Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William R. Lighton
President Roosevelt comments on a number of Land Office matters to William R. Lighton, and sends him a copy of Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot’s comments about a forest reserve matter in Nebraska. Roosevelt has begun investigations on United States Land Office Register James Whitehead, as well as the removal of illegal fences of Bartlett Richards’ in Nebraska. He has been heavily petitioned to pardon George G. Ware, who has been convicted of land fraud. Roosevelt comments on the difficulty of enforcing laws when “the people are almost a unit against the enforcement of a given law.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-04-06
