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President Roosevelt sends notice to stop the removal of Deputy Marshal Alfred B. Colquitt from office, and thanks Thomas Goode Jones for calling his attention to the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-09
President Roosevelt is having difficulties with appointments and nominations for Cleveland, Ohio. The appointments are Charles C. Dewstoe as postmaster and Edwin A. Batt for appraiser of merchandise. The removal of Charles E. Benham as deputy collector is also drawing protests. A secret service agent should be sent to investigate the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-11
President Roosevelt will not reinstate Converse J. Smith to his position in the Department of the Treasury, especially now that Senator Proctor has threatened to publish a letter written by Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw which casts Shaw in a negative light if Smith is not reinstated. Smith was thoroughly investigated and found to be “inefficient.” Shaw has no recollection of writing the letter Proctor threatens to publish, and Roosevelt requests that Proctor present the original letter and any other evidence against Shaw.
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1904-04-26
H. L. Eca da Silva, the Chinese interpreter at the Bureau of Immigration in San Francisco, California, has refused to support his child on the grounds that his wife is Chinese. President Roosevelt wants da Silva dismissed from the service if he will not support the child.
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1904-03-01
President Roosevelt does not recall Anna Dreyer and suggests to Postmaster General Payne that the new postmaster examine the case. Roosevelt suggests that the inquiry be done privately, as it will also tell them where they stand in the case of former Postmaster F. W. Baumhoff.
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1904-01-27
Secretary of State John Hay is indignant that Bellamy Storer wrote to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, regarding what Storer perceives as an injustice in Carlton Bailey Hurst’s dismissal. Storer’s letter amounts to an attack on the Roosevelt administration, as well as the Secretary of State and President under which Storer serves. Hurst’s removal was justified, but even if it was not, Storer should not have written to Hanna. President Roosevelt also reminds Storer that while serving as an American ambassador he should not discuss or interfere with the affairs of the Catholic Church. Draft with handwritten edits.
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1903-12-30
Privately, President Roosevelt reveals that Dallas B. Smith has aligned himself with efforts to organize the Alabama Republicans on a “lily white” basis. Roosevelt is still examining the case but Smith might need to go.
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1903-11-12
Governor Alexander O. Brodie of Arizona and Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock have recommended Isaac Taft Stoddard’s removal as Secretary of Arizona Territory. President Roosevelt agrees with their assessment and offers to go over the evidence with Senator Platt.
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1903-10-29
President Roosevelt would like to see Ernest E. Baldwin, Assistant District Attorney in New York, removed for his actions in the Post Office cases. It appears that there is a large group of politicians, connected politically and financially, protecting State Senator George E. Green. President Roosevelt would like drastic action taken to secure Green and bring him to trial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-21
President Roosevelt has received statements from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw that the removal of Thomas W. Gilmer was justified. Shaw has also come to the conclusion that Henry A. Castle, Auditor of the Post Office Department, should not remain in public service, and that Comptroller of the Treasury Robert J. Tracewell should retain his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-09
President Roosevelt agrees with Henry S. Pritchett about the unions and that serious delinquency will be required to justify Miller’s dismissal.
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1903-10-05
The report from the Attorney General’s office is not yet ready and President Roosevelt needs definitive information to remove public officials. The inspector reported on Bailey and Frank W. Howbert and Roosevelt has written to Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow about Joseph J. VickRoy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-16
President Roosevelt found the letter to Pracht to be “first-class” and suggests that if Pracht answers insolently Richard Williams should remove him.
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1903-09-10
As the case currently stands, President Roosevelt does not believe that it will be necessary to dismiss Miller and would need stronger evidence of the matter between him and the trades union.
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1903-09-12
President Roosevelt does not believe that S. Davies Warfield, postmaster at Baltimore, Maryland, should be removed. Warfield should have brought the case to the attention of Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, but he was acting under the orders of his superiors.
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1903-08-19
Governor General of the Philippines William H. Taft will be replacing Elihu Root as Secretary of War next winter. The investigation into the Government Printing Office under Public Printer Francis Wayland Palmer has shown a “very bad state of things” and poor business methods. President Roosevelt believes Palmer should be removed from office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-22
President Roosevelt believes that Public Printer Palmer is “worse than weak” for submitting to the pressure of the labor union and firing William A. Miller. Miller will be reinstated and Roosevelt is determined to prevent discrimination between union and non-union employees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-16
President Roosevelt encloses correspondence with James Sullivan Clarkson and has no objection to the “Miller business” letters being made public.
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1903-07-16
President Roosevelt does not believe that Colonel James A. Jewell is fit to hold his present office.
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1903-06-26
Charles Fletcher Lummis, David Starr Jordan, and others have accused Charles E. Burton, Superintendent and Special Distributing Agent of the Moquis and Navajos at Keams Canyon, Arizona, of incompetence and cruel treatment of Native Americans. President Roosevelt supports Burton’s removal and asks that Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock take up the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-22