Editorial cartoon depicting members of Congress looking engaged and excited in the top panel, labeled as "last year" before a vote to receive higher wages. In the second panel, labeled "this year" and after the members have received a wage increase, the room has emptied out and the members still left all look bored.
Published in the Chicago Tribune, date not known.
"Mr. Hammer 314 Tribune Bldg"--Handwritten on verso.
Pencil and ink on board.
Original in University of Missouri Special Collections, John Tinney McCutcheon Collection.
Digitized on January 2018. Equipment: Indus Color Book Scanner. Scanning software: bcs-2 version 3.4.9. Image specifications: 400 dpi, color. Access copies: tiffs with LZW compression, rotated and cropped.
Title from caption.
