An Interesting Question of Extradition Law Can an American citizen be extradited from the United States to China? Owing to conflicting interpretations of American law on the subject, it has generally been held that he cannot, but the matter is shortly to become the subject of a ruling in the Seattle Federal Court through the flight of Earl B. Rose, the Shanghai lawyer, and the departure on June 30 last of E. F, Cardwell, formerly employed by the Municipal Council, for whose arrest on a charge of embezzlement a warrant has just been issued.
Cardwell, who is alleged to have embezzled $3,000, the amount of a shortage discovered in_ his books, left Shanghai by the N. Y. 'K.S. Nikko Maru. "It was known that he would land in Japan, so a telegram was forwarded to the authorities to detain him. He was accordingly taken into custody by the Japanese port authorities at Yokohama, but, on the intervention of the U. 8. Consul there, was deported thence America.
Whether he will be further detained on the warrant issued by the local District Attorney's office is doubtful. It is thought that the authorities in Seattle, where Cardwell is expected to land, will be unable to take action until a decision is reached in the Seattle U. S. District Court with reference to the Rose affair. Proceedings to secure the extradition of Rose on the charge of embezzlement which was filed against him nearly three years ago in the U. S. Court for China, were originally begun by Mr. L. G. Husar, who was formerly Chief Deputy Prosecutor at Seattle. translate the meaning of the section of above telegram that '"'on the other hand a section of the Chinese are apprehensive of a sudden rise in the price of salt,' stating that he did not think the Chinese would be affected in any way.
The rate of duty on salt to be exported is lower than the local taxes, hence there was no end to the smuggling in the interior, he said. About half of the salt revenue in China is lost ° because some 50 per cent, of the salt is smuggled. The present revenue of about $100,000,000, thought our informant, could be doubled if there were proper supervision.
Asked what he meant, our informant stated that at present Salt smuggling was going on under the very eyes of the salt police. The salt police, an inefficient band, are recommended by. their various Tuchuns. They cannot be controlled and they do anything they like. They neglect orders from the Yenwuchu (Salt Central Administration) and not infrequently they themselves engage. in smuggling.
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