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Senator Hale wants to speak with President Roosevelt before he appoints anyone to the Canada Commission. Hale adds in a postscript that he would like to hear Roosevelt discuss the merchant marines in his upcoming speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-01
The French embassy has forwarded an account of the International Congress of Merchant Marine at Monaco in 1901.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-10
President Roosevelt wants to know why William Demos Crum’s nomination has not been reported from the committee. The president also asks where he can get a copy of Senator Gallinger’s report on the merchant marine, as Senator Lodge has praised it highly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-31
President Roosevelt is anxious to see Senator Lodge upon his return to Oyster Bay after August 15. Roosevelt has included the “merchant marine business” in his letter and will have a rough draft to show Lodge. Roosevelt has also adopted what Lodge said about reciprocity and has gone over his speech with Elihu Root and Senator Philander C. Knox.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-19
President Roosevelt would like Senator Hoar to look over what he has written regarding the tariff, reciprocity, and the merchant marine. He wonders if Hoar’s views are similar to those of Senator Lodge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-14
Charles D. Durkee sends Theodore Roosevelt a notice by the Marine Supplies Association of America regarding a Campaign for American Merchant Marine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-01
William W. Bates requests Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement of Bill H.R. 4660, which will go before Congress in December 1911. This bill addresses the “ship subsidy” of Merchant Marines, of which Bates claims Congress had no authority to legislate on in 1904 with the appointment of the Merchant Marine Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
William S. Cowles sends Secretary of the Navy Newberry comments on two letters from the Merchant Marine League. The League maintains that by chartering foreign vessels to transport coal to ports on the Pacific Coast, the United States has damaged merchant shipping without appreciating the true effect such an action has. Cowles relays the details and allegations the League submits for consideration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-15
After speaking with President Roosevelt about the American merchant marine, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw thought Roosevelt might want a copy of his speech on the subject, which he has given in many places in both the South and the North. Shaw calls it a “universally popular” subject that is getting a lot of attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-22
This article is the platform adopted by the Republican Party of Michigan ahead of the Republican National Convention. The topics mentioned include foreign trade, monetary and fiscal policies, the state electoral process, and Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-25
Rip Van Winkle, his beard long and his clothes tattered, lies sleeping near an abandoned ship yard. An overturned jug labeled “High Protective Tariff” is at his side and a sign behind him states “Prohibitive Cost of Construction.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-15
Aaron Vanderbilt shares with President Roosevelt the efforts of the special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation to inform and to solicit opinions from the public in regard to the serious decline of American shipbuilding. He encloses a pamphlet entitled “American Shipping in the Foreign Trade.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-14