Nebraska advertiser., 1878-01-24
Senator Saunders Explains.

Editor State Journal; Your issue
of the 3rd inst. contains an editorial
which astouishes me. l alIude, Of
course to the article relating TO the
payment of 81, 900 TO E. Rosswater by
Ihe u. p. X. Il. Company, and To the
"Dassing OF the hat" or attempting
black ailing of the federal office
holders. know l have no right to
clairn any special favors from your pa
per: but did think L had a right to
expect reasonable. honorable aud fair
treatment from il, bnt whether | shall
get it or not l will leave you to de-
oide when have stated my case, and
answered your charges or insfnuatioh
I will say right here that am strong
ly in the belief that you have been
imposed upon by some designing per-
sou. aud the article in question did
not proceed from your head, and
heart. All your quaint and funny al
Iusions to Rose water and myself, L
let pass for what they are worth. But
when you come to charging me with
being so "hard up" as To cOme down
to begging, or black mailing the feder-
al office holders that were as you ssr, 4,
Ito Ue removed; :" or to appropriating
$500 to myself of Jay GOuId's money,
or thai of nybody else, you do me
such an iDjusIIce that l would not be
true to myself, or friends, if | did not
give ie the most emphatic denial.
There is not federal officer in Ne
braska or out of il, that can In truth
saw that ever asked for or received, =,
either directly or indirectly. one cent
of money or other valuable thing
from them on account Of their office.
And as for the charge or insinua-
tinn that I received $500 of the mon
ey that passed through my hands TO
Mr. +. Rose ater, is wholly and ut
terly false in every particular, | new
er received that or any other sum for
myself from Mr.. Gould. or any other
person belonging to the Union Pacific
or any other railroad company; nor
am l under any pledges Of support 10
any way or manner to them. Why
the 81 900 was sent to me instead OF
direct to Mr.. ROsswater, | know not,
unless it was ina: I might attend to
taking u receipt for the amount. and
forwarding IL, as / did, to tie cUmpa-
ny, al New YORK. / may be ask ed
why I had anything to DO at all with
the transaction. lt simply came
through a desire of niue To be a
peacemaker. Mr.. ROsewater was
about to bring suit against the COM
pany for balance lie claimed was
due him of, l think, about Sl,5OO. l
asked him why he did not Oompro-
mise the matter, and save lawyers
fees and a good deal of time and trOG-
BILE. He signlfis Ell a desire to do 80, and
when met the officers of the compa.
ny In Omaha [ mentioned il To them,
aud they promised to take the matter
under advisement, and the result
was that check was sent me To be
paid over 20 Mr.. Rosewater, which ]
did, every dollar and cent. and that
was ali had to do with the case, pro
orcon; so you ses how easy it is to
make a mountain of a mole hill.
have long since learned that men
in public life must endure a great
deal; perhaps they should take the
advice of Paul. and learn to "endure
all things." but have not quite reach
ed that point SO mnst be permitted to
talk hack, ard especially when an at
tempt Is male to strike me down IN
the house of my friends"
When I undertook in the senate to
defend the Union Pacific company
from legislation that might comptl
its freight to pass off over road that
I thought had no legal right To de-
mand IL. and thus take from Nehras-
ka. what 7 thought was her due. /
was charged hy some nf the papers.
hut do not think yonrs was one of
them of,"selIing out to the Union Pa
cific. so things GO; hut / must not
take to much space Of your valuable
paper. and will close nv repeatedly
asking you to do me the justice to in
sert this in your paper. so that it NAV
he read nv those who saw the article
to which T allude which I think was
calculated. II left unanswered. to do
me great injustice.
ALVIN SAUNDERS.
WAcrrTEnrnG n n Ian q lSTS