Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-13
LAWS AS TO EXPULSION.
Measures Employed by European Cow
ernments Agsinsts Anarchists

The recent explosion at the arsenal |
near Toulon and those In three differ
ent military places In France, as well
as the failure to blow up the chamber
OF deputies at Rome, have called at |
tention again to the measures usually
employed by European governments
to protect themselves and their coun-
try against the plots of anarchists. 1t
Is not known yet what measures were
approved at the international anti-an-
archist conference held at Rome after
the assassination at Geneva of the
Austrian empress by Luccheni. 1t has
leaked out, however, that most OF the
measures were inadequate, and that
they amounted merely to a better
formulation of the expulsion laws al-
ready in practice in several countries.
These laws were recalled in a recent
article OF the Swiss paper, the Neue
Zurcher Zeitung. 1t failed to call at
tention to the fact that they have Il
specially political character on the one
hand, and that, on the other, they are
not to be compared with the extradi-
ton laws, which apply only to COM
mon-law crimes. Therefore, these ex
pulsion laws amount to nothing more
than to provide governments with the
legal power to expel from their terri
tory the individuals who have already
rendered themselves obnoxious by
overt acts or who are suspected Of
| plotting schemes threatening public
order
In Switzerland itself the expulsion
law says that the federal government
| has the right to eXpel foreigners liv-
ing there, ''who place in peril the in
ternal and external safety of the con
federation" The decree of expulsion
must give its motives and is without
appeal In England and in Greece
there is no such law permitting the eX-
pulsion for political motives. Foreign
ers, even should they be proved to be
anarchists. can not be disturbed, un-
less they have actually committed OF
been indicted for, crimes of common
law. In France the law of 1S49 gives
to the authorities full and extensive
powers for the expulsion of foreigners
This law is still in effect, though eff
forts were made to repeal it, or a
least limit its scope, on the occasion
of the prosecution of the Nihilist Hart
man in 1880. The law was made more
stringent in 1894 after the assassina
ton of President Carnot, at Lyons, by
the Anarchist Caserio. In Italy, tn,
minister of the interior is authorized
to expel foreign residents, except thu
"nonregnicole" Italians, that is, thoS
of Italian origin, who are officially tn
subjects of Austria, since they live II
the Austrian provinces of Trente
Trieste. Istria, Dalmatia, etc. whicl
are called by the Italians of the pc
ninsula the Italia irredenta, or tn
part yet unredeemed from foreig
yoke In Belgium foreigner can no
be expelled if lie Is married to nativ
woman and has had children by her.
The Danish government enjoys fu
powers in the matter, and the sam
can be said i'm regard to Portugal, an
also Russia and Turkey. In the Mort
German empire the laws of eXpulsio
are not similar in each state. AS
Spain and Prussia, there is no specii
legislation on the matter of expulsion
but the authorities there frequentl
take steps to drive out foreigners su'
pected of harboring evil design
against public order or against I'll
= members of the government.-Ne'
York Tribune.