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President Roosevelt has received Thomas L. Elder’s letter and resolutions, and will call for a report from Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou. Roosevelt informs Elder that new coinage is being designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an American artist of exceptional ability.
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1907-08-01
President Roosevelt looks forward to reading the volume referred to by Bishop Talbot, and will go over the post office case with Postmaster George B. Cortelyou.
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1907-01-12
President Roosevelt asks Otto Gresham if he can show his letter to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and Justice William H. Moody. He is confident that the allegation of George B. Cortelyou taking campaign contributions from the meat packers is false. However, he would like to look into the allegation that Assistant Attorney General Charles Henry Robb immediately went to Mr. Miller when beginning his investigation into Judge Christian C. Kohlsaat.
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt requests Secretary Root send back his letter related to the recalling of Minister Bellamy Storer. Roosevelt thinks that they should support Thomas I. Chatfield for a judge position in Brooklyn largely based on support from members of his cabinet and congress. The president tells Root that he will appoint Chatfield unless the secretary feels “there are very strong reasons to the contrary.”
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1906-12-08
President Roosevelt tells his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt that he will take up the matter from his recent letter to Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou. President Roosevelt tells Roosevelt that he enjoyed seeing him at “Aunt Lizzie’s” and is looking forward to when Roosevelt can visit Washington in the near future.
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1906-12-08
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Governor Hunt to George B. Cortelyou. Roosevelt likes Hunt and will gladly support him.
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1901-09-27
John S. Nissen introduces himself to Theodore Roosevelt and encloses a selection of employment references. He asks for Roosevelt’s aid in fixing a payment discrepancy.
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1911-09-19
Lawrence F. Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for his letter and the copies of correspondence between Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou about campaign contributions. Abbott believes that he now understands the Great White Fleet enough to make a statement about it and asks Roosevelt what is proper to say about the Standard Oil Company.
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1907-09-16
James Sullivan Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs for the Port of New York, sends Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor Herbert Knox Smith’s letters about children’s rights to life preservers to William Loeb. He also sends a report of the violations of the navigation laws in the Port of New York. To prevent future occurrences, Clarkson believes all violators need to be “properly disciplined” and not treated with leniency, as has hitherto been the case.
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1907-08-30
Surveyor of Customs Clarkson sends Nevada N. Stranahan, collector of the Port of New York, a report of recent violations of the navigation laws in the Port of New York.
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1907-08-28
Senator Lodge sends President Roosevelt an article from the Stoughton, Massachusetts, paper the Sentinel regarding his Provincetown speech. He shares that his friend Louis Curtis, a banker, reports a scarcity of money and predicts economic failures.
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1907-08-26
Nicholas Murray Butler tries to convince President Roosevelt to come to New York to speak at the upcoming National Arbitration and Peace Conference, not only to support the issues at the conference, but also to help with the “general public situation,” likely referring to a series of recent conflicts, including the dispute between Roosevelt and railroad executive Edward Henry Harriman, and recent reports that Secretary of State Elihu Root is considering resigning on account of disagreements with Roosevelt.
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1907-04-08
Reporter Lincoln Steffens urges President Roosevelt to consider campaign finance reform which would replace large corporate donations to politicians with smaller individual contributions instead. He agrees with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou that it may be impracticable but thinks that even a suggestion of such a plan from Roosevelt would serve as an effective warning to corporations attempting to purchase influence.
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1907-04-06
Henry Lee Higginson felt obligated to bring the volatility of the stock market to President Roosevelt’s attention, and sent a telegram earlier in the day. While the market leveled out by the end of the day, Higginson does not believe it will last unless investors are reassured by a statement from Roosevelt and the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroad industry in particular requires support. Higginson makes it clear that his concern is not just for the wealthy, but that the “multitude” is being affected by the financial crisis.
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1907-03-26
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1907-03-24
Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Theodore P. Shonts is concerned about the financial uncertainty that is shaking the country. Railroads are defaulting on loans, the value of investments is shrinking, and many investors are selling off their stocks, flooding the market and driving prices even lower. Shonts suggests that President Roosevelt could calm fears by making a statement of the government’s future intentions regarding the railroads. Shonts also proposes that George B. Cortelyou, recently named Secretary of the Treasury, visit New York and offer to meet with financiers, either individually or as a group, to try to identify solutions.
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1907-03-23
Paul Morton notes that things in New York are critical, and he urges President Roosevelt to send Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou to meet with leading financiers.
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1907-03-23
Elisha Ely Garrison was shocked by Secretary Cortelyou’s letter about the committee not having funds to pay for his recent edition of The Roosevelt Doctrine, since Garrison considered it “a labor of love” and the publisher offered it to the committee at nine cents a copy. Garrison had no role in the publisher attempting to sell the book to the committee. Garrison is happy to compile another book of Roosevelt’s messages and speeches.
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1907-03-22
Rudolph Forester directs Maurice Latta to hold up the appointment of the United States postmaster at Westminster and call attention to it in light of the letter from Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and memorandum of the Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou.
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1907-03-15
Henry Cabot Lodge thinks that if something were to be done, it was done as best as it could be, but he is not sure it should have been done at all. He also thinks that Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou’s letter was admirable. Lodge liked the clipping Roosevelt sent him, and showed it to Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, who was amused.
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1906-12-10