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President Roosevelt informs Secretary of State Root that the papers related to the extradition of Jan Janov Pouren were sent from the White House on October third, and were marked as received by the State Department on the same day. They were not sent to the Index Bureau until the fifth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-07
Photograph of maintenance supervisor Ray Smith taken in one of the South Unit maintenance buildings of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1970
President Roosevelt does not think that it is possible to grant Day’s request. He tells Attorney General Bonaparte that the report can be made confidential, but that it should be kept in the files of the Department of Justice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-08
President Roosevelt instructs Representative Vreeland to keep all the papers he needs, to show this telegram to the authorities, and to say that it meets with the approval of Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte. Bonaparte will ask Admiral J. H. Sands to bring papers he would like to have, but only if it does not interfere with the committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-14
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to inform various people that he is not able to grant their requests. He laments the “awful curse” of paperwork in both the army and the navy, and the tendency bureaucrats have to increase it.
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1905-09-25
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchock to make out the papers for the appointment of Dr. William A. White as Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane.
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1903-07-13
Attorney General Wickersham does not feel that he should let the original copies of the files relating to the Earle-Kissel sugar trust matter leave the possession of the Department of Justice, but would be willing to send them to New York District Attorney, Henry A. Wise. Theodore Roosevelt would then be able to communicate with Wise and view them at his convenience via a messenger to his office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-23
Israel Frederick Fischer issues a protest against “Hebrew” being included as a race in travel-related paperwork issued by the Immigration Service. Fischer has already contacted Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel regarding the issue, but has not achieved any results. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for his opinion on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-28
James Bronson Reynolds found an error in the Panama report and suggests Rudolph Forster correct it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-03
Interior Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock sends President Theodore Roosevelt several papers related to conditions in Big Horn County, Wyoming. Included as well is a summary report from Special Land Inspector Edward B. Linnen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-01
The attached papers from Benjamin F. Montgomery’s desk were produced after his dismissal from the executive office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-17
The attached papers were found in Benjamin F. Montgomery’s desk in an envelope marked “very confidential” upon his dismissal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-17
Attorney General Knox affirms that an investigation will be conducted into the giving out of the Stewart letter, in accord with President Roosevelt’s request. Knox notes that he has not previously seen the letter, and that the letter itself will show whether it had been in the Department of Justice, because it would be stamped.
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1902-08-01
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw met with William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island. Shaw directed Williams not to release any further papers requested by Edward F. McSweeney, and to institute a search of papers recently removed from the immigration office by McSweeney.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-30
There is a controversy regarding how the Senate Judiciary Committee obtained some documents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-31