Dunning, W: Paying for Alaska -

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Excerpt from Paying for Alaska: Some Unfamiliar Incidents in the Process

Seward and Johnson, was chairman of the committee on appro priations and leader of the majority. These two in?uential men could not have accepted money from the Russian minister save for reasons that could not bear the light of day. Of the other persons named, Robert J. Walker and Frederick P. Stanton were well-known lawyers of Washington, both formerly in the public service, Walker having been secretary of the treasury under Polk. The other man named in the memo randum, John W. Forney, was proprietor of two newspapers, the Washington Clzrom'cle and the Philadelphia Press. He had been secretary of the Senate till June 4, 1868. Forney's course in relation to public affairs had created a widespread impression that the editorial attitude of his papers was not determined always and exclusively by considerations of abstract righteous ness. President Johnson himself had contributed something to confirm this impression by making public a letter in which F orney, in urging a certain course respecting policy and patron age, had very suggestively called the president's attention to the in?uence of my two newspapers, both daily.

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