The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-11

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 Geronimo Lelaya, representing Hon.
duraS, and Felix c. {. Zegarra, representing
Peru, are comparatively new men in their
relations with the United States.
Senior Alexandra Urbaneja, also named by
Venezuela rs a delegate, is not over so years
of age. His profession is the law, and in il
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 50 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
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/ of his government, was member of the ar
bitratiOu court which Brazil sent TO Chilli,
and has held various other important posi-
tons
| Senior Vincente c. 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 Ia his appointment as minister, some
! five Years ago, had filed several high posi-
/ tions at home He has just returned from a
/ visit 10 BucnoS Ayres.
Charles 4. 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 a tour of South America, and
again in 1876 visited the west coast of that
country. In 1881 he made a trip TO the east
coast of South America. He was appointed
/ Chllian 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 CouceSSionaries of the Nicaragua
canal
Mr.. Flint i member of the firm of Flint
& Co, which carries on a general merchan-
disc business and also conducts the extensive
ship building business established by his father
at Bath, Ne, in 1910. He isl director of the
National Bank of the Republic vice presi-
dent of the United States Electric Light
company, a director of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroad, and is identified with many
other large corporations. To his comprehen.
sive business knowledge AMI thorough ac-
American trade, Mr.. Flint adds the mastery
OF the Spanish language
Cornelius \. 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 ad-
juncts. Mr.. Bliss is a 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 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 so he was sent to
the state legislature, and in 1857 framed the
Missouri banking and railroad laws. In 1856
and 1860 he was presidential elector, and in