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This cartoon includes depictions of a number of guests at the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Gridiron Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-09
President Roosevelt walks out of a room with an “Ananias Club” door holding L. White Busbey in his right hand and Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney on top of his big stick in his left hand. Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon reads a “6000 word message to Congress” and is confused. Edward Henry Harriman and William Jennings Bryan watch from the door.
The dispute over the Secret Service’s expanded duties was a controversy that subsumed other matters between President Roosevelt and Congress at the end of his administration; and technically it was the dispute itself, and not the Secret Service, that was the issue in Washington (and in political cartoons).