Your TR Source
S. H. Cowan protests to President Roosevelt the language used by the Senate in legislation over livestock shipment rates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-17
Senator Lodge found the letters from White and Kaneko in his Committee Room this morning. President Roosevelt is not the only one to receive interesting Oriental letters and Lodge has enclosed a letter he just received from Hong Kong which shows how famous the Senate is and how far its jurisdiction extends.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-26
Before President Roosevelt gives his planned “The Man with the Muckrake” speech, Frank Putnam of National Magazine asks him to read an article which he believes demonstrates that there is genuine, widespread resentment about economic oppression throughout the country. Putnam admires Roosevelt and believes that he could play a role in the “Third Revolution,” which will free people from “industrial bondage.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-11
State Senator Coe asks President Roosevelt whether or not Coe should run for a short term U.S. Senate seat in Oregon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-14
Senator Foraker responds to President Roosevelt’s letter about a Senate bill that Foraker supports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-27
Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for securing a job for his son, John, a job that Riis thinks will get his son safely through “his wandering years.” Presently, the elder Riis is recuperating in the hospital after having a heart treatment to which he is responding well. As it is the first day of Lent, he encourages Roosevelt that with spring soon at hand, he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will “have peace in the White House” and be able to rest. In a postscript, Riis remarks that the happenings of the Senate remind him “of the man who digged a pit for his enemy and fell therein himself.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-27
Julius M. Mayer writes to President Roosevelt regarding the progress and possibility of two bills and their impact on New York State. Mayer asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-19
Philander C. Knox writes to President Roosevelt to express his concern regarding Roosevelt’s handling of an impending rate regulation bill. Knox cautions Roosevelt to remember his original position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-02
Senator Long writes to President Roosevelt to detail his suggestions regarding railroad rate legislation and the Hepburn Bill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-03
John St. Loe Strachey writes to President Roosevelt on a variety of topics including Roosevelt’s daughter’s upcoming marriage, the current state of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the current state of the Senate of the United States, and his personal opinion of Edward Grey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-29
Senator Long details to President Roosevelt the trouble he is having in Kansas gathering support for the Dolliver and Hepburn bills. Long’s specific opponents are the Kansas Civic League, a state organization focused on railroad rate legislation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-30
An “exasperated” admirer of President Roosevelt writes to William Loeb regarding Senator Benjamin R. Tillman’s behavior in Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-18
An anonymous “Democrat” writes to President Roosevelt, discussing a man’s right to force people out of his home. The author mentions he is referring to Senator Benjamin R. Tillman. The author also claims that most daily papers are owned by “Wall Street gamblers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-18
Judge Pritchard writes to President Roosevelt regarding John Lowndes McLaurin and his plans on a specific matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-08
Thomas W. McNeil writes to President Roosevelt regarding Senate opposition to rate legislation and to the Panama Canal. While public opinion was formerly with Roosevelt and against the Senate, McNeil believes that the Mrs. Morris incident and how Mrs. Morris was treated by William Loeb and Benjamin F. Barnes have turned this around, endangering the chance for the legislation to pass. McNeil urges Roosevelt to let Loeb and Barnes go, in the interest of these reforms.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-09
Francis J. Heney writes to President Roosevelt regarding Senator Charles William Fulton’s response to the reports made by Heney during his recent tenure as the district attorney for the state of Oregon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-10
Chairman Shonts writes to President Roosevelt regarding a conversation he had with Senator Hale and Senator Taliaferro.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-12
Senator Beveridge writes to President Roosevelt regarding Japanese-Russian relations. Beveridge suggests Roosevelt meet personally with Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt to discuss the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905
Joseph Bucklin Bishop, secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, sends President Roosevelt a memorandum and a report containing testimony before a Senate committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-03
Senator Hale tells President Roosevelt that he does not think the Senate will challenge the “large salaries,” but that it might be well for Roosevelt to see Senators Alfred B. Kittredge and Albert J. Hopkins, who will be on the Interoceanic Committee which will control compensation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-04