Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — RUSSIAN EXTRADITION TREATY [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN EXTRADITION TREATY

Formally Proclaimed by President Cleve land to Be la Force. The Russian extradition treaty, which has been the subject of negotiations between the contracting parties for more than six years, which has been amended again and again, and which was threatened with defeat in its final stages, has at last been formally proclaimed, and will henceforth be the law of the land until it is superseded by another treaty. It is asserted m official quarters that, in spite of all that has been said about the treaty, it is similar in scope to all tho extradition treaties negotiated by the LTnlted States in recent years, although in practice it niav be that the administration of the articles will a different result, in view of the essential difference between thfe judicial systems of the two countries, which, in this case, are supposed to be more than usually divergent. The clause that has attracted most attention reads: An attempt against tho life of the head of either government, or against that of any member of his family, when such attempt comprises the act either of murder, of assassination, or of poisoning, or of accessoryship thereto, shall not be considered a political offense, or any act connected with such an offense.