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The new consul at Callao, Peru, Charles V. Herdliska, is paying $240 gold for rooms for which the previous consul, William B. Dickey, claimed to have paid $500 gold. Dickey had been removed from the consulate and was appealing to be reinstated.
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1902-08-01
Kaskel & Kaskel spared no effort in looking for President Roosevelt’s requested hose but failed to find the correct material. If Roosevelt can wait the firm will be able to check the London market next month.
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1902-08-01
Congressman Jenkins supports amending the Constitution in order to fight the trusts and would like to know President Roosevelt’s views.
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1902-07-10
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks has been touring Southeast Asia and the Philippines in an official capacity with the Philippine Commission and offers his views on numerous issues.
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1902-07-10
The Kaskel & Kaskel representative will be at President Roosevelt’s residence at noon to measure Roosevelt for shirts.
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1902-07-10
Governor Odell will see if Mr. Harriman can travel with him to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1902-07-10
Discussions are ongoing with the Catholic Church for settling various disagreements in the Philippines, including the withdrawal of religious orders and the sale of church land.
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1902-07-10
Secretary of War Root denies that official educators in the Philippines are proselytizing for Protestant denominations and notes that such activity is against Filipino law.
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1902-07-10
Partial newspaper article stating the views of Representative Jenkins regarding the new Department of Commerce and Labor. Jenkins believes that the department’s operations will be problematic, unnecessarily interfere with business, and be frequently challenged in court. He does not believe that the federal government should interfere with commerce between states.
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1903-05-13
Governor Taft is working on an agreement with the Vatican so that Filipino land currently held by religious orders can be sold.
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1902-07-10
William J. Youngs communicated with Attorney General John Clay Davies and Governor Benjamin B. Odell regarding their invitations to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1902-07-10
Charles F. Chichester and the Century Company are confused as to the intent and meaning of a cablegram regarding Izoulet and the Revue Bleue.
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1902-07-11
Donald McDonald Dickinson offers his opinion on the prospects for President Roosevelt’s administration and the attacks being made on him. Although popular sentiment is with Roosevelt, the organization is likely to oppose him in strength at the next election, and the time to begin preparing for that fight is now. The Booker T. Washington incident and his speech at Arlington hurt him. If Roosevelt could make some statement this fall about his desire to find a solution for the negro problem, it might assuage those in the South who were offended. Dickinson also urges that Abram S. Hewitt and others with large investment interests be made advisers to the president.
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1902-07-11
Frank Field Fowler sends a compilation entitled “Roosevelt.”
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1902-07-11
Secretary of State Hay forwards material pertaining to a dispute between Brazil and Bolivia.
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1902-07-11
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Low will not be able to visit President Roosevelt in the immediate future.
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1902-07-11
Elbert Wakeman has a low opinion of the Catholic Church and advises President Roosevelt and Governor Taft to “keep a stiff back-bone.”
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1902-07-11
Ambassador Choate would like to hear from Secretary of State Hay after he has looked over the letter of July 5. The British Minister wants to continue with the subject.
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1902-07-12
Secretary of State Hay would like President Roosevelt’s assistance in convincing Secretary of War Elihu Root to take a vacation.
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1902-07-12
General Breckinridge writes that the swagger stick has had a favorable impression on the military in the East.
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1902-07-12