[554] Frye-Davis Report (51st Congress, 1st Session, February 17, 1890. Senate Report No. 293, Serial No. 2703). See also speech by Senator Frye, ibid., Congressional Record, p. 1377 ff.
[555] Reilly Report (53d Congress, 2d Session, July 21, 1894. House Report No. 1290, Serial No. 3272).
[556] Powers Report (54th Congress, 1st Session, April 25, 1896. H. R. Report No. 1497. Serial No. 3462). The Powers bill also required the consent of the Southern Pacific to the appropriation for payment of Central Pacific indebtedness, of the sum of $2,409,818.20, which stood credited on the books of the United States Treasury to the Central Pacific for services on non-aided lines. The consent of the Southern Pacific was necessary for this appropriation because a considerable portion of the amount in question had been adjudged by the Court of Claims to be due to the Southern Pacific for the reason that the services for which the sums mentioned were credited had been in large part performed by that company.
[557] The Powers bill was finally defeated—yeas, 103; nays, 168; not voting, 84. (54th Congress, 2d Session, Congressional Record, p. 689.)
[558] Gear Report, 1896 (54th Congress, 1st Session, May 1, 1896, Senate Report No. 778, Serial No. 3365; The House bill was numbered H. R. 8189; the Senate bill S. 2894).
[559] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3589-90, letter from A. N. Towne.
[560] Frye-Davis Report (51st Congress, 1st Session, February 17, 1890, Senate Report No. 293, p. 76, Serial No. 2703).
[561] San Francisco Examiner, February 18 and March 15, 1890.
[562] Memorial of the committee of fifty appointed at the San Francisco mass meeting of December 7, 1895.
[563] San Francisco Examiner, September 21, 1894.