C. A. Seward to CPH, Dec. 10, 1890, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 49.
CPH to Hopkins, April 6, 1875, Huntington Letters, 4:315.
Villard to J. N. Dolph, Nov. 8, 1883, Villard LBs, Private Letters, 40 A, 258, Villard to Dolph, Dec. 4, 1883, Personal Correspondence, LB, 51:454, Villard Papers.
Adams to E. P. Alexander, Nov. 24, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 30.
David T. Canon and Charles Stewart III, "Committee Hierarchy and Assignments in the U.S. Congress: Testing Theories of Legislative Organization, 1789-1946," Midwest Political Science Association, 2002, tables 1 and 2.
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.