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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-1909
Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Diplomat John Gardiner Coolidge confirms the Department of State’s telegram of January 6 regarding the Chinese government’s cancellation of agreements with the American China Development Company, and details the actions he took in response to the message. Coolidge observes that Zhang Zhidong seems to have been placed in control over the situation, but is no less hostile than the previous official. He advises that a representative of the American China Development Company be sent to argue their case and explain past misunderstandings.
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1905-01-25
Yikuang has forwarded several letters from John Gardner Coolidge and Edwin H. Conger about the Hankow-Canton Railway to the Board of Commerce and Zhidong Zhang and is awaiting their responses.
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1905-01-18
President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Hay with a list of appointments in the diplomatic and consular service after March 4, 1905. Roosevelt includes a handwritten note, “All this is tentative.”
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1904-12-17
President Roosevelt offers Mrs. Conger his deepest sympathies for the loss of her husband, Edwin H. Conger.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt has received Acting Secretary of State Adee’s letter containing a copy of Ambassador Edwin H. Conger’s letter of resignation. In reply, he sends a copy of his letter to Conger accepting his resignation.
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1905-08-19
President Roosevelt follows up on a request that Senator Allison made that Minister to China Edwin H. Conger be made Ambassador to Mexico for six months so that he can finish his service with the title of Ambassador. Roosevelt wrote Conger a letter, of which he encloses a copy for Allison.
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1905-01-06
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from the President of Williams College, to which Secretary of State Hay may want to respond. Roosevelt is also pleased that Hay is working on a letter to Russia regarding contraband.
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1904-08-25
President Roosevelt directed Alvey A. Adee to instruct the Navy that they must not interfere in any fighting between the Russians and Japanese in the neutral Chinese port. Roosevelt agrees that the best solution would be for China to say they cannot keep the peace and let the Russians and Japanese fight.
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1904-08-24
President Roosevelt confesses to Senator William Body Allison that he has not heard of any suggestions concerning Major Edwin Conger and is relieved at the break in the deadlock in Illinois.
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1904-06-06
Wilbur T. Gracey reports to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis that he and Thornwell Haynes met with the Viceroy of Nanking to discuss the boycott. The Viceroy supported the appointment of Edwin H. Conger as American advisor in China.
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1905-08-28
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee forwards to Benjamin F. Barnes a dispatch from Ambassador Edwin H. Conger about an interview with the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with a draft of a reply to Conger for President Roosevelt to edit.
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1905-08-01
Alvey A. Adee confirms that the leave of absence for Edwin Conger has been granted at President Roosevelt’s direction. Conger will be succeeded at Mexico on October 1.
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1905-07-15
Assistant Secretary of State Adee asks William Loeb how to proceed in response to Ambassador to Mexico Edwin H. Conger’s telegram requesting appropriations for Guanajuato relief, as Congress is in recess. Adee includes an excerpt from Conger’s telegram which references the Mexican appropriation of $30,000 to Galveston sufferers and asks that the United States reciprocate. Adee suggests the State Department take similar action as the Cuban Reconcentrado Relief Fund, 1897.
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1905-07-14
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informes President Roosevelt that the current Spanish Minister, Emilio de Ojeda, has confirmed that he will be replaced by Bernardo Jacinto de Cólogan. Adee mentions Cólogan is well known to to the United States due to his work during the Boxer Rebellion. Ojeda hopes the new minister is agreeable to Roosevelt.
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1905-03-18
William B. Allison writes to William Loeb to express his opinion that Major Conger, minister at Peking, “should not be transferred under existing conditions in the East, unless with his consent.” Allison is also disturbed about the situations in Illinois and Wisconsin but does not think they will affect the electoral vote.
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1904-06-03
Ambassador Rockhill provides additional information pertinent to efforts to localize the war in the Far East, which would require neutralization of territories that does not seem possible. A statement shared between China and Japan affirms China’s desire to remain neutral, although Rockhill notes that the arrival of neutral forces would disturb the people of China as well as the Imperial Court. The British and German governments do not agree with an interpretation of the 1900 Anglo-German treaty that would allow for the neutralization plan.
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1904-02-06
Guangxu, Emperor of China, thanks President Roosevelt for the letter of congratulations presented to Cixi, Empress dowager of China, on her seventieth birthday by Minister to China Edwin H. Conger. Guangxu believes the letter has helped establish a closer relationship between the two nations and wishes Roosevelt happiness and welfare.
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1904-12-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee submits cablegrams for President Roosevelt’s approval. He instructs Shanghai consul John Goodnow that his purpose is to safeguard American neutral interests in China and to avoid any implication that the United States will guarantee Chinese neutrality. He sends a copy of the same telegram to Minister to China Edwin H. Conger.
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1904-08-23
Secretary of State John Hay encloses a note from Chinese Ambassador Conger about Prince Pu Lun.
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1904-04-25