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President Roosevelt authorizes Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou to sell vessels of the United States Revenue Cutter Service that are deemed unfit for further service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-27
President Roosevelt has taken the matter of sending a revenue cutter up with Secretary of State Elihu Root. He tells Senator Lodge that he cannot write a letter for “that Brookline celebration.” Roosevelt receives requests like that every day, and if he obliges in one case, he will have to do it for all of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-23
The telegram shares the results of a phone call between James Burton Reynolds, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and the “New York office,” presumably of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Regulations do not allow women to land on revenue cutters and requests to that effect have always been refused.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on legal matters in several states. In North Carolina, Bonaparte has found that many of the jurisdictional problems in the Southern Railway case are due to political posturing, and that Bonaparte’s investigator, Edward Terry Sanford, has found that the federal judge in the case, Jeter Connelly Pritchard, has acted appropriately. Bonaparte encloses a letter regarding Japanese seal poachers and suggests sending naval reinforcements. Bonaparte has directed Assistant Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley to look into monopolistic actions of railroad and steamship companies in New England that are in possible violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-29
Senator Cabot has written Elihu Root about the fishermen on the West Coast and the possibility of deploying a revenue cutter there to prevent trouble. Cabot hopes that President Roosevelt will keep Oscar J. Ricketts as the Public Printer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-26