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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Taft if the testimonies taken before the Senate Committee regarding Governor of Moro Province General Leonard Wood can be published soon due to the repeated attacks against Wood.
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1906-09-26
President Roosevelt received Senator Beveridge’s letter and will see if charges have been made. He cautions that removing Territorial Governor of Arizona Joseph H. Kibbey is the worst action to take, as doing so would harm joint statehood and cause national damage to the Republican party.
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1906-09-22
President Roosevelt congratulates William Cary Sanger for the work he has done at the International Conference in Geneva, and hopes that they will be able to persuade the Senate to ratify the treaty. He hopes to see Sanger in person once Secretary of State Elihu Root returns so they can all discuss the matter together.
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1906-08-02
President Roosevelt would like for Frank L. Laird and Adam C. Haeselbarth to discuss the conditions in Santo Domingo with some members of the War or State Department. Roosevelt praises Haeselbarth’s performance as Director of Charities in Puerto Rico, but does not know how familiar he is with the situation with the Dominican Republic compared with government agents George R. Colton or Thomas Cleland Dawson. He is interested in learning exactly what Haeselbarth wishes to discuss, but then would like to invite the pair to Washington, D.C., to discuss the matter. Regarding the recent treaty, Roosevelt maintains that “there was literally one one honest or intelligent objection,” and the Senate’s conduct was shameful.
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1906-08-03
President Roosevelt wishes the United States did not have the custom forbidding the President from going abroad, as he believes he could be of help at the Hague conference mediating between Kaiser William II of Germany and the authorities of France and England. Roosevelt tells Andrew Carnegie that he hopes to see progress from the peace conference, including a stop or a slowing of the current arms race. He comments, however, that without a real system of international police countries are not able to entirely demilitarize. Rosevelt has been disappointed by the lack of support from the American peace movement for the passage of arbitration treaties. The Pan-American Conference has gone well, and Roosevelt hopes the Senate will ratify the Santo Domingo treaty.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Moody that he has extended the time of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to the beginning of 1907, by which time their work should be completed. He returns the letter from Senator Charles William Fulton, of Oregon, and suggests that it might be worthwhile to have United States District Attorney William C. Bristol come to Washington, D.C., to discuss the matter. Roosevelt believes that they should not hesitate to indict Fulton if the facts justify it, but that the matter should only be pursued if there is a reasonable chance of success. He feels it would be wise to discuss some facts of the matter with Bristol.
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1906-08-07
President Roosevelt sends Howard D. Mannington a letter from Senator Charles Dick of Ohio, and mentions that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio “spoke as strongly against your appointment as did Senator Dick.” Without the support of either senator, Roosevelt says it is useless to send in Mannington’s name for any appointment.
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1906-07-04
President Roosevelt asks for Senator Hale’s assistance in ratifying the Algeciras treaty. Roosevelt had not supposed that there would be opposition to it, but “apparently some of the Democrats are inclined to make trouble.” The United States signed on to the treaty because it was already a signatory to the existing treaty, and failing to do so would have meant a loss of treaty rights. Roosevelt considers it important to be a party to the treaty, and mentions that the United States has had a treaty with Morocco since even before the Constitution was adopted.
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1906-06-27
Secretary of War William H. Taft recently recommended that the wording of the Panama Canal bill in the Senate be amended from noting that the lock canal was recommended “by the minority of the Consulting Board of Engineers” to being recommended “by the President and the Secretary of War.” President Roosevelt does not feel that the change is absolutely necessary, but suggests to Senator Hepburn that making such a change may eliminate an opportunity for opponents of the lock canal to protest.
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1906-06-27
President Roosevelt congratulates Senator Cullom for his actions relating to the Algeciras matter. He advises Cullom to not agree to a time for a vote on the Santo Domingo Treaty until he confers with Secretary of State Elihu Root, as Root and Roosevelt “have a plan under way.”
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1906-06-28
President Roosevelt sends Senator Crane a rush telegram telling him he hopes Crane will be sure to be present in the Senate tomorrow morning when the vote for the lock canal is taking place, or that he will make an alternate arrangement to this effect.
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1906-06-20
President Roosevelt tells Senator Cullom that he hopes the treaty created at the Algeciras Convention will be ratified during this current session of Congress. He cannot understand how anyone is able to find anything objectionable in it, and comments that if it is rejected “it would mean that for the first time since the adoption of the Constitution this Government will be without a treaty with Morocco.”
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1906-06-26
President Roosevelt was sorry to hear of Senator Proctor’s illness, and hopes he recovers soon. He has not heard the details of the amendments the House passed on the beef inspection bill, but hopes that the substance of the bill the Senate passed will be preserved.
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1906-06-13
President Roosevelt would like a treaty along the lines that F. V. Greene mentions, but is not sure if he could get it through the Senate.
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1906-06-06
President Roosevelt hopes that Colonel Hepburn is able to keep the Standard Oil and railroad coal-ownership propositions in the bill he is working on, as he believes it is very important.
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1906-05-29
Attorney General Moody sends President Roosevelt the account he requested of the conference Moody had with Senators Benjamin R. Tillman and Joseph W. Bailey. Moody recounts the circumstances leading to the conference, and the discussions he had with Roosevelt prior to the conference regarding an amendment to the Hepburn bill and the ability of Congress to limit the ability of courts to issue interlocutory injunctions. Moody told the two senators Roosevelt’s thoughts on the matter and found them to be largely in agreement, leading to the creation of a draft amendment. This amendment had some difficulty in the Senate, and Moody told Tillman and Bailey that it may be difficult for an amendment that the executive branch had a hand in crafting to pass, and suggested that they collaborate with Senator William B. Allison on the creation of a new amendment.
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1906-05-14
President Roosevelt sends Senator Lodge a history of the Chandler-Bailey-Tillman matter regarding the passage of the Hepburn Act.
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1906-05-19
President Roosevelt agrees with S. H. Cowan that he would have preferred the Long amendment to the Hepburn bill rather than the Allison amendment, but feels that the bill overall is satisfactory and that the amendments have improved it.
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1906-05-21
President Roosevelt promises to read William D. Washburn’s speech at the first opportunity. Roosevelt believes a bill that Washburn referenced was actually improved in its passage through the Senate, rather than the reverse.
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1906-05-21
President Roosevelt tells Senator Allison of the many discussions he has had about the pending rate bill and its proposed amendments. While Roosevelt approved of many suggested amendments and made suggestions on how to alter others, he has never insisted that any amendment be made to the bill in order for it to be signed into law.
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1906-05-14