Foote sometimes appears as H. I. Foote and sometimes as H. S. Foote. Foote had volunteered to lobby for the funding bill in exchange for Huntingtons support of his candidacy for U.S. district attorney
Foote to CPH, June 13, 1894, CPH, ser. 1, r. 53.
CPH to HEH, Nov. 27 1894, HEH Collection. Federal Reporter,1st ser. By District of Columbia, Court of Appeals.
HEH to CPH, Feb. 25, 1895, HEH Collection.
J. A. Fillmore, Manager Pacific System, Circular Letter, June 2, 1896, HEH Collection.
There is a surviving Southern Pacific blacklist in the Sacramento Railroad Museum. It dates from before the strike, and drinking and frequenting saloons is the leading cause of blacklisting.
Blacklist number 3, Feb. 1887-91, Ms. 10, Southern Pacific Records.
Eggert, Railroad Labor Disputes, 202.
R. Hal Williams, The Democratic Party and California Politics, 1880-1896 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1973), 1902-05.
HEH to CPH, Nov. 24, 1894, HEH Collection.
W. H. Mills to CPH, July 28, Aug. 27, 1894, CPH, ser. 1, r. 53.