The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-22
|ENVOYS SIGN THE ARTICLES Armies Soon to Be Dis armed. DEPARTMENT IS NOTIFIED Future Complaints Go to Roosevelt and Diaz.
 Republics of Costa Rica and Nicarssss
 arr Recognized .. con.tructavs
 Parties to Conference Aboard the sfarbIeheaa.
DEPARTMENT IS NOTIFIED

Washington, July 21.--American Mfn-s isters Merry and Combs today advised the State Department that Honduras, Guatemala and Salvador had signed the following articles of peace:
 Article i--Peace established: with drawal of armies within three days; disarmament in eight days.
 Article 2--Exchange of prisoners. the release of political prisoners; gene erai amnesty recommended.
 Article 3--vigilance of emigradoz in order to prevent abuse of asylum.
 Article 4--To negotiate treaty Of friendship. commarce and navigation
 Article 5--Any diffiouities over the treaty and all future concert com plaints between the three countries shall be submitted to arbitration by the President of the United States and the President of Mexico.
 Article s--This treaty made vita tho moral sanction of the mediating nA- ference namely. Costa Rica and NIo~ araGua.
 Meeting Place Not Named.
 Tho State department mas no advfcea as to just when and whese the three Central American nations will hold their meeting 10 negotiate . formal treaty of friendship in accordancs WlAA hA9 4NtAgANH MHIG44 ARQAA- &FStEtt- CT has Mfr Munoz the Guatemaian mns~ ister. any advices on this subject fur. ther than the more statement in the article that the conference shall has held within two months.
 It Is believed by dtpiomatistB that these negotiations may be conducted fin Mexico or the United States
 The recognition In the articles ek Costa Rica and Nicaragua as eonetruc~ tive parties to the peace conference i8 regarded by State Department officials as being very significant. in that it' really makes all five Central American governments parties to the peace ne- gotiations and will prevent any eom- plaints which these governments might offer as to the terms had they not been recognized by the conferences
 The State Department has not had any advines which indicate positively that Honduras was represented in tha conference by it's own conferees but ik is assumed that such was the case.
 The closing chapter Of the peace Fie~ gotiations was marked by the exchange of congratulations between the parkirs ipants in the efforts 10 terminafe tize dangerous state of affairs Ia Central America. The plenipotentiaries then* selves sent cable messages to President Roosevelt and 70 President Dia2 Qf Mexico as well as to their home gov ernmentS ana frebfueuk AuosSFttA anu President pIax returned graceful ae@ Acknowledgements of these tributes ana then exchanged personal messages of congratuiation.
 The underlying expressing was that the Marblehead peace pact would pc historical in Central America and tt certainly would go far to prevent any hostile collision between the small sise ter republics for many years to coma constituting. as 1t does. warning to each that the great northern republics have a very strong and selfish inter- est in the maintenance os peace at their doors. The conference actually reached it's conclusions much earlier than was expected. however. it beinE supposed that the most that could be accomplished at the first meeting would be the submission of proposi- tions by each side that would have tp be referred to the home government of the plenipotentiaries for considera- ton and reconciliation.
 The complete agreement was very gratifying to the officials here. partie. ularly in view of the happy effect 1t ia likely to have on the Rio conference just beginning.