John James Ingalls, A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations (Kansas City, Mo., Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1902), 183-98.
In nineteenth-century usage syllabub meant frothy or insubstantial.
Charles Francis Adams, Diary, Feb. 3, 1889, p. 34, Adams Papers r. 3.
Connelley, Life of Plumb, 309.
Despite the ICC's making passes illegal, Ingalls continued to solicit them.
Connelley, Life of Plumb, 287-88.
Charles Francis Adams, Diary, Feb. 3, 1889, pp. 32-39.
Ingalls to CPH, March 7, 1891, CPH Papers ser. 1, r. 49.
Adams despaired of getting the bill passed in 1890
Klein, Union Pacific, 542-45.
Adams to Dodge, March 28, 1890, UP, PO, OC, vol. 50, ser. 2, r. 45.
Ari and Olive Hoogenboom, A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative (New York: Norton, 1976), 15-16.