The commercial club of Washington. Illustration shows Nelson Aldrich as king of the US Senate sitting on a throne with a diminutive Theodore Roosevelt kneeling before him bearing the President's Message, around them senators are reading ticker tape or enjoying the success of their investments. The surrounding vignettes show Chauncey M. Depew as a doorman welcoming a man labeled The Trusts into the US Senate, John D. Rockefeller sitting at a desk pouring over Reports and Expenditures, Charles W. Fairbanks as an office boy stopping Uncle Sam at the top of the stairs demanding who he needs to see and why, and two men stuffing papers labeled Esch-Townsend Rate Bill, Tariff Legislation, House Bill and others into a trash can. Date 1905 October 25. The commercial club of Washington. Illustration shows Nelson Aldrich as king of the US Senate sitting on a throne with a diminutive Theodore Roosevelt kneeling before him bearing the President's Message, around them senators are reading ticker tape or enjoying the success of their investments. The surrounding vignettes show Chauncey M. Depew as a doorman welcoming a man labeled The Trusts into the US Senate, John D. Rockefeller sitting at a desk pouring over Reports and Expenditures, Charles W. Fairbanks as an office boy stopping Uncle Sam at the top of the stairs demanding who he needs to see and why, and two men stuffing papers labeled Esch-Townsend Rate Bill, Tariff Legislation, House Bill and others into a trash can. Date 1905 October 25.