He was a man who aggressively elbowed his way to the public trough. He not only got aid for railroads, but he secured supply contracts and swindled Indians during the Grant Administration. He headed the Texas & Pacific lobby from late 1874 through most of 1875, and remained an active advisor to Scott into 1878.
The legislative history is very complex, but for a sample of Scott's requests: guarantee of interest for Texas & Pacific and connection to Atlantic and Pacific, which he also controlled.
H.R. 3869, Dec. 8, 1874, [House Mis. Doc. No. 6] 43d Congress, 2d Session.
seeking a junction with the Atlantic and Pacific with much of the Atlantic and Pacific land grant reverting to the United States, "A Bill" Dec. 14, 1875, H.R. 25, 44th Congress, 1st Session.
Octopus Speaks, 548.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 198, 349.
Charles Flanagan was the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House and working for the C.P.
Flanagan to CPH, June 16, 1879, June 23, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
The Union Pacific thought its telegrams were watched in the Western Union offices in New York,
Gorham broke with Stanford but was still "borrowing" money from Huntington in 1875 and on the Central Pacific's books for "loans" in 1879.
Gorham to Huntington, Oct. 20, 1875, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 6.
Octopus Speaks, 176, 276.
Huntington to Colton, Jan. 24, 1876, Jan. 29, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 229, 230.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 260, 311.
"Problems with Republicans," Dodge to R. Clarkson, Dec. 15, 1874, Box 179, v. 382, Letterbooks G.M. Dodge, 1872-1874., 487-90.
Northern Pacific, Dodge to Scott, June 16, 1874, 305, ibid.
Dodge to Bond, July 28 , 1875, Box 180, v. 346, Letterbook Calif. Texas Railroad: Letters 1874-78, 330.
Working legislatures, Dodge to Gen. Geo. Manny, Jan. 9, 1875, Box 160.
Letterbooks, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Letters to heads of departments and employees, May 26, 1874 to May 23, 1876.