Legislative amendments

Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker raises an “amendment” toward President Roosevelt. Foraker is behind a small hill that has the sign of “Foraker’s Forte” with a “Brownsville Affair” flag. Roosevelt fires his revolver in his left hand and holds a “special message” sword in his right hand as he says, “Surrender, haul down that flag!!”

comments and context

Comments and Context

James Calvert Smith, one of the most consistent harsh critics of Theodore Roosevelt during the president’s second term, is a frequent presence in the cartoon-clipping scrapbooks kept by the White House. Almost month by month, even as his opprobrium remained steady, as drawing style improved — compositions, caricatures, techniques like shading and lettering. He would soon leave the ranks of political cartooning, however, and (as “Calvert”) become a popular magazine gag cartoonist, mostly for Judge magazine.

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to issue an amendment to the orders withdrawing coal lands in the United States and Alaska from entry.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-14

John R. Dos Passos proposes an amendment to the current federal anti-trust law. Major changes he proposes include that the trust must be detrimental to the public, and that the decision of whether a trust was detrimental would be made by a jury, rather than only by a judge.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-01

Senator Beveridge plans to attend to the speech that President Roosevelt mentioned to him, but with a slight delay. He comments to Roosevelt on several topics surrounding the bill for inspection of meat packing facilities. Beveridge asks that if George P. McCabe, a solicitor in the Department of Agriculture, is drafting an amendment to his bill it be submitted to him, and that Roosevelt communicate with him if he has any doubts on any portion of the matter, or believes that they need to compromise at any point.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-16

Text of a proposed amendment that will allow Delaware Indians that have settled and improved land in the Cherokee Nation to first select from these lands for their allotments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03

Text of a proposed amendment to H. R. 12684. The bill makes appropriations for the Indian Department and the amendment allows Delaware Indians that have settled and improved land in the Cherokee Nation to first select from these lands for their allotments. Record includes an earlier draft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-08

Gutzon Borglum sends greetings and thanks for the passage of the Rushmore amendment which will allow completion of the Thomas Jefferson figure.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1934-06-18

Edward A. Moseley fears that an important amendment to the Safety Appliance Law will fail unless action is taken. The amendment’s fate is in the hands of the House Committee on Rules.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-03

Senator Lodge encloses the amendment he added to the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill. Governor Taft has noted the importance of this amendment and Lodge asks President Roosevelt to recommend its passage to Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-06