Testimony of Jay Gould, May 18, 1887, PRC, 1:514-18.
Maury Klein, Union Pacific, 413-14.
Testimony of Russell Sage, May 13, 1887, PRC, 1:368-69.
Testimony of Frederic Ames, May 20, 1887, PRC, 2:666-67.
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.
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.
The Union Pacific was not quite so helpless.
See, e.g., the Union Pacific's involvement with the Salina, Lincoln, and Western Railway.
Adams to George Miller, April 30, 1886, Memorandum, May 1886; quote, Adams to Hon. A. S. Hewitt, Dec. 10, 1886, 1886, all in UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 32.
Veenendaal, Slow Train to Paradise, 52-53.
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.