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President Roosevelt informs Senator Long that he does not see in the near future any prospect of a vacancy for a position as auditor.
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1907-04-18
President Roosevelt tells James Speyer the memorandum he wrote was “admirable.” Roosevelt has already forwarded it to Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou, and he will discuss it with some of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners. Roosevelt will be unable to attend the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, nor will he be able to write a worthy speech for the occasion, so he will send a letter.
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1907-04-02
President Roosevelt reminds his cousin Emlen Roosevelt that Fitz Gerald applied to a civil service position and that he must “enter as others enter.” Roosevelt discusses the Edward Henry Harriman matter and believes as long as Harriman and his supporters continue to run things there will always be a “upsetting of Wall Street.”
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1907-04-05
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Garfield to send a representative to meet with the National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials to discuss more equitable and efficient means to purchase and use coal within government buildings.
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1907-04-06
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1907-04-08
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Bonaparte that he wishes to appoint African American Ralph W. Tyler to an auditor position at the Treasury for the Navy Department. Roosevelt wishes to promote the current auditor, William W. Brown, to the position Brown wants as special counsel in the Department of Justice, with equal or more pay.
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1907-04-09
President Roosevelt is confused by what type of assistance Henry Lee Higginson is asking for concerning the “money market.” He believes it is the responsibility of the “railroad and corporation people”, or those who have exploited stocks, to reassure investors and the American people regarding railroad rate regulation. He also reminds Higginson that he is expanding upon the same regulations that already exist in Higginson’s home state of Massachusetts.
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1907-03-28
President Roosevelt tells Senator Beveridge that if John Watson Yerkes is to resign his post of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, then he must be replaced by a Kentuckian.
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1907-04-02
President Roosevelt says that E. G. Lewis is attempting to threaten and blackmail himself and George B. Cortelyou by claiming he has information on Judge Goodwin. Roosevelt will be ordering an investigation into Judge Russell P. Goodwin, but will not reconsider the order that Lewis’s publications be revoked. He is indifferent to Lewis’s threat.
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1907-03-15
President Roosevelt assures James Speyer that Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon reviewed the financial situation with him in detail. Acknowledging that he himself is not an expert in financial affairs, Roosevelt trusts that what Cortelyou has done to avert financial panic is “the only wise thing that could be done.”
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1907-03-15
A man who Cecil Andrew Lyon had warned President Roosevelt about called on him. When Roosevelt discovered who he was, he told the man that Lyon had his support and that votes showed that the entire Texas Republican committee also supported him. Roosevelt will take up the other matter Lyon brought up with Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou.
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1907-03-04
President Roosevelt thanks Kansas Representative Murdock for his telegram and believes Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou was correct about “this railroad mail matter.”
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1907-03-06
Since Congress as failed to act, President Roosevelt has decided that the administration should act in regard to the “railroad mail matter.” Roosevelt believes Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou will tame the railroad lobby who successfully overcame the efforts of Kansas Representative Victor Murdock and Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette to lower the railroad rates.
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1907-03-06
President Roosevelt explains to architect C. Grant La Farge that it is difficult to keep his private life and public acts separate. To avoid impropriety, Roosevelt will give La Farge’s letter to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou and let him decide if the project will be open to competition or to give it to La Farge.
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1907-03-08
President Roosevelt informs William Allen White that newly appointed Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou has been reviewing the matter but as yet to determine the reductions. If legislation is not passed soon, Roosevelt will consider hiring outside accountants to thoroughly investigate the matter before he again approaches Congress.
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1907-02-27
President Roosevelt informs Idaho Governor Gooding that Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou has received his letter and is considering the matter.
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1907-02-19
President Roosevelt has spoken with Judge William H. Brawley and believes that Adams is the best candidate for the Marshalship in South Carolina. He asks Attorney General Bonaparte to consider this view.
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1906-02-13
In a letter to Elihu Root (and possibly intended for a wider audience), President Roosevelt gives his perspective of his conflict with the recently-recalled Austrian Ambassador Bellamy Storer. Embedded within the letter are reproductions of private letters between President Roosevelt, members of his administration, and Storer. The letters detail the saga of the Storers’s push for Archbishop Ireland to become Cardinal and the fracturing of their friendship with the Roosevelts.
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1906-12-02
President Roosevelt will take up John Warne Gates’s proposal with Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, but says it is too late to for it to work.
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1906-11-27
President Roosevelt has been all over the matter with Secretary of State Elihu Root and the two have concluded that Roosevelt will answer through Root’s speech, as Root will announce that he speaks by Roosevelt’s authority. Roosevelt, Root, and Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou have discussed the subject at great length and decided that this is the best solution. After Roosevelt returns from Panama, he hopes to have a meal with Paul D. Cravath to discuss a number of things. Roosevelt is glad that Cravath has taken an interest in the election of Charles Evans Hughes as Governor of New York, when so many others are refusing to support the campaign. Roosevelt believes that these men “seem to think that to direct the Attorney General to proceed in the courts against them when they violate the law, and endeavor to secure an equality of opportunity, an equality of burden, under the law, is as obnoxious as to appeal to class hatred an incite the mob to plunder the rich.”
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1906-10-31