The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-24
TRI- CENTRAL AMERICAN
 PEACE TREATY CLAUSES
PRINCIPAL CONDITIONS UNDER
 WHICH VAR CEASED.

Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala All
 Agree to Forget Past Differences
 Each Also Agrees to Concentrate
 Political Refugees Now in Their Re-
 spective Territories and to watch
 Their Conduct to Prevent Them Abus-
 ing Right of Asylum--Arbitratio
 Clause.
 San Salvador, Sunday July 22,-The conferences on board the United States cruiser Marblehead were conducted un- der the honorary presidency of William L. Merry, the American minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador; the American minister to Guatemala and Honduras, Leslie Combs, and the Mexican minister to Guatemala, Gam bou. After the exchange of credentials there was a long deliberation on the ob- ject of the conference and the terms of the treaty, and then the treaty was signed. The principal clauses are as follows:
 First-Salvador and Honduras return to state of peace with Guatemala, for getting past differences. Therefore they will concentrate their armies and dis arm them within eight days from the date of the signature of the treaty, leaving only the troops previously sta- toned in the various garrison towns and the flying columns required for po- lice service.
 Second-The contracting governments will reciprocally deliver up the prison CTS of war and take care gratuitously of the wounded in their respective ter ritories, who are unable to return to their homes. All political prisoners will also be immediately liberated, and each delegation will recommend to It's gov ernment the issuance of decree of general amnesty as soon as possible.
 Third-The high contracting parties agree to concentrate all the political refugees now in their respective terri tories, or who may hereafter enter theii respective territories, and likewise tc watch their conduct so as to prevent them from abusing the right of asylum In conspiring against the order anc tranquility of the country from which they emigrated.
 Fourth-Within two months from date of the signature of the treaty the con- traeting parties will sign a genera treaty of peace, friendship and com. merce, etc. The capital of Costa Rica is designated as the place for the fully authorized representatives of the three republics to meet. In the meantime ii is agreed that the international stipu' lations heretofore binding on the con tracting parties, especially those of th' second Pan-American conference, will remain in force.
 Fifth-If, as is not expected to be thu case. any of the contracting parties fai to comply with any point agreed upol in this treaty, or causes any divergence these will be submitted to the arbitra ton, appointed beforehand, of the pres idents of the United States and of Mex leo, the arbiters to whose decision an! new concrete difficulties between Qua temala. Salvador and Honduras will b. submitted.
 The present agreement is to remain under the guarantee of the loyalty o the interested governments and tn moral sanction of the mediating na tions.
 The ratification of the treaty may b verified by an exchange of communi cations at Guatemala City, San salva dor and Tegucigal no later than July S(