211.71/41
President Coolidge to the Senate of the United States
To the Senate: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification, I transmit herewith an extradition Treaty between the United States and Rumania, signed at Bucharest on July 23, 1924,76 and, for confirmation by the Senate, the note dated the same day by which the American Minister at Bucharest gives assurance on the part of the United States that the death penalty will not be enforced against criminals delivered by Rumania to the United States for any of the crimes enumerated in the Treaty, and that such assurance is, in effect, to form part of the Treaty and will be so mentioned in the ratifications of the Treaty.
The attention of the Senate is invited to the accompanying report of the Secretary of State,77 in which it is explained that precedents [Page 673] for this course are found in the cases of the Extradition Treaty between the United States and Portugal in 1908, and the Extradition Treaty between the United States and Costa Rica in 1922, in each of which similar assurance was given and was confirmed by the Senate.