Albert V. House, The Speakership Contest of 1875: Democratic Response to Power, Journal of American History 52 (Sept. 1965): 252-74.
Thompson, Spiders Web, 177.
Waiting for Democratic house, Dodge to George S. Miller, Omaha, March 30, 1875, Box 160, Letterbooks, Texas & Pacific Railroad, 167-68, Dodge Papers.
Dodge to Scott, June 16, 1874, Letters to heads of departments and employees, May 26, 1874 to May 23, 1876, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.
CPH to Colton, Jan. 29, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 230.
Passes also went to district attorneys, clerks, assessors, judges and sheriffs, all of whom did favors for the railroads in return.
CPH to Hopkins, March 7, 1870, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 3: 93.
CPH to Stanford, Feb. 4, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 281. For Grant, see Babcock to CPH, March 24, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.
Klein, Union Pacific, 509.
CPH to Ingalls, Sept. 28, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 15.