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Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou is elated to inform President Roosevelt that Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne and Postmaster General Henry C. Payne have made amends with each other.
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1903-07-03
Henry C. Payne encloses a letter to President Roosevelt about the investigation of the postmaster at Washington.
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1903-06-30
Henry C. Payne received President Roosevelt’s letter from the 25th, which contained orders to help stop Post Office scandals from being reported to the press. Payne notified the assistants in the department that they should not report information that is “not authorized by direction of the President, or by the head of the Department.”
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1903-06-27
Postmaster General Payne encloses a clipping from the Washington Times that reveals private information from a letter President Roosevelt wrote to the Post Office department. Payne has scheduled an interview with the Third Assistant Postmaster General Edwin C. Madden, the person who is responsible for the article.
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1903-06-29
Henry C. Payne asks advice of President Roosevelt on the investigation of Mr. O. H. Smith, a finance clerk in the Washington post office.
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1903-06-29
Henry C. Payne encloses a letter to President Roosevelt about Mr. New’s interest in working for Roosevelt’s administration.
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1903-06-30
Charles Emory Smith thanks President Roosevelt for a previous letter. Smith does not agree with the way the Associated Press dealt with Postmaster General Henry C. Payne, including issuing the Joseph L. Bristow letters to the public the previous week. Smith has decided it is necessary for him to personally present the matter in the appropriate light. Smith includes a copy of the article he has written for Roosevelt’s judgment. Smith proposes a meeting with Roosevelt when he is in Washington, D.C., later that week.
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1903-06-23
Postmaster General Payne encloses for President Roosevelt the letter that was sent to James T. Metcalf, superintendent of the money order system, removing him from office.
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1903-06-23
Henry C. Payne thanks President Roosevelt for sending a copy of the letter that Roosevelt sent to former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith and for the kind words that Roosevelt said about Payne in the letter. Payne is shocked about newspaper articles written in the Chicago Tribune regarding Smith and President William McKinley.
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1903-06-22
Newspaper article discusses the possible effects the post office scandal will have on the upcoming national campaign.
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1903-06-19
William E. Chandler encloses a defense he sent to Postmaster General Payne. He jokingly defends himself against criticism from Payne.
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1903-06-25
George E. Green urges Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to review carefully several enclosed documents regarding the Bundy Time Register Company’s interaction with the Post Office Department.
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1903-06-12
John H. Edwards, on behalf of the Postmaster General, returns a telegram from Cecil Andrew Lyon.
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1903-02-10
Postmaster General Payne withdraws his acceptance of President Roosevelt’s invitation to travel to Charleston, South Carolina. He is not yet comfortable with his duties as Postmaster General and must continue to familiarize himself with the department’s situation.
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1902-02-01
Governor Odell hopes to avoid tension between President Roosevelt and F. Norton Goddard over the Henkel decision. Odell and his daughter have been sick and he congratulates President Roosevelt on selecting Henry C. Payne as Postmaster General.
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1901-12-20
Charles Ransom Miller offers to print a statement from President Roosevelt about the appointment of Henry C. Payne as Postmaster General.
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1901-12-20
Vice President Roosevelt thanks William E. Carroll for writing. He regrets that he cannot fulfill Carroll’s favor because “the condition of the affairs” gives him no power to interfere. Roosevelt advises Carroll to take his charges directly to the Postmaster General who he is sure would give him a proper hearing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-07