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President Roosevelt inquires of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty, “is there anything I should know about this?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Senator Prouty for the volume of his reminiscences. He looks forward to reading it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10
President Roosevelt asks Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, if the enclosed suggestion is feasible. He finds Prouty to be “a dead game man” and is glad to have him in the government service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-31
President Roosevelt approves of what Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty wrote in his previous letter and will discuss the details with him before presenting anything to Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-28
President Roosevelt has received Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty’s letter and hopes that he will look over the bill and discuss it with Representative William Peters Hepburn. He has sent Hepburn Prouty’s letter with the recommendation that the amendment Prouty proposed be inserted into the legislation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-24
President Roosevelt confirms receipt of a letter from Charles A. Prouty, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and asks him to look over a piece of legislation once it goes to conference and to report back to him about it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-18
President Roosevelt feels that Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty has made a strong case. He remarks that he wishes the Senators from Vermont could be convinced to take a stand for railway rate legislation. Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield’s report is complete, and Roosevelt hopes that the Interstate Commerce Commission will go into the case of railroad and oil transportation matters as thoroughly as soon as possible. In the meantime, he asks whether Prouty is going to look up the combinations involved in the anthracite coal business as well as those in bituminous coal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-21
President Roosevelt tells Charles A. Prouty, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, that “during the last year you are one of the men from whom I have received genuine aid,” and he is very grateful to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-30
President Roosevelt thanks Charles A. Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Commission for his letter and congratulates him on his speech. He believes New England will join them after a “proper presentation of the facts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Charles A. Prouty’s letter. He agrees that the Sherman Act is an insufficient means of regulating trusts and that a constructive policy is needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10