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President Roosevelt would like to further investigate the post office branches in New York and Washington. He requests recommendations for a lawyer to assist in the investigation.
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1904-04-14
President Roosevelt will appoint Assistant Attorney General Charles Henry Robb to help him in the investigation of the Post Office Department.
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1904-04-15
Theodore Roosevelt has spoken to Senator Boies Penrose, who would like to add two planks to the party’s platform in Pennsylvania regarding coal and labor strikes. Roosevelt thinks this is a “first-class” idea and asks Attorney General Knox to write a rough draft and deliver it to Penrose.
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1904-03-24
Theodore Roosevelt believes that a statement should be made regarding the beef trust so that “people will be advised.” He thinks that something like this should be “hammered in.” Americans believed they were paying too much for their meat and the packers’ profits were too high. Roosevelt wanted Knox to update citizens on the beef trust case making its way through the Supreme Court.
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1904-03-26
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Knox if it is worth taking any action about Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty’s foolish behavior.
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1904-03-24
President Roosevelt would like to proceed “with all possible vigor” on the post office cases and with the retrial of Mr. Cohn.
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1904-03-10
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Knox to investigate if the State Department can influence the Spanish government to provide information to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. No information has been furnished by Spanish officials.
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1904-01-28
A friend of President Roosevelt claims that T. E. Byrnes has profited by acquiring pardons through his relationship with Roosevelt. Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Knox to locate all the pardon cases where Byrnes has had an interest.
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1904-02-01
President Roosevelt would like a quick decision regarding the use of tribal funds for Indian schools.
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1904-01-11
Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Mott would like an appointment under Attorney General Knox. President Roosevelt asks Knox to see him about the possibility.
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1904-01-18
President Roosevelt is concerned that Attorney General Knox is ill. He asks if Knox received his letter about the Review of Reviews article. Roosevelt hopes to meet with Knox soon.
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1904-01-04
President Roosevelt asks if it is possible to do anything for Colonel Leakin of Georgia.
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1904-01-06
President Roosevelt denies providing the quotes about Secretary Root and Attorney General Knox that appeared in Walter Wellman’s article in the American Review of Reviews.
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1903-12-30
President Roosevelt has been informed of a pending case against District Attorney Horace Speed of Oklahoma. Roosevelt would like a thorough report on these serious allegations.
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1903-12-12
General Benjamin F. Tracy has had success as a criminal prosecutor and President Roosevelt suggests that the government use him as a prosecutor or at least an adviser. Roosevelt has also heard a man named Worthington is a good lawyer.
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1903-11-30
President Roosevelt encloses letters from Senator Quay requesting approval of the application from the Perry Oil and Gas Company for a pipeline from the Kansas border through the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Roosevelt may need to discuss the matter with Attorney General Knox after the arguments in the Northern Securities case.
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1903-12-01
President Roosevelt believes that District Attorney Curtiss is hostile towards the government in the case against State Senator Green and should only be used under close supervision.
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1903-10-17
President Roosevelt would like to see Ernest E. Baldwin, Assistant District Attorney in New York, removed for his actions in the Post Office cases. It appears that there is a large group of politicians, connected politically and financially, protecting State Senator George E. Green. President Roosevelt would like drastic action taken to secure Green and bring him to trial.
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1903-10-21
President Roosevelt encloses the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow which Attorney General Knox should transmit to Charles Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad. Roosevelt would like the reports on the Post Office investigations released to the public as soon as possible.
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1903-10-24
President Roosevelt suggests that someone replace or join George B. Curtiss in the State Senator Green investigation because Curtiss and Green are close friends. Roosevelt has received several poor opinions of the Washington District Attorney’s Office and complaints of Taggart’s incompetence.
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1903-10-24