The Morris County chronicle., 1903-12-11

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 instrumentalities and competent
legal assistance for the investigations
and trials which will be necessary at
many differens 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-
fions Of official corruption in st. Louis.
Mo-, ana other cities and states have
resulted in a number of givers and talk
ers of bribes becoming fugitives in for
elgn 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
0ar e3untfy's history. 1t should be the
policy OF The United States to leave no
place on earth where corrupt man
fleeing from this country can rest in
peace
Alaskan boundary.
.Aftsr unayailing attempts TO reach an
understanding on the Alaskan bound
airy question through a joint high com
mission, followed by prolonged negotia-
tions. conducted in an amicable spirit.
a convention between the United States
and Great Britain was signed Jan "a,
1908 providing for an examination of
the subject by mixed tribunal of six
members, three on a side, with view
to It's fnal disposition. Ratiications
were exchanged on March last.
whercupon 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-seua tor of the United States, while
Great Britain named the Right Hon.
Lord Alyerstone, lord chief justice of
England; Sir Louis Amable Jette, X.
G. NJ g., retired judge 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 AIverstone. On the 20th
Of 0cto3er a majority Of the tribunal
reached ana 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
ali 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 Pearsa
islands; line is drawn from the head
OF Portland canal to the ffty-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
leagues, stipulated by the treaty as the
extreme width of the strip around the
heads of Lynn canal and its branches.
While the line SO traced follows the
provisional demarcation of 1878 at the
crossing of the Stikine river and that
of 1899 at the SUBMITS of the White
and Chilkoot passes, it runs much far
ther inland from the Klehini than the
temporary line of the later modus vi
vendi and leaves the entire mining
district of the Porcupine river and Gla-
cier creek within the jurisdiction of the
United States.
1.-THE president here recapitulates the
details of the imbroglio between Euro
pean powers and Venezuela and the
reference of certain points of the con-
troversy to The Hague tribunal
through the influence of the United
Ia ho ;oto co,
American diplomacy and triumph for
international arbitration. He advo-
Gates an extension of International law
TO exempt all private property at sea
from capture of destruction by forces
of belligercnt powers
International Arbitration.
Last year the intcrparliamentary un.
ION for international arbitration met
st Vienna, 900 members of the differ.
ent hgislatures of civilized countries
It was provided that the
next meeting should be in 1901 at st,
Louis, subject 10 8,r congress extend
ing 8a invitation. Like The Hague
tribunal this nterparlidmpN,ary union
is one of the forces tending toward
peace among the nations Of the earth.
and it is entitled TO our support |
trust the invitation can be extended.
Early in July, having received intel.
ligencc, which happily turned out TO be
erroneous. of the assassination of our
vice consul at Beirut, | dispatched a
small squadron to that port for such
service as might be found necessary on
arrival Although the attempt on the
life of our vice consul had not been
successful, yet the outrage was symp-
fnmafic of statn of excitement and