Peking Expects Recognition To-day.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 2, 1913:
State Department Reticent as to Proposed Acknowledgment of Republic of China.
COMPLIES WITH CONDITIONS
Constitutional Assembly Has Organized as Required by This Government — Luncheon for Legation Staff.
    PEKING, May 1.— The United States will recognize the Republic of China tomorrow. The Chinese Government will testify its appreciation by an elaborate reception and luncheon to the legation staff at the Winter Palace

Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, May 1.— State Department officials were not prepared to-night to discuss the announcement from Peking that the United States would recognize the new Chinese republic tomorrow. They explained that the formal recognition of the republic would be the automatic result of arrangements carefully made weeks ago by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The plan of recognition was simply that Edward T. Williams. Secretary of the American Legation at Peking and Charge d'Affaires, was to represent to the provisional Government of China that the United States would recognize the republic when certain conditions had been met.
    Among these conditions was the organization of the Constitutional Assembly by the election of its presiding officers. Some days ago the Senate chose its President. To-day Mr. Williams advised the State Department that the lower house had selected its presiding officer. There has been consideration of the idea of including as a condition the election by the Parliament of the Provisional President of the republic. But that action was not made an indispensable condition precedent to recognition.
    The act of recognition will be essentially simple, but State Department officials would not speak of the details, nor state whether or not a communication from President Wilson would be presented to the houses of the Chinese Parliament.