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President Roosevelt thinks that the Landis-Sims-Wilkerson matter will gradually resolve itself after they confer with the judge. He does not understand Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch’s telegram and asks Attorney General Bonaparte whether Burch is proceeding against all of the defendants or only Senator William Edgar Borah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-07
Attorney General Bonaparte informs President Roosevelt about a variety of telegrams he has received pertaining to current issues, such as the trial in Idaho concerning Senator William Edgar Borah, the work of Special Assistant U.S. District Attorney Grace Humiston (Mrs. Quackenbos), and a revised constitution for the Territory of Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-10
Attorney General Bonaparte sends President Roosevelt letters from United States Attorney Edwin Walter Sims and Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch along with a clipping about Special Assistant U.S. District Attorney Grace Humiston (Mrs. Quackenbos). Bonaparte thinks his statement will suffice until he gets to Chicago, but the press will likely attack them anyway. It puzzles Bonaparte that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis does not see that going back on the matter the would be exactly what Standard Oil wants.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-05
President Roosevelt sent Albert Bushnell Hart’s letter to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. Roosevelt has been uneasy about Special Assistant District Attorney Mary Grace Quackenbos. While she has a “genuine desire” to eradicate wrong, she has an “unsoundness of judgment that is both hysterical and sentimental.” The “outrages” perpetrated at southern plantations would warrant action if they took place elsewhere, but in the South they are part of life, and certain laws cannot be enforced.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-13
Attorney General Bonaparte will not be able to attend the cabinet meeting scheduled for Friday. Bonaparte reiterates that in his annual report he did not make any suggestions of anti-trust or interstate commerce law changes outside a few minor procedural changes and believes it would be outside the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice to do so. Bonaparte has also asked Mary Grace Quackenbos to prepare a report on her charges of peonage against Orlando B. Crittenden to be delivered to the Italian government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-27
Attorney General Bonaparte reviews “several matter of importance and delicacy” with President Roosevelt, including Special Assistant Attorney General Ormsby McHarg’s handling of the New Mexico situation, Senator William Edgar Borah’s trial, and the progress of the Republican Convention. He shares how the press attacks him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-15