United States. Department of the Treasury

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Treasury Secretary Shaw discusses several bills and legislative acts pertaining to financial matters, especially bonds and public revenues. In particular, Shaw believes that a bill detailing securities for government bonds needs to be amended and the role of the secretary in providing security for them needs to be clarified. Shaw also discusses legislation about customs receipts and the charging of interest on customs and internal revenue receipts.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-28

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has received Lucius Tuttle’s letter regarding the transportation division of the Treasury Department. Shaw explains why there is currently no transportation division and suggests the division can be reestablished after George W. Maher, the only person with transportation experience, trains a new division manager.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-06

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw explains why he prefers to send special agents to examine ports due to local loyalties. Senator Lodge and Boston employees should not be concerned that the port is being examined.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-07

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Henry Cabot Lodge

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw believes that the transportation department should be reestablished in the customs division where it was formerly. Transportation is currently tacked onto the special agents division, and Deputy Chief Maher is the only person there with experience in transportation. The Treasury Department’s goal is to assist with commerce, and Shaw promises to make improvements in New England, if given a free hand to do so.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-29

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Cabot Lodge praises President Roosevelt’s selection of Charles Bonaparte as Special Prosecutor for the Post Office Investigation. Lodge states that the Boston Herald has published some highly negative letters about Roosevelt written by Senator Aldrich. Lodge asks that Roosevelt give him a written order so there would be no issue that he act as a U.S. government representative in the arbitration over the border dispute between Alaska and Canada, which results in the Hay-Herbert Treaty. Some correspondence of Lodge’s with Shaw are enclosed, and Lodge discusses his concerns with Shaw’s proposed organizational changes in the Customs Service’s transportation division.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-01

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Leslie M. Shaw

Senator Lodge presents to Secretary of the Treasury Shaw his position on the proposed changes in the Transportation Division of the Customs Department. Lodge believes that Collectors, such as George H. Lyman, who manages the Boston Custom House, should be told and consulted about the proposed changes. Lodge also advocated for Special Agent Converse J. Smith about whom Shaw has a different opinion.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-01

Letter from Henry Lee Higginson to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Lee Higginson passionately writes to the President urging him to call a session of Congress in September to introduce a new banking bill that would limit funds from entering the Treasury (where it is not needed) and keep funds in the channels of trade (where it is greatly needed).

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-11

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Thomas Collier Platt

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw explains to Senator Platt that he thinks it is wise of the President to appoint men that have been endorsed by the senior senator and the governor of the state. He notes that one cannot always please everyone in making such appointments.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-21

Letter from Milton E. Ailes to Theodore Roosevelt

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ailes expects to resign around the middle of April to become Vice President of Riggs National Bank.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-30

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to George B. Cortelyou

At President Roosevelt’s request, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw sends information regarding the appointment of “colored men” at the Treasury Department.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-30

Memorandum of private papers

President Roosevelt returns three papers to the Treasury Department to be treated as private.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-12

Letter from Philander C. Knox to Theodore Roosevelt

Attorney General Knox discusses potential evidence in the complaint against Edward F. McSweeney. Mr. Van Ingen asked for an opportunity to submit the evidence against McSweeney. The Treasury Department wants to present evidence of fraudulent intent.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-29

Telegram from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has completed an unnamed task and he is taking sole responsibility. Shaw is likely referring to his action to allow banks to release moneys held in reserve against government deposits, in an effort to relieve the monetary situation in the country.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-30

Letter from William Emlen Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Emlen Roosevelt has heard that in a speech the Secretary of the Treasury announced that there would be a financial panic in a few months time. Roosevelt disagrees and thought that President Roosevelt should be aware of the speech.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-16

Letter from Philander C. Knox to Theodore Roosevelt

Attorney General Knox has reviewed the case of U.S. Marshal John Grant, who has admitted to accepting money from the American National Bank of Beaumont, Texas, supposedly as a reimbursement of expenses, although Grant cannot remember or itemize his specific expenses. Knox encourages the removal of Grant for breaking, if not the letter, at least the spirit of the law against federal officials taking money for procuring government positions or licenses for others.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-30

Memorandum on telephone call from Assistant Postmaster General Wynne

Assistant Postmaster General Wynne called regarding rumors that Frank Johnson, secretary to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Lyman Spaulding, will be appointed to replace Spaulding. Wynne believes this appointment would be a mistake.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-26

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to George B. Cortelyou

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw returns a letter from Max Lowy and comments that he was “glad of the opportunity to look this matter over.” Shaw points out that the events were investigated soon after they happened and that there is nothing to connect them to George O. Glavis or anyone else in the Treasury Department.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-10

Letter from Frank Morrison to Theodore Roosevelt

Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federation of Labor, complains about Assistant Secretary Taylor’s “unfriendliness” towards re-enacting the Chinese Exclusion Act. Morrison encloses newspaper clippings concerning the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-29

Letter from Henry C. Payne to Theodore Roosevelt

Postmaster General Payne supports keeping Mr. Bingham as Collector of Internal Revenue in Alabama but would like to speak with President Roosevelt before reaching a final conclusion.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-05

Letter from Henry Loomis Nelson to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Loomis Nelson pleads the case of J. D. O’Connell, a clerk in the Bureau of Statistics who has been dismissed for submitting serious charges against the Chief of the Bureau, Oscar P. Austin. Nelson apologizes for bothering President Roosevelt with the case but asks that an investigation into the charges be conducted, asserting that he believes O’Connell to be trustworthy and to deserve a chance to present his proofs.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-27