Texas and Pacific Railway, Feb. 27, 1875, 43d Cong., 2d sess., H. Rept. 267.
Colton to Crocker, Feb. 24, 1875, Octopus Speaks, 82.
Congressional Record, 43d Cong., 1st sess., Feb. 22, 1875, 1600-1601.
For committee power, Thompson, Spiders Web, 93-96.
Texas and Pacific Railroad: Memorial of the National Grange, Feb. 20, 1875, 43d Cong., 2d sess., H. Misc. Doc. 89.
Hirshon, Grenville M. Dodge, 200.
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company: Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, Feb. 15, 1875, 43d Cong., 2d sess., H. Misc. Doc. 79; Texas and Pacific Railroad, Joint Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina, Feb. 8, 1875, 43d Cong., 2d sess., H. Misc. Doc. 88.
Resolution of the Legislature of New York, Feb. 25, 1876, 44th Cong., 1st sess., S. Misc. Doc. 65.
T. C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, Boyd to CPH, Feb. 14, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
CPH to Colton, Feb. 14, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 232, 301.
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.
Texas and Pacific, Railway Age, Jan. 11, 1877, p. 610.
Report, to accompany bill HR 4531, Texas and Pacific Railroad, 44th Cong., 2d sess., Rept. 130, pt. 1, esp. p. 7.
HR 4531 (Rept. 139). In the House of Representatives, Jan. 24, 1877, 44th Cong., 2d sees..
CPH to Hopkins, Jan. 13, 20, 1877 (confidential), LB, 9:127, 133, box 24, Hopkins Collection.