Show THE NEW TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN THE full text of the extradition treaty tween great britain and the united unite states will be e found in this issue of the NEWS it extends the treaty of 1842 by the addition of four crimes which were not included in the earlier international document this increase awill will extinguish the immunity from the legal consequences of their crimes which certain classes of offenders notably embezzlers haye have enjoyed who have succeeded in skipping over the border to canada in connect connection io with the publication of the new treaty maty we have annexed Artic leiX 0 of f that of 1842 by coal combining lin it willi article 1 I of the later agree went ment the reader has before him the entire list of crimes for which those commit them are liable to extradition from either country the document appears to have been carefully and judiciously drawn Us its provisions being lair and necessary A resort to subterfuge in order to obtain possession of ina person of a fugitive under a specious pretext is refi rendered dered impracticable by the ra requirement that any person subjected to the process of extradition shall not dot be tried lor for any offense other than that upon whick hit his transfer from one country to the other is accorded the need of sucu suca a safeguard hits has been demonstrated by instances that have occurred in this country of criminals criminal having been obtained from great britain ito which land they have escaped and when handed over to the local authorities the charges upon which they were secured ignored and they were punished for others so far as relates to the crimes added to article X of the treaty of 1842 the I 1 new one will not be retroactive but bat will merely haye force upon those com 1 lait ting offenses after the ratification ot of the later agreement this it is just J and fair being in harmony with th the internal institutions of both nations what would be unconstitutional in a national sense should not be allowed ito constitute ga an element of interra dional agreement agri lement in their contracts with each other nations should act in strict harmony with their own fundamental f principles and institutions every person who desires to see humanity preserved from sinking back into barbarism will endorse unreservedly the provision regarding the liability to extradition from e elther country of persons guilty of malicious injury to property whereby life is endangered endanger el this has special reference to dynamiters dyna miters and the ine recent developments in chicago show that the need for the international arrangement it is as great in the case of the one country as the other there is no provision however in relation to persons who concoct and develop destructive dynamite plots in country me hiuer juab is a matter that must necessarily be left with the particular country where the schemes and conspiracies are hatched and their suppression will it largely 9 11 y depend upon the nature of the sentiment t 1 1 ent aside irom from treaty stipulations internationally entertained history and observation prove that in human duman affairs feeling independent ot of law largely influences the conduct of one country toward another as in the case of individuals of which nations are but aggregations |