Your TR Source
Charles Sumner Hamlin is working on behalf of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company who would like the Nero soundings in relation to the proposed cable between Honolulu and Manila. The company is willing to accept half rates for government business. Hamlin wishes to get approval for the work at reduced rates from President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Editorial from the April 22, 1904, edition of the Commercial Advertiser; topics include the Cuban relief bill, the South African War, assassinations in Russia, and Philippine policy. A section on Theodore Roosevelt is highlighted in the first column.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-22
Archbishop Ireland enclosed letters from Richard C. Kerens, Rev. James J. Keogh, and John Schroers regarding the appointment of Bellamy Storer as ambassador to Germany.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-26
Albert J. Himes recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels, pointing out Wisner’s qualifications as a civil engineer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Commercial interests in Buffalo desire the appointment of George Clinton to the international commission on lake levels. John Laughlin hopes that Senator Depew will support Clinton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Senator McMillan asks President Roosevelt to be consulted on the appointments to be made for the international commission on lake levels. McMillan points out improvements that are being made that will help the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and other Great Lakes states. He has been asked to recommend several people, but refused to do so. Any hindrance to this project or a lowering of the lake levels would prove a negative economic situation for Michigan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Henry H. Persons of the Mariner Bank of Buffalo supports George Clinton for appointment to the international commission on lake levels and asks Senator Depew to do the same.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Charles A. Pooley asks Senator Depew for help in appointing George Clinton as lawyer on lake level commission, arguing that this appointment is satisfactory to all interests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Jeter Connelly Pritchard would like Senator Hanna to ask President Roosevelt that no action taken on the vacancy at the Court of Claims before he returns to Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Dr. Henry Sutterby states a horse he just examined belonging to Trumbull Cary, is sound.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
With the assistance of John Barrett, commissioner of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Hawaii is moving towards being represented at the exposition. Acting Governor Cooper was named chairman of the preliminary committee. It is hoped that all sections of the populace can participate and that the work will be “broadly Territorial.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05
William J. Youngs congratulates President Roosevelt on the franchise tax being judged constitutional in New York. Youngs claims to have stood up against those who had complained about the law. He states that the law was one of Roosevelt’s biggest successes as governor of New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-08
Trumbull Cary is sending two horses for President Roosevelt to take his choice. Assistant Secretary of War Sanger would like to look at the horse not selected by Roosevelt and asks when and where he can view it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-09
General Young encloses the editorial he referred to yesterday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-09
Wilbur L. Davidson provides what he believes to be the best route from the White House to American University. The route Davidson recommends to President Roosevelt should take about 3/4 of an hour. The actual cornerstone ceremony should take about an hour. Davidson encloses a program for Roosevelt’s information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-09
Newspaper article supporting President Roosevelt’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1904.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04
The Kansas congressional delegation is pleased with President Roosevelt’s appointment of Eugene F. Ware as Commissioner of Pensions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-11
Eugene F. Ware has been appointed Commissioner of Pensions. The Kansas congressional delegation was surprised but pleased with the appointment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-11
Kansans were pleased with President Roosevelt’s appointment of Eugene F. Ware as Commissioner of Pensions. The appointment will be satisfactory to veterans and help lessen the conflict between Republican factions in Kansas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04
Mr. Flint will be testifying before the Philippine Committee. Senator Albert J. Beveridge has requested the record and Assistant Secretary of State William Cary Sanger wants to know if it should be provided.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-17