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President Roosevelt thanks Postmaster General Payne for the letter and instructs him to “get all the holiday you can as quickly as possible.”
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1903-07-11
President Roosevelt asks if it would be safe to give a denial of a New York Sun story about the “scandalous mock celebration of the Fourth in the Department.” An Assistant Postmaster General should investigate the matter.
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1903-07-13
President Roosevelt will no longer tolerate Post Office Department officials releasing information to the press without authorization.
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1903-06-25
President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Henry C. Payne if he could initiate an investigation into the New York Post Office.
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1903-06-12
President Roosevelt discusses post office investigations and is not concerned about newspaper criticism.
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1903-05-11
President Roosevelt will discuss the “postal business” with Payne when he returns to Washington, D.C. and asks that no statements be released before then. Roosevelt regrets Senator Hanna’s actions at the Ohio Convention.
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1903-05-23
President Roosevelt’s trip has been successful, and he is pleased that Postmaster General Payne removed General Tyner.
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1903-04-27
President Roosevelt is concerned about reports he received on the Post Office Department. Roosevelt wants to see some new appointees and possibly a rearrangement of positions.
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1903-04-27
President Roosevelt found Postmaster General Payne’s letter to be first rate.
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1903-04-29
President Roosevelt encloses Mr. Robinson’s record and believes that he would be a proper replacement for General Tyner.
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1903-03-30
President Roosevelt informs Postmaster General Payne that the investigation into the Post Office Department has taken an unexpected turn with the resignation of George W. Beavers before evidence was even presented. August W. Machen is favored by the Civil Service Commission and many Congressmen, and Roosevelt has been annoyed at the newspaper efforts to show that Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne is disloyal to Payne.
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1903-03-31
President Roosevelt would like a veteran appointed as postmaster at Exeter, New Hampshire, but will not act on the case until Postmaster General Payne returns.
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1903-03-27
Congressman Dahle reports that he was offered $500 by the postmaster of Lodi, Wisconsin, to reappoint him. President Roosevelt instructs Postmaster General Payne to investigate the postmaster and remove him if the story proves true.
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1903-02-07
President Roosevelt requests that an “entirely disinterested inspector” review the Fort Plain, New York case.
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1903-01-23
President Roosevelt has received the communications regarding the post office matter from Dr. Boyd and would like to go over the matter carefully with Postmaster General Payne.
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1903-01-07
President Roosevelt sends instructions for the inspector who will be appointing a successor at a Delaware post office.
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1903-01-05
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Bishop Gailor and expects Miss Kirby-Smith to be reappointed when her present commission expires.
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1903-01-06
President Roosevelt wants to make sure that the successor to the St. Louis postmaster is a good man.
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1903-01-06
President Roosevelt insists that the New York Post Office site be kept free of “jobbery” and the matters should be settled according to the desires of the business community.
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1902-11-12
President Roosevelt encloses a memorandum from St. John Gaffney. Roosevelt wants everything about the case to be “straight” so that there is no chance of a “false interpretation on whatever is done.”
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1902-10-31