Show I THE TEAT WIH RmSIA t Severe Criticism Made Upon its Dragnet Features IT WILL BE MADE PUBLIC Also the Original Draft as I Was Given the Senate Gycn The State Department I Is Said Has Given Its Consent to the Publica Publca tion of the Correspondence on the Subject WASHINGTON March 30 Criticisms made upon the Russian treaty whether just or not have had tho effect of putting the Senate on the defensive and it is understood I un-derstood that when it is finally decided to give the treaty out it will be accompanied I by the draft of the convention a it came to the Senate so that a comparison maybe may-be made between the treaty as ratified and the one upon which the Senate acted Accompanying this will also appear the correspondence for it is understood that the state department has given its consent con-sent to the publication of the messages that have passed between representatives of the contracting powers The most recent re-cent treaty previously made by this government bearing upon extraditions of criminals was that with Belgium in 3882 that contains a clause said by senators to be almost identical with the political clause of the treaty under discussion Political clauses are not at all rare in treaties made by the United States for from early days the right of asylum has been protected in all conventions negotiated nego-tiated Owing to the rigid discipline and strict frontier surveillance in Rusia it was pointed out on the floor of the Senate that extradition t Belgium and to Russia under treaties of precisely the same wording word-ing meant two vastly Different things During this debate it was brought forcibly forci-bly t the attention of the Senate by one ol the leading constitutional lawyers of the south that this country had at onetime one-time asked for and secured the extradition extradi-tion of a man charged with what might have been under such treaty called a political po-litical offense He referred to the arrest of John H Surrat implicated in the conspiracy con-spiracy which resulted in the assassination assassina-tion of Lincoln Surrat fled to Egypt joined the army of the khedive thence to Rome where he became one of the papal zouaves He was recognized by a citizen of Baltimore who notified this government govern-ment of his whereabouts and upon application cation t the pope who then enjoyed temporal power in Italy Surrat was sent to this country and tried A prominent Republican Senator who has been pronounced in his opposition to the ratification of this treaty makes the statement that the new treaty not only with Russia hut France bears the semblance sem-blance ot a deliberate effort to bolster up or at least strengthen the cause of the United States in certain delicate diplomatic diplo-matic negotiations now in progress In other words said he we purchased our present Behring sea fisheries of Russia Rus-sia party to one of these treaties our differences with England are about t be settled by a high court of arbitration at the capital of a nation which is a party to the other treaty and has also named one of the arbitrators It looks very much tome to-me like a deliberate attempt to violate the rights of human liberty and return human hu-man beings into what is worse than slavery in order that we may protect a few seals |