Capital Honors Pacifists.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 13, 1913:
Delegates Received by Wilson, Bryan, and Marshall — Banquet at Night
    WASHINGTON, May 11.— The international peace delegates who are perfecting plans for the celebration in December, 1914, of the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Ghent, came to Washington to-day and called upon President Wilson, Secretary Bryan, and other officers of the Government. To-night the delegates attended a banquet at which speeches were made by leaders in the peace movement.
    The delegates called upon Secretary Bryan immediately after their arrival and were received by him in the State Department offices. Mr. Bryan told them that in the long-continued peace between the United States and Great Britain there was a lesson for all nations, and this theme he elaborated later in his address at the banquet. Lord Weardale, head of the British legation, made a brief response on behalf of the visitors.
    When the party arrived at the Capitol the House of Representatives was about to convene, but the delegates were received by Speaker Clark in his office. He had them escorted to the House gallery, where they remained until the brief session ended. A visit to the Congressional Library occupied a brief interval before a visit to the Vice President was made.
    Mr. Marshall's address to his callers apparently made a deep impression upon the delegates. He said he was convinced that practically all differences between nations might be settled by submission to the arbitrament of fair-minded men. Again Lord Weardale replied for the assembled delegates.
    A representative gathering of men prominent in official life in the Capital attended the banquet given to-night for the peace delegates by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The speakers were Senator Elihu Root, President of the Carnegie Endowment; Secretary Bryan, Ambassador Spring-Rice, Lord Weardale, Charles Reid of Australia, Charles A. McGrath, member of the Canadian Parliament; Eugene H. Outerbridge of Newfoundland, C. de Bruyne of the Municipality of Ghent, and Andrew Carnegie.
    To-morrow the delegates will be the breakfast guests of John A. Stuart, Chairman of the Executive Committee at the Army and Navy Club. Those present will include Senators from States along the Canadian border and members of the Senate and House Committees on Foreign Affairs. At noon the peace delegates will depart for Philadelphia, and a tour through the country as far west as Chicago.