The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-12-10

priation available fbr immediate use for
! all such purposes. 10 be expended under
the direction of thP Attorney-General
Needs for Treates Making Bribery
Extrahitable.
| Steps have been taken by the State
| Department looking to the making or
| bribery an extradithble otfense with for
| eign powers. The need of more effective
treaties covering this crime is manifest.
| The exposures and prosecutions of Of
| fetal corruption in St. Louis, Mo, and
/ other cities and states have resulted in
| a number of givers and takers of brides
becoming fugtives n foreign lands. Brib-
| cry has not been Included in extradition
| treaties heretofore, as the necessity for
| it has not arisen. While there may have
| been as much official corruption in former
years. there has been more developed
| and brought to light in the immediate
| past than in the preceding century of
| our country's history. it should be tine
| policy of the United States to leave no
| place on earth where corrupt man
heeing from this country can rest in
| peace. There is ND reason why bribery
should not be included in all treaties as
extraditable The recent amended treaty
with Mexico, whereby this crime was
put in the list of extraditable offenses,
has established a salutary precedent in
this regard Under this treaty the State
Department has asked, and Mexico has
granted the eXtradltion of one of the St.
Louis bride givers.
There can be nb crime more serious
than bribery. Other OffenSeS violate one
law, while corruption strikes at the foun
dation of all law. Under our form of gov
eminent all authority is vested in the
people and by them delegated to those
who represent them in official capacity.
The exposure and punishment of public
corruption is an Honor to a nation. not
disgrace. The shame lies in liberation,
not in correction. No city or state, still
less the nation, can be injured by the
enforcement of law. AS long as public
plunderers when detected can find a
maven of refuge in any foreign land and
avoid punishment, just so long encour-
agement is given them to continue their
practices. If we fail to do all that in US
lies to stamp out corruption we can not
escape our share of responsibility for the
guilt. The first requisite of successful
self-government is unflinching enforce
ment of the law and the cutting out of
corruption.
Alaskan Boundary.
For several years past the rapid devel-
opment of Alaska and the establishment
of growing American interests in re-
gions heretofore unsurveyed and i'm
perfectly known brought into promi-
a
teal demarcaton of the boundaries be-
tween the jurisdictions of the United
states and Great Britain. Although the
treaty of lS2o between Great Britain and
Russia, the provisions of which were
copied in the treaty of 1867 whereby Rus
STA conveyed Alaska to the United States
was positive as to the control. first by
Russia and later by the United States
of strip of territory along the CONT
mental mainland from the western shore
of Portland canal to Mount ST. Elias fol-
lowing and surrounding the indentations
of the coast and including the islands to
the westward its description of the land
ward margin of the strip was indefinite
restlhg on the supposed existence of a
continuous ridge or range of mountains
sklrtlng the coast, as figured in the
charts of the early nayigators If had
at no time been Possible for either party
IN interest to lay down. under the author-
lty OF the treaty, line so obviously ex-
act according to IT'S provisions as to COM
Andnu the assent pr the other For nearly
three-1ourths of century the absence
of tangible local interests DEMANDING tho
exercise of positive jurisdiction on either
side of the border left the question dor
mant. In 1878 questions of revenue adj
mlnistration on the Stkine river led TO
the establishment of a provisional de-
marcatlon, crossing the channel between
ty-1our miles above the river mouth In
1879 similar questions growing out of the
extraordinary development of mining in
terests in the region about the head of
Lynn canal brought about a temnorarv
modus vivendi, BY which a convenient
separation was made at the watershed
aiVldes of the White and Chikoot passes
and to the north of Klukwan. on the
Klehni river. These partial and tentative
adjustments could not in the yerv ma
ture OF things, be satisfactory or last
ing. permanent disposition of the mat
ter became imperative
After unavailing attempts to reach an
understanding Though a joint high com
mission, followed by prolonged nepotia
lions, conducted in an amicable spirit a
convention between the United States
ana Great Britain was signed, Jan. "a
1903, providing for an examination of the
subject by mixed tribunal of six mem
pers' three on side, with view to its
hnal disposition Notifications were ex-
changed on March last whereupon the
Two governments appointed their respec-
i've members Those on behalf of the
united States We're Elihu Root, Secretary
or War, Henry Cabot Lodge a Senator
OF the United States, and George Turner
an ex-senator of the United States. while
Great Britain named the Right Honor
able Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice
~ "a Houio AindDle Jette, X,
-. M Vi, retlre1 judge of the Supreme
Oourt OF quebec, and A. 3. Aylesworth,
a. -, Oh toronto. This tribunal met in
Lohdoh on sept 3, under the presidency
of Lord Alverstone. The di,,o,
we're eNpealtlous, and marked by a
liienoiy ana conacientious spirit. The re-
spective cases. counter cases and 49,,
ments presented the issues clearly ana
fully. On the Goth of October n maiorit1
Oh the tribunal reached and signed an
agreement on al the questions snhni+taa
by the terms of the convention ~, 49,
award the right of the United States to
the control of continuous str,n or bor
u ..s Vi the mainland shore skirting all the
'iue-"ater lnletS and sinuosities of the |
coast. is confirmed; the entrance 70 port
iinu cahai (conferning which legitimate
doubt appeared) is defined as nassing h,,
Tongass Inlet and to the northwestHorS
u Waies ana fearse islands; line is
ura"n from the head Of Portland canal to |
the nity-sixtn degree of north latitude:
and the interior border line of tha 80,
is fixed by lines connecting cert.in 49,,
tain submits lying between por+Io,d
canal and Mount ST Elias and rnn,,;,.. |
along the crest of the divide sano 49,
the coast slope from the inland watershed |
at the only part of the frontier whara
tiie drainage ridge approaches the coast |
"i.hih tne Instance or ten marine leagues |