59th Congress (1905-1907)

President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)

House Majority Party: Republican

House Majority Seats: 251 out of 386

House Speaker: Rep. Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)

 

 

 

Vice President: Charles Fairbanks (R-IN)

Senate Majority Party: Republican 

Senate Majority Seats: 58 out of 90

Senate Majority Leader: (none)

Above: House Speaker Joe Cannon (R-IL).

Enactments:

Tillman Act

Consular Reorganization Act

Immigration Act of 1907

Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary Branch Appropriations Act of 1906

Citizen and Expatriation Act

Antiquities Act of 1906 Prompt Sheet

Employers’ Liability Act

Statehood for OK, NM, & AZ

Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1906

 

Enactments (cont):

Amend the National Banking Act

Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary Appropriations Act of 1907

Sixteen Hour Bill

Naval Appropriations Act

Interstate Commerce Rate Act

Naturalization Act

Agriculture Appropriations of 1907

Pure Food Act

Immunity of Witnesses (Antitrust)