President Omar Kinkaid.
The Thomas Railroad Reform Act was a reform bill promoted by Mexican President Omar Kinkaid which placed railroad lines in the United States of Mexico under a government commission which set rates and determined future expansion. Like the Keefe-Wilkinson Social Insurance Bill and the Fernandez Tax Reform Bill of 1878, the Thomas Act was opposed by Bernard Kramer and a majority of the Continentalist Party caucus in the Mexican Congress. Nevertheless, Kinkaid was able to win passage of the bill thanks to a coalition between his minority faction of the Continentalists and a faction of the Liberty Party led by Senate Minority Leader Thomas Rogers. After its passage, Kinkaid called it and the Keefe-Wilkinson Bill the cornerstone for "an epoch of reform."