Testimony of Jay Gould, May 17-18, 1887, PRC, 1:496, 532.
Report of William Calhoun, PRC, 8: 4809.
Report of Pacific Railway Commission, 56-57, 62, 64.
Report of William Calhoun, PRC, 8:4809, 4820, 4824-27.
Maury Klein defends Gould in Union Pacific, 414-17. Brokers doubted that the market could sustain any large public sale of Kansas Pacific stock.
Testimony of Oliver Ames, May 31, 1887, PRC, 2:812-13.
Testimony of Jay Gould, May 17, 1887, PRC, 1:476.
Testimony of Artemas Holmes, May 10, 1887 (recalled), PRC, 1:267-76.
Testimony of Russell Sage, May 13, 1887, PRC, 1:383. Testimony of Jay Gould, May 18, 1887, PRC,l:524-28.
Testimony of Oliver Ames, May 31, 1887, PRC,2:812.
For defense of Gould, see Klein, Union Pacific, 412.
Adams cast a more positive light on all this in a letter to his lobbyist, Moorfield Storey, intended for use in modifying the Thurman Act
Adams to Storey, Jan. 14, 1887, UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 33.
Testimony of Charles Francis Adams, PRC, 1:86.