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Assistant Postmaster General Bristow informs William Loeb that Inspector Sutton has been chosen to investigate the Major matter and has been instructed to keep the investigation private. Bristow will write Loeb after the investigation is complete to ask for further instructions.
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1904-07-05
General Boynton calls President Roosevelt’s attention to matters regarding the Board of Education in Washington, D.C. Boynton is upset that Commissioner Macfarland is attempting to prevent him from being re-elected as the board president after impeding Boynton’s investigation into the schools which he carried out under direction from Roosevelt.
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1904-06-30
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou asks that President Roosevelt be alerted that Commissioner John A. Shields dismissed the case against Edward F. McSweeney.
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1904-06
Attorney General Moody sends William Loeb the Justice Department files pertaining to the James N. Tyner case.
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1904-07-01
Postmaster General Payne explains the circumstances under which James T. Metcalf, the Superintendent of the Money-Orders System, was removed from the job. Payne reprints an article from the Washington Post on the matter and shares pieces of the investigation into Metcalf’s actions.
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1904-06-25
John A. Sleicher discusses his expectation that President Roosevelt will receive a majority of the votes in New York in the upcoming election. He has an idea for the governorship of New York, and he tells Roosevelt that the investigation into the General Slocum accident has interfered with Tammany Hall election plans.
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1904-06-25
Oscar S. Straus shares a conversation he had about the labor situation in Colorado with President Roosevelt and gives his opinion that Roosevelt should not intervene. He acknowledges that his opinion maybe premature since an investigation into the situation is still going on. Straus also congratulates Roosevelt on winning the presidential nomination.
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1904-06-28
Commissioner of Labor Wright shares his opinion on the Colorado mine worker situation with President Roosevelt. Wright advises that Roosevelt let the public know that the situation is being investigated by the government, but does not believe that Roosevelt should get involved. Wright also weighs in on how this is different from the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1904-06-21
Acting Commissioner of Labor Hanger responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry regarding what legal authority the President might have to investigate the labor dispute in Colorado.
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1904-06-15
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou informs President Roosevelt that Walter B. Palmer will not finish his investigation into the labor dispute in Colorado until the end of June or July.
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1904-06-16
Herman W. Steinbiss, on behalf of the National Building Trades Council of America, writes to President Roosevelt to urge him to launch an investigation into the ongoing dispute between mine workers and mine owners in Colorado. Steinbiss contends that if the reports are correct that mine workers are being prosecuted for being in labor unions or sympathizing with labor unions, Roosevelt has an obligation to intervene.
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1904-06-16
William D. Haywood requests that President Roosevelt investigate crimes being committed in Colorado due to labor unrest.
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1904-06-11
Wilbur S. Hinman received Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt’s letter and followed his orders, except for the Ichabod Cole case. He explains why he has not written to Arthur L. Hanscom regarding Cole and includes a quotation from a conversation with the Chief Clerk. Hinman suggests that nothing be done until Roosevelt returns. Hinman informed Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that Wilson would get his old position at the Boston Navy Yard.
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1897-10-15
The First National Bank of Birmingham comments on the recent Governors and Commissioners of Agriculture conference investigating the decrease in cotton sales price despite increased production. The Bank reports on the discouraging situation surrounding the government’s dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation. It is “simply absurd” to think that the Panic of 1907 was deliberately caused to acquire the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. Birmingham citizens knew that before its acquisition, the Company’s stock did not have loanable value, and its credit was impaired. Since its acquisition, the Company aided in developing the local district, improvements which have been delayed due to the dissolution. Overall economic conditions in the district are favorable, although the upcoming presidential election could alter commercial and manufacturing activity.
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1911-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt recently testified to the congressional commission that he acted on his own initiative in allowing the steel trust to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. However, as editor C. F. Phillips reports, a statement by Roosevelt to Charles Hunter would suggest otherwise. If authentic, the statement raises questions about Roosevelt’s public silence on the corrupt practices and “rascality of these men” of high finance.
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1911-08-08
The Stanley Investigating Committee of the House—after hearing the testimony of Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the Executive Board of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company—finds that there is much more to be discovered, and that they do not believe the whole story has been told yet. Gary will go under further examination, and it is expected that other high-profile figures will as well.
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1911-06
The Minnesota State Legislature is currently considering four bills which charitable organizations of the state heartily support. Because it is already late in the legislative session, however, the article acknowledges that some bills may have to be dropped because of time, and urges at a minimum the passage of the bill forming a state commission to investigate causes of poverty and sickness. The article continues by explaining some of the particulars of the bill, and the benefits of such a commission.
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1911-03-28
Postmaster General Payne updates President Roosevelt on the state of the post office investigation. Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad have been away for the summer, and have not been consulted yet, although the investigation has proceeded in the meantime. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow has a large number of cases pending in the District Attorney’s office, waiting to go before a grand jury. Indictments are expected, and Payne does not believe that it would be wise for the government to publicly release information on the investigation before the grand jury has finished.
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1903-09-08
Postmaster General Payne will speak with Charles J. Bonaparte and Conrad Holmes when they are here this afternoon. He also informs President Roosevelt that although George. A. C. Christiancy has tendered his resignation as assistant attorney in the Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department, Payne has yet to accept it, and will not do so until the investigation is closed. Payne questions whether Christiancy’s resignation should be accepted.
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1903-09-09
A federal grand jury is investigating the General Electric Company and subsidiaries, and some evidence points to the companies being controlled by the “Electric Trust.” The investigation is believed to have been ordered by President Roosevelt.
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1908-09-19