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President Roosevelt appoints Morris Bien to a special committee to study the contracts used in the various departments and bureaus of the government in order to “remedy any defects” found. The recommendations of the committee will be approved by the legal officers of each department, and ultimately by the Attorney General of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-18
President Roosevelt appoints John S. Carpenter to a special committee to study the contracts used in the various departments and bureaus of the government in order to “remedy any defects” found. The recommendations of the committee will be approved by the legal officers of each department, and ultimately by the Attorney General of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-18
President Roosevelt appoints Walter W. Warwick to a special committee to study the contracts used in the various departments and bureaus of the government in order to “remedy any defects” found. The recommendations of the committee will be approved by the legal officers of each department, and ultimately by the Attorney General of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-18
President Roosevelt appoints James A. Wetmore to a special committee to study the contracts used in the various departments and bureaus of the government in order to “remedy any defects” found. The recommendations of the committee will be approved by the legal officers of each department, and ultimately by the Attorney General of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-18
The only factor in awarding government contracts should be the “business interests of the Government” and the involvement of a United States Senator must be ignored.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-13
Problems have arisen regarding the bids for a public building in Cleveland, Ohio. Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna wants the contract to be awarded to Dall & Son as their bid states that the stone will be obtained from a fully developed quarry. However, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw believes the contract will have to go to Bradley & Son and the quarry they intend to use will be fully developed by the time the stone is required. Shaw encloses the letter he wrote to Hanna.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-07
C. Grant La Farge and George Lewis Heins hope to be invited for the competition to design the new executive office. They were previously disappointed not to be invited to the Department of Agriculture competition. La Farge has long wanted to design a building in Washington, D.C., and to have one selected during the Roosevelt administration would “increase the triumph.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-09