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letters from him. Whitelaw Reid sent me a 

 bunch of introductions for which I had asked, 

 with a note saying that he had omitted writing to 

 Conklin for reasons that the excellent Roscoe 

 would doubtless furnish if asked. I was able to 

 be of service to Col. Tom Scott and in return 

 got his good word in quarters where it was 

 needed, besides the offer of his private car when- 

 ever I could use it to help my plans. 



Stockwell was seeking a subsidy for Pacific 

 Mail, but I could neither help nor be helped by 

 him. The work was obnoxious to begin with and 

 Stockwell's only thought was to buy the votes he 

 wanted. He succeeded in this and bought his 

 subsidy for something like a million dollars. 

 Garrison was offered a Brazil Mail subsidy for 

 half a million dollars, but went home using lurid 

 language. 



I was principled against buying legislation and 

 besides I hadn't the money. All I asked of the 

 Government was a fair division of our joint earn- 

 ings, ocean postage to us, land postage to Uncle 

 Sam. Of course I gave dinners, oodles of them, 



