Dolliver, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Prentiss), 1858-1910

Senator Carroll Smalley Page informs Theodore Roosevelt he has taken up the bill to bring agricultural and industrial education to children who do not have access to college because they are sons of laborers and farmers. Germany has a system to prepare boys for apprenticeship and work starting at age fourteen. Page quotes Roosevelt in the report he encloses knowing Roosevelt is sympathetic to the project and hopes he will provide Page with encouragement by referring to the bill in The Outlook.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Creator(s)

Page, Carroll Smalley, 1843-1925

President Roosevelt sends the letter to William H. Taft for corrections. He has also sent copies to Representatives J. S. Sherman and William Brown McKinley, Republican Committee Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, and Secretary of State Elihu Root for comments. Roosevelt suggests Taft also review it with a western radical.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Frank B. Kellogg that he believes that Senator Albert J. Beveridge, not Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, should be temporary chairman.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Maude E. Mosher writes to Theodore Roosevelt to help her family with their financial troubles. Mosher grew up in Beaver, Pennsylvania, where her father, John B. Young, was a famous lawyer. In 1888, she married Lemuel L. Mosher, also a lawyer. They purchased land in Wagoner, Oklahoma, where they are raising their five sons. Mosher hopes to keep her sons employed at home, to prevent them from getting involved with drinking and smoking. They are $700 behind on their mortgage, and Mosher is hoping Roosevelt can help them. She lists several prominent politicians and judges, who can vouch for her family’s good character, that Roosevelt can consult.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-27

Creator(s)

Mosher, Maud E. (Maud Eva), 1867-1942

Roy A. Haynes asks Theodore Roosevelt to attend and speak at the Hillsboro Chautauqua during the week of August 12–18, 1912, highlighting the event’s role in promoting public thinking in rural communities and noting Hillsboro’s historic significance and past distinguished speakers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-11

Creator(s)

Haynes, Roy A. (Roy Asa), 1881-1940

William Wingate Sewall is relieved to hear that Archibald B. Roosevelt is doing well. Sewall’s family has lost many members to diphtheria. Sewall recommends burning all clothes, toys, and books that Archie may have touched, to avoid a later outbreak of the disease in the Roosevelt family. Sewall enjoyed a presentation delivered by Jonathan P. Dolliver. He alerts President Roosevelt that his friend Henry R. Colesworthy’s son will be visiting Washington soon. The young man hopes to shake Roosevelt’s hand, and Sewall hopes Roosevelt will oblige him. Sewall also hopes that some of the Roosevelt family might visit in the summer.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-23

Creator(s)

Sewall, William Wingate, 1845-1930

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.'”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-29

Creator(s)

Mahony, Felix, 1867-1939

A number of men are in a “railroad rate bill” train car, including President Roosevelt, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, West Virginia Senator Stephen B. Elkins, Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox, Texas Senator Joseph W. Bailey, Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and Wisconsin Senator John C. Spooner. Some of them hold “amendment” cards. Caption: Engineer Roosevelt—”Who’s running this train, anyhow?”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-24

Creator(s)

Maybell, Claude, 1872-

Lyman Abbott draws Theodore Roosevelt’s attention to an item in The Globe which might amuse Roosevelt and William H. Taft. Abbott also discusses an amendment to the Dolliver bill which Judge Taft approves.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-09

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

C. L. Davidson responds to a letter published by Kansas Senator Chester I. Long regarding the Dolliver Bill, Hepburn Act, and decisions regarding the Interstate Commerce Commission and railroad rates, and how these decisions will affect Wichita, Kansas.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-25

Creator(s)

Unknown

Senator Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for the photograph and comments on a speech that Senator Dolliver made recently.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-19

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver asks that President Roosevelt write a letter to be delivered at Senator Knute Nelson’s sixtieth birthday party.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-31

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Text of the speeches delivered by Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Senator Thomas Henry Carter, and Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker at the 1904 Republican National Convention.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-23

Creator(s)

Unknown

On the Senate floor, several Senators engage in a free-for-all around a signpost labeled “Rail Road Interests.” Watching the melee from the “Visitors’ Gallery” is Joseph R. Burton.

comments and context

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-03-21

Theodore Roosevelt cannot ask Andrew Carnegie to see John Firman Coar. He has only asked Carnegie to see people on a few specific occasions when he did not feel that he could refuse. Roosevelt adds that even in the cases where he has gotten people access to Carnegie, nothing has resulted from the meetings.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt believes Senator Jonathan Dolliver and Representative William Hepburn both played significant roles in creating the Act referenced in a previous letter. Roosevelt says Dolliver had as much to do with its passage as anybody in Congress, and without him, it would not have passed through the Senate.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-10-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt agrees with Benjamin Ide Wheeler regarding the nomination of J. S. Sherman for Republican Vice-Presidential candidate. Roosevelt had hoped to get Jonathan P. Dolliver or Albert Baird Cummins if Herbert S. Hadley was not available. Roosevelt expects the Republicans to carry the United States east of the Mississippi, but is not sure about the states west of it.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Senator William B. Allison that there is no reason Allison should not publish the previous letter that Roosevelt sent to him. He did not think it was wise to write explicitly for publication before the result of the Iowa primary. Roosevelt has been concerned by the division in Iowa, but has been on good terms with both Senators Allison and Jonathan P. Dolliver, as well as Governor Albert Baird Cummins.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thinks Benjamin Ide Wheeler’s letter of the 15th was very wise, saying that he summed up the situation regarding Secretary of War William H. Taft’s candidacy very well. Roosevelt says he was surprised at the conservative nature of the delegates, but supposes that the cause is due to the fact there was no fight on a principle made in choosing the delegates

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-17

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.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919