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Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports on the 1903 Iowa Republican Convention. The convention was generally harmonious and the resolutions were generous to President Roosevelt. The West is enthusiastic for Roosevelt and Wilson expects large campaign contributions.
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1903-07-02
Lafayette Young reports that the Iowa Republican convention has killed the “Iowa idea” on the tariff and encloses multiple newspaper articles about the issue. This will not affect President Roosevelt as Iowa is for Roosevelt “first, last, and all the time.”
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1903-07-02
Provincial Governor of Nueva Ecija de los Santos has investigated the jurisdictional dispute between two priests and found that it is purely an ecclesiastical matter. Father Mariano de la Paz informed de los Santos that the matter had been settled. The reported cockfights were in accordance with act no. 635.
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1903-06-04
Pierre de Coubertin conducted an experiment by engaging in “six hours of solid sport” to document how this would affect his health. He uses the positive results to argue in favor of “all-around training.”
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1903-06
Jacob A. Riis and James Sullivan Clarkson are concerned that Mr. Tanner is in need. Riis and Clarkson hope a position can be found for him in a “quiet place.” They are willing to discuss the matter with President Roosevelt at any time.
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1903-07-03
A. M. Burnett thanks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the news of his brother-in-law’s return in July.
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1903-07-03
Charles Jesse Jones sends photographs of a “catalo robe” and two captured wood buffalo calves. He provides details on the calves’ capture. Jones thanks President Roosevelt for the cordial reception in Topeka, Kansas.
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1903-06-02
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou is elated to inform President Roosevelt that Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne and Postmaster General Henry C. Payne have made amends with each other.
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1903-07-03
Rudolph Forster writes to William Loeb regarding the loss of a photograph that was to be signed by President Roosevelt for the Sultan of Morocco.
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1903-07-03
Rudolph Forster reports on what the State Department advises should be the official title of the Sultan of Morocco.
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1903-07-03
Leo N. Levi suggests delaying the petition to Emperor Nicholas II regarding the condition of Russian Jews after the recent Kishinev Massacre. A delay will allow signatures to be collected and separate the petition from the recent issues in Manchuria. Levi is willing to discuss the petition with President Roosevelt.
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1903-07-03
Acting Secretary of State Loomis responds to a letter from Senator Thomas Collier Platt. Platt has suggested that James H. Worman, the unpopular consul general at Munich, be transferred to Ottawa to fill the vacancy left by John L. Bittinger. However, Loomis explains that the vacancy has already been filled by Alanson W. Edwards.
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1903-07-03
Acting Secretary of State Loomis notifies William Loeb that James W. S. Langerman, the man who delivered the letter from the Sultan of Morocco, is viewed under suspicion by the State Department.
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1903-07-03
Thomas B. Reed’s estate, primarily composed of stocks and securities, was valued at $431,099.
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1903-06-02
Rollo Ogden requests a meeting with President Roosevelt to discuss the “looming negro question.”
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1903-07-03
Newspaper article denouncing southerners for doing nothing about recently revealed African American peonage in Alabama. The article calls for the whole nation to do its duty and prevent these abuses.
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1903-06
George W. Perkins thanks President Roosevelt for giving him the pen that was used to sign the act creating the Department of Commerce and Labor. Perkins remains unsure about announcing the purpose of the extra session of Congress and notes that some work has been done to get their “Western friends into a conference.”
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1903-07-03
Senator Platt believes that the superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington is a presidential appointment and he will instruct Dr. William A. White to get his endorsements together. He defends James H. Worman, consul general at Munich, against the charges that have been filed against him. After consulting with William Barnes, Platt believes that the appointment of General Robert Shaw Oliver as Assistant Secretary of War will be widely accepted.
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1903-07-03
Secretary of War Root orders an investigation into an 1898 contract to supply gloves to the Quartermaster’s Department of the Army. In the course of bankruptcy proceedings, it has come to light that the Littauer Brothers firm, which includes Representative Lucius Nathan Littauer, was interested in the contract. Root is concerned that the contract or the bidding was handled improperly.
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1903-07-03
Representative Charles Frederick Scott of the Committee of Mines and Mining assures President Roosevelt that some matters recently discussed need not cause the president any concern about the Pension Office.
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1903-07-03