Union Pacific Railroad Discrimination against the Government. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting to the Senate Copies of Papers relating to the Settlement of Accounts for the Transportation of the Second Regiment of Infantry from St. Louis to San Francisco, via Denver, in July, 1877

[2], 35pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1878. Modern half green morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Very good.

Detailed correspondence relating to a controversy stemming from the rates charged by the Union Pacific for transporting the Second Infantry to the west coast. The troops were destined to suppress an Indian outbreak in Oregon.

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