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President Roosevelt has received Acting Secretary of State Adee’s letter containing a copy of Ambassador Edwin H. Conger’s letter of resignation. In reply, he sends a copy of his letter to Conger accepting his resignation.
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1905-08-19
President Roosevelt instructs Acting Secretary of State Adee to take the actions outlined in a cablegram by Thomas Cleland Dawson regarding actions in the Dominican Republic. United States citizens should be nominated as receivers of the ports in the Dominican Republic, and the nation’s creditors should not take any further steps at this time. This would temporarily maintain the status quo in the Dominican Republic until a formal treaty is ratified in the Senate.
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1905-03-28
President Roosevelt designates Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee as an incorporator of the American National Red Cross.
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1905-01-16
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of State Adee to send the telegram regarding machinery to Minister to Cuba Herbert G. Squiers.
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1904-09-18
President Roosevelt instructs Acting Secretary of State Adee to notify Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton and Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich that the officers may be paroled to San Francisco if Minister Taro Katsura objects to their being sent home.
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1904-09-17
President Roosevelt tells Acting Secretary of State Adee they must have an immediate decision from the Russian representative regarding the Lena‘s disarmament and repairs. Roosevelt wishes to close the incident quickly. Roosevelt also considers what to do with the crew and officers of the ship.
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1904-09-14
President Roosevelt informs Acting Secretary of State Adee that the collector of port in San Francisco should be his willing agent in the matter of the Russian ship, Lena. In view of Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich’s telegram, the Department of Commerce and Labor shall notify the collector and the United States Navy of Roosevelt’s decision to allow the Lena to stay in port. Roosevelt comments that the severity of repairs that the ship needs will determine how long it will need to remain, and that if it remains in port for an extended time, it will need to disarm. Roosevelt instructs Adee to inform the Japanese Minister of the United States’s action regarding the Lena.
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1904-09-13
President Roosevelt asks if diplomats could be prevented from calling him “Your Excellency” rather than “The President,” “Mr. President,” or “Sir.”
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1904-09-02
President Roosevelt will see Alfred Picard if he must, and will have lunch with him if Acting Secretary of State Adee deems Picard “civilized or even partly civilized,” but would prefer to meet in Washington after the 24th of September. Roosevelt is curious about Adee’s prediction concerning Russia’s meaning about neutrality in China.
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1904-08-27
President Roosevelt thanks Acting Secretary of State Adee for the copy of the notes regarding the decision of the Russian Prize Court concerning the Arabia. He agrees that Count Lamzdorf’s principle is “unsound, vicious, and untenable,” and instructs Adee to respond that the United States will not assent to it.
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1904-08-24
President Roosevelt approves of Acting Secretary of State Adee’s views and tells him to let Consuls General Fowler and Goodnow, at Che-fu and Shanghai, respectively, act in accordance with them. Adee is to ask Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Hial Darling to warn Admiral Yates Stirling to keep a sharp lookout so that he will not be taken by surprise. Stirling must be allowed to act to preserve American rights against either combatant (presumably China and Russia).
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1904-08-23
President Roosevelt tells Acting Secretary of State Adee not to state in his instructions that the Navy will not interfere. Roosevelt does not want conclusive committal and asks that Adee consult Secretary of State John Hay before taking any step of importance.
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1904-08-22
William Loeb asks Alvey A. Adee to transmit President Roosevelt’s reply to Professor Jean Izoulet through the American embassy.
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1903-09-19
On behalf of the government of Honduras, Minister Ángel Ugarte writes Acting Secretary of State Adee requesting the United States’ support in maintaining Honduras’ neutrality in the probable war between El Salvador and Nicaragua.
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1907-08-18
Charles Ray Dean, Chief of the Bureau of Appointments, asks Assistant Secretary of State Adee if the draft order can be annulled by destroying it, since the other copy was the one promulgated.
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1907-07-08
British Ambassador to the United States Bryce explains at length in a letter to Acting Secretary of State Adee that the United States schooner, Alert, had no right to fish in Canada.
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1907-07-03
Robert Bacon informs Alvey A. Adee that the Assistant Secretary of State has already issued the instructions Adee detailed in his telegram and notified the diplomats and consuls in Cuba. Secretary of War Taft instructs Bacon to ask Adee to tell Quesada that he fervently hopes that Quesada will not resign, because his services to Cuba and the United States are crucial.
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1906-09-30
Robert Bacon does not believe that the war in Cuba can be ended by a mutual agreement between the two parties. Secretary of War Taft would like to know Elihu Root’s opinion on how best to continue normal diplomatic relations between Cuba and the rest of the world. Bacon also asks Alvey A. Adee for his views on the situation and inquires what the situation was like under Spain.
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1906-09-29
Secretary of State Root communicates his travel plans to Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee at the White House, saying he will sail from Colon, Panama, through Cartagena, Colombia, and eventually up the Potomac River to Piney Point, Maryland. He says President Roosevelt telegraphed him, saying that he will have the ship Dolphin or Sylph ready to transport Root to the capitol the morning of September 30.
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1906-09-21
Acting Secretary of State Bacon directs Assistant Secretary of State Adee to send a telegram to chargé d’affaires Jacob Sleeper at Havana, authorizing Sleeper to request a guard from the Denver if there is not one at the Legation.
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1906-09-14