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President Roosevelt asks Speaker Cannon if the personnel bill can be taken up and passed as it is important to reducing expenses for the Navy. Roosevelt suggests that Cannon speak to Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs George Edmund Foss.
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1907-01-24
Commodore Key expresses to President Roosevelt about Senator Eugene Hale’s opposition to the naval personnel bill. Key feels sure that if the House of Representatives passes it, Hale will almost be forced to support the bill because he has never opposed a bill with wide popular support. However, Key fears that Representative George Edmund Foss, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, will table the bill until the next session to appease Hale. Hale’s resolution has resulted in little attention even from the Senate Naval Committee of which he is the chairman. Lastly, Key encloses a memorandum that has made its rounds among Navy circles and asks for advice on how to help encourage passage of the bill.
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1907-01-27
President Roosevelt assures Admiral Mahan that he has already warned President-Elect William H. Taft against dividing the fleet. Roosevelt has shown Taft his letter to Representative George Edmund Foss, chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Roosevelt is confident that the fleet will never be divided.
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1909-03-03
President Roosevelt thanks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte for the letter, and asks him to write to Commander Edward M. Peters of the New Jersey Naval Militia to pass along Roosevelt’s commendation. Roosevelt comments on the pending construction of a battleship, and is exasperated at Representative Theodore E. Burton’s resistance to the expansion of the navy, believing that it is a danger to the country. He suggests, regarding an upcoming naval review, that the members of the congressional naval affairs committees be invited to attend. In a postscript, Roosevelt shares several issues he talked about with Admiral Robley D. Evans, including a change in where he will view some naval target practice.
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1906-08-20
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he cannot do anything in the case of Stephen Decatur, who was dismissed from the Naval Academy for hazing. Roosevelt strongly opposes the law that requires dismissal for all hazing cases and has asked the chairs of the Senate and House Naval Committees to repeal the law, but he can do nothing further.
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1906-02-13
President Roosevelt informs William Hale Thompson of the New Illinois Athletic Club that he cannot accept the honorary presidency of the Western Olympian Games Committee of the United States. He has already agreed to be honorary president of the American Committee of the Olympic Games in Athens in 1906, and does not feel that he should accept another similar position.
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1905-11-03
Senator Lodge encloses a memorandum regarding the matter William Loeb spoke with him about. It explains why Special Agent T. Aubrey Byrne was not called before the General Board of Appraisers. Lodge also asks Loeb to tell President Roosevelt to see Representatives George Edmund Foss and Henry C. Loudenslager about the naval bill to avoid a protracted fight over funding.
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1908-04-23
Albert L. Key cites different recommendations President Roosevelt and his administration have made over the years regarding organization of the Navy and Navy Department. In spite of the recommendations, Congress and the naval committees have not acted on them. Rather, they seem more concerned with appropriations. Key asks Roosevelt to push the issue of new legislation in a special message to Congress.
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1908-01-25
A list of congressional nominees for the 1906 election, organized by state, printed for the convenience of the press by the Republican Congressional Committee.
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1906-11-06
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on several matters. The Court of Enquiry’s findings exculpate Admiral Robley D. Evans, though Admiral George Albert Converse hints that Evans’s rapid signals may have contributed to the collision. Bonaparte will scrutinize the matter carefully. He encloses a report from the commander of the Portsmouth, and though the New Jersey militiamen performed no “great feat,” he suggests sending praise anyway because naval officers are “decidedly ‘sniffy'” toward them. Bonaparte has received many favorable letters about anarchism, but the occasional unfavorable ones amuse him and he has enclosed one such letter. He feels that the Navy faces an uphill battle meeting its needs due to the clashing views of those on the deciding committees.
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1906-08-19
Senator Knox tells President Roosevelt he understood that Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton and Illinois Representative George Edmund Foss were in favor of the Chicago side for the naval training station. He also tells Roosevelt about once entering a horse in the Madison Square horse show in the trotting class, and although everyone acknowledged it was were the “best horses on earth,” Colonel Lawrence Kip’s horses won the prize.
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1904-11-23
This report records a series of documents, primarily from Admiral W. L. Capps, Constructor of the Navy, answering recent criticisms about some naval vessels in the United States Navy. These criticisms centered on the height of the freeboard of the ships, their water-line armor distribution, and the ammunition hoists used, among other topics. The report contains a statement by Capps, a report of a relevant discussion by the British Royal Navy, a number of diagrams detailing armor distribution, and a record of hearings conducted by the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Capps refutes the criticism by correcting several misunderstandings about terminology, explaining the rationale behind some shipbuilding decisions, and mentioning that several issues have already been corrected in newer ships.
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1908-02-19
Representative George Edmund Foss has suggested that Theodore Roosevelt contact Senator Eugene Hale in support of appropriations for the publication of strike and lockout statistics.
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1904-04
William H. Moody suggests several legislators that he believes should be invited to a dinner designed to be effective at increasing the Navy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-12