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President Roosevelt shares his views on “easy divorce” among New York’s upper classes with Robert Grant, who recently wrote a magazine article on the topic. Roosevelt praises Japan’s military spending and bemoans the state of foreign affairs in the United States.
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1905-03-14
President Roosevelt requests Senator Spooner meet with him to discuss the treaty with Santo Domingo. Roosevelt would also like to discuss the diplomatic appointments of two Wisconsin men, John Hicks and Amos Parker Wilder.
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1905-03-14
President Roosevelt thanks William G. Tiffany for sending a letter by Senator William Andrews Clark. Roosevelt refutes Clark’s claims regarding the handling of the treaty with Santo Domingo, and shares his thoughts as to what the treaty actually entails in terms of debt collection. Roosevelt says it would be “an infamy” to vote against the treaty.
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1905-03-14
President Roosevelt tells Cecil Andrew Rice he feels terrible about missing their bear hunt, but the manner in which the Senate is handling the Santo Domingo treaty makes it necessary. He is still not sure when he will finally be able to take his trip.
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1905-03-09
President Roosevelt informs Senator Platt that he has instructed Secretary of State John Hay to “endeavor to procure” an amendment to Article 2 of the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, per the request of several senators. Roosevelt goes on to point out that the original text of the treaty was approved in advance by the members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations prior to to negotiation, and that a joint resolution by the House and Senate requested Roosevelt to negotiate and conclude the treaty governing the hunting of fur seals with Great Britain.
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1905-02-23
President Roosevelt understands what Senator Cullom has said and thanks him for all he has done. Roosevelt will send a message to the Senate on the matter of Santo Domingo next week, after the inauguration.
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1905-03-01
President Roosevelt shares his views on the reciprocity treaties recently rejected by the Senate with Silas McBee. Roosevelt points out that George Washington himself concluded a treaty in 1796 that delegated all questions to arbitration. Moreover, the Senate recently ratified a treaty giving the president the power to refer claims to arbitration at the Hague. Roosevelt berates the individual senators as caring more about the “prerogative of the Senate” than the welfare of the country.
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1905-02-16
President Roosevelt discusses with Andrew Carnegie why the United States should not accept the treaty amendments.
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1905-02-08
President Roosevelt discusses with Senator Cullom the implications of substituting terms such as “agreement” and “treaty” while amending the arbitration treaties. Doing this, Roosevelt believes, essentially makes the treaties useless, and is a “slight step backward as regards the question of international arbitration.”
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1905-02-10
President Roosevelt declares to Charles Henry Butler that the extract from the treaty with Tripoli is most significant.
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1905-02-15
President Roosevelt disagrees with Andrew Carnegie about the treaties, and thinks it would be a farce to ratify a treaty saying that the United States can make further treaties, as it already has that ability. However, he will review the matter with Secretary of State John Hay.
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1905-02-06
President Roosevelt requests Secretary of State Hay write a rough draft of a message to submit to Congress along with the agreement with the Santo Domingan government.
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1905-01-25
President Roosevelt explains how he plans to negotiate a protocol or treaty with San Domingo, which will then be presented to the Senate to act on.
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1905-01-26
President Roosevelt shares with Lyman Abbott how frustrated he is with the Democratic senators who are holding up the treaties, especially Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon.
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1905-01-28
President Roosevelt takes issue with the amendment supposedly proposed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge which states in effect that each of the arbitration treaties “have no possible effect until other arbitration treaties are concluded.” Roosevelt tells Senator Spooner he believes the amendment is a “sham” and he refuses to go farther with the treaty as it stands with the amendment, although he does not question the right of the Senate to amend a treaty.
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1905-01-06
President Roosevelt, Clark Howell, and the American people can congratulate themselves on the passage of the canal treaty. President Roosevelt was pleased with the support of the Southern senators.
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1904-02-27
President Roosevelt cautions against adding amendments to the Panama treaty, as he does not want to endanger the treaty in any way. The treaty has almost everything the United States could want and the amendments only clear up a few doubtful points.
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1904-01-20
President Roosevelt will discuss General Hubbard’s company serving as fiscal agent to the government of Panama with Secretary Shaw. He believes what Hubbard desires can be done.
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1904-01-22
President Roosevelt was sad to hear that Cecil Spring Rice will not receive a position in Washington, D. C. Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have enjoyed the books sent by Spring Rice. Roosevelt reflects on the differences of Persian culture. He believes the Panama treaty will pass and the canal will begin construction. Roosevelt is confident the Panama Canal will be a benefit to mankind.
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1904-01-18
President Roosevelt enjoyed James Jeffrey Roche’s poem on Panama and asks Edward L. Burlingame to look into the poem’s publication. Roosevelt is confident the canal treaty will pass.
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1904-01-07