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Franklin Carter supports the candidacy of Major Adams as U.S. Marshal in South Carolina, and he asks Senator Hoar to assist in attaining Adams’ appointment. Adams has won the confidence of both the colored people and “all the respectable whites,” and his appointment would be well received.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-01
Amendment to provide funds for the purchase of draft animals for farms in the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-05
Leslie M. Shaw agrees with Governor Crane and supports the removal of coal tariffs but fears that a bill will provide the minority party with an opportunity to play politics regardless of the populace’s suffering. The removal of coal tariffs would bring the matter of tariffs into debate. The Treasury Department agrees with President Roosevelt that coal should be on the duty free list.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-27
Joseph Bucklin Bishop enjoyed President Roosevelt’s Philadelphia speech and encloses an article he wrote about the speech. He also hopes to see the Addicks statement in the next day’s paper and thanks Roosevelt for a recent visit with the President. Bishop also thinks that an enclosed cartoon of Senator Lodge and other politicians will amuse Roosevelt.
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1902-11-24
Augustus Ralph Keller requests the signature of Henry Cabot Lodge so that a facsimile of his signature can appear in the upcoming uniform edition of President Roosevelt’s works. Lodge’s signature originally appeared in the preface for “Hero Tales” along with Roosevelt’s. Gebbie and Company already has a facsimile of Roosevelt’s signature.
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1902-11-28
Senator Louis E. McComas would like Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody released from an engagement so that Moody can speak at the closing of the campaign in Baltimore, Maryland.
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1902-10-22
John Edward Charles O’Sullivan Addicks alerts President Roosevelt that several opposition tickets cooperating with the Democrats have emerged from the Republican Party in Delaware.
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1902-10-27
Secretary of State Hay does not find Assistant Secretary Adee’s replies objectionable. He has been pleased with President Roosevelt’s recent speeches and found Senator Lodge’s speech in Portland to be excellent. Hay is prepared to speak on October 6 for the Grand Army of the Republic unless Roosevelt decides he can attend.
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1902-09-11
Secretary of State Hay goes over potential diplomatic appointments, particularly where Bellamy Storer should be assigned. He looks forward to hosting President Roosevelt at his “little shanty in the hills.”
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1902-08-18
Representative Babcock, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, is having difficulty making arrangements with several members of the committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-19
Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna will remain Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Other possible contenders, Henry Cabot Lodge and Matthew Stanley Quay, were discussed but Hanna appears to be the best in the position as chairman even though he might not be “enthusiastically” in favor of Roosevelt’s nomination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-28
A. M. Stevenson expresses concern that the Republican party and the administration of President Roosevelt are losing ground because of the atrocities in the Philippines that have been published in the daily papers. Stevenson fears that the party will lose the fall elections if the Republicans in Congress keep letting the Democrats have their way on this issue. He wants the Republicans to fight back and defend the American military’s actions in the Philippines. He then reminds Roosevelt of the Sand Creek Indian massacre, in which women and children were killed, and notes that Senator Teller (D-CO) was one of the principal backers of Colonel John Chivington, who led the Colorado militia in that fight.
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1902-05-04
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and General Henry Clark Corbin both believe that a letter approved by President Roosevelt should be made public. There is no indication what the letter contains.
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1902-04-22
Newspaper article claiming that President Roosevelt is anti-immigration as he has several prominent anti-immigrant associates.
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1903-11-27
William Sturgis Bigelow has found a new scale that goes “far to make life worth living.” Henry Cabot Lodge told Bigelow that President Roosevelt enjoys “violent exercise, with danger” and Bigelow recommends fishing for New England flounder off Tuckernuck Island.
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1902-03-07
Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, the Commissioner of Navigation, believes that the Philippine bill before the Senate is discriminatory and not in accord with the Peace Commission at Paris. The bill imposes a tax on foreign vessels conducting inter-island trade, but excludes American and Spanish vessels. Commissioner Chamberlain believes that this is an opportunity to display “friendliness” toward Germany by giving them similar privileges.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-22
Senator Pettigrew asks if Vice President Roosevelt will donate a complete set of his works for a new library in Sioux Falls, South Dakota being funded by Andrew Carnegie.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Senator Hanna’s conference with President Roosevelt likely included a discussion of the Republican National Committee chairmanship. It is unlikely that Hanna will serve again as chairman due to health concerns. Likely successors include Senator Fairbanks, Senator Lodge, and Postmaster General Payne.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-27
Although the United States is the largest manufacturing and exporting nation in the world, Senator Hoar cautions that they should move forward cautiously in foreign affairs and business. He believes that the simplest course is legislation that includes provisions for individual countries that must be followed in order for the United States to comply.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-18
Representative Moody and the people of Massachusetts send their “hearty and cordial support” of President Roosevelt and his administration. When he arrives in Washington, D.C., Moody will visit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-08