Bardwell to CPH, Oct. 18, 30, Dec. 9, 1878, Boyd to Gates, Sept. 13, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 15
Bardwell to CPH, May 15, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
Huntington to Colton, Jan. 22, 1878, Jan. 28, 1878, Feb. 5, 1878, Feb. 12, 1878, Feb. 19, 1878, Feb. 25, 1878, Octopus Speaks, 454, 457-58,465, 468, 470, 472.
For California Railroad Commission, see Deverell, Railroad Crossings, 51-52.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 60-62.
If the Boyd bill represents payment for votes, it was most likely votes bought in an unsuccessful attempt to block a procedural motion to suspend the rules and bring S 238 extending the time for the construction of the Northern Pacific to a vote of the Committee of the Whole. It passed 133 to 104.
The money also, however, could have been spent on a speakership fight raging among the Democrats or to block an attempt to get T.P. legislation to the floor.
Boyd to CPH, March 5, 1879, CPH, r. 17, ser. 1.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887), 84, table 29, showing the gross earnings, operating expenses, and net earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, table 31, Legal Expense Account, PRC, 8:4659, 4747.
Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 413, 417.
CPH to Crocker, March 2, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 6.
Woolworth to Forbes, June 12, 1878, B&M (Nebr.), 1870-79, New Lines, 63, 1870, 6.9, Kearney Connection, Correspondence 1878, CB&Q.