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Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee encloses a letter from Archbishop John J. Keene. Keene and Cardinal James Gibbons want Nelson O’Shaughnessy to be appointed Third Secretary of the Embassy at London, or some similar European embassy.
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1903-09-19
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses copies of correspondence between the State Department and the United States Legation in Havana, regarding the establishment of a consulate on the Isle of Pines. The department approves of establishing an office, but would like to know if President Roosevelt desires such action to be taken.
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1903-09-16
Assistant Secretary of State Adee sends William Loeb information for President Roosevelt regarding recommendations about the delimitation of the boundary in Alaska. The concurrent recommendations were made today under both Adee’s and British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand’s signatures.
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1905-03-25
Assistant Secretary of State Adee forwards a cablegram from Charles D. Sigsbee which was received this morning. Adee presumes that the naval vessels in Dominican waters are “competent and instructed to act in case revolutionists interfere with the execution of the terms of the Gray-Carlisle Award.” He asks William Loeb if President Roosevelt has directed any answer to a communication from Thomas Cleland Dawson.
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1905-03-26
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends Benjamin F. Barnes a dispatch from Minister to China William Woodville Rockhill about the Chinese officials’ desire to be included in the peace negotiations between Japan and Russia.
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1905-08-04
Assistant Secretary of State Adee sends Benjamin F. Barnes a copy of a letter from Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte for President Roosevelt to read. The letter includes a report from Edwards F. Leiper, who is the commander of a naval squadron at Santo Domingo.
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1905-07-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee asks Benjamin F. Barnes to show President Roosevelt the enclosed instruction. After consulting with Secretary of State Elihu Root, Adee decided to make the inquiry about Denmark a separate instruction. Root will explain why the mention of Greenland is deferred.
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1905-07-19
Secretary of State John Hay has instructed Acting Secretary of State Adee to send President Roosevelt the enclosed note from the Japanese Minister Kentaro Kaneko, stating that Prince Sadanaru Fushimi is visiting the United States in place of Prince Arisugawa no Miya Takehito, who is ill.
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1904-09-14
Acting Secretary of State Adee includes a draft of a telegram to Russian embassy secretary Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini regarding the Russian cruiser Lena, which is stranded in San Francisco. The telegram states that President Roosevelt has only authorized the minimal repairs necessary for the ship to be seaworthy enough to make it to the nearest home port.
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1904-09-14
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs President Roosevelt that, per precedents set in similar cases, the crew of the disabled Russian cruiser Lena must be held in San Francisco until their parole conditions have been set and approved by Japan.
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1904-09-14
Acting Secretary of State Adee assures President Roosevelt that all three departments in San Francisco are acting in accord regarding the Russian cruiser Lena. He believes that the Russians will disarm the ship as repairs are made if they are asked. Adee includes the text of messages between himself and the Russian Ambassador Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini regarding the situation.
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1904-09-13
Acting Secretary of State Adee relays a telegram from Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor Lawrence O. Murray, which relates to a telegram to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw from the collector of customs at the port of San Francisco regarding the Russian cruiser Lena, which is being inspected for repairs. Adee includes Murray’s reply stating that the collector’s telegram to Shaw should have been sent to the Department of Commerce and Labor, rather than the Treasury Department.
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1904-09-12
Acting Secretary of State Adee submits cablegrams for President Roosevelt’s approval. He instructs Shanghai consul John Goodnow that his purpose is to safeguard American neutral interests in China and to avoid any implication that the United States will guarantee Chinese neutrality. He sends a copy of the same telegram to Minister to China Edwin H. Conger.
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1904-08-23
Acting Secretary of State Adee tells President Roosevelt that he does not believe that Admiral Yates Stirling’s discretion in an emergency should be hampered by Stade Department instructions. He also believes that U.S. consuls in China should focus on safeguarding American neutral interests, rather than committing to anything that would lead them to be called on to guarantee Chinese neutrality.
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1904-08-23
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee suggests that Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates is an accurate source, and that he has already reported on the “royal pretender” Stepan Dusanovicz. Adee outlines a history of the rulers of Serbia to counteract the claims made by Dusanovicz regarding his right to the throne.
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1907-09-23
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee updates President Roosevelt with information about news from Honduras and Guatemala. Harry Percival Garthwaite has contacted Washington D.C. with word that President Fernando Figueroa of San Salvador will withdraw his troops from the frontiers in light of mediation from the United States and Mexico.
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1907-08-30
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends William Loeb a communication from Ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid about changes in the fisheries modus vivendi.
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1907-08-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee gives President Roosevelt a suggested reply to Ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid’s message about the fisheries modus.
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1907-08-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee asks William Loeb to tell President Roosevelt that he sent the agreed message identically to the Central American presidents. He hopes to receive Roosevelt’s direction on replying to Ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid’s communication on fisheries.
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1907-08-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends William Loeb a letter from Mexican diplomat José F. Godoy regarding Mexico’s recognition and support of Honduras’s provisional government. Adee asks Loeb to tell President Roosevelt he spoke with Godoy and suggested sending a letter to the presidents of Central America so Roosevelt has a better perspective of the situation.
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1907-08-20