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President Roosevelt sends Secretary of War Taft a telegram from California Governor George C. Pardee, along with a copy of the reply he sent. Roosevelt urges Taft to “strain every effort to get the tentage, rations, bedding and supplies asked for” for San Francisco in the wake of the earthquake and fire that took place there.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt was shocked to hear of the disastrous San Francisco earthquake, and tells President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University of his personal concern and sympathy for the campus in particular. He hopes things are not as bad as they are reported to be.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt telegraphs California Governor Pardee that all available tents and rations have already been ordered to be sent to San Francisco for disaster relief. He has directed Secretary of War Taft to take up the matter of bedding and supplies, and to do everything that Pardee requests, as long as it is something they are able to do.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft of a request he received from the National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials that Captain John S. Sewell of the Army Corps of Engineers be authorized to cooperate with investigations into the effects of the recent San Francisco earthquake on building materials. Roosevelt asks Taft to make this assignment, given the importance of the subject.
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1906-04-20
President Roosevelt asks Fairfax Henry Wheelan to have formal letters for General Charles Albert Woodruff written to him and the Senators by people interested in army and West Point matters. He was very interested by Wheelan’s account of the San Francisco campaign. Roosevelt also asks if Wheelan knows anything about Franklin K. Lane, whom Benjamin Ide Wheeler “warmly” recommended be appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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1905-12-02
President Roosevelt tells Senator Perkins that it is impossible for Secretary of War William H. Taft to do as Perkins suggests. The best way to work against the Chinese boycott of American goods is for organizations to push for the passage of legislation affording Chinese merchants and professionals, among others, the same treatment other nationalities would receive. While laborers can be kept out, Roosevelt insists that other travelers must have their rights guarded, and that any movement such as was started against the Japanese would be foolish.
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1905-08-31
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf to issue “specific and rigid instructions” to officials of the Bureau of Immigration that the government will not tolerate discourtesy or harsh treatment towards Chinese merchants, travelers, or students. Roosevelt has been concerned with how the law has been applied for some time, especially regarding its application in San Francisco, and because of some recent actions by Commissioner of Immigration Hart Hyatt North.
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1905-06-16
President Roosevelt examined San Francisco’s application for permission to obtain its water supply from Yosemite National Park. He wants Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock’s thoughts on using other water sources.
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1905-02-08
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Moody if it would be proper to make Assistant District Attorney Edward E. Cushman a Special Assistant to the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals work in San Francisco.
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1905-01-19
President Roosevelt tells Fairfax Henry Wheelan that he had received his letter and had not been aware of any resignations such as the one that Wheelan mentioned. If Roosevelt decides to appoint anyone from San Francisco, he promises to consider Wheelan, but also says that he cannot pay any heed to personal consideration for such a position.
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1905-01-12
President Roosevelt is sorry he missed Mexican Vice President Ramón Corral Verdugo’s telegram from October 11 about his upcoming visit to the United States. Roosevelt has directed those in St. Louis, San Francisco, and elsewhere to extend every courtesy to Corral and his party. Corral’s visit is “another proof of the good will that happily exists between our two countries.”
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1904-10-20
President Roosevelt instructs Acting Secretary of State Adee to notify Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton and Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich that the officers may be paroled to San Francisco if Minister Taro Katsura objects to their being sent home.
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1904-09-17
President Roosevelt tells Acting Secretary of State Adee they must have an immediate decision from the Russian representative regarding the Lena‘s disarmament and repairs. Roosevelt wishes to close the incident quickly. Roosevelt also considers what to do with the crew and officers of the ship.
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1904-09-14
President Roosevelt informs Acting Secretary of State Adee that the collector of port in San Francisco should be his willing agent in the matter of the Russian ship, Lena. In view of Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich’s telegram, the Department of Commerce and Labor shall notify the collector and the United States Navy of Roosevelt’s decision to allow the Lena to stay in port. Roosevelt comments that the severity of repairs that the ship needs will determine how long it will need to remain, and that if it remains in port for an extended time, it will need to disarm. Roosevelt instructs Adee to inform the Japanese Minister of the United States’s action regarding the Lena.
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1904-09-13
Elihu Root informs Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon that he hopes to reach Panama by September 16. If the USS Mayflower can be ready by then, at Colon, Panama, to take him to Cartagena, Colombia, he will probably be able to return via San Francisco.
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1906-08-27
H. L. Eca da Silva, the Chinese interpreter at the Bureau of Immigration in San Francisco, California, has refused to support his child on the grounds that his wife is Chinese. President Roosevelt wants da Silva dismissed from the service if he will not support the child.
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1904-03-01
President Roosevelt requests C. N. Felton’s opinion on the lawyers Charles S. Wheeler, Garret W. McEnery, and William S. Goodfellow of San Francisco, California.
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1904-02-16
President Roosevelt met with Senator Platt regarding John Thomas McDonough. Government transportation should be arranged for McDonough and his family to San Francisco, California.
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1904-02-06
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Jacob Riis suggesting that Roosevelt give a speech in San Francisco. Roosevelt requests that President Wheeler help set up the speech if he supports the idea.
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1903-04-22
W. C. Bunker informs Theodore Roosevelt of a meeting in San Francisco on November 23, 1911, and asks Roosevelt to support the General Arbitration Treaties of 1911-1912.
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1911-11-22