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In recognition of the Fourth of July, Secretary of War Root extends President Roosevelt’s thanks and appreciation to the officers and enlisted men of the United States Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-04
All civil, military, and naval officials are to observe President Roosevelt’s proclamation of neutrality in the conflict between Russia and Japan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-18
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-08-27
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909
English
Governor of New York (October 1898-1900)
The Committee on Naval Affairs reports on the service of Lewis Randolph Hamersly in the volunteer Navy and in the Marine Corps. Hamersly is asking to be placed on the retired list of the Marine Corps, having resigned his commission many years earlier because of illness. The bill being considered by the House of Representatives would grant him that request. The report includes a letter from Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy, testifying to Hamersly’s commendable conduct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1892-05-10
New York Supreme Court naturalization folder insert explaining the contents and instructing prospective American citizens on the services and location of Chief Naturalization Examiner Cornelius O’Connor Cowely’s office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-1920
Theodore Roosevelt, then a state assemblyman in New York, advocates killing a bill that would have the effect of gagging the press. He says in part, “I think it is a great deal better to err a little bit on the side of having too…virulent language used by the press, rather than to err on the side of having them not say what they ought to say, especially with reference to public men and measures.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1883-03-27