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President Roosevelt returns the enclosure about internal revenue offices in Tennessee to Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou.
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1908-09-08
President Roosevelt informs Senator Foraker that he will take up the matter of the Internal Revenue Collector when he returns to Washington, D.C.
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1907-09-07
If President Roosevelt is correct that only twenty thousand dollars of the six million collected by the IRS in the District of Louisiana and Mississippi is from Mississippi, he cannot consider someone from Mississippi for the appointment.
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1907-01-12
Harrison Gray Otis recommended Stephen F. Kelly for the position of collector of internal revenue at San Fransisco, California. Kelly’s appointment is supported by both California senators.
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1901-09-27
E. Mont Reily disagrees with Joseph E. Black’s candidacy for Internal Revenue Collector for the Western District of Missouri, at Kansas City. Black has been one of the most bitter enemies that President Roosevelt has in the entire state. Reily recounts a Republican National Convention they both attended in Chicago where Black intended to introduce very critical condemnations of Roosevelt.
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1907-01-02
Thomas J. Akins sends William Loeb two clippings that indicate Joseph E. Black will be seeking appointment as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Western District of Missouri. Although Akins has taken little interest in appointments in the past because Senator William Warner has shown “great wisdom,” Akins wishes in this instance to express his opposition to Black’s appointment because Black opposed President Roosevelt’s nomination at the 1902 State Convention. Black was said to have distributed the Hanna badges and buttons and to have “talked very ugly about the President,” and Black’s nomination would revive feuds in Missouri. Akins wants to advise Roosevelt that Black’s appointment would be a “great mistake.”
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1907-01-02
United States Marshal Johnson writes to William Loeb regarding an enclosed letter from former Republican National Administration member S. A. Darnell. Johnson shares his thoughts about weaknesses in Georgia’s Republican Party, political corruption, political endorsements, and appointments of federal officials. Johnson then focuses attention on Darnell, who he suggests harbors negative feelings toward the District Attorney and Internal Revenue Department officers since they prosecuted his son for a work-related violation. Johnson also discusses Darnell’s failure to be re-elected to the Republican National Administration and his attempts to be appointed to a position.
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1905-06-26
Senator Dick has been attempting to contact President Roosevelt regarding his views on several political appointments in Ohio and requests that his recommendations be given as much consideration as those of Senator Foraker. Dick also apologizes for a misunderstanding in which Roosevelt feels that Dick has been disregarding his attempts at contact.
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1905-06-13
President Roosevelt will not take any action regarding the Internal Revenue Collectorship until he speaks with Senator Frye. He does not know whether the current man out to be removed.
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1908-11-23
President Roosevelt informs Cecil Andrew Lyon that Edward Guy Le Stourgeon has applied for the position of Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. This position is currently held by Moses C. Harris, who led a bolt against Lyon. Roosevelt endorses Le Stourgeon as a Rough Rider, and says he would be pleased if Lyon endorsed Le Stourgeon to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, John G. Capers.
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1908-06-13
President Roosevelt accepts Arthur B. Hayes’s resignation and thanks him for his service as Solicitor of Internal Revenue.
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1908-03-19
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou why the Internal Revenue Bureau has delayed the implementation of the Department of Justice’s decision on whiskey labels. A handwritten note from Roosevelt says that he feels the Internal Revenue Bureau needs to put the the decision into effect immediately.
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1907-12-08
President Roosevelt appreciates Augustus H. Price’s letter. He understands the Department of Justice does not share Commissioner of Internal Revenues John Watson Yerkes’s unfavorable impression of Price’s performance.
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1906-08-27
President Roosevelt informs Governor Glenn that Commissioner of Internal Revenue John G. Capers strongly advises against changing the office from Asheville, and Roosevelt would only overrule his decision under “exceptional conditions.”
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1906-02-15
President Roosevelt informs Senator Beveridge that he believes the office force of the Internal Revenue Service should be classified soon. Roosevelt does not know whether they should go further than that, or if legally they can even go that far. He is having the matter looked into.
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1905-11-20
President Roosevelt regrets having to send Jacob A. Riis a letter from Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes, but believes that he either has to stand by Yerkes, “or give up every pretence [sic] of cleaning up and rendering more efficient the internal revenue service.” When Yerkes previously tried to remove inefficient men from the Internal Revenue Service, they would frequently try to appeal to Roosevelt to reinstate them, and Roosevelt has pledged to stand by Yerkes in his attempt to improve the service. While he would like to oblige Riis and Paul Underwood Kellogg in this instance, he does not feel that he can.
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1905-08-17
President Roosevelt thanks Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes for his suggestions, and thinks they are wise. He plans to send Yerkes’s letters to Senators Philander C. Knox and John C. Spooner for their opinions, and will wait to act until he hears from them.
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1905-08-03
President Roosevelt reports to Senator Spooner that Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes is of the opinion that Henry Fink, Collector of Internal Revenue for Milwaukee, is “useless and indeed detrimental in the service,” and should be replaced. He encloses the most recent two letters from Yerkes to Fink for Spooner to read. Roosevelt wished to speak with Spooner before taking action.
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1905-08-03
President Roosevelt tells Senator Knox that he wishes he could get someone appointed to Internal Revenue Collector at Pittsburgh in place of Daniel B. Heiner, as he is not filling the role satisfactorily. Roosevelt encloses the last two letters set to Heiner by Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes.
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1905-08-03
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw some messages from the United States Civil Service Commission, and asks him to direct Internal Revenue Commissioner John Watson Yerkes to instruct Internal Revenue Collector William McCoach to dismiss Clarence Meeser, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenues for Philadelphia, immediately. He also expects Yerkes to investigate cases of this sort on his own initiative in the future without having to turn to the Civil Service Commission.
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1905-06-20