Show COLOM BIAS PRESIDENT Washington Pest Poet I was in Venezuela and Colombia to n said eald J C Howell HoweM of New York at atthe ate atthe the e Riggs house President Rey of Colombia had been power a coup of o years yean and when I was waa in Bogota and already the country was fast fait getting straightened out of at the revolutionary r kinks that he be found foJ foh td d It in when he seised the presidency pre In 1 Reyes U Is an extraordinary man There is not a R better executive or N an fi abler statesman or soldier in the w hoi of South America The Th Colombians Colombiana aft are area afta afta a contentious Content ua lot tot and It required th Ui t severest seere t measures en the part of M O Reyes neye when he took the presidency to establish safety alet and order in the re republic republic republic public I think be will return from Paris Parts a SA as from w what hat I know of 0 the mad maa it Is I incomprehensible to me that ti he would ever run away way a from anything It lt Is IB not generally genel known in th country that Colombia is almost almot at ar large as the tha whole of our middle wet West welt It ia la an Immense and is full tit if limitless opportunities of ot all kinds As A an illustration of or what kind kin nf or orman a aman aman man Reyes Is f when I was in Bogota Bo ta ti n tilt lt 1667 7 he M had the whole Colombian arm ami generals general and privates private working ng on nn a ai kinds of public pubU Improvement ta especially roads rends throughout the country |