[145]. The Wall Street Point of View, p. 29.

[146]. Railway Problems, p. 95.

[147]. See Davis: The Union Pacific Railway, p. 187.

[148]. Davis: pp. 89–202.

[149]. Railway Problems, p. 94.

[150]. Professor Frank Parsons (Boston University): The Railways, the Trusts and the People, p. 64. And see Report of the Wilson Investigating Committee, pp. III, IV, et seq., and Parsons’ Chapter on “Railroad Graft.” Italics mine. G. R. K.

[151]. “Similar franchises and subsidies were at the same time given to the Central Pacific Railroad Company.”—Parsons: The Railways, the Trusts and the People, p. 128.

[152]. The United States in Our Own Time, p. 103.

[153]. Wilson, for several years Land Commissioner for the Illinois Central Railway Company, cited by Andrews.

[154]. Parsons: The Railways, the Trusts and the People, p. 106.