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Excerpt from How Congressmen Are Bribed: The Colton Letters; Declaration of Huntington That Congressmen Are for Sale
From 1873 to his death, some seven years later, David D. Colton held a fifth interest in the Southern Pacific manage ment. His holdings in the Central Pacific proper were very small. Prospectively he had large interests in the Southern Pacific, which, when he came in, was arbitrarily leased to the Central Pacific at a rental, which materially aided in the ah sorption of the profits by the Southern Pacific construction. Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
