Testimony of Leland Stanford, PRC 5: 2495.
Testimony of Leland Stanford and of Charles Crocker Jr., PRC, 5:2990-99.
Field had received favors from the Associates, but he later grew more cautious. When Huntington attempted to influence a Supreme Court decision on the Oregon and California Railroad, Field reacted with indignation.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 355.
One of the commissioners, David Littler, made arrangements with the Union Pacific to render assistance to the Union Pacific in Washington once the report was issued.
C. Crocker to CPH, Jan. 3, 1888 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46.
Adams to Dodge, Nov. 30, 1888, UP, PO, OC, vol. 45, ser. 2, r. 40.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 355.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 355.
T. Stillman to CPH, n.d., c. March 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47; Charles Crocker to CPH, Jan. 25, 1888, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46 .