The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-18
TaAT PERUVIAN seHEnE.

the resolution recently adopted by tht
House on motion of Representative Bel
mont, of New York, the President to-tlay
transmitted to the House of Represents
tives letter from the Secretary of State
accompanied by a mass of documents con
cerning the correspondence in regard tt
! the Peruvian Company full text of the
Secretary's letter, as follows:
/ DEPARTMENT OF STATE
/ WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1882
The Secretary of State, to whom was re
ferred the resolution of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the 9th inst, requesting the
President in further compliance with the
resolution of the House of the Gath ultimo
to furnish. this House with a complete
transcript of the letters of Jacob r. Shcp
herd, ESQ.,, of New York, dated June 2,
August 10, September %, and November
Is, 1881, and of replies thereto now on the
files in the Department of State; also
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 of State, has the honor
to report to the President as follows:
First, That the complete transcripts OF
! the letters referred to in the resolution by
names and dates, and of other letters al
ready communicated from which the
names of persons and firms have been omit
ted, are herewith returned, together with a
| list of the same.
Second, That the only reply on file in
this department to said letters of Jacob R.
| Shepherd is dated December II, 1884, and
is herewith returned.
Third, Measures have been taken to
recover the letters declared to be missing
from the files of the department where care
full search was made in the files and arch
| ives of the department, and request for
similar searches will be made to all persons
connected, or formerly connected with the
department into whose possession said let
! ters might have come in the course of busi-
ness. 1t is believed that in all cases when
such requests were made search
es were made which proved to
be fruitless. The search in the department,
as has already been reported, was equally
fruitless.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYsEN.
To the President:
In the letter from Shipherd to Minister
Hurlbut, dated New York. June 81, 1881,
Shipherd says:
''Among the representative gentlemen
with whom have already or shall be soon
in confidential negotiation in the premises,
I may name such as these: E. D. Morgan,
William E. Dodge, Hugh Mccullough,
Novin Green, W. r. Garrison, A. Belmont,
s. B. ChittendeR, John Hay, Amasa Stsne,
William FL. Vanderbilt, John Sherman,
Eugene Hale, Murat Halsted, Whitelaw
Reid, Fisk & Hatch, Samual Sloan, Mar
shall Jewell, III. L. Dawes s. D. Babcock,
John A. Stewart Jay Cooke, Evarts,
Santhmayd, Choate, U. s. Grant, A A
Law, J. FL. Wade, II. B. Payne, Hon. Mr..
White, David DAVIS & Co., Joseph Medill,
A B. HYDE, A S. Hewitt, w L. Scott J.
D. Cameron. Howard Crosby. Hobson,
Hurtado s. Co., Sidney Dillon, Morton,
Bliss t6 Co, Fl. B.. Clafin, A, L. Barnes,
Henry Hilton, J. & w. Seligam & Co., M.
K. Jessup & Co., Morgan & Co, VIM.
Watson, 6. Sewell"
Representative Belmont's resolution, in
response to which the correspondence WIS
sent to the House to-day, was offered in
the House for the purpose of disclosing the
names of parties supposed to be interested
in the Peruvian company, which has been
withheld by the State Department when
the correspondence was sent to the Senate
some days ago.
Under date of New York, October TO-
1881, Shepherd writes to Secretary Blaine,
and says;
II have to-day addressed your copies of
letters to the Peruvian Minister, the Hon.
Marcial Martinez, originals of which have
been transmitted to the Hon. George s.
Boutwell, counsel of this company, at
Washington, to deliver to the respective
addresses"
Under date of New York, October 81,
1881, Sheppard writes to Minister Hurl-
burt:
t'For your own satisfaction may say
that our. staff counsel including such re-
preventative and various men as Governor
Boutwell,, Senator Eaton, Senator Conk-
ling, Collector Robertson, Congressman
Lord and Senator Blair, are absolutely
agreed upon this as every other material
to pending issues. have the hearty auto
graph approval of General Grant, who is
<now one of us. The significance of all this
is, you need no aid from me to estimate"
Under date of Lima, Peru, November 2,
1881, Minister Hurlbut writes to Secretary
Blaine
s'sR-I was surprised by receiving on
the 31st ult., telegram from you,- dated
the 29th, which, when deciphered, read as
follows: The influence of your position
must not be used in aid of credit for indus
trial or any other financial or speculating
association This was Immediately
answered.: 'sIt has not been. 1t will not
be-"
The last enclosure is Hurlbut's letter to
Shepherd. under date of Lima, Peru,
December II, 1881, in which he says:
"Rm-I have tried as far as j could to
make you understand I cannot have and
ought not to have anything to do with
your company or yourself as its agent.
Both my general and particular instruc-
tons forbid my taking notice of such mat
ters, unless referred to me by the Depart
ment of State Once more, and for the
last time. repeat this statement. | shall
return all your papers to the Secretary OF
State as I have done others, and definitely
close all correspondence with you. unless
directed by the Department.