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The Department of the Treasury has tabulated the government’s expenses and sources of income for the fiscal years 1902 through June 30, 1907, including surpluses and deficits. The figures are categorized based on the source of revenue or type of expenditure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-24
President Roosevelt issues an executive order appointing Margaret F. Sterne as a clerk in the Department of the Treasury without compliance with Civil Service Rules.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-25
President Roosevelt issues an executive order appointing Alice Virginia Fought as a clerk in the Department of the Treasury without compliance with Civil Service rules.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-25
Frank H. Hitchcock has two competing job opportunities. President Roosevelt and Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer want Hitchcock to stay in his position as Assistant Postmaster General, while Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou wants him to replace the current Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Hitchcock is dismayed that the press makes him out to be the only man who can assess the current political climate in the Roosevelt administration, and swears that he is not currently campaigning for any candidate for president. Hitchcock has traveled around the South, Midwest, and Pacific coast, alarming local politicians who assume he is campaigning. Hitchcock has jurisdiction over several thousand postmasters in the United States, further establishing his influence over the nominating process.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-01
Lincoln Steffens wrote to President Roosevelt asking him to meet with Peter Fenelon Collier, owner and editor of Collier Weekly and Norman Hapgood, the author of the Life of Lincoln since Roosevelt was interested in Lincoln. Steffens will send Roosevelt a copy of the book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-29
William Croad Lovering returns Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw’s letter to President Roosevelt concerning legislation on the customs drawback law.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-17
F. Norton Goddard submits an early application for his friend, Joseph Watkinson, to a position that may be opening in the Treasury Department. Goddard has heard that Edward Townsend is receiving a large inheritance and may no longer wish to retain his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-02
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw hears that many banks are loaning surplus funds through New York brokers at high interest rates, which are then employed for speculation. He recognizes the legal right of banks to make loans knowing they will be used speculatively. However, he is not willing “that Government money shall be enticed away from the locality where it has been deposited” for such use. He advises depository banks to return excess funds to the Treasury.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-07
President Roosevelt assures Senator Allison that Mr. Wilson has been a valuable asset and will be kept in his position. He is very pleased that Governor Shaw decided to accept the position of Secretary of the Treasury.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-26
An angel labeled “National Credit” with wings labeled “Sound Financial Policy” and “Repeal of Sherman Silver Law” rises above the flames of the wreck of the “U.S. Treasury.” Among the wreckage lie William McKinley bowled over by the “McKinley Bill,” John Sherman being crushed under the weight of large silver coins, Green B. Raum sitting in an empty safe labeled “U.S. Treasury,” with Benjamin Harrison and Charles Foster hanging onto the safe, and William A. Peffer among the lumber on the left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-09-27
Uncle Sam is taking a large frog out of a fish tank labeled “U.S. Treasury” before it eats all the goldfish. Caption: Uncle Sam – I’ll have to kill this here Greenback Frog; or, by Jingo! he’ll swallow up all my Gold Fish!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-30
A disgruntled Uncle Sam, as a dairy farmer, stands on the right, holding a bucket labeled “U.S. Treasury” and a stool, on his way to milk a cow. At center is a cow labeled “Commonwealth” and a fat calf labeled “Infant Industries” that is helping itself to the cow’s milk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-06-23
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw states that the Treasury Department and the Bureau of Immigration will be liberal with the admission of individuals that may fall under the Chinese Exclusion Laws if they are attending the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. China has been invited to participate and the good faith of their participating citizens should not be questioned. Shaw assumes that the Department of Commerce and Labor will have the same policy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-06
Puck offers an “Anti Silver Coinage” snow shovel to William M. Evarts during a snowstorm that is depositing silver coins on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the Department of Treasury building, where a group of men labeled “Warner, Vance, Beck, Pugh, Eustis, Jones, Manning, Edmunds, [Mc]Pherson, [and] Bland” are gathering up coins for a snowball fight. Uncle Sam is caught in the storm on the right, whereas on the left and to the west, a “Twenty Dollars” gold piece sets like the sun over a prosperous and expanding nation. Between them are “Closed” snowbound factories. Caption: Puck – “Now, Mr. Evarts, New York expects you to take right hold and help shovel Uncle Sam out of this silver trouble.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-01-20
“Policeman Puck” and Uncle Sam investigate a robbery at the U.S. Treasury. A safe has been broken into and a barrel labeled “150,000,000 $ Surplus” is empty, and there is a hole in the floor which leads to the Congressional chamber, below. A crumpled notice on the floor of the chamber states, “Congressional Theatre – The Hit of the Season!!! ‘The 40 Thieves’ – Keifer manager, Robeson property man.” The robbery happens to coincide with the end of the first session of the 47th Congress. A ladder labeled “Adjournment of Congress” leans against an open window, supported by John A. Logan and John Sherman, as Horace F. Page and two other Congressmen descend. Other Congressmen, among them George M. Robeson carrying a sack labeled “Navy Appropriation” and James D. Cameron dragging a sack labeled “River & Harbor,” are headed for their home states carrying sacks with “$” on them. Caption: Policeman Puck to Uncle Sam–“This is the work of Professionals!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-16
Black ink cartoon of President Roosevelt dressed in an admiral’s uniform and standing on a copy of the United States Constitution. He is addressing six men, all with Roosevelt’s face. One of the men is dressed as a cook and labeled “Treasury.” The rest are in Naval uniforms with the labels Army, Cabinet, Navy, Senate, and House. In the background is a ship’s smokestack labeled “The Uncle Sam Teddy.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1904-06-12
President Roosevelt denies using his office to influence the nomination of any presidential candidate. He provides a detailed list of the appointments he has made in the last eleven months to show that all of these appointments would have been made even if there were not an upcoming election.
1908-02-01
Henry Martyn Hoyt encloses a copy of his reply to the request of Postmaster General Payne for an opinion concerning the liability of Baltimore Postmaster S. Davies Warfield. Hoyt will advise Attorney General Knox to discuss the matter with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-30
The private secretary returns to the Treasury Secretary the letter from Connecticut Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-31
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw has decided to personally investigate the dispute between the Treasury Department and Boston importers regarding the acceptance of release bonds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-27