Hale, Eugene, 1836-1918

In a letter to Secretary of State Root, President Roosevelt expresses his concern over relations with Japan, specifically the need to check Japanese immigration. Roosevelt vents his frustration with members of the United States Senate who do not appreciate the need to build up the navy and treat the Japanese with respect. Roosevelt cites the need to send the navy’s battleship fleet on a worldwide cruise, and he provides details of his meeting with members of the Japanese diplomatic corps.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1907-07-13

President Roosevelt rails against the United States Senate generally and six senators individually in a letter to Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Roosevelt expresses his frustration with the Senate for failing to ratify a treaty with the Dominican Republic. Roosevelt aims his wrath equally at three Democratic and three Republican senators for desiring to play a part in foreign affairs and then neglecting to shoulder their responsibilities.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1905-03-23

Genna Rollins provides a brief history of the Great White Fleet dispatched by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. Rollins notes the reasons behind the cruise, lists some of its port calls, and highlights the importance of the cruise to the United States’ relations with Japan. Rollins also gives notices about a number of events and museum exhibits planned to commemorate the sailing of the fleet, which includes a lecture and exhibits and programs at four museums, including one in Australia. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

As an addendum to Senate Bill 3899, Senator Perkins submits two letters from Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte to Senator Eugene Hale. Bonaparte’s letters discuss amendments to the pending legislation, as well as the necessity of passing the legislation granting the Secretary of the Navy the authority to dismiss midshipmen at any time if he deems it in the best interest of the Navy. Such actions will allow the Secretary of the Navy to better address problems like hazing, which otherwise require a longer process of court-martial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-30

President Roosevelt is teaching in a schoolroom of chaos as President-elect William H. Taft opens the “Congress” door. The “House Resentment Committee” throws items at the president who holds his big stick. There are two notes on the blackboard: “Our teacher is no good. B. T.” and “Do we love our Teacher?” Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman fold paper airplanes while Maine Senator Eugene Hale tries to take a “naval appropriations” stick. Caption: Getting square with the old teacher.

comments and context

Comments and Context

President Roosevelt might go down in posterity as a strict disciplinarian, and he did deserve many of the characterizations of his leadership talents. But many presidents have endured Congresses that, collectively and in its individual members, asserted their independence, sometimes outright rebellion, even regarding a president of the majority’s party.

Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Rhode Island Senator Eugene Hale, and others hold up pitchforks to keep a Republican elephant standing up on “the high tariff pyramid.” President Roosevelt sits on the elephant’s head.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-05

Senator Lodge telephoned to report that he succeeded in heading off an amendment reducing the appropriations for battleships. The amendment to the naval appropriations bill failed 30 to 45.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-17

Secretary of War Taft returns the letter from Senator Eugene Hale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-08

Senator Eugene Hale would like to be advised as soon as possible the exact duties that Joseph Bucklin Bishop would perform as Isthmian Canal Commissioner. He expects to be questioned “very sharply” about it on the Senate floor. William Loeb has arranged a meeting between Hale and President Roosevelt at 9:30 Sunday evening. Hale also remarked that there are continuous complaints about the accommodations for Senators at the Executive Office, and says he is considering adding a provision to the appropriation bill that would build a second story.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-28

In a memorandum, Commander Sims addresses the need to appoint a new Engineer-in-Chief for the Navy. The Board on Construction’s sudden decision in 1904 to design smaller battleships was due to Senator Eugene Hale’s influence with the Engineer-in-Chief and the Board. Hale has a history of influencing the Navy, and Sims recommends appointing a new Engineer-in-Chief who is not controlled by Hale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-01

An article in The American Review of Reviews reflects on the current political situation in Congress, especially lamenting that both houses are controlled by powerful cliques who work in their own interests, often at the expense of legislation that would benefit the people. In particular, tariffs and appropriations for the construction of battleships are discussed. The author also speculates about the outcomes of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the upcoming presidential campaign, as well as the necessity of a good man to run the Republican convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-21

The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs interviews a number of naval officers on some alleged defects in the construction of several battleships now being built. Chief among these concerns are the questions of the placement of the armor belt, the positions of the guns, and the design of the hoists to provide the turrets with ammunition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-21

President-Elect Taft informs President Roosevelt that he has written to Senators Eugene Hale, Shelby M. Cullom, Philander C. Knox, and George C. Perkins about the matter of establishing an embassy in China. Taft believes that if Roosevelt writes to Perkins and Cullom, they might be convinced. He hopes that they will be able to “steal a march” on Secretary of State Elihu Root and get this embassy established quickly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-24

Theodore Roosevelt writes George von Lengerke Meyer as he is steaming down the White Nile River towards Khartoum. He thinks Meyer would have really enjoyed the safari. Roosevelt is proud that Kermit has developed so well, and he informs Meyer that they are bringing home the skins of three large eland which will go to a museum. Roosevelt was very impressed with Meyer’s report, but he cannot believe what a “scoundrel” Eugene Hale is.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1910-03-01

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt urges Secretary Long to advise President McKinley not to conduct a joint investigation with Spain into the sinking of the USS Maine. Roosevelt believes that, in spite of opposition, Long should recommend that Congress authorize the building of as many as four battleships.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-02-19

A large female figure holds a cornucopia labeled “Prosperity 1895,” floating toward rays of light that illuminate industrial facilities. She hovers above a group of men gathered around a platform with a banner that states, “Protection Issue and Victory in 1896.” Several of the men are shaking their fists at her. Among those identified by name and unidentified are “Hoar, Elkins, Tom Reed, Lodge, [and] Hale,” and William B. Allison, possibly Thomas C. Carter, John Sherman, Joseph B. Foraker, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, William E. Chandler, Whitelaw Reid labeled “Tribune of N.Y.,” Charles A. Boutelle, and Matthew S. Quay.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-10-09

The spirit of General Winfield S. Hancock holds a paper that states “Governors Island 1880. The Tariff is a Local Issue. Gen. W. S. Hancock.” He stands among congressmen in a congressional chamber where senators or representatives from “Maryland, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Kansas, [and] Pennsylvania” are tearing off sections of a large paper labeled “The Tariff?” that apply to their respective states. Caption: Shade of General Hancock–They laughed at me when I said the tariff is a local issue; but I was right, after all!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-02

Emilio Aguinaldo stands at center, wearing military uniform, and holding a flag and a sword. Around him are many old men dressed as women, supplicating themselves and tossing roses at his feet. Among them are Carl Schurz, John P. Jones, Charles A. Boutelle, Edwin L. Godkin holding a paper labeled “N.Y. Evening Post,” William B. Cockran, Eugene Hale, George G. Vest, Donelson Caffery, George F. Hoar playing a lyre labeled “Sen. Hoar,” William Lloyd Garrison Jr. reading his “Ode to Dear Aguinaldo,” George F. Edmunds, Joseph Pulitzer, Oswald Ottendorfer, [and] William Jennings Bryan. A bundle of “Editorials” lies on a rock in the left foreground.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-05-10

President William McKinley stands on a road leading to the White House, in the background. He is delivering a speech, with a group of newspaper editors and congressmen, to the left and right, who have broken into small groups, talking amongst themselves. In the right foreground, William Jennings Bryan is inflating his “Anti-Annexation Issue for 1900.” American flags are on islands beyond the White House. The flags and/or islands are labeled “Porto Rico, Ladrone Islds., Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Philippine Islds.” At McKinley’s feet is an excerpt from his “Speech at Banquet of Board of Trade and Associated Citizens” in Savannah, December 17, 1898.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-01-11

Uncle Sam hands top hats to Eugene Hale and Nelson W. Aldrich outside the doors of the “U.S. Senate.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-05-25