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WASHINGTON, April 6.-The senate
committee on foreign relations submitted
the following report upon the Anglo.
American extradition treaty:
The committee on foreign relations, to
whom was referred the message from the
| president of the United States, transmit
ting a convention between the United
States and Great Britain, concerning the
e~xtradition of persons charged with
crime, signed at London June 26, 1886,
being an amended extension of the pro
visions of Article x, of the treaty Of
1912, having considered the same, report
back the said convention with the recon-
mendation that it be amended so that it
will read as follows:
Where's, By the tenth article of the
treaty concluded between the United
States Of America and her Britannia ma
jesty, on the 9th day of August, 1912,
provision is made for the e%xtradition Of
persons charged with certain crimes, and
Whereas, 1t is now desired by the high
contracting parties that the provisions Of
the said article should embrace certain
crimes not therein specified, and should
extend to fugitives convicted of the
crimes specified in said article and in
this convention, the said high contract
ing parties have appointed as their pleni-
| potentiaries to conclude a convention for
this purpose, namely: The President of
the United States of America, Edward
John Phelps, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to the court of st. James, ETC.,
etc, and her majesty, the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Rt. Hon. Archibald Philip,
Earl of Roseberry, her majesty's princi-
ipal secretaY of state fog foreign affairs,
Veto etc. who after having communicated
III each other their, respective full pow
els, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles:
Article l. The provisions OF the tenth
article of the said treaty shall be and are
hereby extended SO as to apply to and
comprehend the following additional
crimes not mentioned in the said article,
namely: Observation-Disclosures. Second
= Burglary. observation-disclosures or
larceny Of the value of 500 or ei0, and
upwards. Fourth-Malioious injuries to
persons or property by tbs use Of explo-
siyes or malicious Injuries or distractions
to railways, whereby the life of any per-
son shall be endangered, if such injuries
constitute y crime according to the laws
of both 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 provisions of the said article
shall have The same 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.
Art 2 The provisions of the tenth ar
ttcle Of the said treaty and of this con-
yention shaI apply to persons convicted
of the crimes therein respectively named
and specified, whose sentence therefor
shall not have been executed in the case
of a fugitive criminal alleged to have
been convicted of the crime for which his
surrender is asked, a copy of the record
of conviction and OF the sentence of the
corrt before which such conviction took
place duly authenticated, shall be pro.
duced, together with evidence proving
that prisoner is the person to whom such
sentence refers.
Art 3 This convention shall not APP
ply to any of the crimes herein named
and specified, which shall have been com
mitted, or to any conviction which shall
have been pronounced prior to the date
when the convention shall come into
force.
Art. q. No fugitive criminal shall be
surrendered under the provisions of said
treaty or of this convention, If the crime
In respect to which his surrender is de-
manded be n of q political character,
or II he prove TO the competent authority
that the requisition for his surrender has,
in fact, been made with the view to try
or punish him for a crime of a political
character
Art g.. A fugitive criminal surren-
dered to either. of the high contracting
parties under the provisions of the said
treaty, or Of this convention, shall not,
until he has had an opportunity of re-
turning to the state by which he has been
surrendered, be detained or tried for any
crime committed prior to his surrender
other than the e%xtradition crime proved
by the facts on which his surrender was
granted.
Art. 8. The extradition of fugitives
under the provisions of the said treaty
and of the present convention, shall be
carried out in the United States and in
her majesty's dominions respectively,
subject to and in conformity with the
laws regulating extradition for the time
being In force in the surrendering state
Art. Z. The convention shall be rati.
fed, and the ratification shall be ex.
changed at London as soc as possible.
1t shall come into force ten days after its
publication, in conformity with the forms
prescribed by the laws of the high CON
tracing parties, and shall continue in
force until one or the other of the high
contracting parties shall signify it's wish
to terminate it, and no longer.
In witness whereof the undersigned
have signed the same and have affixed
thereto their seals.
Done at London the 25th day of June,
1886. EDWARD J.. PHELPS.
R~osEBERRY.
The committee recommended that the
senate do advise and consent to the ratih
cation of the said convention as so
amended
District of Columbia Democrats.
WASHINGTON, April 8.-The Democrats
of the District of Columbia elected VIM
Dickson and Lawrence Gardner as dele,
gates to the st. Louis convention. Both
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