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This Times article discusses President Roosevelt’s campaign against anarchism in the United States, especially in light of several recent anarchist attacks in the United States in 1908. The article suggests if Roosevelt can figure out a way to suppress anarchist doctrines, he will be doing a great service to mankind.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-10
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs interviews a number of naval officers on some alleged defects in the construction of several battleships now being built. Chief among these concerns are the questions of the placement of the armor belt, the positions of the guns, and the design of the hoists to provide the turrets with ammunition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-21
This portion of the United States Congressional Record documents a conversation pertaining to a proposed joint resolution directing Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to act on a matter related to grants of land in Oregon made to railroad companies. Some amendments to the resolution were made, including the removal of the preamble.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-21
Senator Charles William Fulton, of Oregon, proposes an amendment authorizing and instructing Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to begin suits in Oregon relating to the present land grant cases. While Bonaparte may have already had the authority to do this without such a resolution, passing such a resolution assuages some of the worries of the Justice Department regarding its ability to prosecute such suits. Debate on this resolution centered around whether such a resolution was necessary, and around some of the facts of the land grant cases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-18
The Congressional Record reports a portion of a conversation between several senators regarding railroad grant lands owned by the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. Congress granted the railroads lands with the condition that they would sell them to settlers, but the companies have not been holding up their end of the bargain. The Department of Justice is taking the matter under investigation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-31
Charles S. Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, and President Roosevelt had an explosive private meeting wherein Mellen asked for an investigation into his company’s planned merger be expedited. The investigation had been a major issue during the recent Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-08
This newspaper article section includes remarks made by New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte made at the twenty-seventh annual convention of the National Civil Service Reform League. Hughes spoke about competitive civil service examinations, while Bonaparte emphasized the importance of swaying public opinion to desire reform in the civil service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-08
This newspaper article describes remarks made by Richard Henry Dana attacking President Roosevelt for his lax approach in enforcing civil service laws during the annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and New York Governor Charles Evan Hughes were also in attendance, among other government representatives.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-08
Charles S. Mellen had a spirited discussion with President Roosevelt requesting that an investigation into his railroad company’s planned merger be expedited. Mellen objected particularly to the embarrassment such an investigation causes and the indignity of the merger having been a major issue in the recent Massachusetts gubernatorial election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
Charles S. Mellen has asked President Roosevelt to expedite an investigation into his railroad company’s planned merger. The article notes this request comes the day after the defeat of Henry Melville Whitney, who had been in favor of the merger, in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
President Roosevelt acts and speaks carefully concerning his enforcement of laws affecting corporations and industries. Therefore, he is likely not pleased “by the tone of recent allusions emanating from the Department of Justice to its possible future activities,” especially those remarks attributed to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-15
In response to a resolution by the United States Senate, this draft of a following resolution purports to transmit a letter from Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte related to whether legal proceedings have been started against the United States Steel Corporation because of its absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in 1907. The bottom portion of this draft is crossed out, and notes that the letter will follow, rather than accompany, the beginning portion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-04
President Theodore Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, and others have come to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to investigate a fraud case involving Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell. Haskell, along with J. George Wright and Dana H. Kelsey, are accused of scheduling land deeds to “dummy” persons. Governor Haskell has issued a formal statement rebutting these accusations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-22
Resolution calling on Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to send to the Senate copies of all correspondence relating to the alleged violation of the Sherman Act by the American Sugar Refining Company and Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-22
During a speech given at the Methodist Episcopal Church of Africa’s diamond jubilee, President Roosevelt praises white imperialism. Roosevelt in particular eulogizes British imperialism in India, claiming the British administration to be a greater feat than any of the Roman Empire. Roosevelt states that English control prevents tyrannical leaders from oppressing the common masses. The second portion of this article describes the outrage incited by the summoning of the editors and correspondents of the New York World to testify in a case against Joseph Pulitzer for libeling the United States Government. Representative William F. Willett, of New York, went on an angry tirade against President Roosevelt. Once Willett was declared out of order and prevented from continuing, Senator Isidor Rayner, of Massachusetts, explained that the outrage was due to concerns over violation of the freedom of speech and press.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-19
The United States Senate directs Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to inform the Senate whether he has instituted legal proceedings against the United States Steel Corporation relating to its absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in 1907, or whether he has issued an opinion related to the legality of this absorption.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-04
President Roosevelt has a better understanding of the Payne-Wynne dispute and sees both of their viewpoints. He has been enjoying the company of the Jusserands and riding Wyoming, his new horse that is too fond of “trolleys and automobiles.”
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-06-25
This color postcard features text from the proclamation issued by President Roosevelt announcing the celebration of the Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition in 1907. The postcard also features portraits of Roosevelt and six other politicians involved with the event.
1905-03-29
Scrapbook containing an array of newspaper clippings of articles and photographs relating to the 1912 presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
Composite photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt seated at his desk with Cabinet members superimposed near him. The members are identified as (left to right): Taft, Wilson, Straus, Root, Hitchcock, Cortelyou, Bonaparte, Metcalf and Shaw.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906