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President Roosevelt accepts Assistant United States Treasurer Fish’s resignation. Ordinarily Roosevelt would regret receiving such a letter, but in this case he is sure Fish will continue to serve excellently while in Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-03
The heads of Chauncey M. Depew labeled “Compliments of New York” and Thomas Collier Platt labeled “From the Empire State” lie on desks in the “U.S. Senate” chamber, with Uncle Sam scowling in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-12-19
A large hot air balloon with Theodore Roosevelt’s face flies a banner of “Republican Congressional Candidates” and carries a basket overflowing with election hopefuls (and a small conventional balloon labeled “Cannon’s Boom,” referring to a short-lived effort to have Joseph Gurney Cannon contest the 1908 presidential nomination. On the ground, Samuel Gompers is using a sling-shot in an effort to shoot down the balloon.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-10-10
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-03-21
A large man labeled “Big Shipper” appears as a blacksmith holding a diminutive man labeled “Small shipper” on an anvil labeled “The Rail Road” and striking it with a hammer labeled “Rebates.” On the floor at his feet is a pile of coins labeled “Illegitimate Profits,” and eager schoolchildren (Nelson W. Aldrich, Chauncey M. Depew, Thomas Collier Platt, and others) gather at the entryway hoping to “catch the burning sparks that fly like chaff from the threshing floor.” Includes verse.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-13
Chauncey M. Depew and Thomas Collier Platt hold awards “For Good Attendance” and “Reward of Merit” at commencement exercises, with Charles W. Fairbanks sitting in the background in the Senate chamber.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-20
At the top of a human pyramid on a platform is “The Senator.” On the next level, two men are sitting on bags of money on a platform labeled “The Big Interests.” Below them are men with bags labeled “Graft” and “Dough Bag,” standing on a platform labeled “The Bosses.” Beneath them comes a larger group of men standing on a platform labeled “The State Legislature.” Finally, at the bottom is a group on a platform labeled “The People,” who are being crushed by the weight of those above them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-11-15
A large “Corporate Vulture”, wearing a cap usually associated with John D. Rockefeller, feeds a bag of “Dough” to a chick labeled “‘Our’ Senators.” Two other chicks in the nest, which is made of money, are labeled “‘Our’ Legislatures” and “‘Our’ Judges.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-06
A large William H. Taft wears a stars and stripes turban, with a large knife labeled “The Big Bolo” stuck in his belt and a notice attached stating “For Stand Patters.” He is speaking to a group of diminutive figures labeled variously “Congressman” with a “Manila Souvenir Spoon,” “Philippine Industries, Free Trade Promises, [and] Senate Bill.” In the background, on the left is the boarding ramp to a ship, and on the right are two entrances to a railroad station platform labeled “To Washington Direct.” One entrance is labeled “Philippine Free Trade” and the other is labeled “Stand Pat.” Taft is telling them to be sure to choose the correct train, i.e., not to enter through the “Stand Pat” gate. Caption: Our Foremost Filipino — Now, boys, after all my talking, don’t go and take the wrong train.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-27
Theodore Roosevelt, as Hercules, wears a lion skin and holds a sword. He faces a nine-headed hydra, with each head identified as that of a senator. The hydra’s tail is labeled “U.S. Senate.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-05
A troop of senators, as Confederate soldiers being led by an officer on horseback labeled “Trusts,” march down a street past the house with “Barbara Fritchie” labeled “Dingley Tariff” leaning out the window, waving a flag labeled “High Protection.” Caption: “Who touches a hair on yon swelled head / Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-02-22
An old man labeled “Mormon Hierarchy”, wearing a coat of stitched together fragments of cloth labeled “Polygamy, Mormon Rebellion, Resistance to Federal Authority, Blood Atonement, Murder of Apostates, [and] Mountain Meadow Massacre,” stands outside the door to the “U.S. Senate” and places a puppet labeled “R. Smoot” inside the Senate chamber.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-04-27
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, as an old sailor sitting on a box on the dock, smokes a pipe and watches a ship labeled “Ship of State” sail out to sea. Caption: “Smash m’ gaff! Who’d ‘a’ thought the old ship could sail like that, without me?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-06-10
Legislators drop bills labeled “Bluff Legislation, The Original Trust Buster, Combination Crusher, [and] Anti-Trust Bill” into a barrel labeled “Receptacle for Anti-Trust Bills” before entering a building labeled “Congress.” They have chosen to hope for reform without having to take action. In the background, a trash-collector is dumping another barrel labeled “Receptacle for Anti-Trust Bills” into a cart.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-02-11
Seven men dressed as Roman senators are labeled “T.C. Tillman, Lodge, Stewart, Morgan, Quay, [and] Hoar.” George F. Hoar is speaking to the others while pointing at a diminutive President Roosevelt standing in their midst. Caption: Senator Hoar’s Decree–Hereafter, when he wants to talk, let him ask us and say “please.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-02-25
George F. Hoar, Carl Schurz, David B. Hill, and former Massachusetts Governor George S. Boutwell place their “Anti-Expansion Speech” at the feet of a huge American soldier holding a rifle and the American flag, while opposite them Filipinos place guns and swords at the soldier’s feet. Caption: The American Filipinos and the Native Filipinos will have to submit.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-06-04
Timothy L. Woodruff is chained from behind to rocks labeled “Petty Ward Politics, Dadyism, [and] Guden Job,” making it impossible for him to reach a bunch of grapes on a vine labeled “United States Senatorship” hanging just beyond his grasp. The U.S. Capitol is in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-10-15
President Roosevelt addressing the Senators
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-11-07
“Justice” holding her scales is being buried under an avalanche of paper labeled “Law,” as a “Legislator” at the top turns the crank spewing legislation from the U.S. Capitol.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-10
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Harper thanks Augustine Kenny for the letter. A list of congressmen that helped pass the Panama Canal Bill is not available, but Harper suggests that Kenny consult the Congressional Record.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-08