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The History of the British Extra
dition Treaty in the Senate
Nfa6a PuhIio

Inc history Oh the bfltfSn EAtEu~
dition Treaty in the Senate
Made Public.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The history
of the British eXtradition treaty, from
the time it was sent to the senate to the
day when it was rejected by an over
whelming vote. was to-day made public.
The convention was read the first time
to the senate in secret session July 8,
1856. 1t was reported from the commit
tee on foreign relations with amend
mentS July II, and recomlnitted Dec. IA.
1t was reported again Jan. IL, 1887, and
March 2 1t was ordered to lie
upon the table. Dec. 10 it was
taken from the table and again
recommitted. Jan. 12 it was again re-
ported with another amendment. Jan.
80, a motion to consider it in open ses-
sion was defeated by q vote of IL to 80,
those voting in the affirmative being
Senators Blair. Cullom. Daniel, Dawes,
Eustis, ingalls,, Platt, Reagan. Sawyer,
Stewart and Teller. Feb. 2, Mr.. Ed
mundS offered a new amendment to in
sert after the word explosives" i'll the
second line of clause the words
WnClCDy tnC tllC vi PSicO SiioiA
be endangered" Six days later the
treaty was postponed until the first
Monday in December by vote of % to
21. April 5, a motion of MIR. Payne to
remove the injunction of secrecy from
the convention and pending amend
ments was agreed to. Dec. 10 the treaty
was again taken up, and Jan. 30, 1889,
the amendment of Mr.. EdmundS was
agreed to, The following amendments
were also agreed to: To insert after
the word burglary the word ''rape;;' in
clause 3, relating to embezzlement, after
the words value of strike out so
and insert "200," and after the word
dollars" strike out "10'' and insert
80" Mr.. Edmunds offered motion to
commit, which was determined on the
following day in the negative by vote
of !20 to 23. The amendment to the
fourth clause of article l, as amended
by Mr.. Edmunds. was then rejected by
the senate by vote of 9 to "a. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Gray clause 4, article
l, 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 accord
ing to the laws of both high contracting
pdIUltS. lHc FOlo vi tiilo Woo q" w LIZ
the senators voting in the negative
being Blair. Chase, Chandler, Davis,
Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell. Mitchell,
Morgan. Riddleberger, and Wilson, of
Iowa. On motion of Mr.. Faulkner, by
a vote of "a to IS, the word ''manslaugh-
ter' was struck out of the first clause.
Those voting in the negative were
Blair, Chandler. Davis, Edmunds,
Evarts. Farwell, Frye, Gray, Hale. His
cock, Ingalls,, Morgan, Platt, Riddle
berger, Sawyer, Sherman, Teller, and
Wilson. of Iowa. Feb. l the question
of ratifying the treaty with these
amendments was submitted to the sem
ate and determed IN the negative by
the following vote: Yeas-Black-
burn, Cockerell. Faulkner, Frye,
George. Hampton, Hawley. Hoar,
Jones, of Arkansas, PascO. Payne, Ran
som, Sawyer, Sherman, and Walthall.
Nays-Allison. Bate, Blair, Bowen,
Gail. Chance, Chandler. Coke, CullOm,
Davis, Dawes, Edmunds, Paddock, Eus-
tbs, Evarts, Farwell, German, Hale.
Hiscock, ingalls,, Jones, of Nevada,
Henderson, Mitchell. Morgan, Platt,
Plumb, Pugh, Reagan, Riddieberger,
Salisbury, Stewart. Stockbridge, Teller,
Turpie, Vest, Voorhees,, Wilson, of
Iowa, and Wilson, OF Maryland.