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Governor Swettenham of Jamaica thanks Secretary of State Root for the assistance given to Jamaica by Admiral C. H. Davis and the United States Navy after the earthquake.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-20
Robert E. Cox, a gunner in the United States Navy, provides a report to Captain Pendleton, commander of the USS Missouri, outlining the services performed by officers landed in Kingston, Jamaica on January 17 and 18, and commends their actions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-19
Governor Swettenham thanks Admiral C. H. Davis for the assistance rendered by Davis and his troops from the USS Missouri in the aftermath of the earthquake in Jamaica.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-18
President Roosevelt has received Nevada Governor Sparks’ telegram and is prepared to send a detachment of soldiers to Nevada upon Sparks’ request. To warrant action by the president, the request must include a description of the situation that meets the requirements in Article 4, Section 4 of United States Constitution. Roosevelt will send no more than two companies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-04
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte assures President Roosevelt that he is consulting with the Department of State regarding actions in Cuba. Bonaparte made transportation arrangements for Secretary of War Taft and Acting Secretary of State Bacon to travel to Havana by way of Key West, but they decided to go via Tampa instead. Bonaparte believes Taft should command the Navy in Cuban waters during an emergency and urges Roosevelt to send instructions to that effect. On another matter, Bonaparte encloses a letter from Philllips Lee Goldsborough inquiring whether he may serve as chairman of William H. Jackson’s congressional campaign. Bonaparte believes that allowing Goldsborough to do so would benefit Roosevelt politically. Having Jackson in Congress will offset losses elsewhere.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-18
Harvard President Eliot assures President Roosevelt that sending Secretary of War William H. Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon to Cuba is the “best thing you can do.” Eliot believes there could be Americans lending money to the Cuban rebels. He agrees with Roosevelt that Cuba will need a strong military force to control further uprisings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-17
Nelson P. Webster relays to Secretary to the President Loeb that Consul General Steinhart wired from Cuba that the rebellion there is spreading in the provinces of Havana, Santa Clara, and Pinar del Rio. President Estrada Palma has requested American military intervention, and warns that any delay “may produce a massacre of citizens in Havana.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-12
Brigadier General Bell reports to Governor Taft on preparations being made by the War Department in case intervention becomes necessary. Bell discusses the logistics of intervention in detail, mainly pertaining to transportation and notes the War Department is prepared to promptly respond.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-29
Philippe Bunau-Varilla quotes a paragraph from a letter he received from Foreign Minister de la Espriella Navarro stating that the United States did not offer aid or intervention before the outbreak of the Panamanian Revolution on November 3, 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-07