The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-31
THU TREATY WITH RUSSIA.
Severe Criticism Made Upon it's
Drag-net Features
IT WILL BE MADE PUBLIC.
Also the Original Draft as 1t Was
Given the Senate.
The State Department., 1t Is Said, Has
Given It's Consent to the Publica-
ton OF the correspondence
on the Subject.

WASHINGTON, March 30.-CriticIsms
made upon the Russian treaty whether
just or not, have had the effect of putting
the Senate on the defensive, and it is un-
derstood that when it is finally decided to
give the treaty out it will be accompanied
by the draft Of the convention as it came
to the Senate, so that comparison may
be made between the treaty as ratified
and the one upon which the Senate acted.
accompanying this will also appear the
correspondence, for it is understood that
the state departm ent has given its con-
sent to the publication of the messages
that have passed between representatives
OF the contracting powers. The most re-
cent treaty previously made by this
government bearing upon eXtraditiOnS Of
criminals was that with Belgium in 1882,
that contains clause said by senator's to
be almost Identical with the political
clause of the treaty under discussion.
Political clauses are not at all rare IN
treaties made by the United States for
from early days the right of asylum has
been protected in all conventions nego-
tiated.
Owing to the rigid discipline and strict
frontier surveillance in Russia it was
pointed out on the floor of the Senate that
extradition to Belgium and to Russia
under treaties of precisely the same word
Ing meant two vastly different things.
During this debate it was brought forci-
bly, to the attention of the Senate by one
OF the leading constitutional lawyers of
the south that this country had at one
time asked for and secured the eXtradi-
ton of man charged with what might
have been under such treaty called po-
litlcal offense- He referred to the arrest
of John FL. Surrat, implicated in the con-
spiracy which resulted in the assassina-
ton of Lincoln. Surrat fed to Egypt,
joined the army OF the khedive, thence TO
Rome, where he became one of the papal
Zouaves. He was recognized by a citizen
Of Baltimore, who notified this govern
ment of his whereabouts and upon appli-
cation to the pope, who then enjoyed
temporal power in Italy, Surrat was sent
to this country and tried.
A prominent Republican Senator, who
has been pronounced in his opposition to
the ratification of this treaty, makes the
statement that the new treaty not only
with Russia but France bears the sem
blance of a deliberate effort to bolster up
or at least strengthen the cause OF the
! United States in certain delicate diplo-
matte negotiations now in progress. 'In
other Words" said he, eve purchased
our present Behring sea fisheries of Rus
STA, party to one of these treaties; our
differences with England are about to be
settled by high court of arbitration at
the capital OF nation which is party to
the other treaty, and has also named one
OF the arbitrators. 1t looks very much TO
me like a deliberate attempt to violate the
rights OF human liberty and return hui
man beings into what is worse than slavery
IN order that we may protect few seals. -