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The Knight of the Wind-bag Enters the Senatorial Field.
Where's My Thunder?
The Sad Parting between Two Old Friends.
Beauties of the Franking Privilege.
King Andy I.
Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum—Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans, July 30, 1866.
A Brace of Dead Ducks.
This Little Boy would persist in handling Books Above His Capacity. And this was the Disastrous Result.
The Paroquet of the Wh—e Ho—e.
"Time Works Wonders."
Wash-Day in Congress.
What the Senatorial Cabal Can Not "Blow Over."
The "Liberal" Conspirators (Who, You All Know, Are Honorable Men).
A Few Washington Sketches.—In the Senate.
United States Senate Theatre.
The Presidential Fever on the Supreme Bench.
Will Robinson Crusoe (Sumner) Forsake His Man Friday?
Vindicated!—Sweeping Accusations.
The Last Shot of the Honorable Senator from Massachusetts.—He Pulled the Long-Bow Once Too Often.
The Old Hash Warmed Up Again.
Any Thing to Get In.
Will the Senator from Massachusetts Do This, to Make His Words Good?
The Great National Circus,
Notice.—No Cartoon This Week.
"Peevish School-Boys, Worthless of Such Honor."
"Don't Let Us Have Any More of This Nonsense. It Is a Good Trait to Stand by One's Friends; But—"
Now Gnaw Away!
At the Door.
Senator Johnson at the Tomb of Schurz.
Under Parole of Honor—The Ex-Officers of the Ex-Confederate Army in Congress.
A Legitimate Question about Home Rule.
Republican Candidates in Training for the Presidential Race.
That Irredeemable Rag Baby.
"Holy Murder!!!"
Fraud in High Places—How Long Will It Last ?
It Struck (in Blowing over).—Picking Even the Poor Soldiers' Bones to Feather Their Nest.
"Fixing Things"—A Proper Steering Apparatus Found.
In for It.
Compromise—Indeed!
Ex-Judge David Davis (now Senator), at Home, after Wandering Abroad for Many a Year.
A Truce—Not a Compromise, but a Chance for High-Toned Gentlemen to Retire Gracefully from Their Very Civil Declarations of War.
More Bravado?
"Another Such Victory, and I Am Undone."
The Lightning Speed of Honesty.
The Ship of State in a Storm—The Ballast Becoming Unmanageable.
The Mandarin in the Senate.
"Ideal Money."
The First Step toward National Bankruptcy.
U. S. Senate—Feb. 22d, 1879. Dialogue Probable.
A Matter of Taste.
The Southern Cock.
"When Lovely Women Stoops to Lobby"—A Capital Picture.
"We Have Come to Stay."
"National Importance."
The David Davis Boom.
The Amenities of Senatorial Debate.
"I Do Refer Me to the Oracle."
Now Then, Butt Away!
Borrowed Plumes—Mr. Jackdaw Conkling.
Puck Wants "A Strong Man at the Head of Government"—But Not This Kind.
A Pictorial History of the Geneva Award.
Our Republic Is Always "Going to the Dogs"—According to Those Who Can Not Run It.
The Way Mr. Conkling's Colleague Should Not Enter the 47th Congress.
James Gillespie Blaine, Ritter vom blutigen hemd.
Senator Thomas Francis Bayard, der Mann mit dem eifernen Princip.
The Quack Doctor's Last Dose.
In Danger.
Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's Vice-President
Garfield's Bond of Friendship for the Unfriendly Senators.
Allan G. Thurman, / The Veteran Ohio Democrat.
This Is Not the New York Stock Exchange, It is the Patronage Exchange, Called U. S. Senate.
Waiting.
Rewards and Punishments in the United States Senate.
Can He Do It?
Is There to Be a Power behind the Throne?
"This Puts Me in the Devil of a Position!" / —Senator Mahone.
A Harmless Explosion.
'Tis But A Step—From the Banquet Hall to the "Black Maria."
Let Him Alone, Now He's Come Home
And It Was Bad for the Bull.
Dead Lock. "Tis but a Little Faded Curl!"
THE SPOIL-ED
There Is Still a Future for the Ex-Senator—
A Falling Off--Of Bosses
Pound Him
Out-"Shining" Everybody in Humiliation at Albany.
Plucked of His Plumage (or Patronage).
Our Sluggish Congress.
The Great Congressional Tramp Bullying the Old Women of the National Household.
The Garden Party of the Monopolists—Louis XV. Style.
Another Deluge.
Hubbell Wants to Be Senator.
All Honor to Senator Pendleton.
Congressional Contempt.
Overtraining Young Horses.
Let the Political Army Have New Drums Also!
Our Congressman.
A Dreadful Attack of "Presidential Fever" in the U. S. Senate.
Eine Schwache Berbindungs-Brücke.
The National Grab-Bag—"Help Yourself!"
Once the Senatorial Apollo—Now the Court-Jester.
Helping the Rascals In.—A Burglarious Scheme That May Be Suddenly Spoiled.
A Preliminary Set-To.
The Transfusion of Blood.—May the Operation Prove a Success!
"Whitelaw Reid Refuses to Accept the New York Senatorship"
Puck's Review of the Past Year.
The Knight of the Wind-bag Enters the Senatorial Field.
Hit 'Em Again.
The Senatorial Puppet-Show.
"The Soul of Blaine" Still on the Rampage.
The Bugaboo of Congress.
The Dynamiter's False Friends.
From the Monument.
Puck's Political Faith-Cure.
"Waiting."
Two Political Paths.
Is the Bull Mad? Yes, the Bull Is Mad. Why Is the Bull Mad? Because He Sees a Red Rag. Is the Boy Mad? Oh, No, the Boy Is Glad. Why Is the Boy Glad? Because the Bull Is Mad.
The President Declines to Furnish Official Papers to the Senate in Secret Session.
Open the Doors!
Cleveland As Cromwell—With a Difference.
"Mugwump!!!"
Serving Two Masters.
"The Profits of the Senatorial Business."
The Senatorial Round-house.
A Pretty Dish to Set before the Nation!
President Cleveland Will Protect the National Cornfield Himself.
Samuel J. Tilden—Died, August 4th, 1886.
Cupid in the Senate—Jones His Seat.
"An Unnecessary Burden."
The Senatorial Toboggan Slide.
Oeffnet die Thore!
The Senate of the Future—A Close Corporation of Millionaires.
Our Senatorial Gordon Cumming.
The Attack on the Surplus.
Re-appearance of the Political Robert Macaire.
The Ideals of 1863 and the Idol of 1887—The Decadence of a Great Party.
The Opening of the Congressional Session.
Is It Coming to This?
Blaine Resigns the Leadership.————Who Will Wear the Mantle Now?
The National Leap Year Party-Whom Will She Choose for the Next Dance?
The Old Granny Tea-Party.—Rocking-Chair Candidates for 1888.
Spring Fashions for 1888.
The Senate School.
Those Dangerous Wires.
The Red-headed Girls and the White Horse.
"The Lobbyist."
It Won't Do!
Hopeless and Helpless.
Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Turkey.
The Bosses of the Senate. (Acc. No. 38.00392.001)
Gulliver Morton Among the Senatorial Brobdignaggians [sic].
They All Do It—Cringing Before the Irish Vote and Support.
Times Have Changed.
Political Football.
Gulliver Morton unter den Riefen im Senatorenland.
The Political "Angelus."
The Way We Become Senator Nowadays.
The "Social Precedence" Agony in Washington.
Better No Senate than a Boodle Senate.
"We Love It for the Enemies It Has Made."
None but Millionaires Need Apply. —The Coming Style of Presidential Election.
They Hate the Light, but They Can't Escape It.
The Senatorial "Fence."
Our Protection Levee.
"Dignified Silence."
In the Hands of the Enemy.
Robin Hood with a Difference.
Dangerous Doctors for a Desperate Case.
The Hopeless Appeal of New York Interests to Incompetence and Inefficiency.
Puck's Fourth-of-July Nightmare—Produced by the Republican High Jinks in Washington.
Another Prop Needed.
A Very Pretty Picnic for the Newly-Made States—But No Show for Democratic Territories.
Base and Unpatriotic.
Senate Screeching.
Our Law-makers at Work.
Who Cares?
The Adoration of the 6,000-Year-Old Chinese Idea.
Their Only Utility.
"Napoleon's" Retreat.
Between Two Fires.
In the Political Surf.
What Is Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander.
"Doomed."
Honor to Whom Honor Is Due.
"You Beat My Dog, and I'll Beat Yours!"
It Was a Struggle of the Midgets.
Pulling Together.
"Progressive" Conspiracy.
Left!
All She Has to Hang on To.
Puck's Valentines—To Three "Outs" and One "In."
Unconditional Surrender.
Look at the Leaders of the Disgraceful Fifty-First Congress!
A Shining Exception to the General Rule.—One Senator Elected on His Merits.
A Mighty Poor Exchange.
Too "Free" to Be Good.
That Little Rival Show.
"Hark from the Tombs A Doleful Sound!"
Time to Clean Up, Boys, and Look Pretty!
The Unruly Democratic White Elephant.
Vier "Valentines".
The People's Demand.
The Frankenstein of the Snap Convention.
And He is Howling For It.
The Sinking Ship.
"Just about Even!"
What Is Needed — A Thorough Sifting.
Denfwürdige Keulenfchläge. 24. März 1892.
Another "Me Too"!
"He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets There."
The Task of Diogenes Not in It.
"Don't Be Afraid, Doggie—We Won't hurt you!"
The Latest Don Quixote.
The Political Safe-Breakers Foiled.
The Log Jam on the Potomac.
They've Already Had More Than They Wanted.
Awaiting the News from Washington.
Coroner Harrison Is a Little Too Previous.
The Senatorial Firemen Talk While the Fire Burns!
A Senatorial Desperado.
They Can't Hold Up This Train!
"Senatorial Courtesy."
Gulliver Bound Down by the Democratic LilLiputians.
The Reason of the Trouble.
Throw 'Em Out!
"Busted."
Through the Jungle.
Will They Get Through?
The 'Peanut' Hagenbeck and His 'Senatorial Courtesy' Animal Show.
Fighting the Flames.
In His Second Childhood.
In the Saddle.
At Their Door.
The United States Stock Exchange.
A Senate for Revenue Only.
The "Cuckoo" Birds Have Tackled the Biggest Job of Their Lives.
Next!!
Having a Monkey of a Time.
A Mother Goose Tariff Tale.
Approaching the Dead-Line.
Mill's Senatorial Search Light.
After the Hold-up.
The Democratic Richelieu.
The Only Thing That Would Scare Our Thick-Skinned Senators.
Senator Quay's Position on the Sugar Question.
Let U.S. Have Another Declaration of Independence.
A Very Sick Patient.—He Pays Well, but the Senatorial Quacks Can't Save Him.
The Boys in Washington Cut a Nice Ripe Watermelon.
Where Is the Difference?
The New Capitol.
Dante's Inferno Up to Date.
Grand Democratic Production of "Julius Cæsar"—The Finishing Stroke.
The Poor Democratic Congressman.
The Graveyard Congress.
Judge's Brownies Give a Snow-Party.
"The Right Man In the Right Place."
Old Jokes in New Political Clothes.
His Wild Team.
Hopelessly Blocked-The Great Frost of 1895.
Mutual Sympathy.
The Dead Issue.
Judge Takes His Characters to the Seaside.
In the Republican Wood-Yard.
Shrunk to Their Proper Size at Last—An Edifying Sight in the United States Senate.
Judge Gives his Annual Reception to the Brownies on New-Year's Eve.
Look out, There, Boys!
The Poster Craze in Candidateville.
Locked.
"Step Up, Gentlemen, and Try Your Luck!"
A Few Pleasant Recollections of the Fifty-Fourth Congress.
The Skeleton at the Feast.
A Down-hill Movement.
The Supreme Court,—"As It May Hereafter Be Constituted"
On A Populistic Basis.
The Joshua of Our Silly Senate in His Great Act of Trying to Make the Sun Stand Still.
Judge Suggests That We Send an American to the Court of St. James.
"She Has Seen Better Days."
Oh, How Slow!
Asphyxiated.
The National Kids at the Seashore.
Uncle Sam's Fourth of July Protest Against Delay.
"McKinleyism"
Unconditional Surrender.
The Old Woman of the Senate Is Doing Her Best—At A Hopeless Job.
The Charge on the Capitol.
The Safe Is Safe.
An Intolerable Burden.
"He That Entereth Not in by the Door—"
"Rally Round the Flag, Boys!"
Has She Got Him at Last?
Notable Characters at the National Capital.
Senator Davis: "Be Mighty Careful Where You Tread!"
A Needed Change in the Senatorial Lobby.
The Game Begins
"What a Fuss They Made about Us!"
This Cat Escapes the Senate with a Few of Its Nine Lives Left; —Will It Lose Them in the House?
"Next!"
Following in Washington's Footsteps.
The Commercial Club of Washington.
The Making of a Senator.
The Headsman.
The Ugly Duckling.
'Killed in Committee.'
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / illinois—cullom and hopkins
Congress at Work Once More
The Senatorial Hall of Fame / pennsylvania—knox and penrose
When Congress Adjourns
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / new york—depew and platt
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / rhode island—aldrich and wetmore
The Branding.
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / indiana's idols—beveridge and fairbanks
The Senatorial Hall of Fame / texas—bailey and culberson
Why It Goes Up.
Uncle Sam: "Say, You Old Birds, Stop Your Scrapping and Finish up that Job, I'm Badly in Need of that Particular Article"
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / kansas—bristow and curtis
the Senatorial Hall of Fame / maine—frye and hale
The Senatorial Hall of Fame / west virginia—elkins and scott
Tariff Juggling at Washington
Busted, B'Gosh!
The Show's Over
Monopoly.
A Bad Outlook for Harmony.
The Senatorial Hall of Fame / New Jersey—Kean and Briggs
The Senatorial Hall of Fame / Iowa—Dolliver and Cummings
Uncle Sam: "Don't Let up, Little One, This Must Be to a Finish!"
While the Doctors Disagree the Patient May Die
Trying to Square Himself
The Game of Seesaw
Uncle Sam: "What You Need Is a Change of Scene, and Four Years of Complete Rest"
A Page from Our Political "Slant-Book"
Uncle Sam: "What Do You Fellows Do in this Short Session of Congress?" Statesman: "Oh, JEst Set Around and Think." Uncle Sam: "Is that All?" Statesman: "Oh No; Sometimes We JEst Set."
"Who Said Stand Pat?"
"Trying to Spoil My Performance, Hey?"
YUMPING YIMINY, WHAT A YOLK!
The Insurgent Senator
Putting It up
Jottings from Baltimore
The Boy Senator Nye
Senator Gerald P. Nye
[Senate Corridor]
James Hamilton Lewis (Acc. No. 11.00129.041)
[Aurelius Battaglia]
Vice Pres. Curtis
Norris Resolution (Acc. No. 11.00129.080)
Vice Pres Garner
[Hubert Humphrey]
Image: Albert Gore (Cat. no. 11.00129.089)
Image: [Robert Dole] (Cat. no. 11.00129.092)
Image: [Robert] Dole (Cat. no. 11.00129.096)
Image: Al[bert] Gore (Cat. no. 11.00129.090)