The age-herald., 1901-10-27
PAN-AMER|CANS
 MINED AND D|NED Discuss AdvlsabiIity of Admit ting Press to Proceedings GEN. REYES PRAISES SPAIN Madame Dlaz, Wife of the Mexican President, Receives the Ladies
 of the American Del
 egatlon.
 

Mexico City, October 20.-This morning the members of the Mexican delegation to the Pan-American Congress met in- formally their foreign colleagues to re- ceive suggestions as to the amendments to the proposed regulations of conference, especially to chapter 8, with respect to the formalities of the sessions, an amend ment that has very strong support. It Is one in favor of throwing open the ses- sions to the representatives of the press, instead of their being secret,
 This evening the delegates attended a reception given by Minister of Foreign Relations Mariscal and Mrs. Mariscal in the department of foreign relations The best of Mexican society was also present. Mrs. Mariscal, herself a Washington lady, did the honors charmingly. Light refreshments were provided
 No end of talk is heard today about a speech of General Rafael Reyes. delegate from Colombia, at a banquet given by the City Council of Mexico. in honor of the delegates to the Pan-American confer ence. General Reyes was responding to the toast of the delegates and was speaking for those from the United States, as well as the Spanish-Ameri- cans. In this capacity he paid a warm tribute to Spain, speaking in part as follows:
 Pays Tribute to Spain.
 The royal, and at the same time, kind and sincere welcome extended by Mexico to the nations of the continent, discoy- cred by Columbus. represented her by ourselves, is an eloquent proof that the isolation in which we have lived hitherto fha of ofPa proper to the children of a common mother, Spain, who gave to us her lan- guage, her religion, her blood and her traditions, and who now, tired with her past glories, will feel that we, her de- scendants. are not ungrateful and that on the occasion of our first meeting in this hospitable land, side by side with the representatives of the great nation republics and those of Brazil and Hayti, send an enthusiastic greeting to iier as well as to Portugal, the colonizer cf Brazil and discoverer Of the Iadies and southern shores of Africa. In this greet ing am sure we shall pe willingly joined by the delegates of the great northern republic. where everything that Is great and noble receives gener~.ts welcome, and because of the programme of that rcpib lie is progress. civilization and justice"
 Spanish Minister Responds. The Marquis de Prat, Spain's minister. arose and thanked General Reyes. It has been currently reported that the mission of the Marquis was specially to watch the l Pan-American conference.
 | Several of the South American delegates | to the Pan-American Congress have made | arrangements with the family of the late Ambassador Romero to proceed tomor- row to the cemetery where he is buried. near this city, and deposit flowers on his grave as a tribute to their esteem for the late Ambassador of Mexico at Wash ington.
 This afternoon by appointm ent Madama Diaz, wife of the President, received the ladies of the American delegation, viz: Mrs Davis, wife of ex-Senator Davis, and her daughter, Mrs. Brown Mrs. Hill, mother-in-law of volney W. Foster; Miss Eva Foster Mrs. C. M. Pepper, Mrs. Williams, wife of secretary of the dele gation Mrs. Fox, wife of the acting di- rector of the bureau of American repub- lies, and Miss Fox.