Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-06
TO CHECK THE BOODLERS.
TEXT OF THE ExTRADITION TREATY
 WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Urges the Ratification of a Document Which Will Startle Our Colonists in Canada and Alarm the Dynamfters.

Canada and Alarm the Dynamfters.
 WASHINGTON, April 6.-The senate in secret session yesterday removed the injunc- tion of secrecy from the report of the com mittee on foreign relations on the British ex- tradition treaty, which urges upon the sen- ate its immediate ratification The full text of the report reads as follows:
 The committee on foreign relations, to whom was referred the message from the president of the United State transmitting a convention between the Unit>1 States and Great Britain concerning the extradition of persons charged with crime, signed at Lon don June 25, 1866, being an amended exten- sion of the provisions of article 10 of the treaty of 1S42. having considered the same, report back the said convention, with the recommendation that it be amended as fol- lows:
 Whereas, by the tenth article of the treaty concluded between the United States of America and her Britannia majesty on the 4th day of August, 1S42. provision is made for the extradi- tion of persons charged with certain crimes; and
 Whereas, it is now desired by the high con- tracting parties that the provisions of the said article should embrace certain crimes not therein specified, and should extend to fugitiveS con- victed of the crimes specified in the said article and in this convention, the said high contract ing parties have appointed as their plenipoten- tiarieS to conclude convention for this purpose, namely, the president of the United States of America, Edward John Phelps, envoy extraor- dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the court of St. James; and her majesty the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. the Right Honorable Philip, earl of Rosebery, and her majestys prin- cipal secretary of state for foreign affairs who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:
 The provisions of the tenth article of the said treaty shall be and are hereby extended to apply to and comprehend the following addi- ional crimes not mentioned in the said article, namely: Manslaughter; burglary; embeZzlement or larceny of the value of $50 or f10 and upward; malicious injuries to persons or property by the use of explosives, or malicious injuries or ob- structions to railways whereby the life of any person shall be endangered, if such injuries con stitute a crime according to the laws of the high contracting 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 provis- ions of the said article shall have the same effect with respect to the extradition of persons charged with any of the said crimes 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 persons convicted of the crimes therein respect | fore shall not have been executed. In the case of fugitive 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 con. viction took place, duly authenticated, shall be produced, together with evidence proving that the prisoner is the person to whom such sentence | refers.
 1 This convention shall not apply to any of tho | crimes herein named and specified, which shal hay lpp rad fn xrbf s,l shall have been pronounced, prior to the date l when the convention shall come into force ] The fugitive criminal shall be surrendered i under the provisions of said treaty, or of this convention, if the crime in respect of which his surrender Is demanded be one of a political char acter or if he prove to the competent authority that the reqnsiton for his surrender has in fact been made with the view to try punish him for a crime of political character.
 fugitive criminal surrendered to either oi the high contracting parties under the provisions 1 of the said treaty, or of this convention shal ] not, until he has opportunity of returning tc the state by which he has been surrendered, bs | detained or tried for any crime committed priol to his surrender other than the extradition crim. proven by the facts on which his surrender wa. ! granted.
 i The eNtradition of fugitives under the provi ! sions of the said treaty and of the present con
 veution shall be carried out in the United States i and in her majesty's dominions respectively
 subject to, and in conformity with, the law.
 regulating extradition for the time being 1T force in the surrendering state.
 This convention shall be ratified, and the ratifi
 cations shall be exchanged at London as soon as
 possible.
 1 It shall come into force ten days after its pub
 ication, in conformity with the forms prescribed
 by the laws of the high contracting parties, and
 shall continue in force until one or the other oi
 the high contracting parties shall signify its wish
 to terminate it, and no longer.