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President Roosevelt wishes he could be present for the laying of the cornerstone of the new cathedral, but as he cannot, he sends his congratulations to Bishop Carroll.
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1908-10-01
Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, responds to a request from President Roosevelt for a report on the issue of rail car shortages and the impact of such shortages on the economy. Knapp believes the problem is two-fold: the shortage in the rail cars and the conditions at the terminals themselves are sub-par. A solution to the problem resides in letting the Interstate Commerce Commission have more power over matters of shipping. Knapp proposes legislation to empower the Commission.
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1907-01-25
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the United States government should fund the building of tributaries along the Mississippi to ward against flood waters. Roosevelt resolves that the tributaries should be of the finest engineering, comparable to the engineering used in the building of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt draws a corollary between improving safety along the Mississippi to a political alliance between the Northern and Southern regions of the United States.
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1912-07-16
President Roosevelt asks Representative Jenkins about the bill concerning the appointment of circuit judges in the Northwest, where they are badly needed.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt tells Representative McGuire that he named John P. Blackmon Indian Agent because he was recommended by people who were the “best competent to judge”. If Blackmon acts as an “offensive Democratic partisan,” he will be removed from the position. Roosevelt believes that positions such as Indian Agent should not be used as rewards for political service to a certain party.
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1905-10-13
John A. Sleicher hopes the president will rescind oppressive regulation of small newspapers. Conde Hamlin of the St. Paul Pioneer Press agrees. Hamlin thinks William Jennings Bryan has “queered himself” but will be nominated nonetheless. Governor Frank S. Black and his wife Lois are returning from vacation. Sleicher hopes Black will be a delegate at the New York state convention and also recommends Herbert Parsons for the state committee. Sleicher tells Loeb to take pictures on an upcoming trip out West.
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1906-09-21
According to Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock, homesteaders who settle on the former Crow reservation in Montana should have an extension for establishing a residence on the lands. The extension is necessary because of climatic conditions and the scarcity of coal in the Northwest.
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1907-01-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mr. Rivers for his campaign contribution of one dollar.
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1912-07-15
Milton J. Green discusses the outcome of the San Francisco Mayoral election and politics in California, Washington State, Oregon, and other North Western states. Green recommends meeting with leading California Democrat, Gavin McNab. Green also relays his son, Kenneth Green’s, fond memories of meeting President Roosevelt several years before.
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1903-11-19
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ailes writes to President Roosevelt regarding his recent travels to California. Ailes investigated the opinions of labor union members in San Francisco, Seattle, and other Northwestern cities concerning Roosevelt’s reinstatement of William A. Miller as Assistant Foreman to the United States Government Printing Office. Labor union members largely favor Roosevelt’s decision. Specifically, Ailes mentions meeting Raymond Stammond Baker in San Fransisco who was investigating the same topic for a magazine article. Ailes also discusses the poor working conditions in Baltimore, Maryland, Saint Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the topic of banking and currency.
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1903-11-11
Otto Gresham encloses clippings from the Chicago Chronicle and relays that the newspaper is owned by John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank. Gresham discusses the electoral vote in Illinois, Indiana, and the northwest United States. Gresham believes the Illinois delegation will be for Grover Cleveland and General James B. Weaver, but will be contended by citizens in favor of Mayor Carter H. Harrison. Gresham notes his recent luncheon with James H. Eckels.
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1903-10-31
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt about Arthur P. Gorman’s campaign. The Democratic Party plans to “arouse the race prejudice in the South” in order to make the South go against Roosevelt. Abbott would like to send the most persuasive stump speakers into the southern states and have them prove that Roosevelt and the Republican Party stand for the principles of Abraham Lincoln.
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1903-11-04
Ernest E. Hart recommends United States Congressman Robert G. Cousins of Iowa for Temporary Chairmanship at the next National Convention.
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1903-11-04
Cornelius N. Bliss relays to President Roosevelt that he received this letter addressed to his father, Cornelius Newton Bliss, who is traveling in the Western United States. Bliss will forward the message to his father.
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1903-10-28
T. E. Byrnes suggests that President Roosevelt speak with F. C. Stevens about political conditions in the Northwest.
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1902-04-24
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including Three Years’ Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-west by J. Turner-Turner, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Comprising Fifteen Years’ Hunting and Trading by James Chapman, Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes by Charles Sperling Cumberland, and A Naturalist in the Transvaal by William Lucas Distant.
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1898-02-18