| Show THE RUSSIAN TREATY president cleveland has been in receipt of the russian treaty for some time and it only awaits his official proclamation to go into effect having been duly ratified by the senate in executive session there Is a deep seated and grow growing ilag opposition to the issuance of the proclamation swid suad the presidents president is delay shows that it is not such a convention as it is safe to adopt bantly hast ly numerous public meetings have been ht add ld I 1 in a opposition in one of which in chicago recently i the now new mayor carter H harrison Harrie ou took part it appears that by the terms of the treaty the forgery of a public dou decu ent an extraditable offense and placed on the same criminal level as the assassination or attempted assassination of the head of the he government the opponents of the treaty contend that under this clause the refugee who forges forgea a out which it is next to impossible to leave russia must muot be returned retura ed by us u it if he escapes hither when under the autocratic system of the czar he be will be tried without any of the pons titu dional and legal safeguards which protect the rights of the accused under our government it if this to is so the proclamation should be withhold withheld in definitely the unite I states cannot afford to aid a foreign power in the maintenance of a system which be longs in the dark and barbarous past and there only however this may be greatly modified in the text of the agreement we cannot know until it la is published exactly what it Is ie |
