Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-01
IRISH REFUGEES.

Last week we showed, on the authority of the Boston Pilot and gentleman high in the counsels of the democratic party, that the republicans We're responsible for the insertion in the postponed eNtradition treaty of the clauses under which Irish refugees in this country would have to be surrendered at the demand of England. it perfectly clear that the republican mem bers of the senate foreign affairs committee were the ones who, at the instance of Lord Sackville-West who has been dismissed in disgrace from Washington, inserted these clauses. The Pilot publishes statement signed by 1rishmen of national reputation such as Banker Eugene Kelly of New York, Congressman P. A. Collins of Boston, James Mooney of Buffalo, James Reynolds of New Haven, John Boyle O'Reilly and others-in which it is said:
 The undersigned have carefully consider ed the effect of the proposed eNtradition treaty negotiated by the present adminis- tration with the government of Great Brit ain and are fully satisfied that i'll it's orig inal form it contained nothing effective to extradite any human being from the United States to Great Britain, for political Ofen ces or malicious injuries to property, ''in Ireland," these not being federal crimes ill this country. But by the amend ments made to the original treaty by the committee of the republican senate at the instance of the British minister, these of fences are made cXtraditable ; and if the proposed treaty should be agreed to in the an a6 form arpnSp6 of hitting such offences i'll Ireland having fled to the United States, would be subject to recall for trial in Ireland and be at the mercy there of the administrators of the odious coercion laws.
 The original draft of the treaty, for the first time in diplomatic history, expressly pI Iovided that no man should be rendered back to the foreign country for political otfenses, and We are startled to know that the senate amendment relating to the ex- tradition of political refugees was copied substantially from the British explosives act of 1883, though we have such enact ment in our statutes. This conclusively proves the influence under which the re publican senators acted.
 This statement is followed by a letter pletely establishes the facts declared therein. According to Mir Collins, who as member of congress and a close friend of the administration had special facilities for looking into the matter, the British minister strenuously sought to have the objectionable words inserted in the orig inal draft of the treaty, but could not pre- vail on Secretary Bayard. He easily sue ceeded, however, with the republican members of the foreign affairs committed and the amendment was made against the protest of every democrat. The repub- licans on this committee were John Sher- man of Ohio, George F. Edmunds of Yer mont, William P. Frye of Maine, William M. Evarts of New York and Joseph N Dolph of Oregon. These men inserted this amendment in the very words that the British minister proposed it to MT Bayard, who absolutely refused to en- tertain it. It was resisted by every dem ocratic member of the committee. Mir Collins proves this by the record itself and the legal effect of the senate amend