Editing Leland Stanford (section)

===United States Senator===
[[File:LelandStanford1890.JPG|thumb|right|180px|Stanford in 1890]]
Later, he served in the [[United States Senate]] from 1885 until his death in 1893. He served for four years as chairman of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds]] and  on the Naval Committee. He was president and director of the Central Pacific Railroad the entire time he sat in the Senate. He authored several Senate bills that advanced ideas advocated by the [[People's Party (United States)|People's Party]]: a bill to foster the creation of [[worker cooperative|worker-owned cooperatives]],<ref>{{cite news| last=Stanford| first=Leland| title=Co-operation of Labor| newspaper=[[New York Tribune]]| date=May 4, 1887}} Special Collection 33a, Box 7, Folder 74, [[Stanford University]] Archives. [http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PAPERS/BCLSFV/REFS/Stanford_Cooperation_of_labor.1887.pdf PDF]</ref><ref>Congressional Record, 49 Congress, 2 Sess.: 1804–1805; 51 Congress, 1 Sess.: 2068–2069, 5169–5170, 2 Sess.: 667–668; 52 Congress, 1 Sess.: 468–479, 2684–2686.</ref> and a bill to allow the issuance of currency backed by land value instead of only the [[gold standard]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01E3DD1438E233A25752C3A9659C94639ED7CF| title=The Land Loan Project: Senator Stanford Explains His New Money Scheme| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 31, 1892}} {{subscription required|date=August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=The great question: an interview with Senator Leland Stanford on money| via=worldcat.org|oclc = 7456711}}</ref> Neither bill made it out of committee. In Washington, DC, he had a residence on Farragut Square near the home of Baron [[Karl de Struve|Karl von Struve]], Russian minister to the US.