Charles Tweed to R. Olney, July 23, 1894, July 27, 1894, R. Olney Papers, ct. 17, r. 6.
Olney to Tweed, July 24, 1894, R. Olney Papers, ct. 17, r. 6.
Olney to G. Denis, Aug. 14, 1894, R. Olney Papers, ct. 18, r. 6.
Gerald Eggert, who has studied Olney and the strike more thoroughly than anyone, wrote that Olney's intervention "was not to enforce federal laws, to move the mail or interstate commerce or to protect federal property; it was for the United States government to assert its 'rights' vigorously in Chicago, 'the origin and center of the demonstration,' and thereby, make the strike 'a failure everywhere else and to prevent its spread over the entire country.'"
This is an etymology listed by the Oxford English Dictionary. For more antimonopolist opposition, Antimonopoly League to Olney
Deverell, Railroad Crossing, 79-89.
Antimonopoly League to Olney, July 11, 1894, Olney Papers, ct. 6, r. 6.
Foote sometimes appears as H. I. Foote and sometimes as H. S. Foote. Foote had volunteered to lobby for the funding bill in exchange for Huntingtons support of his candidacy for U.S. district attorney
Foote to CPH, June 13, 1894, CPH, ser. 1, r. 53.
CPH to HEH, Nov. 27 1894, HEH Collection. Federal Reporter,1st ser. By District of Columbia, Court of Appeals.
J. A. Fillmore, Manager Pacific System, Circular Letter, June 2, 1896, HEH Collection.
There is a surviving Southern Pacific blacklist in the Sacramento Railroad Museum. It dates from before the strike, and drinking and frequenting saloons is the leading cause of blacklisting.
Blacklist number 3, Feb. 1887-91, Ms. 10, Southern Pacific Records.