The Helena independent., 1893-07-02
H|llu on The TREATY.
y 3as1 Rsad II 50 Published
s1E and Condemns Il Is
CrusL
IA one CHARGED With Crime
Has Any Protection I'm
der II
s Rnaeaa VIII rot Hesitate to Manufacture
NJ 1ylAsaes = Get Hold Of Political
Offenders.

n Soaoon Why there should bs no sxtfadition
4 tvoaty between Russia and The United
States, but II u wsRe deemed necessary to
\ sonoluds suoh m international arrange
msnt then ths United States should have
secured such terms a. would have guarsn.
< aesa adequate protection TO all persons who
might BE- surrendered under its provisions.
An - loss 10 understand how the United
States vas induced TO conclude such a
trsaty in The face OF the official CORES
pondsncs between this government and
lsussia. and In the face Of the fact that
within year past ths little republic Of
Switzerland has concluded q treaty with
Russis snbodying ill necessary guarantees
Of protection. sa,.0
"Undsr ths treaty which tue United States
has concluded the crime Of forgery. which
can be made 20 cover the case of almost
avery Russian refugee. who necessarily re-
Qutres passport in order to leave Russia.
4 mot only made extraditable. but 10 so
slaborately defined a. TO leave no loophole
for eIcape. This clause IN itself renders
any extensive catalogue Of exsraditable
crimes unnecessary. Tho guarantee that
ths criminal shall be tried only for the
ssime fer which he il sxtraditsd is worth
less, and even II he ID acquitted he may
be exiled by administrative process. What
possible protection has any person charged
with crime undef this treaty. .n. g
"The treaty recently negotiated between
6Witxsrland and Russia mioht we'll have
served % model for the United States
Under it, proviaions criminsl cannot be
sriod BY IN exceptional court, but must be
afsaiKned before civil court II found
guilty hs cannot be sentenced TO any pun
jshmsnt different in kind from those in
diOtsd ~ the country from which ho was
sos elects, serve II out in the country from
which hs was extradited. These humane
provisions shut of effeotually banishment
30 Siberia and the continent in dungeons
and bomb-pToof easements where pris-
oner may wear his life out with NO commu-
Hication with the outside world. They also
enable the officials Of the governments
granting extradition to know what becomes
Of the prisoner after he is convicted and
they sffeetually prevent doing away with
him BY administrative process.
THE officials of the Russian government
will not hesitate to manufacture necessary
evidence to secure q criminal whose arrest
10 particularly desired. / know of nota-
BILE case in which Russian who had &C.
capped from the empire to Turkey was d.
coyed BY two kilograms prepared by the
.on m s1d .nd spa res o a
mapped on Turkish territory. II they will
forge tslegrams end kidnap victims on for
siRn soil, IL 10 hard to expect that they will
hesitate to manufacture evidence enough I
TO form the basis of q demand for extrad,-
tion. Such instances as have referred to
could be enumerated by the score if 1t were
necessary to bring any further evidence to
show the high handed methods of the Rus
nan police. lventure q suggestion in this
conneotion that the first tests under this
extradition treaty will be very cleverly de-
signed BY Russia to afford an object lesson
% favorable as possible to her
methods and her institutions. In all
probabilities case will be selected
In which there is no doubt of the
guilt OF the accused, and, after all the
proper formalities have been complied with
public trial will perhaps be had, and if
conviction II secured the subseq usnt his
soEy OF the convict will be supplied to any
ono who desires TO learn il. But the future
operation of tho treaty is what We have TO
dread. Had IL been in foroo few years
ago me Russien. Hartman, who is now Iiv-
hanged for alleged completely in blowing
mp the pilot train that preceded the czar's
. ain on a trip to Moscow to attend pnb-
nc function some Yeas ago. believe there
shere 10 some doubt as to whether he was in
any way responsible for the deed; but un-
der the provisions Of the treaty excluding
from the category of political offenses an
attempt upon the head of the government
hs could be extradited and there Is little
doubt as to his fate.
"The Engliah are rather inclined to con-
Rratulate themselves upon the fact that
while the United States has been indnced
TO conclude such an extradition treaty the
overtures of Russia have never brought
9 cat Britain to the point of negotiating
any convention of extradition. England
may we'll be pardoned for felicitating her
self upon this fact. The friends OF the
Russian people in England have an excel
lent organization and are doing great
deal for the advancemens of their cause.
The highest class of English people are in
teressed and substantial progress is being
made. The most significant thing in con-
nection with this extradition treaty is the
fact that 1t is discountenanced by the best
elements among the liberal Russians"
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