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Show WARSHIP FOR REYES ! Colombian Envoy Can Go Home in State Should He So . Desire. Washington, Dec. 16. Brigadier General Gen-eral George E. Elliott, commandant of the marine corps, may be ordered to the isthmus to make a reconnaissance of the country and, should the situation derrand, to assume command of the marine forces there. The matter ha not yet been decided,- but it was said be a high official of the navy department depart-ment today that the subject Avas receiving re-ceiving serious consideration. If General Gen-eral Elliott is ordered to the isthmus, he will probably go south on the Dixii, Avhich will sail from Colon tomorrow for Philadelphia to bring back the rev battalion of marines. Avhich is to b. known as the Caribbean sea division. The decision to send . General Elliott will depend largely upon whether he can be spared here at this time. It Avas fiid at the navy department that the question of placing a warship at the disposal of General Rafael Reyes, the Columbian special envoy, to convey him home when he shall have completed his mission, had not yet been taken up by the state or navy departments. depart-ments. The navy department is prepared pre-pared to respond promptly in case the state department decides to offer General Gen-eral Reyes this courtesy. The -senate, in executive session today, to-day, made public the eom-ention between be-tween the United States and the republic repub-lic of Panama for the construction of a canal across the isthmus, which was signed on Noa-. 18. Senntwr Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, also laid before the senate the favorable report on the American-Chinese American-Chinese commercial treaty. |