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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-09-23
Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
Gifford Pinchot writes to Theodore Roosevelt in Africa to provide a recap of current events. An investigation into Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger and the Forest Service will begin shortly. Pinchot believes that special interests control Congress and President William H. Taft’s administration, whose actions are characterized by “a most surprising weakness and indecision.” Taft has abandoned many of Roosevelt’s policies, and Pinchot sees a rift emerging between Taft and the more progressive elements of the Republican party. Pinchot sends his love to Kermit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-12-31
Gregory O. Smith recounts his interaction with one of Representative James A. Tawney’s sons at the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904. Smith learned that Tawney was given “the wheel chair privilege” because he gave a larger donation to the fair than expected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-09
John E. Wilkie reports on the recent debates in the House Committee on Appropriations surrounding the Secret Service’s payment and involvement in land fraud cases. Wilkie outlines and refutes the claims made by some committee members, including Representatives John A. Tawney, Joseph S. Sherley, and William I. Smith. He concludes with the observation that the committee members “alone were responsible” for the state of Congress and that “no executive officer” is to blame.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-08
Albert Shaw approves of President Roosevelt’s recent message relating to the Secret Service. He reminds Roosevelt of a promise to write a letter about Abraham Lincoln that could be published in the American Review of Reviews. He will not hold Roosevelt to this if it is inconvenient, but he hopes that Roosevelt would be willing to write about Lincoln’s work as an executive, “dealing from day to day with the problems that a President has to face, the big things and the little things.” Shaw feels that with the recent death of Grover Cleveland, there is now no one better suited to write on this topic, and hopes that Roosevelt will be able to write something.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-30
President-elect Taft has received William Loeb’s letter, as well as the copy of the letter Loeb sent to James A. Tawney. Taft approves of Loeb’s action, and thinks it is necessary. He has spoken to Timothy L. Woodruff, who has made a statement removing himself from the race, as Loeb predicted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-30
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou has spoken to Representative James A. Tawney, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who has promised to provide funds of $300,000 to allow for moving the coins from San Francisco.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-01
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on several matters. The Court of Enquiry’s findings exculpate Admiral Robley D. Evans, though Admiral George Albert Converse hints that Evans’s rapid signals may have contributed to the collision. Bonaparte will scrutinize the matter carefully. He encloses a report from the commander of the Portsmouth, and though the New Jersey militiamen performed no “great feat,” he suggests sending praise anyway because naval officers are “decidedly ‘sniffy'” toward them. Bonaparte has received many favorable letters about anarchism, but the occasional unfavorable ones amuse him and he has enclosed one such letter. He feels that the Navy faces an uphill battle meeting its needs due to the clashing views of those on the deciding committees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-19
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou reports to President Roosevelt on Senator Charles W. Fairbanks’s campaign progress. Fairbanks is “having a pretty ticklish time of it,” and Cortelyou recommends that he limit appearances in personal homes so as not to get caught up in local factions. The election outcome in the West looks good, but Cortelyou does not want the Republican campaigners to lessen their effort going into November.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-16
Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne and Republican Congressmen Robert C. Morris, Francis G. Newlands, Henry Allen Cooper, and James A. Tawney pulling on a rope to lift a bucket from a well. Their efforts are hampered by a stick “Dutch Standard” knotted into the rope “Tariff Law 1897” at the pulley. The cartoon refers to efforts by Republican congressmen to aid Cuba while high tariffs on sugar imposed by the Tariff Law 1897 hampers their efforts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne and Republican Congressmen Robert C. Morris, Francis G. Newlands, Henry Allen Cooper, and James A. Tawney pulling on a rope to lift a bucket from a well. Their efforts are hampered by a stick “Dutch Standard” knotted into the rope “Tariff Law 1897” at the pulley. The cartoon refers to efforts by Republican congressmen to aid Cuba while high tariffs on sugar imposed by the Tariff Law 1897 hampers their efforts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
John H. Vivian examines the controversy that swirled around President Theodore Roosevelt’s executive order of August 1906 mandating a simplified form of spelling in certain government documents. He looks at the reaction of newspapers from around the country, and says that their initial reactions were overdone but were later tempered. He also examines the reaction from some agencies of the federal government, and notes opposition to the plan in Congress that centered less on concerns about spelling and more on Roosevelt’s use of executive power.
This article is also noteworthy as it is the first article in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal to have endnotes.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou sits and reads a “Catalogue of young vice-presidential timber” as Nebraska Representative E. J. Burkett, Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney, Illinois Representative William A. Rodenberg, Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa Representative Robert G. Cousins, and Indiana Representative Charles B. Landis look over the fence at Cortelyou. President Roosevelt watches from the “White House.” Caption: Chairman (elect) Cortelyou—Don’t all speak at once, gentlemen.
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1904-05-29
Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon use a crosscut saw and Iowa Representative Walter I. Smith uses a hatchet to cut “Roosevelt’s big stick” into pieces. “Congress” holds a gun to a “Secret Service” dog and says, “Halt” while a group of men look on: Edward Henry Harriman, a “gov’t grafter,” a “trust,” a “gov’t land grabber,” and a “timber thief.” The United States Capitol building is in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-09
President Roosevelt walks out of a room with an “Ananias Club” door holding L. White Busbey in his right hand and Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney on top of his big stick in his left hand. Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon reads a “6000 word message to Congress” and is confused. Edward Henry Harriman and William Jennings Bryan watch from the door.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-05
This newspaper article discusses President Roosevelt’s visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri and expresses appreciation for the Roosevelt’s aid to the exposition. The writer also mentions the increased positive feelings toward the president, particularly mentioning Roosevelt’s decision to not to seek an additional term. The article also discusses the “race problem,” which Roosevelt is trying to address. If Roosevelt intends to follow through on not seeking an additional term, the writer believes the president will retire with the “keenest regret in the hearts of an appreciative people.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-26
President Taft, as a rooster, has members of his flock labeled “Tawney, Ballinger, Aldrich, [and] Cannon,” as well as J. S. Sherman, under his wings. In the background, on the left, the sun labeled “Progressive Policies” rises. Caption: But the sun will rise whether he forgets to crow or not.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-13
In this 1912 speech, Theodore Roosevelt confronts President William H. Taft’s criticism and challenges Taft’s platform and record of service to the American people. The first four pages of this speech are missing.
1912
Note alleges that Representative Tawney is paid by the millers, and “has no standing here on point of integrity.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03
Senator Fulton reports to President Roosevelt that U.S. Representative from Minnesota James A. Tawney has not decided his position concerning the appropriations bill for the Lewis and Clark centennial celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-08