Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — EXTRADITION. [ARTICLE]

EXTRADITION.

The Correspondence Now Going On as to Extraditable Offenses. . ti- :4 V’ ~ The British Government Will Not Ask the Surrender of Walsh and V . Sheridan. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] * It is probable that the State Department is conducting very secretly negotiations for a new extradition treaty with Great Britain, and that the President may send to the Senate next December the draft of such a treaty. 'Correspondence to that end has been had at intervals since the Fenian troubles in Canada, and correspondence, st mutated by Irish troubles, has doubtless recently been renewed. -It ia communica- ■ tions on this subject, ana nbt as to the extradition of particular persons, that probably have been received at the State Department, and the official denials Jiave gone to the jeports that there were communications tfe to. these persons, but not as to the negotiations as to extradition. The present extradition treaty with Great Brittan is the Ashburton treaty, negotiated forty years ago. The list of extraditable crimes which it contains is very short The Ashburton treaty provides only for the extradition of persons accused of murder, assault with intent to commit murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery, and the utterance of forged papea [Washington telegram to the Chicago Inter Ocean.] There is reason to believe that, after all that has been said on the subject, the officials at the State Department do not expect Great Britain will ask the extradition of Walsh and Sheridan. It is understood that the Gladstone Government- has had its attention called to the situation, and <x>mprehends its delicacy. With such a Vast Irish-American population in the United States, it is shown now impossible it would be to conduct extradition proceedings without great excitement. Such a commotion would be likely to ensue at any time when a race question might be raised, but especially so when the crime alleged was regarded to a greater or less extent aS of a political nature, by a large number of people who sympathize with the e censed in politics It is understood that these considerations have been brought to the notice of the British authorities, and it is said they appreciate the inadvisability on their own account, to agitate the Irish element in the United States more than necessary. All the money used for the embarrassment of- the British authorities is believed to come from this country, and there is no desire to stimulate interest in Irish affairs. Gen. Duncan 8. Walker, of counsel for Sheridan and Walsh, returned this morning from Lowell, where he has been conferring with Gov. Butler. He says that no demand has yet been made for the extradition of his clients. He adds that they will not be surrendered if their extradition is demanded.