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Senator Thomas Collier Platt has introduced a bill to increase the number of assistant appraisers at the port of New York. He believes the bill will pass the Senate. Platt would like Henry M. Clapp to fill one of the assistant appraiser positions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-19
Secretary of War Taft transmits the annual report of the Isthmian Canal Commission to Congress via letter. Taft supports a personnel change for the commission, citing the current members as ineffective, and also recommends to reduce the number of members to five or three.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-12
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with General Goethals’ view of the treatment of government and military personnel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-10
President Roosevelt tells Paul Morton that Theodore P. Shonts did understand that the circular in question applied to the new Isthmian Canal Commission just as much as it did to the old. However, he foresees any conflict as being between Shonts and John F. Stevens, the chief engineer of the Panama Canal project, rather than between Shonts and Secretary of War William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-18
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of War Taft that by executive order, he is placing the supervision and direction of the Isthmian Canal Commission, including jurisdiction and function of the commission, under Taft’s direction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-18
President Roosevelt states that the enclosed letters speak for themselves. If Mrs. Cooper has done good work, Roosevelt requests that she be continued.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-16
Paul Morton assures President Roosevelt that as head of the Isthmian Canal Commission, Theodore P. Shonts will do whatever it takes to carry out Roosevelt’s orders. Shonts’s desire to work directly with him instead of Secretary of War William H. Taft was simply because it would be a pleasure to work with Roosevelt. Shonts will work nicely with Taft or anyone else, as long as no one interferes with his work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-17
President Roosevelt encloses letters regarding Mrs. Cooper’s case and asks if she has done good work. If so, he plans on requesting that Cooper be continued. A note on the verso reveals that an examination found Cooper’s work to be “highly satisfactory” and that her position was exempted from the civil service law and made permanent.
1904-09-16