More Nations For Peace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 30, 1913:
Salvador and Costa Rica Accept Secretary Bryan's Plan.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 29.— Secretary Bryan has not forgotten his peace programme in the conferences over Mexico. He announced to-day with evident satisfaction that he had received messages from the Governments of Costa Rica and Salvador accepting the peace plan and expressing a willingness to enter into a special treaty with the United States along the lines of the stipulations made public by the Secretary of State several weeks ago.
    This treaty would provide for a waiting period of one year in case of a desire to go to war, so an international commission might investigate the basis of the contention between two nations and make a report. The accession of Costa Rica and Salvador swells the list of the "peaceables" to twenty-five out of the thirty-nine countries invited into the compact.
    Mexico was not invited, owing to the present relations between the United States and that country.
    Salvador was the first country to accept the proposal definitely on the basis of Secretary Bryan's amplification of the original statement of the proposal made by President Wilson.