Day of election, Hyde to CPH, Aug. 27, 1872, LB, 2:205-9, box 2.
Hyde to Wife, Dec. 3, 1869, box 2, f. 8, both in Hyde Papers.
Mitchell was normally corrupt and Oregon senate seats were for sale. In 1882, unable to bribe enough legislators to obtain election, Mitchell sold his votes to his law partner, Joseph N. Dolph, for $35,000. In 1886 after failing election in a regular session, the governor called a special election that sent him back to Washington.
Mitchell to Villard, April 21, 1881, J.H. Mitchell Letters, Box 82, Villard Papers.
Lustig, Corporate Liberalism, 18.
Lustig, Corporate Liberalism, 43.
For committee, Boyd to Colburn, April 11, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.