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President Roosevelt tells Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, that he wishes Professor John William Burgess would share his opinion about the right of the Senate to amend a treaty. Roosevelt decries those who claim the Senate can modify a treaty, or that the president can veto line items in an appropriation bill.
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1905-02-18
President Roosevelt is “at work upsetting the Treasury about the frame business.” He liked Senator Lodge’s statement in response to Culbertson’s Panama “‘bomb,'” and disparages the newspapers for misconstruing the meaning of statements made a year before about the treaty ratification. Roosevelt also appreciated Lodge’s quote in support of him in McClure’s, and thought it sounded better than former President Cleveland’s endorsement of Alton B. Parker.
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1904-10-22
The Arabian stallions were not sent to President Roosevelt. It was a newspaper story and the horses were actually sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. There might not be any horses left for Ted Roosevelt as all of Roosevelt’s horses are having health issues and he currently is unable to ride. It appears that the Panama treaty will be ratified but the situation in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) is chaotic and Roosevelt had to intervene. He hopes to defer doing more for as long as possible. Roosevelt has been paying close attention to the Russo-Japanese War. Russia had been behaving “very badly” in Asia and, secretly, Roosevelt is pleased with the early Japanese victories.
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1904-02-10
President Roosevelt is pleased with the treaty between the United States and Great Britain but decides to hold back his response until he can see Arthur Hamilton Lee next year.
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1901-12-31
President Roosevelt has not changed the treaties except to include the amendments Senator Aldrich suggested. He will call the attention of the Senate to the treaties and would like to meet with Aldrich.
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1901-11-18
Senator Borah is opposed to the unamended arbitration treaties and actually made the motion that Section 3 of Article 3 be stricken, not Senator Lodge. Borah would like to see Theodore Roosevelt but fears that it would lead to a new outburst on the part of the press. He does not want his political activities checked.
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1912-01-11
William Jennings Bryan would be pleased to see a “meeting of the parliaments of the world in the United States.” He hopes that the ratification of the arbitration treaties now pending will lead to more treaties to cement the “bonds of peace.”
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1911-11-13
Coe Isaac Crawford expresses his thanks to Theodore Roosevelt for the letter he sent concerning a treaty with Honduras and the arbitration treaty with the Great Britain. Crawford has not given much personal attention to the treaty with Honduras; however, he believes it should be ratified. He states the arbitration treaty with the Great Britain has not yet been submitted to the U.S. Senate, and as a result he has not formed a definite opinion on it until he has heard more about it. Crawford showed a letter from Roosevelt to Robert M. La Follette, and states La Follette thinks the treaty with Honduras goes to far in assisting another country.
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1911-06-15
Acting Secretary of State Bacon encloses copies of a letter from Kuhn, Loeb & Company to Jacob H. Hollander and the reply of Federico Velásquez y Hernández accepting the company’s proposal to refinance the debt of Santo Domingo. The contract will be put into a more formal shape and will be important to Santo Domingo and the prospects of treaty ratification.
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1906-07-19
Shelby M. Cullom informs Theodore Roosevelt that the Committe on Foreign Relations will report the Algeciras Treaty to the Senate on December 5 and voting for ratification will take place on December 12. Cullom also reports that the Committee ratified the convention providing for an International Institute of Agriculture.
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1906-06-27
Secretary of State Root encloses an edict from Emperor Meiji and a dispatch from Minister Lloyd Carpenter Griscom containing a note from the Japanese Foreign Office, announcing the ratification of the peace treaty between Japan and Russia.
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1905-11-11
Rudolph Forster received a cable that proposes the withdrawal of troops garrisoned on the province of Tschili and has given a copy to Secretary of State Elihu Root.
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1905-10-22
Herbert H. D. Peirce informs William Loeb that Japan and Russia will likely sign the peace treaty the following day. Peirce asks if he should report to President Roosevelt in person.
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1905-09-04
The writer laments the United States Senate’s failure to ratify the San Domingo treaty. Carlos Felipe Morales supports the treaty.
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1904-03-24
Ambassador O’Brien writes to Secretary of State Hay regarding the unratified treaty selling the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands) to the United States.
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1905-06-30
Robert Grant continues a discussion with President Roosevelt about the immoral behavior of some wealthy people. He also notes that the Senate is rejecting the treaty of San Domingo.
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1905-03-15
Shelby M. Cullom writes that the Committee on Foreign Relations does not want to concern itself with the matter of a treaty to be worked out between the Dominican Republic and the United States at the present time. The issue would require a great deal of discussion which would require them to stay in session longer. Cullom will bring it up immediately in the extra session.
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1905-03-01
Orville Hitchcock Platt agrees with President Roosevelt on the ratification of arbitration treaties by the Senate, but understands why even the “best and ablest men disagree” on the subject.
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1905-02-16
Oscar S. Straus feels the treaty amendments proposed by the Committee on Foreign Relations makes a mockery of the efforts of international arbitration. He suggests it would be better to postpone ratification to a more favorable time than to implement the proposed changes.
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1905-02-10
Charles E. Magoon, on behalf of the Office of the General Counsel, answers questions raised by Secretary of War Taft as to the authority of President Roosevelt and the Senate in proposed arbitration treaties. The two articles of the treaty in question designate that irreconcilable disputes between parties are sent to the Hague after agreement by both parties regarding the particulars of the dispute. Magoon concludes that the articles in question do not constitute an exception to the generally understood powers of the President and Senate in such matters, citing numerous similar laws and treaties. Magoon further points out that the articles in question would not deprive Congress of its legislative rights and makes clear that later acts of Congress contradicting the treaty would supersede the treaty.
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1905-02-08