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President Roosevelt comments that Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus, “must have had an interesting trip,” and wants to see him when he returns.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-28
An old man labeled “Mormon Hierarchy”, wearing a coat of stitched together fragments of cloth labeled “Polygamy, Mormon Rebellion, Resistance to Federal Authority, Blood Atonement, Murder of Apostates, [and] Mountain Meadow Massacre,” stands outside the door to the “U.S. Senate” and places a puppet labeled “R. Smoot” inside the Senate chamber.
This cartoon was drawn at the commencement of the first trial in the United States Senate of Reed Smoot of Utah, elected the previous year but challenged over his status as a prominent “Apostle” in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. As a Mormon he was scrutinized over policies and controversies surrounding the denomination. Polygamy supposedly had been outlawed — a major concern of Americans — but Smoot himself had a mother who was the sixth of his father’s simultaneous (“plural”) marriages. Smoot was seated by the Senate, but trials continued for four years.
Two Mormon elders discuss another Mormon who has been found guilty of bigamy. Caption: Elder Heaperholmes–He has been tried by the church and found guilty of bigamy. / Elder Holikuss–Guilty of bigamy? / Elder Heaperholmes–That’s the judgment. He’s been married only twice.
Among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the time of this cartoon, bigamy was more common than it is today. Mormons were heavily criticized outside of Utah and other areas where the sect dominated, and there were many laws proposed to restrict polygamy. Ehrhart’s cartoon — with the Temple and a horde of children surrounding one father in the background — jokingly suggested that Mormons disfavored those with merely two spouses.
President Roosevelt, Governor of Utah, and civic officials
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
President Roosevelt arrives at Salt Lake City
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
Theodore Roosevelt believes that in the event of a war breaking out with Mexico, raising a division would be useless. The best men could not go, nor could Roosevelt himself go. He did, however, outline John Campbell Greenway’s plan in a recent speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-04
President Roosevelt asks Senator Warren to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Warren to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt asks Frank M. Stewart to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Stewart to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt asks Daniel P. Smythe to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Smythe to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
President Roosevelt asks Murdo Mackenzie to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Mackenzie to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt asks Henry A. Jastro to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Jastro to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt asks Martin Henry Garn to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Garn to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
President Roosevelt asks Will C. Barnes to serve on a committee of stockmen that will advise the Public Lands Commission on methods to control, protect and improve the public pasture lands; and wants Barnes to meet with the Public Lands Commission in Washington, D. C. in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt thanks Perry S. Heath for the editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-10
Senator Smoot offers to arrange for Theodore Roosevelt to speak in Utah during his Western trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-28
Judson C. Clements, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, reports to President Roosevelt the principal facts established in its investigation of the Union Pacific Railroad. Upon interviewing competitors of the Union Pacific Coal Company, “every dollar of whose stock is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad Company,” the Commission finds that a monopoly on coal production and transport has been established in the area. Further, the Commission recommends remedial legislation as a result of its investigation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-13
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Colorized postcard showing a stone sculpture with a bronze statue of a man in front located by a pool of water. Text on the reverse of the postcard describes that the monument commemorates the men who volunteered to be part of the Mormon Battalion who marched from Iowa to California to participate in the Mexican War. The number designation on the front indicates the postcard is part of a series.
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