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President Roosevelt asks Edgar E. Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commission to please consider serving as arbitrator of the railway wage dispute, at the urging of Robert H. Ingram and Patrick H. Morrissey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-31
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in William J. Tierney’s proposal. He will send his letter to Edgar E. Clark and Patrick H. Morrisey, the two railroad men he is most in contact with.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-23
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that William Grant Edens, Vice President of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, quoted Roosevelt about Patrick H. Morrissey, President of the Railway Employees’ and Investors’ Association. Morrissey is the kind of labor leader in whom Roosevelt “most heartily” believes and would do anything to support him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
President Roosevelt agrees with William H. Taft about Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon. He believes that the ideal result in the election would be a Republican majority so small that neither Cannon nor James A. Tawney can be Speaker. Roosevelt discusses election prospects in Ohio and New York, where he believes Governor Charles Evans Hughes will win re-election. He is angry about the attacks on Taft’s religion by certain Protestants. Roosevelt does not believe he needs to do anything else in the campaign, unless he needs to speak to labor men. He invites Taft to stay at the White House when he is in Washington, unless he and his managers think it will hurt his campaign.
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1908-10-12
President Roosevelt agrees with Ohio Attorney General Ellis’s letter. While Roosevelt asked Daniel J. Keefe to make a statement, he does not think it is possible for the President to ask someone he does not know well to do so. Patrick H. Morrissey has said he supports William H. Taft. Roosevelt asks if someone in Ohio or the National Committee could carry out Ellis’s plan.
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1908-10-13
President Roosevelt is concerned about the enclosed letter. Labor man Patrick H. Morrissey says he supports the Republicans, but has not come out publicly in favor of them. Roosevelt asks J. S. Sherman to reach out to Morrissey. The one area where Roosevelt is concerned about the vote is with the labor element. The railway men in particular are friendly towards him, but he has not been able to convince them to support William H. Taft or Charles Evans Hughes.
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1908-10-14
President Roosevelt encloses a telegram from Patrick H. Morrissey and asks Senator Hepburn if Morrissey could be summoned before his conference committee. Roosevelt assumes that Hepburn wants the opinions of the best men from railroad organizations before they pass legislation.
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1907-02-21
President Roosevelt is concerned over the accusations made by Edward Henry Harriman, a prominent railroad executive, particularly a “wilful untruth” concerning a request to raise money for the Republican party during the 1904 presidential campaign. Roosevelt tells Representative Sherman that he believes the dispute with Harriman stems from a dissatisfaction with regulations made on interstate commerce, particularly affecting railroads. Harriman is also disappointed that Roosevelt failed to appoint Senator Chauncey M. Depew as Ambassador to France as he had requested, and refuses to support the Republican party as long as Roosevelt’s policies dominate.
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1906-10-08
Theodore Roosevelt received John J. Hannahan’s letter and wrote the two letters that Hannahan suggested. Roosevelt expects Hannahan will bring John Mitchell and Patrick H. Morrissey to the upcoming dinner.
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1904-10-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John J. Hannahan for the kind references in his speech. After the election, Roosevelt would like to take a meal with Hannahan at the White House.
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1904-09-14
Timothy F. Flaherty received Theodore Roosevelt’s letter. He is grateful for Roosevelt’s help in sharing the affairs of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen with Governor Hiram Johnson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-07
Hiram R. McCullough informs Bernard E. Sunny that he and Patrick H. Morrissey will call at the Union League Club tomorrow morning at 9:30.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-21
Martin A. Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, thanks President Roosevelt for the note he sent yesterday, and gives him some updates on several conversations he has had recently. He has asked Henry Walters of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company to meet with him tomorrow, and hopes to have a productive discussion. Knapp’s recent talk with P. H. Morrissey was satisfactory. He also has a suspicion that Milton H. Smith, head of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, will visit him on Tuesday. The trouble that the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company is not as serious as was feared, and he is confident that there can be an amicable arrangement. He explains the areas in which a proposed reduction of wages will take effect. Roosevelt’s letter to the Interstate Commerce Commission has had a good effect.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-23