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President Roosevelt tells Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp that he endorses his plan regarding segregated coal and asphalt lands. He asks Leupp to share the plan with incoming Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, and to prepare a bill; if Garfield approves of the plan, Roosevelt will submit the bill to congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-11
Editor of the Ohio State Journal Robert Frederick Wolfe informs President Roosevelt’s secretary that Wolfe met with Charles Phelps Taft, Representative Theodore E. Burton, and Secretary of the Republican National Committee Elmer Dover. Wolfe engaged in these meetings to learn about Taft’s interests and a possible compromise with Senator Joseph B. Foraker, but says that Dover tried to improperly influence Wolfe’s newspaper. Wolfe claims to have uncovered a plot involving William Randolph Hearst to control both the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the presidential election. Wolfe claims that Franklin Rockefeller told him in an off-the-record interview that moneyed interests from New York were planning to create a financial panic to disrupt Roosevelt’s policies. Wolfe says he is coming to Washington, D.C., to discuss this, but asks that Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield not be told.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-08
G. W. Woodruff hopes President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb will excuse the appearance of an enclosed item, which had been on a train with Gifford Pinchot, acting Secretary of the Interior.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt writes Admiral Cowles about the “delicious peaches” and tells Cowles that he wrote his sister Corinne a report regarding the family. Roosevelt remarks that President William H. Taft has assumed full responsibility for the Controller Bay matter and that Taft “knew nothing about the whole subject and took no interest in it.” Taft’s dismissal and replacement of James Rudolph Garfield as Secretary of the Interior with Richard Achilles Ballinger “insured trouble for the people and trouble for himself.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
Rutherford H. Howell requests help from Theodore Roosevelt regarding the case of his pension, which he has been denied for a second time although having served in the Philippines. Despite Howell having some new evidence his attorney’s affidavit got rejected. Howell hopes Roosevelt can help him have his case before the Secretary of Interior as his health has been deteriorating since his return from service and has no other family he can rely on.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-23
Herbert M. Seymour requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help in obtaining an appointment as a special inspector in the Interior Department. Seymour applied two years ago with the help of Representative Aaron V. S. Cochrane of New York. He was told there were no vacancies then, but now there are two new special inspector positions. Seymour and his family are from Columbia County, New York, and worked to elect Roosevelt twice. Seymour asks Roosevelt to pass his application and a recommendation on to Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Seymour encloses several letters of recommendation, which he requests be returned to him with Roosevelt’s response.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-03-04