Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-11

counsel. No original paIisrs are permitted
to be taken from the department. TrescCtt
was investigating the Chill Peruvian mat
ter. and my impression is that he called for
them. No persons other than those known
to be in the employment OF the department
are allowed in the index department.
1t is my impression that Trescott
of letters on the CAih-Peruvian af-
fair. He had room ip the department,
but don't know of my own knowledge that
he held any official position in the depart
ment. He appeared to act in confident al
relations with the secretary. presumed the
letters were found at that linen August
and it is my impression that they will be
found now at Trescoti's house in this city. 1
DO not believe they have been distracted
from the department TO be suppressed or de-
stroyed. 1t is not an unususll thing for
papers to be lost for months and subsequently,
found in the department, in other words,
they are misplaced for the time being.
One time sorle papers relating to the
fishery question could not be found for some
time, and Trescott subsequently found them
with other papers at his house. His (St.
Clair's) ground for thinking the missing pa
pers may be in Trescott's possession, or at
his house, is that from the nature of Tres
cotts relations to the department in this
Chill Peruvian matter he would naturally
examine these papers.
John Newton, In the index bureau of the
state department, remembered indeIIpg let
ters of May 21st, May oath and june 4th
They were marked Private; return to Ship
herd" Trescott never called on witness for
any papers; never saw Shipherd at the de-
partment; never heard of his having been
there.
Representative Belmont called attention
to the gravity of the subject under investi-
CATION, reading from the statutes as follows:
Every person who destroys, or attempts to
destroy, or with intent to steal or destroy,
takes and carries away any record, paper or
proceeding of a court of justice, fled or de-
posted with any clerk or officer of such
court, or any paper, or document, or record
filed or deposited in any public Office, or with
any judicial or public officer, shall, without
reference to the value of the record paper or
document, or proceeding SO taken, pay fine
of not more than $1,000 or suffer Imprisonment
at hard labor not more than three years, or
both" The examination of Shipherd is ex-
pected tomorrow.
Minor Mention.
The House Commerce Committee expect
to report the river and harbor bills by the
middle of this month.
Argument took place to-day in the Su-
preme Court in the suit of the heirs of
General Lee to recover from the government
the Arlington estate.
The President has authorized the use of
troops TO aid the governor Of Nebraska to
suppress the disturbances at Omaha. Orders
were sent TO General Sheridan.
The state department has been informed
of the death of the Rev. Henry Highland
Garnett, United States minister to Liberia,
at Monrovis, on the 18Th Of February.
Secretary Folger contain plates issuing,
next Tuesday, a call for bonds-coniinued
sixes-to the amount of $500 900, payable
in three parcels of about S5 100000 each,
the Sd, 10th and 18th of May.
Secretary Hunt has telegrap phed Lieutenant
Danenhower, at Irkoutsk, to allow Noros,
one OF the survivors of the Jeannette, to ac-
company the New York Herald CORES pondent
to the mouth of the Lena river
The House Committee on War Claims
have decided to recommend that the claim of
the heir of Sterling T. Au stin for 100000
for cotton and property destroyed in Louisi-
ana during the war, be referred to the Court
of Claims.
The secretary of the treasury directed
transfer from the Phil ladelphia mint to the
treasury here of 1000, 900 Of gold coin, to
relieve the vaults, now crowded TO their ut
most capacity. The secretary also directed
the transfer OF So 435 ,0S2 in gold bullion
from the assay Office at New York TO the
mint at Philadelphia.