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Treasury Secretary Shaw leaves a message of the text of a telegraph that he will send to Merrell if President Roosevelt agrees to it. Shaw will advise Merrell that Roosevelt wants him to come to Washington, D.C., and bring any letter he has regarding farm loans.
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1904-04-29
Senator Lodge telephoned to report that he succeeded in heading off an amendment reducing the appropriations for battleships. The amendment to the naval appropriations bill failed 30 to 45.
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1909-02-17
James B. Morrow will call on President Roosevelt on Monday morning to ask for a statement about Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
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1906-02-24
President Roosevelt says that Secretary of War William H. Taft will take action on the cablegram from Thomas Cleland Dawson regarding the collector for the Dominican Republic. Either Adee or Taft will announce the collector as having been appointed by Roosevelt.
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1905-04-02
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ailes left a message stating that the collector of customs at El Paso, Moses Dillon, can be removed at any time. The collector’s term expires next spring.
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1901-11-02
During a meeting of the Canal Committee, Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna announced that President Roosevelt was having an unnamed matter finalized by the Canal Commission. Members of the committee are going to be calling on Roosevelt to discuss the matter.
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1902-01-14
George B. Cortelyou requests that William Loeb ask President Roosevelt to authorize Loeb to wire Secretary of War William H. Taft concerning the retirement of Major Henry A. Barber, who is to be replaced by Edward S. Fowler.
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1904-07-26
George von Lengerke Meyer informs President Roosevelt there is opposition to Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou becoming the chairman of the Republican National Committee at the Republican National Convention. Meyer insists that Cornelius Newton Bliss arrive before Monday with word from Roosevelt that he supports Cortelyou.
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1904-06-17
A telephone message from Elmer Payne explains that Postmaster General Henry C. Payne has fallen ill and Senator Nathan Bay Scott will take over Payne’s place in running the Republican National Convention.
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1904-06-15
John E. Wilkie, chief of the Secret Service, has received the box and papers about Leon F. Colgosz that George B. Cortelyou sent him.
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1901-12-10
William J. Bruff’s Union Metallic Cartridge Company is sending 10,000 guns, but no ammunition, to the Cuban government tomorrow. The company sent a proposition to the Ordnance Department of the Army requesting to borrow five million cartridges. The department was to take the matter to President Roosevelt, but Bruff has not heard back. He requests to be informed as soon as possible of Roosevelt’s decision.
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1906-08-24
Henry L. Stoddard summarizes his efforts to line up delegates for Theodore Roosevelt and suggests strategies to use at the Republican National Convention.
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1912-06-08
George W. Perkins has arrived in Chicago, Illinois and is beginning arrangement for the Republican National Convention.
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1912-06-07
Two messages from George W. Perkins requesting information and arranging meetings.
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1912-06-07
Judge Thomas G. Jones of Alabama wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in 1907 regarding several people who wanted government appointments. One such person was Oscar R. Hundley, who has been appointed judge in Alabama. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee would like the President to send a copy of the letter as it relates to Hundley.
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1908-05-11
Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou leaves a telephone message for President Roosevelt. The president’s letter is good and he should release it to run in Sunday’s newspapers. Cortelyou will return tomorrow morning and try to meet with Roosevelt in the afternoon or evening.
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1907-10-26
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou assures President Roosevelt that while the situation is still critical, the outlook should be better by the end of the day. Cortelyou is doing everything he can in New York and throughout the country, and he thinks the situation is much improved. Cortelyou should return to Washington by Sunday.
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1907-10-25
Francis E. Leupp has phoned to say President Roosevelt spoke to Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. He reports that W. Scott Smith told him that he would like to be made Superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas. Leupp would like to know Roosevelt’s wishes in the matter.
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1907-02-07
Colonel Edwards, head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, leaves a telephone message at the White House regarding military movements in the Dominican Republic. Edwards conveys the contents of a confidential telegram that Colonel George Radcliffe Colton sent to Secretary of War William H. Taft. Colton reports on the United States’ withdrawal of war vessels, including three gunboats and one torpedo boat destroyer, and assures that there is “no cause for anxiety at the present moment.”
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1906-06-26
Representative Hepburn leaves a telephone message providing reassurance that the Hepburn Rate Bill will pass without incident. Hepburn states that some of the Senate conferees fear that the House will agree to some of the Senate’s amendments. Hepburn also states that James Schoolcraft Sherman and Senator Stephen Elkins of West Virginia are away.
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1906-06-20