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Secretary of State Root proposes wording for President Roosevelt to add in his letter to the San Francisco Merchants Exchange regarding China’s boycott of American goods.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-24
Secretary of State Root has learned that Newfoundland officials are making distinctions between licensed and registered vessels, and asks British Ambassador Durand to advise the Newfoundland government that they can not do so.
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1905-10-20
Secretary of State Root received word from British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand that no distinction is being made by Newfoundland officers between licensed and registered American vessels and that they may proceed to take any kind of fish. No American ships may employ men from Newfoundland in their crews.
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1905-10-22
Secretary of State Root is gratified to hear that the Newfoundland government is not preventing American fisherman from fishing and encloses a telegram he sent to Augustus Peabody Gardner.
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1905-10-23
Secretary of State Root encloses a dispatch transmitting letters of congratulations to President Roosevelt for the outcome of the Peace Conference at Portsmouth.
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1905-10-24
Secretary of State Root thanks British Ambassador Durand for his observations and asks permission to relay the substance of his note to the American fishermen.
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1905-10-25
Secretary of State Root updates Ambassador Reid on the Newfoundland fisheries and urges immediate communication to that government and to England.
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1905-10-13
Acting Secretary of State Loomis relays the home address of Henry Clay Frick and asks William Loeb to say in his letter that Loomis is in charge of “Foreign Trade” matters in the State Department.
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1905-10-16
Secretary of State Root encloses a dispatch from Minister William Woodville Rockhill with a translation of a Chinese edict regarding the boycott of American goods.
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1905-10-16
Secretary of State Root reports that some American vessels have been forbidden to fish off the treaty coast and details the expectations of the treaty between Newfoundland and the United States. Root also discusses a Newfoundland act that may be the source of the confusion: “An Act respecting foreign fishing vessels,” which makes it a crime for American vessels to have Canadian bait fish and other items necessary to fishing on them, but which also says that if these things are on the ship then they must be assumed to have come from Newfoundland, and the ship can be seized, thus abrogating the 1818 Treaty.
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1905-10-19
Secretary of State Root encloses a letter he sent to British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand and urges prompt action in the matter to prevent fishing vessels from losing the season.
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1905-10-20
Minister Rockhill discusses the boycott of American goods in Canton, Tientsen, and Peking. Rockhill advises that the Consul General manage his interactions with the Viceroy of Canton in a different manner in order to end the boycott.
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1905-10-04
Secretary of State Root encloses dispatches from the Consul General at Singapore and the Vice Consul at Nanking regarding the boycott of American goods.
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1905-10-02
Per the instructions of Benjamin F. Barnes, Rudolph Forster has sent the requested data to Judge Emory Speer. Forster omitted the material on Russian-Japanese peace matters as nothing has yet been printed by the State Department, but he included the printed correspondence relating to China during the war.
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1905-08-12
Elihu Root plans to take the oath of office as Secretary of State tomorrow. Root asks if it is convenient for him to visit him at Oyster Bay on Friday, then leave on Saturday. Root suggests that he would like to have Dr. Abbott there.
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1905-07-18
Bertha Potter thanks President Roosevelt for the letter he sent to Lucy Bartlett from the United States Department of State.
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1905-07-13
William H. Taft writes that the trip has been convivial, even between the Democrats and Republicans. Taft reports that there are fierce opponents to the reduction in the Philippines on the trip, and they will seek evidence to support their side when they arrive in Manila. Taft hopes that if the President wants to move the administration of building the Panama Canal from War to the State Department, that the President will do so, even with Taft being out of touch in the Philippines. Taft’s speech in San Francisco went very well, especially his words on the Chinese Exclusion Act. Alice is well and enjoying every moment of the cruise.
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1905-07-13
Ambassador Reid tells President Roosevelt that he was recently instructed to give Lord Lansdowne a copy of a letter to the Germans summarizing American objections to the proposed agreement for customs receipts of Venezuela that would benefit German and British bondholders. Reid praises Roosevelt’s use of the word “amorphous” to describe the present condition of Russia, and notes that a rumor has been circulating that Roosevelt thinks the British government is willing to let the Russo-Japanese war go on until Russia exhausts herself – a rumor Reid says he disabused the British diplomats of. Reid further discusses the perception of American involvement in the Morocco conference among foreign officials, and congratulates Roosevelt on the appointment of Elihu Root to the position of Secretary of State.
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1905-07-14
Albert Shaw asks William Loeb if any announcement will be made concerning Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Acting Secretary of State Loomis, and the State Department. Shaw reassures Loeb that he need only provide an answer if it is appropriate.
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1905-07-14