China Mail-Service : hearings before the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Forty-Third Congress, second session and Forty-Second Congress, third session, on Feb. 25, 26, 28, Mar. 1, 1873, Dec. 11, 12, 15-19, 21, 28-31, 1874, Jan. 2, 6-9, 11-15, 18, 19-23, 25, 27, 30, Feb. 3, 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, 1875.

Investigates alleged improper payments and influence used by officers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. to secure passage of subsidy legislation in the House of Representatives. Dec. 28-31, 1874 and Jan. 2 and 6, 1875 hearings were held in New York City.