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1905-07-21
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932
2025-07-24
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1905-07-12
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932
2025-07-24
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw some messages from the United States Civil Service Commission, and asks him to direct Internal Revenue Commissioner John Watson Yerkes to instruct Internal Revenue Collector William McCoach to dismiss Clarence Meeser, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenues for Philadelphia, immediately. He also expects Yerkes to investigate cases of this sort on his own initiative in the future without having to turn to the Civil Service Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-20
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw he would not interfere with the employment of a deputy collector if only a “trivial charge” had been made. Since the charges made against Clarence Meeser and Elenora Park are “of the gravest kind,” Roosevelt is going to direct the Civil Service Commission to look into their cases. Roosevelt believes if the charges are true, their employment reflects badly upon the collector and all the way up to the president, “so far as these superior officials have knowledge of the facts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-07
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to call auditors’ attention to new registers listing unclassified laborers. Any new appointments should be made from those registers.
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1905-03-30
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are concerned about Secretary of the Treasury Shaw’s wife, Alice Crawshaw Shaw, and hope she is in the road to recovery.
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1905-03-15
President Roosevelt believes that the enclosed letter from the New York Merchants’ Association explains itself. Roosevelt instructs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to prepare a point-by-point answer to everything in the letter and allow the lawyers from George Borgfeldt & Company meet at the White House with Treasury Department experts present. The letter claimed that duties on earthenware from Holland was unjust.
Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932
2022-05-26
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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to inform Frederick E. Rittman that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker objected to his removal as the auditor for the War Department, and has no responsibility for it.
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1905-03-07
President Roosevelt forwards Secretary of the Treasury Shaw a letter from Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt regarding Borgfeldt and Company, whom Roosevelt feels are guilty. He comments on the appointment of an assistant secretary.
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1905-02-01
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw a letter concerning charges against Deputy Collector Clarence Meeser and asks for a full report on the matter.
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1905-01-28
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to submit a letter to Director of the Mint George E. Roberts concerning employing Augustus Saint-Gaudens to design new coinage and the inaugural medal.
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1905-01-16
President Roosevelt is displeased by the “atrocious hideousness” of American coinage and asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw if someone like Augustus Saint-Gaudens could design coinage that would have more beauty “without asking the permission of Congress.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-27
William Loeb sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw a letter of introduction written by President Roosevelt to Governor of Puerto Rico Beekman Winthrop for Benjamin S. Haywood.
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1904-11-22
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Treasury Shaw that he should not go to Wisconsin in support of the Stalwart committee. If Shaw goes to Wisconsin at all, he may want to keep clear of both sides. Roosevelt is mourning his friend, United States Postmaster General Henry C. Payne. Roosevelt says Shaw’s telegram to Lydia Wood Van Dyke Payne was a comfort to her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-07
President Roosevelt and William Loeb have received the telegrams from Secretary of the Treasury Shaw. If Shaw is able, Roosevelt would be glad to see him within the week.
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1904-09-28
President Roosevelt thanks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw for his reelection efforts in the West, and says they must make every effort to carry Missouri.
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1904-09-26
President Roosevelt would like to meet with Secretary of the Treasury Shaw as soon as possible about his department.
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1904-09-27
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw if there is any position to which they can transfer William F. Willoughby, who does not get along well with the Puerto Ricans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-13
President Roosevelt directs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to speak with Representative Glass about the St. Louis Exposition. Roosevelt wants the Treasury Department and the Government Board to work together to avoid scandal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-29
President Roosevelt calls Secretary Shaw’s attention to the “law prohibiting the emission of dense black or gray smoke” in Washington, D.C. and asks if any department buildings are in violation of this law. All violations should cease.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-18