Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — DANES KILL ISLE TREATY. [ARTICLE]

DANES KILL ISLE TREATY.

United States Cannot Buy Lands Desired in West Indies. The landsthing, the upper house of the Danish Rigsdag, has refused to ratify the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The vote was a tie —32 to 32. The sale of the islands was approved by the lower house of the last parliament, but the landsthing rejected the treaty. In June of this year Denmark and the United States agreed to extend the time for the ratification of the treaty for one year. Meanwhile a new parliament was elected, and it was thought that there was a safe majority of two or three iii favor of the sale in the upper 'house. The lower house was overwhelmingly in favor of the sale. * The predominant sentiment throughout Denmark is undoubtedly pro-sale, and the rejection of the treaty is attributed chiefly to a domestic political effort to embarrass the goveroment and bring about the resignation of the ministry. The question of the sale of'the islands may not remain dead for any length of time. When official confirmation of the action of the Danish upper house in declining to ratify the treaty for the *ale of the Danish West Indies to the United States was received at the State Department in Washington, the officials of the department expressed themselves as much disappointed. It is believed that the Danish people, the noble classes excepted, are heartily In favor of selling the islands, which have been a continual expense to the crown. Warden Jewett of the Kansas penitentiary is said to be making an effort to get shoe manufacturers to establish a factory at the prison and uae convict labor. « Many prominent Jews in all sections of the country hare written to Secretary Hay. thanking him for his recent >ffarts h* behalf of tho Roumanian Jews.