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Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle responds to an inquiry by Theodore Roosevelt about an interview given by Mr. Cumming, an employee of the Treasury Department, to the Washington Post. Cumming gave the interview as a private citizen and believes the statements he made about the civil service to be true. Carlisle does not believe he can take action against him.
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1894-03-12
R. H. Chittenden, a chemist at Yale University, has reviewed William M. Babbott’s plans for ensuring a pure and fresh milk supply delivered to consumers. Chittenden approves the methods Babbott proposes.
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1894-04-16
This report documents the voting record of house republicans from sixteen midwestern and western states in the March 1, 1907, vote on the Ocean Mail bill, also known as the Littauer Mail Subsidy bill.
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1907-03-01
Harwood Hall, Superintendent of the Indian Industrial School in Phoenix, Arizona, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as energetic, trustworthy, and efficient.
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1894-08-21
William Lafayette Strong, mayor-elect of New York City, invites Theodore Roosevelt to take over leadership of the Street Cleaning Bureau for the city.
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1894-12-18
F. V. Greene is disappointed that Commissioner Roosevelt declined the invitation to head the street cleaning bureau for New York City. He believes the problem of municipal government is more important than the work of the Civil Service Commission and that Roosevelt would have direct influence in New York City, whereas on the Commission he is merely an adviser. Greene hopes Roosevelt might consider a role in city administration when his term on the Commission ends.
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1894-12-27
Leslie D. Davis, superintendent of the Flandreau Indian Industrial School in South Dakota, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as “a competent office man in every way.”
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1895-01-05
George R. Westfall, physician to the Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency in Darlington, Oklahoma Territory, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as “a man of exemplary habits and unquestionable probity of character.”
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1895-01-05
Speaker of the House Henderson shared Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt’s letter with a gentleman who claimed the law had been violated by a particular appointment. The complainant calmed down on reading the letter but still insisted that improprieties were being committed regarding places on the register of special pension examiners. Henderson acknowledges that it may be impossible to prevent all violations of the law, but he believes in Roosevelt to confront any one who might do so.
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1895-02-28
Senator Lodge informs Police Commissioner Roosevelt he believes that things are improving for Roosevelt in New York because the Republican Legislature in the state cannot afford to go back on his policy. Lodge then tells Roosevelt his letter to the Harvard Crimson is a great success. Remarking on the success of Roosevelt’s letter to the Harvard Crimson, Lodge notes his amusement at Roosevelt’s use of “baboo” since he had suggested that he substitute it for “grocer,” and he predicts that “baboo” will become as popular as “cuckoo.” Lodge believes they will come out successful in Venezuela and vindicate the Monroe Doctrine.
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1896-01-11
Senator Lodge is glad to hear from Commissioner Roosevelt that his note to Mrs. West Roosevelt pleased her. Lodge is also glad Roosevelt likes reading works of Gustave Le Bon. From his experience seeing socialism in Europe last summer, Lodge understands why men in Europe are carried away by fear of it. The best thing Lodge likes about Le Bon is what he said in regard to races. It was the best exposition of about races that he has come across anywhere. Lodge informs Roosevelt that Eliot’s speech did not go well at the peace meeting. Eliot declared that their misfortunes were because of having men in the Cabinet who were taken from the bar without training in public affairs. It seems to Lodge that people like Eliot are always against having politicians in office and it appears they are against having people without political training in office. Supposedly, the result would be a government by college professors, giving Lodge a pleasing picture.
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1896-04-30
Speaker of the House Reed tells Police Commissioner Roosevelt that his wife, Susan Prentice Merrill Reed, is impatient to get back to Grand Beach, Maine, where from a “happy distance” they can observe “the struggles of police commissioners and candidates for the presidency and other kinds of unfortunate beings” doing reform work that is going unrecognized.
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1896-05-13
Washington Hastings encloses an article that advocates for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt as a candidate for the Vice Presidency. Hastings then notifies Senator Lodge that he will be in St. Louis assisting with the political campaign there.
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1896-06-03
H. H. Lyman is not too sure what Senator John Raines meant in his statement. Raines led him to believe that his statements were off the record. Lyman and others appreciate the work Commissioner Roosevelt has done enforcing the excise law in a city as large as New York, although there are issues with fake clubs and hotels.
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1896-11-28
Senator Lodge writes Commissioner Roosevelt about a lunch he recently had with Presidential Nominee William McKinley. The pair talked about McKinley’s plan for his time in office, including policy on Hawaii and McKinley’s desire not to go to war over Cuba. They also spoke extensively about McKinley’s plans for his cabinet. Lodge assures Roosevelt that his chances of an appointment in the naval department are good, though McKinley sought assurance that Roosevelt did not have “preconceived plans which he would wish to drive through the moment he got in.”
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1896-12-02
This document contains the text of the preamble and fifteen articles of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty, also known as the Olney-Pauncefote Treaty, which was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Senate and therefore never went into effect. The treaty states that the governments of the United States and Great Britain agree to submit to arbitration in all matters of difference between them that cannot be negotiated diplomatically. The documents details related to the arbitration process, and the treaty’s duration and ratification.
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1897-01-11
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
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1897-02-15
Transcript of speeches at the Democratic National Convention by August Belmont, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Governor Horatio Seymour, president of the convention; and William Bigler, temporary chairman of the convention.
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1864-08-29
Belmont, August, 1813-1890; Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886; Bigler, William, 1814-1880
President Lincoln thanks Thurlow Weed for his letter of appreciation on Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
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1865-03-15
Secretary of State Seward recounts to the United States Minister to Colombia, Allan A. Burton, the details of an incident in Panama regarding the burial of the United States Consul Alexander McKee. Embarkation of U.S. naval troops for the funeral without prior permission by the president of the state of Panama raised questions of the rights of the U.S. in the region. On review of the facts, Seward concluded that no explanation or guarantees regarding future conduct was warranted by the U.S. government.
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1866-04-30