Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends a copy of a letter from S. C. Neale to William Loeb that Theodore Roosevelt may enjoy.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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1906-09-20
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Acting Secretary of State Adee sends a copy of a letter from S. C. Neale to William Loeb that Theodore Roosevelt may enjoy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-20
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses for President Roosevelt a copy of chargé d’affaires Jacob Sleeper’s report on political conditions in Cuba.
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1906-09-20
Acting Secretary of State Adee reports to Assistant Secretary of State Bacon on United States warships sent to Cuba to protect American property, including the Dixie, Louisiana, Virginia, Minneapolis, Newark, and Cleveland.
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1906-09-21
Acting Secretary of State Adee writes to President Roosevelt about tariff concessions to the United States by Brazil. Adee encloses a bill introduced in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies which details the specific rates for imports, proportionate to Brazilian exports.
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1906-09-22
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs President Roosevelt that chargé d’affaires Jacob Sleeper received a letter from General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo that states he is willing to suspend hostilities provided that the United States does the same. Castillo asks for new elections as a basis for settling the conflict. Adee replied to Sleeper, telling him to let Castillo know that Sleeper has no authority to negotiate with anyone other than the government that is in power.
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1906-09-18
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb that a telegram was sent to Mark Rolla Spellman detailing the arrival of the USS Dixie in Cienfuegos with additional Marines to safeguard American property.
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1906-09-18
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb of treaty articles which define the President’s “power and duty regarding maintenance of adequate government in Cuba.”
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1906-09-14
Assistant Secretary of State Adee asks William Loeb whether Jacob Sleeper should be cabled with instructions not to give orders to the U.S. warship Marietta since he does not understand the conditions at Cienfuegos.
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1906-09-14
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb that he is returning to Loeb the letter from Consul James Edmund Dunning as well as its enclosures.
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1906-09-15
Acting Secretary of State Adee asks William Loeb to tell President Roosevelt that Minister Edwin V. Morgan arrived on the Cedric yesterday and is today on his way to Tampa to join William H. Taft, Robert Bacon, and others.
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1906-09-16
Robert Bacon has asked Alvey A. Adee to send President Roosevelt a copy of the letter Jacob H. Hollander is sending out to the press on Wednesday. Bacon and Professor Scott have added their edits in red.
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1906-09-16
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb of telegram exchanges between Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon and Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer. The exchanges indicate that even before a telegram was sent to Meyer expressing President Roosevelt’s wishes for him to travel to St. Petersburg as soon as his health would permit, Meyer was en route from Kissingen, Germany, to St. Petersburg, Russia.
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1906-09-16
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informs Acting Secretary of State Bacon that the Board of Trade leaves to Bacon the decision whether to allow purse-seining this season. This relates to a dispute between Newfoundland and U.S. interests over fishing rights on the North Atlantic Coast. The Board of Trade’s position frees Bacon to negotiate with the British government on the matter. Adee asks that a copy of this communication be given to President Roosevelt.
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1906-09-17
Theodore Roosevelt receives a telegram from the Cuban Foreign Office: “Hostilities stopped. I believe peace is at hand.”
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1906-09-17
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs President Roosevelt that Robert Bacon received a telegram from the Cuban Junta Secretary Agustin Castellanos on September 16, 1906, concerning Cuban Junta representation in the investigation. Bacon did not reply.
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1906-09-17
Assistant Secretary of State Adee forwards a telegram from Hungarian statesman Albert Apponyi asking that American representatives be present at the unveiling of a statue of George Washington in Budapest. Since Apponyi does not seem to hold a position in the executive government of Hungary, Adee suggests to William Loeb that a telegram be sent stating that President Roosevelt could not be represented without a formal invitation from the Royal and Imperial Government.
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1906-09-17
Assistant Secretary of State Adee acknowledges receipt of William Loeb’s letter asking about embassy personnel transfers. He notes that H. Percival Dodge, the Secretary of the Berlin Embassy, will be moved to the Tokyo Embassy. He speculates that Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State, will transfer St. Petersburg’s Embassy Secretary Spencer F. Eddy to the newly vacated post in Berlin but notes that the move is not yet definite.
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1906-09-08
Assistant Secretary of State Adee thanks President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb for his prompt reply regarding the Spanish commercial arrangement and has passed along the proclamation to the press.
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1906-08-30
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informs President Roosevelt’s secretary that Minister John Hicks has telegraphed from Chile. The Charleston carrying Secretary of State Elihu Root and his family has not yet arrived, possibly due to fog on the coast detaining the ship. Adee has conferred with Acting Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry about Root’s travel plans to Cartagena, Colombia, and thinks the Columbia will serve his purpose best. The trip has been organized accordingly, and Newberry has notified President Roosevelt. Adee has also notified Root (through Hicks) that Roosevelt hopes Root will go to San Francisco.
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1906-08-30
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informs chargé d’affairs to Cuba Sleeper about a telegram stating Cuban insurgents disarmed guards and took horses from the Trinidad Sugar Company. Adee directs Sleeper to alert the Cuban government and to extend protection to the company.
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1906-08-31