The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-17
FRAMING OF TREATIES.
Ex-Secretary Fosters Lecture Befor
 Yale Law School

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 Ex-Secretary Fosters Lecture Before
 Yale Law School.
 I Yesterday afternoon ex- Secretary Foster talked before the Yale Law
 school on 'The Negotiating and Fram- ing of Treaties" and there was a good
 attendance, including number of la- dies. In opening MT. Foster gave sev- eral examples of the grandiloquent lan- guage in which the preambles of an
 cient treaties were couched Their l glowing phraseology highly amused the
 audience. Later, early in the last cen
 tury, this overtlowing style was very
 much modified
 After treaty negotiations are duly signed their ratification follows by the
 several governments concerned. In this
 as utmost all other countries but Eng land treaties require concurrencS by
 legislative bodies, In England the rul-
 ing sovereign has that power. The
 president has the power to withhold or
 withdraw treaty from the Senate,
 pending final disposal, and MT. Foster
 dwelt on the various ways of consult l ing the Senate to determine it's views ns to acceptance, prior to official vote
 thereon. The last step in the progress of n treaty is its official publication signed and attcsted to by the secretary | of state
 Mir. Foster gave very amusing &C., count of 3 treaty negotiated some years Ia ago between Russia and China, in which the Chinese diplomat acting for his country was inexperienced and got decidedly the worst of the bargain. Tn the United States" said Mr. Foster, "the diplomats failure would have re- |sulted in the loss of his reputation through newspaper. criticism, but in China they have different method of procedure, and so when the diplomat got home he was promptly ordered ex- ecuted by beheading. His life was only saved by the intercession of other for eign ministers, who protested that such stringent measures were not taken in their own countries.
 MT. Fosters third lecture in the Storrs series before the students of the Yale Law school was given Wednesday af- ternoon. Immunitles and privileges of ambassadors and ministers were much greater two or three centuries ago than at present. In the olden days foreign legations were regarded as asylums for criminals and refugees from justice. Now only the foreign Representatives, the members of their families, their staffs and domestic servants are free from arrest They are exempt from all laws save those of the country which they represent.
 MT Foster spoke at length on deli- cate problems which almost daily con front the ministers who are stationed in countries in which revolutionary movements are of frequent occurrence.
 Regarding the retirement of ministers and ambassadors, they may be recalled, at the request of the secretary of state or of the country to which they have been accredited; they may retire by or by change in political party, not president, in their own coun- try.
 Tn closing MT Foster touched briefly 1 on the causes which in century past | led to recalling of our ministers from foreign lands, beginning with Munroe, and the dismissal of ministers of other nations from this country, notably the ,ase of Sackville West, of Great Brit ain, who by political trick was trapped into giving a signed statement 'avoring the election of Cleveland as against Harrison.