The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-01

What He Has to Say About His Inter
est in the Darlington 3 Missouri

What He Has to Say About His Inter
est in the Darlington 5 Missouri
Road
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 30.-The
following correspondence recently passed
between Senator Edmunds and William
Walter Phelps:
UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHING
TON, ID. c., April 2S.-Dear Sir: / have
read your letter and also the editorial in
the Tribune thereon, in which you
stood TO have block OF
Burlington Sc Missouri securities
ard that senator Edmunds acquired
these interests In the Burlington Il
Missouri road when he was in the senate
and that he supported the bill to re
store the land grant to that road" These
statements taken in consideration with
the rest of your letter evidently
meant that at the time of the legislation
referred TO / was somewhat interested in
that road or its securities, and the ed
itorial in the Tribune states that ex-
pressly as beng your statement. Both
yourself and the Tribune are totally mis-
taken. l have hunted up what l sup
pose to be the JOINT resolution TO which
you refer, being senate joint reso-
luton No. 29, of the first session
of the Forty first congress, of
which 1 had no recollection whatever
before, but l see by looking at the Con-
gFessional Globe at that time did make
single remark on the subject of the
house amendment, which remark l COM
mend to your careful consideration. l
had not at that time and never had BE-
fore any ownership or interest in any
bonds or stock of that road or any
IF eia fo4n nT NarDnnpf and
never expected to have, and had no more
| connection with the passage of the joint
| resolution than you. l said and knew
no more than you, which l assure you
was nothing at all, excepting what may
| be inferred from my remark on the
house amendment. More than three
months afterwards on the 18th day oil
July, 1869, I found on looking at my
old books that l had subscribed for 1876
| shares of stock and $1,000 OF
bonds of the Burlington s. Mis-.
| souri, River railroad company IL
! Nebraska, which l assume was the road
IN some way affected by the legis-
| lation referred to. / paid in cash the
| same price as all other subscribers did
and held the stock for several years
I sold it IN the Boston market at the
market price, and no more, and then OF
afterwards bought more Of the bonds OF
the same company, which l still hold
| This is the whole of the story, and l give
you authority to verify 1t by an exam
| inatIon of the hooks of the company
| in Boston, or an examination of my
books or both. 1t is of some conse
queuce among men who intend to be
true, to be entirely accurate, IL
making statements about the act
and doings of other people. If you, Oh
anybody else, wish to know anything
concerning my business or other transac
tions at any time l shall be happy to pu
you in possession of precise information
SO you will be certain that what you say
is true. l am neither willing nor de
sirous 10 he either candidate
for president. which everybody who hal
| spoken or written to me upon the subject
! knows, but as naturally like to stanC
well in the estimation of my fellow-cIt
liens I dislike to be accused either o.
corruption or selfishness or with acting
on public questions IN which l have {
private interest when such accusations
are untrue.
Respectfully yours,
GEO. T. EDMUNDs.
Hon WIN. WALTER PHELPS.