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President Roosevelt will wait until Speaker Cannon comes to Washington, D.C., before naming judges to serve in Oklahoma. Roosevelt will consider Cannon’s input but must pick the best possible judges.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-24
President Roosevelt thanks Speaker of the House Cannon for sending Richard H. Hanna’s letter, which he sent to New Mexico Governor George Curry. He does not intend to remove the investigators from New Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-17
Speaker of the House Cannon may think President Roosevelt is the “horse-leech’s daughter” and that he will “keep saying give-give,” according to Roosevelt. However, the enclosed letter from a respected physician refers to a matter of grave consequence to the army, but comes at little expense and Roosevelt stresses his desire that the bill is passed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-28
President Roosevelt asks Speaker Cannon if the personnel bill can be taken up and passed as it is important to reducing expenses for the Navy. Roosevelt suggests that Cannon speak to Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs George Edmund Foss.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-24
President Roosevelt encloses a copy of a letter that he sent to Charles N. Fowler, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, and asks Speaker of the House Cannon to look over it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-20
President Roosevelt tells Speaker of the House Cannon that he would like immigration legislation this session, but would like funding for the immigration investigation that would provide information to put before Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-19
President Roosevelt tells Speaker of the House Cannon what he said to Representative James E. Watson in his letter to him last year, and stresses he was “speaking for the Republican Party and for the Republican majority in Congress.” Roosevelt hopes the House of Representatives will soon pass a bill addressing railway employees and limiting their hours of employment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-16
President Roosevelt would like to “make an exhaustive investigation into this immigration matter.” He wants to set up a committee in order to suggest practical solutions to Congress, including “keeping out the unfit” and to find the “proper distribution” for immigrants in order for rapid assimilation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-12
President Roosevelt, addressing Speaker of the House Cannon as “Uncle Joe,” asks him to give a speech for the Republican Club at their upcoming Lincoln Birthday banquet, noting that Cannon is “one of the few big men who can still speak at first hand of Lincoln.” Roosevelt also makes light of the recent controversy regarding Maria Longworth Storer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-14
President Roosevelt writes that he will accept the Republican nomination for president and goes on to discuss the Republican party platform and his goals for the presidency.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904-09-12
President Roosevelt informs Speaker of the House Cannon about the proper precedence at the upcoming judiciary dinner. Under ordinary circumstances Roosevelt has heard that Attorney General William H. Moody would be glad to have Cannon take precedence over him. However, in the case of the judiciary dinner, Cannon cannot come ahead of the Justices of the Supreme Court because they are all the guests of honor and it would be a slight to the Supreme Court. In a postscript, Roosevelt explains proper precedence at other dinners he has held.
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1905-02-02
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1908-04-29
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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1905-09-18
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt asks Speaker of the House Cannon about a section of the sundry civil bill that removes a longevity arrangement for employees on the Isthmus of Panama. Roosevelt acknowledges that employees who expect to see promotions and wage increases might not need the security of the arrangement, but wishes to keep the measure in place for those not expecting advancement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-25
The book addressed to “Joe Czar” has not arrived, but will be forwarded to Speaker of the House of Representatives Cannon as soon as it does. President Roosevelt hopes that they have fixed things in California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-20
President Roosevelt agrees with Speaker of the House Cannon’s plan to give the total sum of $500,000 to the Italian government. Roosevelt will pass Cannon’s letter on to Secretary of State Elihu Root, who Roosevelt believes will also agree.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-07
President Roosevelt has spoken with Secretary of State Elihu Root and Ambassador Lloyd Carpenter Griscom about the recent disaster in Italy, and tells Speaker of the House Cannon that he does not think it would be safe to appropriate less than half a million dollars to send for disaster relief, in addition to the rations already sent. (Southern Italy had suffered a massive earthquake on December 28, 1908, nearly destroying the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria)
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1909-01-04
President Roosevelt thanks Speaker of the House Cannon for the letter, and withdraws his own letter of December 30, 1908.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-03
President Roosevelt informs Speaker of the House Cannon that, following the tradition for outgoing presidents to take the chairs that they have used during the term of their presidency, he has directed Colonel Chas. S. Bromwell to order new chairs to exactly replace the ones he will be taking. He has also directed a replacement be made for a small sofa, which Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt purchased for the White House and would like to take with her. A handwritten note states that this letter was later cancelled.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-30
President Roosevelt was greatly pleased by a letter he received from Speaker of the House Cannon, calling it “generous and manly.” Roosevelt says he will keep it to hand down to his children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-14