The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
TO PACIFY CENTRAL AMERICA
IMPORTANT MOVE or SALVADOR
AND GUATEMALA.

Agreement to Submit Future Disputes ia
Presidents OF the United States and
Mexico a. Arbitrator May he Adopted
by the Other Small Latin Republics.
WAsHNoroNi July 2i.-The State De-
partment has received q despatch from
United States Ministers Combs and Merry,
dated yesterday at San jose, Guatemala,
In which they give in full the peace terms
reached by the oonferees for Guatemala
Salvador and Honduras. Their despatch
follows:
Peace conference a success. Guate-
mala, Salvador and Honduras have agreed
to the following articles:
Article 1-Peace established; withdra wal
Of armies within three days, disarmament
within eight days.
Article 2-The exchange Of prisoners:
the release Of political prisoners; general
amnesty recommended.
Article S-Vigila nee OF emigrados In
order to prevent abuse OF asylum.
Article ITO negotiate treaty Of friend
ship, commerce and navigation within two
months
Article 5-Any difficulty over treaty
and all future complaints between the three
countries shall be submitted to the arbi-
tration Of the President OF the United States
and the President Of Mexico.
Article 8-This treaty made with the
moral sanction Of mediating nations and
others assisting at conference. namely
Costa RIGA and Nicaragua
Stato Dam rtp,apt officials IVA daohlv
gratifed over the result OF the negotiations,
which came to a successful issue much
earlier thar was expected. The success Of
the negotiations is attributed largely to the
influence OF Ministers Merry and Combs,
who exercised the good offices Of the United
States, and to the Mexican Minister to Cen
trail America.
The fact that Costa RIGA and Nicaragua
join in giving their moral support to the
| peace pact Ia received here with especial
qualification. 1t Is taken to mean that a
period Of tranquility throughout Central
America will result. At the outbreak OF
the trouble between Salvador and Guate-
mala the situation was such thatit vas feared
that all the Central American countries
would be brought into the conflict, az would
doubtless have been the case had not prompt
steps been taken by the Presidents of the
United States and Mexico to end the war.
Even in the short time during which the
fighting was actually in progress Honduras
was drawn into the difficulty and formed
an alliance with her neighbor, Salvador.
BY the terms OF the agreement to a confer
ence Honduras became a party to the nego-
t~iations, and the plan OF peace arranged
will include Honduras as well as Salvador
and Guatemala.
In the negotiations Costa Rioa was repre-
sented by United States Minister Merry,
who had obtained the consent OF the State
Department, upon request from the Costa
Ricap Minister in Washington, to represent
that country in extending its good Offices
and giving its moral support to a peace agree
ment. Mr.. Merry's position was, there
fore, strengthened, for he was able to say
that not only did the United States desire
that Salvador and Guatemala should reach
a peace agreement. but that their Latin
American neighbor. Costa Rica, also wished
to see that result achieved. The influence
OF Mexico ia also strong in both Salvador
and Guatemala.
The President was especially DESTROYS
that terms OF peace should be agreed to
as speedily as possibly because OF the effect
which such action would nav upon the
Pan-American conference at Rio Janeiro.
Had war between these two Central Ameri-
car countries been actually in progress at
the time Of the meeting Of the Congress 1t
is probable that It would nave materially
interfered with the settlement OF some
important questions which are certain to
come up Both Salvador and Guatemala
have representatives at the Rio gathering,
and II would have been extremity awkward,
II not impossible, for them to nave become
parties to certain agreements for arbitra-
ton and friendly intercourse while the
countries which they represent were actually
at war.
The fact that both countries agree here
after to submit their differences to the
arbitration OF the President of the United
States and the President OF Mexico is re-
garded as a gracious compliment to the
United States and Mexico In recognition
Of the services these two countries per
formed in establishing peace. 1t is ex-
pected that there will follow a general
movement among the Central American
countries to disarm and to submit what
ever grievances they may hereafter have
against one another to the arbitration
either OF this country or OF Mexico, both
oil which have sought to exercise a p~aternal
influence over the little republics Of Central
America.
The successful outcome of the negotia-
lions is also likely to bring about a termina-
ton Of. the internal troubles Of Guatemala
and put an end to the revolution which was
to a large extent responsible for the trou-
BILE between Salvador and Guatemala, the
revolutionists having used Salvador as q
base for carrying on their operations to
overthrow the Cabrera Government.
The Marblehead last night landed the
Guatemalan commissioner at San joss
and Immediately sailed for Acajutla,
Salvador. where Minister Merry and the
~Sslvadoran ENJOYS will disembark.
IN INCL T. ny ROnSEVFIT