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Senator Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for correspondence concerning the full account of the Miller case in the Printing Office, in addition to his opinion on labor organization activity and other government matters.
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1903-09-13
John Tracy Morrison requests that no one except the President see letters concerning a controversy that he denies involvement in.
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1903-09-15
Louis E. McComas discusses a letter he received from S. Davies Warfield and their discussion of John W. Pettit.
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1903-09-15
Regis Henri Post is concerned about American officials favoring the Puerto Rico Republican Party, including interference in elections and protecting dishonest officials. Post suggests that Governor Hunt discuss the situation with Bishop James Herbert Blenk and John Dandridge Henley Luce.
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1903-08-30
Senator Hanna received President Roosevelt’s letter regarding the New Orleans matter. Hanna believes Walter L. Cohen, register of the Land Office, should be retained. He is interested in Mayer Cahen, coiner of the mint, as well, but has a special interest in Cohen.
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1903-08-19
Commissioner of Immigration Williams responds to Harper’s Weekly editor Henry Loomis Nelson’s criticism of the recent arrest of Edward F. McSweeney, presenting evidence of McSweeney’s inappropriate conduct as Assistant Commissioner of Immigration.
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1903-08-04
William Loeb discusses replacements for labor commissionership. He suggests warning William A. Miller to avoid contact with the press while the case involving the Book Binding Department is being investigated. Loeb recommends that President Roosevelt avoid Maurice E. Townsend, who is organizing a 200th anniversary celebration of Oyster Bay.
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1903-07-27
Charles J. Bonaparte informs President Roosevelt that he has sought copies of the files about Seymour Wilcox Tulloch’s charges against the postal administration; he and Holmes Conrad will report to Roosevelt about it as soon as possible. Per a conversation with Darwin R. James of the Board of Indian Commissioners, Bonaparte shares that Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock “finally consented” to publish unchanged a report from the Board, and Bonaparte has urged James to ask Roosevelt that these reports always be printed as their “subjection to a censorship” by the Interior Department is “more objectionable than their entire suppression.” Bonaparte also reports that Hitchcock refused, as was the custom, to publish with the Board’s report the proceedings of the last “Mohawk Conference of the Friends of the Indian,” a decision Bonaparte finds regrettable as the precedent is clear, the expense negligible, and the discussions of the Conference considerable. He feels the incident will place the Department in “a position of needless antagonism.” Bonaparte concludes by noting the enclosure of his letter to Archbishop P. J. Ryan of Philadelphia regarding the withdrawal of rations the previous autumn from Native American children attending religious schools. Bonaparte will try to obtain a copy of a pamphlet circulated among Catholics on this subject.
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1903-07-22
Attorney General Knox reports that England’s Committee of the Privy Council has allowed the government’s appeal from the Quebec Court on the case involving B. D. Green and E. H. Gaynor, who procured an illegal profit of $2 million in river and harbor work on the Savannah harbor.
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1903-07-22
Hamilton Fish encloses a letter from the ex-Attorney General from New York, John Clay Davies, dated July 11, 1903, regarding political corruption and possible plotting against Theodore Roosevelt.
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1903-07-13
Charles J. Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on the status of potential indictments against George W. Beavers.
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1903-07-16
William O’Connell Bradley describes to President Roosevelt the proceedings of the Kentucky Republican Convention. Bradley suggests there is political corruption there at the hands of Charles Earl Sapp. He includes a handwritten note stating that the convention adopted a resolution endorsing Roosevelt for a second term as President.
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1903-07-17
Secretary of War Root informs President Roosevelt that the accusations of corruption in Manila described in a letter from R. L. Wynn are untrue. A report by Colonel Clarence Ransom Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, showed no issues with the printing office.
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1903-07-17
John C. Davies writes to Hamilton Fish regarding political corruption and possible plotting against President Theodore Roosevelt. Davies is too timid to contact Roosevelt himself for fear he would wrongly interpret his motives of concern.
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1903-07-11
Secretary of War Root orders an investigation into an 1898 contract to supply gloves to the Quartermaster’s Department of the Army. In the course of bankruptcy proceedings, it has come to light that the Littauer Brothers firm, which includes Representative Lucius Nathan Littauer, was interested in the contract. Root is concerned that the contract or the bidding was handled improperly.
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1903-07-03
It is expected that August W. Machen will be indicted for bribery. Postal inspectors have returned to the investigation of the division of salaries and allowances, formerly headed by George W. Beavers.
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1903-06-05
E. C. Howland summarizes the investigation of the Post Office Department and theorizes where the investigation is headed. He credits President Theodore Roosevelt and Postmaster General Henry C. Payne for launching and maintaining a thorough and just investigation.
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1903-06-13
Fred George Russ Gordon describes a plan that will divide the Socialists, People’s Party, and Democrats which in turn will empower the Republican Party for years to come. If Gordon attends a national conference for the Democrats in Denver, he feels that he could work to prevent the amalgamation of the Socialist and Populist parties.
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1903-07-01
Henry Cabot Lodge praises President Roosevelt’s selection of Charles Bonaparte as Special Prosecutor for the Post Office Investigation. Lodge states that the Boston Herald has published some highly negative letters about Roosevelt written by Senator Aldrich. Lodge asks that Roosevelt give him a written order so there would be no issue that he act as a U.S. government representative in the arbitration over the border dispute between Alaska and Canada, which results in the Hay-Herbert Treaty. Some correspondence of Lodge’s with Shaw are enclosed, and Lodge discusses his concerns with Shaw’s proposed organizational changes in the Customs Service’s transportation division.
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1903-07-01
Senator Lodge presents to Secretary of the Treasury Shaw his position on the proposed changes in the Transportation Division of the Customs Department. Lodge believes that Collectors, such as George H. Lyman, who manages the Boston Custom House, should be told and consulted about the proposed changes. Lodge also advocated for Special Agent Converse J. Smith about whom Shaw has a different opinion.
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1903-07-01