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Assistant Secretary of State Adee thanks President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb for sending Frederick W. Whitridge’s report on the “royal festivities,” likely referring to the recent wedding of King Alfonso of Spain, of which Whitridge was special ambassador.
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1906-11-03
Acting Secretary of State Adee agrees with Assistant Secretary of State Bacon that a circular telegram, which recites the circumstances under which the United States provisionally administers to Cuba and announces that diplomat and consular services continue, should be sent to all missions. Adee will draft the circular with Scott’s help and send it to Secretary of State Elihu Root when he arrives.
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1906-09-29
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses forwards to President Roosevelt an interview Jacob Sleeper had with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, in which the latter requested United States intervention to protect U.S. citizens from Cuban rebels. Also enclosed is Estrada Palma’s address to the Cuban congress.
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1906-09-25
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses a dispatch from the American Minister in Christiana, Norway, about Richard Bartholdt’s candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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1906-09-24
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 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 sends a copy of a letter from S. C. Neale to William Loeb that Theodore Roosevelt may enjoy.
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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 sends a copy of a dispatch from Minister Resident/Consul General Dawson concerning the political conditions in the Dominican Republic to Theodore’s Roosevelt’s secretary for the President’s consideration.
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1906-09-19
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends Theodore Roosevelt a dispatch from Ambassador Reid that proposes a modus vivendi for the Newfoundland Fisheries for 1906.
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1906-09-19
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 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
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
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
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