Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

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-
laws relating to the proper conduct of
the public service in general and to the
due administration of the postoface
department have been VIGOROUSLY 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 fndicat-
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 suf1-
cient instrumentalities 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 d.
rection of the attorney general.
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Extraditable.
stems have been taken by the state
department looking ia the making of
bribery an extraditable ofrense with
foreign mowers. The need of more eff
fectiye treaties covering this crime is
manifest. The exposures and prosecu-
lions of official corruption in st. Louis
Mo. and other cities and states have
resulted in number of giyers and tax
ers of bribes becoming fugitives in for
eign lands, Bribery has not been in
Guided in extradition treaties hereto
fore, as the necessity for it has not
arisen. While there may have been
rs 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 n corrupt man
fleeing from this country can rest In
peace.
Alaskan Boundary.
After unavailing attempts to reach IN
understanding on the Alaskan bound
ary 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 nv n mixed tribunal of six
mamtars three nm n side with view
To its f1nal disnosition. Ratifications
wore exchanged on March last.
whereupon the two governments M.
nointed their resnective members.
Those on behalf Of the United States
were Elihu Root. secretary Of war:
Henry Cabot Lodge 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 AmabIe Jette. x.
q. NJ. a.. retired iudge of the supreme
court of Quebec. and A. B. Aylesworth,
X. O.. of Toronto. This tribunal met
in London on Sept. 8 under the presi-
dency of Lord Alyerstone. On the Goth
Of October n majority Of the tribunal
reached md signed an agreement on
nil the Questions submitted by the
terms Of the convention. Ry this
oword the r,pht of the limited States
tn tha control of n continuous str,n or
fhorder of tha mainland shore skirtinp
nil the t;dewater inlets md sinuosities
of the coast is confirmed: the entrance
to Portland canal. concerning which
legitimate doubt ara1ared. is defined
as passing 5y Toneass inlet and to the
nortsa eastward Of Wales and Pearse
ISLANDS; a line is drawn from the head
= Portland canal to the f1fty-sixth de-
gree of north latitude. and the interior
border line of the strip is fixed nv lines
connecting certain mountain summits
,vino between Portland canal and
Mount ST Elias md running along the
crest of tha divide sanara+ine tbo coast
slona fron, +ha inlond 1yo+ors,,ad ~ +hs,
oniv nort of +he frontier whara the
droipooo ridga onnroocbes +bo coost
witl,in the distance of ron marine
leapues. stimulated by the treaty. as the
extreme width of the strip around the
heads of Lynn canal and its hra nchea