The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-10-05

with their respective governments or nave
occupied high official positions in the past.
Senior Matias Romero, who, with DR.. j. N,
Navarro, will represent the Mexican govern
ment, is perhaps better known in this coun'
try than any of his colleagues. He is at pres
mt the Mexican minister at Washington.
Senior Jeronimo Lelaya, representing Hon
iuras, and Felix C. G. Zegarra, representing
Peru, are comparatively new men in their
relations with the United States.
Senior Alexandra Urbaneja, also named by
Venezuela as delegate is not over so years
of age. His profession is the law, and in 1t
he has already made his mark. He resides
at Caracas, and there edits La Union DEM
ocratica, the organ of the Young Mems Polit-
ical society, of which he is president.
Senior Climaco Calderon is the Colombian
consul general at New York, and has held
that position for five years past. When he
was appointed he was 80 years old.
DIR. Juan Francisco Velarde, who will rep
resent Bolivia, is the present envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary OF his
country at Washington.
Councillor Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, of
the Brazilian delegation, is man of about
20 years of age. He was the prime minister
of his government, was member OF the ar
filtration court which Brazil sent to Chill,
and has held various other important posi-
tons.
Senior Vincente G.. Quesada, who is one OF
the three delegates from the Argentine Re
public, is the minister OF that country at
Washington. He is about SIS years old, and
prior to his appointment as minister, some
five years ago had filled several high posi-
tions at home He has just returned from
visit to Buenos Ayres.
Charles r. Flint, Of New York, who is one
of the ten delegates on behalf of the United
States, is peculiarly qualified for the position
He was born in Thomaston, Me-, in 1850, and
early in his youth entered the Spanish
American trade, becoming a principal in his
fathers house on attaining his majority. In
1874 he made tour of South America, and
again in 1876 visited the west coast of that
country. In 1884 he made trip to the east
coast of South America. He was appointed
CHILEAN consul at New York in 1877, and dur
ing the absence of the Gillian minister
attended to the business Of the legation. For
several years he was the Nicaraguan consul
at New York, and in the absence of the min
lister negotiated in behalf Of Nicaragua,
with the concessonaries of the Nicaragua
canal.
Mr. Flint is member Of the firm of Flint
& Co., which carries on general merchan-
disc business and also conducts the extensive
ship building business established by his father
at Bath, Me, in 1910. He is director Of the
National Bank of the Republic, vice presi-
dent of the United States Electric Light
company, director of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroad, and is identified with many
other large corporations. To his comprehen-
sive business knowledge and thorough &C.
auaintance with South America and South
American trade, Mr.. Flint adds the mastery
of the Spanish language
Cornelius n. Bliss, the other New York
delegate, is one of the most prominent mer-
chants of the metropolis. He is on the shady
side of fifty, has for years been the senior
member of Bliss, Fabyan e. Co., the whole
sale dry goods merchants, and hasa thorough
acquaintance with that business and its adj
juncts. Mr.. Bliss is director and official
of dozens of large corporations, and up to n
| recent date was chairman Of the New York
state Republican committee.
John B. Henderson, of Missouri, is one Of
the ablest lawyers in the west, and is particu-
| larly qualified to frame resolutions or draft
laws for the congress- He was born near Dan
vile, Va, in 1926, but after his admission to
the bar removed to Missouri, where he has
since lived At the age Of 30 he was sent to
the state legislature, and in 1857 framed the
Missouri banking and railroad laws In 1856
| and 1850 he was presidential eector, and In