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President Roosevelt thanks the Board of Indian Commissioners for their resolution through the secretary of the Board, Merrill Edwards Gates.
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1909-02-28
President Roosevelt thanks Charles J. Bonaparte for his vote and explains his plans for the postmastership in Baltimore, Maryland. He wants to get the best man possible and would like to discuss the situation with Bonaparte in December if he cannot suggest someone offhand. The president also asks Bonaparte for his opinion on an enclosed letter, and inquires if Bonaparte can get Jacob H. Hollander’s opinions as well.
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1904-11-23
Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Francis E. Leupp are opposed to the bill referred to by Merrill Edwards Gates. Roosevelt is also unaware of any men who have been “pointedly discredited by recent investigations” being given positions in Indian Territory. He asks Gates to back up his accusations with facts.
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1904-04-19
President Roosevelt has been hearing about trouble with the Board of Indian Commissioners. He would like the Board’s reports published every year as a matter of course.
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1903-07-25
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.
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1903-07-25
Since members of the Board of Indian Commissioners are opposed to Mr. Carrignan, President Roosevelt thought that Archbishop Ryan would like to see the enclosed letter from Bishop Shanley.
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1903-03-19
President Roosevelt was unaware of a vacancy in the Board of Indian Commissioners but would be interested in appointing Draper.
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1902-08-11
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.”
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1902-05-14
President Roosevelt would like to appoint Archbishop Ryan to the Board of Indian Commissioners.
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1902-03-28
President Roosevelt believes that Archbishop John J. Keane should sit on the Board of Indian Commissioners. In a handwritten note, President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock what he thinks of the recommendation.
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1901-11-20
Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Francis E. Leupp is uncomfortable with the individual in question but the best solution might be to let the individual go and monitor him.
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1905-05-22
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp writes hurriedly from a train station as he heads back to New York, to forestall a possible appeal from Captain Samuel E. Shoemaker of a decision made about his brother Jacob, who is employed by the Indian Service. After an investigation of the latter’s conduct, which was impeding the work of the Service in the Southwest, it was agreed that rather than be dismissed, he would be allowed to retire this summer. Now, however, he is appealing to be assigned elsewhere. Leupp is sure President Roosevelt will uphold the decision made by Indian Affairs and allow them to continue to deal with the situation.
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1905-05-15
In Washington, D. C., President Roosevelt tells Board of Indian Commissioners member Charles J. Bonaparte, “Now Bonaparte, go right now and stop that,” pointing to an “official land shark” in Indian Territory who holds a “perpetual lease” and tells a Native American, “All you have to do is sign this lease.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09
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.
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1902
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.
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1903-07-22
Nicholas Murray Butler thought that there were two vacancies on the Board of Indian Commissioners. He agrees with President Roosevelt regarding the tariff and suggests how to get the reciprocity treaties passed.
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1902-08-17
Nicholas Murray Butler is pleased that President Roosevelt likes the suggestion of A. S. Draper, President of the University of Illinois, for a vacancy on the Board of Indian Commissioners.
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1902-08-14
Nicholas Murray Butler recommends Andrew Sloan Draper for membership on the Board of Indian Commissioners.
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1902-08-08
Archbishop Ryan thanks President Roosevelt for his appointment to the Board of Indian Commissioners and promises to faithfully discharge his duties.
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1902-04-19
Cardinal Gibbons recommends appointing Archbishop Ryan to the Board of Indian Commissioners.
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1902-03-29