St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-24
The New Russian Treaty Is
: so Characterized at
Chicago.
Our President Made q Police
man to Arrest Russian
Criminals.
George Kennan Writes That
the Treaty Leads Us to
Disgrace.
Distinguished Divines De-
nounee 1t as an Outrage
on Our Institutions.

CHICAGO, April 23.-Central Music
hall was packed to the doors today by
an enthusiastic audience, which gath
cred to denounce the Russian treaty.
The speakers were bold in their re-
marks, denouncing the treaty as fugi-
tive slave law, and the president and
senate of the United States as police
men for the czar. State Senator Edward
T. Noonan presided. Judge NJ. E. Tu-
ley, of the circuit court, was the first
speaker. and said: "Why is it we have
interested ourselves in behalf of Russian
refugees? 1t is because wrong done
to the humblest Russian peasant is
wrong done to you, to me, and the co.
00000O people who profess allegiance to
the American flag. a law affecting the
liberty of any citizen of this country is
wrong. The purpose of this treaty is
to deprive some one of his or her liberty.
Why is it that the United States should
surrender a criminal to Russia? Civil
law has no say there: monarchial law
has been and is today the rule. The
criminal laws of Russia are such as to
DishOnor Any Nation
that will make with it an eXtradition
treaty. Why should Russia be permit
ted to make the president of the United
States and those subordinate to him his
policemen to arrest Russian criminals?
Should eXtradition of Russian citizens
be attempted we will appeal to a higher
power-the constitution of the United
States. We will see whether presi-
dent and about thirty United States sem
atOrs can cast stigma of disgrace upon
our country"
A letter from George Kennan, the
celebrated Siberian traveller. was read,
in which Mr.. Kennan said: when the
cZar ceases to declare martial law every
year in the most important parts of his
empire, when he restores trial by jury
and recognizes tine rights of habeas
corpus, when he aboIishes exile by ad-
ministrative process and imprisonment
without judicial warrant, when he
ceases to persecute religious dissenters
on account Of their faith, when he re-
forms the
Siberian Exile System,
and when he begins 10 rule as civilized
and Christian monarch. then, but not
until then, can the government of the
United States send back to him his
fugitive subjects, without cruel in
justice to them and disgrace to ITSELF"
Bishop Fallows, Rev. A. E. Clifford
and other speakers denounced the
treaty as an outrage upon American in
stiGutions. declared that it was merely
fugitive slave law. and the men who
passed it had made themselves slave
catchers. The meeting then adopted
resolutions declaring the treaty to be
contrary to the principles of interna-
tional law, civilization and American
liberty; that any attempt to enforce
another fugitive slave law in this coun-
try will result, as before, in terrible
conflict between the law and the con-
science OF the people, and in the re-
establishment of that regretable, but
glorious illegality. the underground
railway to Canada, where, under another
flag. the oppressed will find protection
if it is denied under the stars and
stripes. 1t was decided to request the
government "to undo the great disgrace
it has put upon the American nation
and at once abrogate this Infamous
treatyo