Burrows, Julius C. (Julius Caesar), 1837-1915

Henry P. Curtis describes a recent publication on European natural history that he believes Theodore Roosevelt might be interested in. He explains how many towns were named after the animals that once resided there, such as Wolverhampton (wolves).

Curtis also shares with Roosevelt that his father was a Whig, while Curtis is a Republican. He expresses admiration for Senator John Sherman, discusses his political adversaries, and wishes that Sherman, Alexander Hamilton, and Daniel Webster could have been presidents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-15

Pictures of the twelve men that will represent the United States Senate at the funeral of Senator R. A. Alger.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-26

Creator(s)

Unknown

Several senators—West Virginia Senator Nathan Bay Scott, Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Michigan Senator Julius C. Burrows, Pennsylvania Senator Boies Penrose, and Montana Senator Thomas Henry Carter—all white wash Benjamin F. Barnes. President Roosevelt holds the “big stick” and says, “Thicken your white wash and get to work, you clumsy Senate fellows” while South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman looks on and says, “Shame on you ind your ‘master.'”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-29

Creator(s)

Mahony, Felix, 1867-1939

Cartoon depicts President Roosevelt slamming his fist against a table which is breaking over various government officials. Item is regarding Roosevelt’s return to work following his hunting trip to Mississippi.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-22

Creator(s)

Bush, Charles Green, 1842-1909

President Roosevelt provides Leslie M. Shaw with lists of the Commissioners “to test and examine the weight and fineness of the coins reserved at the several mints during the calendar year 1902.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt agrees about the colliers and hopes that his statement was on point. He thought that Coe Isaac Crawford gave a powerful speech in the William Lorimer case. The zebra skin has been sent and Roosevelt is attempting to locate the missing book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt asks Senator Lodge about rumors that he has heard concerning several planks in the Republican Party’s platform. Roosevelt thinks that omitting references to postal savings banks and injunctions would not be favorable. He also informs Lodge that he has heard protests against J. S. Sherman being nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate. William H. Taft thinks that discussion of the candidate for Vice President can be postponed until after the platform is adopted and the Presidential nominee selected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt responds to a clipping Elbert F. Baldwin sent him from the Sun. He notes that while he approved of the choice of Senator Albert J. Beverage for chairman of the Republican convention, he was not hostile to Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. He also expresses his desire that a reactionary not be chosen to make the keynote address at the convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Governor Warner that no sooner had he submitted Fred Slocum’s name to be postmaster of Caro, Michigan, than he was told by Senators Julius C. Burrows and William Alden Smith that Slocum could not be confirmed. Roosevelt does not understand the intricacies of Michigan politics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt updates Secretary of War Taft on travel arrangements for their upcoming trip to Panama and comments on Taft’s tariff speech. He advises Taft to write a temperate letter for publication in response to Herbert Ross’s recent article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that he may want to appoint Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield as a judge in spite of Taft’s reservations, as he thinks he would be a good judge, but that he will talk with Taft in person about it. Responding to what Taft had said about Senator Julius C. Burrows objecting to his talking about the Michigan judiciary, Roosevelt writes “let him object until he is black in the face,” and contemplates driving the conflict to a head by appointing Arthur C. Denison over Burrows’s objections and emphasizing the president’s power to make appointments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Frances Peck Burrows that not even a letter from her husband, Michigan Senator Julius C. Burrows, could have pleased him as much as her letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt responds to allegations that the Mormon vote will go to the Republicans in return for “a promise to seat the Mormon Senator.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

John Callan O’Laughlin informs Theodore Roosevelt that Senator William Lorimer was cleared of any corruption or wrongdoing in securing a seat in the United States Senate, and claims that he was saved by the actions of lame duck politicians. Even though Lorimer is in the Senate, however, O’Laughlin believes he “is so badly besmirched he will be of no importance save as [an] object lesson to [the] country.” He thanks Roosevelt for his service to the government.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-01

Creator(s)

O'Laughlin, John Callan, 1873-1949

Sidney W. Faxon encloses a clipping from the Daily Morning Gazette from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dr. Henry W. Gelston is the minister of the First Presbyterian Church there, and Faxon believes he is Roosevelt’s “kind of a man.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-08

Creator(s)

Faxon, Sidney W. (Sidney Warren), 1839-1919

William Allen White reports to President Roosevelt on his experience at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. White regretted to be away from his family for so long, but was seated next to Roosevelt’s sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and was very much charmed by her. Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech at the convention was very good. White believes that in the end, people of Senator Robert M. La Follette’s temperament will win out over those who are more like Representative Julius C. Burrows.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-23

Creator(s)

White, William Allen, 1868-1944

Secretary of State Root forwards to President Roosevelt a memorandum originally for Senator Julius C. Burrows about the foreign affairs accomplishments of the administration. In a handwritten note, Root says that he had forgotten half of it when he began dictating the memorandum.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-02

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Publication Date

2020-07-16

Repository

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Record Type

Image

Resource Type

Letter

Secretary of War Taft has received President Roosevelt’s letter and agrees with Roosevelt’s thoughts about who to appoint to fill the circuit judgeship. Taft sends a copy of a speech to Roosevelt for suggestions and makes some remarks about its contents. He also notifies Roosevelt about a “sinister article on the Philippines” that has been published in Collier’s Weekly. Taft also encloses a letter on Panama he had received for Roosevelt to read.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-28

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Secretary of War Taft agrees with President Roosevelt’s decision to appoint John Marshall Harlan. Taft then analyzes the political considerations in making the appointment of the Supreme Court justice who will succeed Henry Billings Brown. Taft also expresses concern about Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal John F. Stevens’s inability to answer the charges of Poultney Bigelow’s article in The Cosmopolitan, even if the charges have no foundation. In addition, Taft notifies Roosevelt that he tried to get Major George W. Goethals, an army engineer, to be Secretary of the Board to live on the Isthmus of Panama, but the presence of Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission Joseph Bucklin Bishop prevents it. Taft recognizes that Congressman Julius C. Burrows is “indignant” about Taft’s involvement in the appointment of District Judge in the Western District of Michigan, but Taft does not think Burrows is justified.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-21

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930