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President Roosevelt sends Francis J. Heney a letter of introduction for Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, whom Roosevelt recently appointed to the United States Immigration Commission.
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1908-07-21
President Roosevelt asks Senator Lodge to support William S. Murphy for a position on the Immigration Commission if his name is submitted by Representative William S. Bennet.
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1908-03-12
President Roosevelt wishes to appoint the third member of the United States Immigration Commission from California. He asks for Senator Hopkins’s opinion of Edgar Addison Bancroft.
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1907-03-11
President Roosevelt asks United States Representative Bennet if he had considered Morton E. Crane for Secretary of the United States Immigration Commission. Roosevelt recommends Crane and adds that it could be useful that Crane is a “correspondent of a California paper.”
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt informs Commissioner of Immigration Sargent and Commissioner of Labor Neill that he has received the report and compilation, and will give it to the new Immigration Commission.
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt has heard that Representative Bennet wants him to give a special message on behalf of the Immigration Commission, but does not believe that that would be wise. Roosevelt thinks that Congress does not appreciate his special messages, and is unsure what good one would do in this case. He believes a public investigation would be more effective than a congressional committee.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt has heard that Representative Littauer wants him to give a special message on behalf of the Immigration Commission, but does not believe that that would be wise. Roosevelt thinks that Congress does not appreciate his special messages, and is unsure what good one would do in this case. He believes a public investigation would be more effective than a congressional committee.
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1907-02-06
President Jordan of Stanford University argues against a clause in the Dillingham Immigration bill that excludes Japanese laborers and farmers as “people ineligible for citizenship.” The Japanese have upheld a tacit agreement that prevents Japanese laborers from receiving passports to the United States in return for no exclusion act being directed at Japan. The current bill will damage American interests and end the successful agreement with Japan.
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1912-01-26
Valdemar Blad expects to be called to Washington, D.C., to testify in front of Congress about a pamphlet he published regarding the work of the Immigration Commission. Blad previously petitioned Theodore Roosevelt, while President, to investigate charges against his character that he believed to have come from the Commission, but received no response from him or any other government figure. Blad believes the charges to be serious, and wishes to know what Roosevelt did with his petition.
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1911-07-02