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President Roosevelt tells Representative Payne, Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, that he agrees with the position taken by Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson in passing a new law amending the most recently enacted law.
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1907-01-15
President Roosevelt sends Representative Payne a copy of a letter he received from Secretary of State Elihu Root which explains itself. Roosevelt hopes the changes in the customs administration law recommended by Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and outlined in Root’s letter will be enacted, and that it will be amended to cover the points that Root mentioned as being currently omitted.
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1906-06-18
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1906-02-03
Payne, Sereno Elisha, 1843-1914
2025-10-09
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1906-01-13
Payne, Sereno Elisha, 1843-1914
2025-10-09
President Roosevelt congratulates Representative Payne on the way he handled the Philippine tariff matter.
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1906-01-07
President Roosevelt writes to Representative Payne: “All right – that reimbursement of the fifty-million bond proposition is herewith dropped by the Administration!”
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1905-10-31
Given how hard it is to get agreement between members of Congress, President Roosevelt tells Representative Payne that he has decided to do the prefatory work on the Germany tariff issue through Ambassador Charlemagne Tower.
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1905-10-04
President Roosevelt asks Representative Payne for suggestions of who to send over to negotiate a new tariff agreement between the United States and Germany.
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1905-09-18
President Roosevelt hopes Senator Payne can push an amendment to the present Philippine bill in the House reducing the tariff to fifty percent. Roosevelt reminds Payne this is a compromise, as Secretary of War William H. Taft wants it to be reduced to twenty-five percent. New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and beet sugar manufacturer H. T. Oxnard are both willing to accept fifty percent.
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1904-12-24
President Roosevelt would like the House to pass a resolution that will take effect after the Senate adopts the amended Cuban treaty.
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1903-02-26
President Roosevelt responds in the affirmative to Sereno Elisha Payne’s question.
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1902-08-16
Representative Cannon discusses the use of bonds as funding for the Panama Canal.
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1905-10-24
John Dalzell discusses using bonds to pay for the construction of the Panama Canal.
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1905-10-24
Representative Grosvenor discusses the use of bonds to pay for the construction of the Panama Canal and believes it can be paid for thus far out of the United States Department of Treasury’s surplus.
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1905-10-24