Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS THE LOST DOCUMENTS Trying to Find Out Where the PernChili Correspondence Correspon-dence Went Washington 10The committee on foreign affairs charged with the investigation investi-gation of the OhiliPeru correspondence with a view of fixing the responsibility for the abstraction of certain state papers from the file of the state department and also determine whether any diplomatic representatives of the Unite States have involved themselves in certain schemes the success of which depended on the intervention in-tervention of the United States consists i of Representatives Williams of Wis Chairman Orth of Ind Jvasson of Ia Rice of Mass Dunnell of Minn Lord of Mich Walker of Pa Blount of Ga Wileon of W Va Deuster of Wis and Belmont of N Y The investigation in-vestigation is public Francis 0 St Clair chief clerk of the consular bureau in the state department testified that he would recognize the right of the chief clerk or secretary to withdraw with-draw any papers from his custody bat no other persons Some time after witness wit-ness was made chief of the bureau a call J I was made for certain letters of the Step I I herd correspondence I made search for a certain letter indexed in my handwriting hand-writing and asked Walker Blaine if the secretary had it He said he did not know but would see if it was at his house After this I did not hear more about it He was under the impression that either Trescott or Secretary Blaine called for the letters In August the dis corery was made that several letters were misssing I failed to find any of them I never said anything to the secretary sec-retary on the subject and never heard anything further on the subject from Walker Blaine Trescott frequently called for papers and we used to let him have them without an order from the secretary I understood ha Trecott was employed in the department DS counsel Ho original papers are permitted per-mitted to be taken fram the department Trescott was investigating ChiliPeru and my Impression is he called for them No persons other than those known to be employed in the department are allowed al-lowed to sea the index of the department depart-ment It is my impression that Trescott was assigned the duty of preparing drafts of the letters on the ChiliPeru affair af-fair He had a room in the department but I dont know of my own knowledge that he had any official position in the department He appeared to act in a confidential relation with the secretary I presumed the letters were found at the time in August and it is my impression that they will be found now at Trescotts house this city I dont believe they have been abstracted from the department to be suppro sse 1 or destroyed It is not an unusual thing for papers lo be lost for months and subsequently sub-sequently found jn tha department In other words they are misplaced for the time Being One time some papers relating re-lating to the fishery question could not be found for some limA and Trescott subsequently found them at his house His St Clairs grounds thinking the missing papers may be in Trescotta possession pos-session or at his house is that from the nature of Trescotts relations te the department de-partment in this ChiliPeru matter ho would naturally examine these papers John Newton ot the index bureau of the state department remembered addressing ad-dressing the letters of May 21 and 24 and June 4th They were marked Pri vated Return to Shep herd Trescott never called on witness for any papers never saw Shepherd at the department cever heard of his being there Beptesentativo Belmont called attention atten-tion to the gravity of the subject under investigation reading from statistics of the punishments for such an act as that the offender pay A fine of S200U or suffer imprisonment at labor not more than three years or both The examination of Shepherd is expected tomorrow |