Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-09
THE EXTRADITION TREATY
BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE
 UNITED STATES.
The Senate, by PostpOning Action Until December Next, Practically Sounds the Death Knell of the Proposed Measure. The Onicial Document.

WASHINGTON, Feb 9.-The senate ill execu- tive session yesterday practically rejected the extradition treaty with Great Britain by vot- ing g to 21 to defer action till the first Mon- day of next December. The announcement of the action was a complete surprise. There were forty y-four senators present, the other thirty-two being paired or absent. A calcu- lation had been taken as to the chances of the treaty, and it was discovered that the re- quircd two-thirds vote necessary for ratifica- tion could not possibly be procured. A mo- tion was made to defer action, and the treaty was practically killed.
 The treaty was signed at London June %, 1886, and was sent to the senate by MT. Cleveland July s, 1886. The matter was re- ferred to the senate committee on foreign re- lations. Immediately protests were raised against it, and the committee was bombarded with petitions, memorials and resolutions against it. Congress adjourned and the treaty was not heard of. In the next session it came from the committee as confidential document, and as such was handled in execu- tive session. Then followed the attacks on the secret sessions and the efforts to abolish them.
 The following is the treaty:
 The provisions of the tenth article of said treaty that of 1s42J shall be and are hereby extended so as to apply to and comprehend the following additional crimes not mentioned in the said article, namely: 1, manslaughter; 3, burg lary; 3, embeZZement larceny of the value of $50, or E1o, and upward; i, malicious injury to property, whereby the life of any person shall be endangered, if such injuries constitute a crime according to the terms of both the high contract ing parties, or according to the laws of that political division of either country in which the offense shall have been committed and of that political division of either country in which the offender shall be arrested. And the provisions of the said article shall have the effect with respect to the extradition of persons charged with any of the said crimes as if the same had been originally named and specified in the said article. The provisions of the tenth article of the said treaty and of this convention shall apply to per sons convicted of the crimes therein respectively named and specified, whose sentence theI efOr shall not have1been executed. In case of fugi- tive criminal, alleged to have been convicted of the crime for which his surrender is asked, copy of the record of the conviction and of the sentence of the court before which such conyic- tion took place, duly authenticated, shall be pro- duced, together with evidence proving that the prisoner is the person to whom such sentence re- fers.
 This convention shall not apply to any of the crimes herein named and specified which shall have been committed or to any convention which shall have been pronounced prlor to the date when the convention shall come into force.
 NofugtIve criminal shall be surrendered under the provisions of the said treaty or of this con vention if the crime in respect of which his sur- render is demanded be one of political charac- ter, or if be proven uy competent authority that the requisition for his surrender in fact been made with the view to try or punish him for a crime of a political character.
 A fugitive criminal surrendered to either of the high contracting parties under the provisions of tine said treaty of this convention shall not until he has had an opportunity of returning to the state by which he has been surrendered, be detained or tried for any crime committed prior to his surrender other than the extradtion crime proved by the facts on which his surrender was granted.
 Inc extradtion of fugtives under the provis- ions of the said treaty, and of the present con vcntion, shall be carried out in the United States aud ill her majesty's domiaions respectively, sub ject to and in conformity with the laws regUlat- ing extradtion for the time being in force in the surrehdering state.
 This convention shall be ratified, and the ratifi- C ;tion shall be exchanged at London soon as possible. It shall come into force ten days after publication, in conformity with the forms pre- .scriDed by the laws of the high contracting parties aud shall continue in force until one CT the other of the high contracting parties shall si snIfy It's wish to terminate 1t, and no longer.
 In witness whereoI the undersigned have signed the same and nave affixed thereto their seals.
 Done at London, the .5th day of June, 1886
 EDWARD JOHN PHELPS.
 ROSEBERRY