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Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Knapp writes to President Roosevelt, informing Roosevelt that the commission’s bill has been revised and a senator has given it approval. Knapp offers Roosevelt a copy of the bill with revisions.
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1905-11-28
Senator Fulton reports to President Roosevelt that U.S. Representative from Minnesota James A. Tawney has not decided his position concerning the appropriations bill for the Lewis and Clark centennial celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-08
Ralph Trautmann, who was born in Germany, offers to represent President Roosevelt’s views at an upcoming Ellis Island Committee meeting. Referencing Grover Cleveland’s previous bill restricting immigration, Trautmann expresses concerns that a similar bill proposed by Senator Lodge may negatively affect Roosevelt’s presidential campaign.
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1903-11-30
Henry Lee Higginson discusses financial matters and United States currency. Higginson writes of a meeting with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and a number of bank presidents, as well as a recent conversation with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Higginson asserts the need to draft a Banking and Currency Bill for review by the United States Congress.
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1903-11-06
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield encloses a memorandum regarding the Wyoming Oil Company and writes that Judge Ryan relayed that Judge Van Devanter has charge of the consolidated oil case. Garfield discusses the Ohio and New York election results. Garfield is traveling to the woods with Gifford Pinchot and sends his regards to Mrs. Roosevelt.
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1903-11-04
Curtis Guild discusses the state of Republican politics in Boston and relays his appreciation for President Roosevelt’s position on Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. Guild describes Governor John Lewis Bates’s recent speech in New Bedford, in which he admonished William A. Gaston. Guild asserts that the summary of Bates’s speech published in the Boston Herald was insufficient. Guild discusses the bills regarding the Wakefield water loan and the fireman workforce and describes Gaston’s image as marred by association with Edward F. McSweeney.
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1903-10-22
Commissioner Dewitt C. Middleton of New York informs Gifford Pinchot that Governor Benjamin Odell has approved the Annual Supply Bill which contains $8500 to be paid to the Division of Forestry for work conducted in Hamilton County, New York. In recognition of the assistance given by Assemblyman Jothan Powers Allds, Middleton requests that Pinchot employ Allds’ friend as a laborer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-07