Wichita eagle., 1889-10-27
DAyIS.
HENDERSON.
STCDEBAKER.
Dill "a
PRESCOTT.

Most Of the South American representa-
tives are either now prominently identified
with their respective governments or have
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
ent the Mexican minister at Washington.
Senior Jeronimo Lelaya, representing Hon
duras, 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 net over 30 years
Of age. His profession is the law. and in it
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 CGmaco 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
Dr. 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 a man of about
60 years of age. He was the prime minister
of his government, was a member of the ar
bitration 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 IS years old, and
prior to his appointment as minister, some
five years ago, had filed several high posi-
tons at home. He has just returned from a
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 principal in his
fathers house on attaining his majority. In
1874 he made tour of South America, and
again in 1875 visited the west coast of that
country. In 1884 he made a trip to the east
coast of South America He was appointed
Gillian 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
ut New York, and in the absence of the min
lister negotiated, in behalf of Nicaragua,
with the concessionaries Of the Nicaragua
canal.
Mr.. Flint is member OF the firm of Flint
q Co., which carries on a general merchan-
disc business and also conducts the extensive
ship building business esta blished 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
quaintance 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 & 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 a
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 isparticu-
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 80 he was sent to
the state legislature, and in 1857 framed the
Missouri banking and railroad laws. In 1856
and 1850 he was presidential elector, and in