Show j t t j THE banish DANISH treat THEAT fT Y I 1 I 1 THE eastern telegraphic diset dispatches is have contained 1 occasional allusions to the danish treaty but they have been so vague as scarcely to be intelligible to the general reader conveying no thing hini hint beyond the fagi that a treaty had mid been een formed at some soma time between the danish government and the united states for the purchase from the former by the latter of the islands of st thomas thomast in the west indies this treaty has given rise rlee to considerable comment and discussion in diplomatic and literary circles som some being heing in favor of its ratification others strenuously opposing it A marked feature az in the policy of the late secretary of state hr the enlargement of the united states territory liis his administration russian bussian A merlea america meriea was waff purchased by the united states offers were made for cub cubb greenland and st thomas and if he had continued in office and had been able tocarra to carry carny out his peculiar views in this thi respect the utmost limits of amerian american ambition ambition ambit lon ion might in time have been gratified and the territory of the thoi United states have included all creation dimm DIff merent different views are seemingly entertained by the present I 1 and instead of helping to deplete the national treasury by the purchase of additional territory the order of the tue day seems to be retrenchment and AM the establishment of a rigorous system of econom yin the administration of the G so that the burdens of taTti taeck taxation tion may be pe ilg lightened and the producing powers of the nation be accelerated the Th cause originally assigned d fon for the purchase of the danish W west st indians india islands was 94 ad 94 that they would be of sueh such great importance sa m a coaling station for foe united states vessels in time of wali wan war and it has haa been asserted that dur aur ing the progress of he rebell rebeil ibn the damis b ring king se seeing jn g af f wil wll what aj vast util its itchey ey ow d be q the t united states ates generas generously offered to sell them the disclosure of tha real facts in ia til the le case ease hui hUy vever show that this ebullition bulli viet of kingly 1 y sympathy with the Ee publio 6 ia entirely fictitious mr tha talented and popular terin a work of h his recently iasu ed f d arher the danish landsi la bro are 6 und in honor to td pay for them 1 11 div elves gives eol eow pus transaction and h leeng leens to ta wo beof eop 6 opinion lal on t hat tuat matthis this treaty hou h id be ratified by the ignited senate dilate the ba main maln ain aln 1 facia naela of the transaction a as developed deve loped lopea by bj mr bir parton are that the negotiations were commenced bet between veen vean mr seward sevard and Raa the danish minister white attending tending a dinner party arty given at al avash wash grifton in january 63 bf bythe tife fre french nav nal minister 14 ter immediately is jilt inter inlet view VO between the two the danish minister communicated the proposition to the kih king g of o denmark who I 1 in hei ehi th T beginning of the following april teut tent a positive refusal th the aish assassination of president lih lib coln coin and noi nol the attack on seward vere were perpetrated pet rated immediately after this and ano the negotiations were discontinued until the following december when rl they were r dewed this tima linlia on mhd the part of denmark ani and and were continued for over a year jear and a half during which mr seward aate after his recovery visited thelvert elVest th the vest indies in dies dibs the price asked by denmark for the tha three islands was twenty nive five ra millions illious of dollars this offer was not entertained at a all by our government mid and no 40 specified gum was offered by secretary seward sevard until sometime in 66 when he of offered flared five millions this of course was not enter gained by denmark 11 and the negolia neg alia otia were weird sus aus suspended bended for several months in the spring of 67 they were again renewed by denmark when the three islands were offered to the united states for fifteen millions or two of them for ten millions the united states refused this offer and a few weeks later air mr seward beward offered seven and a half millions which was finally accepted and towards the close of october qa 67 the treaty was signed on the part of denmark with the understanding that it b had ad to be rat ratified fled fied by acy a two th thirds ards votes of 0 f the united states senate and purchase 6 money mones could not be paid unless appropriated by congress and by mr nir seward witla witia that it would would not be binding unless ratified by the danish parliament and and then sanctioned by a vote of the majora L people the re based these are the th main facts connected with this case lind and upon these grounds it has been strongly urged by many that the united states is bg in hi honor bound to ratify the treaty and pay the money when it ift is recollected however that the negotiations were eon bon conducted ducted and the treaty signed on mr bedwards Be wards own owe responsibility or at least without bein being authorized by the senate without the sanction of which no treaty is valid and that the Import importance ange of these west west india ludia islands have beep gr greatly overrated sted iao fao rather difficult toh tor see chere n the honor of the nation will wilt be injun JQ 10 d by a refusal on the part of the senate Q ratify this contract this seems to be the view taken by that body badr as a decided despos disposition not to ratify has heen been een evinced by b them at a time timp ti meliKe like tike tha the present when velien reform and economy ju li the administration of or the tho overn overa are so necessary and shil ab b imperatively demanded by the people at karge large it is to be hoped that these principles ples plea will pr prevail evall evalt and that the efforts of any ring or others who may be rily or otherwise interested in having enormous sums of the peoples means appropriated for the purchase of com ively useless territory will be frustrated |