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President Roosevelt tells James J. Hill that he received his letter, and that when he sees him in person he will tell him what concerns him about Colonel T. W. Symons’s record with regard to Puget Sound.
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1908-06-19
William Loeb sends Secretary of War Taft a letter from President Roosevelt concerning Colonel T. W. Symons. Roosevelt wants the letter to be treated as personal, and for it not to be put in the files of the War Department.
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1908-06-09
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that he believes that Colonel T. W. Symons’s conduct is not sufficient to convince Roosevelt to appoint him head of the Engineer Corps. While Roosevelt disapproved of Symons’s buying a piece of property in Coos Bay while he was a government engineer in that district, that alone would not disqualify him. It has now come to light, however, that while he was a government engineer in a district including Seattle, he accepted employment as a consulting engineer or a company wishing to build a canal competing with the one the government was building at the same time. These together show a lack of propriety on Symons’s part, and Roosevelt is not willing to make him head of the Corps. Roosevelt asks Taft to investigate whether Colonel James M. Marshall has ever acted in a similar way.
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1908-06-09
President Roosevelt thinks that T. W. Symons would be a good replacement for retiring Chief of Engineers Alexander Mackenzie.
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1908-03-09
President Roosevelt apologizes to James A. Hemenway, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations for the House of Representatives, for the appropriations for the White House presented by Colonel T. W. Symons, Commissioner of Public Buildings. Roosevelt has explained to Symons that he must first submit appropriation proposals to himself or William Loeb.
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1904-03-29
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Senator Lodge. In a postscript, Roosevelt complains about British dishonesty in the boundary negotiations and Colonel Symons is doing a poor job of caring for the White House grounds.
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1903-08-08
Secretary of War Root returns Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s letter and agrees with his views on the length of the upcoming Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. After speaking with Colonel T. W. Symons, Root believes that the White House picnic incident is being misrepresented in the press. Due to some confusion, Symons had to revoke a permit he had given for a picnic on the grounds.
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1903-08-19
Acting Secretary of State Loomis asks Benjamin F. Barnes to arrange for a carriage to meet Baron Hermann Speck von Sternburg and Colonel Thomas Symons at the station in Oyster Bay, to convey them to their hotel and then to President Roosevelt’s house.
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1903-08-05
Mayor Knight of Buffalo recommends Major Symons for appointment to the international commission for regulation of lake levels. Knight dissuades President Roosevelt from listening to a faction from the Lake Superior Water Power Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, that is against Symons, arguing that the people of Buffalo have been happy with his work and that the proposed dam on the Niagara River is in Symons’ field of expertise.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-10
The pending River and Harbor Bill has a clause for an international commission for regulating the levels of the Great Lakes. Wilson Bissell recommends T. W. Symons for a position on this commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-24