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President Roosevelt will dine with Wayne MacVeagh and Justice White on Tuesday. They will discuss “corporation matters.” Roosevelt has a high regard for Mr. Trigg but would prefer to appoint a “good Republican” to the judgeship.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-12
President Roosevelt follows up on a few matters. He requests Senator Knox speak during the current campaign citing that it is Knox’s duty as a political leader.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-22
In response to a “extraordinary statement” in William Randolph Hearst’s paper, President Roosevelt tells Joseph Bucklin Bishop that although he is fond of his uncle Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, they rarely agree on politics. Roosevelt did not make a statement that he did not intend to accept the nomination for a third term as president without thinking it over, and he stands by his decision even though it is causing him trouble in the Senate. Roosevelt complains about the inability of the Senate to ratify his San Domingan treaty. Efforts from both Democratic Senators and Republicans Eugene Hale and John C. Spooner derailed the treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-23
President Roosevelt tells Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, that he wishes Professor John William Burgess would share his opinion about the right of the Senate to amend a treaty. Roosevelt decries those who claim the Senate can modify a treaty, or that the president can veto line items in an appropriation bill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-18
President Roosevelt shares his views on the reciprocity treaties recently rejected by the Senate with Silas McBee. Roosevelt points out that George Washington himself concluded a treaty in 1796 that delegated all questions to arbitration. Moreover, the Senate recently ratified a treaty giving the president the power to refer claims to arbitration at the Hague. Roosevelt berates the individual senators as caring more about the “prerogative of the Senate” than the welfare of the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-16
President Roosevelt writes to Speaker of the House Cannon, enclosing a letter from Wayne MacVeagh and asking that Cannon makes the arrangements that MacVeagh desires. He mentions that the French Ambassador is feeling some chagrin at the apparent neglect.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-10
President Roosevelt believes it is too early to know that Russia will win the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt wants to know what Wayne MacVeagh has said.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-19
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for the editorials and wishes that he could have seen the labor men who were “as clean, decent a set as any one could wish to see.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-26
President-Elect Taft solicits President Roosevelt’s opinion on various political matters, including his inaugural address, pending statehood bills, and cabinet appointments. In particular, Taft would like Roosevelt to review the enclosed passage regarding Asian immigration and related laws. Taft also discusses the rationale behind his potential cabinet appointments, explaining that his choices are based on the individual’s experience, conduct, and character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-23
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge informs President Roosevelt of Charles MacVeagh’s Washington, D.C., travel plans. La Farge thinks that Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will like him. C. Grant La Farge is doing well. Criticism in New York about Roosevelt has calmed down.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-01
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.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1905-03-23
In the interior of the “Political Hot House,” many plants with the heads of politicians are potted and labeled with botanical names, for example “Butleria Cockeya,” “McVeaghia No Chancea,” “Tildenus Fossilis,” “Blainea Sunstrokea,” “Hewittia Tariffia,” “Shermania Honestia,” and “Thurmania Ragbabia.” At center is a figure fashioned from quill pens, a drum labeled “Press,” and newspapers labeled “Louisville Courier Journal, N. Y. Sun, Tribune, Herald, Advertiser, Times, [and] Cincinnati C[…],” holding a potted plant labeled “Arthuria Accidentalia.” A politician holding a spade labeled “Out of a Job” gestures toward the door of the greenhouse. In the background is the “White House.” Among the plants are Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas F. Bayard, Winfield Scott Hancock, George B. McClellan, Roscoe Conkling, Cyrus W. Field, Samuel J. Tilden, Allen G. Thurman, John Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Wayne MacVeagh, George F. Edmunds, William M. Evarts, Benjamin F. Butler, Abram S. Hewitt, Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, David Davis, and a plant identified as “Adams Icebergea.” Caption: Unoccupied Politician “Oh, I assure you, my dear Mr. Press, it’s none too early to begin to set out the Presidential Plants!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-04-05
Print shows Chester A. Arthur riding the Republican elephant tossed high in the air in a “Political Arena.” The elephant is patched with scandals labeled “Credit Mobilier, Collusion with Monopolies, Back Pay Grab, Third Termism, Whiskey Ring, Navy Ring, [and] Dorsey ‘Soap’ 1880.” Below, on the floor of the arena, Samuel J. Tilden is sitting backwards on a donkey labeled “Incurable” and Puck’s Independent Party figure is riding a bucking bull, its horns labeled “Anti-Monopoly” and “Tariff Reform.” Puck applauds from a viewing stand on the right; sitting in the grandstand at left are Ulysses S. Grant, Cyrus W. Field, Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas F. Bayard, Winfield Scott Hancock, Benjamin F. Butler, Adams, David Davis, Allen G. Thurman, William M. Evarts, Abram S. Hewitt, George F. Edmunds, Wayne MacVeagh, and George B. McClellan. Caption: Puck presents another prophetic cartoon – and the sooner it is realized the better.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-04-19
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
Print shows Wayne MacVeagh wearing a workman’s apron and holding papers labeled “Wayne McVeagh Resignation,” standing in front of a brick wall with a large star on it labeled “To be Bricked up for Star Route Jobbery,” with an opening showing Stephen W. Dorsey and Thomas J. Brady. Bricks and mortar labeled “Retribution Mortar” are at the base of the wall, and a pile of “Investigation Sand” is to the left. Caption: McVeagh “Good bye, my brethren; you thoroughly deserve to be bricked up; but I’m afraid I can’t wait to finish the job!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-05
Print shows the members of the late James A. Garfield’s cabinet looking at Chester Arthur; on the wall in the background are four frames with three portraits and a question mark. The portraits are labeled “First Failure – Tyler, Second Failure – Fillmore, [and] Third Failure – Johnson”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-09-28
Edward W. Ordway invites President Roosevelt to join the Philippine Independence Committee. He includes a list of prominent men who have already joined the Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-26
Senator Lodge tells President Roosevelt that he visited Wayne MacVeagh. MacVeagh had spoken with General Rafael Reyes of Colombia and was in receipt of a new draft memo detailing terms for a treaty and asking the United States to work to reunite Panama and Colombia. Overall, Lodge thinks that the memo offered a reasonable basis for negotiation, and while it may not lead to anything it may be worth following up on to show that the United States has made an effort. Lodge also suggests a future meeting between Secretary of State John Hay and Reyes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-20
Wayne MacVeagh would like President Roosevelt to read the attachment and give him an opportunity to make a personal explanation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-14
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses the recent mayoral election in New York. Butler conveys the public’s positive reaction to President Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, and the public’s negative reaction to George B. McClellan, Mr. Murphy, and Seth Low. In regard to his recent conversation with Cornelius Newton Bliss concerning campaign tactics, Butler suggests that Roosevelt invite Mr. Kennedy, James Speyer, and James Stillman for lunch or dinner. Butler writes about the Panama Rebellion and editorials on the topic running in The Evening Post and The Times. Butler also discusses the involvement of Marcus Alonzo Hanna, John Edward Addicks, General James Harrison Wilson, and Wayne MacVeagh in the Maryland and Ohio elections. Butler suggests Roosevelt become a professor of American History and Politics in Morningside Heights.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-09
Assistant Secretary of State Adee has received President Roosevelt’s approval to send a telegram to Wayne MacVeagh if he persists in withdrawing. MacVeagh’s last telegram indicated that he will continue with the tribunal so Adee will delay sending the approved telegram.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-26