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William Grant Webster writes to William Loeb requesting an audience with President Roosevelt. Webster intends to declare as a candidate for the United States Senate in Illinois for 1908, and he hopes that Roosevelt will endorse the notion that federal office holders in Illinois will allow the people to have a say in the election process.
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1907-02-12
Attorney General Moody offers a suggestion as to what should happen on state bonds and credit.
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1905-01-11
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of State Hay that Elihu Root made an error regarding the message. He will send it in and asks if Hay has any documents to go with it.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Hay not to speak with Illinois Senator Shelby M. Cullom until Roosevelt has had a chance to discuss the proposed amendments to the Newfoundland Treaty with some senators. The president also encloses a copy of his letter to Andrew Dickson White, “which explains itself.”
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1904-12-13
President Roosevelt informs President-Elect Taft that he has written to Senators Shelby M. Cullom and George C. Perkins as Taft requested, and will recommend that the Embassy be created. Roosevelt asks if he should additionally issue a message as soon as First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon becomes Secretary of State. Roosevelt will shortly appoint the six engineers who are to accompany Taft on his journey to inspect the Panama Canal.
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1908-12-26
President Roosevelt informs Senator Knox that Lawrence Yates Sherman declined the appointment to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, and Roosevelt will therefore nominate Pennsylvania state representative Henry K. Daugherty, whom Knox had recommended.
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1907-05-23
President Roosevelt explains to Senator Knox that he cannot appoint Knox to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission because he has already discussed appointing someone from Illinois with Senators Shelby M. Cullom and Albert J. Hopkins.
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1907-05-09
President Roosevelt informs John L. Hamilton that he has no say on the matter, and Hamilton should contact his senators and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt asks for Senator Hale’s assistance in ratifying the Algeciras treaty. Roosevelt had not supposed that there would be opposition to it, but “apparently some of the Democrats are inclined to make trouble.” The United States signed on to the treaty because it was already a signatory to the existing treaty, and failing to do so would have meant a loss of treaty rights. Roosevelt considers it important to be a party to the treaty, and mentions that the United States has had a treaty with Morocco since even before the Constitution was adopted.
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1906-06-27
President Roosevelt has received Senator Lodge’s letter, and has written a message to Representative William Peters Hepburn, of which William Loeb encloses a copy. Roosevelt would be glad if Lodge showed the message to Senator Shelby M. Cullom and Senator Stephen B. Elkins.
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1906-05-29
President Roosevelt tells Senator Allison of the many discussions he has had about the pending rate bill and its proposed amendments. While Roosevelt approved of many suggested amendments and made suggestions on how to alter others, he has never insisted that any amendment be made to the bill in order for it to be signed into law.
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1906-05-14
President Roosevelt encloses papers regarding the situation in Cuba that he received from Senator Shelby M. Cullom. He tells Secretary of State Root that it is unfair for the United States to demand equity from Cuba when it has failed to sign the treaty formally giving the Isle of Pines back to Cuba.
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1905-11-06
President Roosevelt corrects newspaper reports regarding the appointment of circuit court judges in Chicago for Victor F. Lawson of the Chicago Daily News. Roosevelt outlines his thinking regarding the decision between appointing several men, and future plans for potential appointees who are not appointed at this time.
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1905-03-13
President Roosevelt agrees that the Vice Chairman in charge of affairs in Chicago should be a western man. He assures E. L. Conway that Senator Cullom, Senator Hopkins, and Speaker Cannon are happy with the nomination of Charles Samuel Deneen.
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1904-06-09
President Roosevelt states that he has no involvement in offering Governor Yates an ambassadorship in favor of Frank O. Lowden. President Roosevelt tells Frank B. Noyes that no one has approached him and he has “in no way or shape taken any part for or against any man in this contest.”
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1904-05-23
President Roosevelt describes a clipping sent by Nicholas Murray Butler and an interview with the editor of the Chicago-Record Herald. The clipping and the editor discussed how federal patronage for ambassador or minister positions could be used for swaying voters in the upcoming governor election.
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1904-05-17
Senators Hopkins and Cullom recommended the appointment of Thomas Nevin Jamieson and supported their recommendation with many endorsements. President Roosevelt could not make another appointment under those circumstances, even with the subsequent contradictory reports regarding Jamieson.
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1904-02-10
Representatives from two different organizations, both claiming to be the National Live Stock Association, have met with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt will only work with the organization that is truly the representative national body and wants Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to decipher which organization meets this criterion.
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1902-11-24
President Roosevelt has been pressing Senator Cullom on the importance of an interstate matter and feels Cullom would stay if the corporation legislation were given to his committee rather than the Judiciary Committee.
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1901-11-05
Vice President Roosevelt thanks Charles Gates Dawes for his letter. Two of the Roosevelt children were recently hospitalized, and Mrs. Roosevelt will soon take them to the Adirondack Mountains. Roosevelt might visit them, and then he hopes to see Dawes on his return.
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1901-08-28