Neill, Charles Patrick, 1865-1942

President Roosevelt believes Upton Sinclair is more agitated than the facts warrant, and reassures him that there is “no official whitewash or official anything else sent out from Washington,” and suggests that Sinclair’s Chicago correspondent is untrustworthy for suggesting such a thing. Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill or James Bronson Reynolds are too well known to be able to investigate internal conditions of the meat packing industry as Sinclair describes in The Jungle, and assigning a man to go undercover will likely take months. Roosevelt again admonishes Sinclair that he and his correspondent must “keep [their] heads” for their work to be of value.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-11

President Roosevelt tells Upton Sinclair that he is glad that Sinclair is able to put Charles Patrick Neill on the correct track in his investigations of the meat packing industry. Roosevelt comments that he has asked Neill to report to him on both the treatment of the workers and the conditions of the meat, but remarks that “as I have the power to deal with one and not with the other, it is more my duty to look after the one than the other.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-09

President Roosevelt will ask Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill to inform him of anything he can do to help Jane Addams and her cause. Roosevelt expresses admiration and thanks for the way that Addams pursues reform.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-24

President Roosevelt has a high opinion of Charles Patrick Neill and asks Judge Gray his thoughts about Edgar E. Clark. Roosevelt promises to take up the Meigs matter at once.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-09

President Roosevelt thanks Maurice Francis Egan for the book and says he is considering making Charles Patrick Neill and Edward A. Moseley assistants to the Recorder of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-20

James Bronson Reynolds recalls that President Roosevelt has offered Daniel J. Keefe his choice between the position of Labor Secretary to the Panama Canal Commission and Commissioner General of Immigration. Should Keefe choose Labor Secretary, Reynolds recommends that the salary be increased to $8000 per year. If he chooses to become Commissioner General, Reynolds asks Roosevelt to change the law to give Keefe more power so that he can enact change.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-02

James Bronson Reynolds reports his findings to President Roosevelt after a tour of the Chicago Stock Yards led by Samuel E. Bennett, Chief Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry for Chicago. He found many improvements since his previous inspection, including building improvements and better sanitation, lunches, and workwear for workers. However, he notes that there is still much work to be done.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-29

Representative Bennet reports to Senator Lodge from Greece on the practices of steamship companies taking immigrants to the United States. In light of current restrictive health inspections at Ellis Island, Greek officials and heads of steamship companies are carrying out more stringent health inspections before the ships depart. This has drastically reduced the number of immigrants turned away in the United States. Bennet suggests that it may be an opportune time to cooperate with Greece to exclude “undesirable” Greek immigrants from coming to the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-03

Secretary of War Taft hopes that if Frederick N. Judson is offered the opportunity to represent the International Molders’ Union of North America before the United States Court of Appeals, he will accept. President Roosevelt believes the union should have the best legal talent possible in the case involving a recent strike in Milwaukee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-04

Wallace Finley Dailey describes the changes and additions to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University since his last report in 1994. Dailey notes the repair and restoration of thousands of pamphlets, the addition of manuscripts from Roosevelt family members, and the addition of books and articles whose authors made use of the collection in writing their works. Dailey also describes the process of moving the collection’s guides online, and he highlights the various exhibits mounted by Harvard Library using material from the collection. He closes the report by noting that the collection received Theodore Roosevelt’s Pigskin Library, and that it served as the centerpiece of an exhibit.

A photograph of the Pigskin Library appears on the first page of the report, and a text box with a quote from Roosevelt about reading appears at its end.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Photograph showing President Roosevelt with his “Tennis Cabinet” on the White House lawn on March 1, 1909, when a farewell luncheon was held for the group. Shown from left to right behind Theodore Roosevelt are military aide Archie Butt, Third Assistant Secretary of State William Phillips, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop, Chief of U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, Comptroller of Currency Lawrence O. Murray, U.S. District Attorney Henry L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Associate Justice William H. Moody, U.S. District Attorney John Carter Rose, Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry, G. W. Woodruff, French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, William Walter Heffelfinger, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Commission of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp, John Avery McIlhenny, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, Solicitor General Henry Martyn Hoyt, U.S. Marshal John R. Abernathy, Luther S. Kelly, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill, William Wingate Sewall, Commissioner General of Immigration Daniel J. Keefe, First Assistant Secretary of State James Callan O’Laughlin, James Bronson Reynolds, Henry S. Pritchett, and secretary William Loeb. In the foreground is the Alexander Phimster Proctor sculpture, “Stalking Panther,” which was presented to Roosevelt by his “Tennis Cabinet” at the luncheon.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-03-01