In the winter of 1860 there was a Wall…
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In the winter of 1860 there was a Wall
street lobby at Washington exerting a strong
influence on the government to get a subsidy
of $50,000,000 for carrying the mails overland
for one year between New York and San Fran-
cisco. In those early times this seemed an enor-
mous sum of money to ask Congress to appro-
priate for such a purpose, and the lobby did
not meet with much encouragement.