Balkan Envoys Snub Us.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 6, 1913:
Decline to Insert in Peace Treaty the Stipulation We Proposed.
    BUCHAREST, Aug:. 5.— At the Balkan peace conference to-day M. Majoresco, Premier of Rumania and President of the conference, read a note from the United States Government expressing a desire to see inserted in the treaty of Bucharest a stipulation securing civil and religious liberty to the populations inhabiting territory which may be ceded or annexed.
    M. Majoresco remarked that such liberty was the law in every country participating in the peace conference.
    All the heads of the various delegations agreed that it would be superfluous to think of inserting such a special clause in the treaty.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— The intention of the Government to make representations to the Balkan peace delegates had been so carefully guarded that it was not generally known even in official circles to-day that a note had been dispatched to Bucharest.
    It is known, however, that the Administration has been receiving vigorous protests from Jews all over the United States against the treatment of persons of their religion in Rumania. The State Department was advised that Rumanian Jews were being deprived of the civil rights guaranteed to them under the treaty of Berlin.
    This, it is said, influenced the Administration to ask that a guarantee of religious liberty be included in the proposed treaty of Bucharest.