Memorandum

Thomas H. Netherland lists the materials delivered to the State Department for the reception.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-19

Creator(s)

Netherland, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1863-1909

President Roosevelt tells Chas. S. Bromwell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, that employees working social functions at the White House will have their duties defined from now on.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Thomas H. Netherland lists the materials delivered to the State Department for the reception.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-27

Creator(s)

Netherland, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1863-1909

Ernest P. Holcombe’s reports on his travels as special inspector to attend the hearing in the case of Holm Olaf Bursum v. Territory of New Mexico. Holcombe mentions his conversations with Judge Albert B. Fall, who was under the influence of alcohol. Holcombe details the proceedings of the Bursum case, which resulted in the Territory owing an amount of money to Bursum.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

Creator(s)

Holcombe, Ernest P. (Ernest Prosser), 1864-1914.

This memorandum details the poor conduct and inefficiency of Colonel William F. Stewart of the Coast Artillery Corps in the United States Army using the testimony of a variety of witnesses. Brigadier General Murray recommends relief from command or retirement upon Stewart’s own application.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-16

Creator(s)

Murray, Arthur, 1851-1925

Stanley Wellington Finch informs Attorney General Bonaparte about Special Agent William E. Johnson’s action regarding liquor traffic in Indian Territory. The Department of the Interior does not want to withdraw Johnson from his current work and would not do so unless requested by President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-13

Creator(s)

Finch, Stanley Wellington, 1872-1951

This memorandum states that President Roosevelt desires to send the next volume of his speeches to John St. Loe Strachey in England. The volume will be marked where Roosevelt mentions socialism.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

William Loeb forwards a request from Abby Gunn Baker. He has directed Baker to call Rudolph Forster to arrange for the photographs she wants of the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-06

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Navy Department Chief of the Bureau of Equipment Cowles outlines the situation regarding the transfer of coal for Senator Lodge. The Navy Department used to accept coal shipments from American vessels to Pacific ports under the coastwise shipping laws, but it was unsustainable due to rates and foreign markets. In response to the issue, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy Edward Hale Campbell ruled that President Roosevelt had the authority to charter foreign vessels. Cowles lists the American vessels that were chartered. Allegations have been made that the Navy illegally selected foreign vessels, hurting American shipping, and Cowles gives examples to refute these claims. For the remainder of the voyage of the Fleet, the department intends to utilize American vessels as often as possible, but the necessary coal will have to come in foreign bottoms.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-05

Creator(s)

Cowles, Wm. S. (William Sheffield), 1846-1923

William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster to have Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee copy the papers he needs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-03

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Commissioner of Labor Neill does not expect a strike in amongst the railroad workers in Chicago, but still worries that things may escalate soon. He advises no one within the Interstate Commerce Commission to coax President Roosevelt into action unless the situation reaches an “extremely critical” point.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-29

Creator(s)

Neill, Charles Patrick, 1865-1942

Lloyd Carpenter Griscom reports on his first meeting with Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy. The king asked Griscom many rapid questions about his age, career, and health. Victor Emmanuel expressed his disdain for Brazil, based on his experience as an arbitrator between that country and British Guiana during a boundary dispute. He also described his upcoming itinerary in Greece and Sicily.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-17

Creator(s)

Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter, 1872-1959

Rudolph Forster is reminded that President Roosevelt is to write former President Grover Cleveland for his birthday, March 18.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-16

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Secretary to the President Loeb informs Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that President Roosevelt will speak to her about Secretary of War William H. Taft taking the Mayflower for his trip to Panama. Roosevelt thought that the First Lady would want to use the Mayflower, and if so, Taft could use the Columbia. Edith Roosevelt responds in a handwritten note, “Let Sec Taft take the Mayflower by all means.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-15

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte relays excerpts from legislation regarding “hours of labor and leaves of absence of clerks and other employees.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-15

Creator(s)

Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921

This memorandum describes the candidacy of Oscar R. Hundley for appointment as judge to various openings in Alabama. Hundley’s numerous endorsers are listed. Objections to his appointment are discussed, along with Hundley’s responses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

This memorandum outlines the differences in proposed contracts of the construction of the Pamana Canal between Walston H. Brown, railroad builder, and John F. Stevens.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

Fred W. Carpenter, private secretary under the direction of Secretary of War William H. Taft, instructs Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to relay a telegram to Chief Engineer John F. Stevens that his telegram was received.  Carpenter informs Stevens that he will be made Chairmen of the Isthmian Commission on March 5th and “will exercise the supreme control” that the position entitles to him.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-28

Creator(s)

Carpenter, Fred W., 1873 or 1874-1957

Secretary of War Taft requests Commissioner Shonts forward the following dispatch from President Roosevelt to Chief Engineer John F. Stevens. After serious review, Taft asks Shonts whether to accept a bid for the construction of the Panama Canal under the present contract or to reject all bids entirely. Taft cites that the two most desirable bids, McArthur Syndicate then William J. Oliver and Anson M. Bangs fit all the requirements with exception to “the least expense of the Government.” Taft informs Shonts of the resignation of Stevens, Chief Engineer of the project, and solicits to have him replaced with Major George W. Goethals. In the meantime, Taft requests that the Commission reject the two bids aforementioned. In a typed postscript, Taft informs Stevens that Goethals will replace him as Chief Engineer and Chairman of the Commission. Roosevelt expects him to use every attempt to assists Goethals with “as little friction and as little loss of efficiency” as possible.

John E. Wilkie relays the contents of a cable from Secret Service Agent Taylor in Honolulu. The cable details a meeting of the Hotel Keepers Association, which opposes the new immigration law. Japanese workers are agitated, but the meeting was a “comparatively insignificant affair.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-18

Creator(s)

Wilkie, John E. (John Elbert), 1860-1934