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Adjutant General Bell assures President Roosevelt that he has the Denver Coal Strike under control. Bell also mentions his support of H. B. Seaton for appointment as Postmaster of Denver.
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1903-12-10
Joseph Bucklin Bishop tells President Roosevelt that he is looking forward to their upcoming meeting. Bishop confides that he is uncertain about the loyalty of Benjamin B. Odell, Governor of New York.
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1903-12-10
George Brumder expresses outrage that General Arthur MacArthur questions the loyalty of American citizens of German birth in a speech about the possibility of war between the U.S. and Germany.
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1903-12-10
Pages 535 and 536 of the December 3, 1903, edition of Leslie’s Weekly. Several Montana labor leaders will be dining with President Roosevelt at the White House. Roosevelt is returning the hospitality he received during a recent tour of Montana.
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1903-12-03
John Turner, a London anarchist who was listed as being a dangerous character, was arrested while giving a speech in the Murray Hill Lyceum. The warrant was issued by Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou and the arrest was based on sections of the immigration law. Turner’s counsel contends that the law does not apply to anarchy because it would be denying freedom of religion and speech. The three presidents assassinated were mentioned but the counter argument was “we had better go slow in turning sane men into anarchists by attempting to repress free thought or free speech.”
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1903-12
Charles F. Degelman writes to William Loeb regarding Montana records dating back twenty-seven years that indicate a number of Roosevelts from New York were interested in a Montana mining enterprise. Degelman wants to know if these Roosevelts are related to President Theodore Roosevelt.
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1903-12-10
Rear Admiral Glass gives orders regarding the positioning of ships near the Atrato River, over which other bodies of water the ships must keep watch, and instructions for daily updates to be sent to the Department.
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1903-12-10
Mason Mitchell, U.S. consul in Zanzibar, used a leave of absence to visit Mount Kilimanjaro. His doctor had recommended a change of climate after an attack of malaria, and the trip did him good. He is sending President Roosevelt a box of mounted horns which are trophies from his hunting expeditions at Mount Kilimanjaro. He visits with Count Gustav von Götzen, Governor of German East Africa, and he hopes that the U.S. government will take action in a case involving U.S. citizen Dr. B. F. Wilson, who is living in Anjouan, an island in the Comoros.
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1903-12-10
“May I tell our delegates that you desire resolution of instructions?”
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1903-12-10
The U.S. House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads requests all papers concerning the recent investigation of the Post Office Department. Due to the confidentiality of certain exhibits in the papers, Postmaster General Payne questions whether those papers should be published.
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1903-12-10
Frederick Roosevelt writes a letter of introduction for Charles Hall, of the English Army, who will be visiting Washington, D.C. Roosevelt hopes that President Roosevelt can make time for Hall.
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1903-12-10
J. Murray Sanderson, a New York attorney, requests, on behalf of a client, confirmation that President Roosevelt authorized an author’s edition of his works to be published by Gebbie & Co. of Philadelphia.
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1903-12-10
Francis C. Travers is pleased with President Roosevelt’s message and believes that it reveals a “new national life” for the United States.
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1903-12-10
William Wadsworth warns Theodore Roosevelt to keep an eye on political friends in New York, warning that they are depicting Roosevelt as not representing the Conservative party in the business community due to his regulation of trusts. He advises Roosevelt to lay low.
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1903-12-10
Suggested steps that the Panamanians should take to create a constitution and form a government.
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1903-12-11
Amos Boerum writes to thank President Roosevelt for the check Roosevelt sent to help Boerum with expenses through the winter.
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1903-12-11
Scott C. Boone reports to J. H. Woodward that there is a “big fight” within the Republican party in New York state, and the state “will be lost to the Republican Party” in elections of the next year.
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1903-12-11
Nicholas Murray Butler comments on the sensation in New York caused over Walter Wellman’s dispatch concerning the attitudes of Wall Street men toward President Roosevelt. He looks forward to seeing President Roosevelt on December 19.
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1903-12-11
Rear Admiral Glass lays out plans for a potential military landing along the Isthmus of Panama. The order lists the names of the officers and the number of enlisted sailors and Marines from each ship who will be part of the landing party. Also listed are the types and numbers of weapons that members of the landing party should carry.
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1903-12-11
William Bailey Howland writes that Senator John C. Spooner of Wisconsin will be writing the introduction to the book The Life of the President per President Roosevelt’s suggestion. Howland was pleased to meet Roosevelt’s daughter Alice at a recent luncheon and sends regards to the first lady.
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1903-12-11