Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
REYES IS AT COLON
Colombian Envoy on Board
Scotia Causes Excitement.
AMERICAN MARINES AGAIN LANDED
Converted Cruiser MayHOwer Ar
rived at Colon Having Admiral
Coghlun on Board ana steam
ed to Meet the Scotia.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-A dispatch
| from Bocota says that Generals Reyes,
Holguin and Ospina have left for Pan
anna on Il diplomatic mission, with full
power to offer the isthmians Il salts
factory treaty and such other conces-
sions as may bring the isthmus back to
the Colombian union.
Minister Beaupre, ut Bogota, has ca
blcd the state department for permits
sion TO leave that capital. lie has pre-
sented President R~oosevelt's note of
warning to Colombia and says there is
much i'll feeling against Americans at
Bogota and grave danger Of another
revolution to overthrow President Mar
roQuin.
A cablcgram from Colon says that
the United States converted cruiser
Mayhower, having on board Admiral
Coghlan and Minister Gudger, has ar
rived ut that port.
The overdue German steamer Scotia
arrived at Colon ut shutdown fly
ing the Colombian flag. Her agents
signslcd the Scotia to come alongside
her wharf, but she is now anchored Il
mile and Il half from the harbor.
Cutters from the United States aux
Hilary cruiser Dixie are plying to and
from the Scotia, which has no commu-
nication with the shore.
There is great excitement, as it is
stated that General Reyes and his staff
are aboard the vessel. The United
States converted cruiser Nlayflowcr left
her anchorage and steamed to meet the
Scotia.
The moment the Scotia anchored
twenty marines from the Dixie were
landed at Colon.
President Marroquin's statement as
conveyed in Il cablegram to General
Plaza, president of Ecuador, that Cen
erals Reyes, Caballeros, OSpina and
| Holguin are now marching on the 18TH
mus to suppress the isthmian traitors
has set the entire population of the
isthmus laughing. Protected by the
impcnctrability of the land and the
many leagues of coast line separating
the isthmus from Colombia and conf,
dent that the United States intends to
prevent the landing of Colombian sol
diers from the sea, the isthmians feel
that their security IS absolute.
The loss of the isthmian territory is
of course a tragedy for Colombia. The
government at Bog0ta is probably ig-
norant of the attitude taken by the
government of the United States, and
in Il frenzy 'to save its face, to appenSe
an angry and disappointed populace
AN. to satisfy tAG pullic- demand for
some appearance of activity and an at
tempt to save the honor and the terri
torial integrity of Colombia the gov
crnmcnt is no doubt promising and
threatening to send forces to the coast
and to take other aggressive steps
The realization by the Colombian gov
eminent of the impOSsibility of send
ing troops 10 the isthmus would not
necessarily deter it from taking these
steps, which, as already stated, are in
tended merely to satisfy the people.
Well informed people on the isthmus
believe that the Colombian government
is going through all these forms Of or
ganiZing expeditions not merely for the
foregoing reasons, but owing to the ne
ccssity of forestalling or of weakening
the threatened revolutionary outbreak
in BogOta.
The growing feeling against Presi-
dent Marroquin is believed to be due to
the fact that he did not show sufficient
determination to effect the ratification
of the canal treaty, which would have
saved the isthmus to Colombia, and be-
cause he appointed General Obaldia
governor of the department of Panama
after Obaldia had declared that he
would remain a Colombian if the treaty
were ratified, but that otherwise he
would only be Il Panamanlan. General
Obaldia was born in Chiriqui, in the
state of Panama.