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President Roosevelt tells Senator Hale that the Department of the Interior reported that Mr. Thompson was inefficient and a new man has already been appointed.
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1905-11-27
President Roosevelt is surprised by Representative Patterson’s message regarding William S. Leib, an assistant treasurer in Philadelphia who has been accused of violating civil service laws.
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1905-09-26
President Roosevelt reassures William F. Willoughby that the only reason he would not reappoint him would be Willoughby’s refusal of the position. He will send in his name for reappointment to the Senate as soon as they convene.
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1905-07-06
President Roosevelt will try to “put the boy in,” unless there are men he “cannot pass by” among his competitors.
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1905-03-27
President Roosevelt will be glad to appoint Mrs. Picking’s son if he is able.
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1905-03-25
President Roosevelt wants to correct mistakes and falsehoods in William Eleroy Curtis’s letter about the state of political appointments in Alabama. Roosevelt believes that Curtis was misled by a statement by Mr. Faulkner, which implied that Roosevelt has appointed fewer and worse African Americans to positions than William McKinley did. The appointments in Alabama have been higher quality in the last three and a half years.
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1905-03-25
President Theodore Roosevelt informs Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that he is dealing with the post office matters. Roosevelt also says that he will write to Governor Frank Higgins because Roosevelt is concerned that if Higgins performs poorly in New York then it will affect the national Republican Party’s chances.
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1904-09-30
President Roosevelt has received the letter regarding the complaint of the Civil Service Reform Association. He has written to Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley to find out about the classification of the fourth class post offices. Roosevelt will take up all the cases with Henry C. Payne when he returns to Washington.
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1903-09-11
President Roosevelt acknowledges receipt of Commissioner of Corporations Garfield’s letter enclosing a letter in which Mark B. Dunnell applies for the Civil Service Commissionership. Roosevelt shares Garfield’s feeling about investigations, and believes that he is not responsible for any wrongdoing that occurred before his administration began. He is only responsible for ending the wrongdoing when it is discovered.
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1903-05-13
The only action President Roosevelt can take against the collector of internal revenue and melter of the mint is to remove them. This action requires “definite charges as to their character or conduct.”
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1901-11-01
Henrietta Frances Lushbaugh asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be able to use his influence with President William H. Taft to help her son be appointed to a government position. She is widowed and relies on her son for help, and hopes that Roosevelt can do this, as it would speed the process of getting a civil service job. She provides several character references for her son.
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1911-06-28
Edwin C. Burleigh tells President Roosevelt that he hopes that William Wingate Sewall will be reappointed to his current position once his current term of office runs out. Burleigh sends Roosevelt a book written by his son, Clarence Blendon Burleigh, which is dedicated to Sewall.
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1908-12-21
Alex C. MacLennan informs William Loeb that White House mail clerk Ira R. T. Smith has been rooming in his house for nine months but has not paid all of what he owes. He asks Loeb to speak with Smith about it.
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1908-04-28
Senator Lodge writes William Loeb about two appointments at the Government Printing Office. He does not want to trouble President Roosevelt with the matter, but would like two men to be reinstated to their posts.
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1908-04-27
Andrew T. Long, the executive officer of the USS Illinois updates William Loeb on the Atlantic Fleet’s stay in Brazil and the journey so far. He has heard that Commander Harry Herbert Hosley, who was supervisor of New York Harbor, has died. Long was hoping to take Hosley’s post in the spring and asks Loeb if this is still possible.
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1908-01-17
Ella W. Montgomery tells Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about her life and family. Her husband, Benjamin F. Montgomery, a longtime telegrapher at the White House, has just been informed that he is to be sent away. Montgomery begs Roosevelt to ask President Roosevelt to stop him from being sent away.
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1905-03-27
Arthur C. Wade tells New York Lieutenant Governor Higgins that Harry B. Bouton, Special Pension Commissioner at Erie, Pennsylvania, is being transferred to a position in Washington, D.C. Wade, among many other citizens, considers Bouton “one of the strongest and most influential men in our County,” and has signed a petition to allow Bouton to remain at his current post. Thus far, this petition has had no effect, and Commissioner of Pensions Eugene F. Ware, “has treated him very abruptly and given him no consideration.” Wade asks Higgins to bring the matter to the attention of President Roosevelt or Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
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1904-10-21
John P. Gardiner quoted Theodore Roosevelt in opposing a bill providing preference for veterans of the Spanish-American War for civil service positions.
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1911-03-08
William A. Richards tells President Roosevelt that, in acting upon the recommendations of M. A. Meyendorff, who was investigating land fraud in Colorado, he transferred special agent Max Pracht from Pueblo to Durango, Colorado. Pracht sent Richards a confidential letter, and took exception to Richards’s reply. Now, Pracht intends to come to Washington, D.C., to “place himself right,” and has told his political backers in Oregon “that he will resign as a special agent and then proceed to do some terrible things which he only hints at.” Richards forwards Roosevelt a copy of the offending letter.
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1903-09-09
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou that Public Printer Francis Wayland Palmer will reinstate William A. Miller. Although it appears on the surface that Miller did anything wrong by joining a union while employed by the Government Printing Office, Roosevelt will wait to make a final decision on the matter until he has received the report on Miller’s second communication.
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1903-07-13