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President Roosevelt thanks Judge Pritchard for the clippings he sent and will forward them to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. Roosevelt assures Pritchard he will do everything possible to uphold the Federal courts.
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1907-07-29
Attorney General Moody responds to Richard Wilson Knott regarding jurisdictions involved when investigating election fraud. Knott had written to President Roosevelt and Moody is responding at Roosevelt’s request.
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1904-12-01
Theodore Roosevelt informs S. W. Small that he knows nothing about the case Small referred to, nor even which government official has jurisdiction in the matter.
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1911-04-28
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Colonel George W. Goethals for Secretary of State Root. As Roosevelt understands the situation, the State Department has assumed the position that Panama has no authority over the entryways into the canal or the canal itself, which is entirely under United States control.
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1907-12-24
Attorney General Bonaparte returns a speech with minor suggestions to President Roosevelt, and discusses his strategy in finding a case in which the government could convict and sentence the head of an industrial trust. In North Carolina, Roosevelt could not have altered the dispute between Federal and State authorities in the railroad rate case. Bonaparte passes along some clippings related to the case against Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Bonaparte relates the progress in vetting William B. Sheppard for a judgeship in Florida. In New Mexico, Bonaparte says he has examined the charges against New Mexico District Attorney William H. H. Llewellyn, and believes he must be removed from office. Bonaparte will be in Oyster Bay on Friday.
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1907-08-05
William Emlen Roosevelt encloses an item which James A. Scrymser has asked him to give to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt believes that their jurisdiction as an American company will give them “every advantage” if they can “furnish equal facilities with the foreigners.”
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1904-07-19
Judge Jeter Connelly Pritchard has set a dubious precedent in the case against the Southern Railway, in which federal and state jurisdiction are at odds. President Roosevelt sent a representative from the Department of Justice to mediate the situation, and a “modus vivendi” was arranged. In so doing, individuals and corporations can no longer assume the protection of federal due process.
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1907-07-30
The Police Commissioners of San Francisco have been failing to take action on business license applications of Japanese immigrants for some time, at first giving various excuses as to the delay, and then, after protests from the Japanese Consulate, denying these licenses without explanation. California law on this matter seems to be in violation of both the United States Constitution, as well as the Commercial Treaty of 1894, in which citizens of the United States and Japan are guaranteed the right to reside in and work for a living in the other country.
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1907-07-31
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson informs Secretary of the Interior Ballinger that, due to changes in the boundaries of the Monterey National Forest and the elimination of the Pinnacles Division of the forest, Pinnacles National Monument is now under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, rather than the Department of Agriculture.
1910-12-16
Associate Forester Potter informs Commissioner of the General Land Office Dennett that, because of the proclamation of President William H. Taft changing the boundaries of Monterey National Forest, Pinnacles National Monument is now surrounded by public domain rather than National Forest lands. Therefore, the area is now under the jurisdiction of the General Land Office. Potter encloses copies of correspondence relating to the National Monument and a report by Forest Inspector George Wilcox Peavy.
1911-02-18
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson writes to Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, notifying him that, following a proclamation by President Taft, Pinnacles National Monument has been removed from the National Forest, and is therefore under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior rather than the Department of Agriculture.
1910-12-16
The jury gave a verdict of acquittal in the case of Hugh C. Dennis and Thomas W. Garland of the Brooks Brokerage and Securities Commission Company. While Dennis was acquitted of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, Judge Adams stated that Dennis had clearly violated state law and deserved to be in a penitentiary. Dennis had not honestly bought and sold grain, but instead ran a “bucketshop scheme” where he gambled on changes of the market price of grain. Adams hoped that those wronged by these men would seek redress from state authorities since they had violated a state law, and thus they could not be tried in the Federal District Court.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-21