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President Roosevelt runs toward a “railroad rate” base as a “railroad senator” watches. The “public” jumps up in the air and encourages Roosevelt.
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1906-05-15
Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox sit on top of a “Senate” dome, trapping President Roosevelt underneath with an “Allison amendment” and “the big stick.”
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1906-05-14
President Roosevelt sits at his desk and reads, “How to Bag Gray Wolves.” “Pilgrim’s Progress” and a small “Senate” man are on the ground. A sign on Roosevelt’s chair reads, “This is not the time to hunt bears. T. R.”
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1906-04-22
Several senators—West Virginia Senator Nathan Bay Scott, Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Michigan Senator Julius C. Burrows, Pennsylvania Senator Boies Penrose, and Montana Senator Thomas Henry Carter—all white wash Benjamin F. Barnes. President Roosevelt holds the “big stick” and says, “Thicken your white wash and get to work, you clumsy Senate fellows” while South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman looks on and says, “Shame on you ind your ‘master.'”
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1906-04-29
President Roosevelt twists a “Roosevelt policies” rope that “the Senate” donkey is eating. Caption: Ocnus, in the fable, was always twisting a rope of hay with unwearied diligence, and a donkey at the other end perpetually eating it.
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1906-04-13
President Roosevelt uses “the big stick” with a “White House amendment to R.R. rates bill” tag to poke a “Senate” beehive. A number of bees swarm out and sting Roosevelt.
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1906-04-05
President Roosevelt and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman go fishing in a “senatorial pool.” At the bottom of the pool is “the railroad rate bill” turtle, a “Philippine tariff bill” alligator, a “statehood bill” frog, and a “Santo Domingo” fish. On the ledge are two crayfish by a “bait amendments” can.
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1906-01-25
President Roosevelt drives Uncle Sam and a patriotic lady in a car. A “red tape” rooster and “old fogyism” pig run away. An old man labeled “United States Senate” tries to wave him down. Caption: The decrepit Senate shouts a warning in behalf of the coddled pets of its establishment.
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1906-01-27
President Roosevelt leaves the White House with a gun and a “Senatorial game bag.” He encounters a number of animal traps: “railway rate trap,” “Panama trap,” “federal ins. trap,” “Santo Domingo trap,” “Venezuela trap,” “German tariff trap,” “state interference trap,” and “campaign expenses trap.”
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1906-01-03
The Senate room, which has bear skins on the wall, is full of President Roosevelts.
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1905-12-27
President Roosevelt holds a valentine that depicts the “Senate” trying to lasso Roosevelt who holds an “etiquette on international arbitration” scroll. The words on the valentine say, “There’s no use tryin’ to lasso us with a great big whoop and a lot o’fuss with our rope in the air we charge for fair and we’re never afraid of the ‘big stick’ scare.”
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1905-02-14
A “U.S. Senate” hand holds back President Roosevelt, who reaches for a man on “Santo Domingo.”
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1905-02-13
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A Republican elephant sweats as he tries to remove a “senatorial opposition” rock in front of the “R.R. Rebate Special” train driven by President Roosevelt. A cow labeled “beef trust” is upside down with an arrow through its stomach while the donkey on the train says, “Get busy, Bolivar!”
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1905-02-12
Two senators bow to President Roosevelt who drives a cart with goods: “arbitration treaties,” “railroad legislation,” and “tariff revision.”
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1905-01
Several items from the editorial page of the Commercial Advertiser are highlighted. They include comments on the current gridlock in the Senate, the Michigan Republican State Convention, which endorsed President Roosevelt’s policies, and a criticism of Secretary of War Elihu Root’s response to new information about an insurgency in the Philippines. An article from the Chattanooga Times criticizes the New Orleans Picayune’s criticism of Roosevelt’s social equality platform.
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1903-03-07
List of treaties acted upon by the Senate.
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1903-03-05
List of treaties sent to the Senate for ratification.
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1903-03-05
The heads of Chauncey M. Depew labeled “Compliments of New York” and Thomas Collier Platt labeled “From the Empire State” lie on desks in the “U.S. Senate” chamber, with Uncle Sam scowling in the background.
This over cartoon by Udo J. Keppler in Puck Magazine might have run any year while the twin graybeards Chauncey M. Depew and Thomas Collier Platt were senators, such was the routine assessment of the magazine and indeed much of the public (even of New York State’s citizens — this was at a time when state legislators, not the voting public, elected senators, a Constitutional system that had grown corrupt).
A. J. Cassatt encloses a bill that has stalled in Senate Committee and fears that it will not be passed without President Roosevelt’s support.
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1902-04-01
Record of the Senate vote regarding Senator Tillman’s request for an investigation of the removal of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House. The motion carried by a vote of 54 to 8.
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1906-01-18