[457] Statutes at Large, 38th Congress, 1st Session, chap. 216.
[458] Aldrich Committee Report. The value of gold used is that given in the American Almanac for 1878, and varied from year to year as follows:
| 1864 | 155.5 | |
| 1865 | 216.2 | |
| 1866 | 140.1 | |
| 1867 | 134.6 | |
| 1868 | 138.5 | |
| 1869 | 135.6 |
[459] John P. Davis, History of the Union Pacific Railroad, p. 151.
[460] Useful accounts of the Crédit Mobilier may be found in Davis, Union Pacific Railroad; Crawford, Crédit Mobilier of America; Hazard, The Crédit Mobilier of America; White, History of the Union Pacific Railroad; Poland Committee, Report and Testimony, 42d Congress, 3d Session, House Reports, No. 77.
[461] Davis, pp. 163–70.
[462] Union Pacific Railway Commission Report, 1887, p. 52. The Government endeavored to force the cancellation of the above mentioned construction contracts and the restoration of unlawful profits, but was held by the Supreme Court to have no standing in the case which would entitle it to demand relief. U. S. vs. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 98 U. S. 569.
[463] Statutes at Large, 39th Congress, 1st Session, chap. 159.
[464] United States Pacific Railway Commission Report, 1887, p. 55.
[465] Ibid. vol. 8, p. 4975.