New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-01
EYTPADITTON WITH ENGLAND.

Democratic journals are seeking to lind an
offset for the Murchison correspondence IN the
secret proceedings of the Senate respecting the
rxtradition Treaty. We wish them JOY in
their foolhardy undertaking to prejudice natu-
rallied citizens against the Republican party
by means of a treaty for which the Democratic
Administration is solely responsible Mr.
Phelps negotiated the convention in London;
the Administration warmly recommended its
ratification; and the amendment defining IN
iuries to property and life from dynamite we
have always understood was reported by Sem
ator Morgan. leader of the Democratic side
How political capital can be made for the Ad-
ministraton out Of the Senate debates we can
NOT conjecture. If. however, our esteemed
contemporaries wish to revive the discussion,
we may be allowed to remind them that the
English press gave the Administration the sole
credit for the negotiation of this treaty, as the
following extracts show:
This treaty will become a potent engine for putting
down the dynamite party. The Irish vote Is per
nlclous disturbing element In American politics.
Much courage and integrity is required to enable an
American Secretary Of State to set 1t at defiance
Great credit IS due to President Cleveands Govern
mcnt and especially to Mr. Bayard. Mr.. Bayard has
been loudly denounced by the American Irish press,
but he has not permitted their venomous attacks 10
deter him from giving effect to his CONVICTIONS IL
is a great step in advance that practical necessities
have led the two Governments to agree in putting
down the more fragrant forms of Separatst agitation
-I.ondon Times July 90, 1856
"Thc Ncw-York Irish word' and Irish extremists
in various parts of the country attacking the new
Anglo American Extradition treaty. "The Irish
World says that If the treaty be ratified the Atm
Article will prove than useless and the United
states be rendered merely an outpost OF British
despotism. Various members of Congress, under
Irish influence have declared themselves opposed to
the measure, these including Mr. Patrick Collins, OF
Boston, William McAdoo, of New-Jersey, and John
Swinburne, Of Albany London Times July a. 1856
The treaty was loosely drawn in one respect.
II applies to two classes by virtue of Article
Y of the older convention, namely, those who
seek asylum (fugitives) and those who may be
found here as residents or citizens. Article
" exempts fugitives from surrender for po-
htical offences, but not other persons, residents
or citizens, who are not fugitives. In this par
ticular it differs from the Spanish treaty and
other conventions. As practical illustration
it may be asserted that the thirty-fve Ameri-
can citizens implicated in "The London
| Timessr chapters of Parnellism and Crime,
| not one of whom is fugitive, would not be
protected by Article ". This is one of the
weakest and least defensible features of thi:
| Democratic Extradition Treaty. Another fla
grant defect is the absence of a clause declaring
that the United States will not surrender it!
| own citizens to Great Britain. Nearly every
other EXtradition Treaty contains such clause
Why did the Democratic Administration neglec
| to insert it?