Thompson, Spiders Web, 167-72, 276-77.
George C. Benson, Political Corruption in America (Toronto: Lexington Books, 1978), 61.
Dodge to Chandler, Dec. 26, 1875, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.
Boyd to CPH, Jan. 10, 13, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 18.
Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, 2:179.
Testimony of CPH, PRC, 1:24-25.
The legislative history is very complex, but for a sample of Scott's requests: guarantee of interest for Texas & Pacific and connection to Atlantic and Pacific, which he also controlled.
H.R. 3869, Dec. 8, 1874, [House Mis. Doc. No. 6] 43d Congress, 2d Session.
seeking a junction with the Atlantic and Pacific with much of the Atlantic and Pacific land grant reverting to the United States, "A Bill" Dec. 14, 1875, H.R. 25, 44th Congress, 1st Session.
The Union Pacific's attempts to vote their workers en masse created scandal and resentment.
Jay Gould was no more adept.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 25, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:1339-40.
William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-twentieth Century (College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2005), 61-63.
Scott C. James, Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), 39-40.
Testimony of Frederick Heede, July 2, 1887, PRC, 3:1499.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:1339.