Report of the Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce . . . 49th Cong., 1st sess., Submitted to the Senate, Jan. 18, 1886 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1886), 182, 215-16.

For California, see Alfred A. Cohen, A Letter to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of California on the Policy of Legislative Interference with Railroad Tariffs (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, 1883), Huntington Library 128737, p. 5.

See also John Lauritz Larson, Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in Americas Railway Age, expanded ed. (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2001), 135-43.

for Central Pacific denial, Statement of J. C. Stubbs, July 26, 1887, PRC, 5:2574-75; A. N. Towne to CPH, April 18, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.