Letters, 1906-1912.

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Letters, 1906-1912.

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Letters from Augustus Peabody Gardner to E.E. Gaylord during Gardner's tenure as a United States Representative. The letters provide revealing and personal observations by Gardner on certain political issues of the period. Some of the issues discussed are: the removal of Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon (Illinois), discussion of insurgency and patronage among members of the House, food surplussing, passage of the Postal Savings Bank bill (1910), the Parcel Post System Bill, meat inspection legislation, and Gardner's opposition to appropriations for a New Orleans Exposition, Theodore Roosevelt's nomination to the Presidency, and the Pension Bill (1910). Several letters discuss the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy in 1910 which involved illegal distribution of federal lands in Alaska, rich in coal, into private ownership. Gardner supported Pinchot's claims and efforts to expose both Taft and Ballinger's motivates in this matter. One of these letters dated 11 January 1910 published by Houghton Mifflin in "Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner," in 1920.

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