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President Roosevelt informs Acting Secretary of the Interior Woodruff that he does not feel warranted in using the Department of State’s funds without talking with Secretary of State Elihu Root and First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, who are currently unavailable.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
President Roosevelt makes it clear to Representative Littauer that the appropriation he asked for relating to the immigration investigation is in addition to any bill the committee reports. Roosevelt hopes that there is immigration legislation during the current session and the appropriation for the investigation should be included.
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1907-01-19
Leslie M. Shaw details the conflict in Cleveland, Ohio, over the use of local sandstone in a federal building project and the resulting resolution currently pending in Congress. Although Theodore E. Burton has changed his mind since introducing that legislation, Shaw has committed to a course of action and must depend on the passage or rejection of that bill by Congress.
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1905-01-05
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks D. P. Brannin for his letter to Roosevelt. While some of Roosevelt’s specimens from his recent Africa trip are on display at the National Museum of Natural History, the remainder have not yet been mounted due to lack of Congressional funding.
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1912-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt supports Judge Lindsey’s position against the Humane Society and agrees that a private association should not receive state appropriations. He is willing to write an editorial to show his support.
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1911-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Dr. Charles D. Walcott about Congress’ refusal to appropriate the necessary monies for mounting of the larger animals and birds. He mentions that Mrs. Kennedy has written to him “in anything but an enthusiastic frame of mind” and will be sure to put anyone with an interest in natural or botanical works in touch with Walcott.
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1911-06-20
Theodore Roosevelt explains to F. L. Seely that Dr. Walcott cannot alienate Congress, and he is making as much progress as he can with the appropriations he has been given.
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1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt asks Dr. Walcott if he is correct in telling friends that Walcott cannot express any dissatisfaction with the level of appropriations from Congress. Walcott does need an adequately large appropriation to complete the mounting of the specimens quickly.
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1911-06-02
President Roosevelt explains to Representative Bennet that the figures presented by Representative James A. Tawney, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, about the government’s appropriations for the secret service are gravely misrepresented. Roosevelt encloses an analysis of Tawney’s numbers.
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1909-02-09
President Roosevelt sends Senator Dixon a copy of an unofficial report of the Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural Materials. Roosevelt explains why the board was organized, its function, and how it benefits the government by increasing efficiency and avoiding duplication of work. Roosevelt has no objection to the unofficial report being published if Dixon desires to do so.
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1909-02-09
President Roosevelt appreciates that President-Elect Taft favors a veto of the Census Bureau bill and tells him not to worry about Senator Joseph B. Foraker’s inquest into the expenditures from the Emergency Fund, as Roosevelt accepts “full responsibility” for Taft and Secretary of State Elihu Root’s uses of the fund.
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1909-01-16
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of the Navy Newberry to expend the $800,000 appropriated by Congress for the agreed-upon cause of aid for the victims of the 1908 earthquake in Messina, Italy.
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1909-01-18
President Roosevelt takes issue with the current wording of a bill to provide funds to the Inland Waterways Commission. He impresses upon Congressman Burton the importance of passing a bill that will properly appropriate funds to the commission in order to allow it to do its work.
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1908-05-18
President Roosevelt sends Senator Newlands a copy of a letter he has sent to Representative Theodore E. Burton regarding the bill about the Inland Waterways Commission. Roosevelt tells Newlands that the bill as written is “a sham,” and he hopes that it will be amended to appropriately provide funds for the commission.
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1908-05-18
President Roosevelt returns the draft of Representative Burton’s letter and will trust his judgment. He asks Burton to be sure that the appropriation is put in some bill, as it would be humiliating should the bill pass looking like a sham.
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1908-05-19
President Roosevelt informs Senator Allison that William Sidney Rossiter of the Census Bureau did a full investigation and report on conditions at the Government Printing Office that led to his working “day and night” and spending over $100 of his personal funds. He asks Allison if he could be compensated an extra $1000, and if this could be added to an appropriation bill.
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1908-05-20
President Roosevelt advocates to Senator Newlands for the passage of a “perfectly simple bill” as submitted by Gifford Pinchot. The bill would provide a $20,000 appropriation for continuing the work of the Inland Waterways Commission. He asks Newlands to introduce this bill, or one like it.
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1908-05-13
President Roosevelt will take the matter T. Louis Comparette writes about up with Frank Aleamon Leach, Director of the U.S. Mint. The difficulty he writes about stems from the government employing people who do not appreciate or want to pay for good design; it is not currently possible for the United States to get good coins.
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1908-05-06
President Roosevelt advises Senator Allison against passing the provision in the sundry civil bill as the House prepared it. An increase of wages in the United States would cause good men in Panama to leave. Another provision would hamper the Justice Department’s work, especially regarding the prosecution of land thieves in the West.
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1908-04-29
President Roosevelt asks Senator Lodge if the amount of money provided by the Philippines church claims bill that is currently in front of Lodge’s committee could be increased to what had originally been requested. He hopes that the bill will be acted upon quickly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-10