF ISL : extends the provisions of
article 10, of the treaty of 1872 to tour crimes not
therein named, as follows: .Mansaughter bur-
glary, embeZzlement or larceny, involving the
amount of $40 or el0 and malicious injury to
property, whereby the life of any person shall he
endangered, if such injuries constitute crime ac
cordlng to the laws of both countries. 1t also pro-
vdes that the provisions of the article shall apply
to persons convicted of crimes named in the
treaty of 1912, and the new convention, as well as
OF those charged before trial with the commission
of them.
The convention is not reciprocative No sur
render is to be demanded for political offeuses,
and no trial is permitted for any other offense
than the one for which the eXtraditon is requested
until the person eXtradited has had opportunity
to ret to the state by which he was surrendered
In his letter to the secretary of state, Mr. Phelps
says 1t Is understood between the two govern
ments that the convention shall not stand in the
way OF more elaborate treaty, if one is desired; ;
but he expresses the opinion that new treaty
will not be necessary. The convention is now be-
fore the senate committee on judiciary from which
it will be referred to the committee on foreign
affairs An early and favorable report to the sen
ate is looked for, though the con ;enton may not
be ratified at the present session of congress.
The treaty is as follows: A convention between
the United States and her Brittanic majesty:
Whereas By the tenth article of the treaty con-
cluded between the United States of America and
her BIittanic majesty on the 9th day of August,
1852, provision was made for the extradition of
persons charged with certain crimes, and
WI ereas, 1t Is now desired by the high contract
ing parties that the provisions of said articles
should embrace certain crimes not therein speci-
fled, and should extend to fugitives convicted of
crimes ecifed in sad articles. Therefore the
said high contracting PARTIES have appointed as
their plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention
for this purpose, namely: The president of the
United States of America; Edward j, Phelps, en-
voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the Uni,ed States to the count of ST. James, etc,
and htr majesty, queen OF the united kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland the Right Honorable
Archibald Phillips Earl of Roseberry, her maj
esty principal secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, etc, etc, who, after having committed to
each other their respective full powers have agreed
uEol the fol owing:
said treaty will be, and are hereby extended so as
to apply to and comprehend the following addi-
tioral crimes not mentioned in said article,
pamely: |, mansaughter; 2, burglary; 3, embez
element or larceny of the value of $50 or fl a. d
upwards: I, malicious injuries to property, where
by the life of any person shall be endangered, if
such injuries constitute crimes according to the
laws of both the high contracting parties and the
provisions of said article shall ave the same eff
feet with respect to the eXtradition of persons
charged with any of said crimes as if the same nad
been originally named and specified in said article
Article :. 1.-The provisions of the tenth article of
said treaty, and this convention shall apply to per-
sons convicted of the crimes herein respectively
named and specified, whose sentence thereupOn
shall not nave Deen executed. In tle case OF 1u-
gtive criminal alleged to have been convicted for
crime for which his surrender is asked, a copy of
the record of conviction and of the sentence of the
court before which said conviction took place, duly
authenticated shall be produced, together with the
evidence that the prisoner Is the person to whom
such sentence refers
Article g. 'This convention shall not apply to
any of the crimes therein specified which shall have
be, committed, or to any convictions which shall
have been procured prior to the date when the
vention shall come into force"
Article 4.-"No fugitive criminal shall he sur
rendered under the provisions of said treaty. or of
this convention, if the crime, in respect of which
his surrender is demanded, be one of political
that said requsition for his surrender has in fact
been made with view to try or punish him Tor a
crime of a political character
Article 5.--"A fugitive criminal surrendered to
either of the high contracting parties, under the
provisions of this said treaty, or of this cOnven
ton, shall not, unless he has had opportunity of
returning to the state by which he has been sur
rendered. be detained or tried for his crime COM
mitted prior to his surrender. Other than extra
ditiOn, crime proved by the facts on which his
surrender was granted
Article &. 'The eXtradtion of fugitives under the
provisions of said treaty, and of the present con
yantion shall be carried out in the United States
and in her maiesty's dominions respectively sub
ect to- and in conformity with the laws regulating
eXtradition for the time being as in force in the
surrendering state.
Article 7. "rhis convention shall be ratified and
the ratiications exchanged soon as possible. 1t
shall come into force ten days afCer its publication
in conformity with the forms prescribed by the
laws of the high contracting parties, and shall con-
tnue in force until one or other OF the hlgh con
tracing parties shall signify its wish to terminate
it. and no longer In witness thereof the under
signed have signed the same and have affixed there
unto their seals.
Done at London, the 25th day of June, 1886
Signed EDWARD JOHN PHELPS,
ROsEBERRY