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Solicitor General Hoyt forwards to President Roosevelt a telegram regarding a lawsuit over the segregation of Japanese school children in public schools in San Francisco, California.
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1906-10-27
Mary Tayloe Key asks Attorney General Bonaparte if the vacancy created by Elijah Caleb Foster’s passing might be filled by Alexander McDonald McBlair. Key would later marry McBlair.
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1906-09-23
Nicholas Longworth reports to President Roosevelt that he has concluded that U.S. Marshal Vivian J. Fagin of Ohio should be removed from office. Fagin has been making himself a nuisance, is in violation of the law, and claims to be acting as Roosevelt’s personal representative.
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1906-09-10
Charles J. Bonaparte sends President Roosevelt a report by an expert accountant on a defalcation discovered in the Navy Pay Office. Bonaparte is concerned about the laxity of supervision and perfunctory discharge of duty in the Pay Department, as well as its failure to adopt up-to-date methods of bookkeeping and accounting. Bonaparte recommends that a new Paymaster General be selected and that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts be relieved of its accounting duties.
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1906-08-28
Attorney General Moody acknowledges receipt of William C. Bristol’s report to the Department of Justice, which William Loeb had forwarded to him. Moody requests Loeb also send him Bristol’s report to the president so that Moody might continue the investigation, most likely regarding Bristol’s dismissed nomination for district attorney for Oregon.
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1906-02-16
Judge Burford writes to President Roosevelt regarding the appointment of John R. Abernathy to United States Marshal for Oklahoma. Burford explains why Roosevelt should not appoint Abernathy and suggests instead the appointment of Cassius M. Cade.
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1906-02-03
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding the pardon of Herbert H. Matteson. Moody provides extensive details into Matteson’s charges, trial, imprisonment, and health.
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1906-01-10
“One item for fiscal year 1905, $14.30. Similar item for 1906 now appearing.”
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1905
Henry L. Stimson accepts President Roosevelt’s appointment as a United States Attorney, and will do his best in that position.
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1905-12-13
Assistant Attorney General Robb submits his final report regarding Charles Hedges, superintendent of city free-delivery service for the Post Office Department, and explains why Hedges was removed from the position.
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1905-12-06
Judge Grosscup writes to President Roosevelt regarding letters in the Department of Justice’s files that question Grosscup’s fitness as a judge. Grosscup asks that the letters be removed or that a clipping and this statement be included with the letters indicating that they are untrue, as the letters may do him “injustice in the years to come.”
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1905-11-24
Attorney General Moody and President Roosevelt do not believe that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis should be allowed to preside as judge over the “beef trust” indictments for a number of reasons outlined in the letter.
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1905-08-03
Henry Martyn Hoyt explains why he asked Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson to stop the independent investigation until the Department of Justice finishes their investigation. He also asks that Attorney General Moody have Jasper Wilson take thirty day leave because of questionable behavior.
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1905-07-20
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt that William Alonzo Day is resigning from his position with the Department of Justice. Moody recommends appointing Assistant Attorney General Milton Dwight Purdy to the vacancy. He is still investigating who should fill Purdy’s vacancy.
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1905-07-18
Attorney General Moody briefs President Roosevelt on the status of the cotton investigation. There is substantial evidence against Edwin S. Holmes, assistant statistician in the Department of Agriculture, who is accused of communicating advance information from unreleased cotton reports to New York brokers who used the information to speculate on the market. Assistant District Attorney Morgan H. Beach will continue the investigation per Roosevelt’s instructions.
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1905-07-17
Charles Bonaparte wrote to President Roosevelt accepting the President’s request to nominate him for the cabinet post of Secretary of the Navy. He also talked about his interest in the Attorney General position.
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1905-05-21
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Taylor confirms that he transferred the papers relating to Messrs. George Borgfeldt & Company to the Attorney General’s office. Attorney General Moody agrees with the actions that have been taken.
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1904-10-05
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield replies to President Roosevelt’s letter regarding William Miller Collier’s letter about anti-trust work at the Department of Commerce and Labor. Garfield notes that there is no opportunity for work against corporations in his department and that Collier should contact the Attorney General. Garfield goes on to outline the duties and responsibilities of the Department of Commerce and Labor as he sees them and how they relate to the anti-trust investigation of the beef industry.
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1904-10-01
U.S. Attorney Moulton writes to Attorney General Moody about the case of Massachusetts v. Hugh Gurney, Third Secretary of the British Embassy, for driving his automobile at excessive speed. Moulton provides an account of Gurney’s arrest, his claims that he is exempt from Massachusetts law because he works for the British Embassy, and the resulting fracas. Moulton concludes that the various accounts seem to agree on what happened and asks Moody how the Justice Department would like to proceed.
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1904-09-29
Solicitor Collier writes to President Roosevelt to lay out the facts leading to his desire to tender his resignation and asks Roosevelt’s opinion on how to proceed. Collier outlines his decision to accept his current position at the Department of Commerce–funded through a Congressional appropriation for anti-trust investigations–then describes his discovery that there was no opportunity for anti-trust work at the Department. Collier would like to resign but is concerned about publicizing the fact that the Department is not prosecuting trust cases, of adversely affecting the election, and of souring his relations with the Roosevelt administration. Collier asks Roosevelt if there might be another position where he could work on anti-trust cases or if Roosevelt has further advice on this matter.
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1904-09-20