Show rELEGRAPHIC NEWS OPENING OF THE INVElI GATION Stilpherd to Show np Ille Papers Washngton I5This morning Jacob K Shipherd accompanied by his wife appeared at the rooms of the House com miitee on foreign affairs investigating Peruvian affaire and was sworn The chairman inquired in relation to the four I tniseing letters and asked if he wrote such letters I describing them as indexed at the state department to the secretary of state u It is my recollection that I did witness ttated He had expected to prepare copies of the letters alluded to but was unuble to complete them before leaving New York He had copies ol the missing letters in his letter books and of all letters eent and received anti could prepare copier but as tome of the letters were quite lengthy and he would naturally with to look over and compare the copiee he might have made he would require some further time lh chairman made several l inquiries in relation re-lation to the letters and asked if his subpoena sub-poena did not require him to produce his books and papers Shepherd replied 1 was not aware it did Witness produced pro-duced the 8ibpoena and read from it It required him to produce copies of all letters written by him to beoretary Blaine copies of all letters written to Secretary Evarts and Blaino between June 1st 79 and February 1st 82 alsu copies of letters writUn to any minister consul or official of the United Sates referring to affaire of Peru Bolivia or Chili on any Banners of property or business in which he was interested in these states also all letters received by him from either secretary of state or from any minister consul or other United States officer Shipherd stated that as he understood the sub cana it would take his secretary at least two years to make copies of all the correspondence corre-spondence called for Rice suggested that the delay might be avoided by Shepherd sending for his letter books and producing them before the committee commit-tee Shipherd replied The books contained a variety of private letters and he did not wish that they should run the risk of transportation He had no doubt however they could be forwarded on an order to his secretary He desired de-sired to know the construction he should place on the wrds in the subpcsna other officers of the United States I Conceivably there might be correspondence correspon-dence with members of Congress and other parties and be was not quite clear whether the subpojoa was intended to cover that He further wished to know whether the intent was to call for all the correspondence which might have passed between him and the persons connected with the government or to limit the correspondence cor-respondence touching Chili and Peru and finally whether if the latter only the committee desired all such correspondence corres-pondence or only such as referred to pp sible official action of the officials with whom he had corresponded Rice replied re-plied that it was the intention of the committee com-mittee that Shipherd should produce all letters which he had received from that omewbe broad class of persons known as Unitea States officials as well as from all parties connected with the state department de-partment or uther departments of the government The committee then went into secret session Shipherd and wife remaining re-maining in the room to determine whether the witness should ba permitted to return to New York personally to superintend the copy of the correspondence correspon-dence called fr or whether an order should be issued directing the letter I cooks to be forwarded to Washington The coma iltee in secret session adopted an order to the effect that Ship herd be required tc furnish the com mitltie with copies of all correspondence addressed to any Uuited States minister or official of the state departmeqt touching touch-ing the sutject matter of inquiry also aU letters addressed to witnesses by such officers and rAlating thereto and al cor responder and copis of corretpon lence passing between the aforesaid which ull throw light on the sUbject matter of the inquiry j also all other car reapondcnce in his possession which may tend to sbow any relation of such officer to the bu mess transactions referred to in the resolution of the Home under which the myeeugation is being made Further investigation is postponed until ratur day Shipherd will return to New York bib aftwruocm to arrange his papert in ice rdiiu ce with the decsion of the ommitiee Some members of the House foreign kffiir committee are dissatefied with the nbtruciions of the committee given to 5oipherd today in relation to the pro iuction of his correspondence and er press the opinion that there is tendency ai restrict the scope of the investgat Shipherd testified very promptly ad in eiligently and manifested apparent wil lingneEs i to give the committee the benefit of all his knowledge In asking what correspondence of his the committee would want he intimated quite plainly that he had letters from some members of Congress and inquired if the committee commit-tee wanted these produced There was an immediate whispered conference among some leading members of the committee the result of which was that the room was cleared for secret session The committee remained until it adjourned ad-journed and there was it is said an animated ani-mated discussion as to what correspondence correspon-dence should be demanded of Shipherd Soma members insisted upon calling for the facts in Shipherds possession connected con-nected with the matter before them but the instructions finally adopted and issued is-sued to Shipherd call for his correspondence correspon-dence with persons connected with the United States foreign service and state department but do cot include members of Congress |