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This bill designates 28,335 acres of land in Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park as wilderness areas in accordance with the Wilderness Act.
1977-01-11
Theodore Roosevelt informs Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer that any communication of the Senate he receives should be transmitted to him.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1908-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt has invited members of the government, members of leading associations, and the Inland Waterways Commission to a Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources. He also invites Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1908-04-20
Theodore Roosevelt believes the revolutionary movement has spent its force in Russia, at least in regards to the present crisis. Roosevelt believes the Senate is a “much less coherent body” in comparison to the House and Roosevelt has worked well with Speaker Cannon.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1906-02-01
According to the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania John Dalzell, the House of Representatives will not pass a resolution.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-21
The committee of Representative Jenkins has adjourned for the session. The anti-immigration bill and the Hearst coal resolution will not be reported. Jenkins wants President Roosevelt to know that he voted with the Democratic members of the committee on the Williams resolution in order to control the resolution on the floor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-22
Volney W. Foster returns to William Loeb a letter written by Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou, which was sent to Foster for review. Foster advises that the President would be interested in the March 16, 1904, proceedings of the House committee dealing with the establishment of a National Arbitration Tribunal. Foster will appear before the committee on March 29.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-24
U.S. Representative from Missouri Richard Bartholdt has been renominated for a seventh term.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-19
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield advises Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou about the proper use of Edward Rosewater’s memorandum relative to an investigation into the manufacture of paper. The Bureau of Corporations does not have the mandate or personnel to be used as an agency for the discovery of violations of the antitrust laws. Information acquired by the department is to be used to structure legislation rather than for the prosecution of violations of federal statutes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-22
Representative Dixon writes to the Secretary of the Interior regarding allegations about James H. Monteath, Agent of the Blackfeet in Montana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-23
Booker T. Washington informs President Roosevelt that the Commerce Committee in the House has appointed Dr. William Demos Crum as U.S. Collector of Customs. Washington will, if necessary, use his influence on the Senate selection of Dr. Crum as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-22
Theodore E. Burton discusses recent remarks concerning construction of naval war ships. Burton’s postscript mentions remarks made in articles about the Isthmian Canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-24
Representative Greenway will be unable to accept her appointment to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission until she understands the obligations. Greenway has considerable responsibilities in her role as a representative from Arizona and she is not given much margin for outside privileges.
1934-06-07
Senator Norbeck reviews S. 3204, a bill to secure funding for the completion of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Norbeck hopes Representative Greenway can assist in “ironing out the opposition.”
1935-07-25
Due to the limited capacity of the Hall of the House of Representatives and the demand for tickets, those expecting to attend the ceremony should notify Senator Wadsworth.
1919-02-01
Invitation to a memorial service commemorating the life, character, and public service of Theodore Roosevelt being held by the United States Congress.
1919-02-01
A baseball game between the “Ultimate Consumer A. C. [Athletic Club]” and the “Monopoly Giants” is underway. A “Giants” ballplayer is sliding head-first into a base and is being tagged out by a “Consumer” ballplayer with a ball labeled “Tariff Reduction.” Although the base runner has not even reached the base, the umpire labeled “Congress” calls the base runner, who winks and points at the umpire, safe. Caption: “He’s safe!”
“Safe” has a double meaning. Besides the baseball context, the Congress–represented by a caricature of Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, author of the Payne-Aldrich Act, which raised tariff rates–made things safe for trusts (monopolies), in the eyes of Puck Magazine.
A man representing big business exhorts two men labeled “Trusts” to test their strength by hitting a peg shaped like a man labeled “Consumer” with a large mallet labeled “Tariff.” Joseph Gurney Cannon is standing to the left, pointing a baton at the consumer, showing the man with the mallet where to strike. The top of the tower, where the bell hangs, is labeled “Profits.” The U.S. Capitol is just beyond the trees, in the background. Caption: The harder you hit it, the higher it goes.
In this depiction of every carnival’s test-of-strength device, the generic bloated characters representing trusts encourage each other to pound the consumer so as to win prizes: higher profits.
Several congressmen labeled “Gardner, Champ Clark, De Armond, Sulzer, Goldfogle, Ollie James, Fitzgerald, [and] Burton Harrison” and others are engaged in a brawl on the floor of the House of Representatives. In the background, Sereno E. Payne is addressing the Speaker of the House, Joseph Gurney Cannon.
As the sixty-first Congress was seated in March 1909 the Democrat Party had reason to feel confident about their future in the House of Representatives. The party still was in the distinct minority, but a growing restlessness in the electorate presaged political changes; more and more Republican representatives declared themselves anti-Establishment Insurgents likely to resist the House’s Old Guard; and the popular Theodore Roosevelt would be abroad for more than a year, his Republican influence absent from politics.
Charles J. Bonaparte speaks on the importance of electing a Republican House of Representatives, noting that while the governorship of Maryland and mayoralty of Baltimore are important topics for the following year, the people he is speaking to must first face the election currently at hand. Positions like judges can be voted for on the individual merits of the judge, but elections such as that for the House of Representatives must be faced in a partisan manner in order to help carry on the Republican policies that have so far been successful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-25