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Letter from Victor Howard Metcalf to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Victor Howard Metcalf to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Navy Metcalf updates President Roosevelt on the coal supply of the fleet traveling to the Pacific. The Navy Department has been unable to find coal at reasonable prices from American ships, and so has organized coal from foreign ships following regulations set in 1904. Metcalf has supplied opinions from Attorney General Bonaparte, and will proceed with this plan unless Roosevelt provides instructions to the contrary.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-18

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Oscar S. Straus

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Oscar S. Straus

Attorney General Bonaparte provides legal counsel for Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus regarding the British steamer Ferndene, which transported coal for the Navy from the East Coast to the West Coast. Bonaparte informs Straus that, so long as the ship carried nothing else but the coal, she does not have to pay the associated tonnage tax and Straus’s other questions are moot.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-09