The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CHILI-PERUVIAN AFFAIRS.
more Letters Found by the
state Department.

| Washington, 16.-The secretary of
stale reports to Congress that he has
found letter relating to tbeIPernvian
Chilian matter from Horace N. Fishar
TO Seward. November 9TH, '7S. As re-
lating to the same subject the secretary
| transmits copy Of a letter ION the Sth
inst. from Horace II. Fisher, with which
ne sent hlther copies of two of the pa
pers heretofore reported as missing.
namely his letters Of July 18th and 18th
| '79, reporting the course of events on the
racine Coast. 1t will be observed that
Fisher is net able t. reproduce mis- letter
of November 70. having retained no
copy thereof But the original letter
having been found, as explained above
the series Of Fishers letters, is now COM
piete. The secretary Of state also trans
mlts, as coming apparently within the
| period OF the Senate's IesOl ton, s. per-
sonal note Of the Gillian minister Mar
tlnez, to the lAle assistent secretary of
state, dated November %, 81. This
paper seems TO have beef overlooked by
The clerks who collected The correspoA-
dence previously submitted. Ii is now
laid before the President for transmits
sion TO the Senate in order that the res
ponse by the department of state, to the
resolution of December l3, may be as
complete as possible.
Renewed and exhaustive eXAminati on OF
the files has failed to show that any other
pertinent papers had been reserved prior
to the date of the last transmission, jan
uary Oath, or 10 discover any missing
papers, save the letter Of Fisher OF No
vem Der 9TH, 1879 Fishers first letter to
Mr.. Seward, dated off GuAqui, July
18th, 1879, relates to the shipment from
New York of torpedo boat for the Per-
uVian navy, inyoiced "a launch, :" for thu
Gusno Company at Callao. Fishers
second com munIcation is merely q de-
tailed account of the situation as he
found it .pon arriving at Guauuil,
Fishers letter dated Liqus, Chilli, No.
VEN Der 9TH, and addressed to Seward,
just shown me dispatch Of Senior Santa
This dispatch confirms officially the sue
Possazlinian, Peru, aad the operations
old general, A. Me D. McCook, at army
headquarters, explaining my views and
making some important suggestions. l
Garfield, and then, if they both approved
the suggestion, to present the same to his
friends, the President and General Sher-
you show General McCook this letter
and ask him, he will undoubtedly show
you mine. The views there given are
confirmed even more strongly, and had
I time before the mail closes, I would
O nF 1,A
ton. In my judgment the crisis of war
is close at hand, and the opportunity
alluded to in my letter to General
McCook should be carefully considered,
Martinez, in his letter to Hill. under
ton, D. O., November 2Sd, 1881, says:
forgot, yesterday, to tell you what one
Of my friends in New York had commu-
nicsted to me He tells me Mr.. Adams,
minister of the United States to Bolivia,
had given out that he carried instruc-
tons OF great severity against Chilli. and
that he hated that country. He added,
in his opinion, Chill should not ask for
any other territorial annex alton in the
desert than SIS far az the 230, and that i:
was necessary 20 have guano and salt
petre worked by an American company.
tell what they have told M. bull al
ways find in the information that reaches
me the spectre Of the Peruvian COM
psny."
Washington, 17.-Minister Morton. in
reply to the announcement that the
House committee on foreign affairs had
the Shipherd letters under investigation.
has communicated with the secretary of
state what he has to say on the subject,
and The latter, to-day. transmitted the
following communication to the COM
mi.tee: