The payment to Platt was phrased as a "loan."
Huntington to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.
T.C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
Huntington to Hopkins, March 3, 1876, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 467.
Summers, Railroads, 172-73.
Octopus Speaks, 533. Huntington to Hopkins, Dec. 28, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 435.
Being susceptible to lobbyists did not preclude having a reputation of being hostile to lobbyists,
William H. Barnes, American Government: Biographies of Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Third Congress, three volumes (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1874), 2: 322.
Dodge to Scott, Jan. 15, 1878 LBsCalif. Texas Railroad: Letters, 1874-78, box 180, vol. 346, 433-35, Dodge Papers.
CPH to Hopkins, July 12, 1876, LB, 9:53, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Dodge to Throckmorton, Dec. 21, 1875, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.