Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21
THE SECRET OUT.

rho Injunction of Secrecy Having Been
Removed, the Vote on the Question OF
Eahfyine the Extrad1tion Treaty with
Great Britain in the Senate is Di>cl..s al,
Shown. Fifteen Votes in Favor to
Thirty eight 4 against.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE history of
the British Extradition treaty, from the
time it was sent to the Senate to the day
when it was rejected by ar overwhelming
vote, was yesterday made public. The
convention was read the first time to the
Senate in secret session July s, 1885. 1t
was reported from the committee on for
eign relations with amendments July Il,
and recommitted December Ia. It was
reported again January u, 1887, and
March , it was ordered to lie upon the
table. December II it was taken from
the table and again recOmmitted. 1t was
again reported with another amendment.
January 30 motion to consider it in open
session was defeated by vote of II to IS,
those voting in the affirmative being:
Senators Blair. Cullom, Daniel, Dawes,
Eustis, ingalls,, Platt, Reagan, Sawyer,
Stewart and Teller. February Mr.. Ed
munds offered an amendment to insert
after the word Explosives in the Sec
ond line OF clause 4, the words: "Where-
by the life Of any person shall be endan-
gered." Six days later consideration of
the treaty was postponed until the first
Monday in December by vote of % to 81.
April a motion of Mr.. Payne to remove
the injunction of secresy from the
convention and pending amendments
was agreed to. December 10 the
treaty was again taken up, and January
So 1889, the amendment of Mr. Edmunds
was agreed to. The following amend
ments were also agreed to: To insert
after the word BURGLARY" the word
''rape;" in clause 8, relating to embezzle-
ment, after the words "value off, strike
out fifty" and insert 1.-TWO hundred;" and
after the word dollars" strike out ''ten''
and insert ''forty." Mr.. Edmunds offered
a motion to recommit, which was deter
mined on the following day in the mega
tive by a vote of 90 to 90. The
amendment to the fourth clause of arti-
Gle 1, as amended by Mr.. Edmunds, was
then rejected by the Senate by vote of
8 to 81. On motion of Mr.. Gray, clause 4
of article 1 was amended by striking out
the words ''malicious injuries to property
whereby the life of any person shall be
endangered, if such injuries constitute
crime according to the laws of both high
contracting parties" The vote on this
was 81 to II, the Senators voting in the
negative being Blair, Chace, Chandler,
Davis, Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell, Mitch
ell, Morgan, Riddleberger and Wilson
Ua.) On motion of Mr.. Faulkner by a
vote of "a to Is, the word ''manslaughter'
was struck out of the first clause. Those
voting in the negative were Blair, Chaud-
Ter, Davis, Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell,
Frye, Gray. Hale, Hiscock, Ingalls,, Nor
gan, Platt, Ridd.eberger, Sawyer, Sher-
man, Teller and Wilson Ga.)
February 1, the question of ratifying
the treaty wifi these amendments
submitted to the Senate and determined
in the negative by the following vote:
Yeas-Blackburn, Cockrell, Faulkner,
Frye, George, Hampton, Hawley, Hoar,
Jones (Ark.), Pasco, Payne, Ransom,
awyer, Sherman and Walthall-15. Nays
Allison, Bate, Blair, Bowen, Call,
Chace, Chandler, Coke, Cullom, Davis,
Dawes, Edmunds, Paddock, Eustis,
Evarts, Farwell, German, Hale, Hiscoch,
Ingalls,, Jones (Nev.), Manderson Mitch
ell, Morgan, Platt, Plumb, Pugh, Reagan,
Riddleberger, Salisbury, Stewart, Stock
bridge, Teller, Turpie. Vest, Voorhees,,
Wilson Ua.) and Wilson (Md.)-3S