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President Roosevelt is pleased with Charles William Anderson speaking at the Tuskegee Institute. Roosevelt also informs Booker T. Washington that Congress handed down the appropriation for the Naturalization Bureau. As a result, the Department of Justice recommended the dismissal of Samuel L. Williams, but Roosevelt refused to allow it.
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1908-06-07
The State Department will give Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou a copy of President Roosevelt’s memorandum to the Justice Department regarding whiskey importation. Roosevelt instructs Cortelyou to govern himself accordingly regarding the whiskey.
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1908-04-25
President Roosevelt advises Senator Allison against passing the provision in the sundry civil bill as the House prepared it. An increase of wages in the United States would cause good men in Panama to leave. Another provision would hamper the Justice Department’s work, especially regarding the prosecution of land thieves in the West.
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1908-04-29
President Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Bonaparte to tell the proper people in the Justice Department to prepare to answer the inquiry about the wood pulp issue. Roosevelt would like the answer to include Milton Dwight Purdy’s statement, and to show what action the administration has taken.
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1908-04-03
President Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Bonaparte to investigate the Department of Justice in order to ensure that no work is being done on Sundays unless it is unavoidable.
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1908-03-25
President Roosevelt praises William Dudley Foulke and Lucius B. Swift, and says that he does not have any objection to an investigation of whether he has influenced local civil service appointments, so long as the investigation is conducted honestly. He suggests that whoever does the investigation cooperate with the Department of Justice, as Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte is familiar with the topic. Roosevelt also suggests several departments where it may be profitable to begin such an investigation.
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1908-02-25
President Roosevelt informs Judge William Henry Hunt that he has forwarded the papers relating to the case of Patrick D. Lenihan, Matthew J. Plunkett, Joseph Shannon, William Cutts, and A. E. Edwards to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte with instructions to deny their request.
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1908-02-25
President Roosevelt is very pleased by both of Senator Knox’s speeches, and comments on them. Knox spoke in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on the topic of putting the interests of the people above that of the railroads, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the topic of waterways and conservation of natural resources.
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1908-02-11
President Roosevelt asks Milton Dwight Purdy to get in touch with Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. Dolliver is preparing a bill regarding better oversight of stocks and securities from interstate carriers, and Roosevelt would like Purdy to help Dolliver, or tell him who in the Department of Justice or the Interstate Commerce Commission may be able to assist.
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1908-02-04
President Roosevelt has received Senator Dick’s letter about the reappointment of John J. Sullivan as United States Attorney for the Northern Ohio District. Roosevelt does not wish to reappoint Sullivan, as he has heard bad things about him. However, he will request more definite information about Sullivan from the Justice Department.
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1908-01-13
President Roosevelt explains to Oregon Governor Chamberlain why William C. Bristol will not be renominated as Attorney General in Oregon, and he encloses copies of communications about the matter. Bristol has not pursued the land fraud suits that he was specifically hired to handle, and he has stopped answering communications from the Department of Justice. Roosevelt has informed United States Attorney Francis J. Heney to appoint whomever he like as his assistant in prosecuting the suits.
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1907-12-14
President Roosevelt prefers any communications about the case be exchanged between the respective counsels of the Standard Oil Company and the United States Government rather than involving himself.
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1907-12-03
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Jones for his kind letter and writes that slanderous words printed in newspapers should not be acknowledged or taken seriously. He concludes that the most important question is that United States court determinations be the absolute final interpretation of the law.
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1907-12-03
President Roosevelt appoints Assistant Attorney General Cooley as the representative of the Department of Justice on the Central Committee of the American National Red Cross.
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1907-11-27
President Roosevelt has received the letters from Secretary of State Root and forwarded them on to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to be placed on file. Roosevelt agrees with Elbert H. Gary’s recollection of facts.
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1907-11-19
President Roosevelt tells Charles S. Thomas he is unsure if he can use the Secret Service to start the investigation Thomas proposes, but has written to the Department of Justice about opening an investigation of the matter.
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1907-07-03
President Roosevelt brings a letter from the Department of Justice to Judge William R. Lawrence’s immediate attention.
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1907-06-11
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from Senator Hopkins. Roosevelt explains that the process for selecting an attorney general is the same in each state, and the Department of Justice prefers to select men that it already knows to serve in the state governments.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt disputes Philip Battell Stewart’s view of the New Mexico Governor Herbert J. Hagerman controversy. Roosevelt informs Stewart that Hagerman answered the charges and did not dispute Alford Warriner Cooley’s report. Roosevelt notes that he is having United States District Attorney William H. H. Llewellyn investigated. He discusses the background and support for Captain George Curry to replace Hagerman as governor.
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1907-05-11
President Roosevelt describes to Mark Sullivan the considerations that have gone into his selections for federal judgeships. Roosevelt reviews his appointments in detail, noting that some were made at the request of the local organization and some against their wishes. The goal in each case was to appoint someone “of the high character, the good sense, the trained legal ability, and the necessary broad-mindedness of spirit…essential to a good judge.”
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1907-05-13