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President Roosevelt notifies Representative Metcalf that he intends to nominate him to succeed George B. Cortelyou as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. However, he does not intend to keep Metcalf there permanently. Roosevelt intends, if elected, to eventually nominate him as either Secretary of the Navy or the Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-16
President Roosevelt is aware of the ongoing and violent clashes between Colorado mine workers and mine owners. He has received a report from Walter B. Palmer and awaits a report from John Graham Brooks. When he has considered both reports, he will advise Commissioner of Labor Wright whether he should conduct his own investigation into the controversies.
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1904-06-16
President Roosevelt seeks Marvin Hughitt’s opinion on Representative Victor Howard Metcalf. Roosevelt is considering Metcalf for Secretary of Commerce and Labor when George B. Cortelyou becomes Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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1904-06-06
Acting Secretary of State Adee sends President Roosevelt a dispatch from the embassy in Petrópolis, Brazil, that references a previous dispatch that advised a tariff reduction of 20%. Adee also lists the eleven articles that are granted preferential tariff rates, including rubber, appliances, and flour.
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1906-09-22
President Roosevelt outlines his accomplishments while in office for Elihu Root’s address to the Republican National Convention. Roosevelt highlights his international relations with China, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines; discusses all acts and legislation associated with Alaska; highlights the establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor as well as the United States Treasury reform; and touches on the civil rights and laws for the Indian populations of North America.
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1904-06-02
President Roosevelt wishes for Nicholas Murray Butler to visit and concurs that William J. Calhoun is worthy of esteem. Roosevelt comments at length on an article in Collier’s Weekly, one he assumes was written by Norman Hapgood, and desires Butler to “know the exact facts.” On careful reading, Roosevelt believes the article was written with malicious intent due to its numerous falsehoods regarding the construction projects at the Capitol and the White House, the hiring of the architects completing these jobs, appointments of others to government posts, and other matters. In his explanation, Roosevelt makes analogies to many political situations, past and present.
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1904-06-03
President Roosevelt thanks William Dudley Foulke for the letter he wrote to Representative Frederick Huntington Gillett stating the facts about the exceptions. Roosevelt does not know much about exceptions as he followed the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission “without question.” He wonders if James Rudolph Garfield should explain the exceptions for the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1904-04-18
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom encloses two copies and translations of a new project which has been introduced into the Chamber of Deputies by Deputy Bernardino to establish a compensating tariff. Griscom thinks the project is of particular interest to the United States because the country would enjoy a 20 percent preferential reduction on merchandise entering Brazil. Griscom is undecided about whether to continue to press Jose Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, for a reduction on a list of specified articles or to urge the passage of the Bernardino act, which he doubts will become law.
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1906-08-29
President Roosevelt would like Omar D. Conger given a position under Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou.
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1904-01-09
In this appendix to a letter to President Roosevelt, Commissioner of Labor Neill and Commissioner of Corporations Garfield report facts and figures that refute the claims made by Charles Stedman Hanks in his January 10 letter to Roosevelt. Hanks explained his view of the corrupt practices of railroad company statisticians, especially in regard to altering the sworn returns of the railroads. The examples in this document, however, fact check Hanks’s claims in regard to the figures reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The examples are in relation to the Lake Superior Terminal Company, the Seaboard Air Line, and the duplication of tracks.
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1907-01-30
Neill, Charles Patrick, 1865-1942; Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950
President Roosevelt is glad that Senator Turner’s ex-secretary has been appointed in the Department of Commerce.
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1903-12-14
President Roosevelt sends the report from the Commission tasked with investigating the conditions of Ellis Island.
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1903-11-16
President Roosevelt defends Congressional leadership and believes that substantial work has been accomplished, including the establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor and a strengthened United States military. Roosevelt has been disappointed with the failure to pass tariff and currency legislation but hopes this can be remedied after his reelection.
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1903-08-29
President Roosevelt congratulates Secretary Cortelyou on the first day of full operations of the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1903-07-01
In response to Perkins’s interest and support for the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, President Roosevelt sends Perkins one of the pens that was used in the signing of the Act that created the new Department.
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1903-06-26
President Roosevelt has appointed Charles D. Walcott to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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1903-03-13
Attorney General Knox will appoint William Miller Collier as an assistant and then detail him to the Department of Commerce as a solicitor.
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1903-03-12
President Roosevelt has appointed Rear Admiral Bowles to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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1903-03-13
President Roosevelt has appointed Brigadier General Crozier to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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1903-03-13
President Roosevelt has appointed James Rudolph Garfield to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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1903-03-13