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President Roosevelt introduces President-Elect Taft to W. H. Ketcham, who is Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. He has been a very good friend to Roosevelt and a supporter of Taft, and Roosevelt would like Taft to know him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-04
President Roosevelt has received Cardinal Gibbons’s letter and cannot do as Gibbons desires regarding a policy by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Frances E. Leupp. Roosevelt supports Leupp’s policy but regrets that information was not shared with Gibbons properly. Roosevelt asserts that he always acts in regard to what the Native Americans want, particularly in regards to their Catholic schools. He says a new petition will need to be written if Gibbons wishes to have action taken.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-08
Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, writes to President Roosevelt regarding a summary of the Indian Contract School, based on a conversation with Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. Leupp hopes that the Bureau of Catholic Missions will believe in his “fairness and charity as heartily as it expects [him] to believe in its own.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-26