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President Roosevelt writes a letter of introduction for John Ryan Devereux, the nephew of P. J. Ryan, the Archbishop of Philadelphia. Devereux is traveling through Rome with his wife and their seven children. Roosevelt hopes that Ambassador Griscom can make them the arrangements they desire.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-19
After speaking with Charles J. Bonaparte, a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, and receiving a letter that Bonaparte had sent to Archbishop P. J. Ryan, President Roosevelt believes he did not give the Catholics and Episcopalians the chance to present in full a brief about the government providing rations to Indian children in boarding schools. Roosevelt asks Attorney General Philander C. Knox to request a full brief of the issue from either Bonaparte or Ryan, who are both members of the Board of Indian Commissioners.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-25
President Roosevelt was distressed by Father John J. Wynne’s published letter regarding the friars in the Philippines. The letter put Roosevelt in a “warlike” mood but he would like to avoid a public fight. In terms of the friars, much has been made of them being loyal to the United States. However, their loyalty is entirely based on the fact that American authorities are the only thing stopping Filipinos from taking violent reprisals against the friars.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-31
Archbishop Ryan was appointed to the Board of Indian Commissioners because a Catholic had never been on the Board and Ryan was “particularly fitted for the position.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-14
President Roosevelt will carefully go over the papers regarding a potential shared ancestor with Representative Morrell and is pleased that Morrell is favorable to the appointment of Archbishop Ryan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-17
President Roosevelt would like to appoint Archbishop Ryan to the Board of Indian Commissioners.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-28
Prominent Catholics who claim to be Democrats support President Roosevelt because of his commitment to the separation of church and state, and stated desire to nominate men to office based on their merits, rather than their religion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-30
President Roosevelt has broken precedent in his appointment of Bishop Ryan, a Catholic, as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. The appointment is significant as there has been a longstanding dispute between Catholic and Protestant authorities on the appropriation and distribution of public funds for Indian schools.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Bellamy Storer discusses the Catholic Church hierarchy’s opposition to the Republican party. Storer also discusses his involvement in introducing Carlton Bailey Hurst to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna after he was removed from his position as Consul General in Vienna. Storer cautioned that if the removal was due to charges made by Charles V. Herdliska, Secretary of the Vienna legation, such charges were untrustworthy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-10
Henry Martyn Hoyt writes that President Roosevelt’s instructions will be followed concerning government rations to Indian children at schools.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-28
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22
President Roosevelt has sent a commission to meet with the Vatican leadership and recently appointed several Catholics to his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10
Cardinal Gibbons recommends appointing Archbishop Ryan to the Board of Indian Commissioners.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-29