Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop about the establishment of General Hubbard’s Thomas H. business in Panama.
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Creation Date
1904-01-17
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International finance
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop
President Roosevelt asks Joseph Bucklin Bishop to ask General Thomas H. Hubbard about his plans for a financial agency in Panama.
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Creation Date
1904-01-20
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his letter explaining General Thomas H. Hubbard’s desire to have his international bank appointed as the fiscal agent for the Government of Panama. Roosevelt asks Bishop to tell Hubbard that he will discuss the matter with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw.
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Creation Date
1904-01-22
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Bacon
President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of State Bacon to meet with Charles H. Tweed, of Speyer and Company, and additionally ask him to meet with Jacob H. Hollander in order to discuss the Santo Domingo debt matter. Speyer and Company understood that the matter would not be addressed without their bankers being given an equal opportunity to make proposals. Roosevelt additionally asks Bacon to arrange for Willard Dickerman Straight to go through Siberia on his way to assume his post as Consul-General at Mukden, Manchuria.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-08-13
Letter from Jacob H. Hollander to Robert Bacon
Professor Hollander encloses a letter from the Dominican Republic’s Minister of Finance and Commerce, Federico Velásquez y Hernández. Velásquez places blame upon Judge Otto Schoenrich’s “excellent translations.” Hollander has prepared a press release regarding Velásquez’s mission and will release it unless he hears otherwise.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-13
Letter from Robert Bacon to Theodore Roosevelt
Acting Secretary of State Bacon has spoken with Jacob H. Hollander, who assures him that neither he nor Secretary of State for Treasury and Commerce Federico Velásquez y Hernández of the Dominican Republic were aware of a conversation occurring with Speyer & Company, although they have had ample opportunities. Bacon believes that Speyer & Company were not disadvantaged in any way, and that the plan they proposed was simply not as advantageous as that presented by Kuhn, Loeb, and Company and the Morton Trust company. He promises nevertheless to meet with Charles H. Tweed, as Roosevelt directs.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-08-14
Letter from William Worthington Russell to Francis B. Loomis
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis’s cable has been communicated to the Panama government. The Panama government is unwilling to authorize payment to J. P. Morgan & Co. and maintains that payment should be made to the commission.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-18
Memorandum on Dominican debt matter
This memorandum presents a brief history of the various plans surrounding the matter of the debt settlement of the Dominican Republic. An initial plan was prepared by William J. Salomon & Co., with Speyer & Co. being “cognizant of and participants in the proposed ‘plan’.” This plan was ultimately withdrawn, and a more favorable plan was proposed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which was accepted. Following this, Speyer & Co. independently approached the government of the Dominican Republic with a proposal, which was rejected.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-08-14
Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Taft forwards President Roosevelt a confidential letter dealing with the Dominican Republic and the depositing of funds into the New York City Bank. He suggests showing the letter to Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon and then returning it to the files in the War Department.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-07-23