The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-02-18
OUR DREIBUND DOESN'T GO
REPORTS OF 4 TRIPLE AGREE
MENT ARE FALSE.
Sensational Information Regarding
an Offensive and Defensive Al
lance Between Russia,
France and the United
States Unfounded.
Twas a Merry Fakelet.

vas q "CIty dHSISI'
Washington, Feb. 13.-The publication
OF dispatches announcing that there vas
a hidden significance in the e%xtradition
treaty recently ratified by the United
States senate with Russia and France
naturally occasioned many inquiries to
officials here and to members of the SEN
ate who would be in Il position to know
the facts. According to the dispatches
a triple alliance between the United
States, Russia and France for mutual
benefit and defense, which has secretly
been pending for six years, unknown
to either the diplomatic or the political
world at large, eliminated in an execu-
tive session of the United States senate
two days ago.
In the ratification of the extradition
papers with those powers careful in
qulrles from the best source of infOrma-
tlon do not substantiate this interpreter
ton OF that treaty. 1t is asserted that
there was no provision in either of the
treaties very widely differing from ex-
tradition treaties negotiated with Great
Britain, Germany and other powers.
More to the point still, it is said there
was no provision in either treaty differ
ing essentially from the extradition treaty
with Sweden, which was ratified at the
same time. One of the senators who
participated in the discussion of these
treaties has since publicly expressed his
opinion that the ratification of these
treaties would be regarded by Russia
and France as a tacit agreement cement
ing those ancient bonds of alliance which
had led France to aid in our revolution
and had induced Russia to send it's fleet
to our moral aid when Napoleon was try
ing to induce Great Britain to recognize
the Confederacy. 1t is pointed out, how.
ever, that these views may have largely
influenced senators in the ratification OF
the treaty, and though som idea of the
same kind may well have been present
in the minds of the high contracting
powers, there is a considerable space
separating the renewal of friendly senti
ments from the negotiation of an offens
i've and defensive alliance.
Goodness Exists.
Paris. Feb. 13.-There il. q marked
cooling off in the relations between Rus
Sit and Germany. The efforts to bring
about a fresh understanding between
the three empires which commenced with
tn visit of the czarewitch to Vienna.
where certain results were obtained,
were continued during his recent journey
to Berlin. Nothing has been lone UP
to the present, and it is probable nothing
VIII result from the attempt, but Russia,
having given Berlin to understand that
she had no %antipathy to Germany, was
a point gained. Russia thus becomes the
arbitrator of the int irrational situation,
playing with France and Germany the
same game that Bismarck Gid so long
with Austria and Russia, using one in
order to obtain concessions from the
other. But the ear is too honest and
straightforward to play this game long.
He will not sign any political treaty with
Germany: the most will be a commercial
treaty. No treaty exists with France
either, nothing further than q military
convention which was the work of NM
ltibot. De Freycinet and De Giers
at AK last year. 1t appears probable
that Russia has taken an engagement to
do nothing more than mobilize 600, OOC
men on the Austrian frontier in case OF
war between France and Germany. The
hypothesis of a wal now may be sci
aside. for the internal situation of Franco
is still very intricate. We shall not be
able to improve it except by a dissolu
ton of the chamber, and if the elections
take place before the termination of the
Panama business nine-tenths of the pres
ent deputies will not be reelected.