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Wilbur Fisk Wakeman summarizes the interview he had with Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage in hopes of finding out why he is being removed from the office of appraiser. Wakeman details the numerous issues he resolved, but Gage insists that the matter is now in the hands of President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-25
Mr. Luna is traveling to Washington, D.C., and can explain the conditions in New Mexico Territory to President Roosevelt. Luna has been loyal and has enthusiastically supported the Roosevelt administration. Mr. McHarg and Mr. Gordon have not been relieved from duty as expected. They continue to create problems. Governor Curry believes that conditions will be satisfactory when matters are turned over to Mr. Leahy, the regular United States attorney.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-28
A disagreement between Samuel Marks and John Lederhilger at the immigration offices on Ellis Island, New York, ended when Marks collapsed due to “heart trouble.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11
The Evening Sun is running a pledge made by President Roosevelt in Buffalo, New York, to continue the policies of William McKinley and is suggesting the pledge was broken by the dismissal of George R. Bidwell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-16
Lemuel Ely Quigg encloses two newspaper clippings about the accusations against George R. Bidwell. The content of the articles stems from employees that Bidwell fired. Quigg asks President Roosevelt to refrain from action until he has investigated the matter thoroughly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-08
Henry Y. Arnett, a clerk at the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, was removed after improper conduct. Henry Plummer Cheatham asks if there is a clerk that President Roosevelt would like to receive the appointment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-12
Wilbur Fisk Wakeman has heard a rumor that William McKinley planned to remove him from his position as appraiser of merchandise for the district of New York. Wakeman encloses a letter on the matter from Senator Hanna and asks Cortelyou to give it to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-23
Census Director William Rush Merriam should not be trusted in state matters. He has a “small, malicious” following and is bankrupt. Le Grand Powers is a good statistician in the census bureau. Mr. Noyes is a “thoroughly bad man” and can be removed without repercussions. (The latter may be Arthur H. Noyes, district judge for Alaska, who was removed from office in February 1902.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-14
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-02-15