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Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt with suggested changes to Roosevelt’s letter to Garfield. He makes four suggestions for changing the language of the letter.
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1906-05-25
Attorney General Moody has obtained the conviction of a freight broker and his clerk for a conspiracy to obtain rebates from the C. B. & Q. Railway. Also, indictments have been returned by the Grand Jury at Nashville against eighty fertilizer manufacturers who were charged with conspiracy of restraint of trade under the Sherman Act.
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1906-05-26
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding New York legal cases involving the transportation of sugar and the Elkins law.
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1906-05-04
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding a Chattanooga lynching case that secret service agents are investigating. Moody discusses whether Federal laws or state courts’ powers take precedence in the case.
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1906-04-24
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt first discussing material that Moody found objectionable in The Sexual Life, a book by Dr. Malchow. Then Moody goes on to discuss a legal case involving Malchow and his book. Moody mentions several key figures, including physicians, who have petitioned for a pardon for Malchow.
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1906-04-09
Attorney General Moody will send the Assistant Attorney General to Colorado and Idaho to ascertains facts and make a full report to President Roosevelt in preparation for the possibility that the State of Idaho might ask the United States for help dealing with domestic violence.
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1906-03-27
William H. Moody reports to President Roosevelt the results of the Lockner v. New York case. Moody states which justices voted for the majority and which for the dissent.
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1906-03-07
Attorney General Moody acknowledges receipt of William C. Bristol’s report to the Department of Justice, which William Loeb had forwarded to him. Moody requests Loeb also send him Bristol’s report to the president so that Moody might continue the investigation, most likely regarding Bristol’s dismissed nomination for district attorney for Oregon.
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1906-02-16
William H. Moody writes to President Roosevelt to explain his involvement in the delivery of the Burns Report. Moody describes his staff’s interaction with the report and claims that despite the slow delivery from the Office of the Attorney General and the White House, the letter was not accessed by any individuals.
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1906-02-23
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding an investigation of Representative Spencer Blackburn and practicing without a license.
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1906-01-24
Attorney General Moody encloses a report from Charles B. Morrison, United States Attorney at Chicago. The report shows that one of the lawyers for the defendants in the indictment against the beef packers paid a sum of money to a reporter from the Chicago Inter-Ocean who was reporting on the proceedings. The counsel also attempted unsuccessfully to give money to another reporter of the City Press of Chicago. Moody brings the matter to President Roosevelt’s attention, as he thinks that reporting from the Inter-Ocean has been misleading. There seems to be no remedy for the situation, given the rigid restrictions on the power of federal courts to punish for contempt of court.
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1906-01-25
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding the pardon of Herbert H. Matteson. Moody provides extensive details into Matteson’s charges, trial, imprisonment, and health.
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1906-01-10
Attorney General William H. Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding an investigation of John G. Capers, U.S. Attorney from South Carolina, and Capers’ reappointment.
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1905-12-30
Attorney General Moody provides President Roosevelt with a “concise history” of the case against the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
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1905-12-13
Attorney General Moody writes concerning the decision of Judge Philips in the rebate cases. Moody returns a letter to President Roosevelt and states he has made one edit suggested by Roosevelt.
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1905-12-15
Attorney General Moody writes President Roosevelt regarding charges against Judge Grosscup. He also refers to the investigation of Judge Kohlsaat.
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1905-12-16
Attorney General Moody writes to William Loeb regarding an enclosed letter for President Roosevelt. According to Moody the letter was written at the request of the Vermont delegation.
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1905-12-12
Attorney General Moody writes in favor of reappointing James J. Martin as United States Attorney for the district of Vermont.
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1905-12-12
William H. Moody returns Nelson Dingley’s letter to William Loeb and discusses a mistaken inference in the legislation initiated by Dingley in addition to the current status of the bill.
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1905-11-22
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt after examining a letter that Charles S. Mellen, a railroad executive, previously sent Roosevelt. Moody states he will keep Mellen’s ideas for railroad rates in mind if a bill is presented.
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1905-11-24