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President Roosevelt supports the decisions Attorney General Bonaparte outlined in his last letter. Roosevelt believes he will have to admit Oklahoma to the Union, as the pros outweigh the cons. Roosevelt also wants to discuss the placement of William H. H. Llewellyn with Bonaparte.
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1907-09-21
President Roosevelt thinks that the Landis-Sims-Wilkerson matter will gradually resolve itself after they confer with the judge. He does not understand Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch’s telegram and asks Attorney General Bonaparte whether Burch is proceeding against all of the defendants or only Senator William Edgar Borah.
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1907-09-07
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Bonaparte what he thinks about the Oklahoma gerrymander and suggests action if it is justified. He also discusses Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s concerns about railroad employees’ testimony in the Standard Oil case.
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1907-09-06
President Roosevelt approves of Attorney General Bonaparte’s letter to United States Attorney Edwin Walter Sims, and feels they are prepared for any attacks. A Missouri correspondent has just sent an attack upon Roosevelt regarding Standard Oil. If the judge fights them, Roosevelt will publish a statement. Along with the publication of Bonaparte’s previous communications, this will prove that the record did not warrant the statements.
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1907-09-03
President Roosevelt agrees with Attorney General Bonaparte on the appointment of Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch in the Idaho land fraud case. On the New Mexico issue, Roosevelt details Attorney General William H. H. Llewellyn’s rise as an attorney. In light of Judge James H. Beatty’s letter, Roosevelt feels there is no need to be involved. Although Roosevelt does not trust rumors, it does seem based on recent behavior that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis may be suffering a breakdown. In a post script, Roosevelt comments on William Randolph Hearst’s recent supposed sympathy toward Bonaparte after his siding with Wall Street. In Roosevelt’s view, the recurrent rumor about Bonaparte resigning to appease financiers has actually shown the public that Bonaparte alarms those who are corrupt.
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1907-08-31
President Roosevelt agrees with Attorney General Bonaparte’s conclusions in the Standard Oil and Chicago Alton Railroad case. While he thinks Bonaparte’s letter to Henry Lee Higginson is admirable, Roosevelt thinks it best not to publish it and open himself to further attacks by the press. He cautions against attending the conference of attorney generals. Roosevelt suggests how to respond to United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick and handle the situation in New Mexico.
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1907-08-22
President Roosevelt discusses how a letter from Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis changes the possible prosecution of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and Standard Oil cases. He asks Attorney General Bonaparte to investigate the testimony in question.
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1907-08-17
President Roosevelt thinks that if Herbert Knox Smith can find the right man through United States District Attorney Walter Edwin Sims and the president of the University of Chicago, it would be good, because Illinois has not been given many places in the administration.
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1907-01-07
Attorney General Bonaparte informs President Roosevelt of his meeting with Charles B. Morrison regarding the Standard Oil case. Morrison reported that Standard Oil magnates had met with Frank B. Kellogg and himself confidentially to come up with a settlement that would “preserve them from a criminal prosecution.” Bonaparte told Morrison that the government could not deal more favorably with the Standard Oil Company as compared with the Drug Trust and that the whole matter would have to be presented to President Roosevelt for consideration. Bonaparte also mentions other matters, including correspondence from Governor Charles E. Magoon of Cuba and the present situation in Oklahoma Territory.
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1907-09-08
Attorney General Bonaparte sends President Roosevelt letters from United States Attorney Edwin Walter Sims and Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch along with a clipping about Special Assistant U.S. District Attorney Grace Humiston (Mrs. Quackenbos). Bonaparte thinks his statement will suffice until he gets to Chicago, but the press will likely attack them anyway. It puzzles Bonaparte that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis does not see that going back on the matter the would be exactly what Standard Oil wants.
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1907-09-05
Attorney General Bonaparte tells President Roosevelt that District Attorney Edwin Walter Sims has asked for a postponement in Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s case, perhaps due to Landis’s behavior. The press covering Secretary of State Elihu Root and Thomas Fortune Ryan has been sensationalized, and Bonaparte feels it is unfortunate that Root is taking the blame on the whiskey situation. Bonaparte will get an update from Department of Justice Agent Peyton Gordon about Agent Ormsby McHarg. As he will be traveling, Bonaparte sends his forwarding address. He encloses telegrams from Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch regarding Judge Frank Sigel Dietrich.
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1907-09-04
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on the situation between United States Attorney Edwin Walter Sims and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Bonaparte feels Sims’s behavior could be harmful. Any relevant evidence should have been made available initially, and although Bonaparte does not think an inquiry will change the case now he will do as the Landis asks.
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1907-09-02
Attorney General Bonaparte reviewed the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company case. He sends President Roosevelt a copy of his letter to United States District Attorney Edwin Walter Sims and asks him to look it over.
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1907-08-21
President Roosevelt remembers Chester Arthur Legg, and will write United States District Attorney Edwin Walter Sims to see if there is a place for Legg to work under him.
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1907-04-23
President Roosevelt has read the report from Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor Edwin Walter Sims and instructs Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf to carry out his recommendations without involving Congress. Roosevelt directs the Treasury Department to investigate the “dereliction of duty” of the Revenue Cutter Services and believes that more protection from the United States Marines might be necessary to safeguard the Alaskan seal fur fisheries from seal pirates.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt wants an “immediate and exhaustive” investigation of the Revenue Cutter Service regarding its failure to properly patrol the Alaskan seal fisheries. Roosevelt directs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to review the report on the matter from Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor Edwin Walter Sims.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf what he thinks of Richard K. Campbell as a possible replacement for Edwin Walter Sims as solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, when the time comes to make such an appointment.
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1906-06-29
Governor Hadley encourages Theodore Roosevelt to accept the speaking invitation from the Million Population Club of St. Louis, Missouri. He is unsure of Roosevelt’s policy concerning speech-making but describes the club as a “responsible organization.” Hadley is pleased with the campaign’s Executive Committee and requests an autographed photograph of Roosevelt.
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1912-03-02
Governor Hadley encloses a copy of a letter he wrote to Edwin Walter Sims.
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1912-02-19
Bert S. Steadwell is working with former State Attorney Clifford Griffith Roe are preparing a work on the “white slave trade” (prostitution) in America. They would like to include a symposium on the matter in which prominent men give their thoughts on the issue and its possible solutions. They would like Theodore Roosevelt to provide them with his brief thoughts on the matter.
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1910-01-05