Field had received favors from the Associates, but he later grew more cautious. When Huntington attempted to influence a Supreme Court decision on the Oregon and California Railroad, Field reacted with indignation.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 355.
One of the commissioners, David Littler, made arrangements with the Union Pacific to render assistance to the Union Pacific in Washington once the report was issued.
C. Crocker to CPH, Jan. 3, 1888 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46.
Adams to Dodge, Nov. 30, 1888, UP, PO, OC, vol. 45, ser. 2, r. 40.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 355.
The Outhwaite bill also suffered from the opposition of Senator Sherman, who was influenced by Colgate Hoyt, who had fallen out with Adams and the Union Pacific.
The differences between the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific persisted.
The Burlington also worked against debt extension.
I. Bromley, Memorandum on Congress, Aug. 9, 1886, UP, MS 3761, SG2, ser. 1, box 32, f: Bromley-Burness.
Despite the ICC's making passes illegal, Ingalls continued to solicit them.
Connelley, Life of Plumb, 287-88.
Charles Francis Adams, Diary, Feb. 3, 1889, pp. 32-39.
Ingalls to CPH, March 7, 1891, CPH Papers ser. 1, r. 49.
Adams despaired of getting the bill passed in 1890
Klein, Union Pacific, 542-45.
Adams to Dodge, March 28, 1890, UP, PO, OC, vol. 50, ser. 2, r. 45.