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Due to a mistake at the State Department, Richmond Pearson was not provided with all the relevant information. President Roosevelt will see that Pearson receives all the charges, and the State Department will communicate with Robert E. Speer to see what further steps should be taken.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-18
President Roosevelt discusses potential Secretary of State nominees with his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt, a prominent banker. The president notes that Elihu Root has popular support while Joseph Hodges Choate does not, adding that trying to “engineer his nomination would be disastrous.” The president says he has heard that the businessmen in Brooklyn, New York, support Charles A. Schieren.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-12
President Roosevelt sent the printed petition and the letter from the Attorney General about James Scrymser’s offer to Admiral Walker for an immediate report. Roosevelt will send William Emlen Roosevelt a copy of the letter that Roosevelt wrote Senator Lodge. Scrymser spoke of the agreement of October 14 and expects the Department of State to protect the rights of his company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-20
Acting Secretary of State Adee acknowledges receipt of President Roosevelt’s letter to Robert Bacon dated September 14, which included Roosevelt’s letter to the Cuban minister to the United States about tensions in Cuba and the need for the people and government to “come to terms with each other.” Adee notes that the letter to Gonzalo de Quesada has been made of record in the Department of State.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-20
An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The act stipulates funding for salaries of ambassadors and ministers, salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations, contingent expenses, foreign missions, and a number of international bureaus and commissions among other things.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28
President Roosevelt writes to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge about a complicated issue the State Department is facing, regarding whether or not it should arbitrate a contract dispute between two American telegraph companies in Panama. Roosevelt does not believe that diplomatic intervention from the Department of State is appropriate in this situation, because the dispute is between two American companies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-16
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses a copy of a dispatch from Ambassador Whitelaw Reid on the subject of fishery rights in Newfoundland. The note from the Foreign Office states that the divergence of views between the American and British governments makes an immediate settlement impossible. The British government, however, is prepared to work on an arrangement allowing conflicting parties to exist peacefully and will submit relevant proposals in the near future.
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1906-08-28
President Roosevelt calls Secretary Hay’s attention to the “law prohibiting the emission of dense black or gray smoke” in Washington, D.C., and asks if any State Department buildings are in violation of the law. All violations should cease.
Mr. Twombly’s comments were interesting and President Roosevelt will instruct the different departments to act together. Roosevelt has been following the Russo-Japanese War and is surprised at Russia’s unpreparedness. He believes the State Department has taken a wise course regarding the conflict.
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1904-02-11
William H. Taft encloses communication from the Department of State and expresses concerns about Theodore P. Shonts and John F. Stevens in Panama.
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1906-08-23
President Roosevelt encloses a memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Loomis, and comments on the Culbertson resolution. If taken literally, the Culbertson resolution would require all State Department correspondence related to Panama for the last sixty years to be turned over. The administration has nothing to hide and everything of importance has been made public. Roosevelt suggests that the resolution be modified to only apply to documents dated after May 1, 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-26
In response to the Senate resolutions, President Roosevelt requests all documents, sent or received and of any kind, from the State Department related to the revolution in Panama since May 1, 1903.
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1904-01-26
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Knox to investigate if the State Department can influence the Spanish government to provide information to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. No information has been furnished by Spanish officials.
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1904-01-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Frederic Emory, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, for the advance sheets about the German Navy.
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1898-01-13
President Roosevelt would like to encourage Congress to appropriate funds for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The State Department should state its willingness to work towards securing foreign exhibits and the necessary facilities.
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1904-01-16
President Roosevelt will not write a personal letter for Mr. Palmer, but he can receive a strong letter from the State Department.
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1904-01-01
President Roosevelt asks if the enclosed letter from the State Department is acceptable.
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1903-11-16
President Roosevelt does not believe it worthwhile to take up a ten year old matter that occurred when Mr. Bayard was in the State Department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-03
The State Department has informed President Roosevelt that the Minister will not surrender the convicted editors for punishment. The punishment will take place in the settlement of Shanghai. Roosevelt sent Root’s letter about Miles because he was unaware of what Root had done in these cases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-24
President Roosevelt encloses clippings and would like the press informed that the State Department has refused to sanction giving up the Shanghai editors.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-26