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President Roosevelt appreciates Henry Kirke Bush-Brown’s suggestion, but it would cost a lot of money and thus would require very active interest in Congress, and therefore is not feasible at this time.
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1907-07-26
Joseph Wharton, a businessman and lobbyist, advises President Roosevelt on tariff revision. Wharton, a member of the Industrial League, does not think a special session of Congress should be called to address the tariff. With the Republican majority in both houses, Wharton believes any debate on the issue can be controlled.
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1904-11-26
Call for stronger leadership from President Roosevelt to oppose Congressional Republicans and the beet-sugar lobby.
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1902
Uncle Sam, as a sleeping Swiss guard of the “Public Funds,” is being overtaken by trees and cobwebs. Two dogs are also asleep at his feet. A building on the right labeled “Public Funds” is being overgrown by a tree labeled “Corruption” with spreading limbs labeled “National, State, [and] City.” A snake labeled “Lobbyism” hangs from the branches, and rats flee with coins from its coffers. Two spiders labeled “Graft” and “Bossism” ply the webs, a tree on the left is labeled “Ring Rule,” and an alligator labeled “Greed” prowls the foreground among tree roots labeled “Dead Conscience.” In the background, a vulture labeled “Monopoly” keeps an eye on a candlelight vigil by a person labeled “Dead Letter Laws” for a female figure labeled “Honesty.” The candle glows with “Hope.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-08-16
Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller sit at a keyboard from which the strings are connected to seats in Congress, in session at the U.S. Capitol. Rockefeller is holding a “Prompt Book” as Aldrich plays the instrument. The men are illuminated by the flame of an oil lamp labeled “Standard Oil.”
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1905-03-15
Theodore Roosevelt has written Senators Lodge and Root to seek their support for the Children’s Bureau bill.
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1912-01-26
Upon receiving Representative Alexander’s letter, President Roosevelt has written to Senator Clarence D. Clark stating that the bill as it stands is “almost valueless” and asking him to make the suggested changes.
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1908-05-19
President Roosevelt takes issue with the current wording of a bill to provide funds to the Inland Waterways Commission. He impresses upon Congressman Burton the importance of passing a bill that will properly appropriate funds to the commission in order to allow it to do its work.
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1908-05-18
President Roosevelt advocates to Senator Newlands for the passage of a “perfectly simple bill” as submitted by Gifford Pinchot. The bill would provide a $20,000 appropriation for continuing the work of the Inland Waterways Commission. He asks Newlands to introduce this bill, or one like it.
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1908-05-13
President Roosevelt tells Speaker Cannon that he thinks that Congress must pass the enclosed bill to continue the Inland Waterways Commission with a $20,000 appropriation.
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1908-05-13
President Roosevelt thanks Representative Watson for his willingness to help the Congressional Committee in the upcoming election, and outlines what he thinks are some of the major accomplishments of Congress and relevant points of the Republican platform. Roosevelt believes that the “real evils in our industrial and economic system” have been and will continue to be addressed by “resolute and intelligent legislation and executive action.”
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt sends John C. Simering his good wishes for the meeting of the Travelers Protective Association of America. He thanks the organization for its contribution to the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and for the support it has shown for the passage of a rate bill.
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1906-06-04
President Roosevelt agrees with Marion Upton, President of the Women’s Outdoor League, in hoping for immediate passage of a bill. He hopes that the clubs making up Upton’s organization will contact Congress in order to lobby for the bill’s passage.
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1906-06-02
President Roosevelt fears that the number of private and special pension bills being passed by Congress has grown too large. Important matters are being ignored in favor of granting favors. Roosevelt does not want to use the veto power on minor legislation but “the danger line in this class of legislation” is being approached.
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1906-05-11
President Roosevelt agrees that William Demos Crum should not visit as it would appear that he was lobbying his own case. William Loeb encloses a letter Roosevelt sent to Senator Jacob H. Gallinger.
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1904-03-09
Theodore Roosevelt found the March 10 issue of George Bird Grinnell’s Forest and Stream being circulated by the men from the lumber and cold storage lobby who are trying to defeat Roosevelt’s nominee for the Forest, Fish, and Game Commission. Roosevelt’s nominations for the Commission all had political backing, and he is facing challenges in getting them confirmed. Roosevelt chose the men he did because his “business was to improve the Commission.”
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1900-03-14
Gifford Pinchot has been “more than doubtful” about Theodore Roosevelt’s attacks on the Non-Partisan League because the attacks “play into the hands of a very restricted number of business interests” and will “cost the Republican Party very many thousands of votes in important States.” Roosevelt is being advised on this issue by F. R. Stevens, a former lobbyist for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Pinchot believes that Stevens is not an effective advocate for farmers, that he has a “big business point of view.” Pinchot also encloses a copy of his statement on President Woodrow Wilson’s “first answer to the German peace move.”
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1918-10-16
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his review of “Our Vanishing Wild Life” in The Outlook. The New York Zoological Society lobbied for the suppression of traffic of wild birds’ plumage. Hornaday is also optimistic that the Federal Migratory Bird Bill will pass.
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1913-02-03
Senator Borah asks Theodore Roosevelt to contact Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Curtis, and Elihu Root to seek their support for passage of the Children’s Bureau bill.
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1912-01-24
Joseph Deutsch feels that Theodore Roosevelt is one of the people in the United States most able to influence legislation, and therefore sends him a circular letter to be sent to Congress. He requests that he lend his aid to the matter as much as he is able.
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1911-08-02