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Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis explains that her husband, Jacob A. Riis, is traveling in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which is why President Roosevelt’s letter remains unanswered. Riis relays that her son, Willie, is the acting president of the “Junior Republican Club of Boys” and extends warm wishes to Mrs. Roosevelt.
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1903-11-06
As directed by President Roosevelt, in accord with a recommendation by Holmes Conrad and Charles J. Bonaparte following a recent government investigation, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw lists the names of appointees from the Department of the Treasury to a special commission. The commission’s duty will be to develop a plan to protect the work of the comptroller and auditors from political influence and from enmity incurred in the course of such work. The appointees include Charles Hallam Keep, W. H. Hills, and Milton E. Ailes.
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1903-11-06
James R. Sheffield informs President Roosevelt of plans to gather a group to meet with Commissioner of Immigration William Williams. The invitees include Stuyvesant Fish, Nevada N. Stranahan, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Mr. Seul, Mr. Greene, Nicholas Murray Butler, and George Rumsey Sheldon. Sheffield extends a hopeful invitation for Roosevelt to attend the dinner at the University Club.
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1903-11-06
Announcement distributed by the Department of State, Washington, D.C., confirming Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker as the representative and adviser regarding all matters concerning the Isthmus of Panama.
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1903-11-06
Wardman discusses the Fusion ticket, employment cutbacks, and immigration. He advocates for having an organization like Tammany to “put the fear of God” into the machine leaders of the city.
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1903-11-06
Jacob A. Riis confirms that he will join President Roosevelt on the train for Election day. Riis predicts that Roosevelt will secure the election in New York and Tammany Hall.
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1903-10-19
United States Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw confirms his upcoming speaking engagements in Boston and in New York at the New York Chamber of Commerce dinner.
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1903-10-19
Ervin Wardman of the New York Press comments on the contents of the enclosed document. He writes, “There seems to be a good deal of smoke here…and there is always I think some fire.”
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1903-10-19
T. E. Byrnes informs President Roosevelt of the positions taken by Minnesota Congressmen James A. Tawney and Frederick Clement Stevens concerning Cuban reciprocity.
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1903-10-20
Mayor Seth Low writes to assure President Roosevelt that he knows he has the President’s sympathy. Low notes that if things continue as they are now, “we ought to have a good chance of success” and that “we shall put up as stiff a fight as possible.” He concludes with congratulations on the Alaska Boundary Settlement.
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1903-10-20
Horace Porter reports to President Roosevelt from Paris regarding his search for Admiral John Paul Jones’ remains. Porter outlines the progress of his investigation and his involvement with the Prefect of the Seine, the City Council, the National Assembly, Governeur Morris, and archeologist M. Albert de Recardy. Porter mentions the Pere la Chase and Picpus cemeteries as possible burial locations; he asserts that the cemetery near the St. Louis Hospital on Rue Des Ecludes, St. Martin, and Rue Grange aux Belles is the most probable burial location. Porter suggests undertaking an archeological dig to excavate the remains.
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1903-10-20
John A. Sleicher discusses editorials published in the Evening Post and the Sun regarding public scandals and which posit anti-Roosevelt sentiment. Sleicher writes of President Roosevelt’s potential removal of General Appraiser Henderson Middleton Somerville. In a handwritten note, Sleicher notes that he is sure New York Mayor Seth Low will be re-elected.
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1903-10-20
Booker T. Washington informs President Roosevelt of the negro newspapers that support his policy.
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1903-10-20
The manufacturer, H. Belfield & Co., thanks President Roosevelt for reinstating William A. Miller as Assistant Foreman in the United States Government Printing Office. Miller had been removed from position by local union of International Brotherhood of Bookbinders.
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1903-10-21
General Thomas Hubbard has ordered that “the Jew’s” notice to Bishop to be withdrawn. (Newspaper editor Moses Strauss had apparently given Bishop a notice of dismissal.) Bishop hopes that Strauss might be driven out and that this will save the paper. Bishop comments that he never knew what friends he had until this episode, when many reached out to offer him support. He believes he could start his own paper if he wished to do so. He sends warm wishes and gratitude to President and Mrs. Roosevelt for their encouragement and thoughtfulness.
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1903-10-21
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released its report on the Moqui investigation. Mr. Kampmeyer was dismissed and Mr. Ballenger was deemed unfit for his position and transferred to a less responsible place. Charles E. Burton was reprimanded for neglect of duty and for the improper hair cutting order. The Sequoya League is satisfied with the report and believes that Burton can complete his term without further injustice to the Hopi Indians of Moqui.
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1903-10
Senator Burton encloses a letter and clippings from the Kansas City Journal, regarding the Jerusalem Exhibit Company which plans to construct a replica of Jerusalem for the upcoming world’s fair in St. Louis. Burton had previously asked President Roosevelt for an endorsement of the project, which he provided; and in accord with a later request, the President’s name is not being used in any way by the company. What appeared in the newspapers was not authorized by the current leadership, which includes W. A. Stubbs, a railway contractor from Lawrence, Kansas, as president, Kansas state senator John Carpenter as treasurer, J. B. Case as vice president, and William D. Miles as manager.
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1903-10-21
Senator Dolliver will be unable to join Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody for a speaking engagement at Tremont Temple in Boston due to an upcoming commitment in Iowa.
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1903-10-21
John W. Foster sends President Roosevelt a copy of his article regarding the Alaskan Boundary decision, which will appear in National Geographic Magazine.
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1903-12-21
Justice Holmes responds to a letter from President Roosevelt, in which he discusses the outcome of the Alaskan Boundary dispute with England. Holmes had showed Neville Chamberlain (Mr. C.) an earlier letter of Roosevelt’s, which could have been understood, though it was not intended, as a threat, and that may have affected the outcome. Both Holmes and Justice Edward White believe it was a “personal triumph” for Roosevelt.
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1903-10-21