Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-10


most Importance and urgency, the ex-
tension of the purposes of this appro-
priation, so that II may be available.
under the direction of the attorney
general and until used for the due en-
forceInent of the laws of the United
States in general and especially of the
civil and criminal laws relating to pub
lie lands and the laws relating to postal
crimes and offenses and the subject of
naturalization. Recent Investigations
have shown deplorable state of af-
fairs in these three matters of vital
concern. By various frauds and by
forgeries and perjuries thousands of
acres of the public domain. embracing
lands of different character and ex-
tending through various sections Of the
country, have been dishonesty acquir-
ed. 1t is hardly necessary to urge the
Importance of recovering these dishon-
est acquisitions, stolen from the people,
and of promptly and duly Furnishing
the offenders.
Through frauds, forgeries and per-
juries and by shameless briberies the
laws relating to the proper conduct of
the public service in general and to the
due administration OF the postoffice
department have been notoriously vio-
lated, and many indictments have been
found. and the consequent prosecutions
are in course of hearing or on the eve
thereof For the reasons thus indicat-
ed and SO that the government may
be prepared to enforce promptly and
with the greatest effect the due pen
alties for such violations of law. and
to this end may be furnished with suffi-
cient instrumentaIities and competent
legal assistance for the investigations
and trials which will be necessary at
many different points of the country,
urge upon the congress the necessity
of making the said appropriation avail
able for immediate use for all such
purposes, to be expended under the di-
rection Of the attorney general.
Need For Treaties Making Bribery
ExtraditabIe.
Steps have been taken by the state
department looking to the making of
bribery an extraditable offense with
foreign powers. The need of more eff
fectiye treaties covering this crime is
manifest. The exposures and prosecu-
tons of official corruption in st. Louis,
Mo-. and other cities and states have
resulted in number of givers and tax
ers of brides becoming fugitives in for
eign lands. Bribery has not been in
cluded in extradition treaties hereto
fore, 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. 1t should be the
policy of the United States to leave no
place on earth where a corrupt man
fleeing from this country can rest in
peace.
Alaskan boundary
After unavailing attempts to reach an
understanding on the Alaskan bound
airy question through joint high COM
mission. followed by prolonged negotia-
lions. conducted in an amicable spirit,
a convention between the United States
and Great Britain was signed Jan. "a.
1903 providing for an examination of
the subject by mixed tribunal of six
members, three on side. with a view
to its final disposition. Notifications
were exchanged on March last,
whereupon the two governments APP
pointed their respective members.
Those on behalf of the United States
were Elihu Root, secretary of 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 Hon.
Lord Alyerstone, lord chief justice of
England; Sir Louis Amable Jette. K
G. NJ. G., retired judge Of the supreme
court of Quebec, and A. B. Aylesworth.
*. c., of Toronto. This tribunal met
in London on Sept 8 under the presi-
dency of Lord Alverstone On the goth
of October a majority of the tribunal
reached and signed an agreement on
all the questions submitted by the
terms of the convention. BY this
award the right of the United States
to the control of a continuous strip or
border of the mainland shore. skirting
all the tidewater inlets and sinuosities
Of the coast, is confirmed; the entrance
to Portland canal, concerning which
legitimate doubt appeared, is defined
as passing by Tongass inlet and to the
northWestWard of Wales and Pearse
islands; line is drawn from the head
of Portland canal to the fifty sixth de-
gree of north latitude, and the interior
border line Of the strip is fixed by lines
certain mountain SUBMITS
lying between Portland canal and
Mount st. Elias and running along the
crest of the divide separating. the coast
slope from the inland watershed at the
only part OF the frontier where the
drainage ridge approaches the coast
within the distance Of ten marine