San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-07
SIGN PEACE TREATY,
ELEVEN CONVENTIONS,
ANDTHREE PROTOCOLS
Final Session of Central
American Washington Con-
ference a Busy One.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. IA treaty
of peace and amity. eleven conventions
and three protocols were signed today
at the final plenary session of the Cen.
trail American conference in the Hall of
the Americas at the Pan-American
Union. Secretary Of State Hughes con-
graduated the plenipotentiaries OF
Guatemala, FL Salvador. Honduras
Nicaragua and Costa Rica on the
success of the negotiations and reiter-
ated the friendship of the United States
for those nations.
The heads of the five delegations
Senior Don Francisco Sanchez LaTour
of Guatemala, Senior Doctor Don Fran.
cisco MARTINEZ Suarez of FL Salvador
Senior Doctor Don Alberto Ucles of Hon.
duras, Senior General Don Emiliano
Chamorro of Nicaragua, and Senior
Licenciado Don Alfredo Gonzales
Flores of Costa Rica, expressed conf.
dence that the agreements reached
would bring the desired results and
voiced gratitude TO the American gov
eminent for its efforts and hospitality.
After the formal signing of the
treaty, conventions and protocols, Sec
rotary Hughes announced the decision
of Guatemala and Honduras to submit
their boundary dispute to President
Harding for arbitration. This decision
was described by Senior LaTour as
"the first practical result of the con-
ference" DR.. Ucles regretted that. as
a proper ending to this conference there
was not sufficient time in its sessions
or during the period Of it's meeting. to
settle in a definite manner the Ques.
tons involving international boundaries
which Honduras has respectively with
Guatemala and Nicaragua" but eX-
pressed qualification over the agree.
ment for arbitration Of the dispute with
Guatemala.
Costa Rica RETAINED from signing the
convention establishing, with certain
respects, free trade between the sigma
tory powers. The American delegation
Joined the other five in signing only one
of the conventions, that establishing in
ternational commissions of inquiry, and
protocol declaring thefull sympathy
of the United States with the conven.
ton entered into by the other five gov.
ernments for the establishment of an
international Central American tribunal
and its willingness to designate fifteen
American citizens for service on the
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with its terms.
The other conventions signed by the
five delegations dealt with the unifiCa
ton of protective laws for workmen and
laborers, the practice of the liberal pro,
fessions. the preparation of projects Of
electoral legislation. establishment OF
stations for agricultural experiments
and animal industries, reciprocal ex'
change of Central American students
extradition. establishment of perman
ent Central American commissions and
limitation Of ornaments. The protocols
not participated in by the United States
fixed the Spanish text Of the agree
ments as the only authoritative text
and declared that pleadings in the in
ternational Central American tribunal
set up by one of the conventions, could
be effected only directly without re
course to the international offices also
established. '
The treaty Of peace and yamity signed
by the five powers contains the pro
visions Of the similar treaty negotiated
here in 1907. and additional provisions
designed TO promote friendly relations