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President Roosevelt writes to tell Chief Forester Pinchot how helpful G. W. Woodruff has been in the Department of the Interior.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-09
President Roosevelt notifies Attorney General Bonaparte that he has sent Secretary of War William H. Taft a memorandum requesting that the Army Corps of Engineers submit plans for dams to develop water power to Bonaparte. Roosevelt asks that Bonaparte consult with G. W. Woodruff, who is currently detailed with the Department of the Interior, on the plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-15
President Roosevelt wishes to change positions within the Department of the Interior to make James Rudolph Garfield the Secretary of the Interior. He proposes to John Campbell Greenway that he become the Commissioner of the General Land Office beginning the next March. Roosevelt wishes to discuss it with Garfield and US Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot the next time Greenway is in Washington, D. C. G. W. Woodruff, a friend of theirs from Yale, will be the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of the Interior as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-05
Special Assistant Attorney General McHarg informs Attorney General Bonaparte of the situation in New Mexico Territory. McHarg says Governor George Curry is facing a difficult time in the administration of the territory, and McHarg will assist him in any way needed. McHarg goes on to detail examples of corruption the territory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-03
Attorney General Bonaparte returns a speech with minor suggestions to President Roosevelt, and discusses his strategy in finding a case in which the government could convict and sentence the head of an industrial trust. In North Carolina, Roosevelt could not have altered the dispute between Federal and State authorities in the railroad rate case. Bonaparte passes along some clippings related to the case against Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Bonaparte relates the progress in vetting William B. Sheppard for a judgeship in Florida. In New Mexico, Bonaparte says he has examined the charges against New Mexico District Attorney William H. H. Llewellyn, and believes he must be removed from office. Bonaparte will be in Oyster Bay on Friday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-05
Secretary of the Interior Garfield reports to President Roosevelt regarding illegal land sales in New Mexico. Garfield states that commissioners and past governors conspired to sell more publicly-owned land than was legal. Garfield recommends that the men involved should be prosecuted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-27
Photograph showing President Roosevelt with his “Tennis Cabinet” on the White House lawn on March 1, 1909, when a farewell luncheon was held for the group. Shown from left to right behind Theodore Roosevelt are military aide Archie Butt, Third Assistant Secretary of State William Phillips, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop, Chief of U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, Comptroller of Currency Lawrence O. Murray, U.S. District Attorney Henry L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Associate Justice William H. Moody, U.S. District Attorney John Carter Rose, Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry, G. W. Woodruff, French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, William Walter Heffelfinger, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Commission of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp, John Avery McIlhenny, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, Solicitor General Henry Martyn Hoyt, U.S. Marshal John R. Abernathy, Luther S. Kelly, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill, William Wingate Sewall, Commissioner General of Immigration Daniel J. Keefe, First Assistant Secretary of State James Callan O’Laughlin, James Bronson Reynolds, Henry S. Pritchett, and secretary William Loeb. In the foreground is the Alexander Phimster Proctor sculpture, “Stalking Panther,” which was presented to Roosevelt by his “Tennis Cabinet” at the luncheon.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-01
G. W. Woodruff, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of the Interior, denies that he has come to Muskogee to make a political address. Woodruff makes it clear that he is there to work with the Indian agent Dana H. Kelsey to settle “some knotty points” regarding the removal of land restrictions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-05
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus sends Attorney General Bonaparte an excerpt from the arguments of New Mexico Attorney General Albert B. Fall in the land fraud case there. Fall describes the disparaging attitude taken towards the officials overseeing land sales. In the current case, the Territory of New Mexico will finally be able to show the facts to the public and be vindicated in court. The specific details of the sale of the lands and whether the contracts will be voided are questions for the Territory of New Mexico alone to determine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-30