Huntington thought it more of a commercial committee than a Texas and Pacific Committee.
Chauncey, Black to Randall, May 12, 1877, Correspondence, 6 May to 5 June 1877, Box 34, Randall Papers.
House, "Speakership Contest," 260-274.
Huntington to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 418.
Boyd to Huntington, Dec. 25, 1875 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
Octopus Speaks, 301.
CPH to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.
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.
The payment to Platt was phrased as a "loan."
Huntington to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.
T.C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
Huntington to Hopkins, March 3, 1876, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 467.
Summers, Railroads, 172-73.
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.