Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — THE RUSSIAN TREATY. [ARTICLE]

THE RUSSIAN TREATY.

Possibility That It May Not Be Ratified— Severely Criticised. <t- — No treaty that has come-before the Senate in late years has secured more public attention than that which was recently concluded between the government of tho Czar and the United States. It has been severely criticised by its opponents and said to be the first stroke against the liberty of those who flee to America to escape political persecution. In the past two or three executive sessions of tho Senate there has been quite a debate over the proposition to release the injunction of Secrecy and permit the people to know exactly what it contains. A resolution was introduced Tuesday to remove the injunction of secrecy, but it was referred to the jcommlttee on foreign relations’and that committee has not yet reported. A majority of the Senators want the matter Vnade public for the reason that the text of the treaty has been wrongly stated by the public prints and the Senate has been, as they claim, unjustly criticised by reason tof this misinformation. The committee will probably report back the resolution removing injunction of secrecy. The State {Department is-willing that, the text of tho (treaty should be made public.