Year: 1876

WAsH1NGTok, rrDruIy Zo.-l nS
Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day
agreed to submit the Schenck correspon'
dsnce to the House, and will ask that II
be priated. Secretary Fish being sick


Mr.. Caldwall, assistant Secretary of State
appeared for him before the committed
and said that all the documents in the
Department on the subject of the Emms
mine had been furnished to the commit
tee. The committee will further con.
slider the subject after the document,
shall have been printed.


Communication from Secretary OF


state-Scheenk Exonerated.


The Secretary Of State in communi-
cation to the House Committee on For
eign Affairs, in reference to General
Schenck's connection with the Emma Sill
yer Mining Company, says: On Novem.
ber 9th, 1871 ,Gn eral Schenck addressed
a telegram to the department, giving his
reasons for becoming a director, and Of
tering to withdraw from the board
or take such course rs should be advised.
To this telegram the secretary replied
ON the following day to the effect that AL
though it was the privilege of every
citizen to invest in such honest enter
prises as he deemed proper, the adver-
liSement of the name Of diplomatic rep
resentative Us director of company
seeking to dispose Of its shares in the
country to which he was accredited, was
i'll advised, unfortunate and calculated
to subject him TO criticism !;
that it was assured he
was not q party to the publication,
and concluding with an earnest advice
to withdraw his name from the manage
ment of the company. General Schenck
thereupon withdrew from the board on
the Goth of December. General Schenck
addressed telegram TO the department
in reference to u dispatch that had ap-
peared in the London Times, refer
ring to resolution of inquiry
said to have been adopted in the
Senate, desiring TO know whether It had
reference to him, and expressing his
readiness for investigation. Schenck
further refers to some proceedings on the
part OF such committee in his letter Of
January 10. AS no such resolution OF
inquiry had come to this department, a
reply was sent to that effect. On the fol-
rowing day Il telegram, understood to
manifest the readiness of Schenck to i'm
mediately meet any investigation and
in demonstration Of the sincerity of his
convictions of the value of the enterprise
in which he had invested. AS the resolu-
ton of the House makes reference to
the executive department Of the govern
ment on this question, i deemed 1t due to
Gen. Schenek US public officer who had
had various and important public trusts,
and who has for many years occupied q
prominent position before the country,
to further state that the course adopted IN
the department growing out these facts,
was based on the ongictiOn that while
the use OF the name OF the minister OF
the United States i'll such IN enter
prise was inconsistent with his position,
ut the same time Schenck had been
guilty of no wrong purpose or
intent in connecting himself with
the company i'll question. L remain
firmly of this opinion, and am further
satisfied that he, in common with many
others, became 4 sufferer thereby. The
Secretary then responds to that part OF
the resolution asking information con-
cerning the action taken by the EXecu-
tive Department concerning the connec-
ton of the Minister IN Europe with the
prosecution of the Nsehado claim against
the British Government. lie gives the
history of the case and concludes
by saying that so far rs reflections
have been cast upon General Schenck
because of the prosecution of these claims,
or because ofthe presentation of them by
him to the British government, sense
of Justice compels ME to say that am
satisfied that such reflections are unjust,
and that General Schneck is open to no
imputations whatever arising therefrOm.