The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-18
NOTED NAMES
cOnneetea with tns pSTWvIa" Company
Withheld by the state Department.

withheId by the state Department.
WASHINGTON. February lin response
to the resolution recently adopted by the
House on motion Of. Representative Del.
mont, Of New York, the President to-day
transmitted to the House OF Representa-,
tivcs letter from the Secretary OF State,
accompanied by mass Of doeumgpts con.
corning the correspondence in regard to
the Peruvian Company. The full text Of
the Secretary's letter is as follows
"The Secretary Of State, to whom WIS re-
terred the resolution OF the House Of Rep.
resentatives OF the 9Th inst, requesting the
President in further compliance with the
resolution Of the House OF the eth uitimo,
to furnish this House with complete
transcript Of the letters OF J. Il. Shepherd,
Esq, OF New York, dated June I'd, August
2Slh, September 2Slh aud November 10Th,
1881, and Of the replies there now in the
files OF the Department Of Slate also the
copies Of any letters already communicated
from which the names OF persons and firms
have been omitted, and that the President
be requested to inform this House what
measures have been taken to recover the
letters declared to be missing from the files
of the Department, has the honor to report
to the President us follows:
Fist-That complete transcripts OF the
letters referred to in the resolution by
names and dates, and Of other letter.
already communicated, from which names
OF persons and firms have been omitted
nI q
list OF names.
Second-That the only reply on file ir
this, department to said letters Of j. X
Shepherd is dated December II, 1851, and
is herewith returned.
Third-T'he measures taken TO recover
letters declared to DO missing fromthe file!
OF the department, where Carefal search il
the files and archives OF the department
and the request for similar searches OF al
persons connected or formerly connected
with the department into whose possession
said letters might have come in the courst
Of business, it is believed in all such Casei
the searches proved to DO fruitless. The
search in the department, rs nus already
been reported, was equally fruitieSs.
Respectfully submitted,
FnEDEmcK 7. FKELtSGnrYsEN.
The President in letter from Shepherd
10 Minister Hubert, dated New York,
June 9, 1880, Shepherd says: Among the
representative gentlemen with whom ]
have or shall soon be in confidential nego.
tiation in the premises, Iname such as these
L. D. Morgan, W. L. Dodge, Hugh Nc
CulIoch, Noryin Green, W. Il. Garrison
A. Belmont, S. B. Chittendeu, John Hay
Amasa Stone, Wm. II. Vanderbilt, JohI
Sherman, Eugene Hale, Murat Hnlstead
Whitelaw Reid. Fisk & Hatch, Samuc
Sloan, Marshal Jewell II. l.. Dawes, S, S
Babcock, John A. Stewart, Jay Cooke
U S. Grant, A. A. Low, J. II. Wade, II
Il. Payne, Horace White, David Dows & Co.
Jas Medill, II. B. Hyde, a. S. Hewitt, W
L. Scott, J. y. Cameron, Howard Crosby
Eiobson, HurtAde < Co., Sidney Dillon
Morton, Bliss & Co, II. B. CIaiiin, A.
Barnes, Henry Hilton, ]. and W. Selig
man 4 Co., W. a. Astor, Horace r. Cas-
well, NJ. ]. Jessup & Co., Drexel, Morgan
& Co."
Secretary Belmont's resolution, in re
sponsc to which correspondence was sen
to the House to-day, was offered TO tn
House for THO purpose Of disclosing thI
names OF parties supposed to be intcrestc'
in the Peruvian Company, which was
withheld by the State Department whel
the correspondence Was sent 10 the Senat
some days ago.