[*A*] [*X*] [*Ackd 11-13-1901 File*] [[shorthand]] [*127 18th CF*] EXCELSIOR Corporation Tax Bureau WALTER B. ATTERBURY, COMMISSIONER, FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. State of New York, Comptroller's Office, OFFICE OF CORPORATION TAX COMMISSIONER 257 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. New York, 12th Nov 1901 Private To the President, Washington D.C. Dear Sir: - Would you let me see you privately, if I come to Washington next week, on the subject of the federal offices in Kings Co.? I have been President of the Kings Co. Republican General Committee for four years and am now holding that position. Woodruff intends to turn me down. I can give you absolutely correct information as to the political situation in Kings. Political affairs are in bad shape in Brooklyn. Although the [*17643*]EXCELSIOR Corporation Tax Bureau. WALTER B. ATTERBURY, COMMISSIONER, FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK State of New York, Comptroller's Office, OFFICE OF CORPORATION TAX COMMISSIONER, 257 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY New York, #2 majority for low was 25,000 — the gain over the vote of previous years was small. Thus:- Vote for President 1900 in King's Co. N.Y. McKinley Bryan 109,000 106,000 Vote for Mayor 1901 Low Shepard 114,500 89,000 Increase in Fusion vote over McKinley vote was only - 5,500 Democrats remained at home. I have the honor to remain Very respectfully W. B. Atterbury Kindly consider this letter as confidential. [*17644*]Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with Company for transmission This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT. President and General Manager. NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 12Ch. yk Ca 12 Pa RECEIVED at AUDITORIUM HOTEL 11/12 1901 Dated Pittsburg Pa 12-01 To John O Greenway Audr[?] sto[?] - Have applied for collectorship port El Paso respectfully ask your endorsement direct of president. J. A. Bard [*(J. A. Baird)*] 104am [*17645*] [*confidential*] [*cr*] [shorthand] [*File cr*] U.S. Court House, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Washington. D.C. November, 12th., 1901. Hon. G.B. Cortelyou. Secretary to the President. Executive Mansion. City. My Dear Sir: A position in this office which pays twelve hundred dollars per annum, was given to H.Y. Arnett at the suggestion of President McKinly. On account of the improper conduct towards one of the lady clerks in the office, as the enclosed letters will show, I was compelled to secure his resignation. Now if the President desires to name a clerk to fill this place, I shall be too glad to make the appointment. With great respect I am your obedient servant. H.P. Cheatham [*17646*][Enc. in Greenway. 11-14-01] [For enc. see 11-9-01 Ruseof]This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. NUMBER 12Ch ENTRY BY yk RECD BY eg CHECK 12 Pa RECIEVED at AUDITORIUM HOTEL 11/12 1901 Dated Pittsburg Pa 12-01 To John C. Greenway And she Have applied for collectorship Port El Paso respectfully ask your endorsement direct of president. J. A. Baird (J. A. Baird) 104am. [*17645*] U. S Court House, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D. C. [*Confidential*] [shorthand] November 12, 1901 [*File CR*] Hon. G. B. Cortelyou. Secretary to the President. Executive Mansion. City. My Dear Sir: A position in this office which pays twelve hundred dollars per annum, was given to H. Y. Arnett at the suggestion of President McKinly. On account of the improper conduct towards one of the lady clerks in the office, as the enclosed letters will show, I was compelled to secure his resignation. Now if the President desires to name a clerk to fill this place, I shall be too glad to make the appointment. With great respect I am your obedient servant. H. P. Cheatham [*17646*][*[Enc, in Greenway 11-14-01]*] [*[For 1. enc. see 11-9-01 Raseof]*][*Ackd P.F.*] [[shorthand]] CITIZEN'S UNION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. TELEPHONE, 1937 18TH STREET. OFFICERS: CHAIRMAN: R. FULTON CUTTING, - MANHATTAN VICE-CHAIRMEN: LUDWIG NISSEN, - - - - - - - Brooklyn FIELDING L. MARSHALL - - - - Bronx JOHN W. WEED, - - - - - - - - - Queens ARTHUR HOLLICK, - - - - - Richmond E. R. L GOULD, Treasurer. THOS. A. FULTON Secretary. CITY COMMITTEE: CLARK H. ABBOTT, MATTHEW BEATTIE, LOUIS BEER, M. S. BENTHAM, A. J. BOULTON, JAMES R. BURNET, JAMES B. CONNELL, ARTHUR F. COSBY, R. FULTON CUTTING, JOHN DAVIS, CHAS. JEROME EDWARDS, JOSEPH FETTRETCH, THOMAS FITZPATRICK, REUBEN FREEMAN, PAUL FULLER, WM. J. GOGGINS, S. GOLDENKRANZ, E. R. L. GOULD, HENRY A. GOULDEN, ABNER S. HAIGHT, RICHARD L. HALLE, CHARLES HARTMAN, HENRY HENTZ, ARTHUR HOLLICK, WM. H HUBER, FRANCIS C. HUNTINGTON, ANDREW J. HUSSEY, EDWIN S. KASSING, FRED'K S. LAMB, JOSEPH LAROCQUE, JOHN BROOKS LEAVITT, WALLACE MACFARLANE, JOSEPH McGUINNESS, JOHN H. McLEAN, FIELDING L. MARSHALL, CHAS. B. MEYER, CHAS. C. NADAL, LUDWIG NISSEN, ROBERT C. OGDEN, WILLIS L. OGDEN, STEPHEN OLIN, ADOLPH OPENHYM, ALEXANDER E. ORR, GEO. FOSTER PEABODY, ALFRED H. RIEDEL, ARMAND B. RODRIGUEZ, RUDOLPH RUBENS, GUSTAV H. SCHWAB, SAMUEL SEABURY, ALFRED P. W. SEAMAN, DEWITT J. SELIGMAN, CHARLES H. STRONG, J. EDWARD SWANSTROM, GUSTAV W. THOMPSON, JOHN DEWITT WARNER, JOHN W. WEED, ADOLPH WIEBER, EVERETT P. WHEELER, WM. F. WYCKOFF, W. H. ZIEGLER. HEADQUARTERS, 34 UNION SQUARE, EAST, NEW YORK, [*[11-12-01*] Nov 12th 1901. 62 William St. Dear Col. Roosevelt- I enclose a letter from Emerson which will interest you. He was on my Committee, I was Chairman, on Press and Literature. It was a great fight- one that a few of us had been working for for years - to down Tammany. We became practical reformers, pulled off our coats and hustled. If only we can continue to present a united front against Tammany! I missed you. Odell came to our rescue and stirred up the organization - perhaps you were behind it. Sincerely yrs Arthur F. Cosby. [*17647*]For enc. see emerson to cosby 10-25-01.[*File A*] EMBAJADA DE MEXICO, WASHINGTON D.C. November 12, 1901. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: I beg to thank you for the information conveyed in your note of even date and to state that I will have the honor to present my respects to His Excellency the President to-morrow (Wednesday) morning at ten o'clock. Truly yours, M. de Aspiroz Mr. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President. White House. [*17648*]A Chicago man is always "blacked up" even after a year of bleaching in the east; as for the Cubian war it would be rank ingratitude on my part to forget the obligations I am under to that episode. I ought to divide my royalties with the survivors, but I hope I won't. Thanking you again for the honor, I am Very Sincerely Yours F.P. Dunne 3, West 29th St. Ackd New York Nov. 12, 1901 Dear Mr Roosevelt--It will give me the greatest pleasure to accept your very kind invitation to dine Tuesday, the 19th. Will you let me know what the hour is? I am forced to make close connections on my way to the West to escape the fevers of life in New York. Your stipulations are gracious but unnecessary 17649**Ackd PF.** T.D. MCDONALD, A.B. WILLIAM FREELAND, A.B. COACHING SCHOOL 518 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK November 12th. 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. My dear President, I am an applicant for a park commissionership under Mayor Low, and of course I am working hard to get it as I believe I have the ability to fill it. I shall take the liberty, if there is no objection, of mentioning your name to Mayor Low in my talk with him, and referring to our acquaintance and friendship of the past twenty years. If therefore Mayor Low should by chance ask you anything regarding me I hope you will be able to say a good word for me. I graduated from Harvard in '81, was for ten years head master of Harvard School, have travelled through all the countries in Europe studying the great parks, and have been a lecturer on European travel for fifteen years, and for New York City for the past three years. I am the author of a work on higher mathematics, and have an engineering education. I wish you would allow me to run down to call on you some day soon, as W.H. Page jr. and I are about to begin a large work on the history of the ring, something on the lines of a book we got out on wrestling a few years ago, and a copy of which I sent you when you were in the Navy Department. I wrote the history and bibliography of that book, and shall do the same for the book we now have in hand. I am very sincerely yours, William Freeland **17651** [*PF*] Department of State, Washington, D. C., Nov. 12, 1901. Dear Mr. President The Consul at Apia, Samoa, is dead. The place is worth $3000. What Senator do you love best? JH [*[John Hay]*] [*17654*] esponsibility of saying to Cout Quadt that the President could not have received the medal with anything but emotions of pleasure commensurate with the high appreciation he entertains for the Emperor's majesty, and that a formal acknowledgment would be made in due course. He asked me if he was a t liberty to say something like this to his Government, and I said he was a liberty to say whatever the spirit moved him to utter. I give thanks to "whatever powers there be" that I was able to allow him to leave the room without quoting "quantula sapientia" Yours faithfully John Hay [*PF*] Department of State. Washington, November 12, 1901. My dear Theodore:- Count Quadt has been hovering around the State Department in ever narrowing circles for three days, and at last swooped upon me this afternoon, saying that the Foreign Office, and even the Palace, Under den Linden, was in a state of intense anxiety to know how you received His Majesty's Chinese medal, conferred only upon the greatest sovereigns. As I had not been authorised by you to express your emotions, I had to sail by dead reckoning, and, considering the vast intrinsic value of the souvenir - I should say at least thirty-five cents - and its wonderful artistic merit, representing the German Eagle eviscerating the Black Dragon, and its historical accuracy, which gives the world to understand that Germany was it, and the rest of the universe nowhere, I took the [*17652*][*PF*] Department of State, Washington, D. C., Nov. 12, 1901. Dear Mr. President The Consul at Apia, Samoa, is dead. The place is worth $3000. What Senator do you love best? JH [*[John Hay]*] [*17654*] esponsibility of saying to Cout Quadt that the President could not have received the medal with anything but emotions of pleasure commensurate with the high appreciation he entertains for the Emperor's majesty, and that a formal acknowledgment would be made in due course. He asked me if he was a t liberty to say something like this to his Government, and I said he was a liberty to say whatever the spirit moved him to utter. I give thanks to "whatever powers there be" that I was able to allow him to leave the room without quoting "quantula sapientia" Yours faithfully John Hay [*PF*] Department of Washington, My dear Theodore:- Count Quadt around the State Department circles for three days, and me this afternoon, saying and even the Palace, Under state of intense anxiety to His Majesty's Chinese only upon the greatest sov not been authorised by you I had to sail by dead the vast intrinsic - I should say at least and its wonderful artistic the German Eagle eviscerating and its historical accuracy, world to understand that G the rest of the universe no [*17652*]AUSTIN, BRAZORIA, COLORADO, FAYETTE, FT. BEND, GALVESTON, GONZALES, LAVACA, MATAGORDA. Republican Congressional Executive Committee, Tenth Congressional District of Texas. H. C. Heilig, Chairman. LaGrange, Texas, November 12th, 1901 1900 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, Washington, D. C. Sir:- Having learned that Prof. R.L. Smith of Colorado County, Texas, is an applicant for one of the leading offices in this State, please permit me to submit the following statement as to his political work in congressional matters in our district, as far as his actions have come under my observation: My first dealings with him were during the campaign of 1898, when R. B. Hawley received the second nomination, and was elected to congress. Then Smith, - it was commonly accepted, and later verified - through democratic influence contemplated to disrupt the party by opposing Hawley, who was the unanimous choice, and take the nomination by a bolting wing, for no other reason than to weaken the regular nominee, and assure democratic success. This, after considerable work, promises and other considerations, was overcome. One of the agreements, to which I was a party, being, that he was to be furnished with funds by me direct and independent of any organization, and the he was to receive his instructions from me direct: outside of this to conduct a free-lance campaign for Mr. Hawley. The former was complied with by honoring the drafts upon me, but on the several occasions when I called upon him to speak at public gatherings, he failed to show up, giving his entire service [*17655*]AUSTIN. BRAZORIA. COLORADO. FAYETTE. FT. BEND. GALVESTON. GONZALES. LAVACA. MATAGORDA. Republican Congressional Executive Committee, Tenth Congressional District of Texas. H. C. Heilig, Chairman. P.2. LaGrange, Texas, 1900. to the democratic county candidates against the republican endorsees for those offices. His valuable work in behalf of the party was best shown by the fact that his so-called strongholds have the largest majorities for the democratic nominee for congress. In the campaign of 1900, it was an open secret, that if Hawley should have accepted the republican nomination, that he, Smith, would have been an opposing candidate, backed by the Green contigent of the party, for the sole purpose of defeating the regular nominee. When Mayor Jones was nominated by the republican party it was generally understood that Jones and his friends would furnish ample campaign funds. With this understanding, sided by the influence of pecuniary permission he, Smith, fell into line. Immediately after the nomination he made his demands upon Jones, both in person, and through his friends Lookhart, then congressional secretary, for funds, and when it developed that none were forthcoming, he left the state and took no part in pushing the election of the man he helped to nominate. These are, so far as I am familiar with them, his services to the party in the last two campaigns. He represents, to my opinion, that part of the republican party in the state that has been most inimical to party progress, [*17656*]AUSTIN. BRAZORIA. COLORADO. FAYETTE. FT. BEND. GALVESTON. GONZALES. LAVACA. MATAGORDA. Republican Congressional Executive Committee, Tenth Congressional District of Texas. H. C. Heilig, Chairman. P. 3. LaGrange, Texas, 1900. and whose only political principle is principal. If the fact, that is was possible to keep him in line through valuable considerations only, and the further fact, that during the last four years he has been as wdlling tool of our political adversaries, entitles him to consideration at the hands of the administration, then there is nothing that he would not be entitled to; but if on the other hand our enteomed President is looking for moral qualifications as well as for intellectual ones, and desires a colored man to fill some presidential position in this state, then there are a number of honorable men among them who have stood every test, and would fill all the requirements, without detriment to the party. With the lofty motives that seem to prompt you in your appointments, I feel sure that the true character of Smith need only be shown you to make him an impossibility ever after, and then it will be readily seen that his so-called "non-partisan" recommendations were given by those probably have used him in the past or contemplate doing so in the future, or because they know that such an appointment would mean an irreparable set back to the party in the state. [*17657*]Republican Congressional Executive Committee, Tenth Congressional District of Texas H. C. Heilig, Chairman AUSTIN, BRAZORIA, COLORADO. FAYETTE. FT. BEND. GALVESTON. GONZALES, LAVACA, MATAGORDA. P.4. LaGrange, Texas, _______________________1900. Trusting that this will be avoided, I am, Very respectfully yours, H. B. Heilig Chrmn. 10th Cong. Dist. of Texas. 17658[*ackd*] COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. UNITED STATES SENATE. WASHINGTON, D.C., Worcester, Mass., November 12, 1901. To the President. Sir: I have just received your letter, in which you are good enough to express your desire to see me, and wish to know when I am coming to Washington. My plan has been to leave Worcester for Washington Friday, November 29, the day after Thanksgiving, and to get there a little after four o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. If any time after that will be agreeable to you, I will wait upon you at any hour you may direct. I shall be at the Richmond Hotel, where a message will reach me. Or one will reach me here any time before Friday morning at ten o'clock. If for any reason you desire to see me at an earlier time, it will give me great pleasure to comply with your wishes. I am, with high regard, faithfully yours, Geo F Hoar [*17659*]To the Private Secretary of the President . [11-12-01] Sir: I forward to you a sample cartoon used and distributed in the counties by the contemptible Democrats in Maryland, at the late election , to prejudice voters, a scheme to help send Arthur P. Gorman to the U.S. Senate. Shall he be permitted to succeed? Robbed of thousands of honestly cast ballots by his wickedly devised election law passed last spring, at Annapolis, how shall we fight to conquer such a revolutionary defrauder, whose power over the ballot disfranchised twenty thousand voters in our "Maryland? " Very respectfully, Elias Jones. Baltimore, Md. 2037 E. Lombard St. Nov. 12th 1901. 1766a[*[For 1 enc see 10-16-01]*]TELEGRAM. ausa v White House, Washington. SW. CF. RA. . . . . 20-D.H. .Stamp. . .10:46am. Brooklyn, N.Y. November, 12,1901. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, White House. Must amend letter mailed to say that I will be detained here till Saturday night, will probably come on Sunday. St- Clair McKelway. 17661 United States Senate, Washington, D.C., November 12th, 1901. To the President, White House, Mr. President; - Mr. Capers explained to me the embarrassment arising from the attempt to connect Mr. Koester with a lynching. I fully appreciate the political effect of the distorted accounts sent out ot the Northern press, seeking to make it a raec question. I have copies of the letters written you by Mr. Koester, they are a true statement of the facts and tell more against him than could be proved in any court of justice. Mr. President, we might as well understand one thing, this "new movement" in the South will be fought with a desperation and unscrupulousness of which Northern people can have no conception. A bold attempt was made by intimidation to prevent my making a canvass of the State; they found however that " bulldozing " is a 17662United States Senate, Washington D.C., 2 two handed game, and from now out we may expect everything which malignity and fear can devise in the way of slanderous reports. If Koester had been appointed by a Democratic President, not a word would have been said , or if he has been an out and out Republican the same would be true. there was no other ground up on which to attack Koester, so with the ingenuity of Satan, Tillman and Gonzales hatched up this plot, with Daes as their facile tool. Their hope is two fold;- First, To make you think that I, for personal reasons, foisted a lyncher upon you. Second, They hope you will revoke Koester's commission, and that I will , in a fit of anger make a fool of myself , and thus cripple the " movement". As to the first, Mr. President, you know it is not true, and 17663United States Senate, WASHINGTON , D. C., 3 as to the second, this " movement " is dearer to me than life itsself, and if I thoughtKoester's appointment too big a load for you to carry, I would tell you so, and Koester would resign in three minutes, and both of us would be just as loyal as if you were to appoint his Minister to St. James. Even poor Blalock, who is infinitely Koester's inferior morally and intellectually is just as true to day as if he had been appointed Collector. These are the only kind of men to whom I pin my faith. I wrote Mr. Dana, of the " Sun" a letter of which the enclosed is a copy, and sent him copies of the letter written you by Mr. Koester. I have a good many newspaper friends North who hav e been supporting me in my fight, and when Mr.Dana leads off they will take the "cue". [*17664*]United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. 4 Now, Mr. President, let me say that if after carefully considering the case you feel that Mr. Koester's appointment was a mistake, all you have to do is say so frankly. We will give you "a square deal". Personally , I am sure the appointment is all right. You cannot name a man who will be a positive help to "Commercial Democracy" that these villians will not hatch up some plot to defame. They have pursued me for five years, and I know what they are. Until affairs are on a settled slid basis we must fight the worst and most unscrupulous element of both parties. I will see that Mr. Booker Washington is reached in the proper way and is brought to your support. Professor Thomas E. Miller of South Carolina, who in my judgement is intellectually the superior of Washington is in communication with him now. Sincerely, Jno. Lowndes McLaurin [*17665*][*[For 1 enc. see Laurin, 11-9-01]*][*Ansd File ppF Pr*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. 49 Broadway, New York City, November 12, 1901. The President, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: I have had an interview with Senator Nevada N. Stranahan, of Fulton, Oswego County, N. Y. He is willing to accept the Collectorship, but thinks the time ought to be deferred until the first of April and, in the mean time, he can do his duty to his constituents. It will make serious disturbance if he is asked to do differently. I am still very sorry if you are desirous of removing Mr. Bidwell, especially as he has the endorsement of the Secretary of the Treasury and both the Senators, but I have assumed that your mind was settled on that subject and that the decree was fixed. Mr. Bidwell consented to resign the position to take effect the first of April, as you have requested, and you need have no doubts or fears with reference to his conduct in the matter. I will hold myself responsible for that result. As to the mode of procedure in the case, I am going to have another talk with Mr. Bidwell and we will settle upon the time. I have not seen Governor Odell since my return and know nothing of his feelings in the premises. [*17666*]United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. (2) I had expected that I should hear something from you with reference to the dinner you suggested when I last saw you, but, as I have heard nothing, I have concluded that Mr. Low is hesitating and doubting and, perhaps, refusing. My impression is that if he does this, he makes a mistake. With kind regards and best wishes, Yours faithfully, T. C. Platt [*17667*][[shorthand]] [*ackd*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON. D.C. At New York, November 12, 1901. The President, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: I invite your attention to the attached let- her from [Colonel] Collector Eidman, of the Third Internal Revenue District, concerning the work done by this organization in the Tenth Assembly District in this City. Eidman is a good, earnest worker, an honest man and a creditable public official. I hope that you may see in this exhibit of Eidman's a reason why his re-appointment would be justified. Yours sincerely, T C Platt H-H [*17668*][*[For 1 enc see Eidman, 11-8-01]*]United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. [*ackd*] At New York, November 12, 1901 The President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President: Mr. Cortelyou advises me that you contemplate appointing Rev. P.P. Casey, of New York City, as a Chaplain in the Army, and that you hope Ii know of no objection to such an appointment. I have no objection to the appointment, although I have failed to ascertain that Mr. Casey is a resident of this City or is the Pastor of any New York church; in fact, I do not know who he is and cannot seem to find out. But, as I have said, I have no objection to his appointment. Yours truly, T C Platt H-H 17669Retail Department G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 27 & 29 WEST 23D STREET NEW YORK 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND LONDON, W. C. (All business communications should be addressed to the concern) The Knickerbocker Press Dictated Nov. 12th, 1901 Geo. B. Cortelyou, Esq. Secretary, White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- Replying to your inquiry of Nov. 11th, we regret to say that the "memoirs of an American Lady" by Mistress Ann Hunt, has not yet been published. We have taken pains to make special inquiry at the publishers, and they report they will not have it until early in December. They have promised to send us a copy the moment it is received from the Bindery. Unless we hear to the contrary we shall then submit a copy, on approval to the President. Very respectfully, G. P. Putnam's Sons. K. W. [*17670*]CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY TELEPHONE CONNECTION. [*File ppp Pr*] NEW YORK, November 12, 1901 The President, White House Washington, D.C. Dear Theodore:-- I received your letter this morning and saw Augy Belmont in the course of the day. He says he wishes me to say to you that he accepts your kind invitation with pleasure to dine at the White House on Thursday the 14th inst at 730. He asked me what I thought you would like to talk with him about--I told him I did not know but that probably you might like to say something about your message, and the reciprocity and trusts points, although I knew nothing whatever about it. I think he is very much pleased at your invitation and his is going on tomorrow night and will be in Washington all day Thursday. He asked me to write to you and say that he would be delighted to come, as the invitation came through me he felt that probably you would prefer him to accept in the same way. I hear nothing but complementary remarks about your administration and everybody seems to be very much pleased. I am quite curious to know the outcome of the Bidwell affair-I forgot to ask you about it when you were here. I wish I had now-- Yours, D R [*obinson*] 17671with Irvine & himself. Mittie was met at the head of the Avenue (by I don't remember who) who told her of her father's death - she having started before Anna that morning - having a late breakfast each hurried to SS as they got ready - Anna so regretted that she had not that morning given her father his usual morning kiss - the first omitted in months! All this comes back to me as I write as if it were but yesterday! The flag incident I never heard of until you sent me the clipping - she was a warm Southerner. Mr. Roosevelt just as warm Northerner but I have heard that one day he expressed his approval of "Beast Butler's" order, in regard to Southern women in NO. it so roused her that she told him if he could approve of such an order that she, who had until then [DESIGN NO. 40, PAPER NO. 2304 LAKEWOOD SIZE, WE ALSO HAVE THIS PAPER IN MADISON SIZE.] (I made a mistake in not noticing this sample sheet) Rome Ga - Nov 12th — 1901 [*[enclosed in Pratt, 11-27-01]*] My dear Charlie Your letter recd some weeks ago would have been answered sooner but for "wedding preparations" of our daughter, "Little Flo" who as you perhaps know married Mr. James Grant Tracy of Syracuse New York on Oct 2d. Since then the putting-to-rights generally & closing the house for the winter & settling in one room; boarding in town, has completely occupied my time since - but now, a rainy day & quiet gives me a chance to answer some of your questions in regard to Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt - we grew up together in Roswell & for many years were the warmest of friend & the most intimate, our joys & sorrows were [*17672*]always for each others ears & sympathy - so I ought to know of what I speak - The clipping you sent me taken from the Atlantic Journal containing the photos of Mittie and Mr. Roosevelt are as unlike them as it is possible to be. I recognize nothing in it that reminds me of either of them - Mittie was very pretty & bright, she was taller than her sister. Anna, had black hair, dark grey eyes & a fair, rosy, beautiful complexion, was easy & graceful in her manners lively in conversation & very entertaining as became the society woman she was in later years, & always very tasty & elegant in her dress. Her features were long & slender, teeth white & even (Teddy has his mother's teeth & nose much exaggerated of course, by the miserable paper representations). Anna's face was oval, she had the full round chin, had [short?] features - light blue eyes & light brown hair. Was shorter in stature than Mittie - the two sisters were very unlike. I remember such hats worn those days as the Journal shows, we wore bonnets - we all went to the old brick academy, but before that, to a wooden structure in which Mr. Hunt taught us in the brick academy Mr. Dod reigned supreme for several years, then Miss Hamilton - in later years your father & Nat took charge, & tried to guide both mind & bodies of a set of many unruly boys. But by that time both Mittie & I had past on to some higher institute - but none more thorough in its instruction or dearer to our hearts than the old Academy. Mr. Roosevelt's picture is also very unlike him, he was very homely in face but in figure was tall, slender & graceful, his manners were those of a polished gentleman, we all liked him, he was very entertaining in conversation, having traveled much in this country & Europe. Maj. Bulloch's death in the Roswell ch[urch] just before Sunday School opened. I will remember - I walked part of the way there [*17673*]what they will say of those that are prominent & fall into their hands. Just rec'd a letter from Eva Baker in Roswell - she says your father married Mittie & Mr Roosevelt but Mr Dunwoody pronounced the benediction & no doubt made the record of that for his own satisfaction & that is probably the truth. She says the 18th Dec was the date - but both Jule & Jn Bulloch of Savannah in his "record of the Bulloch family" give the 23d - Eva says there are no records as far back as the Civil Way in the Ch. books that she has seen. I know the bridal couple did not leave Roswell for several days after their marriage & it seems they had the time to spare before arriving in NY for the Xmas festivities if they cared to get there for them. So Mr. Dunwoody's date of 18th may be the right one. Well I have said enough & hope I have answered all your questions. Very truly yours F.B Seay [*[12-12-01]*] held her tongue in regard to what was happening at the South would now & in future say what she choose, & that he could take the consequences! The flag incident may have been the outcome of that conversation - but I can't of course say - it was a daring act & might have caused her her life at that time. Old Archibald certainly did show out there! Teddy seems to have his share too. I exceedingly regret that Booker Washington incident but you know he is only half Southerner he don't seem to, or didn't want to understand how we of the South feel. He only wants to pitch ahead , pig-headed style to do as he chooses, but he has brains enough to know better & I feel he will act better as time goes on. I think he only meant to acknowledge [*17674*]merit, brains & Brooker certainly has the intelligence of his race. Teddy ought to have eaten alone. Teddy's "nigger" & Mitties' "flag" are very similar! Old Archibald truly! I have seen lately in both the Constitution and Sunny South perhaps in the Journal too - some more items in regards to Teddy's parents - I refer to their marriage, which some reporters must certainly have misunderstood. I was present at the marriage & spent two weeks in Roswell at that time. I have always believed your father performed the ceremony - he was all his life the pastor of the Roswell Church - I have no recollection of Rev James Dunwoody being present ever, on that occasion - neither does you cousin Jule who was one of the brides maids. I wrote to her to ask her. Anna Bulloch, Mary Cooper Stiles, Julia Isabella Hand & Evelyn King were the bridesmaids. Cornelius Roosevelt, Stewart Elliott (Mittie's half brother), Thomas E. King & Ralph B. King were the groomsmen - the ceremony was performed on the 23d of Dec 1853. While I have always believed Uncle Pratt performed it, [but] I am not prepared to swear to it after forty eight years, if Mr. James Dunwoody is alive & says he was the man, I am not prepared to deny it. When I first saw the account, I simply felt indignant, believing it false, he might have pronounced the benediction but that was all - the reporter was the one that got mixed & when they do which they often do, there is no telling [*17675*]BYRON E. SHEAR. EUGENE L. GIROUX, M.E. SHEAR & GIROUX, 721 AND 722 EQUITABLE BUILDING. MINES AND MINING: CABLE ADDRESS "SHEAROUX" USE WESTERN UNION CODE. [*Ackd 11-19-1901 Colo*] DENVER, COLO,, Nov 12 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Sir: I desire to call your attention (provided Mr. Cortelyou allows this to run the gauntlet) to a dirty outrage which is going on here and has been for several years under the Wolcott-Stevenson regime. A Mr. Goodale is Surveyor General, under him is a Mr Christian who is chief of the Mineral Division. They employ about eighty people, both sexes. Every month this man Christian interviews separately and alone (about pay day) every one of them, thusly "I want $5.00 from you this month" or "I want $10.00 from you this month." It is known as the "Dog Tax", good name. So far it has been paid regularly. I know a lady who has paid over one hundred dollars in a year. Where it goes nobody knows, whether into the campaign fund or into the pockets of [*17676*]BYRON E. SHEAR. EUGENE L. GIROUX, M.E. SHEAR & GIROUX, 721 AND 722 EQUITABLE BUILDING. MINES AND MINING: CABLE ADDRESS "SHEAROUX" USE WESTERN UNION CODE. 2 DENVER COLO._____________1901. gang. Recently a gentleman, Mr. Wilkes, refused to pay. Consequence is that they are watching for an excuse to discharge him. He is under the civil service rules. That idiotic law which punishes the giver as well as the asker prevents exposure and induces lying and perjury, hence a special agent will not discover much of anything. What we need is a new deal, must have it if the Republican party of Colorado obtains and maintains the lead to which it is entitled. Anything is better than the present rule or ruin outfit. I am not the only republican that won't stand these things. Yours truly Byron E. Shear [*17677*]ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO A. H. BELO & CO., Pubs., NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. The Dallas News ESTABLISHED 1885 A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers, AND OF The Galveston News, ESTABLISHED 1842 - INCORPORATED 1861. Dallas, Texas, Nov 12th 1901. 1) My Dear Jerry; Enclosed you will find papers which I want you to deliver to the President in person. And an explanation is due you, since it looks as if I were going to use you forever. When I was in Washington, the President asked me about a certain candidate, or seeker of office, a negro. I promised to get him such information as I could and I herewith give it to him. I do not care to send him the matter through the regular channels, since I know the immense volume of his mail, and the discretion exercised by secretaries in assorting mail for high officials. As he asked for this, I want him to get it. I have presumed to offer him a little advice in the present instance. It comes from the heart and wholly in his interest. No man, who does not live in the South, can understand the distance at which the negro is held by the whites. [Readg] Reading about it, gives not [one] even an idea bordering on the approximate. The appointment of one of them by the President sends a shock [thg] throughout the whole South. I cannot explain it, and no man can do so. For the southern people do not hate the blacks and they do not fear miscegenation. It[s] is a settled antagonism against social or other equality- an antagonism that baffles all who try to account for it. For instance, Booker Washington is more respected in the South than any negro that ever lived and yet his entertainment by the President caused a genuine scream of pain. It was a mistake from this standpoint, because there has never been a man in the Presidenta[a]l chair that was commanding more respect from these very southerners than Mr. Roosevelt. In understand, I think, his reasons for that[step] step and I [######] have no criticism for him. I believe his purpose was to show the negro that the President more highly r[esp] [*17678*]ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO A. H. BELO & CO., Pubs., NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. The Dallas News ESTABLISHED 1885 A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers, AND OF The Galveston News, ESTABLISHED 1842 - INCORPORATED 1861. Dallas, Texas, 2) respected the negro who was trying to do something to elevate his people by teaching them a devotion to industrial lines, than he did the negro who devoted himself to politics. The South has had its [moug] mouth full of praise for Washington and I think the President thought that he would be endorsed by the South for making a specialty of honoring the man whom that a section has been so loudly praising. But this to one side- few people can look as t at the matter as I do. While I was Washington, some "demon in human form" in our business, sent out from that city the information that I had been called there by the President to confer on appointments in Texas and also to receive a [remunmunerative] "remunerative and high office." Well, you know what this has cost me. I am getting letters from every section about offices. More than this, the newspapers of Texas are full of the subject. I regret it exceedingy but it has its pleasure, [in it] since they all agree that if the President had done as reported in this false dispatch, he had secured a fine [ma] and worthy man. He may have heard of it, and if he has, if he does not know me well, he may think that I my have had something to do with the report. I want you to talk to him and tell him about this and assure him that such a thing as my participation is such a report is so absurd that I would not mention it to him in my letter. I am intersted in him, as you know. I am his friend sure-enough and I want him to succeed. And whatever I can do to have him succeed, I will do if it cost me my job. And it would perhaps cost me that job if it were ascertained that I was siding him in his appointments in any way. Don't call on him till [u] you can have time to talk to him. If you think proper, you can even show him what is contained herein. I hope you are getting along [wel] well and that your life will get easier as it progresses. And if I can ever be of service to you, you know that I would go a great [dstance] [*17679*]ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO A. H. BELO & CO., Pubs., NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. The Dallas News ESTABLISHED 1885 A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers, AND OF The Galveston News, ESTABLISHED 1842 - INCORPORATED 1861. Dallas, Texas, distance to do so. Give my best love to all the boys, but be careful not to permit any of them to know [this] what I am doing in this matter. For it would not be a week till some newspaper correspondent would be sending out all about it with the necessary exaggeration to make it "good reading". Your Friend, W.G.Sterett. [*17680*]Luman T. Hoy for Sub-treasurer Chicago In place of Williams Mr Chapman & M Willoughby said to be very disreputable xxx recommend Major Hogan Collector of Internal Rev. for southern Dist Cannon Rives[*Ack'd 11/16/1901*) [*P.P.F.*] Dallas, Texas, Nov 12th 1901. Tos his Excellency, President Roosevelt; My Dear President; You will remember when I called on you at Washington you asked me to ascertain who and what R.L. Smith is, and to inform you-It has required some time and hence my delay in responding to your request. Enclosed you will find a letter from Mr. Waller T. Burns of Houston, which will give you idea of Smith-I do not know the latter, though I have seen him-As you know the Republicans in the State have for years been divided-wholly in the important matter of who should hold the offices. Since 1895, the two factions have been led by Mr. John Grant, now United States Marshall of the Northern District of Texas and Mr. Edward Green, son of Mrs. Hettie Green of New York-Mr. Hawley acted with Green a part of the time, but of late years assumed a leadership of his own. Green's money was his only strength as he is a coarse and stupid man-When the party met the last time, it did so in San Antonio-There were two conventions. The Green convention was presided over by Smith+A White Republican, and a reputable and honorable man, informed me that he did not believe there was a Negro delegate in the convention, and it was composed almost wholly of negroes, who had not furnished with transportation and whose expenses had not been paid by Mr. Green-In a letter written by Smith to one of this faction asking for his endorsement, and which I saw, Smith says that his success is necessary for the success of his faction- Mr. Burns is a native Texan, a most reputable and honorable man, who would not misrepresent any one. He was a member of the State Senate from Houston two years ago, which shows his character as that District is a Democratic 17681(2) [town] one. He wrote the enclosed to a personal and political friend, whom I asked to get the information for me. And in giving it, he did not know the purpose for which it was needed. If you will permit me, moved wholly by my personal friendship, I would suggest that you should not appoint negroes to office in this State- For in the first place, none of them want office who are not politicians, and as [Reputable] negro politicians in the South live from politics, that is, in dickering with Democrats in State elections, and securing something from Republican campaign funds during presidential elections. The appointment of a negro who is not a politician, simply does that negro a [grand] grave injustice. There are plenty of white men who would and can serve the public with credit, and their appointments would relieve the people from the excitement and bitterness which a negro appointment creates, and which, when so easily avoided, is wrong. This is plain language and it would not be employed did I not feel the deepest interest in you and have for you the most sincere friendship- The Federal offices here are filled with the good and bad. The good are good enough to make their removal a sin against good government. The bad are bad enough to make their retention, if not a crime, against good government, at least an embarrassment to those who desire government positions filled by reputable men. I know you will forgive the candor in this, since candor to a public servant should be the first law of the lover of his country, and because you requested information given in a frank way. Yours very truly, W. G. Sterett The letter of Mr. B. is is awkward form but I hope you can decipher it. [*17682*][shorthand notation]PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. F. C. TRAVERS, Prest. A. F. TRAVERS, Vice Prest V. P. TRAVERS, Treas. Travers Brothers Co. Manufacturers of TWINES, SASH CORDS, HAMMOCKS, MANILLA & SISAL ROPE, BENDER TWINE, LATH YARN, SEA ISLAND TWINE &C. OFFICES, 107 Duane St, 16 Thomas St. STORE HOUSE. TAR & DYE HOUSE. ROPE TWINE & HAMMOCK FACTORY WAREHOUSE 107 DUANE ST. OFFICE 16 THOMAS ST. Orders will be entered subject to the following conditions: Strikes of operatives or any unavoidable cause will relieve us from prompt fulfillment of contracts. New York, Nov 12th 1901 [*Ackd*] Hon Theodore Roosevelt President U. S.- Dear Sir The Battle is over and we are on top but now is the time to be careful and not make mistakes There is two places here I think way above all others. First the Corporation Counsel here is where Philbin ought to be. Second the street cleaning Dept and here is where Captain Gibson ought to be at the head you know what he did when Col Waring was with us of course during Tammany reign he has had a very hard time if you can put in a good word with our new Mayor for Philbin & Gibson you will never regret it hoping you are well I Remain Yours Truly Frank C. Travers [*17683*][*File P.P.F. Ackd 11/22/1901*] EXCELSIOR Frederick D. Kilburn, Superintendent. ADDRESS ALL OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SUPERINTENDENT. STATE OF NEW YORK Banking Department, Albany, November 12, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, Washington, D. C. Sir: George Ripperger of Long Island City has filed his application for reappointment as postmaster. His term expired, I think, in September, and it would be very pleasing to us if he could receive his reappointment as soon as possible. I think, if it will be pleasing to you, that I can get the highway macadamized from my corner down the Cove Neck road at the county's expense. Would you like to have it done, or do you prefer to have it the way it is? There will be so much travel there this summer that it struck me you might like to have this road in equally as good a condition as the rest of Oyster Bay. If you say so, I think I can get it done at once, but of course I will not use your name in the matter at all. I will simply make it my personal application. I am very much better. In fact, it does not seem possible that I can be so well and strong this week when I was [*17684*]Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 2. in such [ill] poor condition last week. Faithfully yours, Wm. J. Youngs [*17685*][*[For attachment see 11-21-01 G.B.C.]*] Has the President seen this?TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 6 WU.WN.RA. 19-D.H.....4:34 PM. New-York, November 13, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the president. Kindly inform the President it will be impossible to stay over night am compelled to return by midnight train. August Belmont. 17686[*File*] TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Washington, November 13,1901. DIVISION OF APPOINTMENTS [*A.P.C*] The President: Referring to your request of the 9th instant, through your Secretary, I have to inform you that John E. Stillman, Collector of Customs at Pensacola, Florida, was appointed by temporary commission dated October 28, 1897, and by permanent commission dated January 20, 1898. His term will therefore expire January 19, 1902. A very careful and thorough inquiry has been made by the Department, and it is found from this inquiry that the services of Mr. Stillman have been entirely satisfactory, as reported by all the Bureaus and Divisions which conduct matters of public business with him. Respectfully, L J Gage Secretary. [*CL*] S 17687TELEGRAM. 11-13-01 White House, Washington. 10 WU CT GI 18 DH--6 P,M, Indianapolis, Ind., Nov 13. Hon Geo. B. Cortelyou, Executive Mansion. I find that I cannot reach Washington until Saturday afternoon. Better make appointment for Saturday evening or Sunday. D.B. Henderson. 17686No. 138 Sir Michael Herbert to the Marquess of Landsowne.--(Received November 13.) (Telegraphic) Washington, November 13, 1902. I COMMUNICATED to Mr. Hay this morning the substance of your Lordship's telegram of the 11th. instant. His Excellency stated, in reply, that the United States' Government, although they regretted that European Powers should use force against Central and South American countries, could not object to their taking steps to obtain redress for injuries suffered by their subjects, provided that no acquisition of territory was contemplated. 17689New York, Nov. 13th, 1901. Dear Mr. President. When I wrote my letter, recommending Tucker for the vacant Judgeship, I did not expect that you would find time to make any reply whatever. The appointment which you have made is admirable. I know McDowell very well. He is a man of the highest character, and eminently fit for the position. My interest in Tucker was simply due to admiration for the personal sacrifices which he had made in the cause of sound currency and good government generally. Thanking you for your attention to my request, I am, as always, Sincerely yours, Abram S. Hewitt Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President 17690[[shorthand]] P. K.B. 6, BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES, PARIS CABLE ADDRESS, HALBERD. TELEPHONE 242-43 November 13th, 1901 PERSONAL [*Ackd 11/27/1901 File*] The President of the United States Washington District of Columbia Etats-Unis Dear Mr. President, Webb of Colorado Springs, with whom you were hunting last year, tells me that you may be hunting again in our country shortly, and thought that perhaps you might like to have the use of my Cabins in such case; I am delighted to put these Cabins at your disposal. Webb knows how to have the Cabins prepared for you; and all you would have to do is to tell Webb to do the needful and you will find them ready. I have not before written to congratulate you on your present office, because the horrible event which put you there makes congratulations impossible; but I need hardly tell you how glad I am to feel that you are in a position in which you can enforce your views. I do not believe we ever had in the presidential chair before a man who really believed in civil service, and put high American ideals before every other political consideration. We are all looking forward with immense interest to what the next few years will produce. Sincerely yours Edmond Kelly [*17691*]SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE Washington, U.S.A. November 13, 1901. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: The President today authorized me to prepare and submit to his attention, a passage for his annual message to Congress, in presenting which to him, I shall have a very few words to him, I shall have a very few words of explanation to offer, and I shall hope to learn whether it meet his wishes. Will it be troubling you too much if I ask you to be good enough to ascertain whether the President will be [*17692*] 2 pleased to give the matter his brief attention today or tomorrow? Very truly yours, S P Langley Secretary. The Honorable George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, White House. P.S.-Since writing the above, I learn from you, over the telephone, that you will kindly arrange for me to see the President tomorrow at a little before twelve, at which hour I will wait upon him. [*17693*]Unofficial: CONSULATE-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT BERLIN, GERMANY. November 13th, 1901. My dear Col. Hay, I send you herewith for your personal information the complete text, and a somewhat rough translation of the leading article in the latest Number of the Koloniale Zeitschrift by its Editor, Dr. Hans Wagner. A synopsis of the article has been cable by the correspondent of certain New York and Chicago newspapers, so that it may be of interest to you to have the context of their quotations. The Zeitschrift is the organ of the Colonial expansionist Deutschland-ueber-Alles party in this country, and Dr. Wagner has in this article expressed quite clearly the estimate in which that class of Germans hold the United States, a great mob of emigrants and their children thrown together by a common greed for money, without culture, manners or any of the other qualities except size and numbers -- which go to make a great nation You will know how much or little importance to attach to it, or whether or not it should "go any farther". Very sincerely yours, Frank H. Mason Consul-General. [*17694*][For. 1 enc. see Wagner 11-7-01]FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. ORVILLE H. PLATT, CHAIRMAN. N.W. ALDRICH. H.M. TELLER. S.M. CULLOM. H.D. MONEY. JAS. MCMILLAN. MARION BUTLER. WM. E. .CHANDLER. J.P. TALIAFERRO JNO. C. SPOONER CHAS. G. PHELPS, CLERK SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA WASHINGTON, D.C. [*Ackd*] Washington, Conn. November 13th, 1901. The President, Executive Mansion. My dear Mr. President: Since I saw you at Farmington I have been reading up the cases decided by the Supreme Court relating to the business of trust organizations, with the result that I am quite doubtful whether Congress can, under the power to regulate interstate commerce, go so far as to require state corporations, doing an interstate commerce business, to make reports to United States officials. It seems to me that the Supreme Court confines the power of regulation to the commerce alone, and holds that jurisdiction does not attach to the commerce until the articles of commerce are delivered to a common carrier for transportation to another state. The Court will have to go farther than it has gone yet to hold that the power to regulate commerce includes also the right to regulate the corporation, and the language of the opinions seems to me to indicate that it would decide otherwise. The Court might possibly hold though that a statute of that sort, if passed by Congress, raised a political and not a judicial question and get 17695FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. ORVILLE M. PLATT, CHAIRMAN. N. W. ALDRICH. S. M. CULLOM. JAS. McMILLAN. WM. E. .CHANDLER. JNO. C. SPOONER H. M. TELLER. H. D. MONEY. MARION BUTLER. J. P. TALIAFERRO CHAS. G. PHELPS, CLERK SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA WASHINGTON, D.C. around it in that way. I write this because I very much desire the enactment of such legislation if it [could] can be constitutionally done, and yet I would not wish you to recommend specific legislation which, if enacted, would be declared unconstitutional by the Court. I do not g o so far as to say that in my judgment the Court would so hold, but I fear it would. It is a question which requires very careful study, more careful than I have yet been able to give to it. Respectfully, O. M. Platt [*17696*]CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY TELEPHONE CONNECTION. [*Ackd PPF*] NEW YORK, November 13, 1901 Dear Theodore: I am just writing a line to you to say that Mr. Wheelock of my office, you know him he played on Harvard football teams, who is deeply interested in the Institution known as the Five Points House of Industry, and who is presenting this House with two of your photographs, would so much like to have your autograph at the foot of the pictures, and has asked me if I would not write and make this request of you. Mr. Wheelock's plan is to send you two slips of paper and ask you to put your autograph on each of them, and he says he can paste the paper at the bottom of the frame of the pictures. He would send the photographs to you for signature but he says they have a heavy mat on them which would make it almost impossible to write on it, although you could possibly put your name down in the left hand corner of the photograph itself, but he feared this would be troubling you too much, besides not looking so well, and so suggested the slips of paper. Thank Edith for her letter Received today Augy was very much pleased with your invite. he has to come back to NY by night train tomorrow night after dinner. So cannot spend night will be on hand at dinner 730 [tomorrow] Thursday Yours D R[*obinson*] 17697WILLIAM A OTIS & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO. WILLIAM A. OTIS PHILIP B. STEWART. WILLIAM P. SARGEANT. FRANCIS GILPIN. November 13th, 1901. To the President, Washington, D.C. Dear President Roosevelt:- I am making substantial progress in the matter which you wished looked up, and shall be able to report to you. I hope, to your advantage, in a short time. Much has happened here and is happening bearing on that situation. Mr. Wolcott is back, but I have not seen him. Devereux returned two days since, and I learn from him for the first time, that friends of mine had asked him to interest you in some political matter on my behalf. This was done without my knowledge or approval and was the last thing which I should ask you to do or should consider wise for you to do. I have declined positively to consider the suggestions which have been made to me along those lines, and am able to do much better work for the party here at home than I should be in Congress. Always sincerely, Philip B. Stewart PBS-P [*If there is one thing more than another which I wish to be it is an absolutely disinterested friend of your administration.*] [*17698*][shorthand notation] [For. 1. enc. see ca. 11-13-01 Reorganization][*See Mr. Loeb about this File Ackd 11-15-1901 P.F. P.P.F Harvard*] HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOOT BALL ASSOCIATION, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. D.C. CAMPBELL, CAPTAIN. A.W. TALMADGE, MANAGER. President Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.C. Dear President Roosevelt: Knowing you to be a Harvard graduate, and and enthusiastic supporter of all Harvard interests, we take great pleasure in offering you side-line badges for yourself and party, at the Yale-Harvard football game, to be played in Cambridge Saturday, Nov. 23, at 2:00 p.m. Of course, if you would prefer, I can obtain [two] seats in the grand stand for you. If you think you will be able to come, and can let me know about what size your party will be. I shall consider it a great favor, as the demand for seats is very great. Hoping that you will find it possible to come, I am, Sincerely yours, Arthur W. Talmadge 17699file PPF Santiago, Cuba, Nov. 13, 1901. My dear Mr. President: Mr. Brice and his wife arrived in Havana just prior to my departure for Santiago and they are now here in Santiago. They have had every opportunity to see the country and I shall take them to Jamaica on my own boat tomorrow night. From Jamaica they sail for England. Mr. Brice has taken great interest in the country and is profoundly impressed with the wealth and possibilities of the island. Everything is moving along quietly, although there is little hope of the right class of people coming to the front for the new government. It looks now as though the 17700whole thing will drop into the hands of the purely political element. Mrs. Wood is with me and joins in kindest regards. I expect to arrive in Havana in time to reach Washington, I hope, during the last days of November or the first days of December. With kindest regards, Very sincerely, Leonard Wood To His Excellency President Roosevelt, Washington. D. C. [*17701*][[shorthand]] [*wrote Mr. Stewart 11-13-1901 Hold for reply*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. [*17703*] [*Wrote members of Cabinet named, 11-16-1901 CF*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. November 13, 1901. Memorandum (the result of a talk between the President and Mr. A.B. Seaman): In Denver the U.S. Marshal, Bailey, is the chairman of the Republican county central committee of Araphoe County; Ford, either registrar or receiver of the Land Office, is the chairman of the Republican state central committee. Have the Attorney General (the Collector,) [*Secy of Treasy.*] the Postmaster General, and the Secretary of the Interior notify the different officers in Denver that allegations have been made that nearly 200 federal employees took part in running the last conventions; that they are chairmen of political committees, etc. State to them that this is highly undesirable; that they are not to act as chairmen nor to be unduly prominent in these local political matters. [*17702*]In the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COM-plainant, } v. } NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY, THE } No. — Great Northern Railway Company, } The Northern Pacific Railway Company, } and others, defendants. } PETITION. To the judges of the circuit court of the United States fort the district of Minnesota: Now comes the United States of America, by Milton D. Purdy, the United States attorney for the district of Minnesota, acting under direction of the Attorney-General of the United States, and brings this its proceeding by way of petition against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation organized and 19728—02—1 [*17705*] In the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COM-plainant, } v. } NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY, THE } No. — Great Northern Railway Company, } The Northern Pacific Railway Company, } and others, defendants. } PETITION. [*17704*]In the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COM-plainant, } v. } NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY, THE } No. — Great Northern Railway Company, } The Northern Pacific Railway Company, } and others, defendants. } PETITION. To the judges of the circuit court of the United States fort the district of Minnesota: Now comes the United States of America, by Milton D. Purdy, the United States attorney for the district of Minnesota, acting under direction of the Attorney-General of the United States, and brings this its proceeding by way of petition against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation organized and 19728—02—1 [*17705*] In the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COM-plainant, } v. } NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY, THE } No. — Great Northern Railway Company, } The Northern Pacific Railway Company, } and others, defendants. } PETITION. [*17704*]2 existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, James J. Hill, a citizen of the State of Minnesota, and a resident of St. Paul, and William P. Clough, D. Willis James, John S. Kennedy, J. Pierpont Morgan, Robert Bacon, George F. Baker, and Daniel Lamont, citizens of the State of New York, and residents of New York City, and, on information and belief, complains and says: I. The defendants, the Northern Pacific Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company, were, at the times hereinafter mentioned, and now are, common carriers, employed in the transportation of freight and passengers among the several States of the United States and between such States and foreign nations, and, as such carriers so employed, were and are engaged in trade and commerce among the several States and with foreign nations. II. On and prior to the 13th day of November, 1901, the defendants, James J. Hill, William P. Clough, D. Willis James, and John S. Kennedy, and certain other persons whose names are unknown to the complainant, but whom it prays to have made parties to this action when ascertained (hereinafter referred to as James J. Hill and his associate stockholders),5 and existing under certain acts and resolutions of Congress. During that year the company became insolvent and the line was placed in the hands of receivers by the propter courts of the United States. While in this condition, awaiting foreclosure and sale, an arrangement was entered into between a majority of the bond-holders of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Company, for a virtual consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Systems and the placing of the practical control of the Northern Pacific System in the hands of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company. This arrangement contemplated the sale, under foreclosure, of the property and franchises of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to a committee of the bondholders, who should organize a new corporation to be known as the Northern Pacific Railway Company, which was to become the successor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; one-half of the capital stock of the new company was to be turned over to the shareholders of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, which in turn was to guarantee the payment of the bonds of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. An agreement was to be entered into for the exchange of traffic at intersecting and connecting points and for the division of earnings therefrom. The carrying out of this arrangement was defeated by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Pearsall v. The Great Northern Railway Company (which [*17707*] 3 owned or controlled a majority of the capital stock of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, and the defendants, J. Pierpont Morgan and Robert Bacon (members of and representing the banking firm of J.P. Morgan and Company, of New York City), George F. Baker and Daniel S. amont, and certain other persons whose names are unknown to the complainant, but whom it prays to have made parties to this action when ascertained (hereinafter referred to as J. Pierpont Morgan and his associate stockholders), owned or controlled a majority of the capital stock of the defendant, the Northern Pacific Railway Company. III. The Northern Pacific Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company, at and prior to the doing of the acts hereinafter complained of, owned or controlled and operated two separate, independent, parallel, and competing lines of railway running east and west into or across the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, the Northern Pacific system extending from Ashland, in the State of Wisconsin, and from Duluth and St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota, through Helena, in the State of Montana, and Spokane, in the State of Washington, to Seattle and Tacoma, in the State of Washington, and Portland, in the State of Oregon; and the Great Northern system extending from Superior, in the State of Wisconsin, and from Duluth and [*17706*]4 St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota, through Spokane, in the State of Washington, to Everett and Seattle, in the State of Washington, and to Portland, in the State of Oregon, with a branch line to Helena, in the State of Montana, thus furnishing to the public two parallel and competing transcontinental lines connecting the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River with Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. At the times mentioned, these two railway systems, which will hereafter be referred to respectively as the Northern Pacific System and the Great Northern System, each of which, with its leased and controlled lines, main and branch, aggregates over 5,500 miles in length, were the only transcontinental lines of railway extending across the northern tier of States west of the Great Lakes, from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and were then engaged in active competition with one another for freight and passenger traffic among the several States of the United States and between such States and foreign countries, each system connecting at its eastern terminals, not only with lines or railway, but with lake and river steamers to other States and to foreign countries, and at its western terminals with sea-going vessels to other States, Territories, and possessions of the United States and to foreign countries. IV. Prior to the year 1893, the Northern Pacific System was owned or controlled, and operated by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation organized 6 was decided March 30, 1896, and is reported in the one hundred and sixty-first volume of the reports of said court, beginning on page 646, to which reference is made) in which it was held that the practical effect would be the consolidation of two parallel and competing lines of railway, and the giving to the defendant, the Great Norther Railway Company, a monopoly of all traffic in the northern half of the State of Minnesota, as well as of all transcontinental traffic north of the line of the Union Pacific, to the detriment of the public and in violation of the laws of the State of Minnesota. V. Early in the year 1901, the defendants, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway companies, acting for the purpose of promoting their joint interests, and in contemplation of the ultimate placing of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Systems under a common source of control, united in the purchase of the total capital stock of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company, of Illinois, giving the joint bonds of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway companies, payable in twenty years from date, with interest at 4 per cent per annum, for such stock, at the rate of $200 in bonds in exchange for each $100 in stock, and in this manner purchased and acquired about $107,000,000 of the $112,000,000 total capital stock of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company, or about 98 per cent thereof. In this manner, at the time stated, the9 or attempt to monopolize the same, and to suppress the competition theretofore existing between said railway systems in said interstate and foreign trade or commerce, through the instrumentality and by the means following, to wit: A holding corporation, to be called the Northern Securities Company, was to be formed under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $400,000,000, to which, in exchange for its own capital stock upon a certain basis and at a certain rate, was to be turned over and transferred the capital stock, or a controlling interest in the capital stock, of each of the defendant railway companies, with power in the holding corporation to vote such stock and in all respects to act as the owner thereof, and to do whatever it might deem necessary to aid in any manner such railway companies or enhance the value of their stocks. In this manner, the individual stockholders of these two independent and competing railway companies were to be eliminated and a single common stockholder, the Northern Securities Company, was to be substituted; the interest of the individual stockholders in the property and franchises of the two railway companies was to terminate, being thus converted into an interest in the property and franchises of the Northern Securities Company. The individual stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railway Company were no longer to hold an interest in the property or draw their dividends from the earnings of the Northern Pacific system, and the individual stockholders of the Great Northern Railway Company. [*17709*] 7 defendants, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies, secured control of the vast system of railway lines known as the Burlington System, about 8,000 miles in length, extending from St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota, where it connects with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway Systems, through the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, to Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and from these two cities through said States and through the States of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana, to Quincy, in the State of Illinois; to Burlington and Des Moines, in the State of Iowa; to St. Louis, Kansas City, and St. Joseph, in the State of Missouri; to Omaha and Lincoln, in the State of Nebraska; to Denver, in the State of Colorado; to Cheyenne, in the State of Wyoming, and to Billings, in the State of Montana, where it again connects with the Northern Pacific Railway System, these States lying west of Chicago and south of the States crossed by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Systems, and constituting the territory occupied in part by what is known as the Union Pacific Railway system, which has been and is a parallel and competing system within said territory with the said Burlington system. VI. The attempt to turn over a controlling interest in the stock of the Northern Pacific Railway Company to the Great Northern Railway Company and thus effect a virtual consolidation of the two railway systems, having thus, in the year 1896, been defeated by a decision [*17708*]8 of the Supreme Court of the United States, the defendants James J. Hill, and his associate stockholders of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, owning or controlling a majority of the stock of that corporation, and the defendants J. Pierpont Morgan, and his associate stockholders of the defendant, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, owning or controlling a majority of the stock of that corporation, acting for themselves as such stockholders and on behalf of the said railway companies in which they owned or held a controlling interest, on and prior to the 13th day of November, 1901, contriving and intending unlawfully to restrain the trade or commerce among the several States and between said States and foreign countries carried on by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Systems, and contriving and intending unlawfully to monopolize or attempt to monopolize such trade or commerce, and contriving and intending unlawfully to restrain and prevent competition among said railway systems, in respect to such interstate and foreign trade or commerce, and contriving and intending unlawfully to deprive the public of the facilities and advantages in the carrying on of such interstate and foreign trade or commerce theretofore enjoyed through the independent competition of said railway systems, entered into an unlawful combination or conspiracy to effect a virtual consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Systems, and to place restraint upon all competitive interstate and foreign trade or commerce carried on by them, and to monopolize 10 were no longer to hold an interest in the property or draw their dividends from the earnings of the Great Northern System, but having ceased to be stockholders in the railway companies and having become stockholders in the holding corporation, both were to draw their dividends from the earnings of both systems, collected and distributed by the holding corporation. In this manner, by making the stockholders of each system jointly interested in both systems, and by practically pooling the earnings of both systems for the benefit of the former stockholders of each, and by vesting the selection of the directors and officers of each system in a common body, to wit, the holding corporation, with not only the power but the duty to pursue a policy which would promote the interests, not of one system at the expense of the other, but of both at the expense of the public, all inducement for competition between the two systems was to be removed, a virtual consolidation effected, and a monopoly of the interstate and foreign commerce formerly carried on by the two systems as independent competitors established. VII. In pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, and solely as an instrumentality through which to effect the purposes thereof, on the 13th day of November, 1901, the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, was organized under the general laws of the State of New Jersey, with its principal office in Hoboken, in said State, and with an authorized13 defendant railway companies, to issue and exchange it capital stock for the capital stock of such railway companies, upon the basis of exchange aforesaid, no other consideration being required. In further pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, has acquired an additional amount of the stock of the defendant railway companies, issuing in lieu thereof its own stock upon the basis of exchange aforesaid, and is now holding, as owner and proprietor, substantially all of the capital stock of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, and, as complainant believes and charges, a majority of the capital stock of the Great Northern Railway Company, but if not a majority, at least a controlling interest therein, and is voting the same and is collecting the dividends thereon, and in all respects is acting as the owner thereof in the organization, management, and operation of said railway companies, and in the receipt and control of their earnings, and will continue to do so, unless restrained by the order of this court. By reason whereof, a virtual consolidation under one ownership and source of control of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway Systems has been effected, a combination or conspiracy in restraint of the trade or commerce among the several States and with foreign nations formerly carried on by the defendant railway companies independently and in free competition one with the other has been formed and is in operation, and the defendants are thereby attempting to monopolize, and 17711 11 capital stock of $400,000,000. A copy of the articles of incorporation of such company is attached to and made a part of this petition. Among the purposes and powers designedly inserted in said articles, is the purpose and power, not only to "purchase" and "hold' "shares of the capital stock of the any other corporation or corporations," under which said company wrongfully claims and is exercising the power to acquire by exchange and hold the stock of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railway companies, but the purpose and power, while owner thereof, "to exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of ownership," that is, to vote such stock, collect the dividends thereon, and in all respects act as a stockholder of such railway companies; and the purpose and power "to aid in any manner any corporation * * * of which any bonds * * * or stock are held, * * * and to do any acts or things designed to protect, preserve, improve, or enhance the value of any such bonds * * * or stock," meaning thereby to do whatever it may deem necessary to aid in any manner the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railway companies, or to preserve or enhance the value of their stocks or bonds. VIII. In further pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, and solely as an instrumentality through which to effect the purposes thereof, on or about the 14th day of November, 1901, the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, was organized by the election of a board of directors and the selection of 1771912 a president and other officers, the defendant James J. Hill, the president and controlling power in the management of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, being chosen a director and president thereof; and thereupon, in further pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, the defendants James J. Hill and his associate stockholders of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, assigned and transferred to the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, a large amount of the capital stock of the Great Northern Railway Company, the exact amount being unknown to complainant, but constituting a controlling interest therein, and complainant believes a majority thereof, upon the agreed basis of exchange of $180, par value, of the capital stock of the said Northern Securities Company for each share of the capital stock of the Great Northern Railway Company; and the defendants J. Pierpont Morgan and his associate stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, assigned and transferred to the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, a large majority of the capital stock of the defendant, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the exact amount being unknown to complainant, upon the agreed basis of exchange of $115, par value, of the capital stock of the said Northern Securities Company for each share of the capital stock of the Northern Pacific Railway Company; and thereafter, in further pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, offered to the stockholders of the 14 have monopolized, such interstate and foreign trade or commerce, to the great and irreparable damage of the people of the United States, in derogation of their common rights, and in violation of the act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies." IX. If the defendant, the Northern Securities Company has not acquired a large majority of the capital stock of the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, it is because the individual defendants named, and their associates in the combination or conspiracy charge in this petition, or some of them, since it became apparent that the legality of their corporate device for the merger of the stock of competing railway companies through the instrumentality of a central or holding corporation, would be assailed in the courts, have purposely withheld, or caused to be withheld, a large amount of the capital stock of said railway company from transfer and exchange of the Northern Securities Company, and have purposely discouraged and prevented the transfer and exchange of such stock for the stock of the Northern Securities Company, all for the purpose of concealing the real scope and object of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, and of deceiving and misleading the State and Federal authorities, and of furnishing a ground for the defense that the Northern Securities Company does not hold a clear majority of the stock of the Great Northern Railway Company. The17 XII. If the Government fails to prevent the carrying out of the combination or conspiracy aforesaid, and the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, is permitted to receive and hold and act as owner of the stock of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway companies as aforesaid, not only will a virtual consolidation of two competing transcontinental lines, with the practical pooling of their earnings, be effected, and a monopoly of the interstate and foreign commerce formerly carried on by them as competitors be created, and all effective competition between such lines in the carrying of interstate and foreign traffic be destroyed, but thereafter, to all desiring to use it, and available method will be presented, whereby, through the corporate scheme or device aforesaid, the act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "And act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," may be circumvented and set at naught, and all transcontinental lines, indeed the entire railways systems of the country, may be absorbed, merged, and consolidated, thus placing the public at the absolute mercy of the holding corporation. XIII. In furtherance of the purpose and object of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid to monopolize or attempt to monopolize the trade or commerce among the several States, and between such States and foreign countries, formerly carried 19728—02——2 [*17713*] 15 complainant avers that such stock, so withheld or not transferred to the Northern Securities Company, is now in the hands of some person or persons (unknown to the complainant) friendly to and under the influence of the individual defendants named and their associates aforesaid, or some of them, and will either not be voted, or be voted in harmony with the Great Northern stock held by the Northern Securities Company, until the question of the legality of this corporate device for merging competing railway lines shall be finally and judicially determined, when such stock will either be turned over to the Northern Securities Company or continue to be held and voted outside said company but in harmony with the Great Northern stock held and voted by it, as may at the time seem advisable. X. In further pursuance of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid, the Northern Securities Company (subject, it may be, to the condition stated in the next preceding paragraph) is about to and will, unless restrained by the order of this court, receive and acquire, and hereafter hold and control as owner and proprietor, substantially all of the capital stock of the defendant railway companies, issuing in lieu thereof its own capital stock to the full extent of the authorized issue, of which, upon the basis of exchange aforesaid, the former stockholders of the Great Northern Railway Company have received or will receive and hold about 55 per cent thereof, the balance going to former stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railway Company [*17712*]16 XI. No consideration whatever has existed, or will exist, for the transfer as aforesaid of the stock of the defendant railway companies from their stockholders to the Northern Securities Company, other than the issue of the stock of the Northern Securities Company to them in exchange therefor, for the purpose, after the manner, and upon the basis aforesaid. The defendant, the Northern Securities Company, was not organized in good faith to purchase and pay for the stocks of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific Railway companies. It was organized solely to incorporate the pooling of the stocks of said companies and to carry into effect the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid. The Northern Securities Company is a mere depositary, custodian, holder, and trustee of the stocks of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific Railway companies, and its shares of stock are but beneficial certificates issued against said railroad stocks and to designate the interest of the holders in the pool. The Northern Securities Company does not have and never had any capital sufficient to warrant such a stupendous operation. Its subscribed capital was but $30,000, and its authorized capital stock of $400,000,000 is just sufficient, when all issued, to represent and cover the exchange value of substantially the entire stock of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies, upon the basis and at the rate agreed upon, which is about $122,000,000 in excess of the combined capital stock of the two railway companies taken at par. 18 on in free competition by the defendants, the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway companies, and to place a restraint thereon, the individual defendants named and their associate stockholders of the defendant railway companies, have combined or conspired with one another and with other persons (whose names are unknown to the complainant, but whom it prays to have made parties to this action when ascertained) to use and employ, in addition to the corporate scheme or device aforesaid, and in aid thereof, various other schemes, devices, and instrumentalities, the precise details of which are at present unknown to the complainant but will be laid before the court when ascertained, by means of which unless prevented by the order of this court, the object and purpose of the unlawful combination or conspiracy aforesaid may and will be accomplished. PRAYER. In consideration whereof, and inasmuch as adequate relief in the premises can only be obtained in this court, the United States of America prays your honors to order, adjudge, and decree that the combination or conspiracy hereinbefore described is unlawful, and that all acts done or to be done in carrying it out are in derogation of the common rights of all the people of the United States and in violation of the act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," and that the defendants and each and every one of them, and their officers, directors, stockholders, agents,21. therefor the stock of the defendant railway company in exchange for which the same was issued. Fifth. That the individual defendants named, and their associate stockholders, and each and every person combining or conspiring with them, as charged in Paragraph XIII hereof, and their trustees, agents, and assigns, present or future, and each and every one of them, be perpetually enjoined from doing any and every act or thing mentioned in said paragraph, or in furtherance of the combination or conspiracy described therein, or intended or tending to place the capital stock of the defendant railway companies, or the competitive interstate or foreign trade or commerce carried on by them, under the control, legal or practical, of the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, or of any person or persons, or association or corporation, acting for or in lieu of said company, in the carrying out of the unlawful combination or conspiracy described in said paragraph. The United States prays for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require and the court may deem proper in the premises. To the end, therefore, that the United States of America may obtain the relief to which it is justly entitled in the premises, may it please your honors to grant unto it writs of subpœna directed to the said defendants, the Northern Securities Company, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, James J. Hill, William P. Clough, D. WIllis James, and John S. Kennedy, and 17715 19 and servants, and each and every one of them, be perpetually enjoined from doing any act in pursuance of or for the purpose of carrying out the same, and, in addition, that the several defendants be respectively enjoined as follows: First. That the defendant, the Northern Securities Company, its stockholders, officer, directors, executive committee, and its agents and servants, and each and every one of them, be perpetually enjoined from purchasing, acquiring, receiving, holding, voting (whether by proxy or otherwise), or in any manner acting as the owner of any of the shares of the capital stock of either the Northern Pacific Railway Company or the Great Northern Railway Company; and that a mandatory injunction may issue requiring the Northern Securities Company to recall and cancel any certificates of stock issued by it in purchase of or in exchange for any of the shares of the capital stock of either of said railways companies, surrendering in return therefor to the holders thereof the certificates of stock in the respective railway companies in lieu of which they were issued. Second. That the defendant, The Northern Pacific Railway Company, its stockholders, officers, directors, agents, and servants, and each and every one of them, be perpetually enjoined from in any manner recognizing or accepting the Northern Securities Company as the owner or holder of any shares of its capital stock, and from permitting such company to vote such stock, whether by proxy or otherwise, and from paying any dividends upon such stock to said company 1771420 or its assigns, unless authorized by this court, and from recognizing as valid any transfer, mortgage, pledge, or assignment by such company of such stock, unless authorized by this court. Third. That the defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, its stockholders, offices, directors, agents, and servants, and each and every one of them, be perpetually enjoined from in any manner recognizing or accepting the Northern Securities Company as the owner or holder of any shares of its capital stock, and from permitted suchh company to vote such stock, whether by proxy or otherwise, and from paying any dividends upon such stock to said company or its assigns, unless authorized by this court, and from recognizing as valid any transfer, mortgage, pledge, or assignment by such stock unless authorized by this court. Fourth. That the individual defendants named, and their associate stockholders, and each and every stockholder of either of said railway companies who has exchanged his stock therein fort the stock of the Northern Securities Company, be each, respectively, perpetually enjoined from in any manner holding, voting, or acting as the owner of any manner holding, voting, or acting as the owner of any of the stock of the Northern Securities Company, issued in exchange for the stock of either of the said railway companies, unless authorized by this court; and that a mandatory injunction may issue requiring each of the said defendants to surrender any stock of the Northern Securities Company so acquired and held by him, and accept 22 their associate stockholders of the Great Northern Railway Company, as their names may become known to complainant and the court be advised thereof, J. Pierpont Morgan, Robert Bacon, George F. Baker, and Daniel S. Lamont, and their associate stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, as their names may become known to complainant and the court be advised thereof, and the persons referred to in Paragraph XIII hereof, as their names may become known to complainant and the court be advised thereof, and to each of them, commanding them, and each of them, to appear herein and answer (but not under oath) the allegations contained in the foregoing petition, and abide by and perform such order or decree as the court may make in the premises; and that, pending the final hearing of this case, a temporary restraining order may issue enjoining the defendants and their associates, and each of them, and their stockholders, directors, officers, agents, and servants as hereinbefore prayed. MILTON D. PURDY, Attorney of the United States for the District of Minnesota. PHILANDER C. KNOX, Attorney-General of the United States. JOHN K. RICHARDS, Solicitor-General of the United States.25 value of one hundred dollars ($100) each. The amount of the capital stock with which the corporation will commence business is thirty thousand dollars. Fifth. The names and post-office addresses of the incorporators, and the number of shares of stock subscribed for by each (the aggregate of such subscriptions being the amount of capital stock with which this company will commence business), are as follows: Name and post-office address. Number of Shares George F. Baker, jr., 258 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. 100 Abram M. Hyatt, 214 Allen avenue, Allenhurst, New Jersey 100 Richard Trimble, 53 East Twenty-fifth street, New York, New York 100 Sixth. The duration of the corporation shall be perpetual. Seventh. The number of directors of the corporation shall be fixed from time to time by the by-laws; but the number if fixed at more than three, shall be some multiple of three. The directors shall be classified with respect to the time for which they shall severally hold office by dividing them into three classes, each consisting of one-third of the whole number of he board of directors. The directors of the first class shall be elected for a term of one year; the directors of the second class for a term of two years; and the directors of the third class for a term of three years; and at each annual election the successors to the class of directors whose term shall expire in that year shall be elected to hold office for the term of three years, so that the term of office of one class of directors shall expire in each year. [*17717*] CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY. ____________ STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ss: We, the undersigned, in order to form a corporation for the purposes hereinafter stated, under and pursuant to the provisions of the act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "An act concerning corporations" (Revision of 1896), and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, do hereby certify as follows: First. The name of the corporation is Northern Securities Company. Second. The location of its principal office in the State of New Jersey is at No. 51 Newark street, in the city of Hoboken, county of Hudson. The name of the agent therein, and in charge thereof, upon whom process against the corporation may be served, is Hudson Trust Company. Such office is to be the registered office of the corporation. Third. The objects for which the corporation is formed are: (1) To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to hold as investment, any bonds or other securities or evidences of indebtedness, or any shares of capital stock created or issued by any other corporation or corporations, association or associations, of the State of New Jersey, or of any other State, Territory or country. (2) To purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, any bonds or 23 [*17716*]24 other securities or evidences of indebtedness created or issued by any other corporation or corporations, association or associations, of the State of New Jersey, or of any other State, Territory, or country, and while owner thereof to exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of ownership. (3) To purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of shares of the capital stock of any other corporation or corporations, association or associations, of the State of New Jersey, or any other State, Territory or country, and, while owner of such stock to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon. (4) To aid in any manner any corporation or association of which any bonds, or other securities or evidences of indebtedness or stock are held by the corporation; and to do any acts or things designed to protect, preserve, improve, or enhance the value of any such bonds or other securities or evidences of indebtedness or stock. (5) To acquire, own and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the transaction of its business. The business or purpose of the corporation is from time to time to do any one or more of the acts and things herein set forth. The corporation shall have power to conduct its business in other States and in foreign countries, and to have one or more offices out of this State, and to hold, purchase, mortgage, and convey real and personal property out of this State. Fourth. The total authorized capital stock of the corporation is four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000), divided into four million (4,000,000) shares of the par 26 In case of any increase of the number of the directors the additional directors shall be elected as may be provided in the by-laws, by the directors or by the stockholders at an annual or special meeting, and one- third of their number shall be elected for the then unexpired portion of the term of the directors of the first class, one-third of their number for the unexpired portion of the term of the directors of the second class, and one-third of their number for the unexpired portion of the term of the directors of the third class, so that each class of directors shall be increased equally. In case of any vacancy in any class of directors through death, resignation, disqualification or other cause, the remaining directors, by affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors, may elect a successor to hold office for the unexpired portion of the term of the director whose place shall be vacant, and until the election of a successor. The board of directors shall have power to hold their meetings outside the State of New Jersey at such places as from time to time may be designated by the by-laws, or by resolution of the board. The by-laws may prescribe the number of directors necessary to constitute a quorum of the board of directors, which number may be less than a majority of the whole number of the directors. As authorized by the act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey passed March 22, 1901, amending the 17th section of the act concerning corporations (Revision of 1896), any action which therefore required the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the stock at any meeting after notice to them given, or required their consent in writing to be filed, may be taken upon the consent of, and the consent given and29 STATE OF NEW YORK, County of New York, Manhattan, ss: Be it remembered, that on this twelfth day of November, 1901, before the undersigned, personally appeared George F. Baker, junior, Abram M. Hyatt, Richard Trimble, who, I am satisfied, are the persons named in and who executed the foregoing certificate; and I, having first made known to them, and to each of them, the contents thereof, they did each acknowledge that they signed, sealed and delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed. GEO. HOLMES, Master in Chancery of New Jersey. (Endorsed.) "Received in the Hudson Co., N.J., clerk's office, Nov. 15, A.D. 1901, and recorded in the clerk's record No. ------, on page -------. "MAURICE J. STACK, Clerk." "Filed Nov. 13, 1901. "GEORGE WURTS, Secretary of State." 27 filed by, the holders of two-thirds of the stock of each class represented at such meeting in person or by proxy. Any officer elected or appointed by the board of directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole board of directors. Any other officer or employee of the corporation may be removed at any time by vote of the board of directors, or by any committee or superior officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the by- laws, or by vote of the board of directors. The board of directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole board, may appoint from the directors an executive committee, of which a majority shall constitute a quorum; and to such extent as shall be provided in the by-laws, such committee shall have and may exercise all of any of the powers of board of directors, including power to cause the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it. The board of directors may appoint one or more vice-presidents, one or more assistant treasurers, and one or more assistant secretaries; and, to the extent provided in the by-laws, the persons so appointed respectively shall have and may exercise all the powers of the president, of the treasurer, and of the secretary, respectively. The board of directors shall have power from time to time to fix and determine and to vary the amount of the working capital of the corporation; to determine whether any, and, if any, what part of any accumulated profits shall be declared in dividends and paid to the stockholders; to determine the time or times for the declaration and the payment of dividends; and to direct and to determine the use and disposition of any surplus or net profits over and above the capital stock [*17718*]28 paid in; and in its discretion the board of directors may use and apply any such surplus or accumulated profits in purchasing or acquiring its bonds or other obligations, or shares of the capital stock of the corporation, to such extent and in such manner and upon such terms as the board of directors shall deem expedient; but shares of such capital stock so purchased or acquired may be resold, unless such shares shall have been retired for the purpose of decreasing the capital stock of the corporation to the extend authorized by law. The board of directors from time to time shall determine whether and to what extent, and at what times and places, and under what conditions and regulations, the accounts and books of the corporation, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders, and no stockholder shall have any right to inspect any account or book or document of the corporation, except as conferred by statute of the State of New Jersey, or authorized by the board of directors or by a resolution of the stockholders. The board of directors may make by-laws, and, from time to time, may alter, amend or repeal any by-laws; but any by-laws made by the board of directors may be altered or repealed by the stockholders at any annual meeting or at any special meeting, provided notice of such proposed alteration or repeal be included in the notice of the meeting. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the twelfth day of November, 1901. GEO. F. BAKER. JR. (L. S.) ABRAM M. HYATT. (L. S.) RICHARD TRIMBLE (L. S.) Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of---- GEO. HOLMES.Philip B. Stewart Tells of President Roosevelt ______ Philip B. Stewart returned this morning, after an absence of some days in the east. "It is true," said Mr. Stewart, "that while east I say President Roosevelt, and was enabled to see how he is taking up the great load which has fallen upon his shoulders. My visit with him was to a considerable extent social, although political matters were discussed. "The position to which Mr. Roosevelt has fallen heir is one of overwhelming labor. Decisions on things great and things small are forced upon him with a rapidity which calls for intense concentration of energy, far beyond the working hours of other men. He has entered on his duties with the same high courage and high purposes that the people have learned to expect in him, and can be confidently counted on to administer the affairs of government in great things and in lesser things with disinterested regard for the best interests of all the people of the country. "This section can rest assured that they have a warm friend in the president. He appreciates keenly the needs of the western states, and, while he is equally the president of the more populous sections, it is the fact that he takes an aggressive interest in whatever can be accomplished, toward assisting us to help ourselves. The present still speaks with the warmest enthusiasm of the hospitality and cordiality shown him by the people of this city and of the state at the time of the Quarto-Centennial. His visit here gave him genuine enjoyment, and I think he feels that it was, in a way, providential that he should have so recently been in touch with so many of the sections west of the Mississippi river, as it has given him a fresh knowledge of their needs and their lines of growth." [*17721*] REORGANIZATION. The chairman of the Republican state central committee, Hon. Charles D. Ford, has sent out a circular letter calling attention to the fact that the last legislature passed a law providing for the formulation by each political party of a system of rules to govern its primary meetings and its general organization. The letter announces the appointment of a preliminary committee of thirteen, one from each judicial district in the state, to meet and formulate a report embodying a system of rules for the government of the Republican party henceforth. The committee consists of the following members: District No. 1 - S.V. Newell, Central City. No. 2 - E.M. Cranston, Denver. No. 3 - Jesse Northcutt, Trinidad. No. 4 - P.B. Stewart, Colorado Springs. No. 5 - Jesse McDonald, Leadville. No. 6 - T.C. Graden, Durango. No. 7 - H.T. DeLong, Grand Junction. No. 8 - S.S. Downer, Boulder. No. 9 - W.S. Parkison, Glenwood Sp'gs. No. 10 - I.W. Stanton, Pueblo. No. 11 - J.H. Peabody, Canon City. No. 12 - C.C. Holbrook, Alamosa. No. 13 - E.W. Clark, Akron. Of this committee Mr. Philip B. Stewart of this city is chairman, and the committee will meet at a time and place to be designated by him. The Denver News, in commenting editorially in its news columns on the committee, speaks of it as a machine committee, whose decisions will be acceptable to "the powers that be." It is true that most of the members of it are well-known men - for instance, Judge Northcutt of Trinidad, Judge Downer of Boulder, Mr. Stanton of Pueblo, and Mr. Cranston of Denver; but they are men who are much more concerned with the welfare of the party at large than with the political ambitions of any particular leader. But aside from this fact, the appointment of Mr. Stewart as chairman of the committee is in itself sufficient evidence that the reorganization is to be made in absolute good faith, and that the committee that has been appointed will be expected to formulate rules for the government of the party that will be the fairest and most equitable possible, without special regard to the personal interests of any one man or set of men in the party. We are glad to be able to note that the last legislature did pass one law that may tend to the good of the state. So long as our government is [*17720*]Maps on this order too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed clockwise beginning in the upper left hand corner, left ot right and top to bottom as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method. 1 | 2 1 1 | 2 | 3 ----- ---- 4 | 5 | 6 3 | 4 2 7 | 8 | 9[*A report on this with more follows next week Z.*] Linienschiff Wittelsbach Deutschlands Seemac[?] I. Linienschiffe. Z RECEIVED. NOV 13 1901. X. Auflage. Dreizehntes Hunderttausend. III. Grosse [?] Baujahr Panzerum Grösse Besatzung Dampfstrecke in Tonnen in Seemellen Sachsenklasse. 1. [Bayern (K. Werft, Kiel) 1874 7400 440 3000 2. [Sachsen (Vulkan, Stettin) 1875 " " " 3. [Württemberg (Vulkan, Stettin) 1876 " " " 4. [Baden (K. Werft, Kiel) " " " " 5. [Oldenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) 1883 5200 390 1500 Brandenburghklasse. 6. Brandenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) 1890 10 000 570 4500 7. Kurf. Fr. Wilhelm (K. Werft, Kiel) " " " " 8. Weissenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) " " " " 9. Wörth (Germania, Kiel) " " " " Kaiserklasse. 10. K. Friedrich III. (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) 1894 11 000 650 5000 11. K. Wilhelm II. (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) 1896 " " " 12. K. Wilhelm d. Gr. (Germania, Fiel) 1897 " " " 13. K. Barbarossa (Schichau, Danzig) 1898 " " " 14. K. Karl d. Gr. (Blohm & Voss, Hamburg) " " " " Wittelsbachklasse. 15. Wittelsbach (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven( [fertig 1902] 1899 11 700 650 6000 16. Wettin (Schichau, Danzig) [fertig 1902] " " " " 17. Zahringen (Germania, Kiel) [fertig 1902]. " " " " 18. F (Valkan, Stettia) [fertig Anfang 1903] 1900 " " " 19. Schwaben (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) [fertig Herbst 1903] " " " " [?] Bau 20. H (Germania, Kiel) [fertig 1904]. 1901 13000 650 7000 III. Grosse [?] 1. [König Wilhelm (London) 2. [Kaiser (London) 3. [Deutschland (London) 4. Kaiserin Augusta [G]ermania, Kiel) 5. Hertha (Vulkan, Stettin) 6. Viktoria Luise (Weser, Bre[me]n) 7. Freya (K. Werft, Danzig) 8. Hansa (Vulkan, Stettin) 9. Vineta (K. Werft, Danzig) 10. Fürst Bismarck (K. W[erft]t, Kiel) 11. Prinz Heinrich (K. Wer[ft]. Kiel) Im Bau: 12. Prinz Adalbert (K. [Wer]ft, Kiel) [*[fertig 1905]*] 13. Ers. Kg. Wilhelm. lohm & Voss) [*[fertig]*] IV. Klei[n?] Baujahr Panzerung [Gr]össe Besatzung D[?] str[?] See D[ampf]str[ecke] in [T]onnen See[mellen] 1. [Zieten .... 1875 1000 120 2[?] 2. [Blitz .... 1881 1400 140 2[?] 3. [Pfeil .... " " " 4. [Arcona .... 1882 2400 270 3[?] 5. [Alexandrine .... " " " [?] 6. [Greit .... 1885 2000 170 3[?] [*?eport ?? this with more*] Deutschlands Seemacht. [*? N??AL ?NTE???GENCE, Z RECEIVED. NOV 13 1901*] X. Auflage. Linienschiffe. Dreizehntes III. Grosse Kreuzer. Hunderttausend Linienschiff Wittelsbach. Länge 120 m, Breite 20 3/4 m. a. 2 Panzertürme mit je 2 24 cm-Riesenkanonen jede 10 m lang. b. Panzerdeck 7 1/2 cm dick. c. Gepanzerte Stände für die 15 cm-Geschütze d. Seitenpanzer 22 1/2 cm dick 2 m hoch. e. Kohlenbunker. Panzerung Grösse Besatzung Dampfstrecke in Tonnen in Seemeilen 7400 440 3000 " " " " " " " " " 5200 390 1500 10000 570 4500 " " " " " " " " " 11000 650 5000 " " " " " " " " " " " " 11700 650 6000 " " " " " " " " " " " " 13000 650 7000 Baujahr Panzerung Grössse Besatzung Damfstrecke in Tonnen in Seemilen 1. [König Wilhelm (London) 1866 | | 9800 730 2000 2. [Kaiser (London) 1872 | | 7700 650 2500 3. [Deutschland (London) " | | " " " 4. Kaiserin Augusta (Germania, Kiel) 1890 ⁀ 6000 440 4000 5. Hertha (Vulkan, Stettin) 1895 ⁀ 5600 460 5500 6. Viktoria Luise (Weser, Bremen) " ⁀ " " " 7. Freya (K. Werft, Danzig) " ⁀ " " " 8. Hansa (Vulkan, Stettin) 1896 ⁀ 5900 " " 9. Vineta (K. Werft, Danzig) " ⁀ " " " 10. Fürst Bismarck (K. Werft, Kiel) 1896 |⁀| 10600 570 6500 11. Prinz Heinrich (K. Werft, Kiel) 1898 |⁀| 8900 540 8000 [Im Ball:] 12. Prinz Adalbert (K. Werft, Kiel) [fertig 1903] 1900 |⁀| 9000 " " 13. Ers. Kg. Wilhelm [?ohm & Voss) [fertig 1904] 1901 |⁀| " " " IV. Kleine Kreuzer. Baujahr Panzerung Grösse Besatzung Dampfstrecke in Tonnen in Seemeilen 1. [Zieten 1875 1000 120 2000 2. [Blitz 1881 1400 140 2500 3. [Pfeil " " " " 4. [Arcona 1882 2400 270 3500 5. [Alexandrine " " " " 6. [Greit 1885 2000 170 3500 16. [Condor 1891 1600 160 3500 17. [Geier 1893 " " 4500 18. Meteor 1888 ⁀ 900 120 1000 19. Komet 1890 ⁀ " " " 20. Gefion 1892 ⁀ 4100 300 6500 Anmeldungen zum deutschen Flottenverein sind zu richten an den Ortsausschuss oder an die Präsidialgeschäftsstelle, Berlin5. [Oldenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) . . . . . . . . . 1883 ~ 5200 390 1500 5. Hertna (Vulkan, Stettin) . . . . . . . . [*Brandenburgklasse.*] 6. Viktoria Luise (Weser, Bret n) . . . . 6. Brandenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) . . . . 1890 ~ 10000 570 4500 7. Freya (K. Werft, Danzig) . . . . . . 7. Kurf. Fr. Wilhelm (K. Werft, Kiel) " ~ " " " 8. Hansa (Vulkan, Stettin) . . . . . . . . . 8. Weissenburg (Vulkan, Stettin) . . . . " ~ " " " 9. Vineta (K. Werft, Danzig) . . . . . . 9. Wörth (Germania, Kiel) . . . . . . . . . . " ~ " " " 10. Fürst Bismark (K. Werft, Kiel) . . . . [*Kaiserklasse.*] 10. K. Friedrich III. (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) 1894 ~ 11000 650 5000 11. Prinz Heinrich (K. Werft, Kiel) . . . . 11. K. Wilhelm II. (K Werft, Wilhelmshaven) . 1896 ~ " " " 12. Prinz Adalbert (K. Werft, Kiel) [fertig 1903] 12. K. Wilhelm d. Gr. (Germania, Fiel) . 1897 ~ " " " 13. Ers. Kg. Wilhelm ([???ohm] & Voss) [fertig ?] 13. K. Barbarossa (Schichau, Danzig) . . . 1898 ~ " " " [* Im Bau:] IV. [Klei?] 14. K. Karl d. Gr. (Blohm & Voss, Hamburg . . " ~ " " " Baujahr Panzerung Grösse Besatzung [Da????] in Konnen [stre????] [*Im Bau Wittelsbachklausse*] [See????] 15. Wittelsbach (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) [fertig 1902]. 1899  11700 650 6000 1. [Zieten . . . . 1875 10000 120 [2??] 16. Wettin (Schichau, Danzig) [fertig 1902] . . . . . " ~ " " " 2. [Blitz . . . . . 1881 14000 140 [2??] 17. Zähringen (Germania, Kiel) [fertig 1902] . . . " ~ " " " 3. [Pfeil . . . . . " " " 18. F (Vulkan, Stettin) [fertig Anfang 1902] . . . . . . 1900 ~ " " " 4. [Arcona . . . . 1882 2400 270 [3??] 19. Schaben (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) [fertig Herbst 1902] " ~ " " " 5. [Alexandrine . . " " " 20. H (Germania, Kiel) [fertig 1904] . . . . . . . . . . 1901 ~ 13000 650 7000 6. [Greit . . . . . 1885 2000 170 [3??] 7. Irene . . . . . 1886 ⌒ 4400 370 [3??] 21. J (Schichau, Danzig) [fertig 1904] . . . . . . . . . " ~ " " " 8. Przss. Wilhelm " ⌒ " " II. Küstenpanzerschiffe. 9. Jagd . . . . . 1887 ⌒ 1300 140 [2??] 10. [Schwalbe . . . 1886 [?1000] 170 [3??] 1. Siegfried (Germania, Kiel) . . . . . . . . . . 1888 ~ 3500 280 1500 11. [Sperber . . . 1887 " " 2. Beowulf (Weser, Bremen) [im Umbau, fertig 1902] . . . . 1890 ~ " " 12. [Bussard . . . . 1888 1600 160 [3??] 13. [Falke . . . . . 1890 " " 3. Frithjof (Weser, Bremen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " ~ " " " 14. [Seeadler . . . " " " 4. Hildebrand (K. Werft, Kiel) [im Umbau, fertig 1902] . . . . " ~ " " 15. [Cormoran . . . " " " 5. Heimdall (K. Werft, Wilhelmshaven) [im Umbau, fertig 1902] .... 1891 ~ " " [Zeiche?] 6. Hagen (K. Werft, Kiel) [umgebaut 1900] . . . . . . . " ~ 4100 " 3500 Baujahr = Beginn des Baues. Bis zum Stapeliauf: knapp 1 Jahr. Zuto weiteren Ausbau sind in Deutschand ⌒ = [Panzen?] erforderlich: für Linienschiffe ca. 2, für kleinere Schiffe ca 1 — 1 1/2 Jahre. Dazu kommt ca. 1/2 Jahr für Probefahrten ~ = [Panzen?] 7. Ägir (K. Werft, Kiel) . . . . . . . 1892 ~ 3500 280 2000 u. s. w., sodass ein Linieuschiff in Deutschland in 3 1/2—4 Jahren verwendungsbereit ist. ~ = [Panzen?] Altersgrenze. Als nicht mehr dienstbrauchbar gelten 8. Odin (K. Werft, Danzig) . . . . . . . 1893 ~ " " " nach dem Flottengesetz von 1900 und ersetzt werden: Linieschiffe nach 25 Jahren. Kreuzer nach 20 Jahren. ~ = [Panzen?] 17722 17723 6. Viktoria Luise (Weser, Bremen) |"|Panzerdeck.|"|"|" 7. Freya (K. Werft, Danzig) |"|Panzerdeck.|"|"|" 8. Hansa (Vulkan, Stettin) |1896|Panzerdeck.|5900|"|" 9. Vineta (K. Werft, Danzig) |"|Panzerdeck.|"|"|" 10. Fürst Bismarck (K. Werft, Kiel)|1896|Panzerdeck und Seitnpanzer, veraltet|10600|570|6500 11. Prinz Heinrich (K. Werft, Kiel) |1898|Panzerdeck und Seitnpanzer, veraltet|8900|540|8000 12. Prinz Adalbert (K. Werft, Kiel) [fertig 1903] |1900|Panzerdeck und Seitnpanzer, veraltet|9000|"|" 13. Ers. Kg. Wilhelm (Blohm & Voss) [fertig 1904] |1901|Panzerdeck und Seitnpanzer, veraltet|"|"|" IV. Kleine Kreuzer. | Baujahr|Panzerung|Grösse in Tonnen|Besatzung|Dampf-strecke in Seemeilen | 1. [Zieten |1875 | |1000 |120 |2000 | 2. [Blitz |1881 | |1400 |140 |2500 | 3. [Pfeil |" | |" |" |" | 4. [Arcona |1882 | |2400 |270 |3500| 5.[Alexandrine |" | |" |" |" | 6. [Greit |1885 | |4000 |17 0 |3500 | 7. Irene |1886 |Panzerdeck|4400 |370 |3000 | 8. Przss. Wilhelm |" |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 9. Jagd |1887 |Panzerdeck|1300 |140 |2800 | 10. [Schwalbe|1886| |1100 |120 |4800 | 11. [Sperber |1887 | |" |" |" | 12. [Bussard |1888 | |1600 |160 |3500 | 13. [Falke |1890 | |" |" |" | 14. [Seeadler|" | |" |" |" | 15.[Cormoran |" | |" |" |" | 16. [Condor |1891 | |1600|160 |3500 | 17. [Geier |1893 | |" |" |4500 | 18. Meteor |1888 |Panzerdeck|900 |120 |1000 | 19. Komet |1890 |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 20. Gefion |1892 |Panzerdeck|4100 |300 |6500 | 21. Hela |1893 |Panzerdeck|2000 |180 |3500 | 22. Gazelle |1897 |Panzerdeck|2600 |210 |5000 | 23. Niobe |1898 |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 24. Nymphe |" |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 25. Thetis |1899 |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 26. Ariadne |" |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 27. Amazone |" |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | 28. Medusa |1900 |Panzerdeck|" |" |" | Im Bau 3 weitere kleine Kreuzer vom Gazelle-Typus. Baujahr = Beginn des Baues, Bis zum Stapellauf: knapp 1 Jahr. Zum weiteren Ausbau sind in Deutschland erforderlich: für Linienschiffe ca. 2, für kleinere Schiffe ca. 1--1 1/2 Jahre. Dazu kommt ca. 1/2 Jahr für Probefahrten u. s . w., sodass ein Linienschiff in Deutschland in 3 1/2 --4 Jahren verwendungsbereit ist. Altersgrenze. Als nicht mehr dienstbrauchbar gelten nach dem Flottengesetz von 1900 und ersetzt werden: Linienschiffe nach 25 Jahren. Kreuzer nach 20 Jahren. 17723 Zeichenerklärung [arch] = Panzerdeck. [veraltet oder zum Dienst in der Schlachtflotte ungeeignete Stationskreuzer. [arch between two thin lines] = Panzerdeck und Seitenpanzer, veraltet [brace] Eisen u. s. w. [thick arch between two thick lines] = Panzerdeck und leichter Seitenpanzer [thick arch between one thick line and one thicker line] = Panzerdeck und schwerer Seitenpanzer [brace] modern. Nickelstahl. 1 Tonne = 1000 kg = 20 Zentner. Zahl der Tonnen = Menge des verdrängten Wassers = Gewicht des Schiffes. Die Dampfstrecke (= Aktionsradius) richtet sich naturgemäss nach der Grösse der Kohenräume. 1 Seemeile = 1 Knoten = 1852 m (Fahrt in einer Stunde), also annähernd 2 km (vgl. Abschnitt XI).V. Panzerkanonenboote. Panzerung | Größe in Tonnen | Besatzung | Dampfstrecke in Seemeilen | Schwere Artillerie cm 1. Wespe .... | |⁀| | 1100 | 90 | 700 | 30,5 Ebenso: 2. [ Viper | 6. [ Basilisk | 9. [ Salamander 3. [ Biene | 7. [ Camäleon | 10. [ Natter 4. [ Mücke | 8. [ Krokodil | 11. [ Hummel 5. [ Skorpion | Ähnlich: [12. Brummer, [13. Bremse. Tiefgang nur 3 1/2 Meter. - Erbaut zum Schutz leichter Küsten= gewässer. - Die Baujahre sind 1875-1883.- Die Boote tragen nur eine große Kanone, dazu etwas leichte Artillerie zum Schutz gegen Torpedoboote. Gefechtswert äußerst gering; sie werden aufgebraucht. VI. Kanonenboote. ______________________________________________________________________________________ | Baujahr | Größe Tonnen | Besatzung | Dampfstr. Seemeilen ______________________________________________________________________________________ 1. [Habicht ............. | 1878 | 800 | 130 | 2000 2. Iltis, 3. Jaguar .. | 1897 | 900 | 120 | 3500 4. Tiger, 5. Luchs..... | 1898 | ,, | ,, | ,, 6. Panther .......... . | 1900 | 970 | 127 | ,, VII. Schulschiffe ______________________________________________________________________________________ | Größe. Tonnen | | Größe. Tonnen ______________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Moltke, 2. Stosch, 3. Stein | 2900 | 8. Charlotte....| 3200 4. Olga, 5. Marie..................... | 2200 | 9. Mars...........| 3300 6. Sophie................................. | 2200 | 10. Karola.......| 2200 6. Nixe..................................... | 1800 | 11. Blücher....| 2900 1. bis 8. Kadetten= und Schiffsjungenschiffe, 9. und 10. Artillerieschulschiffe, 11. Torpedoschulschiff. -- Sämtlich ohne Gefechtswert; keine Panzerung u. s. w. -- Baujahre 1875 -- 1883. VIII. Schiffe zu besonderen Zwecken _______________________________________________________________________________________ I Baujahr I Größe. Tonnen I _______________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Hohenzollern | 1891 | 4200 | Kaiserl. Jacht (i.Kriege guter kl. Kreuzer) 2. Kaiseradler | 1875 | 1700 | Raddampfer, frühere Kaiserliche Jacht 3. Hyäne | 1876 | 500 | Vermessungsfahrzeug Nordsee 4. Wolf | ,, | ,, | Vermessungsfahrzeug Westafrika 5. Möwe | 1878 | 800 | Vermessungsfahrzeug Südsee 6. Loreley | 1884 | 500 | Stationsjacht Konstantinopel 7. Pelikan | 1889 | 2400 | Transportschiff IX. Torpedoboote. 10 Torpedodivisionsboote....... 300-500 Tonnen, 45 Mann. 80 Torpedoboote.............. 90-180 " 16-25 Mann. 24 Doppelschraubentorpedoboote 350 " 52 Mann. 1 Torpedobootsdivision besteht aus 1 Divisionsboot und 6 kleineren Booten oder aus 5 Divisionsbooten. In Deutschland werden künftig nur noch Doppelschraubenboote gebaut. Unter den Torpedobooten befindet sich eine große Anzahl von Booten, die nur für Schul= und ähnliche Zwecke verwendbar sind. _______________________________________________________________________________________ X. Bemerkungen. Linienschiffe. ,,Linienschiffe müssen den Kern der Flotte bilden. ,,Sie sind es, die dem Ganzen das Rückgrat geben" Dieses Urteil des Admirals von Tirpitz wird jetzt von der ganzen Welt anerkannt. Schlagend hat dies der Spanisch=Amerikanische Krieg bewiesen. Die Amerikaner hatten 5 Schlachtschiffe, die Spanier nur Panzerkreuzer; nicht einmal zum Fliehen kam diesen ihre größere Schnelligkeit zu gute! - Die deutschen Linienschiffe haben sich auch thatsächlich in allen Breitengraden bewährt. So unsere 4 Schiffe der Brandenburgklasse in China. Das deutsche Flottengesetzt von 1900 erklärt 4 Geschwader zu je 8 Linienschiffen für notwendig, dazu 2 Admiralschiffe und 4 weitere Linienschiffe als Materialreserve. Sa. 38. Auf diesen Bestand werden einstweilen die veralteten Linienschiffe 1-5 und die 8 kleinen Küstenpanzer angerechnet. Nach dem Flottengesetzt von 1900 sollen diese 13 Schiffe vom Jahre 1908 an, sobald die 11 Vermehrungsbauten fertig und (vgl. Tabelle XX), der Reihe nach durch vollwertige Linienschiffe ersetzt werden. Kleine Kreuzer Ein Teil soll den Aufklärungsdienst für die Schlachtflotte besorgen. Andere sind als Stationsschiffe auf unsere Kolonieen und fremde Länder verteilt, um den Deutschen in Friedenszeiten überall Schutz und Beistand zu verbürgen. Torpedoboote. Die Torpedowaffe hat man früher Jahre lang weit überschätzt. (Ähnlich geht es heute wohl mit dem Unterseeboote.) Das war der Grund, warum in den 14 Jahren von 1876-1890 in Deutschland kein einziges großes Linienschiff in Bau gegeben worden ist. Wir glaubten mit billigen Torpedobooten durchzukommen. Durch gespannte Aufmerksamkeit, elektrische Scheinwerfer u.s.w. wird man aber eine Überraschung durch Torpedoboote meist verhindern können. Wittelsbach z.B. kann mit einer Breitseite etwa 800 starke Schüsse in der Minute abgeben, und die Wände der Torpedoboote sind gegen Granatfeuer völlig ungeschützt. Schließlich muß bei einem modernen Linienschiff der Torpedo bei seiner Explosion eine vierfache Außenhaut, deren einzelne Teile in Abständen von etwa einem Meter angeordnet sind, durchschlagen, ehe eine der großen Abteilungen des Schiffes leck wird. Und selbst dann braucht die Gefechtsfähigkeit des Schiffes nicht erheblich beeinträchtig zu werden. Also Entscheidungen wird der Torpedo in der Regel nicht herbeiführen können, aber als vorzügliche Gelegenheitswaffe darf man ihn auf der anderen Seite nicht etwa unterschätzen. Denn die moralische Wirkung gutgeführter Torpedoboote ist sehr groß, insofern die Besatzung eines Schiffes in der Nähe des Feindes durch stete Aufmerksamkeit bei Tage und namentlich bei Nacht in Atem gehalten wird. _______________________________________________________________________________________ XI. Dampfstrecke Seemeilen Kiel-Hamburg............................ 100 Kiel-Danzig................................. 350 Hamburg-London..................... 430 Hamburg-Havre....................... 500 Hamburg-Gibraltar................... 1600 Gibraltar-Malta.......................... 1000 Malta-Suez................................. 1000 Hamburg-Konstantinopel........ 3500 Hamburg-Suez........................... 3500 Hamburg-Aden.......................... 5000 Hamburg-Colombo....................7000 Hamburg-Singapore.................. 8500 Hamburg-Hongkong................. 10000 Singapore-Manila...................... 1300 Hamburg-Schanghai................. 11000 Hamburg-Kiautschou............. 11400 Kiautschou-Tafu...................... 500 Kiautschou-Jokohama.......... 1200 Tafu-Jokohama......................... 1800 Kiautschou-S. Francisco.......... 6800 Hamburg-Sansibar..................... 6700 Hamburg-Neu=Guinea.............. 11500 Samoa-Syndney.......................... 2500 Hamburg-Togo............................ 4500 Togo-Kamerun............................ 450 Kamerun-Swakopmund........... 1850 Hamburg-Kapstadt..................... 6500 Kapstadt-Singapore.................... 6000 Hamburg-New=York................... 3600 Hamburg-Rio................................ 5500 Hamburg-San Francisco............. 13500 Hamburg-Mangelhaensstr......... 7900 Magelhaensstr.-Neu= Guinea (Herbertshöhe) ............ 8000 N.Guinea-Karolinen (Jap.)........... 1200 Jap-Kiautschou ......................... 2000 Falls nicht besondere Eile nötig ist, fahren die Kriegsschiffe, um Kohlen zu sparen, nur etwa 10 Knoten oder Seemeilen in der Stunde, also 19km. Z.B. die Fahrt Kield - Danzig (350 Seemeilen) pflegt in 35 Stunden vor sich zu gehen. Dagegen gebrauchten die Schnelldampfer der beiden großen deutschen Handelsdampferlinien, die die Seebataillone im Juli und August 1900 nach Tafu brachten, nur 42 Tage für die Reise Hamburg-Tafu. Die Küstenpanzer und Oldenburg sind ohne Kohlennachfüllung nicht einmal bis Gibraltar zu dampfen im Stande. Die Branden- [*incomplete text*] _______________________________________________________________________________________ XVII. Gefechtskräfte zur See 1905. 1. England --------------------------------------------1383 ------------------------- 2. Frankreich --------------------------- 561 3. N. Amerika-----------------435 4. Rußland--------------403 5. Deutschland--342 ----------------------------- 6. Italien ----- 207 7. Japan --- 195 ----------------------------- 8. Österreich -- 85 Gefechtskräfte. Zur Abschätzung der Zeitungsfähigkeit eines Kriegsschiffes für den Kampf giebt es kein absolut sicheres Mittel. Doch eine annähernde Vorstellung davon giebt uns die Berechnung des Kapitänleutnants a.D. Wislicenus. Giebt man den modernen Linienschiffen von 11 000 Tonnen (wie Kaiser Barbarossa) als Gefechtswert 11 ,,Gefechtskräfte", kleineren Schiffen entsprechend kleinere Werte, ferner auch mit zunehmenden Alter eine immer geringere Zahl, bis 1 herab (25-30 Jahre), so ergiebt sich ein einfacher Maßstab, der mit den feinsten Berechnungen merkwürdig übereinstimmt. - Mitgerechnet sind alle 1901 auf Stapel gelegten Linienschiffe der verschiedenen Nationen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Gefechtskräfte zur See 1900 und 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Rang | Staat | Linienschiffe und Rüstenpanzer | Panzerfreuzer (Große Kreuzer mit Seitenpanzer) | Geschützte Kreuzer | Gesamt=kreuzerflotte | Gesamt=gefechtskräfte | Zuwachs an Gerfechtskräften 1900-1905 I.{ | 1. England 1905:1900: | 690 506}=+184 | 344 | 349 | 693 495}=+198 | 1383 1001 | 382 II.{ | 2. Frankreich 1905:1900: 3. Nord=Amerika 1905:1900: 4. Russland 1905:1900: 5. Deutschland 1905:1900: | 280 275}=+ 5 245 117}=+128 276 195}=+ 81 242 116}=+126 | 186 126 62 36 (!) | 95 64 65 64 | 281 191}=+ 90 190 78}=+112 127 85}=+ 42 100 63}=+37(!) | 561 466 435 195 403 280 342 179 | 95 240 123 163 III.{ | 6. Italien 1905:1900: 7. Japan 1905:1900:| 142 129}=+ 13 87 89}=- 2 | 43 55 | 22 53 | 65 60}=+ 5 108 100}=+ 8 | 207 189 195 189 | 18 6 IV.{ | 8. Österreich 1905:1900: | 55 44}=+ 11 | 17 | 13 | 30 20}=+ 10 | 85 64 | 21 __________________________________________________________________________________________ N. Amerifa hat so außerordentliche Anstrengungen gemacht (+240 Gefechtskräfte), daß Russland 1905 vom 3. auf den 4. Platz zurüdgedrängt sein wird. Deutschland steht unter den 4 Seemächten II. Ranges immer noch weitaus an letzter Stelle, obwohl es im Linienschiffsbau einen tüchtigen Schritt vormärts thut. Wie schmach unsere Kreuzerflotte ist, ergiebt sich aus Spalte 6: nur um 37 Gefechtsfräfte hat sie zugenommen. Geradezu kläglich erscheint aber die Zahl der Gefechtskräfte unserer Panzerfreuzer: 36(Spalte 4). Diese Schiffe werden in der Seeichlacht eine bedeutende Rolle spielen; wir stehen aber in dieser Hinsicht sogar den beiden Marinen III. Ranges nach (Italien: 43; Japa: 55), die infolge von Geldmangel fast zum Stillstand in der Seerüstung verurteilt sind. - 1905 werden die Linienschiffe der drei Staaten Frankreich, Rußland und Deutschland (798) denen Englands (690) ganz erheblich - um rund 100 Gefechtskräfte - überlegen sein. Zählt man aber die Panzerkreuzer hinzu, so verschwindet diese Überlegenheit fast ganz: 1082 gegenüber den 1034 Gefechtskräften der Panzerflotte Englands. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Im Kriege wurben beife naturlich nicht im Stanbe fein, alle beutichen Interefen im Muslanbe zu ichusen. Uber ben Befitz ber Stolonieen mirb aber auds nicht brauken bie Kreuzer, fonbern baheim burdy bie Schlachtotte entichieben. Der bringenben Gefahr in China halber musten 1900 infolge bes mangels verfugbarer Schiffe bie Stationen 2--6 in bedent lichfter Beife von Kruzern entholokt merben (vgl. Labelle XIII). _______________________________________________________________________________________ XIII. Chinatajel 1900. ------ XIV. Utillerie 1. Cmwere Utillerie: Durchmedder des Seichukrohres innen (saliber) von: 30,5 cm je 1 bie Banzerfanonenbotte 1--11 (veraltet) 28 cm je 4 Sf. (Schnellfeuer) erhalten die neuen Linienichiffe 28 " " 6 Branbenburgflaffe. [H und J.] 26 " " 3 Sachfenflaffe (veraltet). 24 "" 4 Sf. Raiferll.; Bittelsbfl.; Bismard; 2 Brz. Seinrich; 21 " " 4 Sf. Bz. Ubalbert; 2 Serthafl XVII. Gefechtskräfte zur See 1905. 1. England 1383 2. Frankreich 561 3. N.=Amerika 435 4. Rußland 403 5. Deutschland 342 6. Italien 207 7. Japan 195 8. Österreich 85 Gefechtskräfte. Zur Abschätzung der Leistungsfähigkeit eines Kriegsschiffes für den Kampf giebt es kein absolut sicheres Mittel. Doch eine annähernde Vorstellung davon giebt uns die Berechnung des Kapitänleutnants a.D. [?]. Giebt man den modernen Linienschiffen von 11000 Tonnen (wie Kaiser Barbarossa) als Gefechtswert 11 ,,Gegechtskräfte", kleineren Schiffen entsprechend kleinere Werte, ferner auch mit zunehmendem Alter eine immer geringere Zahl, bis 1 herab (25-30 Jahre), so ergiebt sich ein einfacher Maßstab, der mit den feinsten Berechnungen merkwürdig übereinstimmt. - Mitgerechnet sind alle 1901 auf Stapel gelegten Linienschiffe der verschiedenen Rationen. Gefechtskräfte zur See 1900 und 1905 Rang Staat 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 382 1383 1. bis 8. Kadetten= und Schiffsjungenschiffe, 9. und 10. Artillerieschulichiffe, 11. Torpedoschulschiff. — Sämtlich ohne Gefechtswert; keine Panzerung u.s.w. — Baujahre 1875—1883. VII. Schiffe zu besonderen Zwecken. Baujahr Größe. Tonnen 1. Hohenzollern 1891 4200 Kaiserl. Jacht (i. Kriege guter kl. Kreuzer) 2. Kaiseradler 1875 1700 Raddampfer, frühere kaiserliche Jacht 3. Dnane ..... 1876 500 Bermenungsfabrseug Rordfee 4. Wolf ....... Bermeffungsfabrseug Weftafrita 5. Mome ...... 1878 800 Bermeffungsfabrseug Sudfee 6. Lorelen ..... 1884 500 Stationsjacbt Ronjtantinopel 7. Belifan .... 1889 2400 Transporticbiff IX. Torpedoboote. 10 Torpedodinifionsboote....... 300--500 Tonnen, 45 Mann. 80 torpediboote............ 90--180 '' 16--24 Mann. 24 Doppelichraubentopedoboote 350 '' 52 Mann. 1 torpedobootsdivifion befteht aus 1 divihinsboot und 5 Neineien Booten ober aus 5 Divihonstbooten. Fu Deutidlanb merben funftig nur noch Doppelichraubenboote gebaut. Unter den Torpedfobooten befindet fich eine groke Unsabl von Booten, die nur fur Schul= und. abnliche Bmede dermendbar find. X. Bemerfungen. Sinienfchiffe. R. Amerika hat so außerordentliche Anstrengungen gemacht (+ 240 Gefechtskräfte), daß Rußland 1905 vom 3. auf den 4. Platz zurückgedrängt sein wird. Deutschland steht unter den 4 Seemächten II. Ranges immer noch weitaus an letzer Stelle, obwohl es im Linienschiffsbau einen tüchtigen Schritt vorwärts thut. Wie schwach unsere Kreuzerflotte ist, ergiebt sich aus Spalte 6: nur um 37 Gefechtskräfte hat sie zugenommen. Geradezu kläglich erscheint aber die Zahl der Gefechtskräfte unserer Panzerkreuzer : 36 (Spalte 4). Diese Schiffe werden in der Seeschlacht eine bedeutende Rolle spielen; wir stehen aber in dieser Hinsicht sogar den beiden Marinen III. Ranges nach (Italien: 43; Japan: 55), die infolge von Geldmangel fast zum Stillstand in der Seerüstung verurteilt sind. -- 1905 werden die Linienschiffe der drei Staaten Frankreich, Rußland und Deutschland (798) denen Englands (690) ganz erheblich -- um rund 100 Gefechtskräfte-- überlegen sein. Zählt man aber die Panzerkreuzer hinzu, so verschwindet diese U/berlegenheit fast ganz: 1082 gegenuber den 1034 Gesechtstraften der Panzerstotte hinzu, so verschwindet diese Überlegenheit fast ganz: 1082 gegenüber den 1034 Gefechtskräften der Panzerflotte Englands.[*[Ca 11-13-01]*] DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY BUREAU OF NAVIGATION OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. [*File PF*] NAVY DEPARTMENT, OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Penalty for private use, $300. THE PRESIDENT. In a personal interview with Commander Beehler, U.S. Navy, the President requested him to send the enclosed chart. [*17724*](For enc see ca 11-13-01)Constitutional Convention, Virginia. Richmond, November 14th, 1901. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va. My Dear General:- I saw, and had a long, pleasant and interesting conversation with our friend. As you know, we did not expect to accomplish anything definite in this conference, so I was not disappointed when our expectations in that respect were realized. He expressed himself, however, as considerably interested in the subject, and stated that he wanted to have a further conference with you and me jointly, and that he wanted us at an early day to come and take dinner or tea with him, when we could have a better opportunity to go further into the matter. He requested me to say to you that he would like you to remind him of the matter again in the course of the next ten days or two weeks, lest in the multitude of engagements he should overlook it; and that he hoped, when we brought the matter up again, he should be able to fix a definite date for further conference with you and me jointly, as above indicated. This was certainly all that I had any reason to anticipate that we could possibly accomplish at this stage. The great difficulties in the way of the ultimate realization of our plans, are too obvious to fail or recognition by anyone; but I am cheered by the undoubtedly sincere interest that our friend has in the matter. I will wait upon you now to make the next move, by bringing up the case again to our friend's attention within the next week or [*17725*]T. L. R.- two, either in person or by letter; you can then advise me as to our next appointment with him. Believe me, with kind regards, and earnest wishes for the success of our undertaking, Very sincerely your friend, A. C. Braxton Dic- [*17726*][*[enc. in Rosser 11-20-01]*]JAMES H. CANFIELD LIBRARIAN Columbia University in the City of New York Library November 14th, 1901. Dear Sir: Your telegram of last evening reaches me as I come to my desk this morning. I have at once telephoned to the Holland House to get into communication with Mr. Gleed, and will wire you results as soon as I can find him. In the meanwhile I enclose a letter received this morning from Mr. White. It tells its own story and I need make no comment thereon. Most of the new men to whom he refers are within my person acquaintance and are of the better class of politicians or political workers in Kansas. I know well, only too well, most of the old men whom he mentions: and know them to be of a past generation in every respect----exceedingly undesirable political companions. I made no suggestion whatever in my letter to Mr. White of a "compromise". I did state that the President would be glad to find a man of such unusual strength of character and reputation as to make it impossible for Mr. Burton to object to his appointment, or for Mr. Leland to do more than quietly object (as he might object to any man who took his place from him). It seems best to make this explanation, lest the President may think that I did not fully understand him last Monday evening. I have written White again calling his attention to the fact that the word is not well chosen. The President will probably recall that on Monday evening I told him that I thought Leland was a man of political integrity---that [*17727*]JAMES H. CANFIELD LIBRARIAN -2- Columbia University in the City of New York Library November 14th, 1901. he kept his political bargain. For some reason I am not able to agree with Mr. White as to Mr. Leland's personal integrity. I can hardly accord this characteristic to a man who by general reputation has bribed more legislatures than any other man in Kansas and has been peculiarly successful in a safe finding of rake-offs and boodle. I speak of this as his reputation, because I do not happen to have any personal knowledge as to facts: and I can easily believe that a man may receive more credit for this sort of thing than he deserves---though I sincerely doubt that Leland has received any more than he deserves.. I would be glad to have Mr. White's letter returned for my files, at your convenience. Cordially yours, James H. Canfield Mr. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary, White House, Washington, D.C. Enclosure Mr. Gleed accepts for tomorrow (Tuesday) evening I have so wired you. [*17728*][*[for enc. see 11-8-01]*]EMBASSY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ITALY Translation. Washington, November 14, 1901. Excellency: Inasmuch as the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the District of Mississippi, called in the case of the 9th of last month, has also adjourned after five sittings with a statement that, owing to the manifest reticence of intimated or suborned witnesses, it had been unable to gather sufficient evidence against the guilty in the Erwin outrage, the Government of the King has been once more constrained to adhere to the conviction that the State judiciary of the Union is not in a position to insure for aliens, at all times and under all circumstances, the protection to which they are entitled by treaty. In view of the fact that in this instance previous investigations had, even before judicial proceedings had been developed, already secured not a few data concerning those who could be presumed to be principals or accessories in the crime, and that it was in every way ascertained that two persons at least. Dr. Hanna and the telephone operator of Glen Allen had previous knowledge His Excellency Mr. John Hay, Secretary of State, etc., etc., etc. [*17729*]-2- of the misdeed, it is obvious that if the Grand Jury did not overcome the conspiracy of silence or reach a final conclusion, it, too, did not know how to free itself from baneful surrounding influences and resolutely do its duty. In this condition of things, the Government of the King has sent me express instructions to enter the most energetic protest against what is, at the same time, a denial of justice, a flagrant violation of contractual conventions and a grave offence against every humane and civil sentiment. The Federal Government itself admitted, after the preceding lynching, that, in this respect, the judiciary organization of the country is deficient and that the defect calls for prompt remedy since it is thereby placed in the irksome position of being unable to keep faith with the treaties that bear its signature. The illustrious President recently carried off by a tragic death had earnestly recommended in one of his Messages that provisions be made therefor, but the Bills introduced in both Houses of Congress, at the suggestion of the President, did not come to the test of a vote. Until the desired reform shall have become an accomplished fact, the Government of the King not only will [*17730*]-3- have grounds of complaint for violation of the treaties to its injury, but will not cease to denounce the systematic impunity enjoyed by crime, and to hold the Federal Government responsible therefor. Italy has always cherished the warmest friendship for the United States and felt the most profound interest and admiration for the institutions of the Union; but the Italian Government cannot conceal that its long standing and constant sentiments are being subjected to a very severe ordeal when it sees its own people fall repeatedly and with impunity victims to such barbarous assaults. Accept, Mr. Secretary of State, the expression of my highest consideration. CARIGNANI [*17731*][*Goetzen.Count*] [Ackd 1-3-1901 [*2?*] KAISERLICHER GOUVERNEUR von DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKA Dar es Salam, den 14/11. 01 [*[Nov 14, 01]*] Dear Mr. President, In remembrance of our common camp days, before Santiago and as Governor General of the largest German Colony I want to send you my heartiest congratulations at the high post that has fallen upon you. I do this knowing that at the same time you and your country are mourning over the loss of the former President, who was so generally liked and esteemed, not only in the U.S.A. but also in other countries. His murder must have been a terrible blow to the country, although I am sure that most people now think that the high office Mr. McKinley held could not fall upon a worthier man than it has fallen. In my fatherland where most people don’t know much about the U.S.A. (just as it is the case vice versa) [*17732*][*2.*] KAISERLICHER GOUVERNEUR. von DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKA Dar es Salam, den one knows little about the personal qualities of Mr. McKinley; he is but known as the strong tarif policy man; but in my frequent conversations with people who know more of the U.S.A. I never heard anything expressed but the highest esteem for the late President and admiration for the way he directed the interests of his native country. There was but one thing - and as it is a very trifle one, I, as an old acquaintance of yours, may be permitted to mention it, that hurt a little bit some good German patriots: that was, that Mr. McKinley in answering congratulation - or other despatches of that kind did not return the compliment of the German Emperor who worded his dispatch in the English language and - after the newspapers received an answer also in English and not in German. You may judge of [that] the high standing of the late President in German minds, if that they have no other fault to find [*17733*]3. KAISERLICHER GOUVERNEUR von DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKA. Dar es Salam, den in him - or in his private secretary. I’m telling you that, have neglected the “de mortuis nil nisi bene,” but as we often had conversations over both of our countries and there feelings this little instance might interest you perhaps. Of my new country here I would have much to say, but we are both busy men and I can’t take to much of your precious time. We are here very new and young; the commerce is somewhat down at the whole coast in consequence of the South African War, and German capital is always very little enterprising. Could you not interest some American millionaires in this Country? They don’t seem to know what to do with their money in the U.S.A. and here is a new country, whose governor would be very liberal in [*17734*]KAISERLICHER GOUVERNEUR 4. von DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKA Dar es Salam, den granting land, if first railways are built. If these countries shall be developed, two railways must be built - the one to Lake Nyassa, the other to lake Tanganyika. Should you have some enterprising friends, I should be delighted to see them here. I send you also herewith a little map of my land, with the lines marked in blue, adding that the construction does not present any difficulty. Gold has been found but not much, as there has been very little prospecting. I should think it would be a good thing for American [to] [?] and commerce to [have] come and I should receive them liberally like everybody who helps to develop the country. Land grants without railways or something alike are not given. From the Philippines I hear sometimes by the son of my Wife, Leutenent Lay of the Marines. Having taken already much of your time with my broken English, I am, Mr. President, yours very truly Count of Goetzen [*17735*]Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Nov. 14, 1901. My Dear Sir:- I have your letter asking if I was aware of any members of the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, who were thoroughly fit to be Second Lieutenants in the regular organization. I can only think of one man at the present time that I think absolutely fulfills the President’s requirement and who I think might care to have the appointment. This man is Dudley S. Dean formerly of Troop “B”. He is personally known to the President and a letter addressed c/o the Harvard Football Association, Cambridge, Mass., will reach him for the next ten days. I enclose herewith a telegram which explains itself. The sender is personally known to me and I believe him to be a good man for the position he seeks. Faithfully yours, John C. Greenway 237 Water St., Pittsburgh, Pa., Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Asst. Sec’y. to the President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*Wrote Mr. Dean 11-16-1901 PPF*] [*17736*][For enc. see Bard to Greenway 11-12-01][*Achvd 11/18/1901 P.F.*] EDITORIAL ROOMS GUNTON’S MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK November 14th, 1901. My dear Mr. President, Your prompt, efficient and eminently proper response to the impudent, ill-mannered conduct of Lemuel Ely Quigg, as reported in this morning’s Tribune, is a new honor. It confirms the faith the American people have in you that the integrity of the nation’s affairs are absolutely safe in your keeping. In this you will get the enthusiastic support of the entire nation, for those who side with Quigg will never dare to openly say so. Nothing could more effectively have served notice on insolent politicians that under your administration merit will be recognized and machine threats be impotent. That will help to renew the faith of the people in our institutions. It has already become a matter of common hope that, with you in the White House, Odell in Albany and Seth Low in the City Hall, the public service in New York, federal, state and municipal, will take on a clean, honest character, and really elevate public office and political methods to the place of honest patriotic duty. Yours very sincerely, George Gunton [*17737*][*File*] TELEGRAM White House, Washington. 9 WU HN GI 7 DH—-7:55p Indianapolis, Ind Nov 14. [1901] Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Executive Mansion, Washington. Will be there at one thirty Monday. D. B. Henderson. [*17738*][*shorthand*] [*Ackd 11/18/1901 P.F.*] FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives U.S., Washington, Nov. 14, 1901. Dear Mr. President, It has been impossible for me to comply with your very kind request to write my views as to the situation in the Philippine Islands and send you, for the reason that I have been seriously ill since I left Washington and am not able to be around yet. I am very sorry that I could not comply with [*17739*]your wishes and am now very greatly concerned for fear I may not get to Washington for the opening of the Fifty-Seventh Congress. I am with with great respect, Yours truly, J. A. T. Hull [*17740*]Leland Stanford Junior University Office of the President [*? P.7.*] Stanford University, Cal., Nov, 14, 1902 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The White House, Washington, D. C. Dear President Roosevelt: I am very glad that my experimens in Hawaii may be of help to you. I should be pleased to write you further if any matter of importance comes up. Perhaps I may have something to say on the labor question,although the facts of the case are pretty generally understood in this country. So far as Judge Humphreys is concerned, your treatment of the charges against him was the only one which was possible. It has been a matter of very great regret to the bar in Honolulu that thees hasty and somewhat flimsy charges were put forward as a basis for the Judge's removal. I was talking the other day with one of our own graduates, a law partner of one of the gentlemen signing the charges of the Bar Association, who expressed the regret felt on second thought by nearly all the men concerned in this. I am, Very truly yours, David S. Jordan [*17741*][*Tuesday night*] TELEGRAM White House, Washington. 3 PO KN JM 7 D.H. 210pm Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 14, 1901. Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou, White House: Telegram received. Invitation conveyed accepted with pleasure. St. Clair McKelway. [*17742*][shorthand] 2054 - Locust [Street?] Nov 14th. Philadelphia Dear Theodore. [*Ackd 11/16/1901 PPF*] I hope you will not receive these few lines with regret, though you may be surprised. I am at present in Philadelphia, and dined with Dr. & Mrs. Weir Mitchell a few days ago; and I wish you could have heard his expressions of injured pride & mortification, in speaking of your having refused to [*17743*]sanction the promise given by Wm McKinley to Dr. Mitchell for the appointment of his nephew to Annapolis - It was given I understand as a recognition of his services, to his country Dr. Mitchell fully recognizes that the sons of Naval men ought to have the preference, yet as this appointment was granted by Wm. McKinley, as a personal favor, Dr. Mitchell feels naturally mortified, and his young nephew sorely distressed, and disappointed to have all his hopes so dashed to the ground - I know, dear Theodore, you will kindly excuse my thus writing to you; and I shall try to understand it, if you turn a deaf ear to my appeal - This is written without the knowledge of any of the family, nor do I expect an answer knowing full well, you are overworked - You have my sincere sympathy, coupled with my admiration, and pride in one so nearly connected with me and through my dearly loved Corinne - With true love to Edith Very affectionately yours Fanny Monroe Robinson [*17744*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 11/16/1901 P.P.F.*] Personal. 583 Fifth Avenue Nov. 14th 1901 My dear Theodore: On my return the other day from Europe, I found that Robt (who was looking after things for me) had recd a check for $39.75 being a dividend of 3/4 of one per cent on 53 shares of stock of the Pittsburg, Besemer & Lake Erie R. R - [*17745*] send [?] a check for the amount. Mamie joins me in kindest regards to you & your wife. Your affec. Cousin Frederick Roosevelt — Now I do not own any such stock, either personally or for the Estate for Mr. Sam Roosevelt of which I am Trustee. A day or two ago I spoke to Emlen about it and he told me that he was quite certain that you owned such a stock. So I thought it possible the dividend might belong to you, if so, if you will advise me. I will [*17746*]PUBLISHERS OF NAVAL ENCLYCLOPEDIA CHURCH ENCYCLOPEDIA INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION MILITARY DICTIONARY ARMY AND NAVY LISTS L.R. HAMERSLY CO., PUBLISHERS, No. 49 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov 14 1901. [shorthand] Dear Cousin Theodore Having made a large deal with George Barrie & Son Phil by which we became the owners of several thousand dollars worth of his publications in exchange for ours. I send you a set of Ainsworth historical novels which I want you to accept with my compliments. I also send you our latest Baby the Loyal Legion album Faithfully yours R B Roosevelt Jr. [*[Robert B. Roosevelt, Jr]*] [*17747*]Menand's Albany, N.Y. [*Ackd ppf*) 14 Nov 1901 Dear Col Roosevelt, Your friend "The Evening Poor", has sent me for review a book which pleases me so much that I have directed E.P. Dutton of [?] N.Y. to send a copy to you - which please accept with my regards - The title of the book is "Kings of the Rifle, Rod & Gun" & it is a series of biographical sketches of various eminent British Sportsmen, many of whom have distinguished themselves in other walks of life, less worthy - [*17748*]Walter - Cotton, "Christopher North" Sir Humphrey Day - Landsen, Millais, & others, including several mighty hunters of big game. Baker, Gordon Cumming & others - The literary part is capitol, & the author "Thomasby" must have had exceptional opportunities of finding out interesting facts as to the intimate lives of men who are only known to the public by their writings - The sketch of Christopher North is worth more than the price of the book & all the others are capital- If you like the book nearly as well as I you will probably show your gratitude by never again making or causing me to be made V.P. of a "W McKinley National Memorial Arch Association" unless indeed it be one for yourself, as I am already on the verge of a contest with the opposition Canton Association of which Gov Odell is the Prest here - Please give my regards to Mrs Roosevelt & believe me Yours Truly D Sage [*17749*][*F*] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. INCORPORATED TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA November Fourteenth, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Mr. President :-- Your kind letter received. I am anxious to see you about several matters before the meeting of Congress. I cannot say just now what date I can call, but will telegraph you some hours in advance. Very truly yours, Booker T. Washington. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C. [*17750*][*[11-14-01]*] WAR DEPARTMENT Office of the Adjutant General. Memorandum for List of applicants for appointment as chaplain U.S. Army who have been recommended by President Roosevelt: Name State Age Date of Rec. File No. Caraher, J. C. Nebraska 36 March 30, 1901 368095/E * Hall, Hedley Illinois 37 June 18, 1901 171513/E * Late Chaplain First Illinois Volunteers. L.J.H. [*ADJUTANT GENERAL NOV 14 1902 A.C.P. DIVISION*] [*17751*] November 14, 1901. Memorandum (for filing): This letter was gone over by the President with Mr. Cummings. [*CF*] [*[See Tynberg 11-6-01]*] [*17752*][*[attached to 11-19-01, War Dept.]*] [*[attached to Tynberg 11-6-01]*][*[11-14-01]*] WAR DEPARTMENT. Office of the Adjutant General. Memorandum for List of applicants for appointment as chaplain U.S. Army who have been recommended by President Roosevelt: Name State Age Date of Rec. File No. Caraher, J. C. Nebraska 36 March 30, 1901 368095/E * Hall, Hedley Illinois 37 June 18, 1901 171513/E * Late Chaplain First Illinois Volunteers. L.J.H. [*ADJUTANT GENERAL NOV 14 1902 A.C.P. DIVISION*] [*17751*] November 14, 1901. Memorandum (for filing): This letter was gone over by the President with Mr. Cummings. [*CF*] [*[See Tynberg 11-6-01]*] [*17752*]attached to Tynberg 11-6-01British Uganda railway (finished) Railways to be constructed Deutsche Kolonialgesellchaft. 1901. Geographische Verlagshandlung DIETRICH REIMER (ERNST VOHSEN) Berlin. Lith.u.Druck der Verlagshandlung. Bezirke seit dem 1. August 1899: 1 Kilimandjaro II West-Usambara. III Tanga. IV. Pangani. V Bagamoyo. VI Dar-es-Salam. VII Rufiyi. VIII Kilwa. IX Lindi. X Ssongea. XI Mahgenge. XII Kissakki. XIII Kilossa. XIV Mpapwa. XV Iringa. XVI Langengburg. XVII Ukonogo. XVIII Kilimatinde. XIX Tabora. XX Udjidji. XXI Bukoba. XXII Mwansa. 17753NY Journal Nov. 14th 1901 Nearer Public Ownership. Another step has been taken toward the con- solidation of the railroad system of the United States in the hands of a single group of capital- ists. The formation of the "Northern Securities Company," with a capital of $400,000,000, for the purpose of holding the stock of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern an dChicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads clinches the arrangements by which 47,372 miles of Western roads, capitalized at about TWO BILLION DOLLARS, have been brought under one control. Practically this creates an entire monopoly west of the Mississippi, for while a few systems remain nominally outside of the combination, almost all of them are in complete sub- jection to it. We may say, then, that the work of monopoliz- ing the West is finished. But when we glance at the list of the men who have formed this combination, and note that it contains the names of the Vanderbilts, the Rockefeller's, the Goulds, J. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill, E.H. Harriman, Daniel S. Lamont, James Stillman, D.O. Mills, August Belmont, H.E. Huntington, Ogden Armour and others as well well known in this vicinity, it becomes plain that the "community of interest" is by no means confined to the West. It would be interesting to trace the power of this great aggregation of wealth through the directorates and stock lists of the country. It seems an ex- tremely moderate statement to say that the capitalists who have united in the Western deal control at least one-half of the railroad mileage of the United States. And it will be much easier for them to obtain the second half than it has been to get the first. They know how to go to work now and they have the money to do it. One railroad after another will slide gently into their grasp until any passenger anywhere who objects to traveling on their lines can take a trolley car or walk. A few years ago this process would have thrilled the na- tion with rage and terror. We observe it with perfect calm- ness now. It seems a long time since the Interstate Com- merge act was expected to prevent "pooling arrangements" between competing roads. We have ceased to expect anything from competition now, in the railroad business any more than in gas and water. We have learned that concentration in such matters is inevitable, and that the only question is whether the concentration shall be in the public interests or against them. Thus far the engineers of the railroad combination have been doing a most useful public work. They will continue to do a useful public work until the last independent road is brought into the general system. If the Government had undertaken to take control of the railroads of the United States a few years ago, when every road was running on its own hook, it would have found itself facing an appallingly complicated task. As it is, the best business brains in America are doing the work of organization for it. They are smoothing out all the difficulties, consolidat- ing the staffs, harmonizing the schedules and creating one vast, smoothly running machine. When they have finished all the Government will have to do will be to assume the debts of the system, exhchange national bonds for stock and give the general manager a commission from the President of the United States. Some of these able capitalists are work consciously toward this end. The rest are doing the same thing uncon- sciously. 17754Personal Asking nothing advising nothing For the restful minute that you must take sometime. [*Ackd 11/18/1901 file P.F.*] [shorthand] Augusta Geo, Nov 15, 01 To President Roosevelt Dear Sir- If I mistake not you can enjoy a joke even applied to yourself. A few days since some of the members of our Cotton Exchange, grouped in a little crowd after the close of business, fall into discussion of the Booker Washington incident. There was no intemperate speech: All expressed admiration for Washington and strong approval of yourself [*17755*] [*[For 1 enclosure see CA 11-15-01]*] up to the famous dinner. Then one spoke up saying "well! I had made up my mind to vote for R as next President but cannot do it now." and so said they all.. I was sitting a little way off reading the NY Evening Post and just then came across the enclosed story. It seemed to me so apropo that I read it to the crowd. "Solvuntur Tabulae Risu" and they declared it must be sent to you..... Your mother and her sister Annie were my dear friends. About in 1860 your good Father took me a drive [*17756*]thru Central Park, and I dined with him Miss Annie and Capt James Bulloch being present. Capt B. then commanded a mail steamer from NY to Havana and I recall even now a box of cigars he produced after dinner. Have never seen as good since. My own Father married a second wife, nee Dunwoody - who was first cousin to your Mother. In this way my intimacy arose. Did Stuart Elliott leave my descendants? If he did I have a letter from him in 1861. I should like to send them - Tis a characteristic gem. Accept all this in the spirit it is written. Sincerely yr Wm Felix Alexander[*[For 1 enc see Allen ca 11-15-01]*] BUREAU OF ROLLS AND LIBRARY. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. [*File ppp P*] November 15, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Esquire, Secretary to the President. My dear Sir: I am directed by the Secretary of State to send to you the Enclosed Formal receipt for the medal lately presented to the President by The German Emperor. Very Truly Yours Andrew H. Allen Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library [*17757*][*State 1901*] THE SECRETARY OF STATE has received a Medal presented to the President by the Emperor of Germany, commemorative of the allied Expedition to China, 1900-1901 for deposit in THE LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT by direction of the President. Andrew H. Allen Chief, Bureau of Rolls and Library. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Bureau of Rolls and Library, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1901. [*[ca 11-15-01]*] [*17758*][written on the back of page 137] (enc in Allen 11-15-01)[*Dutch Reform Church*] [*[11-15-01]*] [shorthand] REFORMED CHURCH UNION, NEW YORK [*Ackd 11/16/1901 P.F.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:-- It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce to you that at a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Reformed Church Union of this City, you were unanimously elected an honorary member. With this, I have enclosed a copy of the memento, which is to be distributed at our coming meeting on Monday evening next, the 18th inst. You will, I am, sure, to be interested in this, as it contains a personal reference to yourself and the German Reformed Church. [*17759*]With the expression for yourself of the very best wishes of our Union, which represents the flower of your ancestral Church in this region, I have the honor to remain, Yours sincerely, Wm L. Brower 170 William St. NEW YORK, November 15, 1901 17760JAMES S. CLARKSON, PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. [shorthand] [*ackd 11/19/1901 File PPP pr*] November 15, 1901 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: A reluctance to intrude upon your time has alone prevented me from earlier writing to command end encourage you in your effort to deal practically and resolutely, and yet humanely, with the negroes and the Republicans of the South. But the entreaties of men in the South, whom I know to be sincere, and with whom I have worked, that I should address you, have been so urgent that I have concluded to write you. First, as to the experience I have had, for over forty years, as boy and man, in dealing with this sad problem of the negro in America, and Second, and more especially, to give you the impressions and experiences I gained in practical and actual contact with Southern politics in my sixteen years on the Republican National Committee, as a Delegate in six national conventions, and in the two years I was First Assistant Post Master General under Harrison. I gained my original interest in the negro's cause by heredity, from the same Clarkson blood as that of Thomas Clarkson, and to me the problem of the black race, and its fate in America, has always appealed most strongly of all issues in our country, as, it does now. As a boy on my Father's farm, on the prairies of [*17761*]T R - 2 Iowa, from 1855 to 1861, I kept a station on the Underground Railroad, between Texas, Arkansas and Missouri and Canada, and also operated the night line of twenty-five miles to the next station on the north. My original ardor had increased inspiration from twice piloting John Brown by night over a wide prairie, when he was on his tours between the Quakers in Iowa and the Free-Soilers in Kansas. I became an editor in 1866, and led and pressed the fight for negro suffrage, to the result that Iowa enfranchised its colored men in advance of the Nation, and a year in advance of any other State. Afterwards, between 1868 and 1892, I spent several winters in the South, especially to investigate this question on its own ground, travelling about on horseback, or by mule or cart, stopping scores of nights with the plantation negros in their cabins. When I saw these people reaching up towards better things, learning to read in the Bible by the light of pine knots, and when the old men would say frankly that they knew they were too ignorant to be fit to vote, but that they wanted their children or grandchildren made qualified to vote intelligently, I received great encouragement in my faith in their humanity, and in my desire to help them. During these same years, I was constantly coming in contact, as you will readily understand, in our National Conventions, and on our National Committee, with the national phase and burden of this southern situation. I mention these things as my credentials for daring to [*17762*] T R - 3 have any opinion on this intricate subject, and to show that, in taking the place in the Post Office Department at President Harri- son's earnest personal solicitation, I was not without knowledge of what I was going to meet in making so many appointments in the South, nor without some qualification for dealing with a complex and prejudiced situation, and a people of mixed races and diverse ambitions. Indeed, the main desire of the President to have me in this place was because of my knowledge of the South and the negro, and his knowledge also that while I was a partisan Republican, I was implacably opposed to the taint of money or corruption on any public office. To this end he put on me the responsibility of making recommendations for all the Presidential Post Offices in the South, and the absolute appointment of all the thousands of fourth class post offices. We had long, earnest discussions over the problem of filling these responsible places in the right way. For, the smallest fourth class office, filled by a negro, irritated the southern whites far more than a negro in the much larger office which did not bring the official into direct personal contact with the white people. President Harrison felt deeply the responsibi- lity of dealing with such a situation, was never impatient over the clamor of the negroes for recognition, although he never had the least patience with the many unworthy among the so-called white southern leaders who, instead of trying to build up a better Repub- licanism in the South, were in fact merely brokers for the sale of 17763T R 4 offices, and who were non-partisan to the vicious extent that they would give a Democrat the preference if he paid the higher price. I found, on going into the Department, that vicious system of referrees, made up of men who had been unsuccessful candidates for Congress, or were members of the State or National Committee, under which this corruption and debauchery had its origin, and has since retained its continual opportunity. This sale of offices, with the apparent consent of the Administration at Washington, involved more and even worse than the first immorality of the sale. For the official who paid a price for his place naturally sought to "make good" in the office. As a consequence, embezzlement and its kindred evils followed in the public service, and the popular opinion of the Republican Party was made still more adverse. In dealing with such a situation, we tried several different means. Several times the President told me to send back home all the referees in the South who had come to Washington and stayed for months, and they were thus several times dispersed. I sought to devise new sources of information, and at great pains gathered up the names, in the neighborhood of contested post offices - Democrats as well as Republicans - negroes as well as whites. I would first receive the recommendation of the referee, and then would advise with these people, who were actual patrons of the post office involved, and then take the genarl [general] average of advice. I found nearly all the Democrats so consulted frank [*17764*]T R - 5 and candid and on their honor, which is, in the truest sense, southern-like. The negroes I thus consulted were generally sincere, and I had hundreds of letters from them saying that they esteemed my request for their advice more highly than they would have an offer of office. I built up in this way a large body of advisers on the ground - "The jury of the vicinage" - and it was in doing this that I learned to have increased faith in the black man's integrity and his capacity for citizenship. For all the large offices I consulted the leading negroes, and some of the leading Democrats in each State - as well as the referees in the party system. Citing Georgia as a sample, I had invaluable help from Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, then the leading Democratic editor of the State, and such colored men as Booker Washington, of the Tuskegee School, and Professor Wright of the Colored College at Atlanta. It was in these days that I recognized in Booker Washington the most useful man of his own race in this country, just as I consider him to-day the most useful and distinguished man, national and international, of the Southern States. President Harrison was always intensely interested in the experiments we made in the South, and although he still retained, in his trace of southern blood, a wee bit of its implacable prejudice against the negro as a public official, he always applauded me for any practical progress I had made in recognizing the negro successfully, or in proving his actual fitness for the public service. It may interest you to know [*17765*] T R - 6 that he quickly recognized as valuable the suggestions of Mr. Wash- ington, who, in that early day, saw the wisdom of the negro biding his time, learning to earn his own living, and waiting for a later and better chance. The same as President Harrison, Mr. W. felt the force of the southern prejudice against the negro in a public office, where he had to come in personal contact with many white people. As a result we utilized the Railway Mail Service and ap- pointed negros to that; in which places I am glad to say they made good records. An illustration of Harrison's willingness to recognize the negro even conspicuously, when it did not create too much white antagonism - as well as the willingness of southern Democrats sometimes to recommend a negro for office - was shown in his appointment of Mr. Wright Cuney, the leading colored man of Texas, as Collector of the Port, at Galveston, Texas. All the Democratic city officials there, all the leading Democratic busi- ness men, and several of the Democratic State officers, endorsed Cuney - not an inapt thing to remember just now - and Cuney's re- cord in the office afterwards fully justified alike the Democrats who recommended and the President who appointed him. In my labors over the southern post offices, I found I often had to appoint a Democrat because there were no Republicans worthy to appoint, and in thousands of cases I found it necessary to leave the Democratic incumbents undisturbed. I several in- stances the Republicans, and especially the negros, that I ap- 17766T R - 7 pointed to post offices, were so terrorized as to resign, several were killed, and others were maltreated. I always wanted to use the power of the Government to protect and retain these assailed officials, but the President opposed this, and instructed me to secure such maltreated post masters places in Washington or elsewhere. In every instance I was delighted to find that a negro so assailed was always ready to fight it out, or to try it again; a re-assuring proof of the courage of the race for its own defense. Under the President's direction I also took up another line of effort of conciliation and good will in the South. That was to improve the mail service, which in all southern states was far behind the service in the North. I created several thousand new post offices, and many new mail routes. In this work I consulted the Democratic Senators and Congressmen and leading Democrats in every state, and it is only candid for me to say that I found them responsive to my efforts and helpful in every respect. Indeed, the hope of the final settlement of this dark problem, of the negro in the South, lies in that fine sense of honor that is always in the southern heart - deep down, sometimes, but always there - and that always responds to call, unless the equally implacable sectional prejudice intervenes. The two or three settled convictions that I brought out of it all, as a result of my close personal contact with the negro problem for over forty years, were, first and earliest, that the [*17767*]T R - 8 black man is as worthy of citizenship and its protection as I am; second and latest, that the first great sufficient effort to meet this question, and the first effort possible of success, would have to come from a man of the new generation - or one to whom the war and re-construction periods, with all their passions and pre- judices, were not personal experiences. No northern man of the war period could ever fully divest himself of these passions and prejudices, and no southern man would. Acutely a question of the future, in all its possibilities and consequences, all men of the old generation, except Lincoln, have dealt with it as to its past, and so inevitably have failed. In the other effort, too, the negroes in politics were still the negroes of "befo-de-war." Now, the negro evolved since the war, is the factor instead. The negro of 1861, and the negro of 1901 are far apart. Thus, in a double sense, the task, not of settling the problem, but of beginning such settlement comes, in that Providence which is wiser than man's abilities or ambitions, to a man of the new generation. That man, ever since the Spanish War, I have believed would be the one who has now come. You will have opportunities for great achievements during your time of power in various things, all more or less noble. Nothing among them all will, in my judgment, give you such large chance to serve your fellow man and the Republic, in this and future ages, as the solution of the manner in which to begin suc- cessfully the solution of the black man's problem. I rejoice to 17768 T R - 9 believe that you have the ability to cope with it, and a heart like Valiant's to guide you fearlessly to that high path where success alone is ever found. In recognizing that it is a question above party politics, and one that cannot be even successfully attempted without the co- operation of white men in the South who are now Democrats, you have grasped the vital fact. There can be no progress made without making it a white as well as a black man's question. Mr. Washing- ton first found the light that leads to the final path, and his in- trepid [?] in teaching his race to have patience, and to exert itself to be worthy when the time shall come, has been the wisdom of one man in a century. To me the heroic surgery of cutting down the representation of the southern states borders on political mal- practice, and a national acceptance of the effacement of the negro as a voter. Great revolutions and civilization never thus go back ward. This, if our civilization is not a sham, must go forward: and to doubt that there is a way for it to go forward, is to doubt the sincerity of the Republic and the kindness of God. The black man of this day stands ready to play, with equal courage and pati- ence, his part as wisdom shall suggest. He stands for his race, and will wait a generation for its good as a whole, if need shall be. But he will not stand it under the lash or the torch, or un- der any new promise finally to be broken like all the old. It is the white man who is on trial, and it is the new generation, fresh 17769T R - 10 to the work and free from all prejudice, that has now come into the stewardship of responsibility. To me it is much that it is to have one or so sincere and strong for its leader. With my personal good wishes to you and your Administra- tion in all things, and especially in this one respect, I am, Sincerely yours, [signature of] James S. Clarkson 17770[*[For 1 attachment see 11015-01]*] [*Olymptic games.*] COMITÉ Paris, le 15 novembre 1901 INTERNATIONAL OLIMPIQUE Monsieur le President Le Comité International Olympique ayant décidé, au mois de Mai dernier, d'accepter la proposition de la ville de Chicago en vue de la celebration des Jeux Olympiques de 1904 dans cette ville, j'ai eu l'honneur d'écrire à Monsieur le President Mac Kinley pour Lui exprimer, au nom de Comité International notre vif désir de le voir s'interesser à cette grande manifestation sportive et en exercer la presidence honoraire. Nous connaissons trop bien les gusts personnels de Votre Excellence et la [*17771*]reputation qu'elle s'est acquise dans la pratique de tous les sports pour douter de ses sympathies en cette circonstance. Je me permets donc de reiterer auprès du nouveau Chef de la grande Republique Americaine la requête présentée à son eminent predecesseur et favorablement accueillie par lui. Surs que vous l'accueillerez de même, Monsieur le Président, je prie votre Excellence de daigner agreer avec nos remerciements anticipés, l'hommage de mon plus profond respect Baron Pierre de Coubertin President du Comité International Olympique(J.A.C.) Copy. acc'd 12-6-1901 Enclosure--English Translation. Paris, 15th November 1901. Mr. President, The International Olympic Committee having decided, in the month of May last, to accept the proposal of the City of Chicago in view of the celebration of the Olympic Games of 1904 in that city, I had the honor of writing to President McKinley to ex- press to him, in the name of the International Committee, our keen desire to see him interest himself in that great sportive occasion and to exercise the honorary presidence thereof. We know too well your Excellency's personal tastes and the reputation that it has acquired in the practice of all the sports to doubt its sympathy on this occasion. I permit myself, therefore, to reiterate to the new Chief of the great American Republic the request presented to his eminent predecessor and favorably received by him. Confident that you will receive it in the same manner, Mr. President, I beg your Excellence to deign to accept, with our thanks in advance, the homage of my most profound respect. (signed) Baron Pierre de Coubertin President of the International Olympic Committee. 17773[attached to Courtebin, 11-15-01] Enclosure--English Translation. Paris, 15th November 1901. Mr. President, The International Olympic Committee having decided, in the month of May last, to accept the proposal of the City of Chicago in view of the celebration of the Olympic Games of 1904 in that city, I had the honor of writing to President McKinley to express to him, in the name of the International Committee, our keen desire to see him interest himself in that great sportive occasion and to exercise the honorary presidence thereof. We know too well your Excellency's personal tastes and the reputation that it has acquired in the practice of all the sports to doubt its sympathy on this occasion. I permit myself, therefore, to reiterate to the new Chief of the great American Republic the request presented to his eminent predecessor and favorably received by him. Confident that you will receive it in the same manner, Mr. President, I beg year Excellence to deign to accept, with our thanks in advance, the homage of my most profound respect. (signed) Baron Pierre de Coubeertin President of the International Olympic Committee.[*PF*] The Sun EDITOR'S OFFICE [*Ack'd 11/16/1901 P.P.F*] New York, Nov. 15, 1901. Dear Roosevelt: My feeling against the precipitation of the trust question in the Presidential name grows greatly the more I think of it. My views are - 1. There is no need of it. The business development represented by the trust has been guided without governmental interference with success absolutely astounding and with incalculable benefit to the country. Instead of the demand for Government interference increasing, it is declining, so great and manifest are the merits of trustism. The agitation carried on through McKinley's first term had so far diminished when the time of his re-election approached that there was no little hesitation on the part of the Democrats as to making it an issue. They took it, and though they perhaps made more noise about it than they did over imperialism, they were overwhelmingly defeated. Since then the Steel Trust has been in a square fight with its labor union., with public sentiment almost unanimous in favor of the trust. There is no authority of public opinion for the demand for trust legislation. 2. This is not the time for it. Legislation undertaken in the height of anti-trust passion would, if not futile, have been hurtful. The development of business consolidation has not yet reached the stage in which one can say with surety what law to apply to it. 17773(p. 2.) 3. The power of business to manage itself should not be ignored by this possessing the power of constructive legislation. The trusts are of constantly multiplying ownership, and the owners are able to look out for themselves. Even publicity, if that be desired or desirable, is indicated by the action of the Steel Trust. 4. The proposition that the Federal Government shall lay its hand on business corporation is revolutionary and perhaps cardinal in its political effect. It would open the door to an unlimited increase of the powers of the Federal Government and, consequently, to an unlimited increase of responsibility. An undertaking of this nature is not warranted by any of the perfunctory generalities of Republican platforms upon the subject of trusts, intended pri- marily to prevent that issue from clouding the issue recognized at the time as vital; and at present and under the circumstances, I deny the political right of the Republican successor of President McKinley to undertake it. 5. The condition of affairs with which you would deal being un- settled and capable of change in either direction, I protest against a maiden Presidential message suggesting an amendment to the Constitution, as you do indoor admission of doubt as to the Constitutionality of what you propose. Theories requiring amendment to the Constitution may emanate from Congress without serious political disturbance; emanating from the White House they are likely to cause disturbance, not only in the party identi- fied with them but in the country at large. And this particular theory concerns the country's biggest and most sensitive interest- business. 6. The demand for legislation is feeble; the possibility of legislation is doubtful; the merit of the scheme suggested is problematical, and that commercial and partisan uneasiness would be produced by the effort is unquestionable. Faithfully yours, Paul Dana 17774The Sun Editor's Office [*Shorthand Notation*]GASTON, SNOW & SALTONSTALL. TELEPHONES, MAIN, 203, 2972 [*File CS*] Personal. 70 State Street, Boston. WILLIAM A. GASTON. FREDERIC E. SNOW. RICHARD M. SALTONSTALL. THOMAS HUNT. JEREMIAH SMITH, JR. Nov. 15, 1901. Dear Teddy, Many thanks for yours of Nov. 7th about Mr Sweeney. I don't urge the appointment of Mr. Sweeney in any way if he is unfit; all I wish is investigation. If he has performed the duties of his office conscientiously, he must have made enemies. From my information I believe him an excellent official. Always sincerely William A Gaston Hon Theodore Roosevelt [*17775*][*Ack’d 11/16/1901 P.P.F.*] Office of the Commercial Bulletin. 282 WASHINGTON STREET. Boston, Nov. 15 / 1901 Dear Theodore: This letter to me will do you good. Miller is one of the most brilliant speakers I know. As the eldest child he has shouldered his father's debts and is not only paying them but supporting and educating his brothers and sisters. He cannot therefore afford to leave his very profitable law practice for public office. If you want a true friend and an absolutely impartial adviser in one of the most progressive young men in this country, here he is-He wishes neither neither place nor patronage He does want to back you up. I know something of Virginia and he's worth having. Don't bother to answer this. Cordially, Curtis [*Guild*] [*17776*][For 2 eves. see 11-11-01]Confidential 15 Nov 1901 American Embassy Rome [*Ackd 12-3-1901 CR*] My dear Mr. President I have delayed writing you, since you were called so suddenly and under such sad conditions to the Presidency of the United States, fully realizing the stress of official duties with which you must have been overwhelmed and the letters that poured in upon you. It was very gratifying, tho this day to see that you did not recognize in an appointment Mr. Addicks faction in Delaware - I was on the committee, [*17777*]of the Massachusetts legislature in 1894, which investigated Mr. Addicks when he was trying his unscrupulous methods with the legislature as to his Gas Corporation. At the last Presidential convention we endeavored in the Nat. Committee to prevent him being recognized but he won out in the convention. He has for a number of years now attacked the politics of Delaware, and the Republicans who have fought this venal and audacious faction headed by Addicks, preferring to be unrepresented rather than submit to a representation that would disgrace them before the world, are entitled to all honor. Allow me also to congratulate you upon the appointment of Hon Thomas G. Jones to the vacant Alabama Judgeship.I sat up at Philadelphia for several nights until [?] with other members of the National Committee hearing the defense of the disputed delegates from several of the Southern States, and such [Southerness?] I did not know existed any [other?]. Often they do not even take the trouble of making Republican nominees in the Congressional Dist., but on the other hand spend money in bringing up false witnesses in order to secure their delegates to the convention with the hopes of later controlling the Patronage when the President is elected. I was more firmly convinced than you of the importance of Mr. Payne's scheme of delegates to the Republican Convention, but we were defeated in it for reasons that I cannot state now, but due chiefly to the opposition organized by Mr. Dick then Secretary of the Repub Nat. Committee [*17778*]It is unfortunate, for at the last convention it was the one occasion that the change could have been easily made there [b??ing] but our candidate for President. Having met Booker Washington when I was speaker of the Mass House, I am amused at the criticism of some of the snobbish Americans of him, but I am happy to say they get no comfort from the foreigners who see nothing to [c?????] in having Booker Washington to dine. Wishing you & your administration the success of which I have every confidence Believe me Faithfully yours, George V L Meyer Hon. Theodore Roosevelt White House Washington[*CCF*] New York, November 15th, 1901. My dear Mr. President:- I enclose herewith editorial from yesterday morning's Journal. To me there is a great deal of significance in an editorial of this kind from a paper like the Journal. These vast consolidations are rapidly bringing the great mineral wealth of the country and its great transportation systems nearer and nearer to public ownership. Sincerely yours, [cannot read the signature] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C. (Enc.) 17779[*For l. Enc. see 11-14-01*]File CS New Orleans La. Nov. 15 1901 To the President, I am sorry to inform you that our hopes of party harmony have not been realized. Propositions for that purpose were made in good faith, but Messrs Clark, Williams and others gave the matter but scant courtesy, and seemed to be very arbitrary. The spirit of conciliation appeared to be absent. If you will accept of my good offices for a few days in the matter of recommending candidates for P.Ms etc I think harmony will soon come. Yours Respectfully D.H. Reese 1349 Constance St. 17780New Orleans Nov. 15th, 1901 To the President, I send you the attached printed slip which may be of interest. My opinion is that the Jesuit Society is very dangerous. Here it is numerous and influential. You probably know as much or more about them than I do. Of course religion is free under our constitution and laws, but if their creed and articles of faith transcends our constitution and laws, they are outside of their protection. For instance, at the beginning of the of the war with Spain, according to my observation here, Catholic young men were backward about enlisting until after the priests had spoken. There is one Jesuit, and possibly more, on the Supreme bench. Edw D. White is a Jesuit. Yours Respectfully D.H. Reese [*17781*] AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG. Twenty-sixth Year. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY NATIONAL BAPTIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 310-312 Walnut St , Fulton, ky. J. N. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor MOTT AYRES . Business Manager All business letters and otherwise should be addressed to AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG, Fulton, Kentucky. [*x17781*] We said in these columns some time since that it might be possible that when all the facts could be gathered it would be found that some Catholic Jesuit was mixed up in the murder of President McKinley. We now see it announced that the assassin was a Roman Catholic, and that just a while before his death President McKinley issued an exposure of the iniquities of Rome and sent it to the National Protestant Federation, and the Catholics have tried to suppress the document. If they should try so hard to suppress the writing, why not also try to suppress the writer ? The English Churchman is our authority for this note. [*x 17781A*]New Orleans Nov. 15th, 1901 To the President, I send you the attached printed slip which may be of interest. My opinion is that the Jesuit Society is very dangerous. [?] it is numerous and influential. You probably know as much or more about them than I do. Of course religion is free under our constitution and laws, but if their creed and articles of faith transcends our constitution and laws, they are outside of their protection. For instance, at the beginning of the of the war with Spain, according to my observation [?] Catholic young men [?] backward about enlisting until after the priests had spoken. Then is one Jesuit, and possibly more on the Supreme bench. Edw D. White is a Jesuit Yours Respectfully D.H. Reese 17781 AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG. Twenty-sixth Year. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY NATIONAL BAPTIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 310-312 Walnut St., Fulton, KY J.N. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor MOTT AYRES . Business Manager All business letters and otherwise should be ad- dressed to AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG, Fulton, Kentucky. We said in these columns some time since that it might be possible that when all the facts could be gathered it would be found that some Catholic Jesuit was mixed up in the murder of President McLinley. We now see it announced that the assassin was a Roman Catholic, and that just a while before his death President McKinley issued an exposure of the iniquities of Rome and sent it to the National Protestant Federation, and the Catho- lics have tried to suppress the docu- ment. If they should try so hard to suppress the writing, why not also try to suppress the writer? The English churchman is our authority for this note. 17781ANew Orleans Nov. 15th 1901 To the President. This paper is simply to show you how I stand toward the Catholics. I am not a member of any church but intensely protestant, and to possess your good opinion would make me happy. Yours Respectfully D. H. Reese [*17782*] AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG, OCTOBER 31, 1901. RECORD OF ROMANISM. D. H. REESE. The record of Romanism, from the early centuries of the Christian era, according to generally accepted historical data, has been uniformly bad. One can only wonder at the presumptuous assurance of its advocates and apologists. An institution weighed down by such a record should perish from the face of the earth. Before the eleventh century it was a chaotic medley of discord, intrigue, licentiousness and persecution. Then in began gradually to adopt systematic measures and formulate articles of faith. The celibacy of the clergy was not enforced until the year 1073, when Gregory VII. found a way to prevent the priests from marrying, but not from unlawful companionship. Aricular confession was enjoined on the faithful as late as the year 1215 by the fourth Lateran Council, and Pope Innocent III. Purgatory was authoritatively discovered and officially proclaimed by the Council of Trent in December. 1563. The "distinction of meats was found to be a "means of grace" by the Council of Trent in December, 1563. Image worship was found to possess saving influences and so proclaimed by the Council of Trent in 1563. The "immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary" was declared and promulgated by Pope Pius IX. in December. 1854. The infallibility of the Pope was discovered as late at July 18, 1870, when the dogma was decreed in the Vatican by Pius IX. and a general council. If any of the above rules and articles of faith are founded on Scripture, I have failed to find it, and must conclude that they are all and severally an imposition on the intelligence of American citizens. [*17783*] And what constitutes the full sum and substance of their following in this country? Cardinal Gibbons, I think, estimates the number at about 15,000,000. Suppose these figures are correct, and what does it show? It seems to me that a fair division of this number into classes would give about the following: Sav [text on the right is cut off starting here] requirements as given in the [abo?] characteristics of the New [Testame?] church. She can hear the testimony as required in Matthew 18:15-17, [a?] can act upon it, and her action is [fin?] -there is no court of appeal to [?] verse her action. She has all disciplinary control over her members, [ev?] preachers. She has control over : doctrinal matters; there is none to [d?] tate her faith to her; she has [contr?] over the ordinances, both in their administration and perpetuation. Therefore Baptist churches [alo?] meet the divine requirements of [o?] scriptural test-God's divine [meas?] [text of the right can be seen from here] ful antagonist to Romanism. Here the children are taught to think, untrameled by abstruse questions of theology or orthodoxy of any kind. They acquire habits of independence. Their minds expand in all directions, seeking for the truth without prejudice and without restraint; and "the truth will make them free." New Orleans. [*17784*]New Orleans Nov. 15th 1901 To the President. This paper is simply to show you how I stand toward the Catholics. I am not a member of any church but intensely protestant and to possess your good opinion would make me happy. Yours Respectfully D.H. Reese 17782 AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG, OCTOBER 31, 1901. RECORD OF ROMANISM. D.H. REESE. The record of Romanism, from the early centuries of the Christian era, according to generally accepted his- torical data, has been uniformly bad. One can only wonder at the presump- tuous assurance of its advocates and apologists. An institution weighed down by such a record should perish from the face of the earth. Before the eleventh century it was a chaotic medley of discord, intrigue, licentious- ness and persecution. Then in began gradually to adopt systematic meas- ures and formulate articles of faith. The celibacy of the clergy was not en- forced until the year 1073, when Greg- ory VII. found a way to prevent the priests from marrying, but not from unlawful companionship. Aricular confession was enjoined on the faith- ful as late as the year 1215 by the fourth Lateran Council, and Pope In- nocent III. Purgatory was authorita- tively discovered and officially pro- claimed by the Council of Trent in De- cember. 1563. The "distinction of meats was found to be a "means of grace" by the Council of Trent in December, 1563. The "immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary" was declared and pro- mulgated by Pope Pius IX in December 1854. The infallibility of the Pope was discovered as late at July 18, 1870, when the dogma was decreed in the Vatican by Pius IX and a general council. If any of the above rules and ar- ticles of faith are founded on Scrip- ture, I have failed to find it, and must conclude that they are all and sever- ally an imposition on the intelligence of American citizens. 17783 17782 And what constitutes the full sum and substance of their following in this country? Cardinal Gibbons, I think, estimates the number at about 15,000,000. Suppose these figures are correct, and what does it show? It seems to me that a fair division of this number into classes would give about the following: Sav [text on the right is cut off starting here] requirements as given in the abo characteristics of the New Testame church. She can hear the testimony as required in Matthew 18:15-17 can act upon it, and her action is fin --there is no court of appeal to verse her action. She has all discipl ary control over her members, ev preachers. She has control over doctrinal matters; there is none to tate her faith to her; she has contr over the ordinances, both in their administration and perpetuation. Therefore Baptist churches alo meet the divine requirements of o scriptural test-God's divine [?] [text of the right can be seen from here] ful antagonist to Romanism. Here the children are taught to think, un- trameled by abstruse questions of the- ology or orthodoxy of any kind. They acquire habits of independence. Their minds expand in all directions, seek- ing for the truth without prejudice and without restraint; and "the truth will make them free." New Orleans. 17784[*ppf*] Oyster Bay LI [Long Island) Nov 15 1901 Mr. Loeb Dear Sir Your letters at hand and in reply Jessie has just got over her heat I am very sorry to say and will not come around again in some time, and as to Mr Roosevelt's heavy walking shoes there is but 2 prs and I will send by Saturday express, both prs I suppose Hall all is with you now Yours very truly Noah Seaman 17785your time by acknowledging this, or the book, only if you have not already read it, please, when the spirit moves you to do so, look it over. You probably have forgotten a promise I made you eighteen months ago at St. Paul's School, but I, being burdened with a CHASTELLUX Dear Mr. Roosevelt; In sending you the accompanying book I am obeying an impulse, which I can only account for from the facts, that all the time I was read- ing it. (crossing the 17786than a chance phrase. Henry Drummond said, "be enough of a man to be able to obey your impulses" and although I may not be enough of a woman to always trust mine, in this case I will, because, womanlike, I want to - You must not make me feel I have trespassed on ocean several weeks ago) I kept thinking of you. Probably the translator's fondness for your word "strenuous" and the expression "saving activity"! had something to do with it, but the expression has lasted so long I cannot help feeling there was more back of it [*17787*][*Ansd*] [*McCullough, President Chamber,*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 2 PO W RG JM IO Paid 11:10 a.m / New York, Nov. 15, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary: Please wire your pleasure regarding my letter of ninth instant. J. B. Tiffany. [[shorthand]] [*17789*] New England conscience, still remember - I said, "when you are in the White House, I will tell you what I telegraphed you when you were elected Governor of New York" — & now, you are our President — By way of beginning, I will confess to having signed myself [*17788*]"pleased", and beg you to believe, as I was then, I am now Loyally yours Caroline S. Spencer Nov 15th 1901 [shorthand][*Ansd*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 2 PO W RG JM IO Paid 11:10 a.m / New York, Nov. 15, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary: Please wire your pleasure regarding my letter of ninth instant. J. B. Tiffany. [[shorthand]] [*17789*] New England consc still remember. I "when you are in the White House, I will you what I telegr you when you were Governor of New York now, you are our President - By beginning, I will to having signed [*17788*] [*PF*] Purely personal. 1717 Rhode Island Avenue, November 15, 1901-evening. Dear Mr. President:- Your two notes were found on my return from the court room this afternoon. I am just leaving for New Orleans, having been unexpectedly called there for a few hours. It is my expectation to return by Tuesday; I shall certainly, however, reach Washington by Wednesday morning. I do not know Judge Selby very well, by acquaintance with him having been formed since his accession to the Bench. Everything I know of him, however, is of a favorable character. I know nothing whatever of men and things in the State of Alabama. So far as the question put to me 17790about Louisiana, if you will indulge me, I will see you in person on my return. With the very highest respect and regard, Faithfully yours, E.D. White 17791Subject: Pure Food Legislation. Chemistry. P Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D.C. [*File Agr*] November 15, 1901. The President, Washington, D.C. Sir: I have received your communication of the 11th instant enclosing one from Mr. F. N. Barrett, Editor of the American Grocer, New York, dated November 7, making inquiry in regard to the advisability of Pure Food legislation. Almost all the states now have laws regulating the manufacture and sale of adulterated foods. There is, however, no national law on the subject except that applying to the District of Columbia, and two acts authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect imported foods products for adulterations and also to inspect food products intended for export to foreign countries requiring physical and chemical tests for foods exposed to sale. Several attempts have been made to secure national legislation regulating interstate commerce in adulterated foods which is as far as the power of Congress extends in this matter. A demand for such legislation has been made repeatedly by the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, the National Wholesale and Retail Grocers' Association, the National Export [*17792*]-2- Association and more than fifty other organizations of a national character representing the interests of both producers and consumers. There is a wide spread feeling among farmers and manufacturers that such legislation is absolutely necessary in order to secure the proper enforcement of the State laws. A proposed bill of this nature would receive everywhere throughout the country enthusiastic support among the people. The only opposition which would be exerted against it would come from certain manufacturing interests producing food products containing substances which might properly be judged injurious to health. Such opposition as this, however, would only accentuate the arguments in favor of the bill. Such a bill has been approved by three National Pure Food Congresses meeting in Washington and representing all the interests in the country, mentioned above. This bill, referred to in the letter of Mr. Barrett, was introduced during the last Congress and after a thorough discussion met with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Committee which reported it to the House with the recommendation that it pass. I enclose a copy of the Brosius Bill and also of the report of the committee recommending its passage. In my opinion the public would be greatly benefitted [*17793*]-3- by the enactment of such a bill into a law and it gives me pleasure to suggest some favorable recommendation in regard to the same in your message to Congress. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully. Your obedient servant, James Wilson Secretary. Enclosures: Brosius Bill Report No. 1426, 56th Congress, H.R. Letter of Mr. F.N. Barrett. 17794[*[For 2 encl see 5-10-00]*][*[ca 11-15-01]*] ADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. Mr. President, Members of the Republican Club of the City of New York, Ladies and Gentlemen: Nearly all of the other sections of this country, I believe, have been heard from; most of the pertinent subjects have already been discussed; and I am afraid that practically all of the time for speaking has now been consumed. However, the flag of the Union is still left for us to talk about; and it may not, after all, be out of order for that flag to be waved for a few moments, in conclusion, by a citizen from "Down by those inland rivers, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, Asleep on the ranks of the dead; Where, under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Sleeps under the one the blue, Under the other the gray." And that quotation, Mr. President and gentlemen, with another from the grand old bard, who truly said that "there comes ever a tide in the affairs of men and nations which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune," and which tell so well the story of the toast you have given me. I shall take as my subject for a few moments to-night. For along the banks of the James and the Mississippi, and indeed all of "those inland rivers whence the fleets of iron have fled," those tides of which the poet spoke not only came in 1896, when amid the stagnation, panic and disaster of a Democratic administration the Republican party launched William McKinley as their candidate for President of the United States; but that tidal wave of prosperity and advancement has swept us into this grand new century upon a flood of patriotism and love of our common [*17795*]42 REPUBLICAN CLUB. country which promises an era of progress to the South never yet surpassed or even equalled in all the dazzling history of this new world. (Applause.) Having thus, in general terms, answered the inquiry which your toast naturally presents to me, and knowing only too well my inability to properly measure up to the standard already set for this occasion, and indeed always required here on occasions such as this-it might be better that, having made this brief and general answer, I should simply thank the club for the high honor you have bestowed upon me and take my seat and say no more. But I have several kinds of bones to pick to-night with the celebrated Republican Club of New York, if this magnificent audience will permit us for a moment to be personal. My hosts of this evening my have forgotten, though I have not, that I was once your guest before. I shall never forget, I issue you, my first appearance before a great New York audience, and the speech I prepared by the direction of the National Committee, traveled hundreds of miles to come here to make, but did not make, that night in November at Carnegie Hall. Uninitiated in the arts of "spellbinding" in this great metropolis, your speaker turned up to speak for this club, as he unfortunately proclaimed to some of his friends in Virginia, who inquired as to where he was bound "with Governor Frank S. Black, the great logician, in the hall where Harrison thundered and Paderewsky played." (Laughter.) I prepared for that occasion a speech which, had it been delivered, must certainly have settled all the vexed questions of the day. (Laughter.) That the arguments prepared for that speech at Carnegie Hall were powerful can be readily presumed when I relate that a portion of them propounded a few nights thereafter at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia were said to have reduced the Republican majority in Pennsylvania by more than a hundred thousand. Recall the further fact that I made twelve other speeches here in that campaign and helped to reduce the Republican majority in New York State in the neighborhood of a hundred and twenty-five thousand, and you can see at a glance that had I delivered that great speech at Carnegie Hall with the effect of only a small portion afterwards delivered in Philadelphia, we would have succeeded inADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 43 throwing the Empire State into the Democratic column. But that great speech was not delivered that night for the Republican Club of the City of New York, and the country was saved: "God reigns, and the Republican party still lives"—Carnegie Hall and a little of Tammany Hall, I am advised, is still standing, and the great national chairman, and the grandfather of all the spellbinders of America, not only is not limping so badly to-night, but is able to spellbind with more than his usual eloquence and to attend to his medical business besides. But permit me to say that even as I applauded the splendid speech of our peerless Chairman I could not but remember that somewhere to-night. "There is an old owl Eating cold fowl And that must be tough old bones to Senator Jones." But when the distinguished and eloquent speakers who preceded me that night at Carnegie Hall had pushed their guest from Virginia almost into the middle of this century, I struck the floor about as hard as you may expect to strike the ceiling yourselves to-night because my pockets are loaded to-night with all those campaign speeches, and not only have I the floor at last, but expect now to have my revenge. I am not so vain as to take the warmth of my reception in New York, to-night, or on any past occasion, as a mere personal compliment to myself. I choose rather to take it as a tribute to young American, and as a token especially of regard and good fellowship for the South in general. (Applause.) Perhaps also in some recognition of the past history and traditions of that Old Dominion from whence I come, the Mother of States and statesmen, as has so often been said, and of the confidence or those who in this Empire State, and who especially in the "Rome" here of America are so potent and powerful—in the ability of my generation in Virginia, to rebuild and repair what was once the flagship of all the great fleet of American States, until we regain her ancient position, and cement her with all of her heroes and tradtions once agin and forever in the hearts of the American people. Until we place her where her leaders may once more be as potent and powerful as they ever were in the past in determining the history and destiny of this nation. [*17796*]44 REPUBLICAN CLUB. Permit me to say further, Mr. President, that every Virginian feels at home either in the city of State of New York. In your greatness do not forget that in some way every other State of this Union has contributed something to the Empire State and to the great metropolis, and I am sure that Virginia has furnished her share. (Applause.) And so, when over by the Lakes I hear the mighty anthems of Niagara, their music is as sweet to me as to you; and I am sure that when our soft Southern breezes fan your cheeks around Mount Vernon, or on the hills at Monticello, you feel a heritage and ownership there that is as dear as sacred to you as to me. (Applause.) Is it any wonder that it requires no effort for us to renew the relationship of our ancestors when we recall that on the portico of your old Federal Hall on Wall street the greatest of all Virginians and of all Americans was inaugurated first President of the United States; and here delivered his message to the first Federal Congress; that here in New York city, over a hundred years ago, a Virginian and a Southerner started in motion the governmental machinery, and launched upon the boundless sea of human history "this republic of the people, by the people and for the people," which should stand not only the shock of populism, socialism, anarchy and war, but the shock of the ages as well. Since that day in 1789 we have advanced from five millions to seventy-six millions of people; our boundaries have widened and expanded until from this sixteen States represented in that first Federal Congress we have reached not only from ocean to ocean, but into the far distant sea, and out of the evolutions of the old South of slavery and secession has developed the marvelous product of the new. A nation once torn asunder by strife and civil war stands greeting the twentieth century in a union more perfect than ever before. (Applause.) Since then the Borough of Manhattan has become not only the great metropolis of the Western Hemisphere, but the modern Rome of the new world in the East. And now in the dawn of the twentieth century, over all the roads and highways of our country, we Americans have come to-night as the subjects of the ancient republic doubtless traveled all the roads and highways of the Old World, met and took council together at the City of the Seven Hills. At yourADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 45 invitation I come not simply as a Virginian and a Southerner, but above and beyond all as an American, to lay whatever tribute we have at your feet. (Applause.) Over all the roads that lead to Rome we have come to keep in touch with the progress of the Union. To feel the pulse of the political world, and to learn of the master minds that from this common center have come to lead the way for all the rest of this country. From my section I can bring you only a message of thanks for the prosperity at home and prestige abroad which we as well as you have enjoyed for the last four years, and expect now to enjoy for four years more. (Applause.) I can bring you only this message of thanks and good will and an assurance of the loyalty of all the people of the South to the government and to the flag that prospers and protects us all (Applause.); and I say this, too, without regard to party politics, for even the Democrats are willing to enjoy the prosperity and the prestige which we have given them, and in case of serious trouble most of them, I am sure, would be willing to maintain that prestige and stand by that flag—be willing to recall the words of that gifted sone of Maryland and say that even they "Can see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming: And whether or not they elected with McKinley reelected, They must let the banner still wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." (Applause.) Mr. President, many of you have heard the story of the New South before. Then years ago, on an occasion similar to this, you heard the story of the South and her problems from the lips of Henry Grady, that matchless young Southern orator. With matchless eloquence that gifted son of Georgia recalled the South: "When everything went on like a story, Holding neither sob nor sigh, In the olden, golden glory, Of the days gone by." [*17797*]46 REPUBLICAN CLUB. Then with all the power and witchery of eloquent genius he pictured the struggles and problems of the young New South from that fateful day down in old Virginia when, as he said, "on every ragged gray cap the Lord God Almighty placed the seal of His imperishable knighthood" up until the time he stood before you here in the City of New York. I will not in the same manner attempt to go over that period, or to discuss again to any extend those tremendous problems, for, in the first place, I would not have the time if I desired, and, after all, it would be simply sacrilege for any one to ever again, must more for me, to attempt to reply to the toast of the New South as Henry Grady did. Those of you who sat at that New England dinner heard first from the lips of no less an orator than Dr. Talmage the graphic and thrilling picture of your own victorious armies, and from that great American from the South from 1864 to 1889. With a master hand that gifted artist then drew for you a picture of those footsore Confederate soldiers, as buttoning up their faded gray jackets, the parole of their discharge and of their honorable service on many of the hardest fought battlefields of the world, they turned their sorrowful faces homeward from Appomattox in 1865, a picture of what there they found and what they did. To attempt here to-night to paint that picture over, or even to touch at its surface withe the brush of fancy, while my hand is trembling already as I feel the mighty presence in this banquet hall of those who hold the destinies of this nation in the very hollow of their hand, would be like the ruthless, reckless stroke of some amateur across the face of some masterpiece of Raphael or Michael Angelo. Mr. President, more than thirty years ago a distinguished Southern veteran came to tell you that while "there was once a South of slavery and secession, that South was dead"; to-night I say again that it is not only dead but buried, and has been buried for almost forty years; and that there is now only a South of freedom and union, and that that South is living, breathing, growing every hour. Let me say, however, that though that South during the last four years has taken on new life and shown her greatest activity, while to-day she may bloom indeed, and blossom as a rose, and present at last as fair a landADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 47 as ever the sun shone on, I must, in justice to those who in the early period of that New South laid the foundation for what we at last have been able to do - proclaim at the outset that after all, since that day when our peerless Lee gave up his sword to your great magnanimous Grant under that famous apple tree and concluded the most [magnificent] magnanimous capitulation ever consummated upon any battlefield of the world, whether among Republicans or Democrats, veterans or sons of veterans, on land or over sea, amid fields of peace or upon battlefields, though sometimes misled and often mistaken, and in their heads perhaps confounded, to the flag of this union, in the hearts of my people in Dixie, the world will bear witness that there has been no shadow of disloyalty. (Applause.) Mr. President, we are all gathered here to-night at a Lincoln dinner, and the speakers so far have certainly done honor to that great name. Indeed, one of your speakers - who knew him, long ago - summed it up in a sentence when he said "Abraham Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war," and that he was "the gentlest memory of all our world." Surely with my feeble lips I can add nothing to-night to those tributes, but it is within my province perhaps, and at last becomes a privilege of a voice from my section of the country, and the State of his ancestors, to say that the South, and especially the new South, has some claims upon him too. The great American who bears the immortal name that is to-night ringing in our ears and thrilling the very blood in our hearts, after all was a Southerner, "born in old Kentucky where the meadow grass is blue." (Applause.) Then I am sure you all look with sympathy and sorrow upon that Southern State in her awful affliction when you see her again become "the dark and bloody ground." The fact alone that she was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln should redeem her name to some extent, and make our judgments wondrous kind. Then remember, too, that at the battle of New Orleans, when American soil was last touched by a hostile foreigner, though "There stood John Bull in battle array, There too stood old Kentucky." There she stood in 1815. She stood all right in 1896, though where she stands now God only knows. (Laughter.) I guess [*17798*]48 REPUBLICAN CLUB. the old Mother State or Uncle Sam ought to spank her, take her back into Virginia, and make her behave as soon as the Old Dominion can get herself into line. Mr. President, I come to-night at your bidding to speak as a young American for the South. Others there are who have spoken and who can speak of Americans here, there and everywhere-all may join in one great monumental eulogy and proclaim to the world what Americans have done in the last half of a century, and conclude at last that perhaps we have found perfection in what Americans are doing to-day. Surely there are many who are great and their works indeed are marvelous. America in 1901 feels and knows its greatness, and that perhaps is natural; but amid the pomp, the circumstance and the hallelujahs which usher us at the beginning of a new century into the arena of the world's affairs, do not think for a moment that it will fall the privilege of this decade, or even of this century, to furnish the first perfect specimen of a typical American. It may be that it shall fall the lot of you and I to see the perfection of the republic which was saved by him and his supporters; but though a Southerner, I am sure you will permit me to say that nearly half a century ago, when Abraham Lincoln was the greatest man in the world, the first typical American had already come-the perfection of your Northern Puritan embodied in our own Southern cavalier. The best of both without the passions or prejudices of either, and it was the climax of the strength, the gentleness, the majesty of all that had gathered about him in that awful crisis when it came. Abraham Lincoln was not only a typical, but the greatest of all Americans except the great Virginian who became the Father of his country; and there he stands as an equal, for he was the savior of the Republic. Had he lived, reconstruction in my country would have been easy instead of burdensome, and his memory is loved, honored and respected to-day by this remaining of that old South, as well as the new. (Applause.) Nor do I say this merely as a partisan, but in the blazing light of the record of this government's achievements under his Republican principles. Achievements which found a climax at the beginning in the administration of that Lincoln and the liberation of four millions of human beings from the bonds ofADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 49 slavery. That proclamation that will ring out through all the ages, to every citizen and to every stranger, that, no matter what color an Indian, a Cuban, a Mexican and an African or an Oriental sun may have burnt upon his face; no matter in what language the decree of his bondage may have been pronounced; no matter what may have been his race of previous condition of servitude, or with what hands his shackles may have been forged; with what price or what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altars of slavery or oppression, the moment he places his foot upon American soil or under the Stars and Stripes anywhere, every inch of ground on which he treads is holy and consecrated to the very God of Liberty. (Applause.) Pardon me, Mr. President and gentlemen, if I have trespassed already too far upon your time. (Cries of "Go on!" and applause.) Wherever the hand of partisan machinery is not laid, and wherever passion and prejudice have rolled away these are the views and this is the voice of the South of 1901—a South where everything is booming; a South where Eastern capital is developing our resources, and every day is building up for us new industries; a South not only where factories are building, but where the very bowels of the earths well as giving up their untold and hitherto undeveloped millions; a South where lately even old King Cotton has been 12 cents a pound and "still a-goin' "; a South that has risen at last from its ruins and its ashes, from its desolation and despair, and is proving to the nation and to this world the blessings and benefits of public confidence and a sound financial rule; a South that in common with the rest of this great American Union will grow ever greater and broader and grander as the years of the twentieth century roll on; a South that a week ago yesterday rose almost as a man to vie with you in paying to Chief Justice John Marshall, of Virginia, the very constitutional embodiment of Lincoln Republicanism in America, the greatest tribute ever yet paid to the memory of mortal man on this side of the sea. (Applause.) It may be, Mr. President, that their tribune is unworthy, and that their views are crudely uttered here; and while to some they may sound to-night like a dream that is evanescent, they are not, I beg to issue you, the effusions, after all, that arise altogether on the spur of the moment. These utterances [*17799*]50 REPUBLICAN CLUB. come as the result of an examination of the past history of this country, and a deliberate examination of the present political horizon as it appears to my generation in the South, turning about to-day for a chart and a compass for the future, and if we err, I believe we err in distinguished company, for these, gentlemen, must have been the conclusions of no less a distinguished Southerner than General Fitzhugh Lee (Applause.), as from the American embassy and under the protecting folds of a flag on which not a single star was missing he gazed on that raging Spanish mob in the streets of Havana. When from the hand of a Union veteran he received his commission as a Major-General in the Army of the United States, and knew that back of him, instead of a new Southern States, stood the greatest nation that the world had ever seen. These, gentlemen, must have been the conclusions of no less a distinguished Southerner than General Joseph Wheeler (Applause.), as, marching on to Santiago at the command of William McKinley, and by the side of Theodore Roosevelt, that matchless young American from the North (Applause.), he saw those brave boys from your far-away Vermont hills and his own Alabama dells together closing in on the enemy, and over on the hills of San Juan he saw the dusky forms of the Ninth United States Cavalry saving his own white troops from complete annihilation and assaulting those blockhouses in a hand-to-hand engagement never surpassed for courage in all the annals of the heroism of the ages, and knew that back of him, instead of a nation torn asunder by sectional strife, stood a government that commanded the respect and challenged the admiration of the civilized world. (Applause.) I spoke a few moments ago, Mr. President, of a South where passion and prejudice had rolled away. I could not then be true to this great occasion if I failed to show some recognition to the great executive, who more, perhaps, than any other, in all these years that have come and gone, has helped with his own magnanimous voice and hand to break those barriers down. You people of the North love William McKinley because you have watched him from that day away back yonder in the sixties when he marched away to battle under the flag of the Union, and you know that he is great and good and brave. The better class of my people in the South have learned to love himADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 51 because he has been among them; they believe that with all his soul he loves the South as well as the North and the East. The old Southern veteran has learned to love him, because, away down even in Georgia, "where the orange blossoms bloom," he came one day and suggested that the national government might well place a wreath of flowers upon the graves of the honorable though wrecked and scattered legions of Jackson and Stuart and Lee; because he was great enough to rise above the party, blot out the past, and honor their living veterans in the persons not only of Wilson and Wheeler, but even of Lee. Surely a people who could not appreciate, in all of its great significance, an act as noble as this, must have had not only a heart of stone, but some of those passions which develop after awhile into treason, lurking deep down in their souls; and I trust, Mr. Chairman, that I may not be presuming too much if I suggest that a copy of these remarks, with the compliments of the South of the twentieth century, be transmitted to some of our unreconciled and unreconstructed brethren at the city of New Orleans. (Applause.) And as the form of our great national standard-bearer trusts to-day upon the view of an admiring world waving as we plunge into the greatest and grandest era of American history those Stars and Stripes from the summit of our wonderful Republican column with the same unwavering grasp that carried it across the field of battle. With his face lighted and inspired by that same divine mission of human liberty that has carried the influence of the Anglo-Saxon around the world and spread on everything continent the gospel of liberty and of God; that gathered about Washington as he fought his king; that thundered in the veins of Abraham Lincoln in that second war of freedom and national preservation, I stand here to assure him and to assure you that young America is with him with unbroken ranks; and if in the next four years as Commander-in-Chief of the armies and navies of this union he must send more forces to the Philippines, or needs even another Waller from Virginia to plant the flag of the Stars over heathen walls anywhere, the best blood of the cavalier of the old South as well as the finished American of the new will be found ever waiting and ready to carry the banner there. (Applause.) The thoughtful listener of these remarks will, however, [*17800*]52 REPUBLICAN CLUB. doubtless say to himself that if all this your speaker has said is true, a few votes for that President in the electoral college would speak more eloquently for the loyalty of my section than any words that I could possibly say. I must ask, therefore, before I conclude, that you will not judge the whole South by that, for in shame, confusion and humiliation I am compelled at last to confess that elections count for little or nothing to-day in the South. Time will not permit me to dwell here and now upon the horrors of that situation. It is illustrated, however, only too well by the Goebel law in Kentucky, which was not, I assure you, one whit worse than the law at present in force even in Virginia; the Kentuckians simply being the first to have the hardihood to rise up and rebel. There was a time in the history of this world when the power of a man was measured by his muscle. Raised by that standard, the strongest brute might be a king and dominate over the destinies of a nation; that was the age of force. Enlightenment and civilization at last triumphed over barbarism, and the ballot became their medium of self-government, which was intended to be typified and perfected in this American republic, where all the liberties of its people were centered at length in that one principle of a free and universal suffrage. That principle does not, however, seem to be applicable to the section of the country from whence I come, a section where the electoral and all the rest of the votes of the people are held and cast by the machinery of a trust that is more powerful and oppressive than any other trust or combination in all this world - the Democratic ballot trust of the South. (Applause.) Mr. President, along the banks of the Mississippi in that great country to the South of you, one sees a line on everything which shows where once the great river reached its high-water mark. In the last four years, and under this administration, every Southerner who is honest and fair has seen that American prestige, American prosperity, American credit and American honor have all reached their high-water mark. Its lines are seen everywhere on everything, and in their hearts these people did not want, I assure you, any change into the dark they knew not where. Reach out, then, we beg of you, the great strong arm of the party and of the government that has settled all the greatADDRESS OF HON. HUGH GORDON MILLER. 53 problems that have confronted this people in your time and mine, and catching if we can the mighty conservative spirit of Lincoln himself, help us to settle aright, and settle forever, this greatest after all of all the great problems—the problem of the suffrage and of the races, and help us to settle it before the turbulent billows of some awful calamity again go rolling and surging around us. Help us to settle it upon some basis of enlightenment and qualification, but with reference, after all, to these social laws and conditions that are fixed and immutable as the very orders of the seasons, or the process of the sun in the sky. Then, standing in the dawn of a new era and a new century, when at last these wars against a common enemy have forever swept away all section barriers; when not only the descendants of Grant, but of Lee as well, in battle array have stood shoulder to shoulder against the tyrant, and are standing to-day shoulder to shoulder by the President, by the government and by the flag; when the soldiers of Maine, Massachusetts and New York have marched side by side with out Virginians and Carolinians; when, in the language of President McKinley, there is "no North, or South, or East, or West," and European tyranny and imperialism have, by the common valor of the nation, been forever banished from this Western hemisphere; when then this great government shall have proven itself equal to all the obligations which it may have assumed, or which may have been imposed upon it by the hand of destiny, we will watch our great and glorious Republican column as it lifts its summit high into the regions of eternal sunshine and continuing propensity, and as ingenious youth shall gather around it and decrepit age shall lean about its base, as Americans, one and all, we will recall again the prophetic words of Daniel Webster, and "Behold the glorious ensign of this Republic, now known and respected throughout the earth, full high advanced, streaming in original lustre, not a single stripe erased or polluted; not a single star obscured, but spread over all everywhere incisors of living light blazing on all its ample folds as they float over land and over sea," and in every wind under the whole heavens we will see carried and blended with that Republican motto of the old century and the old America the new and true motto of this Republic for the century just [*17801*]54 REPUBLICAN CLUB begun—expansion, progress and prosperity, with liberty and union together and inseparable now and forever. [Great applause.] The President: We are honored to-night by the presence of the distinguished Senator who presided at the St. Louis Convention when William McKinley was launched for the presidency. I would not feel that we could disperse without having the pleasure of introducing to you for a moment—and he has consented thus to be introduced even at this late hour—the Honorable Senator Thurston from Nebraska.ADDRESS OF HON. JOHN M. THURSTON. Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Republic Club: I feel how impossible it is to tax for even a moment the patience of the stalwart few who have withstood the mighty bombardment of oratory to this late hour of the evening. I labor under a great embarrassment. I am in robust health (Laughter.), and I feel how useless it is to stack up against the sick and spavined statesmen who came from Washington to address you to-night. I also feel—and I have had cause to feel before —how impossible it is to follow your own dear Chauncey. I followed him once in Chicago. In 1888 we were both billed to speak at the great Turner Hall on the North Side. I arrived late; the meeting was being conducted upstairs; the audience was evidently there; Chauncey, as I supposed, was speaking. I walked up to the young woman who was attending to the wants of the straggling few on the lower floor, and I said: "My dear, has Mr. Depew come here to-night?" "Oh yes," she said. "He is upstairs now, speaking to the audience." "Well," I said, "what do you think of Mr. Depew?" "Oh, he is a lovely man." I hated to stand in the estimation of this young girl lower than she held our Chauncey, and so I took out a stick of candy, gave it to her, and said: "My dear, Chauncey didn't give you a stick of candy, did he?" She says, "He is the finest man I ever met; he gave me a whole pound of it done up in a nice paper." I wasn't to be outdone; I took out a dime and said, "Here, my dear, is a dime. Chauncey didn't give you a dime, did he?" "Oh," she replied, "he is the nicest man I ever know; he gave me a brand-new silver dollar." The situation was growing desperate; something had to be done. I took the sweet thing up in my arms and kissed her, and I said, "Chauncey didn't give you a kiss, did he?" "Oh, he is the best man in all the world. He kissed me and he kissed ma too." And ever since that night I have hesitated to follow the brilliant and successful and [*17802*]56 REPUBLICAN CLUB. resourceful Chauncey Depew. But seriously, my fellow citizens, just for a word. We are to-night speaking to the memory of Abraham Lincoln; and when I read his history I read it as I read the Bible, for I believe he was a part of the divine plan of Providence, leading men and nations on to the ultimate victories of civilization. I read the history of Abraham Lincoln, and I believe that he is a part of that magnificent destiny of Providence working on the Western Continent for the uplifting of the human race. This wonderful continent of ours, kept through all the early stages of human existence in its virgin state, waiting until the civilization of the Old World had reached a point when its best and noblest could be transplanted to this side the seas to take up the great work of government "by the people, of the people, and for the people." Think of what it meant for the cause of human liberty to enter upon a land first-handed from God, where the spirit of freedom could expand and develop without being stifled and crushed in the atmosphere of despotic environment and class domination. When I think of Abraham Lincoln I remember that mighty period in the war of the rebellion when the fate of the Union hung trembling in the balance. The careful student of that great conflict has not failed to discern that from the beginning of the war up to the time of the emancipation proclamation the doubtful tide of battle turned most strongly against the Union sore? Defeat followed defeat: disaster succeeded disaster; until our most patriotic and steadfast statesmen were discouraged and dismayed. Even Lincoln almost lost hope. But from the hour when, with one mighty stroke of his pen, he emancipated a race—from that holy hour of the birth of the real Republic-from that hour in which the flag of the United States became a flag of liberty—from that hour when the banner of the Union became the emblem of freedom; yea, from that blessed hour of our new national birth, the dear old Stars and Stripes never faded from the sky, and the brave boys who bore it never wavered in their onward march to victory. With the single exception of Chancellorsville and that stubborn, doubtful day at Chickamauga, no decisive field ot battle was ever lost by the brave boys who found a new meaning inADDRESS OF HON. JOHN M. THURSTON. 57 "John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on." After the signing of the emancipation proclamation, the war-worn, battle-scarred veterans took new courage, touched elbows with a new faith, and sang with redoubled ardor that mighty battle-hymn of the Republic: "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glow in his bosom That transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free, For God is marching on." The Blue and Gray lie in eternal slumber side by side, heroes all. They fell face to face, brother against brother, to expiate the nation's sin. The lonely firesides and the unknown graves, the memories of the loved, the yearnings for the lost, the desolated altars, and the broken hopes are past recall. But through the mingled tears, that fall alike upon the honored dead of both the North and South, turn hopeful eyes to that new future of prosperity and power, possible only in the shelter of that dear old flag. And so to-night in his memory we follow our President of the United States as he leads us on in the mighty work for the civilization of the world. We believe the flag of the Republic means liberty wherever it floats, and liberty means law and order and good government. As Abraham Lincoln stands before the world the greatest exponent of Americanism, so let his inspiration give force and power to the progressive spirit of this age and of the coming centuries, and American progress will never cease until liberty and equal rights are the birthright of every man, woman and child in the civilized world. Abraham Lincoln! to the North and the South, to the master and the slave, to the black man and the white, to the nation and the world-God's Providence. (Great applause.) [*17803*]ADDRESS OF HON. WHITELAW REID. 39 There is no eagerness to annex the island. Rather there is a dread of such a connection, lest it lead to statehood, and so prove the entering wedge for the transformation of our continental Republic which would inevitably work its ruin. But the duty of protection remains. Under that protectorate the island could have as much freedom as any State in the Union, but it would not be likely to have more. It could not treat, for example, with Spain about the Cuban debt, or with France about the Panama Canal. It s foreign relations would, and its custom houses might, remain under the guidance of the protecting Power. Does that break the Congressional promise to leave the Government and control of the island to its people ? Have not the government and control of Vermont been left to its people ? Must Cuba, though thoroughly dependent upon us for protection and defense, and always held absolutely essential to our safety, nevertheless have more freedom thrust upon it than Vermont, or Massachusetts, or New York ? Our Congress is capable sometimes of extraordinary things, but it is hardly capable of that ? As to the other islands, people will disagree, but it makes no difference. Some think them a future Golconda, others a hopeless sink for treasure and life, and a fruitful source of international trouble. Grant either opinion. Neither has the slightest effect upon the present situation. The one thing on which intelligent and conscientious disagreement is impossible is the duty of the United States to bear the responsibility of its own acts. It broke down the only existing rule in the Philippines as a necessary step in war ; and it had no right, morally or internationally, to leave those islands a prey to anarchy, a haunt of piracy, and an obstruction to commerce on one of its great highways, or even to abandon them to a scramble for seizure among European Powers. (Applause.) It was morally compelled to replace the rule it had broken down with a better. So it assumed sovereignty over them in the presence and with the acquiescence of the civilized world, and from that moment it is bound. (Applause.) Whether we like this or abhor it makes no difference ; the nation is plainly bound to hold them, in the spirit of the Constitution, to pacify them and then to give them whatever self-government they are capable of conducting. (Applause.) [*17804*] A POLITICAL MASTER-STROKE. _________ A political candidate, on paying a second visit to the house of a doubtful voter of the peasant class, was well pleased but somewhat surprised at hearing from the elector that he would support him. "Glad to hear it." said the candidate; "I thought you were against me." "So I was at first," replied the peasant. "When you called up here the other day and stood by that pig-sty and talked for half an hour, ye didn't budge me an inch; but after you had gone away, sir, I got to thinkin' how ye'd reached yer hand over the rail and scratched the pig's back till he lay down wi' the pleasure of it. I made up my mind that when a man was so-sociable as that wi' a poor fellow creature. I wasn't the one to vote against him."-(Tid-Bits [*17805*]but it would not be likely to have more. It could not treat, for example, with Spain about the Cuban debt, or with France about the Panama Canal. It s foreign relations would, and its custom houses might, remain under the guidance of the protecting Power. Does that break the Congressional promise to leave the Government and control of the island to its people? Have not the government and control of Vermont been left to its people? Must Cuba, though thoroughly dependent upon us for protection and defense, and always held absolutely essential to our safety, nevertheless have more freedom thrust upon it than Vermont, or Massachusetts, or New York? Our congress is capable sometimes of extraordinary things, but it is hardly capable of that? As to the other islands, people will disagree, but it makes no difference. Some think them a future Golconda, others a hopeless sink for treasure and life, and a fruitful source of international trouble. Grant either opinion. Neither has the slightest effect upon the present situation. The one thing on which intelligent and conscientious disagreement is impossible is the duty of the United States to bear the responsibility of its own acts. It broke down the only existing rule in the Philippines as a necessary step in war; and it had no right, morally or internationally, to leave those islands a prey to anarchy, a haunt of piracy, and an obstruction to commerce on one of its great highways, or even to abandon them to a scramble for seizure among European Powers. (Applause.) It was morally compelled to replace the rule it had broken down with a better. So it assumed sovereignty over them in the presence and with the acquiescence of the civilized world, and from that moment it is bound. (Applause.) Whether we like this or abhor it makes no difference; the nation is plainly bound to hold them, in the spirit of the Constitution, to pacify them and then to give them whatever self-government they are capable of conducting. (Applause.) [*17804*] A POLITICAL MASTER-STROKE. A political candidate, on paying a second visit to the house of a doubtful voter of the peasant class, was well pleased but somewhat surprised at hearing from the elector that he would support him. "Glad to hear it." said the candidate; "I thought you were against me." "So I was at first," replied the peasant. "When you called up here the other day and stood by that pig-sty and talked for half an hour, ye didn't budge me an inch; but after you had gone away, sir, I got to thinkin' how ye'd reached yer hand over the rail and scratched the pig's back till he lay down wi' the pleasure of it. I made up my mind that when a man was so sociable as that wi' a poor fellow creature. I wasn't the one to vote against him."—(Tid-Bits. [*17805*][*[Enc. in Guild 11-15-01]*] 40 REPUBLICAN CLUB. Are these responsibilities burdensome, and is the outlook discouraging? That should have been thought of earlier. The time to deplore trouble is not when we are in it, but before we rush down the path that must lead to it. The time to dread bloodshed is before we begin fighting. Count the cost and danger of our present position as enormous as you please. It will all be cheap to us still, and fortunate, if only it teach us henceforth to distrust the swashbuckler and the tail-twister in international politics (Applause), to avoid meddling in other people's affairs and becoming heated partisans of either side in other people's quarrels; cheap if it teach us the deliberation that should precede hostile action, the consideration for others, the dignity and moderation that are becoming to greatness; above all, cheap if it teach us the unknown perils we face, the myriad evils we invite, whenever we fling open the gates of war. (Great applause.) The President: It is a cheerful symptom that a Democratic Senator from Carolina should tell the Senate, like Senator McLaren did last week, that the time has come when the South can afford to put aside the animosities of the past, and when its political leaders, as he said, should stand shoulder to shoulder with its business men in advancing "measures calculated to upbuild its prosperity, whether they are advocated by Republicans or Democrats." Now let us as a club respond to that sentiment to-night by saying that when the South shall emerge from the imperialism of its Democratic bondage into the liberalism of debate and discussion upon their merits of Republican policies, the country will bound forward with a new impulse of Americanism. No man of his years is more actively promoting this development than the eloquent Virginian who did such yeoman service for McKinley and Roosevelt in the last campaign. He is too well known to New York audiences to require any introduction. So, upon the topic of "The New South." allow me to present the Hon. Hugh Gordon Miller, of Norfolk, Virginia. (Applause.) A receipt for marrons glaces is repeated at the request of an old subscriber. Cover a dozen and a half of large French chestnuts with boiling water and leave until the skins can be easily removed. Return to fresh hot water and simmer slowly till tender, but not soft. Dissolve a coffee-cupful of sugar in one of water, and add the boiled chestnuts. Cook in the hot syrup till they are clear, remove carefully with a skimmer not to break the nuts, and let them cool on a sieve. Return the syrup, which should be strained, to the fire, and let it boil till it forms on being dropped in cold water. Take from the range at once, add not more than seven drops of lemon juice and half-teaspoonful of vanilla. Drop the chestnuts in one by one, turning lightly with a fork till they are thinly coated. Remove carefully, and allow[*ppd pr*] Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 16 Nov 1901. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I have to thank you for not only an enjoyable but also an inspiring visit. It was impossible to meet you & your cabinet and not feel a new pride in America, a new faith in Democracy which gives us such leaders, and a new sense of gratitude to the [*17806*] [shorthand]men who are rendering such services to their country and whose reward is in the service. With best remembrances to Mrs. Roosevelt and your daughter believe me Yours Sincerely Lyman Abbott[*Personal*] FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. MADISION SQUARE, NEW YORK. November 15, 1901. To The President, [*Ackd*] Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President:- I received your letters with enclosures in due course. I have read carefully what Mr. Allison has to say about reciprocity in his letter and in his speech. With reference to his first point, that the Senate should be relieved from the imputation that it had purposely refrained from considering the pending treaties, I assume that this is a matter about which you have no special anxiety. I have intentionally refrained, for obvious reasons, from publicly criticising the terms of the several treaties. You know in a general way my opinion of them. Whether they should be now treated as dead, or taken up and disposed of, is an open question about which I am not now inclined to agree with Mr. Allison. As to the second point, that the methods prescribed in the 4th Section of the act of 1897 are cumbrous and difficult, you and I will agree with him. I infer from the tone of Mr. Allison's letter that he will be quite content with your general approval of the principle of reciprocity, and that he would not expect you to make any specific recommendations either as to the old treaties or as [*17807*]To The President -- 2 to new ones hereafter to be negotiated. His suggestion that you could not negotiate new treaties under the provisions of the 4th Section is undoubtedly correct, but the Act of 1897 does not in any sense, I assume, restrict the general power of the Executive to negotiate treaties, commercial or otherwise. The point which I would make about existing treaties is that they were avowedly made under the provisions of the act of 1897 and must be bound strictly by its terms. New treaties would not be subject to the limitations of that act upon the power of the President to negotiate, but would, of course, be subject to ratification by the Senate and probably to the approval of the House of Representatives and Congress, as was held in the case of the Mexican treaty, where, although actually ratified by the Senate, the treaty was inoperative by reason of the failure of the House to act upon it. I return Mr. Allison's letter and speech. If I can be of service to you at any time please command me. Very truly yours, Nelson W. Aldrich [*17808*][*Spanish Red X*] [[shorthand]] EMBAJADA DE ESPAÑA, WASHINGTON. [*ack'd 11-20-1901 File PPF pr*] Washington November 16th 1901. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: referring to the conversation which I had with you at Buffalo and which was so shortly followed by the tragic death of Mr McKinley, I take the liberty of once more requesting your good offices on behalf of the Spanish Association of the Red Cross. To Mr George B. Cortelyou. &c &c &c [*17809*]The Association is most anxious to possess President Roosevelt's autograph and if it could be possible to obtain a few lives from his pen expressing an opinion of the work done by the Red Cross, the Institution would be deeply grateful. Several Chiefs of States and prominent men have contributed in this way to the publications of the Red Cross. I have furthermore to ask you to request President Roosevelt to permit his name to appear amongst those of the Kings and Chiefs of States who are subscribers to a work which is at present being published by the Red Cross in Spain. Being a subscriber does not entail contributing in any way to the expenses of the publication. It is an honour the Society sollicits from the President of the United States, as it likewise requests his [*17810*]acceptance of the publication for which his autograph is so much desired. Hoping that Mr. Roosevelt will find no objection in complying with the request of the Spanish Red Cross Association. I remain yours faithfully ArcosTREASURY DEPARTMENT Washington Nov 16 1901 Dear Mr. President I beg with this to present Mr. Thos D Foster of Ottumwa Iowa. Mr. Foster is a large packer and shipper of food products and is familiar with certain features of transportation of which he thinks you should be informed. I spoke to you yesterday of this gentleman & thus said what I now repeat that what he says you can believe. He will "naught extenuate & naught set down in malice." Truly yours L J Gage [*17811*][shorthand] [*ack'd 11/16/1901 Eugts*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, November 16, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- The Italian Ambassador has arrived, and would like to be presented, at your convenience. Please let me know on what day and hour after Monday next you will be able to receive him. I shall be away, as you know, on Tuesday and Wednesday, but he can be presented by Dr. Hill on either of those days if it should suit your convenience. Yours faithfully John Hay [*17812*][*[New York]*] [*Herald*] POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY JOHN W. MACKAY, President. J. O STEVENS, Sec'y. WM.H. BAKER, V.P. & G.M. IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY. JOHN W. MACKAY, President. ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G. WARD, V.P. & G.M. Design Patent Dec. 30-19-- POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY COMMERCIAL CABLES MACKAY-BENNETT REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 16, W. TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. [*N.Y. Herald*] Received at Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. Building, 1345 Penna. Ave., Washington. A--115.NY. WS. MB. 42--Paid, D.P.R. New-York, Nov 16. 1901 [*File ppp pr*] Brown, Washington, D.C. Evening SUN is printing at head of editorial column in black face Roosevelts pledge in Buffalo to continue McKinley policy, intimating he has broken this pledge by removing Bidwell. He may give his reasons for removing Bidwell in view of this attitude. Herald, 2 :56-p.m. TELEPHONE MAIN 458-TELEGRAMS-CABLEGRAMS-MESSENGERS. [*17813*]CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPONT, NEW YORK." [*Ackd 11/18/1901*] [*PPF*] DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY TELEPHONE CONNECTION. NEW YORK, November 16, 1901 The President, White House Washington, D.C. Dear Theodore:-- I saw Augy Belmont yesterday for the first time since his return from Washington. He seems to be perfectly delighted with the way you received him, and the confidence you reposed in him. He told me he had expressed to you, or was able to express to you how much he appreciated it all, and he said he hoped if I was writing to you, to try and explain how deeply he felt your kindness and how much he enjoyed your hospitality. I met Mr. James W. Alexander, President of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, whom you know very well, at the Council Dinner of the University Club, the other night. Mr. Alexander said he had just returned from Europe and would very much like to have a few moments talk with you, if you could spare the time. He said he did not want to bother you but he thought you ought to understand the situation over there, - whether he means life insurance business or not, I am not quite sure. I said I did not know whether you could see him but that I would write and ask you if you could make an appointment some morning when you could see him for a few minutes. I have a letter from him today in which he says that he has an engagement next Wednesday night, but that he could go on Thursday or Friday, if it was convenient to you to see him for a little while. I thought if I wrote it would possibly be easier for you, if you did not want to see him, to refuse through me, and also to let me arrange the appointment so that it will be for a very short time in the morning, if that would suit you. Augy, thinks your message on the Trusts and Reciprocity is a bang-up, and says it could not be improved; he feels that it must command itself to this country, and will of course, be in very much favor abroad. Hope you are flourishing. [*17814*]CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY TELEPHONE CONNECTION. NEW YORK, __190_ #2- Since writing the above I received the three applications for insurance and have sent your check to the three companies for $25,000 life insurance in each Company: $25,000 in the Mutual; $25,000 in the Equitable, and $25,000 in the New York Life, and they go into force from today. It was $917.50 each. I think you ought to take out $15,000 more in the Connecticut Mutual, where you now have $10,000 making $100,000- the premium for that would be about $600. more, that would give you $100,000 which I think is the least you ought to carry. If you approve of this I will arrange with Connecticut Mutual to have Dr. Rixey fill in their blank. Now about the commissions on your life insurance. I arranged with the New York Life to give Mr. Graham his commission, as per your note. He now thinks that you intended him to get the commissions on both of the other policies. He never said so to me and I distinctly stated to the Companies that there was to be no commissions paid to either you or to me, directly or indirectly, but I thought the companies would be perfectly willing, - in fact suggested to me by the Equitable (if you approved) to send the amount of the commissions which would have been paid to any agent, to the Orthopaedic Hospital into the Children's Aid Society. I suppose this will meet with your approval and be a good thing for the Orthopaedic -- I think you will probably prefer it to paying it to Graham. I can arrange it- I know, with the Mutual Life to pay the amount of commission on their policy to the Children's Aid Society - I would like to have this done as your father was connected with both of these institutions, and I think it would be a very nice thing to do. Of course, it does not come from you- it comes from the Companies, and merely [*17815*]#3- CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY TELEPHONE CONNECTION. NEW YORK, __190__ under my suggestion, but of course, I can let Corinne know, and also Mr. James, just how it came about so that they will feel that it was practically through you. If you approve of this plan, I will put it in force and have the money sent. 1/2 to each Yours D R[*obinson*] [*17816*][shorthand][*Ack'd 11/16/1901 PPF*] [*[CA 11-16-01]*] WILLIAM A. OTIS & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO. WILLIAM A. OTIS. PHILIP B. STEWART. WILLIAM P. SARGEANT. FRANCIS GILPIN. Dear President Roosevelt, I hope you can await my full report before taking decisive action out here. Matters are working out admirably. I gave A. B. Seaman a letter to you. He hasn't tact and his political judgement is not of the best — but he is honest and is well posted. I am in close touch with Edward Kent and Cranston — both clean, both friends of Wolcott, both devoted to you. They agree with me perfectly on the needs of this situation but haven't quite the nerve to come out and take a hand just yet. I am at present a general buffer but by talking honestly and desiring nothing [*17817*]I find my own position steadily strengthening so that I feel that I am in a position to really aid the party. I speak to the Mayors of the State tomorrow and hope to use the occasion in furtherance of my hopes for a reorganized, decent party. As ever P.B.S. [*[PHILIP B. STEWART]*] I send some clippings[*File akd 11-18-1901 P.F.*] TELEPHONE 178 CORTLANDT. ESTABLISHED 1864. TIRRILL GAS MACHINE COMPANY. SUCCESSORS TO TIRRILLS UNION GAS MACHINE PRIOR TO 1869 UNDERGROUND GAS MACHINE 1869 TO 1875 METER GAS MACHINE 1875 TO 1883 EQUALIZING GAS MACHINE 1883 Circulars & Forms on Application Tirrills Equalizing Gas Machines ILLUMINATING CHURCHES, FACTORIES, ETC. 39 DEY STREET New York, Nov. 16th, 1901. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- We learn through the daily papers that you are having some extensive improvements made at your country home on Sagmore Hill. We manufacture a gas machine for lighting such residences as yours, as also for cooking, heating, etc. If you are thinking of adopting a gas machine for use in your villa, we trust you will peruse the small pamphlet we enclose you herewith, which gives a short but concise description of our device, or, if you will refer the matter to the Superintendent of your premises, Mr. Noah Seaman, we shall consider it a favor. We have several of our plants installed in Oyster Bay, and can refer you to Mr. Geo. T. Maxwell, Mr. Chas. E. Hauself, Geo. M. Fletcher, C. W. Wetmore, John T. Sherman, and others, who have used our machines for years and can testify as to its merit. We can also refer you to Mr. C. Kennedy, a prominent lawyer in Washington, who has our machine in his residence at Closter, N.J. Mr. R. B. Roosevelt, Jr., of Sayville, is also using our machine, and we hope to put in another this spring for Mr. R. B. Roosevelt, Sr. Hoping to have the pleasure of hearing from you as to whether this matter interests you, in which event the writer will be pleased to call upon you or your representative, when in Washington next week we are, Yours respectfully, TIRRILL GAS MACHINE CO., [*17815*][*for enc, see ca 11-16-01*]"radical". Whatever he may mean, I am content; my "radicalism" can't be very bad, for my first report was used as a text book in Harvard University last year. My Cornell classmate, Lou Hooker whom you appointed Deputy Superintendent of Public Works, has returned to his profession. While at times I feel a longing for the academic life, I feel that my place is here so long as I have opportunity to do constructive work. When you left us last year, I was ready to quit politics, but now I feel like holding my position and joining hands with other young men, who believe at least in common honesty and decency in politics, to hold up your hands May God speed you in the realization of your ideals. Yours very sincerely Adna F. Weber [*[For l. enc. see ca 11-16-01 p. 197]*] [*Ackd 11-19-1901 P.F.*] STATE OF NEW YORK Commissioner of Labor Statistics ALBANY Nov 16, 1901 Dear President Roosevelt: I am sending you by express a copy of our 1900 Report, which is just off the press and which I thought might interest you on account of its discussion of the shorter hour movement. The labor people here have been asking for a national eight-hour law and have been duped several times. I fancy that they would be entirely satisfied with a law similar to the New York law of 1899. That is of course familiar ground to you; but the discussion of the policy of shorter hours may create a demand for information that is supplied by this Report. It is fully indexed; and it is both theoretical and historical. [*17819*]I rejoice in the new era of American politics ushered in this year. The civic renascence witnessed by the triumph of men like Messrs. Low, Jerome and Knight has been a long time coming, but it is none the less welcome. And I have no doubt that a share in this transformation is due to your influence - the inspiration of your example Discouraged by the dishonesty of so many public men, many of us young men were almost compelled to conclude that character was a hindrance rather than a help in political life; that lack of scruples, not conscience, was the essential thing to success. Thank God that dispairing (despairing) conclusion is now gone Before we can get rid of the unclean man in politics it will be necessary to curb the favors of his ally - the unscrupulous possessor of franchises to pubic utilities or of monopolistic powers. It will be hard struggle, but will be won in the end, for the American people are not ready to abandon the old American ideal of equal rights now threatened by the railways, with their discrimination, and by capitalistic monopolies, with their cut-throat competition. The interest you always manifested in the Labor Bureau prompts me to hand you the enclosed page from the proceedings of the national convention of officials of labor bureaus this summer. I thought you might find some pleasure in reading Commissioner McMackin's recognition of the success of your policy in re university men for certain technical work. The Commissioner says I am [*17820*]"radical". Whatever he may mean, I am content; my "radicalism" can't be very bad, for my first report was used as a text book in Harvard University last year. My Cornell classmate, Lou Hooker whom you appointed Deputy Superintendent of Public Works, has returned to his profession. While at times I feel a longing for the academic life, I feel that my place is here as long as I have opportunity to do constructive work. When you left us last year, I was ready to quit politics, but now I feel like holding my position and joining hands with other young men, who believe at least in common honesty and decency in politics, to hold up your hands May God speed you in the realization of your ideals. Yours very sincerely Adna F. Weber [*For 1 inc. see ca 11-14-01 p.197*] STATE OF NEW YORK Commissioner of Labor Statistics ALBANY Nov 16, 1901 [*Ackd 11-19-1901 P.F.*] Dear President Roosevelt: I am sending you by express a copy of our 1900 Report, which is just off the press and which I thought might interest you on account of its discussion of the shorter hour movement. The labor people have been asking for a national eight-hour law and have been duped several times. I fancy that they would be entirely satisfied with a law similar to the New York law of 1899. That is of course familiar ground to you; but the discussion of the policy of shorter hours may create a demand for information that is supplied by this Report. It is fully indexed; and it is both theoretical and historical. [*17819*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington 1 PO JN JM 10 Paid 2:34 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 1901. The President, White House:- Congratulations upon the New-York appointments announced in to-day's papers. Marrion Wilcox. 17821WHITE HOUSE Washington November 16, 1901. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S INSURANCE: Policies applied for in November, 1901, as follows: Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New York - 20-year distribution plan ... $25,000 New York Life Insurance Co. - 20-year accumulation period ... $25,000 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. (plan or nature not apparent from application) ... $25,000 [shorthand?] [*17822*]197 the conduct of the bureaus. The experience in several of the states where the bureaus fell into discredit is one of the evidences. We find that when a bureau takes up topical questions and focuses public sentiment upon them, it is always a great power for good, but if you continually keep pegging away at dry statistics of wages and hours of labor you fail to reach that class which requires to be reached more than any other, perhaps, and that is the employing class. If there is any class that requires education as to its relation to civilized society to-day, it is the men who are blessed or favored with wealth and are in the position of employers in all the countries of the world today; and it is this misunderstanding of the true relations of men in society that brings about all of the evils from which we suffer in government and in economics. I cannot find any fault with my friend from Kansas (Mr. Johnson). I congratulate Kansas on being favored with such a man as Mr. Johnson, but he is scarcely foolish enough to think that such a result would come as a rule from the action of these labor bodies in the various states. The late Governor of our State (Vice President Roosevelt), threw the Commissionorship of Labor Statistics into the arena of union labor men when he was elected, and there was such a tussle and such a fight that he himself told me that the respective candidates had by their unwise assaults on one another rendered themselves ineligible for appointment. The result of it was that when the three bureaus were consolidated into one department at the last session of the Legislature the labor men made no contest outside for the position of chief, and the only opposition I had as a candidate was from the employing class, from the corporate class which felt that its interest would not be safe in my hands. That is the great class that we have got to teach and hammer at to-day, so that we may get justice; and you cannot do it by men who are filled with one idea, men who are blinded to the conditions of life, men who become unreasoning and illogical when they cannot carry their point, and any bureau conducted on this lines would be an absolute failure. [*x—*] [*—x*] Another thing most of you will recognize to-day is that the men who are doing most to promote economic reform and who are rendering possible the vast strides this country is making in uplifting [*17824*] [*1230 Monday*] [*CF*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. November 16, 1901. Memorandum: Senator Burton called and left the following statement: "Col. J. H. Richards, of Fort Scott, Kansas, is the general attorney of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, general attornet of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and general attorney of other large interests -- one of the most distinguished citizens of our state; comes on his own responsibility. Is the special agent and representative of the Gould interests in the west." [*17823*]197 the conduct of the bureaus. The experience in several of the states where the bureaus fell into discredit is one of the evidences. We find that when a bureau takes up topical questions and focuses public sentiment upon them, it is always a great power for good, but if you continually keep pegging away at dry statistics of wages and hours of labor you fail to reach that class which requires to be reached more than any other, perhaps, and that is the employing class. If there is any class that requires education as to its relation to civilized society to-day, it is the men who are blessed or favored with wealth and are in the position of employers in all the countries of the world today; and it is this misunderstanding of the true relations of men in society that brings about all of the evils from which we suffer in government and in economics. I cannot find any fault with my friend from Kansas (Mr. Johnson). I congratulate Kansas on being favored with such a man as Mr. Johnson, but he is scarcely foolish enough to think that such a result would come as a rule from the action of these labor bodies in the various states. The late Governor of our State (Vice President Roosevelt), threw the Commissionorship of Labor Statistics into the arena of union labor men when he was elected, and there was such a tussle and such a fight that he himself told me that the respective candidates had by their unwise assaults on one another rendered themselves ineligible for appointment. The result of it was that when the three bureaus were consolidated into one department at the last session of the Legislature the labor men made no contest outside for the position of chief, and the only opposition I had as a candidate was from the employing class, from the corporate class which felt that its interest would not be safe in my hands. That is the great class that we have got to teach and hammer at to-day, so that we may get justice; and you cannot do it by men who are filled with one idea, men who are blinded to the conditions of life, men who become unreasoning and illogical when they cannot carry their point, and any bureau conducted on this lines would be an absolute failure. [*x—*] [*—x*] Another thing most of you will recognize to-day is that the men who are doing most to promote economic reform and who are rendering possible the vast strides this country is making in uplifting [*17824*] [*1230 Monday*] [*CF*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. November 16, 1901. Memorandum: Senator Burton called and left the following statement: "Col. J. H. Richards, of Fort Scott, Kansas, is the general attorney of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, general attornet of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and general attorney of other large interests -- one of the most distinguished citizens of our state; comes on his own responsibility. Is the special agent and representative of the Gould interests in the west." [*17823*]198 the masses, are not men who have come from the anvil or from the shop; they are coming, gentlemen from your universities, and they are the most radical, the most progressive men that are in our sphere to-day. Some of the attaches of our bureau are college men with degrees, and when they were appointed labor men held up their hands in holy horror. But what is the result? These are very men how to be radical; they know how to drive the question home, and they are capable of performing work the ordinary man is not capable of performing. I like to be frank; I like to be fair. There is no man feels this more than I do, because I have grown up from infancy in trade unions, but I have long ceased to expect fundamental reforms from organization that are controlled entirely and composed entirely of what is narrowly defined as labor men by the unions. The labor question has grown beyond that, and the struggle which goes on to-day is simply a brutal struggle—a struggle against corporate wealth on one hand and against organized labor on the other. My own State has, perhaps, the largest organization of labor in the country—a quarter of a million—and look at the small percentage that quarter of a million is of the wage-earners of that great State. Is it not a question to-day of what the great American people will say of these giant trusts who regulate their prices and these giant organizations of labor that regulate their rates? Will not the great mass of people say, Where do we come in in this vast arrangement? Is it not a positive fact that it is a complete trust of the employer and the laboring man all over the country in our vast industries? If these questions are to be solved they must be solved beyond the power of the trust, either of the union or the employer. They are questions that reach the very foundation of civilized society and have as their basis injustice, and it is because of this that the labor bureaus are all aiming to present facts that will convince men of the wisdom of pursuing a certain course so that the great mass of the people may be benefits generally and equally in the progress of the country. These bureaus have been of immense service. There is no man who can deny that the labor people of the country owe a debt of gratitude to the national bureau, conducted by Colonel Wright, and yet you find Colonel Wright attacked because hisDAILY PUBLIC LEDGER "He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him" THE official count of the vote of this state at the last election shows that the Democrats will have 60 majority on joint ballot in the General Assembly. The line-up will be as follows: House of Representatives—Democrats 78, Republicans 27, Senate—Democrats 26, Republicans 12. On Joint Ballot— Democrats 99, Republicans 39; majority 60. BRADLEY TRIUMPHANT! Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. High above the mere appointments of Messrs. Lieberth and Craft to the two most important Revenue Collectorships in Kentucky is seen the writing on the wall that a Man is in charge of Kentucky; that President Roosevelt knew him and sent for him promptly for advice on the Kentucky situation and what was best to be done for the service and for the Republican party. That Man is William O'Donnell Bradley —the first Republican to be elected to the office of Governor of Kentucky— and if his manly and sound advice and suggestions had been followed, William S. Taylor would be today administering the affairs of the office of the Chief Executive of Kentucky, instead of hiding in Indiana, while better men than he—and innocent men—are being railroaded to the penitentiary and to the gallows because they were Republicans and because they knew that Taylor had been lawfully and legally elected. Kentucky is to be congratulated, above all things, in getting rid of Sapp and of his methods. In accepting his resignation the President missed an opportunity to kick him out, but he is gone, and there is none to regret him, and the remaining duty of the Republican party in Kentucky is to depose him from the Chairmanship of the Committee at Louisville and send him across the Ohio to his old home. [*17825*] IN his vitriolic reply to Governor DURBIN of Indiana, who refused to honor his requisition for the return of Governor TAYLOR and ex-Secretary of State CHARLES FINLEY to this state, Governor BECKHAM denounces Governor DURBIN because the latter chooses to believe that Judge CANTRILL is not an impartial Judge, and that his rulings have been influenced by partisan bias. If Governor DURBIN needed any proof for his assertion, it may be found in the declaration of Judge CANTRILL himself. In his speech at the Courthouse in this city, when he and MCCREARY and WHEELER were begging the votes of Mason county Democrats to help them to the United States Senatorship, CANTRILL said— "If it had not been for my decisions from the Bench on the Goebel Election Bill, the Prison Bill, and several other bills, there would not be a Democrat in office at Frankfort today." Mr. BECKHAM'S defense of CANTRILL is but the payment of a political debt; for CANTRILL'S decisions are what gave to him the Governorship to which the people of the state had elected WILLIAM S. TAYLOR. [*17825*] THE KENTUCKY POST. Corner Fifth Street and Madison Avenue, Covington, Kentucky. THE SCRIPPS-McRAE PUBLISHING COMPANY INCORPORATED. MILTON A. M'RAE. . . President E. W. SCRIPPS. . . . . . Chairman of Board L. T. ATWOOD. . . . . . Treasurer $3.00 per year, 30c per month. Cash in advance. BRADLEY TO THE FORE it begins to look as if the Democratic landslide in Kentucky the other day was a good thing, not only for the Democrats, but for the Republicans who wish to see their party led by vigorous and capable leaders. The Republican Party has in the past few years in Kentucky been a sort of ingrate party. Down in Louisville, where A. E. Willson for years spent his time and money keeping the Republican organization alive by running for Congress against hopeless odds and even winning once, although not securing the fruits of victory, when better times came, Willson was turned down. Understrappers, men of far less ability and weight, were pushed to the fore, and Willson felt what ingrate party leaders can be. In the State of Kentucky for years "Bill" Bradley, by his indomitable energy and courage, his dashing stumping campaigns, and his faith in better things, kept the State organization alive by running for Governor, and finally winning a triumph. When he went out of office he found he was a sort of Ishmael, with nearly every Republican's hand against him. It was the same old case of ingratitude. He was out in the cold. When the services of a strong campaigner were needed, Bradley was called on. When patronage was doled out, Bradley was forgotten. But there are signs of better times for the able Republicans. The bold young man in the White House, by appointing Lieberth and Craft as Internal Revenue Collectors, has virtually told the Deboes, the Hunters, the Sapps and also the so-called "aristocrats," to go way back and sit down. Once more Bradley will be found in the forefront helping to win back for the party some of the respect it once had when it was a mere fighting, courageous minority. Bradley does not wear kid gloves. He chews tobacco like any backwoodsman. He "cusses" and he tells spicy stories. He does not stand on politeness when truth needs to be told. He seems sometimes abrupt in his manners. But for all that, "Bill" Bradley, as the boys in the trenches of both parties know him, is a fearless, honest fighter, a natural-born stump orator, a stanch friend, and a determined foe, a skilled lawyer, and a man of all-round ability. It was well for both parties and for the State that such man is again becoming dominant in the councils of the Republican organization. [*17826*]The above diagram represents an Improved Water Wheel Air Pump. Far superior to anything heretofore invented. The action of this pump is entirely automatic, the supply of water being controlled by the rising and falling of a holder, attached by a lever to the valve which regulates the amount of water supplied to the wheel, in exact proportion to the number of burners lighted. This pump is used only where an abundance of water may be had, and as the water is in no way affected by this; it can be drained into a well or cistern for further use. The advantages are that it requires no attention, never runs down, and is ready for use at any and all times. We provide our machines either with a water-wheel or weight-propelling air pump, at the same price. [*17831*] TIRRILL'S EQUALIZING GAS MACHINE Simple, Safe and Reliable Is there any perfect Gas Machine? Judge for yourself. Thousands of our machines are in use to-day, each doing perfectly all that ever will or can be done with a Gas Machine. It makes uniform, smokeless gas. Everything except the Air Pump is buried in the ground, "Mixer" and all. It is the only machine that is or can so be buried. Mixers of all other machines are in the house under stringent conditions of Insurance Companies; ours is perfectly safe and set in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, especially in respect to the Mixer which is outside of the premises insured and the Generator 30 or more feet from the house. It is built more thoroughly than any other Gas machine. It is made of Galvanized Bessemer Steel Plate, rolled expressly for us and stands the severest test. It requires no vault, or brick or stone work whatever. Two minutes a day will take entire care of this machine; any servant can "run it". [*17830*] [*[ca 11-16-01]*] ESTABLISHED 1864 TIRRILL Gas Machine Co. MANUFACTURERS OF THE Equalizing Gas Machine FOR LIGHTING BUILDINGS OF ALL KINDS AND OF ANY SIZE WITH FROM TEN LIGHTS TO THOUSANDS 39 DEY STREET NEW YORK [*17827*]It can be run by weight or water-wheel pump as per diagrams. It can be wound up without affecting the lights one iota. It will make any size light desired. In one quarter of a minute the numbered cam on the machine can be changed and then the light is changed. Nothing is left to judgment. It goes by rule as a clock does. It is set like a clock and if kept wound runs itself; machines of ours have been run years and years without once being fixed or repaired. By the use of the now popular and perfect Tirrill Incandescent Burner it makes the best and no doubt cheapest light ever produced. The gas made by this machine is used the same as coal gas—for any purpose whatever. It is perfect for cooking of any and all kinds. It will supply hot water for the house with a proper boiler; it is perfect for gas-pumping engines. For soldering, brazing, making cans, for singing and heating irons in hat factories and laundries, for its various uses in silk factories, for heating ovens, and for numerous other purposes this gas is unequaled. It can be used to illuminate houses by electric light. The gas will run an engine, the engine a dynamo and the dynamo produces the electric light. If it does all these things perfectly, reliably and continuously, year in and year out, is this not then a practically perfect, safe Gas Machine? "The Tirrill Gas Machine Co." has invented and patented an incandescent burner that can successfully use the lowest grade of gas made by any gasoline gas machine. Thousands have been sold and are now in use. They fulfill the most sanguine expectations as to their perfect adaptation to the desired end, as they give a perfect light when all other burners are a complete failure. Notice a surprising fact which anyone who is using a gasoline machine can easily verify. When the gas becomes so poor that a 10 ft. bat-wing burner will not deliver an illuminating flame one-half the size of a dime, this extraordinary "Tirrill Incandescent Burner" gives a brilliant light of 70 candle power at a cost of less than 1/2 cent per hour. It is not adapted to, nor is it intended for a high grade gas, but for any gas from 16 candle power to a gas of one single candle power. Within this range it will deliver a brilliant light of 70 candle power and has no competitor or rival. This burner has no separate air adjuster. The exact measure and proportion of both air and gas is deliverable in an instant by a single manipulation which the merest novice at once understands. Any ordinary mantle can be used, and any desirable globe, or arrangement for any special purpose or place. all the different globes and shades that can be used in connection with any other incandescent burner can be used with the "Tirrill" burner. The "Tirrill Gas Machine Co." are now putting up their gas machines guaranteeing that when these incandescent burners are used, that the gas shall cost less than by any other process. 17835 Tirrill Gas Machine Co. MANUFACTURERS OF THE EQUALIZING GAS MACHINE ...FOR... LIGHTING BUILDINGS OF ALL KINDS AND OF ANY SIZE WITH FROM TEN LIGHTS TO THOUSANDS 39 DEY STREET NEW YORK TELEPHONE: NO. 176 CORTLANDT The following illustrated articles are simply examples of different appliances that may be conveniently and usefully attached to our Equalizing Gas Machine. Many others might be added, but these seem to be enough to emphasize the fact, that anything that can be done with any gas can be done with gasoline gas, providing a proper gas machine is in use, and the gas from it properly applied. 17834 A few of the Private Residences, Churches, Schools, Colleges, Hotels, etc. Using Tirrill's "Equalizing" Gas Machine. PRIVATE RESIDENCES C. P. Huntington, Westchester, N.Y. August Belmont, Babylon, L.I. Joseph H. Choate, Stock Bridge, Mass. H.B. Hyde, Bay Shore, L.I. Stuyvesant Fish, Garrison, N.Y. Francis H. Leggett, Brewster, N.Y. G. G. Haven, Lenox, Mass. C. H. Morgan " " W. D. Sloane " " M. K. Jessup, " " Chas. Lanier, " " Wm. Scherinerhorn, " " Sidney Dillon Ripley, Hempstead, L.I. J. L. Kernochan, " " H. O. Havemeyer, Islip, L.I. H. R. Hollins, " " J. H. Whitehouse, Irvington, N.Y. F.H. Benedict, Oyster Bay, L.I. Wm. A. Parke, Greenwich, Ct. Wm. Copp, " " Isaac Mead, " " Inspector A.S. Willims, Cos Cob, Ct. J.D. Leary, Far Rockaway, L.I. Jno. McClave, Portchester, N.Y. Gideon & Daly, Holmdel, N.J. L.O. Appleby, Little Silver, N.J. J.W. Daly, Mt. Kisco.N.Y. J.J. Hvland, Babylon, L.I. J.H. L'Hommedieu Sons Co., Gt. Neck, L.I. Mead & Taft, Cornwall, N.J. Holland Emslie, " " Judge Horace Russell, Southampton, L.I. P.G. Corwin, " " J. Bowers Lee. " " Gen'l T.F. Barbour, " " Dalton & Chappell, Richard, Va. Wm. S.P. Oscamp, Cincinnati, O. Hy. Lachman, " " J.H. Edwards, Ridgewood, N.J. C.A. Stevens, Westbury, L.I. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, L.I. I.S. Corwin, So. Jamesport, L.I. Col. Wm. Sellers, Edge Moor, Del. John Morgan, Bayport, L.I. Chas. H. Van Allen, Albany, N.Y. J. Edward Hambleton, Baltimore, Md. Fred. Kuser, Trenton, N.J. Wm. P. Rinckhoff, Monsey, N.Y. Thos. L. Watt, Hartsdale, N.Y. R.S. White, Great River, L.I. J.E. Van Orden, " " Chester I. Kingman, Guilford, Ct. E.P. Dickie, " " N.Y. Condensed Milk Co., Brewster, N.Y. E. Tillotson, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. John S. Lyle, Tenafly, N.J. Capt. E.J. Merritt, Whitestone, L.I. 17828 Tirrill's "Equalizing" Gas Machine I. J Merritt, Jr., Whitestone, L. I Henry St. John Smith, Portland, Me. W.L. Stowe, Gt. Neck, L. I. M. Houman, Pompton, N. J. A. Brandes, White Plains, N. Y. D. Brandes, " " D. B. Safford, " " Thos. Simpson, Scarsdale, N.Y. Hy. Mc Aleenan, Moriches, L.I. Jno. D. Parson, Jr., Wemple Station, N. Y. A. G Hupfel, Brinkerhoff, N. Y. W. C. Renwick, Summit, N. J. Ryan & Shea, Nashville, Tenn. J. J McLaughlin, Jamesport, L.I Geo. Cusick, Kings Park, L. I. Jno. Koch, Kensico, N. Y. Mrs. Mary L Stuart, Kent, Ct. Einstein Bros., Kinston, N. C. H. W. Kellogg, Katonah, N Y. Dr. J. F. Chapman, " " J. J Gibbons, Little Silver, N.J. Sheppard Knapp, " " E. C. Hazard, " " Hugh Getty, " " J. Oakes, " " Col. J. H. Estill, Editor Morning News, Savannah, Ga. Wymberley Jones De Renne, Savannah, Ga. CHURCHES, MISSIONS, Etc. Westfield Cong. Church, Westfield, N.J. First Presby Church, Tenafly, N.J. M. E. Church, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Meth. Church, Katonah, N.Y. Dominican Convent Amityville, L.I. Mission of the Immaculate Virgin Mt. Loretto, S. I. Dominican Convent, Blauveltville, N. Y. Brother Gilbert, Verbank, N. Y. Rev. M. Tierney, Bayside, L.I. Rev. Jas. F. Brady, Perth Amboy, N.J. Rev. Thos. Egan, Seabright, N.J. SCHOOLS, COLLEGES Oregon Agricultural College, Oregon. State Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y. State Normal School, Potsdam, N. Y. Woodberry Forest High School, Orange, Va. Penn. State College, State College, Pa. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Friends' Academy, Locust Valley, L. I. Charlotte Hall School Charlotte Hall, Md. HOMES Odd Fellows' Home, Westchester, N. Y. Odd Fellows' Home, Hollis, L. I. Masonic Home, Richmond, Va. Soldiers' Home, Noroton Heights Ct. Deats Mem. Home, Somerville, N. J. TIRRILL INCANDESCENT BURNER. Incandescent Burners have achieved a wonderful and deserved success for there remarkable brilliancy and still more unquestionable economy. Statistics comparing these burners with any other light plainly show that they stand at the head of the list in both efficiency and economy. But these Burners are only adaptable to ordinary city gas whereas the Tirrill Incandescent Burner described on the next page will deliver a 70 candle light flame when the gas becomes so poor that a 10 ft. bat-wing burner will not deliver an illuminating flame one-half the size of a dime. TIRRILL INCANDESCENT BURNER WITHOUT GLOBE. We have patented and perfected an Incandescent Burner and Mantel which only requires the same manipulation as described on the preceding page, but which does away entirely with a mica or glass chimney or a special globe and shade and can be attached to any ordinary gas fixture,Tirrill's "Equalizing" Gas Machine --------------------------------------- HOTELS, Etc. Lowry's Hotel, Bath Beach, L. I. Octagon House, Seabright, N. J. Jekyl Island Club House, Jekyl Island, Ga. Grindstone Inn, Winter Harbor, Me. Lancashire Inn, Liberty, N. Y. Portland Hotel, Atlantic Highlands, N. Y. Hawk Hurst, Litchfield, Conn. Frank Frye, Peekskill N. Y. Newtown Inn, Newtown, Ct. Pannaci Hotel, Seabright, N. J. Laurel House, Catskill, N. Y. Zehden's Hotel, College Point, L.I. Old Greenwich Inn, Greenwich, Ct. J. Seymour Corwin, Jamesport, L. I. HOSPITALS St. Catharine Infirmary, Amityville, L. I. Trenton Lunatic Asylum, Trenton, N. J. Binghamton State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y. Burlington County Asylum, Pemberton, N. J. Dr. Wm. Granger Sanatarium, Bronxville, N. Y. ---------------- Fuel Gas. Heating Plants American Velvet Co., Stonington, Ct. Butler Hard Rub ber Co., Butler, N. J. G. G. Durant, Bethel, Ct. Geo. A. Shepard, " " Mackenzie Bros., " " Union Paper Co., Cranford, N. J. Smithers, Wordenholt & Co., Chichuahua, Mexico. R. & H. Simon, Easton, Pa. Tenn. Coal & Iron R.R. Co., Ensley, Alabama. S. Korngut, Grasmere, S. I. Birmingham Cement Co., Ensley, Alabama. Starin Silk Fabric Co., Fultonville, N. Y. American Silk Dyeing Co., Hawthorne, N. J. Crawford Mfg. Co., Hagerstown, Md. Geo. W. Helme Co., Helmet, N. J. Alex Dye Works; Lodi, N. J. Boettger Piece Dye Works, Lodi, N. J. Auger & Simon Silk Dyeing Co., Paterson, N. J. Nat'l Ribbon Co., Paterson, N. J. J. B. Martin Co., Norwich, Ct. Rossi Bros., Mystic, Ct. We can give thousands of names as references where our machines are in use giving universal satisfaction. 17829 NOTICE! If you wish to investigate and possibly purchase a private Gas plant after a careful perusal of this brief circular, we can safely say that we manufacture the only perfect, permanent apparatus ever devised for lighting as well as for heating and cooking. Our descriptive pamphlet, which embraces the experience of over forty years in Gasoline gas and is extensively used as a text book by college professors, we will take pleasure in mailing to you upon request. Estimates cheerfully furnished free of cost by filling out blank printed on the back and mailing to us. TIRRIL GAS MACHINE CO., 39 DEV STREET, N. Y. 17833 Tirrill Equalizing Gas Machine, Set Complete, Different Parts Lettered. A. Generator (buried in the ground), containing Gasoline. B. Air Pump or Blower (in cellar of house) to force air to the Generator. C. Diluting Chamber or Mixer (buried in the ground), where the Gas is equalized. D. Filling Pipe No. 1, through which Gasoline is supplied to the Generator. E. Indicator Pipe No. 2, by which the amount of Gasoline is gauged. F. Drip Box, to be pumped out about yearly. G. Pipe No. 3, by which Drip Box is pumped out. H. Represents Pipes, connecting Generator, Air Pump and Diluting Chamber. I. Pipe, that delivers Gas to the Burners after it is equalized. J. Valve Box on the Air Pump where the air is divided, part going to make Gas and part to dilute it in proper proportions to make uniform Gas. K. Vibrating Lever, by which and its attending parts the air is divided and distributed. L. Weight, which propels the Air Pump. M. Valve, which when closed stops the action of the entire machine. N. Elbow, where water is filled into the air pump. O. Cock, from which water is drained out of the air pump. 17832GASOLINE The use of inferior Gasoline damages the reputation of any Gas machine quite as much as it annoys the owners of the machines. We make a specialty of catering to the wants of the users of Gas machines, supplying them with all and every kind of Sundries, Pipes, Burners, Fixtures, also with the very best Gasoline, manufactured by the best known processes and at the lowest cash prices charged by the Refiners themselves. TO THOSE ABOUT TO BUILD we suggest putting in pipes for gas, even if not immediately contemplating purchasing a Gas Machine, as the cost of putting in pipes while the house is building is trifling; ordinary gas pipes a little larger in diameter are the only ones used, and for the proper flow and operation of machine-made gas it is necessary that all bracket pipes be run up from the floor below, instead of dropping from overhead; that all branch pipes for centre lights be taken from the side of the running lines; that the whole system of piping should tend to decline toward the main rising pipe and be free from low places or traps, and be proven with a pressure of air, under a test gauge, to be perfectly air and gas tight. Is the house or building piped for Gas? How many Burners are to be used? How many Rooms are in the house? What are the Outside Dimensions of the house? Is a Cooking Gas Range to be used? Is a Gas Hot Water Boiler to be used? Is a Gas Water Pumping Engine to be used? Name: Address: Tirrill's "Equalizing" Gas Machine A few of the users of "The Hartig Standard Gas Engine" for Power and Pumping Geo. B. Post, Architect, Bernardsville, N. J. Board of Education of the City of New York, adopted for Public Schools. Miss S. Condit, Bernardsville, N.J. Ernest Flagg, Architect, Dongan Hills, S. I. Geo. M. Fletcher, Oyster Bay, L. I. Mrs. S. W. Kathan, " " Mrs. Talman, " " John T. Sherman, " " Rud. Schneider, Massapeaqua, L. I. James R. Willetts, Manhansett, L. I. Geo. H. Brown, Sharon, Ct. S. Weingart, Highmount, N.Y. Wymberly Jones De Renne, Wormsloe, "Isle of Hope," Ga. Wm. P. Rinckhoff, Monsey, N.Y. Fred. Kuser, Trenton, N, J. Wheeler Glover, Baldwin, N. Y. Chester S. Kingman, Guilford, Ct. E. B. Hall, Glen Cove, L. I. John Gillig, Red Bank, N. J. H. W. Yerrington, Oceanic, N. J. A. H. Randell, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Geo. Couvoisier, Mill Neck, L. I. Mrs. E. Tillotson, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. J. Demarest, Demarest, N. J. J. W. Ford, " " R. S. White, Gt. River, L. I. Wm. Muldoon, White Plains, N. Y. August Brandes, " " Richard Brandes, " " Geo. F. Leith, " " H. Howard, " " D. P. Hays, Pleasantville, N. Y. John D. Bristol, Chappaqua, N. Y. Frank Frye, Peekskill, N. Y. Forman, Stumpf & Sharpe, Paterson, N. J. John Aspinwall, Barrytown, N. Y. Mrs. J. J. Alexander, Stamford, Ct. W. A. Leonard, Newtown, Ct. Ernst Johrens, Mineola, L. I. C. W. Dickel, White Plaines, N.Y. Friends Academy, Locust Valley, L. I. J. Essig, Great Neck, L. I. Binghamton State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y. Dr. Henry Tull, Kinston, N. C. Wm. Kiel, Butler, N. J.[*17838*] IMPROVED WATER HEATER. VENT OUTER SHELL ASBESTOS INNER SHELL BOILER DOUBLE CIRCULATING TUBE HEATING CHAMBER Gas machines are largely used for heating and distributing water. We have made experimental tests with the heater illustrated here, which is called "The Iron Clad," and it has some admirable features. It delivers hot water quicker than other heaters because a small part of the whole is first heated and ready for delivery, without waiting for the whole to become gradually warmed, as shown by this cut. It has an asbestos lined jacket which keeps the water warm, and the kitchen cool. It can be used in connection with the "water-back" in a range, or entirely independent of it. It is a very economical consumer of gas and does the "most work for the least money" of anything we have tested. Many architects specify this heater as the one to be used. [*17837*] bracket or chandelier, thus saving any expense for special globes and at the same time not changing the appearance of your fixture. Prices on application. TIRRILL INCANDESCENT BURNER WITH ORDINARY GLOBE. COMPLETE. [*17836*][with illustrations] GAS COOKING STOVES. If those who use our "Equalizing" Gas Machines would realize the perfection and economy of cooking by gas, they would not fail to use a Gas Cooking Stove. Indeed, we have been repeatedly told by patrons, that of the two services of the machine, they would dispense with its lighting qualities rather than with its cooking qualities. The above diagram represents an example of the Gas Cooking Stove, which we can heartily recommend. They are made of all sizes and are adapted to many other uses besides mere cooking. Some of them have hot water backs, plate warmers, etc. HARTIG'S PUMPING ENGINE. Gas Pumping Engines are extensively used in connection with Gas Machines, and there are many different kinds of these engines. The above diagram represents "Hartig's Pumping Engine" which has several reliable characteristics. IT STARTS AT ONCE, and begins to pump water immediately. It takes less gas to do its work than any pumping engine that we have tried. It can be used for deep well pumping, or for any purpose where water is to be pumped and lifted, and can be made of any size for large or small work. It costs not over two cents an hour for gas from one of our machines. [*[Enc. in Tirrill 11-16-01]*] TIRRILL GAS MACHINE CO. No. 39 DEY ST, NEW YORK. Telephone, 178 Cortlandt. HERMANN BARTSCH PRINTING HOUSE, FRANKLIN SQ., N. Y. after Christmas. But, of course, if we could receive Mrs Roosevelt and you at our home in Philadelphia it would be a great pleasure and honor. You understand about that. Sincerely Yours Richard Harding Davis. [1901] Ackd House-in-the-Lane, Marion, Massachusetts. Dear Colonel. I hear there is a chance of your being in Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game, and I am writing partly to ask if there is any possibility of your coming to dine at our house, or to lunch, or to take tea after the game. I want very much to have you and my father meet, you probably know him already, as the editor of the Public Ledger, and Mrs Davis and I want 17839navy. There are so many thigs I want to talk about. It is a great delight to think there is some one at the White House who can understand, even if he disagrees. I do'nt mind being rebuffed and refused. But I do hate to feel that at no part of the game was I understood. If we do not get a chance to see you in Philadelphia where we are paying a visit to my father, I hope we may see you in Washington where we a re going for a week or so to say all the fine things we think of the way in which you have made the ways straight. For my self, I think the biggest stroke you have struck yet was the inspired utterance of the Secretary of War about the applications and supplications of Senators and Congress men for friends of theirs in the Army. Your statement that after a man has received his commission he owes his allegiance to the entire country and not to any state or locality cut the knot. It was the death blow to influence and pull in the army and 17840 [9-17-01] [shorthand notation] Ack'd 11/20/1901 PF. Studio 348 West 57th Street. Mr. President Dear Sir In reply to your letter of the 14th I would say that since I last saw you I put aside all other work that I possibly could so as to have the statuette finished by 17841shall I take it on to Washington or may I hope to see you when you come to New York. Very sincerely yours JE Kelly Nov 17th 1901 September - In spite of this I have not been able to satisfy myself with it up to the present but as things look now I hope to have it finished in two or three weeks-- I am at a loss to know how I can get your criticism on the finished work 17842 Form. 8047. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO. MONTANA CENTRAL RY. CO. EASTERN RY. CO. OF MINN. WILLMAR & SIOUX FALLS RY. CO. TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF A PRESIDENTIAL BIOGRAPHY. [?] [?] A month ago every one was afraid if he got into the White House he would shoot the lights out and live on top of Washington's monument, letting himself down by a lasso to shake hands with the people. Now, the people are informed that he is the only man in the United States who can go to bed with éclat and nothing said about it. He even sleeps with abandon and there is no talk of divorce. He is now great. He has whole pages in the Sunday papers devoted to him. He has been great for centuries, and lo, no one knew it. He is the author of all the good things that have been said or done since Napoleon built the ark and Greece her knees in suppliance bent. He is the original Norval on the Grampian hills. He knocked a bully down in a saloon one in the golden west and preached to the benighted heathen in Chicago, taking his life in his hand and not near having a handful. He has the smartest children in the world. He shook the navy till all the marbles fell out of its trouserloons. He has always been the idol of Wall street, yet he never was idle in all the long centuries of his long life. As a boy he stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled and shouted. "Ring, grandpa, ring!" And grandpa rang. He was a roughrider without a horse. He wrote Jack and the Bean Stalk when he was past steen years old, just after he gave to the world that fine poem: "Mary had a little goat That keep things in a flutter, And when she had her bread and float The goat was there as butter!" He also wrote: "Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins." It is recorded of Roosevelt that ten minutes after he was born he got up, ate a raw beefsteak, put on his boots and started out to strain things. He has been leading a strainuous life ever since. This is from one biographer. Others say he never was born. His mother found him one day with his gun in his hand charging barefoot through the cactus bed and yelling for more thorns. Really, Teddy, is all right. He will make as good a president as 9,000,000 other men in the United States would make. He is nearly as active and intelligent as the rest of us. We get disgusted, not as him, but at the fool newspapers who in his case, as in all others, try to make a little god out of a good enough common man. Let Teddy alone and give him a fair trial. He will do well if he saves his salary, and that is about all there is in the office. One thing we knew. He never wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the public will feel kindly toward him for the omission -- New Denver (B. C.) Ledge. [*17844*] If this is not too breezy, you may offer it to the president, for his scrap book. DPS 11/17/01 [*[Sanderson]*] [*17843*][*[For attachment see 11-17-01]*][shorthand notation] ackd 11/18/1901 PF. Sunday November 17th 138 Clinton Street. Brooklyn. My dear Theodore: I have delayed until now to send you my best wishes for your success in the new position, which you were suddenly called upon to take--Knowing you as I do, I feel sure that the people in 1904 will want you to keep right on in the good work--Take good care of yourself and believe me Your sincere friend Chas Ware 17845[*[attached to Sanderson 11-17-06]*] [*ackd 11/26/1901*] GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY D. P. SANDERSON, AGENT GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C. [*17848*] and I read with pleasure the noble stand you and Secretary Root have taken, and with a thousand good citizens want to write and thank you both. Very sincerely yours — Wm. Seward Webb Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. [*I hope to have a chance to see you soon — will call the next time I am in Washington.*] TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE "SHELBURNE FARMS, VT." P. O. "SHELBURNE, VT." SHELBURNE FARMS. SHELBURNE, VERMONT. [[shorthand]] [*ackd 11/19/1901*] Nov. 17, 1901. My dear Roosevelt:- In reading last night's N.Y. Commercial Advertiser this Sunday morning and it's editorial upon your new and fair method of treating the promotion and assignment of Army Officers. I want to add just a word of thanks, and to say that I have heard a number of influential men say that they hoped you would put a stop to using the Army for Political reward. I think in common with thousands of others that the way our Army has been demoralized and disorganized in the past four years by it's use of promotion and assignment for political purposes has been a disgrace to the country and the Republican party, and one it will take a long time for the Army to recover from. After Genl. Alger's appointment as Secretary of the War, he soon after came to New York two successive Sunday's, lunched and spent the day with me, and offered me on behalf of the President the Assistant Secretaryship of War, and I told him I could not accept, and the last time he appealed to Mrs. Webb and I said then I would not do, as I would not be a party to making a single appointment for Political purposes and I would be in hot water in a week with the President and the Republican Machine. He was very brave and said he should not do it either and would run the office as he would a railroad, putting the best men forward etc. etc. and in fact, for six months or so consulted me a good deal, but in the end he went the way of all others. I have lived too much in the Army, in fact, was brought up in it and am too fond of it not to have seen the sorrow the base uses it has been put to for the past four years, [*17846*][*[attached to Sanderson 11-17-06]*] [*ackd 11/26/1901*] GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY D. P. SANDERSON, AGENT GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C. [*17848*] and I read with pleasure the noble stand you and Secretary Root have taken, and with a thousand good citizens want to write and thank you both. Very sincerely yours — Wm. Seward Webb Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. [*I hope to have a chance to see you soon — will call the next time I am in Washington.*] TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE "SHELBURNE FARMS, VT." P. O. "SHELBURNE, VT." [[shorthand]] My dear Roosevelt:- In Commercial Advertiser it's editorial upon treating the promotion Officers. I want to and to say that I have men say that stop to using the Army I think in common that the way our Army disorganized in the of promotion and ass has been a disgrace the Republican party, long time for the Army Genl. Alger's appoint War, he soon after Sunday's, lu with me, and offered the Assistant I told him I could not time he appealed to I would not do, as I making a single appoint and I would be with the President and He was very brave and either and would run railroad, putting the and in fact, for six a good deal, but in all others. I have in fact, was brought of it not to have se uses it has been put [*17846*]RED INDICATES THROUGH SLEEPING-CAR LINES GREAT NORTHERN RY. Poole Bros. Chicago. [*17847*][shorthand notation] X 10---7 Ackd 11-19-1901 ROYAL SPANISH LEGATION WASHINGTON. Washington November 18th 1901. My dear Mr Cortelyou: I am leaving Washington for Europe upon leave of absence next Monday the 25th instant. and I wish very much to present my respects and to take leave of the President, so I shall be very much obliged to you if 17849you will let me know if President Roosevelt can receive me, and if so on what day and at what hour. I remain, yours faithfully Arcoshave asked him to call & consult with you about the matter of the bill for my appnt in the Army & shall ask the Delegate from Arizona to introduce the bill when it is proposed- Will you kindly convey to Mrs Roosevelt & the children the united regards of Mrs Brodie & myself & always believe me to be Sincerely Your Friend Alexander O. Brodie [shorthand] [*Ackd 11/19/1901 P.F.*] Pennington, N.J. Nov 18th 1901 Col. Theodore Roosevelt President U.S. Washington D.C. Dr Sir- The pressure of business affairs requires my departure for Arizona next Tuesday (tomorrow) & I very much regret that I am unable to call in person & make my adieux. I have written to Mr Hull & [*17850*]Rowell-Potter Safety Stop Company Automatic and Semi-Automatic Manual Block Signals Automatic and Manual Interlocking, Draw Bridge, Switch and Grade Crossing Protection Speed Controllers and Flagmen's Portable Safety Stops 723 The Temple ...184 La Salle Street CHICAGO, ILL. Nov. 18th, 1901. William Loeb, Jr. Washington. D.C. My dear Mr Loeb:- Thinking that it might be of interest to the President to know how the Press of Kentucky looked on the appointment of Messrs. Lieberth and Craft, I send you herewith clippings from the Ledger and Post. The recent utterances of the President regarding the Monroe Doctrine and The Isthmus Canal, will in my opinion; soon cause him to be known as the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt M.D. (Monroe Doctrine) His admirers are prouder of him every day, and the mistakes that the "Machine" in the East phropesied, have not materialized, much to its chagrin. Let the good work go on, and in 1904,the Convention will be unanimous in his favor. Very truly yours, George Woodhull Clark.[*[for 1 enc see Public Ledger 11-16-01 & 1 attachment see Memo, Loeb 11-20-01]*][shorthand notation] Ackd 11-21-1901 CJ[?] COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, UNITED STATES SENATE WASHINGTON, D.C. Worcester, Mass., November 18, 1901. To the President. Sir: I had a brief conversation with Mr. Lodge before he made his speech before the Middlesex Club. If I understood him correctly, we agreed entirely in our views about Reciprocity. I also agree with everything said in the speech, which I think quite likely you have seen. It seems to me the the Administration, and the Republican Party under your lead should plant itself squarely upon the desirability of extending our foreign trade, and especially of increasing in every practicable way the export of our products, whether agricultural or manufactured. This is what the friends of the protective system have always claimed would take place when our manufactures were established and became strong under the fostering influence of a protective tariff. We have a right to point, as proof of the wisdom of the course of the Republican party in the past, to the fact that at present, without any Reciprocity Treaties, we have become, not only the principal manufacturing nation of the world, but now the largest exporting nation of the world. But, while the time has come in regard to so many of our products, and is at hand in regard to so many others, to take possession still 17855Page 2 more completely of the foreign markets, we ought not to do it at the cost of domestic manufacturers now established, or sell out one American interest for the benefit of others. We should act with great caution in regard to this, and not be driven to any rash proceeding by the clamor of our free trade friends. It also seems to me that we should avoid, except in very few cases, entangling ouselves by treaties, which we cannot abrogate without a breach of faith, and in the framing of which the House of Representatives has no part. To reserve to the House the right to dissent from a treaty which has been concluded, is a very different thing from, and a very imperfect substitute for, a share in framing the measure. It seems to me that in most cases the best way is to enact, by simple legislation, that whenever any specified foreign government shall, by legislation, make a particular provision, such as we desire, that certain other provisions, such as they desire, shall go into effect, and that the President shall make his proclamation when these conditions exist. That leaves the whole matter of our own tariff in our power, and enables us to get rid of one if it shall work badly, as the last reciprocity treaty with Canada did. Mr. Lodge is understood by some newspapers who have commented on his speech, as having said that we might establish reciprocity by general legislation. I do not think he meant to be understood in that way, or to propose to have a general law applicable to all countries provide for reciprocity on certain terms. I suppose he meant exactly what I have just stated. 17854Page 3 Perhaps I may be permitted to add that Mr. Blaine, when he was Secretary of State, and I happened to have occasion to visit the Department, sought a conversation with me on this very subject. He was very earnest indeed in his objection to any reciprocity treaty with Canada whatever. He sent for the Commercial reports, and pointed out how our export trade to Canada had been injured and diminished, and how Canada's competition with our own products had increased. He stated very earnestly that he deemed a reciprocity treaty with Canada impracticable, that the last one had been very mischievous, and pointed out the distinction between the case of Canada and the South American nations. I shall be glad if in any possible way I can be of service to you in this or any other matter. I have a most confident hope that your administration is to be one of great honor and fame to you and great blessing and prosperity to the country. I am, with high personal regard, faithfully ours, Geo F Hoar 17855[*[11-18-01]*] [shorthand] [*Ackd 11-21-1901*] HOPE COLLEGE HOLLAND , MICHIGAN. Office of the President. Nov. 18, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, LLD. Washington D. C. My dear Mr. President:- In compliance with your request of October 9th last, giving me the distinguished honor and privilege to suggest to you a Dutch Reformed Minister for a chaplaincy in the army, I take great pleasure in recommending to you the Rev. Rense H. Joldersma of Pocomoke City, Maryland. I consider him the best available man in our Church. He is fifty years old, but appears to be no more than forty-five. He is a graduate our College, and was a classmate of the Hon. G.J. Diekema, now in your city, a member of the [*17856*]HOPE COLLEGE HOLLAND , MICHIGAN. Office of the President. Spanish War Claims Commission, and of the Rev. John G. Fagg of the Collegiate Church in New York City. Mr. Joldersma (pronounced Yoldersma) has ministered to important churches in Grand Rapids and Chicago, and was, for some years, Superintendent of Domestic Missions of our Church here in the West. He is well known through out our whole Church. Again thanking you most heartily for desiring thus to honor the Dutch Reformed Church and Hope College, and for the honor conferred upon me. I remain, Your Obedient Servant, G.J. Kollen [*17857*][shorthand] [*Ackd 11-21-1901*] Lunsford L. Lewis. Hunsdon Cary. Lewis & Cary, Attorneys at Law, Merchants' National Bank Building, Richmond, Va. November 18, 1901. To the President, Washington, D.C. Mr. President: I thank you for your letter of the 16th inst. which is just received. My letter to Mr. Agnew was intended for his eye alone, but since it has brought forth your gratifying commendation I am not sorry it was shown you. I can truly say that I think you did right in selecting for the Judgeship a member of the bar of the Western District. Who first suggested to you the idea of my appointment I do not know. I never thought of applying for the place, and but for the fact that as a member of the Court of Appeals of Virginia I had for a number of years been closely thrown with the bar as well of the Western as of the Eastern part of the State I would have requested that my name be not considered in connection with the matter, grateful as I was to the kind friends for the nice things they said to you and the Attorney- General about me. Mr. McDowell is very favorably spoken of to me by several of the best lawyers in his part of the district, and I do not doubt that he is going to make a good judge. The name, moreover, of Henry Clay is a taking one with me, brought up as I was by an Old Line Whig father, whose father before him was a [*17858*]Lunsford L. Lewis. Hunsdon Cary. Lewis & Cary, Attorneys at Law, Merchants' National Bank Building, Richmond, Va. The President #2 Federalist of the most pronounced anti-Jefferson type. I knew very pleasantly the late Major McDowell, the father of Judge McDowell, and if the latter is "a chip of the old block" no better timber can be found. In answer to your inquiry in regard to our Postmaster, I have to say that I think well of him. His administration of the office, as far as I can judge, has been satisfactory, and I do not doubt that he can get the endorsements of the leading business men of the city, and of many others besides. There have been factional contests in the party here, and he quite likely has some enemies, but I am satisfied he is a good man for the place. I know nothing, and have heard nothing alleged against him, to lead me to a different conclusion. Let me add that it will be a pleasure to furnish at any time any information I can that you may desire in regard to matters in Virginia pertaining to your administration. And now again thanking you, Mr. President, for your kind letter, and with best wishes for you personally and officially, I am, with great respect, Very truly yours, L.L. Lewis [*17859*][*Ackd*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. 40 Broadway, New York City, November 18, 1901. My dear Mr. President: I have your letter of November 16th in which you ask what will be the most convenient time for me to come on to that dinner at Washington, and asking me whether I would prefer December or January. I do not know that it makes very much difference to me whether it is December or January, as the time I am to see Mr. Low. What I supposed was that you were going to send for me to confer with Mr. Low as to the the make-up of his Cabinet and principal officers. I have not seen him as yet and probably will not see him unless he conceives it it be of some consequence to confer with him on the matters in hand, and that before December or January. I presume that you must have inferred that I had seen him or would see him previous to the dinner. If you are only to have people who are in Washington, it will probably be better that I should fix the date for some time early in December. I expect to be in Washington right after Thanksgiving, to remain until Congress adjourns for the Holidays. Yours faithfully, T. C. Platt [*17860*][*[11-18-01]*] [*Mr. Secty:- Kindly show this to the President & oblige. Reily.*] [[shorthand]] [*17861*] E. MONT. REILY, PREST. J. S WELCH, 1ST VICE-PRES. DR. B. H. WHEELER, TREAS. J. ED. JEWELL, 2ND VICE-PRES. M. E. GETCHELL, SEC'Y. G. W. LODWICK, ASS'T SEC'Y. THE 1904 ROOSEVELT CLUB NO. 1 KANSAS CITY, MO. Executive Committee: JOSEPH H. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. M. A. PURSLEY, SECRETARY. DR. G. O. COFFIN, CHAS. E. SMALL, A. G. LACKEY A. N. CHURCH, W. S. PONTIUS, L. M. COX, FRANK C. PECK, C. C. ANDERSON, BENJ. SPITZ, CHAS. R. PENCE. GEO. L. NELLIS, CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAS. A. MCLANE, CHMN. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE. [*Ackd 11-21-1901*] November 18, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- The past few months I have organized about twenty clubs on the line of ours, and since you became President, I am getting letters daily from all over this Western country, asking me for indorsements to you for office. I have refused to indorse in nearly every case, but some of the fellows here have done such good club work, in their home towns, that I feel as if I can't refuse an indorsement. Where I indorse, I only do so to keep the good work going, knowing that you understand. I'm organizing a large club in Omaha, and they have sent for me to complete organization. Cases of that kind I sometimes have to give indorsement, but I shall refrain as much as possible. I was so pleased that you appointed my old friend Burroughs Postmaster at Fort Worth, Texas. Magnificent appointment. I worked for a year to secure his appointment under President McKinley. I expect to go to Texas to look up matters for you before long, and Burroughs can be of much service to me. Yours sincerely, E. Mont Reily. Dic. E.M.R. This is the First Club Organized in the U.S. in the Interest of the Great and Stalwart American for President. [*17862*][*[11-18-01]*] [*Mr. Secty:- Kindly show this to the President & oblige. Reily.*] [[shorthand]] [*17861*] E. MONT. REILY, PREST. J. S WELCH, 1ST VICE-PRES. DR. B. H. WHEELER, TREAS. J. ED. JEWELL, 2ND VICE-PRES. M. E. GETCHELL, SEC'Y. G. W. LODWICK, ASS'T SEC'Y. THE 1904 ROOSEVELT CLUB NO. 1 KANSAS CITY, MO. Executive Committee: JOSEPH H. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. M. A. PURSLEY, SECRETARY. DR. G. O. COFFIN, CHAS. E. SMALL, A. G. LACKEY A. N. CHURCH, W. S. PONTIUS, L. M. COX, FRANK C. PECK, C. C. ANDERSON, BENJ. SPITZ, CHAS. R. PENCE. GEO. L. NELLIS, CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAS. A. MCLANE, CHMN. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE. [*Ackd 11-21-1901*] November 18, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- The past few months I have organized about twenty clubs on the line of ours, and since you became President, I am getting letters daily from all over this Western country, asking me for indorsements to you for office. I have refused to indorse in nearly every case, but some of the fellows here have done such good club work, in their home towns, that I feel as if I can't refuse an indorsement. Where I indorse, I only do so to keep the good work going, knowing that you understand. I'm organizing a large club in Omaha, and they have sent for me to complete organization. Cases of that kind I sometimes have to give indorsement, but I shall refrain as much as possible. I was so pleased that you appointed my old friend Burroughs Postmaster at Fort Worth, Texas. Magnificent appointment. I worked for a year to secure his appointment under President McKinley. I expect to go to Texas to look up matters for you before long, and Burroughs can be of much service to me. Yours sincerely, E. Mont Reily. Dic. E.M.R. This is the First Club Organized in the U.S. in the Interest of the Great and Stalwart American for President. [*17862*][*[Attached to Reily, 11-18-01]*] [*[For 1. attachment see Reily 11-18-01]*]William A. Otis and Co. Bankers and Brokers, Colorado Springs, Colorado William A. Otis, Philip B. Stewart William P. Sargeant Francis Gilpin [*Ackd 11-25-1901 Wrote Secy State Wrote Mr. Slocum & sent letters 11-29-1901*] November 18th, 1901. The President, Washington, D.C. Dear President Roosevelt: William F. Slocum, President of Colorado College, is about to go abroad for a year. I have worked with him as trustee, know him intimately, and am almost prepared to say, as you did of Jacob Reise, that, all things considered, he is the most valuable citizen today of this state. He has refused the Republican nomination for the governorship when he could have been elected easily, but is devoting himself, with marvelous success, to this institution. Judge Campbell tells me that a letter signed by Mr. McKinley he found of very great value to him, in a recent foreign trip, with out consuls, and suggests to me that such a letter to Mr. Slocum would aid him in the same way. If it is not irregular and you can do so properly I should be glad of a line saying that he is a citizen of this Country, in good standing, to whom consideration can be given by representatives of the Government and others. If you feel able to send a line of this kind it should be addressed to William F. Slocum, c/o Winfield S. Slocum, Herald Building, Boston, Mass. I am sending you today Mr. Wolcott’s pronouncement on his position, which you, doubtless, will receive from other [*17868*]T. R.-2 sources. It is specious, but the main fact is that he is preparing to work in harmony along the lines that I am very anxious to have followed. [I shall see him tomorrow.] I had a very long conference with Judge Campbell, of our Supreme Court, a clean, able and practical man, on Saturday; his views coincide with mine and are along the lines of the letter which I wrote you on Friday I shall see Mr. Wolcott within the next few days, and then propose to take up this whole situation in a letter to you. Your favor of the 15th is before me, with reference to Mr. Brady, and that question I will also take up when I next write you. I remain, Very sincerely, Philip B. Stewart PBS-P [*17864*]W. A. & A. M. WHITE, P. O. ADDRESS, BOX 619 [*File P. F.*] No. 130 Water Street. New York, November 18th, 1901. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. My dear Mr. President: Acknowledging your favor of the sixteenth instant, I am sorry to say that I have at the moment no sufficient information to enable me to answer the questions raised. I think it will be possible for me to get some information from men whose business is in Brooklyn as to the present administration of the Post Office in that Borough without in the least involving any one beyond myself. I shall take pleasure in making the effort to learn something and in forwarding anything of importance. Sincerely yours, Alfred T. White [*17865*]THE EMPORIA GAZETTE Daily and Weekly W. A. WHITE. Editor Emporia, Kansas Nov. 18, 1901 My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I have your letter of the 14th. Of course, I am pleased with what you say about me, and your perfect frank explanation of understanding my position in this matter. I cannot in good taste and without violating that respect, which is my greatest pride, urge you farther in this matter. I have said with all force and clearness at my command, everything which one man may say to another, in support of my position for Leland's appointment. The matter seems to stand thus-for Leland, his record and the recommendations of these of his depart mental superiors and the recommendation of President Mc Kinley. Also various testimonies from the Supreme Court of [17866] T. R. (2) Kansas and others, as to his personal integrity. Finally, my own statement. Against him, the endless chain scheme of the boss brothers; the opinion of Secretary Wilson and Dr. Canfield and of Charles S. Gleed. I find on investigation, that in the 80s, Leland was instrumental in forcing Canfield out of the Kamsas State University because Leland believed Canfield was teaching free trade. Leland was wrong in that oontention, but he made his fight openly and bitterly. Canfield like Leland, is a man of strong prejudices and intense likes and dislikes, always as far as I have been able to tell, founded with good reasons and sane, sound sense. Gleed is Canfield's next friend. I think he was a state university regent, when Canfield was the object of Leland's fight. I believe these men as sincere as I am, and perhaps 17867THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE, EDITOR [*PF*] EMPORIA, KANSAS Nov. 18, 1901 My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I have your letter of the 14th. Of course, I am pleased with what you say about me, and your perfect frank explanation of understanding my position in this matter. I cannot in good taste and without violating that respect, which is my greatest pride, urge you farther in this matter. I have said with all force and clearness at my command, everything which one man may say to another, in support of my position for Leland's appointment. The matter seems to stand thus - for Leland, his record and the recommendations of those of his departmental superiors and the recommendation of President McKinley. Also various testimonies from the Supreme Court of [*17866*] T.R. (2) Kansas and others, as to his personal integrity. Finally, my own statement. Against him, the endless chain scheme of the boss busters; the opinion of Secretary Wilson and of Dr. Canfield and of Charles S. Gleed. I find on investigation, that in the 80s, Leland was instrumental in forcing Canfield out of the Kansas State University because Leland believed Canfield was teaching free trade. Leland was wrong in that contention, but he made his fight openly and bitterly. Canfield like Leland, is a man of strong prejudices and intense likes and dislikes, always as far as I have been able to tell, founded with good reason and sane, sound sense. Gleed is Canfield's next friend. I think he was a state university regent, when Canfield was the object of Leland's fight. I beleive these men as sincere as I am, and perhaps [*17867*]T.R. (3) more intelligent. As I told you before, I don't know anything about the Wilson matter. That he says, is contradicted by my own personal experience of Leland, and I am compelled to leave my original opinion of Leland unchanged. I have entered Kansas politics from the bottom. For several years, I have served as ward committeeman and as chairman of the executive committee of my county and on my state central committee. I have served here, because I believe it is my duty, because I believe I can accomplish more real good by influence and by example. The whole business is out of my real life and there is no political reward which I will take, because I want my rewards in life to come from another [flied] field of work. I only engage in politics for what I can do, not for [*17868*] T.R. (4) what I may be. However distasteful it all is to me, I feel sure that I shall be in politics in my ward and in my county and my state all my life. It was here that I got my view of Leland and his methods. My look is a look up. The views of those of Canfield and of Gleed [and of Wilson] are looks down. I know Leland in the machine and I know that he is clean. They know Leland outside of the machine and they believe he is not. You must judge of the case, and in your judgement I have an implicit faith. And even though I feel sure that you are mistaken, I shall believe always in your great honesty of purpose, and shall always be proud to champion it. I have only mentioned McKinley's promise in this matter heretofore, not as a reason for binding you, but to throw a strong side light on Leland's [*17869*]T. R. (5) character and to reveal him as I know him, and as I have tried to make you know him. Now as to Ware and Metcalfe. Ware would be an ideal man. He is not a representative of either faction. He is Leland'd friend. but he is not a fellow factionist. You could not make a more admirable appointment than Ware, if you do not make Leland's. As for Metcalfe, I have known him for fifteen years. He is a most charming fellow. He has been connected with a loan and insurance business in Lawrence most of that time. He is unknown in state politics. What he did in the Philippines, I do not know, but he was all the time there under Funston, who is a strong, dashing, dominating personality. He is untried politically. He might make a capable, efficient officer. But [*17870*] T. R. (6) the office is a political office and he would be expected to play politics in it. Burton is talking of running Metcalfe for governor. Metcalfe is that much of a Burtonite. His appointment might not be taken as you wish it to be taken. It would be taken, I am sure, as a direct swipe at Leland and an overwhelming victory for Burton. This would give Burtoniasm, which is in Kansas, incipient Quayism, a powerful impetus. That impetuswould be turned for wrong. Leland holds Burton' level. Burton has said, this is not presidential patronage and that he does not [care to] control the appointment. If Leland is nominated, it will generally be considered here that it is because of Mc Kinley's promise, and not because of any service he has done or has promised to do for you. If he is turned down and anyone else [*17871*]you know him. Now as to Ware and Metcalfe. Ware would be an ideal man. He is not a representative of either faction. He is Leland'd friend. But he is not a fellow factionist. You could not make a more admirable appointment than Ware, if you do not make Leland's. As for Metcalfe, I have known him for fifteen years. He is a most charming fellow. He has been connected with a loan and insurance business in Lawrence most of that time. He is unknown in state politics. What he did in the Philippines, I do not know, but he was all the time there under Funston, who is a strong, dashing, dominating personality. He is untried politically. He might make a capable, efficient officer. But [*17870*] T.R. (6) the office is a political office and he would be expected to play politics in it. Burton is talking of running Metcalfe for governor. Metcalfe is that much of a Burtonite. His appointment might not be taken as you wish it to be taken. It would be taken, I am sure, as a direct swipe at Leland an overwhelming victory for Burton. This would give Burtoniasm, which is in Kansas, incipient Quayism, a powerful impetus. That impetuswould be turned for wrong. Leland holds Burton' level. Burton has said, this is not presidential patronage and that he does not [care to] control the appointment. If Leland is nominated, it will generally be considered here [that it is] because of Mc Kinley's promise, and not because of any service he has done or has promised to do for you. If he is turned down and anyone else [*17871*]T. R. (7) appointed, particularly Metcalfe who is a Burton factionist, it will be considered in the state that Burton has been given absolute control beyond his [changing] claiming and his deserts of patronage in the West. This I think, would be a blow to decent government in the Republican party in this state. I am now speaking in my capacity as ward committeeman and as a member of the state central committee, giving you the benefit of my judgement from the lower [works] walks of politics. You will have plenty of advise from the other side, and I do not wish in the slighest to cast any aspersions in the sincere motives of those who [gave] give it to you. There is the bird's eye view and the worm's eye view, and each seek the truth. You who are of a level, must make your mind up by comparing each view and by using your own judgement. I [trust to] wish you would talk to [*17872*] T. R. (8) Congressman Long [so much]. [So I wish you would talk this matter over with him], before you act finally and definitely in the matter. You know he is a member of the Ways and Means committee and is altogether the most powerful man in all the Kansas delegation. You can talk to him frankly and advise with him and think without fear, that he will not deceive you. He has learned the great lesson in politics, that it pays to be decent and to be frank and to be honest. I believe verily, that he will do so with you, and now, I leave it all. You have been good and kind and patient to listen to me, and I have tried to be worthy of your goodness and your kindness and your patience. If you finally do decide to name Leland, I would be glad to tell him the day that the [*17873*] news is made public. If on the other hand, the matter becomes a matter T. R. (7) appointed, particularly Metcalfe who is a Burton factionist will be considered in the state that Burton had been given absolute control beyond his [changing] claiming and his deserts of patronage in the West. This I think, would be a blow to decent government in the Republican party in this state. I am now speaking in my capacity as ward committeeman and as a member of the state central committee, giving you the benefit of my best judgement from the lower [works] walks of politics. You will have plenty of advise from the other side, and I do not wish in the slightest to cast any aspersions on the sincere motives of those who gave it to you. There is the bird's eye view and the worm's eye view, and each sees the truth. You who are of a level, must make your mind up by comparing each view and by using your own judgement. I [trust to] wish you would talk to [*17872*] T. R. (8) Congressman Long [so much]. [So I wish you would talk this matter over with him], before you act finally and definitely in the matter. You know he is a member of the Ways and Means committee and is altogether the most powerful man in all the Kansas delegation. You can talk to him frankly and advise with him and think without fear, that he will [not] deceive you. He has learned the great lesson in politics, that it pays to be decent and to be frank and to be honest. I believe verily, that he will do so with you, and now, I leave it all. You have been good and kind and patient to listen to me, and I have tried to be worthy of your goodness and your kindness and your patience. If you finally do decide to name Leland, I would be glad to tell him the day that the [*17873*] news is made public. If on the other hand, the matter becomes a matter T. R. (9) of graver doubts [and] than it was when [you think] the business came up, I would like very much to tell the old man myself. He is so serene in his certainty. [that you will xxx and him xxx some action xxx ] The McKinley [and Burton] promise holds good that I would like very much to have the opportunity of breaking the news to him and letting him down easy and telling him the truth as I know it. But of course I hope – but then why repeat that. Very sincerely yours, W. A. White Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., President of the United States, Washington, D. C. [*17874*](copy) Office of U.S. Commissioner of Immigration. Vancouver B.C. Nov. 18, 1901. U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, Vancouver, B.C. Sir;- From the inclosed clipping you will see that a delegation from Hawaii, composed of W.O. Smith, J.B. Atherton, F.M. Swansey and R.P. Rithet, called upon the President and Secretary Gage to discuss Hawaiian industrial affairs and asked that "Chinese be admitted free to the Islands, at least for a time." To the Gentlemen mentioned, (with the exception of R.P. Rithet, who is head of the Brittish shipping firm of Rithet & Co. of Victoria, B.C.), I am indebted for personal courtesy and kindness during my nine months stay in the Islands, two years ago. Mr. Swansey is the head of the great English firm of Theodore Davies & Co., of Honolulu. Theodore Davies was the guardian of the Princess Kaiulani, taking her to England and Scotland for education. Mr. Swansey is a Brittish subject, of Irish birth and, two years ago, was not in harmony with American ideas or institutions. J.B. Atherton is the president of the large and wealthy firm of Castle, Cook & Co., and it is well known that while they are making a profit of sixty per cent, on their Ewu plantation, they were scouring the earth for the cheapest pauper labor. Mr. Atherton left Boston forty years ago, poor and sick, and, as he told me, with a six months lease on life from his physicians. W.G. Smith was born on the Islands, of American parents, educated in Massachusetts, was one of the committee of safety during the revolution and, after the establishment of the Republic, the Attorney General of President Dole's first cabinet. Later he resigned, owing it was said, to some misunderstanding 17875 (2) with his colleagues. This is a list of splendid gentlemen. Like the Southern planters of old, the most genial hosts and companions in the world,-if you did not meddle with slavery. So the Hawaiian planter, if you do not meddle with his pet project of grinding out sugar at enormous profits with the most abject pauper alien labor. Mr. Swansey put me up at the Honolulu Club, shortly after my arrival, and Mr. Atherton gave me letters which assured for me much hospitality, and were very helpful to me while investigating the labor conditions of the Islands. I would joyfully serve either of them if I could. But from a patriotic American view-point, they represent a class whose motto has been "Millions for dividends, but not one cent for citizenship." Because of the greed of this class, Hawaii is to-day, commercially speaking, at the mercy of the Oriental; and the "Paradise" of the Pacific," instead of being peopled by the best of the earth, is being overrun by the scum of creation. According to the press report, the delegation told [the] Secretary Gage that the "Sugar plantations were becoming less productive each year because of the planters' inability to secure desirable labor." A member of one of the firms represented told me that their only reason for increasing the capital stock on one of their plantations from three to five millions was to cover up their profits. The delegation has doubtless said in Washington that the planters have tried to secure white American labor, but without success. From my experience, I feel justified in saying that they have never tried fairly and honestly, not to say liberally. Shortly after my arrival in Honolulu, November 1896 (because of my interest in immigration during a 15 years residence in the [*17876*](3) Northwest), I was invited by the Planters' Association to give my experiences and, if I would, a detailed plan for bringing white labor to the Islands. It suited the planters to have this talked of and advertised. Lorin Thurston, Esq. (The first representative of Hawaii at Washington during president Cleveland's administration), B. F. Dillingham, president of the Oahu railway, and Minister Sewall cautioned me against becoming too enthusiastic over the planters' professions of anxiety for white American labor. The meeting was well attended. I was speaking of the moral effect of a hearty cordial invitation from the Planter's Association to the agriculturalists of the Mainland, when Mr. Swansey said; "Col. That is sentiment. We care only for the dollar." Can we get the white American labor you suggest as cheap as we can get labor elsewhere? That's the question" I afterwards found out that Mr. Swansey was merely voicing the sentiment of the controlling element of the Association. During my nine months investigation among the Islands, I found in indubitable proofs of the white man's ability to stand the climate, and thrive on hard manual labor. Some of these proofs I had reduced to writing. Two I enclose two, which in legal parlance, might be termed "expert evidence." Exhibit No. 1 is from Mr. W.J. Lowrie, Manager of the Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Co., on the island of Maui, at a salary of $12,000 a year and a free mansion with service furnished. Mr.Lowrie has worked through every stage of plantation life up to his present position. Exhibit No. 2 is from Mr. John M. Horner, one of the most successful sugar planters, and the most successful coffee planter in Hawaii. Mr. Horner became wealthy, surrounded with 1877(4) tropical luxury, he remains American; for, strange to say, some of the least American of Hawaii's residents were born in America. While I was in Honolulu, the Planter's Association sent letters to different managers, asking if they desired more labor and what kind they preferred. It was an American born manager from New England who wrote; "I want fifteen hundred more men. Send me Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Portuguese, but no Americans." I was told that this man was compelled to do manual for his daily bread for some time after- coming to the Islands, fourteen years ago, but he was receiving $10,000 a year and free home with service when I was there. When I visited his plantation, there were over three thousand Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Italians, practically slaves. The entire system of labor, as encouraged by any of the planters, has been degrading in the extreme. While in Lahina, on the Island of Maui, a German manager, seven miles from Lahina, moved out of his house a Hawaiian woman, by whom he had five childred, into a cabin, and took into the house a white woman who, it is said, he had married. I also saw a group of Japanese (new arrivals), composed of men, women and chidred, where shameless nakedness seemed no impropriety. And this camp the Christianized native had to pass on his way to church. But I Have already written too long. I know these things, and I deemed it my duty to let you know them. Very sincerely, (signed) Albert Whyte* U.S. Im. Inspector. P.S. When I informed Consul-General Haywood (who was aware of my efforts) that I felt convinced that the Planter's Association were not in favor of white labor, but merely wanted credit for a desire to get it, he intimated that his experience justified the same conclusion. *Whyte is one of the best men in the Immigration Service. He not only knows what to do but he does it. He is educated, capable, has traveled and is conservative in his statements. I regard him as very reliable. T. V. P. 17878[shorthand notation] November 18, 1901. By telephone from Mr. Gompers: I have just received a cablegram from Mr. McKee, San Juan, Porto Rico, saying the court requires cash bail for Iglesias. If Mr. McKee has responsible securities to offer, this seems to me outrageous. (Mr. Gompers asked that the President's attention might be called to this.) Ansd by telephone 11-22-1901 [shorthand notation] CG[?] 17879X 10 am Wednesday ackd 11-19-1901 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, November 19th 1901. Sir:- Having returned to Washington from a leave of absence I have the honor of requesting you to appoint a day and hour in which I may present my respects to His Excellency the President of the United States. Accept please, Sir, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. Count Cassini Ambassador of Russia Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou Secretary to the President Washington, D.C. 17880(Expenses, trip from Washington to Oyster Bay and return) To Geo. B. Cortleyou, Dr. To Paid porters, Washington to New York . . . . $4.00 Hackman 1.00 Porter, New York to Oyster Bay and return 2.00 Hackman in New York .75 (Upon return to Washington) Paid Pullman conductor 5.00 each porter, $1.00 3.00 porters for baggage 1.25 $17.00 Paid--Nov. 19, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou 17881#69 Clifton Place, Brooklyn, Nov. 19, 1901 Mr. President. Sir In my judgment a greater mistake with relation to Kings County Republican conditions could not be made than to appoint as Postmaster any member of the present Executive Committee of the Republican organization in this County. Already, all but one of these men hold political office and the feeling is very strong that a powerful machine is being built up here. The party has never won a victory under its present management, this management is in bad odor with the better class of people. The present Congressional delegation from Kings County is the legitimate outcome of conditions here and is no credit to the intelligence of this community. The appointment of Mr. Roberts as Postmaster will still further antagonize a large and intelligent constituency and will directly assist in the development of the worst machine methods. The writer is simply an active republican anxious for the welfare of the organization and has no personal prejudices of animosities to gratify. Very respectfully yours, Nicol W. Craw [*17882*]A-B GRAHAM LITH. WASH.D.C. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES: JOHN E. ANDRUS, N. Y.. President. BISHOP THOMAS BOWMAN, N. J. T. D. COLLINS, Pa. MICHAEL BURNHAM, D. D., Mo. HON. JULIAN S. CARR, N. C. HOMER EATON, D.D. N. Y.. BISHOP C. H. FOWLER, N. Y. HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. N. Y. BISHOP JOHN F. HURST, D. C. A. B. DUVALL, D.C B. F. LEIGHTON, D. C. BISHOP W. F. MALLALIEU, Mass. CHAPLAIN W. H. MILBURN, III. HON. R. E. PATTISON, Pa. A. B. BROWNE. D. C. D. H. CARROLL, D. D., Md. HON. WILLIAM CONNELL, Pa. ANDERSON FOWLER, N. Y. MON. JOHN FRITZ, Pa. C. C. GLOVER, D. C. JOHN E. HERRELL, D. C. MRS. JACOB TOME. Md. THOMAS W. SMITH, D. C. HON. WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON, Wy. BISHOP JOHN F.HURST, CHANCELLOR. C. W.BALDWIN, D.D. SECY OF BOARD. TRUSTEES: MATTHEW & EMERY, D. C.. Treasurer. BISHOP C. C. McCABE, Tex. SENATOR LE McCOMAS, Md. HON. WILLIAM McKINLEY, Ohio. A. J. PALMER, D. D., N. Y. CHARLES SCOTT, Pa. CHANCELLOR W. W. SMITH, Va. JUDGE W. M. SPRINGER, I. T. BISHOP A. W. WILSON, Md. GEN. J. F.RUSLING, N. J. JOHN FARSON, III. HON. W. L. WOODCOCK. Pa. BISHOP J. H. VINCENT, Kan. D. B. WESSON, Mass. REV. J. O. WILSON, D. D., N. Y. JOHN G. HOLMES, Pa. J. L. HURLBUT, D. D., N. Y. JOHN S. HUYLER, N. Y. ARTHUR DIXON, Ill. Y. B. H. WARNER, D. C. S. PARKES CADMAN, D. D., N. Y. J. WESLEY HILL, D. D., Pa. J. F. ROBINSON, Ill. BISHOP C. C. MCCABE. VICE CHANCELLOR. ALBERT OSBORN. B.D. REGISTRAR. OFFICE 1419 F ST NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. W. L. DAVIDSON, D.D. SECRETARY. JOHN A.GUTTERIDGE. D.D. FINANCIAL SECRETARY. [*File P.F.*] November 19, 1901. Mr. George B. Cortelyou, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Cortelyou: Absence from the office has prevented an earlier answer to your note of November 11th concerning the request which I made of the President, as one of the members of the Executive Committee of The American University, to give his concurrence to the transfer of $10,000 of the funds now in the treasury of The American University. I judge I should not have worried the President with this request, but as he was a member of our Executive Committee, and as the funds could not be withdrawn save by order of the Executive Committee I dropped him a line concerning it when I wrote the rest. I want to remind him occasionally that he is one of us. A majority of the Committee have already acquiesced which is all that is necessary and the funds have been transferred, so that the President need not be worried again concerning the matter. Thanking you for your interest, I am, Yours very sincerely, W.L. Davidson Secretary. [*17885*]observed in writing of the President of the United States. In fact, the question of title puzzles me, and a word from you might help me very much; and yet, again, I could understand why it is fair, I should say, that the act of discussing such a matter with you does not seem to me to require or quite to permit publicity. One of the chapters that I can't finish by Monday next is the one in which I shall discuss our books, and I want an authentic list of them. I believe I have got it, but I want to be sure. The reason why I am sensitive about having consultation with you about one or two matters is that I don't want to place you in such a position that you may seek to be responsible for any message that might be picked out of which you probably never would hear otherwise. I have had a copy of this letter taken, and have sent it to my son, Albert, under injunction and I know him to be reliable - entirely so - in the observance of caution in cases that touch public men, and I have written to him asking him to call about this communication, so that so much of it, as you would be willing to conversationally dispose of, could be decided at once, offhand by yourself, and this refers particularly to the title of the book, which I will be obliged to decide upon before I can have the pleasure of seeing you. Any other matter could be reserved until then. You will pardon me for going so much into detail, I wished to be exact, and against that the Secretary to the President will very much abbreviate my phraseology in communicating that which may seem to be mindful of consideration in this communication. With great respect, I am, Very sincerely yours, Murat Halstead [[shorthand] ] [*Ackd 11-21-01*] 643 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, November 10, 1901. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Mr. President: I have been five weeks writing the life of the XXVIth President of the United States, and have been exceedingly interested in the labor. The publicist says that those who by reason of strength abide more than three score years and ten, find the rest of it "labor and sorrow". I should be sorrowful if it were not for labor. My life of President McKinley has had an enormous sale. They now talk of six hundred thousand copies. I would have called upon you very soon after undertaking to write a biographical volume about you, but was impressed that you might think I was magnifying my office by inviting your attention which might seem almost equivalent to asking your assistance, when I hadn't done anything. Now I write you to say that the material has been surprisingly abundant and in excellent form, so that there are few things lacking and I am going to submit all the manuscript except three chapters to the publishers, Rand McNally & Co., of Chicago, Monday next. One of the chapters will be your message and the story of the country, as told in the [*17884*] imperfect for the production of an authentic map, and there is a mystery or two in it as I get the ? in the papers. There seem to have been three journeys and it ? necessary that there should be even four maps. One by itself of the great trip of twenty-two thousand miles in twenty four States - that should be by itself. The Oklahoma trip would require less space and be intelligible. Then you were at Chicago at the Labor ? with Bryan, and you were at St. Paul, and I think that be- longs to another journey. And you made an extraordinary journey for thoroughness in the State of New York, passing to and fro and speaking. I think, in about forty New York towns during the battle summer and autumn. I think, as Rand McNally could make these maps, they would be a very interesting souvenir, and give the people of the United States a valuable object lesson of information, causing a better appreciation of your energet- ic labor during the campaign than can be had without . Fourth, Who is W. Laird Clowes, who writes an article in the Nineteenth Century, for October, on President Roosevelt? He seems to be in correspondence with you and quotes you to some extent. Fifth. I have a fancy that the better title for the book would be , The Strenuous Life of THEODORE ROOSEVELT XXVIth President of the UNITED STATES. I do not feel that it would be correct for me to take possession of that title, The Strenuous Life, without asking you whether there were objections to it--perhaps whether there wold be a seeming of familiarity in it, or whether it would be esteemed by a class of people who are devo- tees of dignity to lack that most respectable dignity that should be accompanying documents, and I shall be in Washington on Thanksgiving Day, and hope to see you on the next day, and shall ask your secretary to ascertain whether that will be convenient. I am writing now so that I shall not be tedious then, as I am aware you will have about that time extra- ordinary occupations. I want certain things, so far as they are practicable. First, I would like something more than I have been able to obtain about your work in the Legislature. It occurs to me you might help me about that, for I have found a barrenness of record--perhaps because I didn't dig in the right place. I have the official minutes and some unofficial ? of good color. It might be agreeable to you in a few words to put me on to a point or two. I know about your giving Burns, of Brooklyn, a lesson, so, you see, I am not an ignorant person, though still of inquiring mind. Second, I desire to be dignified and delicate, as is becoming, of course, in matters relating to boyhood and early life, ancestry, and so forth, and all seems clear in that association, but there is one little story in the new York World that I would like to use, and yet not without your consent. It is that when your father put up the flag when there was a reception at his house, during the war, your mother put up at one of the windows the stars and bars, as we called them, showing that she was a good Georgian, and that your father told the crowd that seemed interested that concerning the parlor window, Mrs. Roosevelt did exactly what she pleased. Of course, I shall say nothing as to having invited your attention to this alleged incident, but it seems to me it would be rather a good thing. Third, You are aware, Rand and McNally are the great map publishers of the world, and I want a map showing your journeys during the campaign of 1900. I have been through the newspaper files, but the best of them are observed in writing of the President of the United States. In fact, the question of title puzzles me, and a word from you might help me very much; and yet, again, I could understand why it is fair, I should say, that the act of discussing such a matter with you does not seem to me to require or quite to permit publicity. One of the chapters that I can't finish by Monday next is the one in which I shall discuss our books, and I want an authentic list of them. I believe I have got it, but I want to be sure. The reason why I am sensitive about having consultation with you about one or two matters is that I don't want to place you in such a position that you may seek to be responsible for any message that might be picked out of which you probably never would hear otherwise. I have had a copy of this letter taken, and have sent it to my son, Albert, under injunction and I know him to be reliable - entirely so - in the observance of caution in cases that touch public men, and I have written to him asking him to call about this communication, so that so much of it, as you would be willing to conversationally dispose of, could be decided at once, offhand by yourself, and this refers particularly to the title of the book, which I will be obliged to decide upon before I can have the pleasure of seeing you. Any other matter could be reserved until then. You will pardon me for going so much into detail, I wished to be exact, and against that the Secretary to the President will very much abbreviate my phraseology in communicating that which may seem to be mindful of consideration in this communication. With great respect, I am, Very sincerely yours, Murat Halstead [[shorthand] ] [*Ackd 11-21-01*] 643 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, November 10, 1901. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Mr. President: I have been five weeks writing the life of the XXVIth President of the United States, and have been exceedingly interested in the labor. The publicist says that those who by reason of strength abide more than three score years and ten, find the rest of it "labor and sorrow". I should be sorrowful if it were not for labor. My life of President McKinley has had an enormous sale. They now talk of six hundred thousand copies. I would have called upon you very soon after undertaking to write a biographical volume about you, but was impressed that you might think I was magnifying my office by inviting your attention which might seem almost equivalent to asking your assistance, when I hadn't done anything. Now I write you to say that the material has been surprisingly abundant and in excellent form, so that there are few things lacking and I am going to submit all the manuscript except three chapters to the publishers, Rand McNally & Co., of Chicago, Monday next. One of the chapters will be your message and the story of the country, as told in the [*17884*]AUGUSTUS GRAHAM, FIRST BENEFACTOR OF THE INSTITUTE. THE Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences FOUNDED 1824. RE-INCORPORATED 1890. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. A. AUGUSTUS HEALY, President. Hon. CHARLES A. SCHIEREN, First Vice-President CARLL H. DE SILVER, Second Vice-President. Hon. EUGENE G. BLACKFORD, Third Vice-President. Hon. WILLIAM B. DAVENPORT, M.A., Treasurer. GEORGE C. BRACKETT, Secretary. Prof. FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, M.A., Director. OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL Rev. ALBERT J. LYMAN, D.D., President. JAMES CRUIKSHANK, LL.D., Secretary. Hon. JOHN A. TAYLOR, Treasurer. DEPARTMENTS. ANTHROPOLOGY, FINE ARTS, PEDAGOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, ARCHITECTURE, GEOLOGY, PHILOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, LAW, PHOTOGRAPHY, BOTANY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MICROSCOPY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, DOMESTIC SCIENCE, MINERALOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, ELECTRICITY, MUSIC, SCULPTURE, ENGINEERING, PAINTING, ZOOLOGY. SECTION ON PHILATELY. OFFICE 502 FULTON STREET, Brooklyn, November 19, 1901. [*ackd*] [*H*] To His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, LL.D., President of the United States, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- In case it is decided that there is to be a change in the Postmastership of Brooklyn, I beg leave to say that it gives me pleasure to state that my old friend and neighbor, Mr. George H. Roberts would in my judgment fill the position of Postmaster of Brooklyn in a businesslike and acceptable manner. The Institute during the past six or eight years has sent between six and seven thousand mail packages out through thr post-office each week, and is, I am told, the largest patron of the Brooklyn office. As an officer of the Institute I am naturally interested in efficient postal service in Brooklyn. I believe Mr. Roberts would give such service. Very faithfully yours, Franklin W. Hooper C.B. [*17866*][*Ackd File*] CABLE ADDRESS "KENNEDY" NEW YORK. "Not for public files". 31 Nassau Street, New York 19th. November, 1901. My dear Mr. President:- I sent you a short time ago through our mutual friend Professor Nicholas Murray Butler, an extract from a letter I had received from Rev. Dr. George Washburn, President of the Faculty of Robert College, Constantinople, and in the same connection, I think it is proper I should send you an extract from another letter I received from him this morning, which is dated Constantinople, November 2nd. 1901, as follows: "Miss Stone is still a captive and the whole business has "been horribly mismanaged from the first, both here and in America. "We have a young fellow named Eddy here for Charge d'Affaires, who "is the most unfit representative of America that I have ever seen "here, which is saying a good deal, as conceited as he is ignorant. "The consul has worked hard and done his best, but with little wisdom. "All concerned have worked at cross purposes, with no head to "direct them." I may say to you that Dr. Washburn is an American gentleman, who has resided in the East for more than thirty years, and I know of no one so well versed in Eastern matters as he is. He is in constant touch with the Bulgarian authorities, most of them members prominent in that government having received their education at and graduated from Robert College. He is also close in touch with members of the British government, and is frequently consulted by [*17887*]2. the British Ambassador at Constantinople, in regard to Eastern matters. My impression also, is that Dr. Washburn is well known to the Secretary of State, Mr. Hay, who, I think is also a distant relative of his. I am sorry to trouble you, but I thought it would interest you to know what Dr. Washburn's opinion is regarding Miss Stone's case, and with kindest regards, I remain Yours very truly, John S Kennedy. His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. 17888P.F 30 EAST 64TH STREET Nov. 19. 1901. My dear Mr. President: I think you will be glad to know that I have asked Sen. Platt to come to my house for a conference on City matters, and that he is coming on Thursday morning. Upon reflection, I thought 17889your dinner a very nice way of meeting the Senator; but I thought the political leader deserved more attention at my hands. Yrs, faithfully, Seth Low.30 EAST 64TH STREET. Nov. 19.1901. My Dear Mrs. Roosevelt. I hope you will pardon a very busy man for being so slow to thank you for your gracious hospitality. My visit to the White House was most enjoyable, and I only regret that your headache [*17890*]prevented me from seeing as much of you as I might otherwise have done. With kind regards from Mrs. Low and myself both to you and the President, I am, Very sincerely yours, Seth Low. If it is not too undiplomatic, may I ask you to hand the enclosed note to the President? Tell him that I make three hops as I profer this request! He will explain this allusion, if he has not already done so. [*17891*]TELEPHONE 2177 JOHN (2360 MAIN, BROOKLYN.) JAMES MCKEEN COUNSELLOR AT LAW 40 WALL ST., N. Y. (AND 164 MONTAGUE ST., BROOKLYN.) NEW YORK, November 19, 1901. Personal. [*Ackd*] My dear President Roosevelt:- For some unexplained reason your esteemed favor dated the 14th inst. did not reach me till yesterday. I have not yet had an opportunity to talk with Judge Goodrich, but will seek early occasion to do so. My own personal acquaintance with Mr. Roberts has been slight. His activity in the County Committee has been since I ceased to be a member of that organization. So far as I know, however his business standing and personal character are good. He has been quite persistent as an office-seeker of late years and the general impression is that he has secured the endorsement of the present local leaders by a kind of political activity that does not commend itself to the more independent members of the party. Four years ago he came out very bitterly against Seth Low. He denounced him as the author of the outrageous Tax Arrearage Law, which certainly showed on his part either political dishonesty or melancholy ignorance of Brooklyn Municipal history. in this last campaign, he is responsible for sending a very incompetent Republican to the Board of Alderman. Having the partisan power to carry his district, he refused to listen to suggestions of independent citizens interested in the fusion movement. He is a man whose opinions on public questions, carry very little weight, I should say, even in the organization. I have heard very many expressions of regret at his selection by the Republican organization as a candidate to be recommended [*17892*]for the Brooklyn Post Office and I believe there are several other gentlemen available, whose appointment would secure a better administration and who would also be regarded as much better exponents than Mr. Roberts, of the Republican sentiment of Kings County. I do no personally know Mr. Sharkey. His reputation has been that of a rough and ready fighter at primary elections and it never occurred to any of us to think of him as a leader of the party in Kings County. He has, however, a good reputation among the younger politicians as a man whose word can be absolutely trusted. I will write you further after conferring with Judge Goodrich on these matters and I need not beg you to command any possible service I can render at all times. Cordially yours, James McKeen 2 [*17893*][*File P.P.F.*] N.Y. City, Nov. 19, 1901— Knickerbocker Club, 319 Fifth Avenue. My dear Mr President, I have yr letter of the 15th, asking me to make inquiry in regard to the poor woman who writes Mrs Roosevelt from Providence — The letter has only just reached me having been forwarded from Newport. I have already written [*Mary Henderson*] [*17894*]a gentleman in Providence to ask his wife to make the proper inquiries & hope to have in reply, in a day or two, when I will inform you... Believe me, with great respect, Very Sincerely yours, Geo. Evans Stewart. To the President Washington D. C.[*ackd 11/21/1901*] [shorthand] [*Horses*] S.R. PEIRSON. E.V. PEIRSON. ESTABLISHED 1866. Peirson & Peirson, Bankers. Newark, Wayne Co., N.Y. Nov 19, 1901 190 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- Incidentally I learned that you desire to purchase a pair of horses and feeling that I might possibly be of service to you I write to say that a friend here has a beautiful pair of dark chestnuts. five and seven years old. extremely stylish, own brothers. very kind and gentle, not afraid of cars, will drive a mile together in 2:30 and as are in physicians hands have had no regular training, said to be perfectly sound and a very gamy pair of pacers, weighing 1000 lbs. each. Unlike most pacers their heads are up in the air and they are as fine a team as we have in western New York. They travel nicely together with wonderful ease and speed. Not being a horse fancier I cannot well describe them but if they come within the class of horses you desire I am quite sure they would give you much pleasure. Since we met in the State Assembly in 1884 I have watched your political career with great pleasure. Please excuse this intrusion on your busy life. I remain, Yours to command, S.S. Peirson [*17895*]Dear Mr Cortelyou Here are the "cruel" letters I talked to you about over the telephone - I will be very much obliged if you will telephone me what answer to make Perkins [*17896*] [*Plumley*] Daily by Mail, $4.00 per Year in Advance. Weekly, $1.00. Saturday, Double Sheet, $1.50 Fargo Forum. and Daily Republican. (ESTABLISHED 1878.) LOYAL KNIGHTS TEMPLE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY. Printers' Ink Says: "The Fargo Forum is credited with the largest average issue daily of any paper in North Dakota" THE FORUM PRINTING CO. A. W. Edwards, President. E. S. Tyler, Vice President. W. R. Edwards, Secretary. J. P. Edwards, Assistant Secretary. H. C. Plumley Manager and Treasurer. --------- Address all Communications to the Forum Printing Co. Fargo, N. D. [*Ackd 11/25/1901*] Fargo, Nov. 19, 19o1. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.-- My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: As this is a personal matter instead of one coming before you as chief executive I believe you will excuse the little time I may take. The report is current that certain politicians will oppose your nomination in 19o4 - in this state. It is a long time ahead, but the people are now with you, and I believe they will continue to be steadfast to your interests. I can hardly credit the report as being true - until I have seen the parties mentioned, but if it should prove that they are opposed to you, they can be turned down just as hard as they were in 1896, when they were opposed to the nomination of President McKinley, and were not even allowed a voice in naming the state delegation. The rank and file of the republican party of the state are loyal to you, and will not be hoodwinked. Your friends are active, and whoever looks after your interests - and your nomination and election are essential to the success of the Republican Party - will find that North Dakota may be safely counted as always in your column. I am not in favor of a political delegation for trading purposes. Respectfully yours, HC Plumley [*17897*][shorthand notation]The Pilot Editorial Rooms [*Ackd*] BOSTON, MASS. Nov. 19th 1901 My dear Mr. President I enclose some things which I should like you to know that I have written, if you find time to look over them. Since I have had the pleasure of visiting you in Washington, I need hardly say perhaps that several patriots have solicited me for an introduction to you. Many of them, I think, have unground axes concealed on their persons. This is merely to say, with apologies for troubling you with it that I trust you will not let anybody intrude on you, for political or social ends, as the strength of charming, or knowing, any acquaintance [*17895*]The Pilot Editorial Rooms BOSTON, MASS., 19 or connection of any sort, with Your sincere friend Jas Jeffrey Roche[For enc. see 9-21-01 11-26-01 10-19-01][*File*] THE RALEIGH. Washington, D.C., November 19, 1901. To the President, Sir: The following extract from the proceedings of the National Reciprocity Convention now in session in this city is hereby respectfully certified to you for your information. Upon motion of Hon. Ludwig Nissen, of New York, duly seconded, it was by rising vote unanimously RESOLVED: That we, the representatives of Manufacturing interests of every shade and character and from every section of the United States in convention assembled, send greeting to our honored President, Theodore Roosevelt. That we extend to him our fullest and unquestioned confidence in his patriotism and his true devotion to the very best interests of his country, and that we bid him God speed in his lofty purposes of giving his country an administration of its National Affairs that shall win for him the approval and good will of all its people. AND RESOLVED: That this Resolution be entered upon the records of this Convention as its first official act, and that we forthwith transmit a copy of the same to the President. Respectfully, Theo C Search President. Attest: Edward H. Sanborn E. P. Wilson Secretary. [*00*]Personal Embassy of the United States of America. Berlin. November 19, 1901. Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary: Noting the comments in sundry American papers upon the President's action in asking Mr. Booker Washington to his table, it occurs to me to suggest that it might be interesting to ascertain whether General Grant, while in the Presidency, did not take a similar course in regard to Frederick Douglass in 1871 and General Baez of Santo Domingo a little later. Both of these were colored men and, unless 17901FIle I am greatly mistaken, both were honored with invitations to the President's table. I remain, my dear Mr. Secretary, Most respectfully yours, Andrew D. White Dear Theodore I imagine you are not losing sleep over this matter--but the Doctor evidently means well. Yours faithfully J.H[*ackd 11-20-1901*] J. S. & H. A. WISE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COMMERCIAL CABLE BUILDING, 20 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK. JOHN S. WISE HENRY A. WISE JOHN S. WISE, JR. New York, Novr. 19th 1901 Mr President - If not intruding I would like to know your final determination about the vacant Judgship in the Western District of Virginia. The papers have first announced that you decided to appoint Mr. McDowell, & then contradicted it. I shall be content whatever you do, no = matter how it may differ from my judgment of what is best. I also await your orders concerning a conference with our friends - Will you be so good as to return to me the original on a copy of the letter from Mr Platt to me which I left with you October 2nd. Yrs. truly Jno. S. Wise To the President [*17902*]J. S. & H. A. Wise, Attorneys at Law, Commercial Cable Building, 20 Broad Street, New York. John S. Wise, Henry A. Wise, John S. Wise, Jr. [*Shorthand*] [*Ack'd 11/20/1901*] November 19th, 1901. To the President, I enclose data which gives you the information which makes my request intelligible. If you can give me a friendly word to Mayor Low, without violating any rule, I should be extremely obliged, and hope you will not hesitate to say so if I intrude. I have seen Mayor Low and I think his inclinations are friendly. The place is not generally known, and I do not think the competition will be very great for it. Respectfully, Hon. Jno. S. Wise Enclosure. [*17903*]Under the laws of New York, 1893, Chapter 537, amended by laws of 1894, Chapter 567, and the laws of 1900, Chapter 729, three commissioners were appointed in order to pass on matters pertaining to change of grade and damages in the 23rd and 24th Wards of New York City. The present commissioners are Stillings, Jackson, and Bailey, Tammanyites; they will be removed and new commissioners to be appointed. The work can be done by anybody. One of the present incumbents is a livery stable man. My son, John S. Wise, Jr., is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and of the New York Law School, and a Spanish War veteran. He is now engaged in the practice of law in New York, is a Republican and has taken an active part in politics ever since his return from the Spanish War in 1899; is a member of the West Side Republican Club, and was particularly active as a canvasser and speaker for Mayor Low. He desires appointment as one of these commissioners, and there is probably no great competition for the place as it is not generally known. [*17904*][*[ca 11-19-01]*] [[shorthand]] Telephoned Mr. Perkins, at Yonkers, N.Y. 10 15 P.M. Nov. 13 1901. His phone out of order. [[shorthand]] [*12 noon 11-14-1901.*] [*Done 11-19-1901*] Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan & Co, NY [[shorthand]] [*17906*] [*[11-19-01]*] WAR DEPARTMENT. Office of the Secretary. [[shorthand]] Memorandum for the The attached should have been enclosed with letter of November 16th, relative to chaplains recommended by the President. [*Wrote Secy. E Root 11-19-1901*] [*17905*][*[Ca 11-19-01]*] Telephoned Mr. Perkins, at Yonkers, N.Y. 10:15 PM. Nov 13 1901. His phone out of order. 12 noon 11-14-1901. Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, of J.P. Morgan & Co. NY 11-19-1907 [*Done 11-19-1901*] [*17906*] [*[11-19-01]*] [shorthand] WAR DEPARTMENT. Office of the Secretary. Memorandum for the The attached should have been enclosed with letter of November 16th, relative to chaplains recommended by the President. [*wrote Secy. War 11-19-1901*] [*17905*][*[For attachment see 11-19-01]*] [*[For 1 enclosure Perkins, ca. 11-1901]*]MORNING NEWS, WI STUDENTS OF LAW Meet in William M. Byrne's Office and Form "Academy." AN INTERESTING ADDRESS United States District Attorney Suggests a Course of Study for These Fitting Themselves for the Profession--Promising Outlook for the Organization. Law students and lawyers assembled last evening in the office of Wm. M. Byrne. The meeting was called to order with Mr. Byrne in the chair. Messrs. Isenschmidt, Neary and Byrne submitted a draft of a constitution for the association. It was agreed that the society should be called "The Law Academy of Delaware." The committee was continued for the purpose of giving a fuller expression to the constitution which they had submitted, and also instructed to submit at a further meeting to be on Monday evening next, a set of by-laws for the government of the society. Mr. Byrne, in opening the series of law talks, said in part: "Genius often blazes a path of progress unaided by instruction, but the average man is rendered better fitted to discharge the duties confronting him by a careful and painstaking study of the past. Hence, at all times, has experience been lauded as the best of teachers. The history of our country has been till now largely a history of internal development; henceforth of necessity the republic will participate in world actions side by side with her sister states. The time is fitting therefore to invite you to a study of law systems whose principles pervade the jurisprudence of the countries with which the American republic is destined to become closely associated. In these discussions there will be no aim at originality; but an effort will be made to burnish the jewels of law learning that we may gaze with increasing rapture on these treasures of wisdom. I shall feel satisfied if as a result of these law talks the young men who honor me with their presence recur to the works of Sir Henry Maine and trace with that distinguished scholar the web and woof of justice in the law systems of the world. Nor will this acquaintance with the past be useless for the present. You will be able to compare the theories of our present day socialists with the practices of ancient and modern nations respecting the right of private persons to the exclusive ownership of landed and other property. You will also see how the laws of ancient and modern countries have been affected by the social customs of their people, and when you observe that the decay of every civilization of the past was proceeded by a laxity in the morals of the marriage tie you will appreciate and applaud the inexorable firmness of the Catholic Church in this matter and the true and deep significance of the work of the great Episcopal Church in America, struggling in its recent convention in its effort to safeguard those principles of domestic morals lying at the very root of the nation's life. We read with delight that chief among the champions of marital morality at the Episcopal Convention held this year at San Francisco were the distinguished divines from our own city, and a layman whose labors as a lawyer adorned the bar of Delaware, and whose learning as a judge lends lustre to the Federal bench now honored by his presence, but whose chief merits seem to me after a long acquaintance to lie in an unsullied rectitude of life and a graceful mastery of scholarship. Gentlemen, Dante has taught us that a pupil may praise his master without incurring the odium of flattery, and I rejoice to know that every student of law here to-night voices this tribute to my once preceptor and partner, Judge Bradford of the United States Courts. "That you may prepare by dilligent reading for the series of Monday night law talks which we propose to hold during the winter. I will call your attention to the following heads of subjects for discussion: "Early Law Systems.The Expression of Law in Ancient Asia, Justice and the Jewish Law, Some Law-givers of Greece, The Draconian Code, The Laws of Solon, Law in the Golden Age of Greece, The Twelve Tables and the First Days of Roman Justice, The Roman Praetors and their Influence on Formulary Law, The Age of Justinian and the Perfection of Civil Law, Roman Law in its Contact With the Nascent Nations of Europe, Roman Law in Early Britain, Saxon Kings and Codes in Britain, Norman Kings and English Law, Magna Charta: a Victory over the King, The Constitutions of Clarendon: a Victory for the King, Henry II., and the Laws of his Realm, Thomas a'Becket, and his struggle for Ecclesiastical Law, Edward I., and the Commencement of Modern Law, The Writ of Habeas Corpus, and its Influence on English Liberty, The Feudal Law: Its Rise and Fall, The Church and Courts in the Middle Ages, The Common and Civil Law: a Comparison and a Contrast, English Law in the American States, the Victorian Age of Law Reform," Mr. Byrne in his first Law Talk on Early Law Systems, dwelt on the question of land tenures in Egypt and the relation of the private owners of land to the governing body; the different classes of subjects and their relation to each other and the state; the buying and selling of personal property and the contact of commerce with law; the institution of polygamy and its destructive influence on Egyptian Civilization. [*17907*][*Barnhurst Ackd Cmt of 100 pulled out Became Chairman of the Cmt of 100 of Shepard Documents*] The Raleigh European Plan. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T. J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C. Nov 20th 1901 President Roosevelt Washington D. C. Dear Sir: I have noticed this morning the enclosed clipg. from N.Y. Times which relates to the appointment of a Postmaster for Brooklyn. I know both of the men mentioned, Roberts & Teale, but my interest in addressing you is purely my interest in good govt and good post office administration. I am a Brooklyn Manufacturer, & President of the Manufacturers Assn of New York & I want to say bluntly, as a business proposition, that I view with the utmost [*17908*]The Raleigh European Plan. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T. J. TALTY, MANAGER WASHINGTON, D.C. 190 regret, the possibility of the appointment, of Mr. Roberts or any politician of his type, to an office of such business importance On the other hand Mr Seale is a man of the highest character, a good executive, a man of good business ability & one who can always be depended upon to do his duty. With sincere regard & appreciation. I remain Very truly Rich. W. Bainbridge I do not write in the interest of Mr. Seale, altho. the appointment would be excellent - I write in the interest of Brooklyn for " business administration [*17909*][*[For enc. see 11-20-01]*]CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. PUBLISHERS, 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE. [*ackd ppf B*] New York, November 20, 1901 Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Referring to our conversation of yesterday I send you herewith a summary of the points agreed upon (as you requested me to do at the time.) (1) You agreed that this House may sell a cheap edition of the "Rough Riders" to be retailed at fifty-cents - the purchaser, Mr. Stone of Chicago, agreeing to take definitely 25,000 copies for cash, with the possibility of his taking 100,000 copies. On the sale of this book Charles Scribner's Sons agree to pay you five-cents per copy. You also agree to our making a similar arrangement for the Cromwell. (2) In regard to the Cougar Hounds and other sporting articles, it is your wish that we do not make a book of them at present but you hope that within the next year or two it may be possible to make a book of the Cougar Hounds, four articles revised from the "Boone and Crockett" books and a possible article to be written on a bear hunt, this article to be included in the book without Magazine publication, unless you hereafter see fit to consent to a previous serial publication. (3) You agree to write for Scribner's Magazine (after you have ceased to be President) a series of not less than six or more than ten articles on the Development of the West in the 19th Century, these articles to follow lines hereafter to be elaborated by you. For them we agree to pay $1000. each for serial publication and the House of Charles Scribner's Sons is to have the right to [*17910*]CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. PUBLISHERS, 13-157 FIFTH AVENUE. 2 publish in book form, they agreeing to pay you 20% on the retail price of each copy sold. It is your intention, and our hope, that these articles shall be proposed as soon as convenient after your term or terms of office. This is a summary of our conversation as I understand it and I hope that it will meet your entire approval. Personally I have to thank you for a very pleasant time, and I can assure you that Mr. Scribner and all of us here appreciate your courtesy in all these affairs. With best wishes, I am Faithfully yours Robert Bridges The President. [*17911*]SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE. [*3*] PERSONAL MEMORANDA FROM ROBERT BRIDGES. In regard to the names of men who have requested me to write letters to you and of when I spoke casually yesterday, I submit the following memoranda. (1) Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, author of "For Love of Country," "The Grip of Honor," and other books, asks me to give him a card to you so that he may present a personal application for the appointment to Anapolis of his son. Mr. Brady is a graduate of Annapolis, has been Archdeacon of Kansas and of Pennsylvania, and served as chaplain in the Spanish-American war with a Pennsylvania regiment. He is a descendant of the famous fighting Captain Brady. You were kind enough to say that I might give him a card of introduction to you. (2) Archibald G. Hutchinson of St. Louis is an applicant for a second Lieutenancy. He is the nephew of Captain D. D. Mitchell, 15th Infantry, who was killed in the Philippines last Fall. Secretary Root knows about him through Mr. H. F. Dimock, of New York, also Col. Rebar. I know some of his people and know them to be of sterling merit. I shall be happy to furnish any information desired. (3) George Bridges of Carlisle, Pa., who is an applicant for the Post Office at that place (a campaign upon which he determined to enter many months ago) is my brother and he is, I know, able and competent and well known to most of the people in his own and in Adams and York counties. He has taken some interest in politics and was once nominated for Congress by his County [*17913*]SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE. [*4*] Convention but was turned down when the conferees of the three counties met. I should tell you , in all frankness, that he has been identified with the Wanamaker faction of the Republican Party. I simply state these facts as I should in regard to any other man, and I have advised my brother to sake his plea to the Post Master General, and have refused to give him a letter to you. My attitude is entirely impersonal, except that I know him to be a good man for the place, and want to say so to you. Gratefully Yours, Robert Bridges [*17913*]merit and ability by honoring him as you have: and how sure all are that you will never have any cause to regret the appointment. I am proud for him and I thank you heartily. My father bids me send you his best respects and his good wishes always. He and his brother Edwin claim to be the original "Roosevelt men" of the South and to have seen you with the eye of prophecy, in [shorthand notation] [*ackd 11-25-190* Big Stone Gap, Va. Nov. 20, 1901. Dear President Roosevelt: I wish you could know how pleased are both Democrats and Republicans in Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee (where live Mr. McDowell's people) and how grateful both are here that you should have recognized H.C. McDowell's 17914the Presidential chair, on the day after the Las Guasimas fight. My father says that he is for you no matter whom you have to dinner--even a Hottentot in a nose ring and ostrich feathers. With best wishes to you and yours Faithfully, John Fox, Jr. 17915TELEGRAM. [shorthand] [*P.F.*] White House, Washington. 9WU.HWN.RA.....29-Paid....4 Ex.....2:12 pm. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 1901. [*File Ackd*] Theodore Roosevelt, White House. Can't you possibly come to game Saturday? We will win if you will come. I have tickets for you. Only one thing wanting now - you. Orville G. Frantz, 48 Holyoke House. [*17916*] Office of the Commercial Bulletin. 282 Washington Street. Boston, Nov. 20 /1901- My dear Miller:- I have a line from Roosevelt saying that you're just the man he's looking for, etc. Write him directly. Cordially, Guild. [*17917*]Office of the Commercial Bulletin. 282 WASHINGTON STREET. Boston, Nov. 20 /1901- My dear Miller:- I have a line from Roosevelt saying that you're just the man he's looking for, etc. Write him directly. Cordially, Smith. [*17917*] [[shorthand]] [*P.F.*] [*Fle ackd*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 9WU.HWN.RA....29-Paid....4 Ex....2:12 pm. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20,1901. Theodore Roosevelt, White House. Can't you possibly come to game Saturday? We will win if you will come. I have tickets for you. Only one thing wanting now—you. Orville G. Frants, 48 Holyoke House. [*17916*]Holls!11-20-01 The CSH Studio 1604 Chestnut St Phila. Pa. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Washington, D.C. Dear Madam: I have written this letter to Mr. T. Roosevelt. The point is I want a great big thing and that is for you both to sit for photographs in this [*17918*]studio. To have such individualities in here would made the place a success anyway. This studio has held its place among the first in the U. S. for seven years and Clayton S. Harris gave his life to the work. He is now dead and I am trying to continue his name and success. I have a fine artist who is doing good work along same lines as Mr. Harris. I feel what an almost impossible thing I am asking. At the same time I have heard Theodore Roosevelt talk. With respect (Mrs) Clayton S. Harris Nov. 20 - 1901 [*17919*][11-20-01] No ackd 11/21/1901 The [CSH] Studio 1604 Chestnut St Phila. Pa. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: This Studio has stood for the highest type of work for seven years and Clayton S. Harris the owner and artist was worthy of his Studio. He is now dead and I am trying to continue 17920his name and success here. To have you sit for a photograph here would mean so much to me. The papers say that you are coming to the foot-ball game and I presume every morning of your time will be taken. You know there is always one chance in many and I always believe in taking that one. Respectfully yours (Mrs.) Clayton S. Harris Nov. 20-1901 17921[*File State Hill*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. November 20, 1901 Mr. President: I am just in receipt of a telegram form Mr. J.H. Shirley, of Chicago, expressing his willingness to accept the consulate at Goderich, Ontario, which will be vacant on January 1st Next. He was originally designated for Cardiff, Wales, now held be Rev. D.T. Phillips, of Chicago. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant David J. Hill Acting Secretary. [*17922*][*File CF*] [*Br*] EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 20, 1901. Memorandum for the President: IMMIGRATION BUREAU. Harry Brown, of the Herald, calls attention to the attached clipping, and says that their writer on shipping interests claim that the conditions are very bad in the in the Immigration Bureau; that the man Marks should be interviewed as to what he knows. Brown says it is impossible for McSweeny to be honest and have any dealings with Quigg et al. I applied some balm to Brown’s somewhat injured feelings over having been “scooped,” as he termed it, “by your organs,” the Sun and Commercial Advertiser, on the Stranahan appointment, and explained to him just how it occurred. WM. LOEB, JR. [*17924*] [*File CF*] EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 20, 1901. Memorandum for the President: KENTUCKY APPOINTMENTS. It may interest you to know that Congressman Boreing told Halstead, the correspondent, that the quid pro quo for Senator Deboe’s consent to the appointments of Craft and Lieberth was that he should have the Chief Deputyship. WM. LOEB, JR. [*Clark*] [*17923*][*[attached to G. W. Clark 11-18-01]*] [*[For 1 attachment see 11-18-01]*][*ackd C.F.*] Personal EAGLE OFFICE, BROOKLYN-NEW YORK. 20th Nov 1901 Dear Mr President On inquiry and probing I withdraw my suggestion of B. M. Whiting for postmastership here He is a man of contracts not unacquainted with unbalanced bids. Ex = Civil and Police Justice Charles E Teale is a good business man, has made an unusually humane, wise and respected magistrate and was knocked out of nomination, to which he was entitled, by the superior contributing power of J Lott Van Nostrand, a half millionaire, who as magistrate years ago did not make himself unpopular with the Summer branch office of hell at Coney Island [*17925*]2 as for Mr Teale I do not prescribe - I only describe him If the Lt. Governor takes the "absolute" and threatening stance ascribed to him in the dispatches from Washington in to=night's Eagle there are comb cutting machines in this world, and one would be temporarily borrowed from any barbershop. The "organization" is entitled to give to the President a list of names, from which he can have at least the semblance of an initiative. The "organization" will hardly contend that the President has not a right to [*17926*]3 Eagle Office Brooklyn - New York. consider every enrolled Republican in his range of choice. I say nothing for or against Mr Roberts. My gorge rises at the idea of "Roberts of Nobody", "Roberts or War". He suggests "Stand and Deliver", "My Man or Your Life", and it hurts Mr Robert's rightful claims. Mr Woodruff is not a doctor. The President is not a patient. Roberts is not a prescription, to be taken with no questions asked, regardless of all inquiries and per peremptory direction. If [*17927*]4 Mr Woodruff has undertaken a contract to call the President down, he is overfond of extra hazardous business I will write an editorial on Brooklyn postmasters tomorrow which should be educational. I enclose an editorial of last July 8th on a matter about which we talked. It contains my best thought then - and now. I favor [*17928*]5 over= the restoration of the capitalization subject, on the lines suggested in the enclosure, which condones the past and present and would safeguard the future With much regard, Mr. President, St. Clair McKelway [*17929*]The Raleigh European Plan. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T. J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C. Nov 20th 1901 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President U.S.A. Dear Mr. President Being in Washington as a delegate to the Reciprocity convention, and seeing in the Brooklyn newspaper that the name of Chas. C. Teale is mentioned for the office of Postmaster of Brooklyn I take this means of heartily endorsing Mr. Teale for your kindliest consideration for that appointment. [*17930*]The Raleigh European Plan. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T. J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C. 190 2 His name is by far the best of those so far mentioned for the place. Mr. Teale, in every way, is one of the best citizens of Brooklyn. He has just finished a term as police magistrate to which he was appointed by Ex Mayor Schieren, and in which office he has given absolute satisfaction to all classes of our citizenship. He is a business-man of high repute and his [*17931*]The Raleigh European Plan. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T. J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C. 190 3 appointment would reflect great credit upon your administration. Yours very Respectfully Ludwig Nissen 18 John St N.Y. [*17932*][shorthand] [*akd 11-21-1901*] Thomas L. Rosser. Charlottesville, Va. Nov. 20th, 1901. Mr. President:- The inclosed will show you how discreet and safe my young friend, Mr. Braxton, is, and how earnestly and patriotically he has taken hold of the great problem which I submitted to you, and on the solution of which the peace, prosperity, and happiness of the Southern People so vitally depend. Mr. Braxton is young, he is pure, and he is able. - he is a democrat, and enjoys the confidence of his party. Besides, he belongs to one of our oldest and best families, on both the Braxton and the Caperton side, - he is a good lawyer, and is both a logical and an eloquent speaker, and for the work in which he is now assisting, no better or more suitable man could be found in the entire South. Being in this work as a democrat, Mr. Braxton can reach the class of men in the South that we want, and being a patriot, all that he will do will be done conscientiously and for the good of our common County. I have given Mr. Braxton to understand that whatever is, or may be done, must come as a FREE GIFT from a great and magnanimous President and The Republican Party, with the understanding that the South accepts it on honor, and henceforth all lynching must stop, and in the future the colored race shall be fairly, mercifully, and kindly treated. Under these circumstances, I know that the Southern People would gladly make, and keep inviolate, this covenant, which would be received by grateful people like rain on parched fields, reviving hope, and giving new life and vigor to the entire South, now languishing, and reconcile and restore the Southern People to the Union from which they have for so long estrayed. To accomplish this glorious end, I would gladly give my life, and I gladly say that Mr. Braxton expresses himself in the same manner, but to live and enjoy its fulfillment, is our sublime hope. It is now but one week since Mr. Braxton saw you, and any day that you may wish to see either, or both of us, if named, will be acceptable and satisfactory to us. Respectfully and truly, yours, Thos. L. Rosser To the PRESIDENT, The White House, Washington, D.C. [*17933*]For 2 encs see Braxton to Rossen 11-14-01 "The 15th Amendment" 11-20-01[shorthand] [*Ackd 11-21-1901 P.P.F. C*] Frank H. Scott, Prest. Chas. F. Chichester, Treas. William W. Ellsworth, Secretary. The Century Co PUBLISHERS 33 East 17th St (UNION SQUARE) New York NY November 20, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President:- We have just had a proposal for a cheap edition of THE STRENUOUS LIFE, which we think worthy of consideration. A Mr. Stone, of Chicago, proposes to purchase at once at least 25,000 copies, and to agree to take additional copies up to 50,000 or 100,000 say within a year. But he would want the book made over into a small volume (16mo.) with a plain cover. He would have to have the books at a very low price, which would, enable us to pay you as a royalty only five cents per copy, that is $1,250 on his first lot of 25,000 copies. He would propose to sell this edition largely through the newspapers, and outside of the bookstores and ordinary trade channels. He is coming in again the latter part of the week, and we should like to know your attitude before we see him again. The sale of the regular edition is keeping up fairly well; but the circulation in this way will necessarily be very limited as compared with the possibilities of a cheap edition, and we have thought that the opportunity to give this, your latest utterance, a very wide and popular circulation might appeal to you. We understand that a cheap edition of several of your books issued a year or two ago by the Putnams was not a success. But in this case we should not go into it at all unless the sale of at least 25,000 copies were assured. We are further encouraged to write you about this matter from the fact that a similar proposal has been made to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for a cheap edition of THE ROUGH RIDERS, and that they also are considering it favorably and have written to you about it. Believe me Very truly yours, Frank H. Scott Pres P. S. Mr. Stone is also talking about the possibility of a cheap edition of RANCH LIFE. Would you consider this favorably on the same basis? [*17934*][*File*] 1 East 47th Street Nov. 20, 1901. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Answering Mr. Cortelyou’s note of the 16th inst., it will give me great pleasure to join you at dinner at the White house on Tuesday evening, the 26th of this month at 7:30 o’clock. Very truly yours, Arthur V. Briesen Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Pres't, The United States, Washington, D.C. [*17935*]EXHIBIT NO. 33. Manila, P. I. , November 20, 1901. Honorable Ceferino Joven, Governor of Pampanga, Bacolor, P. I. Sir: As will appear from the enclosed documents, the complaint of the Reverend Victor Mendoza, Parish priest of San Luis, your province, of the action of the Municipal Council of that municipality in declining to permit the assessment by the municipal Board of Assessors of certain buildings and lands alleged to belong to the Catholic Church, and furthermore of the action of the Presidente and Municipal Council in ejecting him as the representative of the Catholic Church from possession of the church, convento, cemetery and other lands alleged to be church property, has been filled with this office. He has also filled a copy of the complaint made by him to you as Provincial Governor of such illegal action, and your reply thereto, copies of which are enclosed herewith. I beg to say that, if the action of the Municipal Council, as appears from what purport to be copies of its records, is authentic, then it has clearly acted in violation of the provisions of the Municipal Code and in excess of its authority. By the terms of section 43 (a) all real property is subject to assessment for taxation, and in case of doubt or difficulty as to who the true owner is, said property is required to be assessed in the name of the person in possession. By section 49 )a) of said code, a board of assessors is created, composed of the President, the Municipal Treasurer, and a specially authorized deputy of the Provincial Treasurer, and a specially authorized deputy of the Provincial Treasurer, which board is denominated the Municipal Board of Assessors. This board is given sole authority to assess property for taxation. The Municipal Council has no jurisdiction over the subject and of course has no power or authority to determine what land shall or shall not be assessed for taxation or in whose name the same shall be assessed. If, as seems to be clearly the case, the parish priest, as the representative of the Church, was in possession of the property now claimed to belong to the municipality of San Luis, the property should have been assessed in thename of the Church. Furthermore, it is entirely clear that it was a palpable and gross usurpation of authority for the President and Municipal Council to eject the representatives of the Church thus in possession of the property. If the municipality of San Luis claims to be the true owner of any property in the possession of the parish priest or the duty constituted church authorities or agents, in such case the proper course for the municipality to pursue is to bring suit in the courts of first instance of the province for such possession. By this method the real rights of the parties in controversy can and will be asserted in a way consistent with justice and good order. Any other course is productive of injustice and disorder and cannot be tolerated. The letter written by Governor Taft to Captain Wallis O. Clark, Governor of Tarlac, covering the general subject of relations of the Church and State in these Islands, was, I believe, sent you for your guidance and for distribution among the various municipal authorities of your province. Possibly, however, it may not have reached you, and I therefore now enclose a copy of the same for the purposes indicated above. This letter so plainly and thoroughly defines the respective rights and tuties of municipalities [*17936*]-2- and church authorities and of course to be pursued in the unfortunate event of differences between them that I need not further elaborate the matters therein discussed, contenting myself with requesting your careful study thereof and that you follow out the lines therein indicated for your government. I desire furthermore to comment briefly upon the position taken you in your letter of June 17, 1901, to Padre Mendoza to the effect that you have no supervision or control over the municipal authorities of San Luis and are in the no way obligated to correct any illegal action on their part. This seems to me a grave error. By the provisions of Section 7 of the Provincial Act, you are declared to be the Chief Executive of the province, and it is made your duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed by all officers n the province. In the province for misconduct, if in you judgment such a course is necessary, reporting you action to the Civil Governor; and finally, it is made your duty to hear all complaints made against the conduct of any executive officers and to take the steps indicated in said section. Instead, therefore, of declining to take cognizance of the complaint made by Padre Mendoza, you should have given it careful investigating and taken such action as the facts and the law demanded. This criticism is made in the kinkiest spirit, fully recognizing the difficult position in which controversies of this character place the Provincial Governor, but it must not be overlooked that the only way by which good government can be maintained in these Islands is by an honest and intelligent enforcement of the law on the part of all officials, and especially those high in authority. In no well organized community can disputes as to property rights be determined by force or violence, but must be submitted to the impartial determination of the courts of justice. If it be true that, in times past, by reason of incompetence or corruption, the courts of the Islands failed in the performance of their duty, this too is equally true, that now no such unfortunate condition of affairs exists. The judges appointed for the purpose of determining controversies are able and impartial and may be relied on tod o even-handed justice. I beg therefore that you will, on receipt of this, investigate the complaint made by the Reverence Mendoza, and if you find the facts to be as stated by him, call the attention of the municipal authorities of San Luis to their illegal action. If they refuse to revise same and restore the status quo, it would seem to be a case for yout to suspend them for official misconduct. You will report your action in the premises to this office. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully yours, (Signed) LUKE E. WRIGHT, Acting Civil Governor. Enclosures: Copes of 1132, 1132-A1 and 4932 [*17937*][*[ca 11-20-01]*] The 15th, Amendment. Section I. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The above amendment was prepared by congress Feb. 26th, 1869, and declared to have been adopted or ratified by 29 of the 37 states, March 30th, 1870. Amend the 15th, amendment so as to read as follows: Section I. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any and all elections for Federal officers shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race or color. Section 2. The congress shall have power, and it shall be its duty to prescribe the mode and manner by which all elective Federal offices shall be filed, and which shall be uniform throughout the United States. [*17938*]THOMAS L ROSSER Charlottesville. Va..............................[*Nov. 11*] ELLIS ISLAND CLERK FELL CRYING FRAUD Samuel Marks Threatened "to Tell What He Knows" if He is Removed. MISS HELEN GOULD THERE Stricken with Heart Disease, Marks Tumbled to Floor and Was Concealed During Her Visit. Officialdom of Ellis Island received a succession of shocks Saturday morning from which it is still a-tremble. Miss Helen Gould arrived at the immigrant depot to make an inspection just when Samuel Marks, deputy clerk, at the conclusion of a vehement tirade against John Lederhillger, Chief Clerk, full of insinuation of misconduct by federal immigration officials, fell to the floor, attacked by a spasm of heart disease. He was hurried to a private room and all suggestion of the sensational scene removed before Miss Gould was admitted. Silence as to every detail of the occurrence was enjoined upon employees, but too many subordinates, and even a large number of persons not connected with the service, were present to make such injunction operative. The outsiders had stood in astonishment while Mr. Marks openly made charges of a character so serious that an inquiry is anticipated as a result of even a rumor that they have been made by a person in authority. Assistant Commissioner McSweeney, knowing that Marks was in poor health, sought to make the deputy clerks duties easier, and appointed him a member of one of the Boards of Special Inquiry. This arrangement was satisfactory, but on Saturday, for some reason, Mr. Lederhilger expressed a desire that another man be appointed in place of Marks on the Board of Special Inquiry. To secure this change he asked Marks to sign a statement that he was too ill to per- form duty, but the latter, believing that in doing so he would furnish enemies in the de- partment with proof over his own signature that he was physically unfit for the place he held under the government, refused to sign. The men were in the enclosure for clerks in the centre of the building. Turning upon the chief clerk, Marks in a great rage denounced Lederhilger. He threatened that if through the instrumentality of any official of the department he should lose his position he would tell what he knew "about things that have been going on for some time, but which have been kept from the Treasury Department." Lederhilger sought to soothe Marks, but without success, and the uproar came to an end only when Marks was overcome by excitement and heart trouble. Dr. Safford, of the Marine Hospital service, attended him. ambitious to build up, through the influence of his position, an organization of his own. There was much speculation last night as to Mr. Wilson's probable successor. George H. Roberts has been the choice of the local organization leaders for the place, but Brooklyn Republicans believed last night that there was little probability of his appointment by President Roosevelt. The President is understood to favor the selection of a man not so closely identified with the organization, and ex-City Magistrate Charles E. Teale, it is thought, is a man for the place who would prove acceptable to the President. [*17939*]Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington. Office of the Commissioner. Personal Nov. 21. 1901. Dear Mr Cortelyou: You don't know Grigsby as well as I--he is a Kicker always. He and I went out from the same county in Wisconsin-- attended the same school. His letter amuses me--being an old acquaintance, it has been his custom to come to my office when here, and take my time by telling of his wonderful achievements. He has had sore spots on him for some time. He claims that he was the originator of the Rough Riders--that he proposed the necessary legislation-- that he secured the action of Congress authorizing the organization--and others were given preferences. The fact is the fellow has not been a success-- he got soured and went off to the Populists. Genl Boynton can tell what a filthy, untidy camp he had at Chicamauga. Genl Corbin can tell of his making himself a nuisance about the Dept--in trying to break into the Regulars.--and now he has gone back upon me. Yours truly, H. Clay Evans 17941FRED P. GORDON, BROKER IN COFFEE AND SUGAR, 99 WALL STREET. LOUIS KLEIN, SUGAR DEPARTMENT. MEMBER OF THE COFFEE EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. TELEPHONE, 2368 BROAD. [*ackd 11-25-1901*] New York, NOV 21 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt Washington D.C. Sir. The Bklyn. Eagle of 20th inst. states that you are considering appointment of Mr. George H. Roberts as Postmaster, in Bklyn. Having known Mr. Roberts for twenty years, I venture to state that in my opinion, his appointment would prove unsatisfactory to a large majority of citizens whose only concern is the efficient conduct of said office. Without any desire to imply lack of confidence in Mr. Roberts as a man, whose friendship l esteem, candor compels me to say that his well known extreme partisan ideas, would surely lead to unwise action on his part, in conducting an office, which comes so closely in touch with every citizen. His business training has not been such as to fit him for a position calling for so much wisdom as an executive servant of the people Respectively Fred P. Gordon [*17942*][*File*] [[shorthand]] T/T DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. November 21, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Esquire, Secretary to the President, White House. Sir: I enclose for the information of the President copy of a note from the Italian Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at this capital setting forth the views of his Government in regard to the failure to prosecute the persons who killed and wounded certain Italian subjects at Erwin, Mississippi. I am, sir, your obedient servant John Hay Enclosure: From Italian Chargé, November 14,1901. [*see State Department Nov. 14. 1901*] [*17943*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3 WU HG JM 40 Paid 4 ex 9:03 a.m. F.C. Brooklyn, N.Y. Nov. 21, 1901. President Roosevelt: Mr. President:- Should Judge Teale’s fitness meet your requirements, permit me to suggest that he stands for a high ideal of practical christian manhood among the Sunday-school workers of Brooklyn and the State of New York. G. A. Koos, 67 Lincoln Place. [*17944*]James McKeen Telephone Counsellor at Law 2177 John 40 Wall St., N.Y (2360 Main, Brooklyn.) (And 164 Montague ST. Brooklyn.) New York. Nov. 21st, 1901. Personal. Writing further on the matter as to which I had the honor of addressing you day before yesterday; I conferred with Judge Goodrich as suggested. Owing to his judicial position he is very much afraid of saying or doing anything that would subject him to the criticism of taking any part in active politics. As opportunity has offered I have talked with a good many different gentlemen who in my judgment gauge quite accurately public opinion in Brooklyn. I discovered no reason for changing the views I expressed in writing you day before yesterday. I may add, however, that there is just now an era of good feeling in Brooklyn and a general sentiment on the part of the more independent Republicans that on the whole the machine men have acted very well in the late campaign. While, therefore, the appointment of Mr. Roberts as Postmaster would not be very satisfactory, I do not think there would be any general condemnation of it. A feeling prevails that the recommendation of him was practically agreed upon by the organi- zation some months ago. I have had no talk myself with Mr. Woo- ruff on this subject but it is reported here that he is very strenu- ous indeed in urging Mr. Roberts for the position. In the event that Mr. Roberts be not appointed, I venture to mention some names which have been suggested for the position the appointment of any one of whom I should say would be eminently satisfactory:Benjamin F. Blair, Edward H. Hobbs, Simson B. Chittenden, Henry B. [Russell] Ketcham Jackson Wallace, Charles E. Teale. Charles H Russell I cannot say positively as to whether any of these gentlemen would accept such an appointment except Mr. Chittenden. I have heard quite positively that he would be very glad of the appointment and was making efforts to secure the support of men active in the organization. As to Mr. Sharkey there has been no change in the general feeling that he is not a man of sufficient standing to command so important an office as that to which he was appointed. He is, however very popular among the younger men in the party and they insist that he has given excellent satisfaction in the conduct of the office. On the other hand I am told that merchants of prominence urge a change in that position and intend to press upon you the candidacy of Mr. Andrew D. Jacobs. Mr. Jacob has been for many years a very active man in Republican politics. I have always myself thought very highly of him. Cordially yours, James McKeen [*17946*]humble capacity. On my departure to Samoa I was told that I was entitled to any post if I should manage to come out well out of the nasty business & secure good terms for Germany. There was not a paper or periodical that didn't agree that I had accomplished this. - As to sounding Holleben on the question I doubt if it would be wise. He showed decided lukewarmness on my [*Ackd 12-23-1901 PPF B*] Address: Calcutta Lucknow November 21 1901. My dear Roosevelt Your kind letter just arrived and I thank you for your remarks as to my usefulness to both countries if appointed to the post of Washington; nothing in the world could be more encouraging to me. As I said in my last letter all depends on the Emperor, [*17947*]and I'm sure that if he were made aquainted with your wishes the appointment would be made. The only way to do this seems to pass through your Embassy at Berlin. Perhaps the ambassador could make your desire known in a confidential talk with Count Bulow. My age, and the services rendered to my country, fully entitle me to the post of Washington. All fair minded men who are aquainted with my career admit this. Götzen, for instance. was a lieutenant in the army and military attaché when I was senior secretary, and for many months chargé d'affaires, in Washington. Last year he was appointed Governor of German East Africa and I was sent out here in my present [*17948*]prosperous developement of both countries.-- As to the facing of Russia and Germany in Asia Minor etc.-- the Russian press has been hard at work, of late to convince England (India) of the great dangers of German expansion in Asia Minor, especially in the Gulf. This outcry against Germany is bound to increase as soon as the track has been cleared for the Baghdad railway. The question 2 [*11-21-01*] appointment to Samoa which was entirely Bulows and the Emperors selection, and on my return he got von Mumm over to take the work out of my hands, & I was told to go home on a leave of absence which I had not applied for. I wrote you about the attitude of the Emperor after the remarks of the press in connection with my recall. My heavy handicap in the Foreign Office & among certain colleagues always has [*17949*]been the fact that I am english by birth, though at present this prejudice is more with the medium officers there.-- As to your remarks on South America I was questioned on my return from Washington to Berlin last fall, on the subject. As we had frequently discussed the subject I knew exactly your attitude and could give a clear statement, especially as regarded the Monroe doctrine which I stated to be equivalent with the open door. I also stated that the chinese policy of the United States was based almost on the same principles as her policy with regard to South Amerika. and that the open door was considered the surest gurantie for a peaceful and 17950have been bluffed here by Russias warning as regards german encroachments. As regards all political events there is an extraordinary indifference & ignorance displaid in this country. In Simla you hear very little said about them. The whole summer the indian press has been speaking of british successes in South Afrika, & when one sees the home papers one is almost startled. 3 of the Persian Gulf has now become the great question of Europe and Asia, & during the last months the rush to the Gulf has been very noticeable between England and Russia. Germany has absolutely stood apart. It seems to me that Curzon is the only englishman who thoroughly masters the question. He labours hard for british supremacy there, but he and London dont seem to hit it 17951off on the question and the latter grants Turkey her shady rights. England is rather late in the race. She has lost her chances in Persia which Russia has grabbed, and the russification of northern Persia (Khorassan) is spreading rapidly. The construction of the Askabad- Meshed railway will make it complete. Even in southern and eastern Persia it is becoming marked. Russia holds a great trump, the Persian customs, which she is playing hard against British and Indian trade at the terminus of the Indian trade route Quetta - Nushki - Seistan, - at Seistan. Even if this route is converted into a railroad England comes too late to secure an effective basis for her trade & influence in Persia. From Meshed Russia is bound to push south to get her Talien Wan in eastern Asia. Only some fool [*17952*]his term expires, & weeds are bound to grow over the good seeds he has laid here. There is not a man here or in England who could touch him as regards management of Indian affairs, though his personality has cost him many enemies. He's a type they need hard at home. Please give my kindest regards to Mrs Roosevelt and to the family, in which my wife joins me, and believe me yours most sincerely, Speck [Sternburg] 4 People here in general seem to be very indifferent how things go there, though quite recently there have been some warnings expressed as regards the final results of the war. There are also, lately no signs of rousing in army circles. I dont know if more stringent orders have been given, but at the military posts I have been to, the duty of the subaltern seems to be polo, chucker and foot ball, just as it was 50 years 17953ago! Compared with your regulars the officers out here, especially in the cavalry seem to be absolute amateurs. I'm a tremendous admirer of polo and manly sports, but they dont suffice to win modern battles. England is still keeping up her comfortable 15 knot gate. You jumped up to 20 and are approaching 30. When Curzon came out he made a thorough overhauling of Indians old boilers and engines, and he works like a stoker himself to put in more speed. But he cant get much until the old hull has been thoroughly reboilered and reengineered at home. Curzon has done better than any previous Viceroy & is full of a grit you rarely observe out side of Amerika. But in two years [*17954*]11 PF State of New York, Senate Chamber, Albany. N.N. Stranahan 37. District. At Fulton, N.Y. Nov. 21, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.C. My Dear President Roosevelt:- Upon my return to New York I called upon Senators Platt and Depew, and related the result of my visit to Washington to them. They were both very cordial, indeed. I also was thrown with Higgins on Tuesday and Wednesday, and of course have been over the whole matter of the appointment with him. It gives me the greatest satisfaction that the matter has been received as it has by the press. I have had all the clippings, and I cannot say that I find a discordant note among them. Mr. Low has written me most cordially about helping him in Albany, and I am sure was pleased with that portion of my interview relating to his administration and my desire to help him. This expression of approval, while pleasant to me, gratifies me more on account of the indorsement of your act and of your administration. If I can serve you in any way, I am sure you will command me. I have the honor to be Very faithfully yours, N.N. Stranahan (Personal) 17955 [*Alfred*] [*Refd to Woodruff*] W. A.& A. M.WHITE, P.O. ADDRESS, BOX 619. No.130 Water Street. New York, November 21st, 1901. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. My Dear Mr. President: Referring again to your inquiry of the sixteenth instant regarding the Postmastership in Brooklyn, I think that Mr. R. concerning whom you asked especially would not be any improvement on Mr. Wilson, and incline to believe he wold not do even as well. The information that I have gathered leads me to think that the Brooklyn P.O. has been fairly administered by the present incumbent but political considerations have at times interfered with the greatest efficiency. There are other men I have heard mentioned, such as B.F.Blair, C. H. Russell, etc., who would, I think , do better than either. The end which you desire to achieve would, it seems to me, be best attained by the selection of such a man as James McKeen, one of your apprentices on the Charter Revision Commission, or Darwin R. James, at one time member of Congress from the best Brooklyn district and long and favorably known as a man active in affairs and interested in the public welfare, or some other man of like repute far removed from factional contests and commanding universal respect. Sincerely yours, Alfred T. White [*17956*]THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY CASPAR WHITNEY President ROBERT BACON Vice-President FLETCHER HARPER Secretary and Treasurer (C--W) Dictated. [shorthand] [*Ackd 11-30-1901*] OUTING AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF SPORT TRAVEL ADVENTURE AND COUNTRY LIFE CASPAR WHITNEY Editor WILLIAM BANCROFT Publisher 239 Fifth Avenue. NEW YORK. November 21, 1901. My dear Colonel: Don't you think it would be a good idea for us to have one photograph each of the several species in the deer family book? I have some photographs of remarkable Alaskan moose antlers which I am going to use and it would be excellent if we could get a record Wapiti deer and antelope head. Why would it not also be a good idea to have in the book a page of records - something like Roland Ward has in his book? Would it not also be a good idea to have a map of the country showing the distribution of all the deer family. You suggested this for the moose, but why would it not be excellent for the antelope and all the rest. and if you like this suggestion, do you know a good man to do it. Aside from having the knowledge it is a question of having the time to make it. Faithfully yours, Caspar Whitney. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. [*17957*][*11-21-01*] X [shorthand] [*Private*] [*Wrote Senator Hanna 11-22-1901*] EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. Memorandum for Mr. Cortelyou: The President wishes Mr. Cortelyou to write Senator Hanna and let him know that on thinking it over he has left out the over-capitalization part of the message to which he objected, and that Root and Knox have fixed up the other parts; so that the President does not think there can be any inquisitorial objection. November 21. [*see Presidents (see texts to S[???] copy) Hanna, M. H. 11/21/01*] [*17959*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. November 21, 1901. Memorandum for Mr. Loeb: The President wishes you to say in reply to this letter that he is very glad to hear from Mr. Youngs; that he would not like to suggest anything about the road; that, personally, he does not mind it a bit as it is. G.B.C. [*17958*][*[attached to Youngs 11-12-01]*][*[11-21-01]*] [*X*] [[shorthand]] Private [*Wrote Senator Hanna 11-22-1901*] EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. Memorandum for Mr. Cortelyou: The President wishes Mr. Cortelyou to write Senator Hanna and let him know that on thinking it over he has left out the over-capitalization part of the message to which he objected, and that Root and Knox have fixed up the other parts; so that the President does not think there can be any inquisitorial objection. November 21. [*sent to Presidents (see the press copy) see Hanna, M. A. 11/21/01*] [*17959*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. November 21, 1901. Memorandum for Mr. Loeb: The President wishes you to say in reply to this letter that he is very glad to hear from Mr. Youngs; that he would not like to suggest anything about the road; that, personally, he does not mind it a bit as it is. G.B.C. [*17958*][*495*] [*250P*] [*249P*] Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD The company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is nor presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager.           NUMBER Dteiny SENT BY Qz  REC’D BY Do 15 pm   CHECK RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F Streets, Washington, D.C. Nov 22 1901 Dated Pittsfield Mass 27 To Archbishop Ireland Ebbitt house Wash DC Bishop tells me over the phone that Murray sent the endorsement direct to the President Jas Boyle. [*17960*][*File*] 11-22-01 840 THE ROOKERY. To the President: - Mr. Hinman of the Inter-Ocean called on me the other day, and said you had expressed to him a wish to see me. Nothing can give me greater pleasure than to call upon you. I would have gone to Washington at once, but unfortunately I am engaged in a very important and vexatious law suit which requires my presence. I hoped to have finished it [*17961*]this week, but it will require a day or two next week. I now expect to leave here on Nov. 27 or 28th. and will be in Washington the next day. I beg leave to congratulate you on the large measure of confidence the people repose in you, which, I feel sure, will be strengthened as time goes on. You are confronted with very serious problems, but the people know you will meet them with the highest order of courage, ability and patriotism. Yours, very sincerely W.J. Calhoun Chicago Nov, 22" 1901 [*17962*][*[11-22-01]*] [*akd 11-25-1901*] To the President:- Assuming the information which reaches me through the medium of The Associated Press dispatches to be true and that Colonel Clayton McMichael will be designated to succeed me as Postmaster of Philadelphia, permit me to say that I esteem it an honor to have such a worthy and estimable gentleman as my successor. During my term as Postmaster, my services have been devoted to the duties of my office to the exclusion of every other interest, with the result, I trust, of winning the commendation of my fellow-citizens for a satisfactory service, of having secured the confidence of my superiors in the Department and the respect of my associates and subordinates in this service; for doing this, however, I am not entitled to, nor do I expect, special consideration, - it was simply my duty performed to the best of my ability. While regretting the necessity for the severance of the many dear and pleasant personal and official associations formed during the past four years, I recognize fully and appreciate, that in matters of a public and political nature, exigencies arise which occasion changes that under ordinary circumstances might not be considered. I cannot, however, terminate my connection with the postal service without placing upon record, my sincere thanks and genuine appreciation of the unvarying kindness, hearty co-operation and assistance received from the Honorable Postmaster General, the Honorable Assistant Postmasters General, the Heads of Divisions and Bureaus and the subordinates of the Post Office Department, with whom my duties have brought me in contact. Trusting that your administration may be successful and that your efforts to advance the best interests of our great country may be crowned with success, I am Very truly and respectfully, Thomas L. Hicks Postmaster. November 22, 1901. [*17963*][*PF*] Nov. 22nd, 1901. [*Ack Nov. 25, 1901 WLJ?*] OFFICE OF SETH LOW. 30 EAST 64TH STREET. NEW YORK. My dear Mr. President: As you will have learned by my private letter and from the public prints, Senator Platt and I have had a pleasant, and, as I judge, mutually satisfactory conference. I have little doubt that friendly relations can easily be maintained in the future. As to the dinner which you were kind enough to propose, the evening of Wednesday, December 4th, is the only evening in the first two weeks of December that I can command for a visit to Washington. I shall be obliged if you will telegraph to me whether or not you wish me to reserve this date for this purpose. Now that the Senator and I have met so pleasantly, it may not seem to you so important to give the proposed dinner at this time. I have no doubt it is an exceedingly busy season for you as well as for me, and therefore I hope you will not feel obliged to carry the project through unless it is altogether convenient. But as to this, of course, I am entirely subject to your pleasure. Very respectfully and faithfully yours, Seth Low. The President, Washington, D.C. [*17964*][shorthand][*PF*] 49 Broadway New York. November 23, 1901. Dear Mr. President: It is unnecessary for me to tell you that I had my interview with Mayor-elect Low yesterday, and it was in every way satisfactory. I am glad to know that you have suggested the day early in December when he will be down to take dinner with you. You have told me about the invitation I would receive, and I shall be only too glad to respond to any invitation you may see fit to give me as a fellow guest with the Mayor-elect. I shall be down to Washington about the first of December. Very sincerely yours, TC Platt The President, Washington, D. C. [*17965*]OFFICE OF SETH LOW. 30 EAST 64TH STREET. NEW YORK. [*PF*] Nov. 22nd, 1901. [*ack Nov. 25 1901 WLJ?*] My dear Mr. President: As you will have learned by my private letter and from the public prints, Senator Platt and I have had a pleasant, and, as I judge, mutually satisfactory conference. I have little doubt that friendly relations can easily be maintained in the future. As to the dinner which you were kind enough to propose, the evening of Wednesday, December 4th, is the only evening in the first two weeks of December that I can command for a visit to Washington. I shall be obliged if you will telegraph to me whether or not you wish me to reserve this date for this purpose. Now that the Senator and I have met so pleasantly, it may not seem to you so important to give the proposed dinner at this time. I have no doubt it is an exceedingly busy season for you as well as for me, and therefore I hope you will not feel obliged to carry the project through unless it is altogether convenient. But as to this, of course, I am entirely subject to your pleasure. Very respectfully and faithfully yours, Seth Low. The President, Washington, D.C. [*17964*][shorthand][*PF*] 49 Broadway New York. November 22, 1901. My dear Mr. President: It is unnecessary for me to tell you that I had my interview with Mayor-elect Low yesterday, and it was in every way satisfactory. I am glad to know that you have suggested the day in December when he will be down to take dinner with you. You have told me about the invitation I would receive, and I shall be only too glad to respond to any invitation you may see fit to give me as a fellow guest with the Mayor-elect. I shall be down to Washington about the first of December. Very sincerely yours, TC Platt The President, Washington, D. C. [*17965*]war and suffering in South Africa I believe Mr. Schick is to take the Boer "dominie" to the White House, if that is agreeable to you to call upon you, if indeed he has not already done so. With kind regards believe me faithfully yours John V.L. Pruyn [shorthand] [*akd 11-25-1901*] New York, Nov. 22nd 1901 15 EAST TENTH STREET. My dear Mr. President May I venture to call your attention to the fact that the Rev. Herman D. van Broekhuizen of Pretoria is to preach this Sunday evening, Nov. 24th in the pulpit of the Rev. Mr. Schick at whose church I believe you worship [*17966*]I hope you will be present. Indeed I hope that the Rev. Mr. van Broekhuizen and his brother will meet you, both for the pleasure it will give them, and for the fact that it may enable you to learn from them actual conditions in the Transvaal, which are challenging the attention of the world Mr. van Broekhuizen is in no way affiliated with the Boer organizations in this country, although they naturally do what they can to help him. Nor has he any personal end to attain. I believe him to be a thoroughly credible witness from the actual scenes of [*17967*]public doings, & when I see the stand that you are taking on Civil Service positions, it carries me back to the old days if your college life, & makes me see again the bright enthusiasm in your face, the first time I ever saw you, is when you talked of your views & hopes in politics. [*[11-22-01]*] [*Ackd 11-27-1901*] 282 Beacon Street. Dear Theodore, I have been wanting to send you a few lines, ever since you became our President, just to tell you what great pleasure it gives me to think of you in [*17968*] 282 Beacon Street. I remember thinking then, how interesting you were, & that you would do great things, & have great influence, & that I should like to follow your career - I little thought in those days, that you [*17970*]only, because I cannot bear to feel that so much has come to you, & that I should not wish you Good luck, & God speed - as so many others are doing. I am reading with the keenest interest all that the newspapers tell us about your that high office, I knew you would be deluged with letters, & so have not written before, & I especially want you not to answer this. It is only a little line of love, & many bright hopes & wishes. - I wrote it, [*17969*] It is a great pleasure to feel that I am, Your affectionate cousin- Katharine Roosevelt. November 22nd. would become President, & that I should be your cousin!! I, need not say, how happy I am over both events! and I do not need to add either, how much I have come to care for you, & to value you in the years since then. [*17971*][*Ackd 11-29-1901 PPF Pr*] WILLIAM A. OTIS & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO. WILLIAM A. OTIS. PHILIP B. STEWART. WILLIAM P. SARGEANT. FRANCIS GILPIN. November 22, 1901 The President, Washington, D. C. Dear President Roosevelt:- As the result of very careful study of the situation here with reference to federal appointments in general and to the cases of the three men, - Howbert, Brady and Hodges, - I have the following report to make: Conditions generally are favorable to the reestablishment of Republican supremacy. Those who have followed false gods for a few years back are today disorganized, disgusted and are ready to come back into the party in great numbers. Your personality counts for much in this condition. They look on you as a friend. Under the pressure of these independents, party ties have been dissolving and a process of readjustment is going on, which i look upon as most important to encourage, in the interests of improved political conditions. To whatever we ascribe the cause, things have been run by a few men without consulting with the party followers, and this has led to arrogance, selfishness and corruption. Naturally enough the seat of power has been in Denver, and the Denver leaders, a majority of whom are office holders, had been inconsiderate dictators whose methods have been most [*17972*]T.R.-2 brutalizing and unprincipled. Things have gone in this respect from bad to worse, and Mr. Wolcott's last campaign for the Senate was the climax of a regime which made money and manipulation and fraud at the polls the sole standard for party action. In the election recently held, the state, outside of Arapahoe County, found many who had left the party returning to it. In Denver the activity of boss control and of federal office holders was so offensive that, in spite of otherwise favorable conditions, the citizens revolted, and out of this local defeat has come an awakening of great promise. The gang there feel their chastening and are, without exception, in so far as my conferences with them disclose, disposed to interpret the feeling of the voters correctly and to efface themselves much more than they have been doing, while the party is getting together for next year's campaign. Under these conditions I have felt that it was very wise to allow time for things to work about to the end of harmonious action between those who demand extreme changes, on the one hand, and those old war horses who are willing, under their chastening to [ac]concede a good deal. There has been a tremendous howl against the Denver crowd, of which Stevenson is the controlling head. This howl comes, in so far as its noisiest manifestations go, from malcontents and selfish dethroned leaders or men of small account who have petty ambitions. A. B. Seaman, to whom I gave a line for you, is one of them. This is honest, outspoken and, in the main, politically clean. I felt that [*17973*]T.R.-3 he could enlighten you and I agree largely with his points of view; but he comes back here and gives a most unwise, hotheaded interview, either from extreme political foolishness or for reasons which certainly cannot aid the party. It irritates me, because I recognize that in this political game one must use the tools which are available, and if better things are to be attained at all it is by getting the most possible out of the elements which compose the situation. Seaman's interview which is a Navajo attack on Stevenson will tend to bring Stevenson away from a position, where he now is anxious for party success, into a position where he will feel that his back is against the wall and he is fighting a personal fight for his own existence. Now Stevenson is a power if he stays with us, and a still greater power if he goes against us. He is unprincipled, corrupt and, without doubt, selfish, although I do believe the man has a personal regard for you and your interests. I have endeavored steadily not to irritate him now in his day of humiliation, but to utilize that humiliation to force him back to the position which he ought to hold in the party and which no other man in the state can fill. Stevens, of this place, is another of the difficult elements in the situation. By speaking with great frankness to his face to the effect that he would do us great harm if he endeavored to lead this movement for reform (which is a purely hypocritical position on his part) I have been able, I think, to keep a hold on him that will be valuable later, and leaves me free to oppose him, without his losing confidence in me, in certain matters. He is a mischief-make, his word [*17974*]T.R.-4 cannot be trusted, and he will misrepresent your position for his own ends without hesitation. His past record deprives him of all confidence through the state, and no suggestions of his as to appointments can be accepted by you as anything but tricks in which your reputation is not a matter of consequence to him. He is anxious ti rupture the present possibilities in reconciliation and every move he has made so far has been to that end. I am glad to say that the influential politicians in this county, which is now the banner Republican county, have come to my point of view in reference to practical and political lines of working out an improvement in party conditions and in public service in this state, so that I feel that I am on solid ground when I seem to be interfering with the conditions in Arapahoe County. We think it is now settled that the State Chairman can be deposed and I man placed in his stead who to the state at large will stand for emancipation from the influences which dictated the present Chairman's appointment and which are so offensive in the present party control centered in Denver. Stevenson will assent to this, and Mr. Wolcott tells me that he will too. We have assurances from these men and from Howbert and others of the old crowd that they will keep themselves in the rear and enable us to open up meetings to the rank and file and in that way enable us to get a foothold and nominate a clean ticket under a good sponsorship [*17975*]T.R. -5 in the next state campaign. Although these corrupt fellows will, of course, seize the first opportunity to utilize the fruits of a successful campaign along this line, my argument is that if after such a beginning we cannot hold things right we do not deserve sympathy or aid from outside sources. The gist of the foregoing bears on the matters, which, of course, much more directly concern you. It is this: With such possibilities of harmony and with the better element awakened and encouraged, with the corruptionists fortunately defeated and humbled and ready to work in the party, but not to dictate, it has seemed to me the true course to aid such a condition as far as practicable, and in this view I suggest as follows, with reference to Howbert, Brady, and Hodges: Let Howbert stay. He does not stain the federal service, in the opinion of the general public, although I should not recommend him for original appointment. He has many warm friends, has been a staunch party man, can be of great service in his proper place, and his removal would disrupt our hopeful start so that chaos would result. Brady and Hodges stand for everything which is pernicious in principle and in example. You will strengthen yourself, you will do your duty by the public service and you will not seriously disorganize matters if, at the proper time, these two men are put out, and they are by no means the only ones who, when the time comes, should go. I have said these men should go at the proper time. This matter of time is [*17976*]T.R. -5 important, and in reference to it let me explain a few things: I talked for two hours with Mr. Wolcott on Wednesday. He made a most eloquent personal appeal to save Brady, and grounded his wish wholly in sentiment. Of course there was no answer to be made to such an appeal. He feels obligated to Brady for devoted personal service. I did not expect him to take any other position. He did say, however, that he believed it would aid the party if Brady were removed. This, of course, means that the repute of the public service would also be a gainer. Having forced him to that position I next endeavored to see whether he would make a personal fight and so break up my hope of harmony. On this score his position is that nothing can affect his loyalty to you, and that if your sense of duty compels you to remove Brady he will have nothing to say and will stand true to the party, although he will not advise Brady to resign and will not name any successor. It is my firm belief that the best thing that can happen to Mr. Wolcott himself would be to have Brady put out. There is not a friend of Wolcott's, so far as I have discovered, who will say a word in Brady's favor. Stevenson is at personal enmity with Brady, but knows that Brady's removal is in effect censure of himself, for the two men stand on about the same plane, except Brady is a cleaner man in his personal habits. I suspect, therefore, that Stevenson will be willing to name Brady's successor, although he will make a pretense, for selfish reasons, of standing by Brady up to the point of being sure that it is a losing fight. [*17977*]T.R. - 7 Now my recommendation to remove these men is without qualification except as to time, but in order not to give ground to Stevens, Seaman and others for making false claim as to influence with you, [to Stevens and Seaman] [and others of that kind] the effect of which is to irritate and unsettle those who have worked in the harness for the party according to their lights, I should say that it is wise for you to be too busy with other matters for sixty or ninety days to remove these men. By that time things will have quieted down. It will make it easier for Stevenson & Wolcott You will yourself suffer nothing by waiting and the result will be in the interests of our plans for harmony and improvement and, at the same time, will in no wise jeopardize the public service. As to my naming a successor to Brady; this, of course, I will do if you wish it; but I think that those who are jealous of appearance of power and of leadership are now in such mood that they are likely to make good recommendations for these conspicuous offices, and they will feel better if I [will] keep my hands off. I suggest this, not from personal reasons, but from reasons of policy. There are other outrageous examples in this state of disreputable public officials, which I know you will not wish to stand for. The conclusions which I have stated above I have formed after hearing all sides by representatives of every shade of morals and political bias. I look on Judge Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as perhaps the most competent [judge] adviser, from his cleanness and his practical knowledge [*17978*]T.R. - 8 of politics and men, and was very gratified to find that he approves my position fully, as do both Cranston and Kent. Kent is a fine fellow--in every way high class--, but a little too academic and a little too out of touch with the rank and file to advise as authoritatively as Judge Campbell. I am swamped with requests to appeal to you on matters which look big to the individuals and which I find great difficulty in refusing. That line of waiting people at the White House looms up to me, and I take pity on [xxx] you. This is a very long letter, but I hope you will find it of some service. I remain Very sincerely yours, [*Philip B. Stewart*] PBS-P [*The [anonymous] communication forwarded by you, which came from the Young Mens Republican Club, /Denver, is from a defunct and uninfluential organization. The individuals are not of consequence.*] [*17979*][*Ackd ppf*] Lay, Colo., Nov. 22, 1901. To the President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I want a few moments of your time to ask you if it is not the proper thing for the portraits of myself and Mr. Wallihan, taken with our cameras, to be included among the illustrations in our new book, to be published by Doubleday & Page? I want it so, as the book is called "The Wallihans' Camera Shots at Big Game", and I wish you would advise it. I don't know as I shall ever take any more pictures, or hunt any more. Many persons have asked if our pictures will be in the book. I hope it will be so. If you say the word, it will be done. I shall not be quite happy if the pictures are not in the book, inasmuch as I was the beginner of the work. I wanted to talk to you very much in Colorado Springs, but could not. Maybe the day will come when I can see both you and Mrs. Roosevelt. Your's, with kindness to you and your's, Mrs. A. G. Wallihan (Dictated) [*17980*][Senator] [Mitchell] Dr.Yarrow about the[?] [?] jurists [*Ansd file ppf*] 15 East Seventy-fourth Street. My dear President Roosevelt: Mr Wister has written an excellent article for the new Edition of the Presidents, and it will be accompanied by an equally good etching. The plan of the work calls for a facsimile of a letter or note. Can you spare two minutes to write me a few lines for that purpose? The volume also calls for a small vignette of Mrs Roosevelt, which has been made, and a facsimile of her signature. Will you supply one? I shall send you proof of the completed article before the book goes to press. Very faithfully yours, Jas Grant Wilson New York 22 Nov, 1901 [*17981*][*Private and Confidential*] KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. Nov. 23. 1901. Mr. President:- At the Yale Centennial, my cousin, Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, had a chat with you on the Catholic Church in America, and you requested that he develope by letter his views on the subject. Feeling, as he does, hampered in his opportunities of complying with your request, and the subject being one that has for some years engaged my attention and one on which having conversed together he and I find ourselves of one mind, he has asked me to take up the subject with you; and I write now to you as expressing not only my own views but also his. I write you as one who is first and foremost a Catholic, loyal and submissive to the commands of the Church; and in the second place, as one who is an American of pre-revolutionary descent, eager and earnest for the advancement of my country and all that tends to its good. I write plainly and frankly to you. In the Catholic Church in America we have to-day men of many nationalities, and among them many whose instincts and prepossessions are not American. For the good and advancement of the Church this is a matter to be deplored, and for the interest of our American people it is a serious obstacle; for, looked at from the standpoint from which you or any non-Catholic would view the Church, you will acknowledge that she is to-day a large and growing factor in our national life; that the results of the past few years have been to emphasize this importance; and that as we look to the future more and [*17983*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. -- 2 -- more will the attitude of the Church and of its clergy and laity be a matter of serious concern to the American statesman. I do not think it necessary to dwell on this or to enter, for you, into details or facts illustrative. Sufficient to point to the problems raised in the Philippines in regard to the Church and the attitude of churchmen; sufficient to point to the attitude exemplified in many cases by German, Irish, Polish, and other associations of Catholics. That in the upbuilding of our people and the advancement in the world of our American interests, it would be well if this force of the Church and of churchmen should not only, not be against but should be in favor of American ideas and institutions, you will be the first to recognize. To achieve that end is my wish as it is yours. And to reach it, it must be seen to that the governing and controlling elements in the Church in America shall be American and not Irish, German or any other. The controlling force in the Church in every case is the Bishop. If the Bishops of the Church in America are men of American thought and instinct, then will they mould their clergy and people in ways like to theirs. Here is the key of the situation. How win it? In the past and to-day to a great extent the Bishops of the Church in America while excellent churchmen have failed in many instances to be in touch with the American in his views and his aspirations. They have often and generally been appointed to favor the foreign racial complexion and sentiments of the majority of their flocks, and not solely with a view to their ecclesiastical fitness. [*17984*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. -- 3 -- How can this be remedied and the American hierarchy be made American in instincts and prepossessions? The Church, in her dealings with the people or government of any land, is ready and willing, provided the spiritual interests of her children are preserved, to listen to and correspond with the desires and even the prejudices of governments. Like St. Paul, she is ready, that the salvation of man be secured, to make herself all things to all men. I need not cite instances to you; one will suffice. When Cardinal Cullen of Dublin died and Rome desired to honor the Irish Church by selecting another of her sons to the purple, none doubted that the wish and desire of the Irish people was the selection of Walsh of Dublin, the most noted figure in the Irish hierarchy. But, owing to his attitude in matters political, he was not persona grata to the English ministry, and their known and quietly expressed wishes prevented the hat being conferred on him and caused it to be given to Logue of Armagh, a man not unacceptable to either the Irish people or the English ministry. It is an open secret that in appointments in the American hierarchy influences have been brought to bear from not only clerical but governmental sources abroad. The European world, and Rome is no exception, considers our German-Americans, Polish-Americans, Swedish-Americans, Irish-Americans etc., and fails to recognize an American people. Again they consider us as most democratic and as little regardful of person or position, and fail to recognize that there is no form of society where he who [*17985*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. -- 4 -- holds power and station is looked up to as he is in a democracy like ours. If you to-day, Mr. President, think well to have an American tone and sentiment in the leaders of the American Church, its Bishops, you can gain it only in one way. You must make the wishes and desires of the government known at Rome, and you must continue to do so. While Rome will resent anything like an attempt to name or dictate its nomination of Bishops, it will listen and listen gladly to anything showing the general wishes of government or its objections to particular men or measures. In no other way can this object be achieved than as all like objects have been achieved at Rome in the past. If you wish to win the ear of the Roman Pontiff, you cannot hope to win it in any other way than as it has been won. The Pontiff of Rome, as the head of the Catholic Church, considers and holds himself as not only and simply the head of a religious body but as ruler, as king of the great and world-wide City of God on earth. He that would approach him, above all he that would influence him and win him to his wishes, must not at his first and last approach ignore and disregard this position that he maintains; he must treat him as a sovereign. So do all the governments of the world that seek to influence or favor or ask the kindly offices of Rome; so too must you if you would win. If you desire your wishes known and heeded at Rome, you must make them known to Rome directly, to the Pope directly, by one who comes form you duly accredited as your representative. If, as I think is the case, the American people will not tolerate the idea of [*17986*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. -- 5 -- a formal open representation to the Holy See, then you can act quietly but not less effectively by a secret and confidential representative. If our people will not agree to an ambassador or minister at the Vatican, then you must act through a secret agent who, however, is fully accredited by you as coming from you, President of the United States, to the Pope, and as empowered to speak in your name, voicing your wishes and ideas. Nothing less than this will be of any avail. Whoever acts must have all due and proper credentials, so there will be no cavil as to his representing you and your wishes; that he may have access to the fountain-head and source, to the Pope himself, and shall not be sidetracked to this or that one, no matter how exalted he may be in station. Let me impress upon you, Mr. President, that only through such a representative can you have any effect. He need not be a permanent appointment, and he can be very easily selected by you from the American diplomatic and consular staff. For, let me impress upon you that under no circumstances should he be a clergyman, but a layman, an American layman. The clergyman is the direct subject of the Pontiff. He will stand at a disadvantage, even though he be Bishop or Cardinal, as one who will be seeming to advance his personal or his factional interests; and he cannot have the weight and force of the layman who stands outside. Therefore, not through any ecclesiastic, however estimable or exalted, not even through one who represents the Pope to you or to the Bishops or Catholics of America, should you act or can you hope to act successfully, but only through [*17987*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. -- 6 -- your direct representative, a layman, standing at the gates of the Vatican, bearing the credentials that will without question gain for him the ear of the Holy Father. I trust, Mr. President, that my advice will be heeded by you, convinced as I am that if, not to-day, then in the near future the course I advise must and will be taken by you or your successor. I am, Sincerely and obediently yours, John G. Ewing To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. [*17988*][*Mr Barnes?*] [shorthand] [*Ackd 11-27-1901 PPF Pr*] KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. Nov. 23. 1901. My dear Mr. Cortelyou:- The enclosed explains itself. I write the President on request of my cousin, Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, and in accordance with the expressed wish of the President himself. I would ask you to see that the enclosure, containing my letters and a note from Father Sherman, reaches the hands and is drawn to the attention of the President. Thanking you in advance for your kindness in this matter, I remain Sincerely yours, John G. Ewing To the Honorable George B. Cortleyou, Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. [*17989*][*[FOR 2 ENCS. SEE SHERMAN TO T.R. 11-23-01 -EWING TO T.R. 11-23-01]*]KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. STATE OF INDIANA. JOHN G. EWING, D.D.S.K. OF INDIANA. NOTRE DAME, IND. Nov. 23. 1901. Mr. President-- The letter I write you herewith, explains itself. I hope some day in the not distant future to have an opportunity to discuss with you fully the subject on which I address you, but the main points are now made by me. Permit me to express to you my good wishes and hopes for a successful administration. With assurances of my ever being at your command, I remain Sincerely yours John G. Ewing. To the President of the United States [*17990*][*[ENC. IN. EWING TO CORTELYOU 11-23-01]*]DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. November 23, 1901. [*Ackd 11/25/1901 Engtsts*] Dear Mr. President:- The Chinese Minister has called this morning, and earnestly requests a private audience with you for the purpose of mentioning some of the hardships which the exempt classes of Chinamen coming to this country suffer by the present execution of the laws. He has frequently conversed on this subject with me, but, by order of his Government, he begs the privilege of putting his view of the case before the President. If you are able to spare him a few minutes of private audience and will inform me of the hour, I will make your wishes known to him. Faithfully yours John Hay [shorthand] [*Wednesday - 27th*] [*17991*]P.O. Box 2158. [*Ackd 12/31/1901*] Little, Brown & Company, 254 Washington Street, Boston. Publishers, Booksellers, and Importers of Law, and General Literature. [*Capt Loeffler Received*] November 23, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: We have the pleasure of sending you by express a copy of "Naval Operations of the War of 1812," being the portion of "The Royal Navy. A History," vol. 6, written by you. Copies have been printed, not for publication, but for the purpose of taking out a copyright in the United States. We thought you might like to preserve a copy in this form, and have therefore taken the liberty of sending you one. Yours respectfully, Little Brown & Co. [*17993*]THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 2 I will be away till Monday, as the enclosed will explain, but I shall watch the reception of the message with much interest. I took occasion, last night, to boom Irrigation, for the President has no right to a monopoly of all the coming questions. I hope you saw Tuesday's Eagle's leader. The intended courtesies to labor leaders who are sane should receive judicious publicity With high respect Mr President, I am, Sincerely yours St. Clair McKelway The President [*17995*] [*Personal*] THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Nov 23 1901 [*File ppp pr*] Dear Mr President I now think your appointment of Mr Roberts will be justified by the augmenting evidences of his acceptability and fairish competency and by the puerile and vindictive ads Mr Wilson has made in adding base odor to base exit As to Immigration Commissioner Jacob A Riis, but for the fact that he is not a native American and that Seth Low may need him for other work Jackson A Wallace, capable lawyer, honorable citizen, honest president of Brooklyn Aldermen is in Schieren's term, and sympathetically for right things in politics and citizenship, a Republican, would be a man whose selection would commend itself to every one - on general grounds. No specific fitness is predicable of him - nor any unfitness. He is just not an Immigration specialist. You might put a tracer on him. I do not know whether he would accept, for I have not spoken with him. But either W. L Ogden or Schieren or Woodruff could tell you of him [*17994*][*Ackd*] A1-3-9-'01 RE-ESTABLISHED 1878 BY J. N. MATTHEWS. FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1846. BUFFALO EXPRESS OWNED BY THE J. N. MATTHEWS COMPANY. GEO. E. MATTHEWS, PRESIDENT. JAMES W. GREENE, EDITOR, WM. M. RAMSDELL, PUBLISHER. THE COMPLETE PRESS EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: GEO. E. MATTHEWS, PRESIDENT. JAMES W. GREENE, EDITOR, DICTATED BY NOS. 179-183 WASHINGTON ST. BUFFALO, N.Y. Nov. 23, 1901. To His Excellency, THE PRESIDENT, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President:- I beg to inform you that a question of the transfer of Mr. De Barry, the Immigration Inspector here, has not yet been dropped and I should be greatly obliged if before a decision is made to transfer him you would look into the matter a little yourself. I have had some correspondence with Commissioner Powderly on the subject, and regret to say that we do not agree. He thinks there is no need for Mr. De Barry in his position here. I am certain that there is need of just such a man as Mr. De Barry, who has served for ten years and has succeeded in making the law respected and obeyed, and without oppressing anyone. I have the honor to remain Yours very sincerely, Geo. E. Matthews [*17996*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 15WU.VN.RA 7-Paid...4:11 pm. Soldiers-Field, Cambridge, Mass., November 23, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, President. End first half 17 to nothing. G.W. Milmore, Mgr. [*17997*][*File*] BYRON E. SHEAR. SHEAR & GIROUX, 721 AND 722 EQUITABLE BUILDING. EUGENE L. GIROUX, M. E. MINES AND MINING: CABLE ADDRESS "SHEAROUX." USE WESTERN UNION CODE. DENVER, COLO., Nov 23 1901. My dear Sir. Yours of the 19th at hand. It is impossible and also exceedingly inadvisable to obtain affidavits upon the "Dog tax" matter. I am not in the habit of backing up what I say with affidavits. It has not been necessary so far in life. In order to obtain affidavits I would have to be armed with several blank pardons and positive assurances that people would not lose their positions. Quiet detective work is what is needed, not the clumsy work of affidavits. My information was direct & positive. That is enough for the President to begin with. You are at liberty to ask Colorado people who I am or the Nevada Congressmen, Senator Foraker, Southard of Toledo, Sherman of Utica [*17998*]BYRON E. SHEAR. SHEAR & GIROUX, 721 AND 722 EQUITABLE BUILDING. EUGENE L. GIROUX, M. E. MINES AND MINING: CABLE ADDRESS "SHEAROUX." USE WESTERN UNION CODE. DENVER, COLO., 1901. Senator Teller and Mr Shafroth know[s] something of this matter. It is a shame that monies should be held up in this manner for years. The Civil service Commission can afford to send a detective here, I don't object to a decent campaign fund voluntarily given, but this is too much of a good thing. Yours truly Byron E. Shear. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secy Washington D.C. [*17999*]BUSINESS OFFICE Catholic Truth Society LORETTO BUILDING HARRISON AND LOOMIS STREETS Chicago, Nov. 23rd 1901 Your Excellency: The letter of Professor John G. Ewing, my cousin, which will be handed to you by Mr Cortelyou embodies my sentiments on the subject we spoke of during our very brief interview at New Haven. It is written in obedience to your direction and I venture to bespeak your earnest consideration of the matter of which it treats and the method of action advised. Very respectfully & obediently, Thomas Ewing Sherman S.J. [*18000*][*[ENC. IN. EWING TO CORTELYOU 11-23-01]*]Touch down by Harvard Harvard vs Yale Nov 23' 01 F. E. Haynes Photo 1867 7th Ave. N.Y. [*18001*] Right [*18002*]Rah! Rah! Rah! Harvard vs Yale Cambridge Nov. 23' 1901. Centre [*18003*] Left [*18004*] POLITICS. Pointers Indicating Current Sentiment of Both Parties. EXPERTS DISCUSS LOCAL DOINGS Political Maneuvers of the Week Viewed From the Standpoint of Both Great Parties With Occasional Sidelights by Others. DEMOCRATIC GLASSES. Hon. William Michael Byrne is such a genial and affable personage, such an intensely earnest man at times that Glasses regrets that at various periods we are called upon to comment sometimes unfavorably, upon his opinions. Yet Mr. Byrne is again in the lime light of publicity and this time in the very landable occupation of addressing the "Academy of Law Students." Mr. Byrne made to these young, hopeful and promising men a most interesting address, if the newspaper reports be true. He gave them suggestions that will undoubtedly prove advantageous to them. Such topics as the "Expression of Law in Ancient Asia," and the "Draconian Code" will prove fruitful sources of information and when this is illumed by the dainty bouquets tossed here and there by Mr. Byrne, in his public orations, the result is certainly commendable. In discussing the ancient laws it is to be hoped that Mr. Byrne will consider for the benefit of the student those Roman times when bribery and corruption began to play so important a part in affairs political. An Occasional reference to some of the orations of Cicero and the way in which Declus obtained dominion over the empire could also be dwelt upon by Mr. Byrne in a manner that would be strictly up to date. The Mr. Byrne might from this draw lessons of our own political time and lecture the law students on the probably law that would be adopted by Jay Ed Addicks should he, with the willingness of Mr. Byrne and others like him, become our political master. The law students could thus get an idea of practical problems that confront them during the present day as well as those of the past. Both are useful and both are needed. - Indeed with all the learning that the District Attorney displays in his addresses, bouquet and otherwise, knowing history as he does, it is astonishing that the District Attorney should for a moment tolerate Addicksism. The worst part of it is that Mr. Bryne's defence of his willingness to see Addicks in the senate is the baldest kind of sophistry. If the theories that Mr. Byrne tries to put into practice should obtain, there would soon be no need for addresses to law students or any one else. Mr. Byrne has yielded to the cry of two senators, according to the last accounts, and this means an upholding of the banner of Jay Ed. Addicks. 18005 -you and a glorious Presidency - In India little Speck was bristling with delight & excitement which he has no doubt written to you — Will you remember me to your wife. My heart soars over 1/2 the world to you, as I feel that you two are as inseparable & happy in your joint work in the world as my George and I are. And this companionship tempers all the worries, and doubles all the interest of public life - You must not answer please, as I know what yr life is. [*PPF Pr*] [*[1901]*] Nov 24 Viceroys Camp, India. My dear Mr. President I have spared you a letter up to the present as I felt that the United States P.O. must be groaning under the deluge of letters from your devoted friends and well wishers - but now Yrs. Ever Sincerely Mary Curzon [*18006*]I must lift my voice as I suppose I am one of your subjects (this may be a delusion of mine.) and have the delightful right to address my President. I look at the fact of your being President as a wonderful boon to the Country. Fate looks on indifferently while weak men & machines rule nations but when she feels that great qualities and courage are called for she finds the man, and in your case there seems more than ever the finger of fate and I am proud to think that my ever beloved 'America' is to be blessed by your rule. I saw Springy as I passed through Egypt on my way to India in September, and we mapped [*18007*]also an approval of your and my Charter Commission. I think I first suggested Rives to you. I hope all goes well. I am sure your message will be a great success. Yours always J. B. Bishop To/ President Roosevelt [*Ackd 11-27-1901*] University Club Fifth Avenue & 54th Street 24th Nov. Dear Mr. President- Just a word that I think you will be glad to hear. I was at some men's dinner last week and met a number of people whose support is valuable to you and whose good opinion you would wish to have. They were all a bit uneasy about your message and its attitude toward trusts. I took the liberty of saying that I had read it and of telling them [*18008*]and telling them a discreet account of what I knew of your attitude toward the leaders and of what you had been able to do with them. This also caused both relief and approval. These are "tips" I am sure you can use to advantage. Your new friends in the Post were tremendously excited for several days over Stranahan — saw a "national scandal" in it, and then suddenly shut up. It was very comic. Low's selection of Rives was ideal. It was its substance, saying it was as conservative in that and in other particulars as they could wish. They were one and all delighted. One of them was a Democrat and a financial magnate. Another thing. They were all a little uneasy too that you were going to have trouble with your party. I was able to set their minds at rest on that front also, calling attention to the successful way in which you had settled the Bidwell case as a sample of your powers in this direction [*18009*][*Ackd 11-9-1901*] 57 FIFTH AVENUE Nov 24 [01] My Dear Theodore People will ask me for letters of introduction to you & I cannot always refuse but try to indicate by their tone how close I am to the recipient Mr Pugsley is all right. He may be [*18010*]of use to you. Harry [*Harry*] C Page, editor & proprietor of the Bayonne Herald asked for one. I got off as socially he is not just what you would like & yet he is a good fellow & would do anything in his power for me. His is a case in point "There is nothing in the world against him & he would give even warmer allegiance to you & he & I worked for the War Democracy away back in the olden times so I have known him a long while Affectionately Uncle Rob [*[Roosevelt]*] Roly they say is resplendent in his new uniform. [*18011*]COPY. Cincinnati District, November 25,1901. Hon. John E. Wilkie, Chief Secret Service Division, Washington, D.C. Sir:- In compliance with instructions contained in your letter of the 22nd, instant, relative to charges preferred against Mr. George W. Lieberth recently commissioned Collector of Internal Revenue, I respectfully say, I met Rev. R.G. Noland, Rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church at Covington, Ky., and who resides at the Woodford Flats Covington, Ky., I informed him that I was instructed to ascertain from him what he knew of Mr. George W. Lieberth's habits. He said personally he knew nothing against Mr. Lieberth, but as a good citizen he thought when it was such common talk around Newport, Ky., that Mr. Lieberth was a frequenter of saloons and played poker in saloons, he gave President Roosevelt what information he had. He then gave me the names of some gentlemen and suggested that I call and see them, which I said I would do; I met Hon. R.W. Nelson, Mayor of Newport, Ky., at his residence north east corner of Park Avenue and Nelson Place, I requested him to inform me as to what he knew of Mr. George W. Lieberth's habits, he said he has known Mr. Lieberth for a number of years and when he, Mr. Nelson ran independent [*18012*]-2- for Mayor a few years ago Mr.Lieberth supported him, and he knew Mr.Lieberth was a frequenter of saloons, and while he never saw Mr.Lieberth gamble it was common talk around the city that Mr. Lieberth gambles in saloons, and it is also common talk around the city that when Mr.Lieberth was Chief of Police at Newport, Ky., that the pool room was running under protection, and Mr.Lieberth was considered an ignorant and illiterate man by every person who comes in contact with him. I met Mr.R.P Dimmick, Contractor and banker at his residence corner of Sixth and Monroe streets, Newport, Ky., I requested him to inform me as to what he knew of Mr. George W. Lieberth's habits. He said he has known Mr.Lieberth for a number of years and knows he is a frequenter of saloons and poker player, for he has seen Mr.Lieberth play poker and he has played poker with him, and he has seen Mr.Lieberth under the influence of liquor at least three times, and Mr.T.K.Hutchison who has been a Magistrate for several years and is still one, informed him Mr.Dimmick, that he, Mr.Hutchison had to purchase Mr.Lieberth twice in one day to keep him from electioneering against Mr.John Trapp, who was at that time the republican candidate for sheriff of Campbell county, Ky., and Mr.Lieberth at that time was identified with the labor party, and it is the general impression around Newport, Ky., that the pool rooms were running under protection while Mr. Lieberth was Chief of Police, and the last time he saw Mr.Lieberth under the influence of liquor was about three months ago, and Mr.Lieberth threatened at the time to whip him, Mr.Dimmick, if he did'nt stop saying that he, Mr.Lieberth, was not running 18013-3- the republican party right in Campbell County, Ky. I met Mr. George H.Ahlering former Mayor of Newport, Ky., at his residence, #215 East Fifth street, Newport, Ky., I requested him to inform me as to what he knew of Mr. George W. Lieberth's habits. He said he has known Mr. Lieberth for a number of years and knows he is a frequenter of saloons, and while he never saw Mr. Lieberth gamble it is common talk that Mr. Lieberth plays poker in saloons, and it is also common talk around the city while Mr. Lieberth was Chief of Police the pool room near Newport was running under protection, and Mr. T.K. Hutchinson who has been a magistrate at Newport for several years informed him Mr. Ahlering that he Mr.Hutchison made an affidavit a few years ago against George W. Lieberth that he Mr.Hutchison had to purchase Mr. Lieberth twice in one day to keep him, Mr. Lieberth, from working against Mr. John Trapp, who was then the republican candidate for sheriff of Campbell County, Ky. I met Mr. Albert T. Lyons, who has been City Assessor and Dept. County Court clerk of Campbell County, Ky., I requested him to inform me as to what he knew of Mr. George W. Lieberth's habits. He said he has known Mr. Lieberth for several years, and knows he is a frequenter of saloons, and on a sunday afternoon about three months ago he, Mr. Lyons met Captain William Air, who said to him, Mr. Lyons if you will come with me to the saloon of Neyman, I will show you George Lieberth who wants the President to appoint him Collector, playing poker for a cent anta, and the drinks are on the table, but her Mr. Lyons did not accompany Mr. Air to the saloon, he also said it was common talk around Newport, Ky., while Mr. Lieberth was Chief of Police that a pool room was [*18014*]-4- running under protection. I met Mr.Steven Solar former detective at Newport, Ky., at present traveling for the United States Cast Iron Pipe Company with an office at No.732 Union Trust Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, and residence at No.10, Blue Grass Ave., Ft. Thomas Campbell County, Ky., I requested him to inform me as to what he knew of the habits of Mr.George W. Lieberth. He said while he was connected with the Newport Police department, Mr. George W. Lieberth was a bar keeper for Mr.Chris Whitehead and the police raided the house one night and found a gambling outfit used in fairo, but there never was a trial of the case in the criminal court, he also said he knows Mr.Lieberth is a frequenter of saloon but he, Mr.Solar, has never seen him under the influence of liquor as Mr.Lieberth is a man who can stand a good deal of liquor. I called at the residence of Mr.John Trapp at First Avenue and Clay streets, Dayton, Ky., and was informed that Mr.Trapp was at Owensboro, Ky., doing contracting work and there was no telling when he would return home. He is a former sheriff of Campbell County, Ky., I called at the residence of Mr.N.L.Bennett, No.1106 Central avenue, Newport, Ky., and was informed he was not in the city and there was no telling when he would return. He is a former County Judge of Campbell County, Ky., also Chief of Police of Newport, Ky., Rev. R.G.Nowland and gave me the names of the gentlemen whose statements I have given and they are reputable citizens. I also saw other gentlemen whose statement is that they have 18015-5- known Mr.George W.Lieberth for a number of years,and he is a frequenter of saloons,and plays social games of poker in saloons. Having given attention to your instructions I submit this as my report. Yours respectfully, (signed) Michael P. Bolan, Operative. MEMORANDUM: Additional advice received by wire November 28th,1901. T.K.Hutchison says twelve years ago when Lieberth was clerk of election, he gave him twenty dollars to support republican candidate for Sheriff; believed until three months ago Lieberth took money from other party when he learned statement untrue; never saw him under influence of liquor and never heard of him gambling. L.J.Crawford,Attorney never heard anything derogatory to Lieberth's character. Charles Nagel insurance agent says Lieberth visits saloons; never heard of him gambling; never saw him under influence of liquor. When clerk of election of labor party man supported Republican candidate for Sheriff,when employed to do so. George Washington,Attorney,says Lieberth is an exceedingly moderate drinker,never heard his name mentioned in connection with gambling. D.R.Lock,recent Chief of Police, says Lieberth visits saloons but not frequenter of them; plays social game of cards but not considered gambler,never heard anything against him. 18016[*[For 1 attachment see 11-30-01 "Mr President"]*][*Exhibit “D.”*] Superior Advisory Board, Department of Public Instruction. First Regular Meeting. Manila, P. I., November 25, 1901. Pursuant to the annexed notice, the first meeting of the Superior Advisory Board was held in the office of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the Ayuntamiento, on the above date: There were present: Dr. Fred W. Atkinson, General Superintendent, Sr. Tomas G. del Rosario, of Manila, Sr. Pedro Serrano Laktaw, of Manila, Sr. Mena Crisologo, of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Mr. Frank H. Bowen, Secretary of the Board, and Sr. Joaquin Aurteneche, Interpreter. Sr. Demetrio Larena, of Dumaguete, Oriental Negros, was absent. The meeting was called to order at 10:15 a.m. by the General Superintendent, who presented a statement of the questions to come before he Board for discussion and recommendation. He mentioned the news that the conference of Methodist churches in the United States had appropriated $500,000 gold for the establishment of a Methodist University in Manila. [*18017*]Dr. Atkinson reviewed the work of the past year in opening primary schools throughout the archipelago, a normal and a trade school in Manila, and an agricultural school soon to be opened in Negros. There are now 819 teachers of English in the Islands, and more awaiting transportation from the United States. Discussion on the question of safety of American teachers in the provinces brought out the opinion that such teachers would be safe from molestation even where might be disturbed conditions, but considered advisable to supply pacific sections first. The matter of differences between Municipal and School laws was discussed, but was laid aside to permit the filing of written recommendations later. Discussion on the question of compulsory attendance favored the making of a strong compulsory education law. Compulsory school attendance being impracticable without supervision of private schools, the Board favored legislation on this point also. The Board showed much interest in the question of establishing secondary or higher schools in the provinces and a university in Manila -- to complete the system begun with the primary schools. In connection with these higher schools it was considered necessary to establish dormitories, as many children would necessarily remain at the schools and parents prefer them to remain under the supervision of the teachers. 18018It was agreed that the Insular government should pay the teachers and furnish the school supplies; that the provincial governments should provide land, buildings, furniture; the support of the schools would come from board and fees, but funds are necessary to establish the schools. The large towns should be given an opportunity to compete, by offer of lands or buildings, for the establishment within their borders of these higher schools, after the method pursued in the United States. Attention was called to some higher private schools here in the islands, which are believed to belong in reality to the government, and the Board favored securing these estates for the education of the pubic. After discussion of the matter of Normal Schools, it was Recommended: That Normal Schools be established in Vigan, Iloilo, Nueva Caceres, Cebu, and Zamboanga, in addition to Manila. The question of location of Agricultural school in Negros was referred to Sr. Larena and the Division Superintendent of Negros. On account of the general rise in prices of everything, prompt action in buying land for agricultural work was recommended, if it is not donated by private individuals. Recommended: That in addition to the Agriculatural school in Negros, other agricultural schools be established in Magalan, near Mt. Arayat, in Pampanga Province, and at San Ramon, in Mindanao. Recommended: by Sr. del Rosario, and agreed to by the Board, 18019that a circular be sent to all teachers instructing them to compel the boys attending school to dress in the American way. At 12 M. adjourned until 10 a. m., on Tuesday, Nov. 26. [*18020*] Second Session. The Board met at 10 a. m. on Thursday, November 26, in accordance with adjournment. Present, the same as at the first session. Discussion of vacations. General assent to one long vacation about April to June, and a two-weeks' vacation at Christmas. Recommended: That the 200 American teachers now appointed in the United States be furnished transportation to the Philippines at once, and on private liners if necessary. Also that a sufficient number of teachers be appointed to supply the demands of the various pueblos, even though the number be in excess of 1000. Discussion of salaries paid to native teachers brought out the opinion that they are being paid entirely too small salaries in most towns; that they are able to supply themselves with only the necessaries of life, owing to increased cost, and are not able to dress as a teacher should. The teacher should receive enough salary to enable him or her to present a creditable appearance and the teacher should become a person of importance and influence in the community. Recommended: That the native teachers should be paid by the Insular government temporarily; when the provinces are in a prosperous condition, then the municipalities should be made to pay native teachers, and pay them at the rate established by the [*18021*]Insular Government, thus putting salaries on a more equal footing. Suggested that the native teachers be paid say one-half of the salary paid to American teachers. Recommended: That attendance at school should be made compulsory for all children between 6 and 12 years; except children in barrios far removed from regular schools; that a penalty be provided for punishment of parent or guardian who does not send children to school, -- a warning for first offense, a fine of one peso for second offense, and a fine of five pesos for third offense, or imprisonment of five days in default of payment of five pesos. In case of repeated offense, a fine of say $200.00 or one-half year's imprisonment. The head of the family to be responsible for attendance of its servants. This law to be made by the U. S. Philippine Commission and the enforcement to be in the hands of the municipal authorities, under the control and direction of the General and Division Superintendents. Agreed that primary books are needed for use in native schools printed in English-Ilocano, English-Tagalo, English-Bicol, English-Visaya, etc., with illustrations. Recommended: That a commission to be appointed by the U. S. Philippine Commission, or other steps taken, to secure a uniformity in the spelling of geographical names, with especial reference to preserving the characteristic native names. Recommended: That, if possible there be established a complete [*18022*]free, public school system, free from primary schools to university, with industrial and commercial courses in secondary schools in the province, and with Normal schools as agreed yesterday. Recommended: That Agricultural schools be established in each province where sufficient land can be secured by donation to furnish an adequate working farm. This because in agriculture is the principle wealth of these islands. Recommended: That Section 25 of Act 74 be amended by adding thereto the following: "but these shall be under the control of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Division Superintendents." Recommended: That a law be passed making compulsory the teaching of English in all private schools, to an extent to be determine by the General Superintendent of Public Instruction. Discussion of the the question of securing equality in the amount of funds available to each municipality from the land tax, for the building of schoolhouses and for school purposes, developed the opinion that payment of this fund into provincial treasuries, to be disbursed from there on a basis of school population, or otherwise, would be impracticable and would be in violation of certain rights granted to municipalities. Recommended: That instead of paying the entire expense of erecting schoolhouses at different places, the provision be made to assist municipalities to complete buildings commenced by municipalities, [*18023*]thus giving encouragement and securing a more even distribution of financial aid. At 12 M., adjourned to Wednesday, November 27, at 10 a. m. [*18024*]Third Session. The Board met at 10 a. m., Wednesday, November 27, in accordance with adjournment. Present, the same as at previous sessions. The date of regular meeting was left to be determined by the General Superintendent; regular and special meetings to be held subject to his call. Recommended: That an amendment be made to Section 4, Act 74, authorizing the members of the Superior Advisory Board to visit schools for the purpose of inspection, the same as General and Division Superintendents; also giving authority to said members to make such trips as may be necessary and fixing the compensation therefor and providing for the payment of actual traveling expenses during the performance of such duty; that the Superior Advisory Board be made a permanent organization, with salaries and offices for the local members; and dividing the archipelago into four Districts and assigning one member of the Superior Advisory Board to each District. Recommended: That the U. S. Philippine Commission be requested to appropriate $500,000. gold for the establishment of a University in the city of Manila, with at first departments of Law and Engineering, the letter to include civil, mechanical, electrical, mining, marine and architectural; with other departments of Medicine, &c. Also a School of Fine Arts (Music, Painting, Sculpture) [*18025*]to be established as soon as practicable. Recommended: That the ownership of the University of Santo Tomas be determined at the earliest opportunity, and if decided to belong to the government, that this property be added to the University herein before mentioned. Recommended: That an amendment of the law be asked for, so that one-half of the lumber tax shall remain in the Provincial Treasuries, to be available for the construction of school buildings. Agreed, that in the supervision of private schools, especial emphasis shall be placed on hygienic conditions, competency of teachers, instruction in English, etc. Adjourned, at 11 a. m., until Saturday, November 30, at 10 a. m., to allow of putting the foregoing recommendations into shape to be presented to Hon. Bernard Moses, Secretary of Public Instruction. [*18026*]Fourth Session. The Board met at 10 a.m., Wednesday, November 30, in accordance with adjournment. Present, the same as at previous meetings; also Hon. Bernard Moses, Secretary of Public Instruction. The Secretary of Public Instruction addressed the Board, stating that he was in sympathy with most of the recommendations made, and especially speaking of the need of establishing more Agricultural and Normal schools, and finally a University, stating that a creditable Law school could be established soon, if buildings could be secured. He considered inadvisable the transportation of American teachers on commercial liners, and favored the increase in pay of native teachers as they became more competent. He questioned whether a compulsory attendance law should be passed by the insular government or by the municipalities individually. After discussion, he stated that this point must be determined by the Commission when the subject is brought up for discussion and action. If compulsory education is obtained, there should be supervision of private schools by the General and Division Superintendents, but this supervision should not investigate or comment on religious instruction. Further discussion of the matter of pay of native teachers ensued, until the Secretary of Public Instruction withdrew to attend a meeting of the Philippine Commission. [*18027*]The members of the Board were requested to make such additions and suggestions as they wish, and send them to the Secretary of the Board for presentation to the Commission. Señor Larena was also to be furnished records and especially asked for recommendation as to location of the Negros Agricultural school. At 11:05 A. M., adjourned, to meet at the call of the President. FRANK H. BOWEN, Secretary. [*18028*][*ackd 11-29-1901*] OFFICE OF F. M. Brooks Manufacturing Co., BRASS GOODS, Factory, 17 &81 Washington St., Brooklyn. 35 Warren Street, New York,Nov. 25,1901. 1990. To the President Washington D .C. Dear Sir:- As President of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club I am naturally interested in the question of the appointment of a new Postmaster for Brooklyn. Without reflecting upon the present Postmaster I think it is quite proper to say that the conditions of the Post Office during the past three years has not been creditable to the people or Brooklyn, and certainly not to the Republican party in Brooklyn. What the Brooklyn Post Office needs is a Postmaster who will have the confidence of the Republican voter's of the city from a party point of view, and of the people at large from an administrative point of view. I do not believe the selection of Mr. Roberts will do this; on the contrary; it is generally believed by many prominent Republicans with whom I have conversed about this matter that the Post Office under Mr.Roberts' administration would not rise above the condition that now exists. To continue the present condition would be extremely unfortunate, and I sincerely hope you will see your way clear to make an appointment which will reflect credit to your administration, command itself to the Republican voters, and to the whole people of the Borough. Yours respectfully, F. M. Brooks [*18029*]File The Raleigh European Plan ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T.J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C. Nov. 25th 1901 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States Washington Dear Mr President In regard to our conversation would state that I have seen Prof. Osborne and he will send the letter you requested as soon as possible. Upon receiving said letter I will immediately present to you. Mrs Cush and I leave for West Va tomorrow, but I return the first part of next month 18030 The Raleigh European Plan ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF T.J. TALTY, Manager Washington, D.C._________190__ Heartiest congratulations upon Harvards splendid victory last Saturday. It looks at last as if Harvard realized what a giant she is Sincerely yours Walter S. Cush 18031[*Ackd*] EXCELSIOR STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY Nov. 25, 1901. My dear. Mr. President:- Captain Goddard called to see me on Saturday. He is very anxious that the matter of the appointment of a successor to Henkel should not be foreclosed at once. I promised to call his request to your attention. I expect to be in Washington to attend the Depew dinner on December 7th and will call to see you. I do not know much about the status of this matter but would like or have a talk with you about it. I think that between us whatever friction may exist in connection with the appointment may be swept aside. I have no desire, however, to interfere to the extent of creating [friction] misunderstanding between the Senator and yourself, and I think that by a little talk we will be able to straighten matters satisfactory. Please regard this as strictly confidential. I hope you got a lot of ducks and had good rest. With kind regards to yourself and Mrs. Roosevelt, I am, Yours sincerely, B. B. Odell To the President, Washington, D. C. [*18032*] [*Ackd 11-27-1901 B[?] F*] DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHERS 34 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 25 Novr 1901 My dear Mr. President - This picayune check is small for the kind service you have done the Wallihan book, but it is at the "Kipling rate". It does not, however, express by any means the appreciation we have of your kindness. Very sincerely yours Doubleday, Page & Co. Walter H. Page To The President. [*(over)*] [*18033*] P.S./ May I take the liberty to say that your Southern appointments and the straightforward method you are pursuing are exerting the most wholesome influence in Southern politics & on Southern life that has been felt there in my lifetime? I have seen & talked with nearly 100 Southern men of influence during the last month - men of both parties & both races - who come to see me & whom I seek for information for editorial use & for use in a book that I am writing on the Race-Problem. They are all acquaintances of mine, [the] most of them, with whom I keep up correspondence. They all feel a cheerfulness that is new to them; for I have kept up with their thought & their feelings all these 20 years since I came from the South. The Washington incident, has had a helpful influence even among men who disapproved it. The broadening of opinion in most parts of the South is the most interesting thing now going on anywhere in the country, I think. I am going in a fortnight on my usual winter trip to four or five of those States to make some educational addresses; & I shall [*18034*]hear the most encouraging things, I am told, that I have ever heard, all the way from Montgomery to Richmond. Strength to your elbow! (tho' it doesn't need more strength.) Sincerely yours W.H. Page0123 1055p Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. -INCORPORATED- 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for Transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. NUMBER 417 Ny SENT BY ER REC’D BY mf CHECK 8 Call 1046p RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F. Streets, Washington, D.C. Nov 25 1901 Dated San Francisco Calif 25 To Arch Bishop Ireland Ebbitt House Washn DC Doherty has my approval as army chaplain Aop Riordan [*18035*] [*[1901]*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 27 WU BI GI 26 Paid-----9:12p New York, Nov 25. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Telegram regarding chief Manila fire department just received. Will take up matter at once and hope to be able to recommend first class man by tomorrow. James R. Sheffield. [*18036*] NUMBER A17 Ny SENT BY ERmy REC'D BY 8 Call CHECK RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F. Streets, Washington, D. C. Nov 25 1901 Dated San Francisco Calif 25 To Arch Bishop Ireland Elliott House Washn DC Doherty has my approval as Army Chaplain Aop Riordan 18035 [*[1901]*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 27 WU BI GI 26 Paid---9:12p New York, Nov. 25. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Telegram regarding chief Manila fire department just received. Will take up matter at once and hope to be able to recommend first class man by tomorrow. James R. Sheffield. 18036[*Treasy*] Detroit, Mich., Nov. 25th, 1901 Mr. President, My dear Sir: The one of all the Trusts that seemingly needs the strong arm of your Excellency laid upon it is The Nassau St. U.S. Bond Trust of New York City, said to be composed of three bond houses (one a branch of a Chicago concern). It is common report that prices of bonds for each day are there made by dictation without a bond being bough or sold. The whole country is fully aware that each time a little flurry in the money market occurs Government Bonds rise to a price almost prohibitive. The Government is appealed to for help, and thus far not in vain, by large purchases made and that too by notification, followed by a marked decline, almost immediately on the announcement that Government purchases cease. Ordinary business acumen would consider it very poor policy to make known its intentions before hand. Would it not therefore in the future be a wiser plan for the Treasury of the United States to adopt other methods which might be a source of protection against the forceful attacks of that little couterie of money changers. Most Respectfully Yours, Wm. Stillman Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President’s Mansion, Washington, D.C. [*Like many men who think they know, when they do not know the writer of above betrays a perfect ignorance, concerning that of which he speaks. All of which I shall be pleased to illustrate and substantiate. whenever the President shall desire to know particulars L. J. Gage, Secy Nov 30. 1901*] [*18037*] [*18037*]All quotations subject to change without notice. Orders will be entered subject to delay through Strikes Fires or other unavoidable causes. Travers Brothers Co., Manufacturers of Cordage, 107 Duane Street, New York, Nov 25th 1901 F. C. Travers, President. A. F. Travers, Vice Pres't. V. P. Travers, Treasurer. [[shorthand]] [*Ackd*] Hon T. Roosevelt President United States Dear Sir Pleased to report to you that you are now a Honorary Member of the very old socty. of the Friendly Sons St Patrick you were Elected at a special meeting called and held at Delmonico's with the largest attendance I ever saw and the great applause pleased me they wish you to promise to attend our Banquet March 17th and I hope you can I. know you would have a great reception the officer will send you a special notice of your Election Yours Truly Frank C. Travers [*18038*] on a/c of the death of Prest McKinley the socty did not hold any meeting until this one since last spring — I am now the owner of Havana & Cuba of Oyster BayOffice of the Appraiser of Merchandise Port of New York CABLE ADDRESS, 'MERCHANDISE, NEW YORK" Dictated by W.F.W. NOVEMBER 25, 1901 Hon. Charles A. Moore, 85 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. Confidential My dear Mr. Moore: While I was away last week I thought that I ought to call upon Secretary Gage and ascertain if possible the lie of objection on the part of the Treasury Department to my retention. I told the Secretary that I was away on leave of absence, and simply came to him as an individual and requested the exact facts in support of the position of the Treasury Department. He informed me that the subject was quire fully covered in his letter to me, of which have sent you a copy, and represented that it was largely a question of having an appraiser with little different temperament. He also said that I had had a constant clash with Assistant Secretary Spaulding, and intimated that the same condition prevailed between the Appraiser's office and Collector's office in New York, and he said that these two great establishments ought to run along as smoothly as two great banks. Of course, the latter proposition I admitted. He also said that he had seen a disposition on my part to be sensational, and that too much matter had reached the press in connection with the administration of my office. That practically covered what he said until I had made a brief review of my administration. I requested the privilege of making brief review, and called attention to important features of my administration about as follows: [18039]Office of the Appraiser of Merchandise, Port of New York, CABLE ADDRESS: "MERCHANDISE, NEW YORK." -2- "First. - Mr. Secretary, when I became Appraiser we occupied the old Stores on Leight Street, and you practically gave me in an advisory way, complete authority to push the arrangements of the new building, and through my efforts the Appraiser took possession of the new building on Christopher Street on the first of May, 1896, with a consequent saving of $83,000 in rent. Second. - You gave me control of the arrangements on the new building in every detail, andI reorganized your Laboratories and put them on a basis which is second to none in the United States service, they having attained such a position that nearly 30 per cent of the entire work of our Laboratories is now done for other ports of entry throughout the country, as a guide to other ports. Third. - Under the compound tariff of the Dingley bill specially applying to textiles, I organized an Analytical Bureau, the like of which does not exist in any other department of the Government of the United States, and which to-day is accepted practically as the standard authority by other Appraisers throughout the country, by the Board of General Appraisers, and by the Courts. Fourth.- When I became Appraiser you had a set of books in this establishment which were actually introduced in the Appraiser's Stores by Alexander Hamilton. Under your authority I secured an Expert Accountant, the only one in the Government service, reorganized our books, and to-day have perhaps the most practical up-to-date bookkeeping system in any Department of the United States. Fifth. - Referring to the customs matters, you will perhaps remember that the first important ruling which I made was in reference to leaf tobacco, wrapper and filler. Knowing what Congress intended by the tobacco section, I ruled that all wrapper tobacco found in a bale should pay $1.85 per pound. This was contested by the importers, and the Treasury Department practically placed this case in my hands irrespective of other officers of customs. Special counsel was employed upon my recommendation, and the case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States and my original rulings sustained, which in effect meant that if the importers' contention had prevailed not a dollar of duty would have been collected upon wrapper tobacco. In this matter, Mr. Secretary, I had the opposition of the Collector's office, and afterwards the opinion of the Treasury Department, by Gen. Spaulding, that the case should not have been carried to the Courts. [*18040*]Office of the Appraiser of Merchandise, Port of New York, N.Y. -3- Sixth. - Perhaps you have not heard of the Elastic Braid cases which arose under a very peculiar construction of the law, in connection with which the domestic manufacturer would have had to pay the same duty upon his finished product, as upon his raw material, if contention of the importers had prevailed. Int his matter, I sent my experts to the Courts, and was sustained in every point I made, with a result of several hundred thousand dollars a year additional revenue and the protection to domestic manufacturers intended by law. Seventh. - In connection with the Fancy Cotton cases, I had the opposition of the Collector's office and of the Treasury Department, but owing to a decision by Col. Tichenor of the Board of General Appraisers the onus of the case was thrown upon the importer, with went further than I ever went.This case applied to paragraph 313, a new paragraph of the tariff which if the imports' contention had prevailed would have been practically taken out of the law, In this matter, the importers had a great deal of equity or their side, and my own best friends in the importing line were hard hit by this decision, but I was simply following the law, and the law was sustained by the courts. Eighth. - Take, again, the Embroidery Cases, Mr. Secretary, wherein we found as large undervaluation as was even known, affecting importation amounting to more than $6,000,000 a year. The contest was started by me, in January, 1989, and more than a year and a half the most bitter fight was made upon me by the embroidery manufacturers, aided by five or six of the best firms of lawyers in New York. In this case I had the opposition of the Collector's office. The case was finally carried to the Courts and every point made by the Appraiser was sustained, undervaluation was stopped, and teh revenue increased by not less than fifteen hundred thousand dollars a year. Ninth. - Again, Mr. Secretary, take the recent Japanese Silks cases. The undervaluations by wrong classification, direct undervaluation and excessive weights was a most startling case. I reported the invoices to the Collector for seizure and through Office of the Appraiser of Merchandise, Port of New York, N. Y. technicalities and ex party statements, the seizure was no made, but the irregularities have been stopped by me. On three invoices which I sent to the Collector there was an excess of 1592 pounds of silk, and or three other invoices which were afloat or in the ware house at the time there was an excess of more than 3,000 pounds of silk. It does seem to me that irrespective of technicalities the excessive weights wee sufficient to seize and confiscate the goods under consideration. Tenth. - When I became Appraiser, I found loose methods, lack of discipline and insubordination, and I have tried to introduce for you a business administration or the greatest business house in the world. It is tru that I have recommended the removal of a large number of men; it is also true that the Department has not sustained me in my recommendations, each and every one of which I believe should have been approved." I finished my statement to the Secretary and he then said, "You have certainly accomplished great results". I relied, "Are you willing to say that to the President?" But I could not get an affirmative answer to this proposition. He then said, "I am not making a fight against you, Mrs. Wakeman, the matter is now entirely in the hands of the President, and if I am asked any questions I will answer them according to my judgment." My statement was presented as that of a person who expected to be removed, and in the most pleasant frame of mind. I think I have given you a very correct report of the interview and I was very glad that I had this talk with Mr. Gage. Very sincerely yours, W.F. Wakeman W.D. 25. [18042][shorthand] State of Illinois Executive Office Springfield November 25, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. Mr. President:- During your visit here last summer, you made a remark which struck me very forcibly, and that was that the majority of the men in the United States Navy to-day came from the inland states. Illinois, as you know, in the last Spanish War turned out every single man of its Naval Militia. There were 800 men on the rolls, and 800 men when into the service and served during the whole war on various vessels. About ten per cent, as I remember, of our Naval Militia, were on the “Oregon” under Captain Clark. Captain Clark was stationed in Chicago about ten or twelve years ago as Lighthouse Inspector, and during that time met a great many of the citizens of our state, and they all take a very warm interest in him. He is an exceedingly popular gentleman, and his record in the Navy is of the very best. While I believe Captain Clark calls Vermont his native state, at the same time, Illinois takes interest enough in him and in the glorious achievements of the Navy to suggest to you the propriety of promoting him to Rear Admiral. [*18043*]State of Illinois Executive Office Springfield #2. It seems to me that he has been rather neglected. Many friends of his, to my knowledge, feel so. He does not seem to be a complaining man, nor a sefl seeking man, but a great many of the western papers have commented on the fact that he has received no reward for his famous and successful trip of 14,000 miles from the Pacific to the Atlantic, (where the strain on him must have been very great), or that he was in the thickest of the action at Santiago. It seems to me it would be a just tribute to a deserving man, for you to send in his name for promotion to Rear Admiral. Our Naval Militia is in a flourishing condition, and full of “Esprit de Corps” and pride in the Navy. You saw some of them here, and will see, although this is an inland state, that we did what no other state did, turned out our entire force, and that without asking where they should be sent, or what they should do. Hence it seems to me that I can, as Executive of this state, ask this favor. Very respectfully, Rich Yates [*18044*][*[for attachments see 11-11-01 12-31-01 12-2-01]*]TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for Cir. [45] O wad some power the gift give us To see ousel's as others see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N.Y. City. NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From NEW YORK SUN Address Date NOV 25 19** [18045] Dealt With Accordingly In a letter sent to all or sundry of teh members of the Cabinet Mr. ROOSEVELT warns officeholders who have been seeking election to the Republican national convention "with a view to advocating my renomination or proposing my indorsement by State conventions" that they will be guilty of "a serious violation of official propriety and will be dealt with accordingly." Dealt with accordingly? Will this warning or threat remain mere words and wind? About the same hour when Mr LOEB was exhibiting this writ of prohibition Mr. CURRY, Governor of New Mexico, was proclaiming in Washinton the unchanged and unrepentant purpose of the President's friends: "I have not talked with the President about his third term boom. No friend of the President has to. We are going to have six delegated from New Mexico, and the six will be instructed for THEODORE ROOSEVELT. I am not going to be a delegate, and I suppose no Federal official will Constitutional Convention, Virginia Richmond, November 26th, 1901. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va. My Dear General:- Your very kind favor of November 23rd is to hand and noted. Whenever our friend is ready for us, if you will write or wire me I will endeavor to meet the appointment. His continued and obvious interest in a matter which is so dear to us all is not only most gratifying but inspires me with a degree of hopefulness which I hardly imagined would be possible under the circumstances. Surely we could not direct our efforts to a nobler cause; and whether we succeed or not, our efforts, I am sure, will not be entirely in vain, for we will at least have the assurance of inaugurating a public sentiment in the North which, I feel perfectly certain, will, sooner or later, result in the accomplishment of what we desire. May we both be spared to see that day! But whether we are not, it surely must be a consolation to both of us to feel that we have borne a part in the initiation of a great reform, which alone is destined to bring peace and prosperity to our State and finally and forever bind up the wounds inflicted by civil war and to restore to us a truly united country. Believe me, Your sincere friend, [*A.C. Braxton*] 18046[*File*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM Nov. 26, 1901 My dear Mr. President: I have cudgeled my brains a good deal about that Immigration Bureau since we talked of it some weeks ago. If the matter is not settled in your mind by Dec. 7, I shall be glad to take it up again with you then. I cannot think of a better man than Sheffield, if he would be willing to take it. Could he not be sounded in advance, in some way, and his attitude ascertained? He is prominently spoken of for some department under Mr. Low, but it seems to me that the place on Ellis Island would afford even greater scope for his abilities and greater opportunity for making a wide reputation. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*18047*][*Ackd 12/2/1901*] LOWREY & BERRY, PROPRIETORS. ON GULF AND CHICAGO RAILROAD, THIRTY MILES SOUTH OF MIDDLETON, TENN., SOUTHERN R. R. (FORMERLY M. & C.) THIRTEEN MILES NORTH OF NEW ALBANY, MISS., K. C., M. & B. R. R. NINETY-FOUR MILES FROM MEMPHIS, TENN. BOLD SPRINGS OF PURE FREESTONE WATER. STRICTLY A SCHOOL VILLAGE WITH THE BEST OF MORAL INFLUENCE. Blue Mountain FEMALE COLLEGE B. G. LOWREY, A.M., PRES'T. W.E. BERRY, A.M., BUSINESS MANAGER. T.O. LOWREY, B.S., SEC'Y. MRS. M.L. BERRY, LADY PRINCIPAL. REV. W.T. LOWREY, D.D., CLINTON MISS., PRESIDENT BOARD OF COUNSEL. STATISTICS OF THE PRESENT SESSION TO DATE: NUMBER OF BOARDERS 231 OFFICERS AND TEACHERS 21 STATES REPRESENTED 11 COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI 55 LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, SCIENCES, MUSIC, ART, ELOCUTION, DRESSMAKING, STENOGRAPHY, TYPEWRITING, TELEGRAPHY .TRAINING COURSE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS UNDER PROF. A. H. ELLETT. Blue Mountain, Tippah Co., Miss. 11/26/01. Dear Sir: Our Mississippi historian records the first steamboat on the Mississippi as having been built by Roosevelt of N.Y. in 1811. What relation was he to you? You will very greatly please us by giving us this information. Yours very truly, A.H. Ellett Blue Mtn. Miss. [[shorthand]] [*18048*][shorthand] [*Ackd 11-30-1901*] Russell B. Harrison Attorney at Law INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA November 26th. 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. My Dear Colonel:- Your letter of the 11th. instant was duly received. I have delayed answering in order that I could fix definitely the day upon which I would leave for Washington. I am indeed gratified that you were pleased with my father's tribute to you, your ability, fighting qualities and character. I am sure he would be fully compensated for his thoughts and expressions concerning you, if he only knew how well you were fulfilling his prophesies and predictions, as to your becoming President, and the manner in which you were discharging the duties of that high office. As you will be interested in the history of the article, I inclose a letter on the subject from Robert Mackaye, Editor of "Success". After reading you can return it to me. Upon leaving Washington I will visit New York City to arrange with "Success" for the publication of this article in suitable form for extensive circulation in Indiana, and also throughout the United States. I inclose the form in which i had this article reproduced in the "Sun" of this City. You are aware that I was an enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt for 1904, before you became President, and at a time when it was "hard sledding" in Indiana. I have never relaxed my efforts a moment for a loyal Roosevelt delegation in 1904, and am very much pleased with the present situation, notwithstanding our local candidate is still in the field. Since your elevation to the Presidency I have given [*18049*]Sheet No. 2. much thought and attention to the Press of this State to see that you had an auspicious start and I am delighted with the results. Your induction into office, under such trying circumstances, your attentions to the dead, the Booker Washington incident, your appointments to office, work and expressions have been very strongly endorsed by the newspapers of the State. You have indeed had a fine and happy start on a successful career as far as Indiana is concerned. I send you a few important clippings as evidence of this condition of affairs. One editor so wildly enthusiastic that he suggests the next ticket - 1904 - as Roosevelt and Beveridge. Just laugh and say nothing. Some two weeks ago I secured your election as an Honorary Member of the Columbia Club, of Indianapolis, the leading Republican Club of this State. Its an honor as the Club is composed of 1300 of the leading Republicans of Indiana. Secretary Cortelyou did not bring the letter to your attention, but answered it himself. This fact and the character of his answer has caused much feeling in the Club. I will make some suggestions on arrival that will show that you appreciate the honor, and restore harmony and good feeling. As to the Judgeship I greatly appreciate your prompt and cheerful deference to my judgment in postponing the appoint- to December. It was wise to do so for many reasons. Bear in mind that I want nothing but your nomination and election in 1904, and a brilliant record in the meantime. I shall ever endeavor to make no mistake in the advice I give you. I am preparing and shall lay before you complete information as to each candidate - qualifications, education, training and standing, as well as the political and physical aspects of the case. Am sure your first appointment to Indiana will be a wise and happy selection, and at [*18050*]Sheet No. 3. the same time strengthen your cause. Nine tenths of the candidates will not fill your requirements. It is quite probable that you will recommend in your message a pension for Mrs. McKinley. I request you do not mention for such purpose Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. My father never intended that she should be a pensioner on the government rolls He provided for her handsomely. She has now $10000. a year and a handsome home, furnished and maintained free by the estate. I see that Santiago Inglesias of San Juan is causing you some trouble by having the labor unions take up his cause. Be very careful of this man as he is dangerous. He should have been deported when we received Porto Rico. I think his re-arrest was on a complaint I preferred, while Inspector General of Porto Rico, for assaulting peaceable native workman, employed by the Quartermaster's Department, who would not strike at his request. Murmurings from Missouri are heard over in this State. A very powerful element of our party in that State do not think that National Committeeman Kerens should control all the appointments, and that his factotum Smith should not be reappointed. It would promote harmony to recognize other elements. Kerens gave my father much trouble and anxiety in Missouri. I am gratified [that] to learn of your pride in the fact that my father brought you into the field of National politics. I also feel proud of the fact that I brought you to his attention as a man of great ability and character and in the racing language "a dead sure winner" I wish he could see the confirmation of his opinions and judgement. It is my present intention to reach Washington Friday or Sat to go over the Judgeship matter. Everything will be confidential I even write my own letters on the typewriter - acquired in army. Your Sincere Friend Russell B Harrison [*18051*][*[For enc. see MacKay 11-11-01]*][*ackd 11/27/1901*] [[shorthand]] ESTABLISHED 1845. INCORPORATED 1895. HARRISON GRANITE COMPANY, PRODUCERS OF MONUMENTAL & MAUSOLEUM WORK W. H. HARRISON, Pres. & Genl Manager. HON. H. C. SMITH, Vice President. G. E. HARRISON, Secretary. S. P. DRAA, Treasurer. TEL. CALL 2208-18TH ST. QUARRIES & WORKS: BARRE, VT. F.B. MUDGETT, SUP'T. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, 42 EAST 23D STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. New York, Nov. 26, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. President: Apropos of the enclosed, the writers, who have long been warm admirers of yours, venture to enclose three photographs. You will appreciate the difficulty of securing photographs of the live, elusive moose. Before securing these negatives, we had opportunities to shoot upwards of sixty of these animals, which, of course, we did not avail ourselves of. We have for years had a ranch fifteen miles down the Big Fork from Mr. Vance's place. Moose are very numerous and not difficult to see by one acquainted with their habits. You will pardon us for pointing out that Mr. Vance, while a genial and reliable man, is not a good hunter or guide. Should you make the trip, we venture to recommend Henry Smith, who makes his headquarters at Vance's, and who is perhaps one of the best and most experienced woodsmen in the Northwestern country, and, also, Ellis Sombs, who lives half way between Deer River and Vance's on Bow String Creek. Both are very reliable and know the habits of the moose intimately. With these men you should not fail to see a number of moose. We, ourselves, will visit the Big Fork country in [*18052*]#2. August or September next, and would be highly honored if you could accompany us. It is a big contract, yet we feel safe in assuring you that we could show you a number of the most majestic wild animals that walk the American Continent. The photograph of dead game may seem to you wanton destruction, but, as a matter of fact, the deer was killed for the necessities of camp, and on the way home, we were charged by the bull moose and were compelled to kill him in self defence. Our experience has been that the bull moose is pugnacious at almost any time, and particularly so during the hunting season. Yours very truly, Geo. E. Harrison WH Harrison [*18053*][*[For 1. enclosure see 10-20-01]*]have advised that she go to California - partly for the change and rest but chiefly for the benefit of the climate - While the expenses there will be very slight - being with friends - we know that we are entailing considerable outlay upon Mr. Leonard by way of transportation - If it were proper and possible for you to aid him in this respect, with the Railroads, it would be possible for him to do as we advise Very Respy - &c.&c. Jos. Taber Johnson M.D. [shorthand] [*Ackd 11-29-1901*] 926 Farragut Sq. 26 Nov, 1901 To the Secretary To the President L My dear Sir: Mrs. Leonard the wife of a gentleman in your office, has been under my care during the past year, and is now suffering from such a phase of nervous prostration and neuralgia, that, after consultation with Dr Rixey, we [*18054*][*File Bills ppf*] U.S.S. SYLPH, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., November 26, 1901. [*OK J.so [?] Lt. USN Comd'g 'Sylph'*] U.S.S. SYLPH To C. B. Lee, Steward, Dr. To provisions $11.96 To washing soiled table linen 1.00 $12.96 Received payment, C.B. Lee [*18056*] [*acnd 11/27/1901*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 5PO.WN.RA. 43-Paid...12:22 pm. Chicago, Illinois, November 26, 1901. President Roosevelt, White House. Swedish Americans, assembled to honor Bishop VonSchule, special envoy of the King of Sweden, desire me to express to you their sincere appreciation of your cordial words to him concerning our nationality in America, and also their highest regard and heartfelt greetings. Consul Lindgren [*18057*][*OK so. R[??] [?] USN Com d'g 'Sylph' U.S.S.SYLPH To C.B. Lee, Steward, Dr. To provisions $11.96 To washing soiled table linen 1.00 $12.96 Received payment C.B. Lee [*18056*] [shorthand] [*acnd 11/27/1901*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 5PO.WN.RA 43-Paid...12:22 pm. Chicago, Illinois, November 26, 1901. President Roosevelt, White House. Swedish Americans, assembled to honor Bishop VonSchule, special envoy of the King of Sweden, desire me to express to you their sincere appreciation of your cordial words to him concerning our nationality in America, and also their highest regard and heartfelt greetings. Consul Lindgren [*18057*]November 26, 1901 Private Dear White: I think Leland may be likened unto a bottle of spavin cure, which it would be a good thing for the president to have in the household in case of political accidents in Kansas, to be well shaken before rubbed in. Concerning the attitude of the two persons [*the Gleed Boys*] whom you refer to in your letter, it is to me incomprehensible. Some people have processes of reasoning that to me are inscrutable. A man who says that Burton and Leland are anything alike just simply don't know what he is talking about. Nobody ever called Burton so many different kinds of thiefs or rogues as to ever induce him to protest. Nobody ever called Leland a thief or a rogue in a manner so mild as to save a criminal libel suit. And I notice that he always wins out and gets somebody in jail. I do not like Leland and have quarreled with him more than once, but it was never because he was a thief. Mr. Leland don't steal. I have had a very heated controversy more than once with the two persons you refer to over these two men, Burton and Leland. To me Burton is perfectly insufferable. He don't appear to be insufferable to the two men you refer to. On the other hand, to me Leland is a man that I can go to and quarrel with and can always get an explanation from in regard to some of his doings, and he is exceedingly plausible and as a rule he is plumb right.w. -2- At the same time I think Mr. Leland has very much weakened his status by trying to be the whole thing. “He ‘aint so pretty, but he knows more now.” -2- Concerning a certain phrase in your letter, I do not know what you meant. It is concerning some talk with Mr. Long. If that means the pension office here in Topeka, will say that I never have heard of it before; that I don’t want any office, and that if I did want it, I ‘aint the one for the president to appoint. It isn’t good business. Leland is the man to put in there. It would be a mistake not to keep him in. Yours truly, E F WareKings County Republican General Committee. Walter B. Atterbury, President. Adolph Kendl, Vice President. JACOB BRENNER. [M. J. Durly] Chairman Executive Committee. Julius L. Wieman, Secretary, Residence, 695 Bushwick Avenue. Frank J. Gardner, Assistant Secretary. John Drescher, Jr. Treasurer. 200 Joralemon Street, corner of Court Street. Telephone. 298 Main. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 26, 1901. [*Ackd 11-30-1901*] [*Look up B. attached*] Mr. George B. Cortelyou, The White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Cortelyou:- I have today written a rather lengthy letter to the President which I wish you would give to him when he has sufficient leisure to read it. It is a very important letter, in view of existing circumstances, and I would like to have him read it carefully. I know the great pressure he is under but I know you can find a time at which he would have the necessary time to give to this letter. I shall greatly appreciate your courtesy in the matter. Yours very sincerely, Timothy L. Woodruff [*[WOODRUFF]*] [*18059*]Kings County Republican General Committee. Walter B. Atterbury, President. Adolph Kendl, Vice President. JACOB BRENNER. [M. J. Durly] Chairman Executive Committee. Julius L. Wieman, Secretary, Residence, 695 Bushwick Avenue. Frank J. Gardner, Assistant Secretary. John Drescher, Jr. Treasurer. 200 Joralemon Street, corner of Court Street. Telephone. 298 Main. T. L. W. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 26, 1901. [*ackd 11-30-1901*] The President, White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President:- I am in receipt of five letters and one telegram from Secretary Cortelyou, enclosing letters concerning the appointment of Mr. Roberts as Postmaster, which I return herewith. LETTER OF RICHARD V. BAINBRIDGE. This gentleman states that he is the President of the Manufacturers Association of New York and says he is actuated by his interest in good government in opposing the appointment of Mr. Roberts or any politician of his type. Mr. Bainbridge is the President of the New York Manufacturers Association and we all know him, and while he has our respect as a business man, his recent course in connection with the municipal campaign is such as to deprive his suggestion of any consideration in my judgement. He was the Chairman of the Committee of One Hundred, organized in Brooklyn in the support of Mr. Shepard and the Tammany ticket. He helped to organize this committee, notwithstanding the fact that he was one of the Committee of One Hundred of the Citizens' Union which recommended Mr. Low to the Conference Committee and he was also a delegate to the Citizens' Union Convention and there voted for Mr. Low as the candidate of the Citizens' Union for Mayor. These points I have verified by a visit to Col. Willis L Ogden who was Chairman of the Citizens' Union Committee. Mr. Ogden then volunteered to write a letter to you in behalf of Mr. Roberts, and I suppose this has gone forward today. LETTER OF NICOL W. CRAW. This man was an applicant for a position as Deputy [*18060*]2. Collector of Internal Revenue under Mr. Jordan, who was appointed to that position last spring. He was endorsed by Mr. Roberts, in whose district he lives. It was impossible to appoint him without removing some worthy Republican occupying one of the places he sought. This, of course, could not be done, and he took umbrage at Mr. Roberts because he did not secure his appointment. All these facts are known to me personally, and as I understand, he recently made a demand upon Mr. Roberts of a very [odious] discourteous character. He is in the Election District of Mr. Robert's Assembly District with Mr. Hilton who got out the circular urging his friends to support the Democratic candidate for Assembly against our friend Cotton. LETTER OF MR. FREDERICK T. GORDON. This man states that he esteems Mr. Roberts as a personal friend of twenty years' standing but objects to his partisanship. I know him well by reputation, and he is what we sometimes call a cranck. He used to live in Roberts' district and was a member of the church of which Roberts is a trustee, but withdrew therefrom, espousing the cause of Atheisim. Mr. George A. Koos, who telegraphed you in favor of Mr. Teale, is the superintendent of the Sunday School of my church, and the intimate personal friend of Mr. Teale for years, having co-operated in Sunday School work. I have been unable to see Mr. McKeen, but hope to do so tonight, and have no doubt he will do as Mr. Ogden has done - write you in favor of Mr. Roberts. Mayor Schieren has just returned and is layed up at home with a poisoned face. Mr. Chester B. Lawrence, his most intimate friend, saw him this morning about another matter, but reported to me that Mr. Schieren spoke very favorably about Mr. Roberts, and I have no doubt Mr. Schieren will write to you such a letter as you desire as soon as it is possible for me to see him. I have been much worried at learning that the purported interview with me in the Brooklyn Eagle last Wednesday night, the day I was in Washington, has in anyway annoyed you. Of course I never gave expression to any such sentiments as the article, including the headlines, conveyed. I had a talk with Mr. Atkins of the Eagle in Washington before I went to the White House to lunch, in which we talked over the matter of the appointment of Roberts and Sharkey, and in which I told him how anxious we were to have these appointments made. It was only with him that I had any conversation, except to say that I was down there to advocate the appointments of these two men, and all articles, except Atkins, which I saw, were copied from his. I saw the article in the Eagle when I got home at midnight Wednesday night, and early the next morning called at the office of the Eagle, where I had an interview with Mr. McKelway. He advised me to telegraph you at once, [*18061*]3. for the purpose of setting myself right, but knowing that Mr. Atkins had no intention of misrepresenting me, and that a careful reading of the article could hardly be construed as the headlines would indicate, I took the course of telephoning to him, with the result that he offered to call upon you at the White House immediately, and an hour later telephoned that he had seen you and had satisfied you entirely regarding the whole matter. I therefore discharged it from further consideration. Permit me to say that I have never had a thought in my mind of saying anything to you that could be construed as an ultimatum or a threat. I hope you have too much regard for my judgement to think that I would harbor such an idea in connection with any relations I might have with the President of the United States, and particularly with a President with whom I have had such delightful relations and who has been so kind and cordial to me as you have been. I will be much obliged to you if you will read this long letter carefully, although I know how tremendous the pressure is upon you. With best wishes, I beg to remain, Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Timothy L. Woodruff [*Woodruff*] [*18062*]Boston Nov 27th' [*[01?]*] [*File ppf*] My dear Ted, I have just returned from the west, having started on a trip just after our return from Washington. I want to thank you most sincerely [*18063*] for the pleasure you gave us all, and to tell you how pleased we all were to see you again. These good old democrats Saltonstall and Gaston were most loud in [*18064*]their praises and I know it would have given you great joy to have heard the comments of all the boys. Too bad you could not have seen the game on Saturday! it would have done your heart good. Very sincerely HB Chapin B&ARR Boston[*File*] 46 Wall Street, New York, Nov. 27, 1901. Dear Sir: Please read the enclosed report of the Committee of the Harvard Club. I may add that the need of more room is much greater now than it was when that report was made. Almost every night some members of the Club cannot dine there because of lack of room. I am much impressed with the value of the Club to the men who come to New York soon after leaving the University: it gives them a pleasant home, and above all it brings them under the both stimulating and restraining influence of the public opinion of their fellows; it thus gives a post-graduate course in one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable of college courses. The club is also a useful aid to the University herself in many ways. One man, not a member of the Club or resident of New York, has given a thousand dollars to this fund because he believes, as he says, that the Club will be so useful to his boys when they come to New York. If you have not already subscribed to this fund, please consider the subject. Subscriptions have been made in sums from $1,000,00 to $2.00. An average of $6.00 from those who have not already subscribed would give all that is called for by the report of the Committee. The money will not be called for before the end of March next. Please reply to me at above address, stating whether you can or cannot contribute, stating the amount if you do contribute. Yours truly, Charles S. Fairchild, President Harvard Club. Enc. [*18065*][*[For 1. enclosure see 10-13-1900]*][*Treas*] New York, N.Y., Nov. 27th, 1901. To the President:- Dear Sir:- The "Herald" of the 26th inst. on page 10, column 1, gave the true inwardness of the methods and purposes of the disgraceful cabal of loot, graft and spoils, which, operating for three years past have nearly ruined the local Custom Service. But it is strange that no word has been published regarding the doings of Croft the Devery of the Custom House. Has no evidence reached you, Mr. President, of the shake downs he has organized, ostensively to support his robber camp in Harlem but in fact for his own pocket all the time. Why did he dismiss the six head U.S. weighers? How he fooled Bidwell (the cleverest collector, etc. ) by telling him that the salary saved could be divided among the "boys". The real reason though was that he wished to divide the port among his own satellites; it was an able scheme. Investigate him Mr. President please in you own way not via. Spaulding, Gage & Co. Ltd. Very respectfully, T.D. Sullivan While Mr. Croft is not regarded as an ideal Surr no evidence - nor any complaints of the character referred to above has been received at this department. If Mr Sullivan has any facts within his knowledge or control, to support the loose affirmations indulged in by him - they will be gratefully received and carefully investigated L J Gage, Secy [*18066*][shorthand] [*Ackd 12-2-1901 Wrote Mr Powderly*] University Club Fifth Avenue & 54th Street Nov 27 [*[1901]*] Dear Mr Secretary I shall esteem it a personal favor if you will see that the within note is given to the President at the earliest possible moment. You of course are at liberty to read it. Sincerely yours Charles S. Hamlin Ames Building Boston [*18067*] [*Ackd 12-5-1901 Wrote Mr Powderly CF*] Personal and Confidential University Club Fifth Avenue & 54th Street Nov. 27. [*[1901]*] My dear Mr President: The merchants of New England and along the Canadian border and the Transportation interests from Maine to the North West are very much disturbed at the recommendation in the report of Gen. Powderly the Comr of Immigration to the effect that the ports along the Canadian border should be closed to the admission of Chinese merchants and other Chinese not excluded by law and that such [*18068*]such radical recommendation in your forthcoming report to Congress. With kindest personal regards, believe me, Very respectfully yours Charles S. Hamlin Ames Building Boston Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President. merchants should only be allowed to enter the United States at sea ports. As you know we have a large trade in New England with China especially in cottons and such a change in the law sentimentally would be productive of disastrous results to said trade. I need scarcely add it would also be clearly unconstitutional to shut up their ports as suggested. Permit me in behalf of the many trade and transportation interests I represent to express the sincere hope that you will make no [*18069*][*File ppf p?*] Nov 27 [*[1901]*] Dear Theodore As you are not thin skinned & may be amused to see what a Junker-doctor, thoroughly saturated with beer and German culture thinks about us, I send the inclosed for perusal or waste basket. Yours faithfully John Hay [*[Dr. Hans Wagner in the Koloniale Zeitschrift]*] [*see [Mason] F Depty State Mason, Frank H 11/13/01*] [*18070*][shorthand] [*File CF*] Ebbitt House Army & Navy H.C. Burch, Manager. Washington, D.C. Nov. 27 1901 Dear Sir, I beg leave to enclose further papers in reference to the two names I have submitted to the President to fill vacancies in army chaplaincies. One telegram shows that Archbishop Riordan approves the application of Father Doherty of San Francisco. The other telegram tells that Mr. Murray's indorsment of Father Casey has already been sent to the President. The letter of Bishop [*18071*]Beaven of Springfield, Mass. gives his approval to the application of Father Casey. Very truly John Ireland Mr. G.B. Cortelyou[*File PPF*] OFFICE OF SETH LOW. 30 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK WM. H.H. BEEBE SECRETARY New York, Nov. 27, 1901. The President, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President:-- I did not receive your telegram proposing a lunch instead of a dinner until half past 2 o'clock this morning, when I reached home from a banquet at which German-Americans in Brooklyn were rejoicing over the downfall of Tammany! As I left the feast in full swing at a quarter past 1, they maybe rejoicing still for all I know. I put inquiries on foot in regard to trains immediately after breakfast, and I had just telegraphed to you when your message came asking me for an immediate reply. I sent a despatch in duplicate, to serve in case of need. I am sorry that my reply was so long in reaching you as to cause you inconvenience. In the meanwhile I have Mr. Cortelyou's message that you expect me at lunch next Wednesday at 1:30 instead of at dinner. I think I shall have sufficiently recovered from the German banquet by that time, and will be ready once more for luncheon. Anticipating the pleasure of seeing you next week, I am, as always Yours respectfully and faithfully, Seth Low. [*P.T.O.*] [*18072*]a letter like this makes me feel that the type-writer is the invention of the Century; but I have no choice but to let it go forward - with so many apologies!TELEGRAM. [*ansd*] White House, Washington. 21 WU RN JM 24 Paid Govt. 3 p.m. PX.... New York, Nov. 27, 1901. The President:- I shall be in Washington on Saturday and will call upon you at ten o'clock that morning. T.C. Platt. [shorthand] [*18073*](copy) Treasury Department, OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION. Washington, November 27th, 1901. No. 28,522. Commissioner of Immigration, Ellis Island, N. Y. H. Sir;- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 23rd instant, suggesting that the various religious representatives at the Ellis Island Immigrant Station be given the opportunity to hold religious services for the benefit of aliens who are detained at your port, a custom which you state is practiced in almost every other public institution. With a view to the consummation of this plan, you recommend that the quarters designed for the record room at your station, which occupy the whole length of the building from the first floor to the ceiling, be converted into a chappel by constructing a floor from the second story over said room, wherein Sabbath services may be held. The proposed plan, as outlined above, does not meet with my approval, for the reason that you could not have a sufficient number of chapels to accommodate all the religious denominations which pass through and are detained at your station; and, moreover, I am unable to conceive any plan by which you could hold services [*18074*]-2- in the proposed chapel for persons representing such a variety of religious beliefs, speaking such a babel of tongues and dialects without confusion. Criticism one of the other, it seems to me, would necessarily follow, perhaps disturbances quite out of harmony with the object sought, to wit, religious worship. There are many phases of this subject which might be elaborated to establish the seeming impracticality of the suggestion you make, in view of which, and the more potent fact that there is no appropriation at the command of this Bureau from which could be defrayed the expense of making the proposed improvements, I am constrained to disapprove of your recommendation. Respectfully, (signed) T.V. Powderly Commissioner-General. [*18075*][*[For 1 attachment see ca. 11-27-01 [Powderly]]*][*Pratt, Chas.*] [[shorthand]] [*Ackd 11/30/1901*] C. S. ROBERT, COUNTY SURVEYOR. OFFICE OF County Surveyor, Fulton County. MAPS, PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS AND ESTIMATES OF ROADS, RAILWAYS AND TOPOGRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS. Atlanta, Ga. Nov 27 1901 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Washington D.C. Dear Sir. In Sept last I saw an article in the Atlanta Journal taken from the Charleston News & Courier. with the article were two pictures said to represent Mr & Mrs Roosevelt, your father & mother. The picture of your mother was so unlike her, as I remembered her, that I cut out the article & sent it to my Cousin Mrs Florida, Bayard Seay of Rome Ga. asking her to correct any of my recollections that might be wrong. (I was only 10 years old when I last saw your mother) & a question about the death of Maj Bulloch in the Church Sunday morning, after Sunday School as I remembered-- I take the liberty of enclosing Mrs Seays letter with the remark that Mrs Seay did not expect that your eye would ever see the letter- I also enclose snap shots of the Old Academy, Church & Bulloch house - These will doubtless be of interest to young Archibald - Irvine & I were of the same age & I never saw him but twice after the family moved to Philadelphia He came to Roswell in '61 to cast his lot with the South & while there he & I painted a large Confederate flag on the wall of the old [*18076*]C. S. ROBERT, COUNTY SURVEYOR. OFFICE OF County Surveyor, Fulton County. MAPS, PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS AND ESTIMATES OF ROADS, RAILWAYS AND TOPOGRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS. Atlanta, Ga. 190 Academy, & it is drawing it very mild to say that there was a "Hot time" in the little village next day - I met him again in Savannah in the early '70s while there on a visit from Liverpool - I have met recently a number of Roswell people who knew your mother well & intimately in her girlhood & young womanhood - & they all have great confidence, in what Mrs Seay calls, the "older Archibald" in you - & I think that they will not be disappointed. I am Sir Very Truly Yours Chas. Pratt, [*18077*][*[For 1 enclosure see 11-12-01]*]PS. I know how busy you & your secretary must be so don't bother to answer this - a friendly greeting next Commencement will be answer enough. I know that your telegram of last [Saturday] Friday did our football team good. The victory was very gratifying particularly to some of us older men who have followed and assisted in the fortunes of the foot ball teams year after year since leaving college. We are getting up a dinner & celebration of which you will be doubtless duly advised shortly - T.CT. To His Excellency The President - [[shorthand]] 16 Pearl St. Boston - Nov. 27. 1901 - [*Ackd 11/29/1901*] My dear Roosevelt - Several years ago when you were elected Governor of New York I felt a strong desire to write you a letter of congratulations with a message that many, many of the younger generation of Harvard undergraduates and graduates with whom I have kept in touch since we were in college together, were watching your career with keen interest and were strong believers in your sincerity and faithfulness - But I must confess that a bashful modesty and a feeling that I might be too "fresh" [*18079*] [*[ca 11-27-01]*] [*File cr*] (Ed.11-5-1900—1,000,000.) No. 19. TREASURY DEPARTMENT There may be an attempt to have this thing done notwithstanding the objection I have made. It would be very unfortunate to have a babel of religions as well as tongues at a Government station for the discharge of immigrants. T.V.P. [*18078*] [*[Powderly]*][*[attached to Powderly 11-27-01]*] restrained me. After the sad death of our beloved President for some time my heart was too full to write you then; it seems as though our country has been drawn closer and closer together this Autumn as never before in recent years and closer too, yes, let us hope to our Divine Ruler - There are many men not only Harvard or college men, but all over this broad land of ours who whether Republicans or (Democrats like myself) - it makes no difference - who firmly believe in your honesty and sincerity of purpose and whose prayers go up for our President and our Country. I could but recall after the death of our beloved President the tender scene where the young King Solomon when asked by The Lord in a vision to choose whatever gift he desired, replies "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad." And "may God be, with us as He was unto our fathers". With best wishes, Believe me, Faithfully yours, T. C. Thacher. P.T.O. [*18080*][*File PPF*] [[shorthand]] [*Ackd 11-30-1901*] CABLE ADDRESS "NEWWILLARD" THE NEW WILLARD, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE & FOURTEENTH ST. F.S. HIGHT, MANAGER WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov 27 1901 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Pardon me for a few words in the Philadelphia case of which you gave me the narrative this morning. You should bear in mind that our victory over Tammany in New York has placed the Phila. gang in a more glaring light than before. They now stand where Croker & his gang stood before, - as the plague spot of the universe. If anybody wants to tell what [is] ought to be considered, & what is worthy of execration, in municipal Government he no longer singles out (over) [*18081*]New York. He finds his illustration in Phila. I know this is true because I have recently returned from a considerable journey in the West. Every where, & on all tongues, I heard the exclamation: "what a contrast your election was to that of Phila.! How despicable Phila. seems by the side of New York!" The point of this is that the public are in a very critical mood respecting the Phila. gang & will view with great suspicion any step which gives them comfort. It is evident that they want you to do something which will enable them to say that no federal office-holder can go counter to their commands & retain his place. In order to teach this lesson to their underlings they can afford to accept an angel as the successor of the man whose removal they are now asking for.3 CABLE ADDRESS "NEWWILLARD" THE NEW WILLARD, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE & FOURTEENTH ST. F.S. HIGHT, MANAGER WASHINGTON, D.C. 190 I have no knowledge of the case except as I have heard it from you. I suggest that you take time to get the opinions of the best people in Phila - such as Herbert Welsh for example - and that you do nothing which cannot be defended by men of that type, who are residents of Phila. & who know all the facts. With backing of that kind everybody in other parts of the Union, whose opinion is worth having, will be satisfied. Yours very sincerely Horace White Hon. Theodore Roosevelt [*18082*]Telegram White House, Washington. [*File*] [*OK*] 34 WU TG GI 62 Paid – 9:43 p New York, Nov. 27th [*01?*] The President: Yours of Monday just to hand. Sun’s article elaboration of Atkins’ article explianed in my letter of yesterday. Would have written you explanation last week. had not Atkins telephoned that you were entirely satisfied with his explanation. Thursday’s paper carried explicit denials. White does not object to Roberts is simply willing to help you find someone else if you wont take him. Timothy L. Woodruff. [*18083*] Wurzburger, Julius, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27. 1901. Says he encloses affidavit and correspondence, showing bad faith on part of Congressman Bartholdt. This is done that the President may form proper estimate of Mr. Bartholdt as a man worthy or unworthy of confidence. (The affidavit is attached but not the letters to which reference is made.) [*18085*][*[attached to 11-27-01 Wurzberger]*][*2 ackd. 12/3/1901*] St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, United States, Washington, D. C. Honored Sir:-- I deem it my duty to give you some facts which are known to me, and which I fully substantiate by the enclosed affidavit. I give you these facts in the interest of fair play among men, also that you should know to whom you are now giving your confidence. I also send you some letters which came to me from Mr. Bartheldt. Some of these are written in german, and I hope, Mr. President, you will read them. My reasons, my dear Mr. President, for sending you the letters of Mr. Bartheldt, are that I understand that the class of Republicans that I belong to, vis: the active workers of the party, have been discredited to you. You will see by these letters the confidence that Mr. Bartheldt has placed in me in the past, and you may use your judgment in anything Mr. Bartheldt may say about me now, should you see fit to take it up with him. I have no objection to your showing these letters and my affidavit to him, as I have further proof of Mr. Bartheldt's work and action against you the time of the National Convention in Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. Bartheldt had the right to be for his friend Dollivar then, but he did not have the right to traduce you and say that you were not fit to be Vice-President, etc. If Mr. Bartheldt should try to deny or challenge my statement as to this action at the Philadelphia Republican National Convention, I will produce further proof about Mr. Bartheldt's actions at Philadelphia, or meet his face to face, at any time. At the time Mr. Barthledt wrote me these letters, I was the Republican Election Commissioner under the old state election law, and I am loyal to you as the President of the United States, and the honored chief of our great Republican national party. I am, Your obedient servant, [*Julius Wurzburger 2117 Arsena*] P.S. -- Kindly return my letters when you are through with them. 18084[*[For 1 enclosure see 11-29-01]*]STATE OF TEXAS: COUNTY OF COLORADO: We the undersigned citizens of Colorado County, Texas, make oath that we know of our own knowledge that Ho R. L. Smith, of Colorado County, Texas, was an active, ardent and loyal supporter of Hon. R. B. Hawley, for Congress during the Campaign of 1896, and has always supported the nominees of the Republican Party. Oliver + Pollard E.F. Dennis, resident of his mark Fayette County Nathan Jones A. R Woodward C.W. Tanner Austin Callius Nelson Davis The State of Texas () County of Colorado () Before me , the undersigned authority, on the 23rd day of November, 1901, personally appeared Oliver Pollard, Nathan Jones, A. R. Woodward, and C. W. Tapper, and subscribed and sworn to the above instrument. Witness my hand and seal this the 28th day of November, A.D. 1901 Hugh R. Brown Notary Public in and for Colorado County. The State of Texas () County of Colorado, () On this day personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority E.F. Dennis, a resident of Fayette County, Texas, and being duly sworn, made on oath that he knows of his own knowledge that the Hon. R.L Smith, of Colorado County, Texas, was an active, ardent and loyal supported of R.B. Hawley, for Congress, during the campaign of 1898, and has always supported the nominees of the Republican Party. [18086] Witness my hand and seal, this the 28th day of November, A.D. 1901 Hugh R. Brown, Notary Public in and for Colorado County Texas [*C.F.*] [*PPF B*] ANDREW CARNEGIE 5 WEST 51ST ST. New York, 28th November 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. Sir, For some time I have been considering the propriety of fulfilling one of Washington's strongest wishes, the founding of a University at Washington, but the conclusion reached was that, if with us today, he would decide that under present conditions greater good would ensue from co-operation with, and strengthening of, existing universities throughout the country, than by adding to their number. I asked my good friends Messrs the Honorable Andrew D. White, President Gilman and Dr Billings, among the foremost authorities upon educational matters, to study the problem and confer freely with me. The result is that I now believe that a scheme has been devised which will receive the warm approval of all friends of progress, and prove a source of strength to present institutions. If established and managed as I believe it can be our country will possess a potent instrument for discovery and invention and the pursuit of knowledge, for it aims at the co-operation of all our higher educational institutions, thus ensuring unity of effort hitherto lacking, from which I think we are not too sanguine in predicting a surprising harvest. [*18087*]ANDREW CARNEGIE 5 WEST 51ST ST. New York 3 received through public discussion. It is with a view to receive and benefit by such that this rough draft is now submitted. Mr President, believe me that I am made a very happy man this day of thanksgiving by the thought that I have been so favored as to be enabled thus to prove, at least in some degree my gratitude to, and love for, the Republic to which I owe so much. Very respectfully yours, Andrew Carnegie [*18088*][*2*] The proposed body of Directors will have power by a two-third's vote to change means or methods from time to time of reaching the desired ends, to meet changed conditions, thus enabling the new institution to adapt itself to the needs of the day and to remain an active force working by proper modes for useful ends. To establish the new institution I offer to erect the necessary buildings in Washington upon a site designated by Government and when ready for operation to hand over to the Treasurer of the United States for its use, Ten Millions, Five per cent bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, thus ensuring Five Hundred Thousand Dollars annual Revenue. These Bonds do not mature for fifty years, when redeemed, it will rest with Congress to decide what rate of interest will be paid upon the principal. Perhaps if the tree bear such fruit as the Founder expects, Congress may generously deal with it as with the One Million Dollars it holds by gift by the Smithsonian Institute, but it will be quite right to reduce the revenues if the tree proves fruitful. That Congress, fifty years hence will judge well and act wisely, in the matter, I am well assured, and therefore make no conditions. An accompanying paper gives a preliminary sketch of the scheme, which will no doubt be improved by valuable suggestions. [*18089*][shorthand] [*Ackd 11-30-1901*] 452 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK. Nov. 28. 1901. Mr. President. I beg to say a word in favor of a friend of several years' standing, Mr. Edward J. McSweeney, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration in the City. I vouch both for his competency and integrity, and would take it as a special favor if you would kindly direct some one, in whom you have [*18090*]confidence, to make a thorough investigation of the Barge Office and Ellis Island. I venture, in this instance, to address you, emboldened by your gracious invitation to do so, and in the pleasing belief that at least you will give me credit for sincerity. I have the honor to remain dear Mr. President, Your obdt servant, M.A. Corrigan The President of the United States. [*18091*][*F*] GEORGE CURRY, GOVERNOR TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE. SANTA FE. Nov. 28,190. My dear Colonel: Mr. Luna leaves today for Washington to attend a meeting of the national republican committee, and he can explain to you very fully the conditions in New Mexico. Everything here will work very satisfactorily as soon as matters are turned over to the regular United States Attorney, Mr. Leahy. When I left Washington I was told that as soon as the Phelps-Dodge case was concluded that Mr. McHarg and Mr. Gordon would be relieved from further duty in New Mexico. They now seem to be taking up other work and stirring up more trouble. I would like very much for you to have the Department of Justice do what they agreed to do and recall these men. Mr. Luna has given my administration enthusiastic support, and he has always been your sincere friend and you can depend upon his loyalty absolutely. I will probably not return to Washington until after the Christmas recess of congress, unless I can be of some benefit to my friends. With kindest regards, I am as ever, Your friend, George Curry To Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. [*18092*][*[For 2. enclosures see 11-25-01 & 12-1-01]*]Nov. 28. 1901 Dear Theodore I shall have great pleasure in lunching with you on Wednesday, Dec. 4th. at 1 30. = The Consulate at Genoa is at your disposition. Bay Lodge has been wanting a Consulate in Italy for a year past. The [*18093*]State of Maryland wants it for one Major McKillup[?]. who lay rather heavy on your predecessor's mind. Commending both cases to your wisdom and bounty I am faithfully yours John Hay[*[For 1 enclosure see 10-30-01] 11-29-01]*] [*File PPF*] [*Bryan, Ella H. (Clinton Dangerfield pseud)*] "Brampton Cliff" Dillon Georgia [*[11-29-01]*] Mr President: Please let me thank your Excellency for your kindly and gracious words concerning my verses. As to your Excellency's remark touching your appreciation of responsibility, you have set your seal so masterfully and well wherever you have desired to attempt that [*18094*]I know that the shaping of our nation's destiny could not be entrusted to stronger or more faithful hands. With the hope that your work in your great office may bring you, as some compensation for it's endless cares, the united love of the American people, I am Very sincerely yours Ella Howard Bryan November twenty ninth Nineteen hundred and one President Roosevelt The White House [*18095*][*Ackd 11-29-1901*] [shorthand] [*[ca 11-29-01]*] [*REMOVED TO FORD BUILDING.*] William Michael Byrne, Telephone 846. Law Offices. 907. Mayfield[?] St., Wilmington, Delaware. To The President, Sir, I enclose you clippings showing that the average Democrat in Delaware grows frantic when he fears that anything will promote the election of two Republican United States Senators from this State. I am not able to imagine one thing further removed from another than the Law Academy from the Delaware senatorial question. I was led to form the Society from a belief that your Presidency ought to be made coincident with a Revival of Letters in America. The Isthmian Canal, the Hawaiian Cable, the Western Irrigation, could be done by any President; but you in many ways possess the power to make the period of your Presidency famous for a general Revival of Letters. This would bring an unique glory to our Country, and, added to the material grandeur of the Republic, would give us that prominent place in the world's history deserved by our people. But this cannot be done even by your indomitable vigor, unless the people respond to the splendid example you set them; and if I can inspire a love of learning in the hearts of a band of young men, destined to membership in a learned and useful profession, I shall be happy to feel that even in a small way I have contributed my mite toward a plan which I believe if taken hold of by the great can be carried to a successful issue. [*18096*]William Michael Byrne, Telephone 846. Law Offices. 907 Market St. Wilmington, Delaware. If you deem it worth while and would write me a short letter of commendation which I could read to the young men and make public it would greatly promote this worthy object. The Academy numbers in its membership all the law students of Wilmington, many of the younger lawyers, and will have for its Provost and Vice-Provost some of the leading lawyers of the State. I propose in a course of Law Talks to discuss the Philosophy of Law History; not undertaking to treat of technical subjects which the students study in their offices and schools. The young men have started the enterprise with great enthusiasm, and a word from you would be of infinite value in this cause of scientific learning, and might lead to other important educational movements among bodies of young men on whom will depend the future greatness of our beloved Country. With apologies for taking so much of your time, but with assurances of my devotion to the civic causes you advocate I remain, Sincerely yours, Wm Michael Byrne [*18097*][*[FOR ENCS SEE 11-19-01 11-23-01*][*Personal*] [*wrote to Mr Taylor 11-30-1901 CF*] T. V. POWDERLY COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Treasury Department OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION Washington, Nov. 29. 1901. Dear Mr Cortelyou: - Inclosed find letter detailing circumstances attending transfer of Mr. DeBarry. I expect that Mr. Watchorn will find that Mr. Matthews has been besieged by DeBarry, to secure his intervention in his behalf. Mr. Coleman [*18098*]place for him. I shall place Watchorn's report in your hands when it comes in. Very truly yours T.V. Powderly accepted the situation on receipt of my letter, copy of which is inclosed. If labor organizations require a faithful compliance with law, made to protect labor, they should also be satisfied to allow the Bureau to distribute its best men where they can do the best work. If De Barry is not doing good work at Buffalo and he can do good work at Malone why Malone is the [*18099*]him this small place, he would, I am sure, fill it acceptably. Yours faithfully John Hay [shorthand] [*ackd 12-3-1901 pr ppf*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. November 29, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- Among the names on the list that I gave you was that of Charles Wilbur Knox of Maryland. He is a nephew of the Attorney General. He has been for two or three years a standing applicant for a consulate, and received from President McKinley very considerable encouragement. To speak the whole truth, McKinley intended to appoint him as a compliment to Phil. Knox. After Knox came into the Cabinet, I suppose he felt that the matter was not so pressing as it had been before. Mr. Knox was offered one or two small consulates, but declined them, hoping for something better. Two years' waiting have chastened him so that he now will gratefully accept an appointment to Genoa. He is a perfectly respectable person, and if you chose to give [*18100*]to Mr. Burke, commonly called "the sublime". There will be forty or fifty other applications in the course of the day, which I need not mention, and they all begin: "Since merit is to rule in this Administration and not pull, I apply", etc. Yours faithfully John Hay Department of State. Washington, November 29, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- I add to the names I mentioned to you yesterday in re Genoa: The friends of Mr. Cuneo, Consul at Turin, wish him promoted to Genoa. Mr. Billy Mason, of Illinois, wants it for the editor of the Italian newspaper in Chicago. The Honorable Samuel L. Crocker, of Taunton, Mass. who is more or less intimately related to Richard Olney, Judge Thomas, Governor Bullock, Gen. Couch of the Army of the Potomac, Judge Burnett, Dean of the Boston Law University; in fact I never saw a man with so many brothers-in-law. Senator Hoar is a friend of his also. His father was the last Whig Congressman from Massachusetts, and he comes only just short of being "first cousin [*18103*]POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY ALBERT B. CHANDLER, President. J. O STEVENS, Sec'y. WM.H. BAKER, V.P. & G.M. IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY. JOHN W. MACKAY, President. ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G. WARD, V.P. & G.M. Design Patent Dec. 30-19-- POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY COMMERCIAL CABLES MACKAY-BENNETT REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 16, W. TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. Received at Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. Building 1345 Penna. Ave., Washington. [*258*] 207 Ch B Ct, 89 Paid 11p Topeka, Kas., Nov. 29, 1901. William Allen White, Normandie Hotel, Washington, D.C. Have been told that charge of dishonesty was made against Mr. Leland. This was most unfair and unjust. His record in and out of politics is one or scrupulous honesty and that fact has made his influence in the West enduring. By common assent he has never profited by politics beyond the lawful emoluments of the few officers he has held. He has always stood for honesty and efficiency in the public service. These things should be brought to the attention of the President if the charge is entertained. William C. Hook. [*This man is United States district judge. He is a college man – Yale, Harvard, or Williams I forgot which – and is of the Gleed type - plus, participation in politics from the ward up. Now of course he is out of politics. He is straight.*] [*18104*][*Ackd 12-3-1901 CF*] A1-2-27-'04 RE-ESTABLISHED 1878 BY J. N. MATTHEWS. FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1846 BUFFALO EXPRESS OWNED BY THE J.N MATHEWS COMPANY GEO. E. MATTHEWS, PRESIDENT. JAMES W. GREENE, EDITOR WM. M. RAMSDELL, PUBLISHER. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: GEO. E. MATTHEWS, PRESIDENT. JAMES W. GREENE, EDITOR. NOS. 179-183 WASHINGTON ST. BUFFALO, N.Y. Nov. 29, 1901 DICTATED BY Private Dear Mr. President:-- I ought to have known better and I beg your pardon. When De Barry came to me he did not tell me that he had got a lot of other people into the thing. I thought then that he was being shoved out unfairly, but I did not know that Powderly was behind it, and I hoped you could stop it by a word. I realize that you can not right all wrongs, and that it is bad citizenship to ask you to, and am sorry that I was led into it. My belief is that De Barry is right and Powderly is utterly wrong, but I don't ask you to upset a bureau to save this one man from unfair treatment. Very sincerely yours Geo. E. Matthews To the President Washington, D.C. [*18105*]TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION. Washington, November 29, 1901. The President: Sir: Referring to the letter of Mr. George E. Matthews, in which he takes exception to the transfer of Immigrant Inspector John R.DeBarry from Buffalo to a point on the border, I beg to say that said transfer was made after careful deliberation, and with a view to securing a more effective and thorough inspection. In response to a letter to the Collector of Customs at the port of Buffalo, in which I requested him to give me the benefit of his experience in a recommendation for the improvement of the service he, under date of March 27, 1901, wrote as follows: "The inspector of immigration assigned to this district should be stationed at the sub port of this district, located at the International Bridge, and required to board all passenger trains with inspectors of customs. Up to the present time he has been located in this office. Most of the immigrants arriving at this port from Canana come by the way of the International Bridge. When requested, he should assist the Chinese inspectors in the performance of their duty. The inspector of this district, in my judgment, is a competent man. With the assistance of the inspectors of customs at this port, the law relating to immigration and alien contract labor can be enforced by Mr. DeBarry. No additional help is required for this purpose." Having in view the establishment of a more painstaking system of inspection along the Canadian border, I deferred action until an agreement had been entered into with the Canadian steamship and transportation lines. [*18106*]--2-- In order that the Bureau might be fully informed as to the points where inspectors should be stationed, Special Immigrant Inspector Robert Watchorn was detailed to make a tour of investigation, and report his findings to the Bureau. In making his report Mr.Watchorn recommended that additional immigrant inspectors be stationed at certain points along the border. On August 30 he was detailed to take temporary charge of all inspectors on the border from Eastport, Me., to Sault Ste Marie, Mich. On September 10 he recommended that certain changes be made in the regular force, one of which was the transfer of Inspector DeBarry from Buffalo, N.Y. to Malone, N.Y. On receipt of that I wrote him for further information, and from a letter written by him on September 20, I quote the following: "On August 30 you instructed me to proceed to Montreal and take charge of the force of inspectors assigned to duty along the Canadian border, and instructed me further to carry out the recommendations contained in my report of August 24, 1901. You will observe, by referring to that report, on page 3, from line 16 to 23, both inclusive, that I was perfectly justified in recommending the transfer of Inspector DeBarry because your said letter dated August 30 specifically instructed me to carry our the recommendations above referred to. It is, in my judgment, infinitely more important to prevent undesirable persons entering the United States, than it is to investigate such cases after they have acquired a domicile therein. No doubt Buffalo is an important station for an immigrant inspector, but Malone, N.Y., is a great deal more important, and, at present, Malone, with its several trains daily, on a trunk line from Montreal to New York, is left entirely without an immigrant inspector; and inasmuch as inspector DeBarry is on the list of those under the jurisdiction of this office, I requested his transfer to Malone, knowing that he could accomplish a great deal more useful service at that point than by remaining in Buffalo." [*18107*]--3-- That part of Mr. Watchorn's report to which he refers is as follows: "I also recommend that the services of Inspector DeBarry, now stationed at Buffalo,N.Y., be made available for boundary work. The prime object to be achieved is the keeping out of the U.S.of certain objectionable or undesirable classes, and the only way to succeed in the undertaking is to place the officers where contact with said classes can be had most opportunely for its achievment, and it needs no argument to prove that Buffalo is not such a point." On October 5 I directed that Inspector DeBarry be transferred from Buffalo to Malone, in accordance with the recommendation of Special immigrant Inspector Watchorn, and at once a number of protests and remonstrances were filed with the Bureau. On November 17 Assistant Secretary Taylor suspended the order of transfer owing to the alleged illness of Mr.DeBarry,and another inspector was temporarily assigned to duty at Malone, the intention being to transfer Mr.DeBarry as soon as he was sufficiently recovered to take up his duties at his new station. The daily work report of Mr. DeBarry shows that he does no border inspection, and that he patrols the streets of Buffalo looking for violators of the law. In my opinion, such service is not productive of the best results, and an efficient inspector of such long experience as Mr.DeBarry can do ten-fold more good at a station like Malone that in a city like Buffalo. Inspectors at Niagara Falls and International Bridge cover all points leading to Buffalo from Canada, that are thoroughly familiar with their work,painstaking,young,and energetic. At Malone trains stop for a considerable length of time. No great amount of physical exertion is required, but experience,and knowledge of [*18108*] --4-- the law are necessary; Mr.DeBarry is fully qualified, and it is my intention to transfer him either to that point, or one where he will be able to do the most effective service for the Government as soon as he is fully recovered. I have directed Special Immigrant Inspector Watchorn to proceed to Buffalo, interview those who protested against the transfer of Mr.DeBarry, and report fully on all facts relating to the matter under consideration. In the meantime, no further action will be taken until the receipt of his report, which will be submitted to you as soon as it reaches this office. Respectfully, [*T. V. Powderly*] Commissioner-General. [*Underscoring, in quotation from Collector's letter, on page 1, is mine. T.V.P.*] [*18109*]COPY of letter sent in answer to a protest from Coleman. Treasury Department, Office of Commissioner-General of Immigration. No. 27,968. Washington,October 12, 1901. John Coleman, Esq., President, Central Labor Union, Buffalo, N.Y. Sir: I am in receipt of your telegram of this date,urging that Immigrant Inspector John R.DeBarry be retained in Buffalo, and in response thereto I have to state that the reason for transferring this official to Malone is that an experienced man is required to perform service at that point, the number of immigrants arriving at Malone exceeding that gaining entrance at any other point on the border. It is presumed you are aware that immigration matters on the Niagara frontier are being looked after by Inspectors Clark and Burdette at Black Rock, and Inspector O'Brien at Niagara Falls. To police the border and prevent the illegal admission of immigrants is of vital importance and Mr.DeBarry with the aid of his large experience will do better service than he can at Buffalo. The transfer of Mr.DeBarry to Malone is made in accordance with recommendation of Special Immigrant Inspector Robert Watchorn, who is in charge of immigration matters on the Canadian border, with headquarters in Montreal. Respectfully (Signed) T.V.Powderly, Commissioner-General. 18110Ackd 12-3-1901 G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS 27 & 29 WEST 23RD STREET NEW YORK 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, LONDON. November 29, 1901 My dear Excellency:-- I write to ask whether your publishers may have your permission to include the next edition printed of "American Ideals" the article on the "Virtues of Citizenship" that you have recently contributed to the "New Liberal Review" in London. As far as I can judge from the reference to this recent paper of yours, it is in its subject matter and in its treatment quite germane to the purpose and character of the "American Ideals" volume. I may report that we are finding 18111 for this book an encouraging increase in the demand from all parts of the country. We now have in train certain plans which ought, we trust, to secure a special sale in certain channels not heretofore reached. I am, with much respect, Yours obedient servant, Geo. Haven Putnam His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 18112[*Ackd 12-2-1901 CF*] THOMAS L. ROSSER. Charlottesville, Va. Nov. 29th, 1901. Mr. President:- The more I study the proposed Constitutional amendment, the more I am impressed with the belief that is both wise and necessary. If you had time to read the debates now going on in the Constitutional Convention in Richmond, I am sure that you would feel that a political disease permeates the entire South, which can be, and should be, cured. My friend Braxton, who is a leading man in that Convention, is an important factor through which to work in search of a remedy, and that you may understand how earnest and sincere he is, I inclose herewith, a note just received from him showing his deep interest. If you and Braxton would agree on a plan, and then have your friends in the Senate and House, agree with you, then formulate and submit to Congress as an amendment to the Constitution, it would easily pass, and I think be easily ratified by the States. The South would then enter a new era of peace, prosperity, and political honesty Respectfully, yours, Thomas L. Rosser To The PRESIDENT, The White House, Washington, D. C. [*18113*]Charles I. Gleed. Eugene F. Ware. James Willis Gleed. David E. Palmer. John L. Hunt Cable "Gleed" Telephone 217. Law office of Gleed, Ware & Gleed, Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 29, '01 My Dear White, I have no objection to the reading of my letter - the long one - if the Prest. cares to hear it. Charley Gleed is here in Topeka Please stop the use of my name as pension agt - I do not care for the place. I have no time to hold office, & am for Leland anyhow - Yours with best regard, E. F. Ware [*18114*] File PPF P[?] New York 29 November 1901 15 East Seventy-fourth Street. My dear President Roosevelt, Many thanks for your letter of the 27th just received this morning, with its enclosures, which now complete the volume. Should I visit Washington during the winter, I shall certainly present myself at the White House. Lincoln once said to me, "Colonel, I'm always glad to see you, for you are one of those chaps who never want anything," and then added, "except a good stay." Believe me, Very faithfully yours Jas Grant Wilson 18115[*[11-29-01]*] State of Missouri ) ) SS. City of St. Louis ) Julius Wurzburger, a resident of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, being duly sworn upon his oath, states that he attended the National Convention of the Republican Party held in Philadelphia in June, 1900, as the authorized representative of Hon. Henry Ziegenhein, then Mayor of the City of St. Louis, and Delegate to said convention from the Tenth Congressional District of Missouri; that is was well known to Congressman Richard Bartholdt that he was the spokesman and representative of Mr. Ziegenhein, and that on the Monday before the convening of the Republican Convention, this affiant met Congressman Bartholdt at the Walton Hotel in the City of Philadelphia, and he, Mr. Bartholdt, immediately proceeded to urge upon me the necessity of selecting Congressman Dolliver of Iowa as the candidate of the Republican Party for Vice- President, and requested my influence to obtain the vote for the Missouri Delegation in behalf of Mr. Dollivar. I informed him that the Missouri Delegation was beyond any doubt for Mr. Roosevelt for Vice-President, first, last and all the time, and that it would be utterly impossible to influence the Missouri Delegation to vote for any other man than Mr. Roosevelt. To this Mr. Bartholdt replied that Mr. Roosevelt had no experience in national affairs; that he would not do for Vice-President; that he was unsafe for the place and that his nomination might defeat the Party in the national election; that Mr. Dollivar was a great orator, and that we needed a man like him on the ticket to win; that there was a Committee of Congressmen at Philadelphia working in the interest of the nomination of Mr. Dollivar, and that Mr. Roosevelt is a good rough rider, but he wont do for Vice-President and was absolutely unfit for the place. My reasons for making this affidavit at this time is, the change of front manifested by Mr. Bartholdt in his recent speech at the St. Louis Republican Club in this city, where he declares himself the authorized dis- [?] federal patronage for the State of Missouri, and so highly [?] [?] who he had so recently denounced to me as unfit for the [?] Julius Wurzburger [?] President [?] bed and sworn to before the undersigned [?] twenty-ninth day of November, A. D., 1901. [*My Com. expire[?] [ ??]*] [*18116*][*[Enclosed in Wurzberger 11-27-01]*] [For 1 attachment see 11-27-01 Wurzburger] [*Julius Wurzburger*][[shorthand]] [*ackd 12/2/1901*] Executive Office STATE OF ILLINOIS Springfield, Nov. 29th 1901 My dear Mr. President: Please note just the headings of the enclosed Chicago newspaper clippings. The "Inter Ocean" being the "organization" paper = county and state organization = of course glories, all over, in the fact that the Ward Clubs at their annual elections, have suggested the organization. The "Record-Herald" = Kolhsaat's paper = unfair as usual = portends "Larimer" has been hurt. But the "Tribune" gives the best evidence, conceding the "regulars" victory. You will remember I and all your "original" friends predicted this victory. Hastily: Rich. Yates. [*18117*]For 1 enc see ca 11-29-01 Rep. meetings[*See also Gilder, Richard Watson 11/30/01 11/7/01*] [*18118*] MACHINE MAKES A CLEAN SWEEP. Regulars Win in All Republican Clubs Despite Fight in Hyde Park. SEVENTH IS WAR CENTER. Record Vote Is Polled and John R. Thompson Ticket Is Victorious. FIGHTS IN OTHER WARDS. Never in the history of the Republican party in Chicago has there been as much interest taken in club elections as there was in the Sixth and Seventh Wards yesterday. Hyde Park turned out as if it had been an election, and there were 1,163 votes cast in the Sixth Ward and an even 1,400 in the Seventh. In both of them the "machine" won, as it did in every ward. There were contests in other wards, but they did not amount to much. In the Twenty-seventh the fight was between the Wulff and McEwen factions for control of the ward club, and the McEwen people got the better of it. There was a small fight in the Thirteenth, which was won easily enough by the "regulars." but resulted in the formation of an independent club. The same thing happened in the Thirty-fourth, the home of Lorimer. Machine Carries, the Seventh. By getting out the largest vote in the history of the club elections the "regular" or "machine" ticket in the Seventh Ward farily swamped the opposition. It had taken strenuous efforts to accomplish the defeat of the independent candidate, Newton A. Partridge. Beginning at 1 o'clock, when the polls were opened, a line of voters was formed at 276 Sixty-third street and at no time until the polls were closed at 9 o'clock was the line broken. When the doors were closed there still were 100 men in the line awaiting a chance to cast ballots. At no time during the day were there less than twenty men in line, and at times the number ran up to 200 and 300. The total vote polled was 1,400, of which the "regular" candidate, John R. Thompson, received 917 and Mr. Partridge 483. Machine Uses Desperate Tactics. To defeat the strong opposition which had been developed to the machine the partisans of the "regular" candidates had adopted extraordinary measures. They had placed a man in charge of every block in the ward and he was held responsible for the voters reaching the polls. Several large vehicles were put in commission, and up to the time of closing the polls they brought loads to the polling place. Even when the men standing in line were told that the doors were closed they refused to risk the loss of their place by any stratagem of the enemy, and the line continued in formation a half a square from the voting place for ten minutes after the policemen and ward leaders had endeavored to persuade the waiting voters that they had been crowded out. The machine leaders claimed that the opposition candidate for President had been one who lost his vote. It was claimed by the successful leader that the opposition had endeavored to connect the "regular" ticket with Lorimer's name as a stigma to defeat it. It was affirmed from the same source that there was no connection between the "boss" and the "machine." Thompson Heads Winning Ticket. There was some scratching, but the majority of the ballots were straight. The winning ticket was elected by the following vote: President- John R. Thompson, 917. First Vice President- A.P. Dewey, 917. Second Vice President - J.H. Defrees, 916. Secretary - William A. Small, 916. Treasurer - W.O. Nance, 913. The Australian ballot system was used - for the first time in a ward club election. Booths had been build in the voting-room and the balloting was by prepared ticket. The defeated ticket was as follows For President - Newton A. Partridge. For First Vice President - W.X. Gemmill. For Second Vice President-Francis W. Parker. For Secretary - Frank White. For Treasurer - E.A. Kingsbury. Porter Barred in the Sixth. In the Sixth Ward the contest was lively and became so hot that Washington Porter, one of the oldest inhabitants as well as one of the best known Republicans in the ward, was refused the right to vote. Mr. Porter has been a member of the Republican club of the ward ever since it was formed and was a member of the club which existed there at the time when now what makes up the ward was a part of Hyde Park, and there has never been any trouble about getting a fair sized contribution from him when it came to a time when money was wanted for legitimate party purposes. But it happened that he had forgotten to send a dollar to the treasurer of the club in the time necessary to qualify him to vote at this particular election, and the friends of Dr. Jamieson who happened to know of the circumstance took advantage of it and Mr. Porter was not allowed to vote. Edward Cushing, another anti-machine man was disqualified on a similar pretext. In both the Sixth and Seventh Wards there was complaint of the manner in which the judges of election did their work. The charge was made by the anti-machine men that the club lists of membership were packed and men were allowed to vote who were not entitled to. In the Sixth Ward over 100 men were waiting for a chance to cast their ballots when the polls were closed. Independent Clubs Are Formed. As a result of the contest in the Thirty-fourth Ward a meeting was held at Forty-fifth avenue and Harrison street, where an independent club was formed, with Charles Woodruff as President. The same thing was done in the Thirteenth Ward, where the friends of Postmaster Coyne organized an independent club with John E. Holland as President. [*18119*] Results in the Different Wards. The results of the elections follow: FIRST WARD- President, Elbridge G. Keith; secretary, George H. Bills. SECOND WARD- President, Noble B. Judah; secretary, John D. Hall. THIRD WARD- President, D. K. Cochrane; secretary, William Hamilton. FOURTH WARD- President, Frank X. Colidt; secretary, William Lamb. FIFTH WARD- President, John K. McKenna; secretary, E. O. Debler. SIXTH WARD- President, Linn H. Young; secretary, Elisha P. Fassett. SEVENTH WARD- President, John R. Thompson; secretary, William E. Small. EIGHTH WARD- President, Warren E. Colburn; secretary, Walter E. Schmidt. NINTH WARD- President, James Cavanaugh; secretary, Sam Strelsky. TENTH WARD- President, James J. Banks; secretary, Joseph Weber. ELEVENTH WARD- President, Joseph E. Bidwill; secretary, Charles Hoppell. TWELFTH WARD- President, S. P. Norman; secretary, E. J. McCarthy. THIRTEENTH WARD- President, David W. Clark; secretary, Milton Gatzert. FOURTEENTH WARD- President, Jerome B. Hall; secretary, Joseph A. Painter. FIFTEENTH WARD- President, Fred Wilk; secretary, Charles W. Peters. SIXTEENTH WARD- President, John J. Devine; secretary, Lee Dunn. SEVENTEENTH WARD- President, Albert Oberndorf; secretary, Simon Waldman. EIGHTEENTH WARD- President, Maynard Hamilton; secretary, W. C. Dusenberry. NINETEENTH WARD- President, William G. Herman; secretary, James Ahern. TWENTIETH WARD- President, Charles Lichtenberger; secretary, Homer Galpin. TWENTY-FIRST WARD- President, Oscar Hebel; secretary, A. K. Freemen. TWENTY-SECOND WARD- President, B. F. Chettenberg; secretary, Samuel E. Erickson. TWENTY-THIRD WARD- President, George K. Woods; secretary, Otto W. Hebel. TWENTY-FOURTH WARD- President, John E. Fichter; secretary, C. C. Bernard. TWENTY-FIFTH WARD- President, Lewis Rinaker; secretary, James P. Andrews. TWENTY-SIXTH WARD- President, Albert E. Barker secretary, William F. Lipps. TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD- President, Herman Breidt; secretary, Mark A. Foote. TWENTY-EIGHTH WARD- President, James Reddick; Secretary, Peter B. Olson. TWENTY-NINTH WARD- President, Frank Christian; secretary, Fred Heintz. THIRTIETH WARD- President, Roy O. West; secretary, Emil O. Kowalski. THIRTY-FIRST WARD- President, Walter Page; secretary, John W. Utesch. THIRTY-SECOND WARD- President, Albert J. Fischer; secretary, Charles A. Williams. THIRTY-THIRD WARD- President, Charles Kleinhuizen; secretary, E. E. Ertsman. THIRTY-FOURTH WARD- President, Z. R. Carter; secretary, F. E. Callam. THIRTY-FIFTH WARD- President, James H. Cooper; secretary, Frank D. Show. [*18120*][*COE BROTHERS Booksellers and State[???] SPRINGFIELD, ILL*] ORK SUN AND WORLD The Only Paper in Chicago that dares to print the News. PRICE-TWO CENTS. ORGANIZATION REPUBLICANS WIN IN ALL OF THE WARD CONTESTS David S. Geer and Newton A. Partridge Crushingly Defeated in Sixth and Seventh. MAJORITY OF ABOUT TWO TO ONE AGAINST "ANTIS" Personal Encounters a Feature of One of the Meetings - Separate Gatherings Are Held in Two Cases- List of Those Elected. William Lorimer's friend won easily in the Republican club elections in the Sixth and Seventh wards last night. Linn H. Young and John R. Thompson were elected president of the Sixth and Seventh Ward clubs respectively. After weeks of campaigning in which the men who had promised themselves and the mugwumps to put Lorimer "out of business," they were defeated by almost two to one by the Republicans of the wards which the anti-Lorimer people elected to make their chief battle-ground. The fight was not of Lorimer's choosing. It was forced on him and his friends. In the Sixth and Seventh wards the men who sought to obtain control of the ward organizations made "anti-Lorimer" their war cry. They called on all good Republicans in the wards to unite in an effort to defeat what they called "Lorimerism." For weeks they had been organizing with this end in view. They mustered the entire strength of what they deemed the element in the party opposed to Lorimer. Lorimer the Issue. They started a cry of "anti-Lorimer," and made it the issue in the fight for the control of the wards' clubs. Lorimer had not sought to influence the club elections in these wards. He had not attempted to interfere in the internal affairs of the ward organizations. But when the fight was thus made on Lorimer his friends accepted the challenge. They took up the gauntlet and made the contest on the question of Lorimer or anti-Lorimer. How completely the anti-Lorimer element was repudiated by the Republicans of the wards is shown by the vote. In the Sixth ward Linn H. Young, the so- called Lorimer candidate for president of the club, was elected, receiving 735 votes, as against 426 cast for David D. Geer, who made his candidacy on the "anti-Lorimer" platform. In the Seventh ward John R. Thompson, who was classed by the opposition as the Lorimer candidate, received 917 votes, as against or groups of wards which they have always carried. Mr. Busse's friends carried the Twenty-First and Twenty-Third wards. James Pease's friends carried the Twenty- Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, and Twenty-Sixth. Mr. Deneen and Roy O. West and their friends carried the Twenty-Nine, Thirtieth, Thirty-First, and Thirty-Second wards. Mr. Hertz has the Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Dan A. Campbell carried the Fourteenth. James Reddick carried the Twenty-Eighth. John A. Linn's friends controlled the Twenty- Second without opposition, and so it was all along the line. The only exception was in the Thirtieth ward, where William Webb. B.E. Callahan, and others declined to follow the lead of Roy O. West and held a separate meeting and elected a contesting set of officers. The Webb-Callahan faction will appeal to the Republican county committee to decide which is the regularly elected set of club officers. In the Thirty-Fourth ward the anti-Lorimer element, led by Charles H. Rector and Wilson Brooks, organized a club at a separate meeting, but will not claim to be the regular ward club. They will organize to prepare for a fight against Lorimer in the primaries. Young Makes a Speech. When the result of the vote in the Sixth ward was announced, Oakland Music hall was crowded. There were calls for Linn H. Young, and the successful candidate was introduced by A. R. Porter. "This has been a fair contest ," Mr. Young said. "It has been a healthy thing for this club. We have already trebled our membership and we hope to double that which we now have before next year. I believe this club should have a permanent home which would always by open to its members. Let us get this home and make this the grandest Republican club in the city and in the country. In conclusion I wish to express the hope that those who opposed my candidacy will now take hold and help fight the battles of the grand old party. Mr. Geer sits beside me and I take pleasure in introducing him."men who had promised themselves and the mugwumps to put Lorimer "out of business," they were defeated by almost two to one by the Republicans of the wards which the anti-Lorimer people elected to make their chief battle-ground. The fight was not of Lorimer's choosing. It was forced on him and his friends. In the Sixth and Seventh wards the men who sought to obtain control of the ward organizations made "anti-Lorimer" their war cry. They called on all good Republicans in the wards to unite in an effort to defeat what they called "Lorimerism." For weeks they had been organizing with this end in view. They mustered the entire strength of what they deemed the element in the party opposed to Lorimer. Lorimer the Issue. They started a cry of "anti-Lorimer," and made it the issue in the fight for the control of the wards' clubs. Lorimer had not sought to influence the club elections in these wards. He had not attempted to interfere in the internal affairs of the ward organizations. But when the fight was thus made on Lorimer his friends accepted the challenge. They took up the gauntlet and made the contest on the question of Lorimer or anti-Lorimer. How completely the anti-Lorimer element was repudiated by the Republicans of the wards is shown by the vote. In the Sixth ward Linn H. Young, the so- called Lorimer candidate for president of the club, was elected, receiving 735 votes, as against 426 cast for David D. Geer, who made his candidacy on the "anti-Lorimer" platform. In the Seventh ward John R. Thompson, who was classed by the opposition as the Lorimer candidate, received 917 votes, as against 438 given to N. A. Partridge, whose best claim to election was that he was "anti-Lorimer." The heavy vote in both wards shows how the Republicans turned out. In the Sixth ward the voting began at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and closed at 10 o'clock at night, so that it could not be claimed there was not time enough to vote. In the Seventh the hours were from 1 o'clock till 9. Separate and Small Meeting. In the Thirty-Fourth, Lorimer's home ward, where the opposition had been boasting for weeks that they would not allow him to go back on the county committee, the anti-Lorimer element did not contest in the regular club election, but held a separate, small-attended meeting. The net results of the Republican ward-club elections last night are that the friends of Mr. Lorimer elected the club officers in twenty-one of the thirty-five wards in the city. The wards carried by Lorimer's friends are the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-Second, Thirty- Third, Thirty-Fourth, and Thirty-Fifth. This expression by the Republicans of the city in the ward-club elections shows how Mr. Lorimer stands with the people. It was admitted that the elections were fairly held that every Republican entitled to vote was allowed to cast his ballot, and that every ballot was honestly counted. In the Seventeenth ward the factions came to an understanding which resulted in the election as president of A. Oberndorff, who is employed in the sheriff's office and is known to be friendly to Lorimer. In the Twentieth ward the Moxley and Blount factions, both friendly to Lorimer, agreed on a ticket which was unanimously elected. Defeat for Coyne. In the Thirteenth ward F. E. Coyne made a fight, but was badly defeated by Blount's followers. In the Twenty-Seventh ward the Wulff and McEwan factions patched up a truce, and the result was harmony. In the Third Ward Dr. J. B. McFutrich was re-elected vice president, and this was asserted by some to be a victory for the Sherman following, but Dr. McFatrich was placed on the ticket by the very element to which he has been said to be opposed. The Third ward club election was a complete victory for Martin B. Madden. The George E. Cole-Hoyt King-M. J. Foreman crowd, which had been boasting that Mr. Madden would be retired from politics in the ward, did not dare make a fight against him in the ward club. Late last night some members of the opposition were saying that they would keep up the fight until the Republican primaries next spring, and that from now on they would devote their time to preparation for that contest. Result Just as Before. Outside of the Sixth and Seventh wards the ward club elections went last night just as they have gone at any time in the past ten years. Fred A. Busse, Henry L. Hertz, James Pease, Roy O. West, Charles S. Deneen, John A. Linn, Dan A. Campbell, and other leaders and their friends carried the wards 18121 Hertz has the Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Dan A. Campbell carried the Fourteenth. James Reddick carried the Twenty-Eighth. John A. Linn's friends controlled the Twenty- Second without opposition, and so it was all along the line. The only exception was in the Thirtieth ward, where William Webb. B.E. Callahan, and others declined to follow the lead of Roy O. West and held a separate meeting and elected a contesting set of officers. The Webb-Callahan faction will appeal to the Republican county committee to decide which is the regularly elected set of club officers. In the Thirty-Fourth ward the anti-Lorimer element, led by Charles H. Rector and Wilson Brooks, organized a club at a separate meeting, but will not claim to be the regular ward club. They will organize to prepare for a fight against Lorimer in the primaries. Young Makes a Speech. When the result of the vote in the Sixth ward was announced, Oakland Music hall was crowded. There were calls for Linn H. Young, and the successful candidate was introduced by A. R. Porter. "This has been a fair contest ," Mr. Young said. "It has been a healthy thing for this club. We have already trebled our membership and we hope to double that which we now have before next year. I believe this club should have a permanent home which would always by open to its members. Let us get this home and make this the grandest Republican club in the city and in the country. In conclusion I wish to express the hope that those who opposed my candidacy will now take hold and help fight the battles of the grand old party. Mr. Geer sits beside me and I take pleasure in introducing him." Mr. Geer stepped to the front of the stage and was given three hearty cheers. He declared that even in defeat he was proud to stand in a gathering of good and true Republicans. He paid his respects to his opponents and said that he gladly bowed to the will of the majority. He added that he and his followers would be found in the ranks of the Republican party, striving for its success. "Let us now go back to our precincts and fight for the party," Mr. Geer said in conclusion. Many Men in Line. When the polls opened in the Sixth ward at 3 o'clock 175 club members formed a line reaching from the stage of Oakland Music hall at Fortieth street and Cottage Grove avenue to the street entrance two floors beneath. As early as 2 o'clock the followers of Linn H. Young and David Greer began to arrive at the voting place. The Young men outnumbered the followers of the "anti-machine" and "blind-ping" faction. While the rivalry was keen and warm, the best of good nature prevailed until David Geer mounted a chair and addressed President A. R. Porter just before the polls opened. "Judge Porter! Judge Porter!" Geer shouted until the president stepped in front of the line. "Judge Porter, I want to make a protest," Geer shouted. "As a president of the Sixth Ward Republican club you have chosen three judges of this election. Two of these men are office-holders. I do not for a moment question their honesty or integrity, but these three men are supporters of Mr. Young and I now ask you to discharge one of them and name for the vacancy of my supporters." "Go 'way back and sit down!" some one in line shouted. President Porter commanded silence. "I know of no reason why an office-holder is not competent to act," he replied. "I have made my selection for judges and unless you question their integrity I will not change them." "So you refuse fair play?" Geer asked. No Charge of Dishonesty. "No. If you feel that any of the judges is dishonest, say so, and I will make a change; otherwise no change will be made." Geer refused to challenge the honesty of the judges. Two minutes later President Porter declared the polls open. Four policemen in the hall straightened out the lines of voters and the casting of ballots began. Among the first voters was Dr. T. N. Jamieson, whose name appeared on the badges of the "antis" with the word "against" before it. The voting progressed rapidly at the start. Several ballots per minute were cast until Water Beebe, challenger for the "antis," began to work. He challenged many voters, but found none not entitled to vote. Henry T. Davis of the "antis" and several of the regulars had arguments near the ballot box, which delayed progress until a 300- pound policeman blocked the aisle at the voting booth. From 3 o'clock the line of voters grew until at 6 o'clock 225 were in line. At 6 o'clock a lull came and the line dwindled in size until at 7 o'clock only fifty persons were waiting to cast their ballots. One of the leading "reformers" fell by the wayside at the ballot box and this caused sorrow in the Geer ranks. Washington Porter, who has been prominent in the "anti-machine" movement, and who favored Carter Harrison in the last municipal campaign, marched with the line to the ballot box, only to find a challenge to his right to vote. A scrutiny of the club rules showed that Porter had never been a member, but that very recently his name had been handed in, too late for his election as a member. He was not allowed to vote. Another Challenge Sustained. E. T. Cushing, another prominent "reformer," encountered a challenge and was not allowed to vote for the same reason that Porter's ballot had been rejected. With this discouragement to the "antis" came the desertion of A. Lilly, a newly elected precinct captain, who was on Geer's committee of 100. Of the first 145 voters, 101 wore Young badges. Young was far ahead at 6 o'clock, when 501 ballots had been cast. The "antis" gained strength after this hour, and Geer's partisans cast the majority of the ballots between 6 and 8 o'clock. At 9 o'clock the line of voters extended half a block down Fortieth street. Three hundred and four men were in line. When the polls closed at 10 o'clock 100 men were crowding toward the ballot box. More than fifty carriages were used in getting out the voters. Many of these were private carriages driven by liveried coachmen. They came from partisans residing on the boulevards, and they were used by the general public until the polls closed. Several Personal Encounters. At times the feeling between the warring factions was intense. Several fights which were promptly ended enlivened the proceedings along the long line of waiting voters. Scouts from both sides picked voters out of the line declaring that they had "cut in" instead of starting at the end. These "pick outs" ended, in some cases, in the use of the fist and much bad language. In some cases the scouts picked out their own partisans. Both Mr. Young and Mr. Geer spent the whole afternoon and evening in the hall making a personal canvass of the men in line. Little Disturbance in Seventh. In the Seventh ward the voting was carried on in an orderly manner and there was no disturbance of a serious nature. The workers for the regular ticket got a start early in the day and by the time the polls were opened a large number of voters were in line. The line was kept filled until the close and then there were fully 150 persons who were unable to vote. The block system was used by the workers, of which there were about 150. Each worker was given cards bearing the names of persons in certain blocks in a certain territory and was held responsible for those votes being brought to the polls. Shortly after the polls opened two men who had personal differences came to blows, but the police present put a stop to further arguments by making them shift places in the line. Late in the afternoon a colored man named Williams who wore a Thompson badge was accused by some of the Thompson followers with using their carriages to being Partridge voters to the polls. This he denied a muscular young man hit him a blow on the jaw. Two policemen witnessed the assault, but they did nothing further than to separate the contestants. The leaders denied responsibility for the assault and said they resented anything but fair treatment to their opponents. University Professor Active. Professor William Hill of the University of Chicago spent most of the day at the polls giving directions to his assistants, H. L. Ickes and Professor Edward J. James. After the vote had been counted the leaders of the opposition announced themselves as satisfied with the treatment they had received and stated that they believed everything had been conducted fairly. There was no challenging and no attempt made by either side to use anything but fair politics. The opposition leaders admitted that they had exhausted all their resources to bring out the full vote of their faction and gave as an excuse for not polling a larger vote that they could not get their voters to rally to their standard. Newton A. Partridge, who was the candidate of the "antis" for ward president, did not vote. None of his followers saw him during the day, and several of them complained that he did not do his full duty by them. John R. Thompson, the successful candidate, was at the polls all day, and greeted a large number of his opponents with kind words. James C. Irwin, who had up to yesterday been counted among the opposition forces, put on a Thompson badge and performed heroic work in getting voters to the polls. His enthusiasm surprised even the Thompson followers. The suggestion that Milton Gatzert, and sergeant-at-arms, John P. Lenehan. Fourteenth Ward. President, Jerome B. Hall, vice president John C. Satterlee, secretar Joseph A. Painter, and treasurer Ephraim Banning. Fifteenth Ward. President, Fred L. Wilk; vice president, Albert W. Beilfuss, secretary, Charles W. Peters, and treasurer, Harry G. Keats. Sixteenth Ward President, John R. DeVine; vice president, Leon F. Nowak; secretary, Lee Dunn, and treasurer John Sherman. Seventeenth Ward. President, Albert Oberndorf, vice president R. Bruce Watson; secretary, Simon Waldman, and treasurer, John McKay. Eighteenth Ward. President, Maynard Hamilton, vice president, Albert Glade; secretary, William C. Dusenberry, and treasurer, Frank Schultz. Nineteenth Ward. President, William G. Herrmann; first vice president, Christopher Mamer, second vice president, E. J. Smejkal; third vice president, J. Pacelli; fourth vice president, R. De Bartolo: fifth vice president Dr. M. Meyerowitz; secretary James Ahern; treasurer, Adolph Herrmann, and sergeant-at-arms, Abe Mandelbaum. Twentieth Ward. President, Charles Lichtenberger; vice president, James C. Patterson, secretary, Homer K. Galpin, and treasurer, A. M. Harvey. Twenty-First Ward. President, Oscar Hebel; vice presidents Frank Hamlin, S. B. Raymond, Fred Upham, John M. Smyth, and Graeme Stewart; secretary A. H. Freeman, and treasurer, Peter Adler. Twenty-Second Ward. President, B. F. Clettenberg; vice presidents, Victor Washlstrom and Victor Perotti; secretary, Samuel E. Erickson, and treasurer, P. G. Johnson. Twenty-Third Ward. President, George H. Woods, vice president Charles Kemp; secretary, Otto W. Hebel, and treasurer, Henry Spears. Twenty-Fourth Ward. President, John H. Fichter; vice president, W. J. Simonson; second vice president, Otto Seibert, third vice president, William Noelle; fourth vice president, Julius R. Klein; fifth vice president Al Hahne; sixth vice president Charles Hengst; secretary, Dr. C. C. Bernard; assistant secretary, William Kath; treasurer August Bauman, and sergeant-at-arms A. Villwock. Twenty-Fifth Ward. President Lewis Rinaker, first vice president, Chauncey O. Frisbie; second vice president, Frank P. Schmitt, Jr; third vice president, Charles O. Olson, treasurer; Alfred D. Williston; secretary; James P. Andrews; assistant secretary, William H. Mooney, and financial secretary, Walter V. Hayt. Twenty-Sixth Ward. President, Albert E. Barker, first vice president, James Dorney, second vice president, H. E. Gnadt; third vice president, N. Wohileben; secretary William F. Lipps; assistant secretary, Thomas M. McHale, and treasurer, Charles F. McKinley. Twenty-Seventh Ward. President, Herman Braidt; vice presidents, A. W. Frederickson, Louis Stachman, John R. Lane, T. L. Curtis, Frank Binderski, John J. Powers, Charles J. Griesemer, W. Bjurstrom, Thomas Forsyth, C. J. Deverard; secretary, Mark A. Foote, and treasurer, Frank Coffinberry. Twenty-Eighth Ward. President, James Reddick, vice president, Walter J. Raymer, secretary, Peter B. Olson. and treasurer, Joseph F. Haas. Twenty-Ninth Ward. President, Frank Christian, vice president, Peter Wendling, secretary, Fred Heintz, financial secretary, Justice R. M. Jandus, treasurer, Michael Murphy; sergeant-at-arms, John Zapotocky, and assistant sergeant-at-arms, Michael Gapa. Thirtieth Ward. President, Roy O. West, secretary, Emil O. Kowalski, and treasurer, Alfred Anderson. At a separate meeting held in the Thirtieth ward the following were elected and will make a contest: President, B.E. Callahan; vice president, John Castino, financial secretary Timothy Flood, and recording secretary, William Groter. Thirty-First Ward. President, Walter Page, vice president, Abel A. Bach; secretary,John W. Utesch, and treasurer, Carl Lundberg. Thirty-Second Ward. President, Albert J. Fisher; vice president, Edward C. Young; secretary Charles A. Williams, and treasurer, Fred Boldenweck. Thirty-Third Ward. President, Charles Klelnhuizen; vice presidents, Louis D. Deujsch, and Otto Cederwall; secretary, E. E. Ertsman, and treasurer, Isaiah Campbell. Thirty-Fourth Ward. President A.R. Carter; vice president, John Ruxton, second vice president, James Tobin; secretary, F. E. Callam and treasurer, Thomas G. Murphy. At a separate meeting in the Thirty-Fourth ward the following were named: President, Charles Woodward, vice president, H. H. Ure: secretary, L. A. Kapsa; treasurer, Howard W. Ames, and sergeant-at arms, Bernard Ruud. Thirty-Fifth Ward. President, J. H. Cooper; vice president, Philip Lauth, Jr., secretary, Frank O. Show, treasurer, Frank L. Race, and sergeant-at-arms, Charles J. Forsberg. READY TO BOOM HARRISON. "Canaryville" Organizes Club to Further Mayor's Interests. "Canaryville," embracing that part of the Thirtieth ward bounded by Halstead street, the Wabash railway tracks, Thirty-Ninth and Forty-Third streets, organized many of its voters last night into the "Carter H. Harrison Democratic Canaryville club," at a meeting held in McNaman's hall Forumof which there were about 150. Each worker was given cards bearing the names of persons in certain blocks in a certain territory and was held responsible for those votes being brought to the polls. Shortly after the polls opened two men who had personal differences came to blows, but the police present put a stop to further arguments by making them shift places in the line. Late in the afternoon a colored man named Williams who wore a Thompson badge was accused by some of the Thompson followers with using their carriages to bring Partridge voters to the polls. This he denied and a muscular young man hit him a blow on the jaw. Two policemen witnessed the assault, but they did nothing further than to separate the contestants. The leaders denied responsibility for the assault and said they resented anything but fair treatment to their opponents. University Professor Active. Professor William Hill of the University of Chicago spent most of the day at the polls giving directions to his assistants, H.L. Ickes and Professor Edward J. James. After the vote had been counted the leaders of the opposition announced themselves as satisfied with the treatment they had received and stated that they believed everything had been conducted fairly. There was no challenging and no attempt made by either side to use anything but fair politics. The opposition leaders admitted that they had exhausted all their resources to bring out the full vote of their faction and gave as an excuse for not polling a larger vote that they could not get their voters to rally to their standard. Newton A. Partridge, who was the candidate of the "antis" for ward president, did not vote. None of his followers saw him during the day, and several of them complained that he did not do his full duty by [?] John R. Thompson the successful candidate, was at the polls all day, and greeted a large number of his opponents with kind words. James C. Irwin, who had up to yesterday been counted among the opposition forces, put on a Thompson badge and performed heroic work in getting voters to the polls. His enthusiasm surprised even the Thompson followers. The suggestion that two polling places be arranged for the next ward club election met with favor. In the Thirty-Fifth ward the contest between the regular organization and the "antis" was complicated by local feeling, in which the Austin residents proper were to some extent pitted against the club members from the eastern side of the ward. The results in the wards of the city were as follows: First Ward. President, Elbridge G. Keith; vice presidents, Jacob Boll and F. P. Gleason; secretary, George H. Bills, and treasurer, Mancha Bruggmeyer. Second Ward. President, Noble B. Judah; vice president, Robert J. McDonald; secretary, John D. Hall, and treasurer, John C. Everitt. Third Ward. President, D. K. Cochrane; vice president, Dr. J. B. McFatrich, secretary, William Hamilton, and treasurer, Rush C. Butler. Fourth Ward. President, Frank X. Cleidt; vice president, Joseph Kelley; secretary, William Lamb, and treasurer, Max L. Wolff. Fifth Ward. President, J. J. McKenna; vice president, A. C. Heiser; secretary, E. O. Dobler, and treasurer, Otto Engholm. Sixth Ward. President, Linn H. Young; vice president, Edward Werner; secretary E. P. Fassett, and treasurer, Louis H. Levy. Seventh Ward. For president, John R. Thompson (regular), 917; Newton A. Partridge (reform), 483; for vice president, Alvin P. Dewey (regular) 917; William N. Gemmill (reform), 481; second vice president, Joseph H. Defrees (regular), 916; Francis W. Parker (reform), 481; secretary, William A. Small (regular), 916; Frank White (reform), 482; treasurer, Willis O. Nance (regular), 913; Edward A. Kingsbury (reform), 484. Eighth Ward. President, Warren E. Colburn; vice president, E. A. Anderson; second vice president, Edward M. Roby; third vice president, George R. Bard; secretary, Walter E. Schmidt; treasurer, William V. Walton, and sergeant-at-arms, Alfred Hero. Ninth Ward. President, James P. Cavanaugh; vice presidents, John Gilhooley, Morris Eiler, and James Cassedy; secretary, Sam Streletsky, and treasurer, Charles Ruff. Tenth Ward. President, James J. Banks; first vice president, Charles Ponsche; second vice president, Max Blumenfeld; third vice president, Jonas Loeb; fourth vice president, Max Paesler; secretary, Joseph Weber; treasurer, Philip Cullen, and sergeant-at-arms, William Klenders. Eleventh Ward. President, Joseph E. Bidwill; vice president, J. J. Dwyer; secretary, Charles Hoppel, and treasurer, Anton Novak. Twelfth Ward. President, S. P. Norman; vice president, Henry Shenzey; secretary, E. J. McCarthy, and treasurer, Daniel D. Healey. Thirteenth Ward. President, David W. Clark; vice president, John V. Kopf; second vice president, Frank L. Shepard; treasurer, John T. O'Connell; secretary, Twenty-Eight Ward. President, James Reddick; vice president, Walter J. Raymer; secretary, Peter B. Olson, and treaaurer, Joseph F. Haas. Twenty-Ninth Ward. President, Frank Christian; vice president, Peter Wendling; secretary, Fred Heintz; financial secretary, Justice R. M. Jandus; treasurer, Michael Murphy; sergeant-at-arms, John Zapotocky, and assistant sergeant-at-arms, Michael Gapa. Thirtieth Ward. President, Roy O. West; secretary, Emil O. Kowalski, and treasurer, Alfred Anderson. At a separate meeting held in the Thirtieth ward the following were elected and will make a contest: President, B. E. Callahan; vice president, John Castino; financial secretary, Timothy Flood, and recording secretary, William Groter. Thirty-First Ward. President, Walter Page; vice president, Abel A. Bach; secretary, John W. Utesch, and treasurer, Carl Lundberg. Thirty-Second Ward. President, Albert J. Fisher; vice president, Edward C. Young; secretary, Charles A. Williams, and treasurer, Fred Boldenweck. Thirty-Third Ward. President, Charles Kleinhuizen; vice presidents, Louis D. Deutsch and Otto Cederwall; secretary, E. E. Ertsman, and treasurer, Isaiah Campbell. Thirty-Fourth Ward. President, Z. R. Carter; vice president, John Ruxton; second vice president, James Tobin; secretary, F. E. Callam, and treasurer, Thomas G. Murphy. At a separate meeting in the Thirty-Fourth ward the following were named: President, Charles Woodward; vice president, H. H. Ure; secretary, L. A. Kapsa; treasurer, Howard W. Ames, and sergeant-at-arms, Bernard Ruud. Thirty-Fifth Ward. President, J. H. Cooper; vice president, Philip Lauth, Jr.; secretary, Frank O.Show; treasurer, Frank L. Race, and sergeant-at-arms, Charles J. Forsberg. READY TO BOOM HARRISON "Canaryville" Organizes Club to Further Mayor's Interests. "Canaryville," embracing that part of the Thirtieth ward bounded by Halsted street, the Wabash railway tracks, Thirty-Ninth and Forty-Third streets, organized many of its voters last night into the "Carter H. Harrison Democratic Canaryville club," at a meeting held in McNarney's hall, Forty- Second and Halsted streets. The hall failed to accommodate all the Democrats who wanted to attend, but about 1,000 were present. State Senator M. J. Butler, Representative E. B. Cummings, Aldermen Carey and Boyd, and Boiler Inspector James C. Blaney were the speakers, and Mr. Blaney afterward declared that the intention was to boom the mayor in spite "of all the County Democracies in Chicago," and for any office to which he may aspire. John Gibbons, familiarly known as "Black Jack Gibbons," was chairman of the meeting. The territory embraces the Sixth primary district of the ward, containing precincts 14, 15, 16, and 17. Aldermen Carey and McInerney have been waging war for supremacy in the district. The officers chosen were as follows: President, T. J. Riordan; vice president, M. J. Treacey; secretary, Thomas Flood; treasurer, John Moran; financial secretary, William Parrington; sergeant- at-arms, Thomas Fitzpatrick. SMITH EVANSTON PRESIDENT. Elected Head of the Republican Central Committee. The Republican central committeemen of the seven wards of Evanston met last night to effect an organization. L. L. Smith of the Third ward, Joseph MacCullum of the Seventh, and E. S. Taylor of the First were nominated for president. Smith was elected upon the first ballot. MacCallum was elected vice president and Alderman George L. Wallace of the Sixth ward was chosen secretary. FACULTY ENTERTAINS. Members Appear in Concert at the Studebaker. Members of the faculty of the Chicago Musical college gave a a concert in the Studebaker theater last evening. The theater was crowded for the occasion. Readings by Lillian Woodward Gunkel and solos by Dr. Louis Falk, M. Gauthier, and Maurice Rosenfeld were a part of the programme. Interest centered in two new members of the faculty who made their first appearance, these being Miss Mabel Sharp and Walter Schultz. The former has an excellent soprano and sang the polonaise from "Mignon" and was later heard in a duet with M. Gauthier. Mr. Schultz is a violinist of ability and his contribution was a concerto by Vieuxtemps. Insurance Companies to Combine. GREENFIELD, Mass., Nov. 26.-- At a special meeting of the policy holders of the Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance company held here today it was unanimously voted to consolidate with the Boston Mutual Life Insurance company. How to Tell the Genuine. The signature of E. W. Grove appears on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine, the remedy that cures a cold in one day.[*[11-30-01]*] Ed. 8-9-1901 - 1,000,000.) No. 19. TREASURY DEPARTMENT Mr President I append copy of report desired by you. I regret that this like means such questions seems to be of "8 to 7" instead of an unanimous verdict. L. J. G. [*[GAGE]*] [*Wrote Deboe and Boreing 11-30-1901*] [File] [*CF*] [*18122*][*[attached to 11-25-01 Bolan]*][shorthand] [*Ackd 12-3-1901 PPF B*] [*No Encl.*] [*G*] EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK R. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R. U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. Nov. 30. 1901 My dear Mr. President I. I enclose "Clinton Dangerfield's" acknowledgement. (Miss Bryan.) [*(see Bryan, Ella Howard)*] II. I enclose our friend's sketch - anonymous - & very well done, I hope you will think. III. I can't help repeating what Prof. Egan said about your kindness "The pleasantest thing of all was that, in a few minutes, I was led to forget that he was the President - and to remember that he was a man of letters in love with life." Well said, Egan! I was interested in last night's Post! Yours Respectfully R.W. Gilder Hon Theodore Roosevelt. [*18123*] [*[For 1. enclosure see, ca. 11-30-01]*]TRANSLATION. Washington D.C. November 30, 1901. To the President of the United States. Mr. President, Ever since the "New Panama Canal Company" was incorporated, in 1894, it has publicly made known its desire to accord, under the legal obligations imposed by its Concession, such share in its enterprise as the United States might desire to acquire. When in 1898, after the Spanish-American war, public opinion in the United States became almost unanimous in demanding the prompt construction of an isthmian Canal, our Company, convinced of the indispensable superiority of the Panama Route - a superiority which, to day, is technically and practically demonstrated - took the initiative in informing the United States Government of its exact condition, the state of progress of its works and its technical plans for the completion of the Canal. At that date our Company made known officially to Congress, and, subsequently, to the President that, without seeking any appropriations or financial aid from the United States Government, it would accord to the latter every facility to acquire such [*18124*]-2- advantages as it might desire, within the limits, well understood, that were authorized by the concession it holds from the Government of Colombia, the exact stipulations of which would, as a matter of course, have to be scrupulously observed. But the law of Congress, approved March 3, 1899, has placed the policy of the United States respecting an Isthmian Canal under new and clearly defined conditions. This law has prescribed a program of direct intervention and action, by assuming, for the United States, the duty of constructing a canal and placing it under "the control, management and ownership of the United States". The concession granted by Colombia absolutely prohibits the Company, under penalty of forfeiture, to transfer or hypothecate said concession, under any condition whatsoever to any other Nation or foreign Government. When during the conferences which took place at Paris in September 1899, the "Isthmian Canal Commission" inquired how the United States Government could become the owner of the Panama Canal, the Company replied that it was willing to transfer its concession upon the express conditions that the necessary consent of the Government of Colombia had previously been obtained. [*18125*]-3- Later on, in a letter dated April 10, 1900, the "Isthmian Canal Commission" requested the Company to formulate conditions of sale and to establish a price for its properties, upon the assumption that the consent of the Colombian Government had been obtained for such a sale to the United States. In addition, the "Isthmian Canal Commission" inquired "how far the Company would be able and willing "to go in the direction of yielding control to the United States "and what the compensation it would expect therefor." It can easily be understood that the Company, for paramount reasons, could not be decline to accept such an assumption as a basis of negotiation. It could not be refuse to pledge itself, even conditionally, by a promise which would have been illegal, imprudent and, after all, of no effect. The troubled condition of Colombia, at that date, is well known. Nevertheless, as soon as it was practically possible, the Company endeavored to ascertain how, in view of the law of Congress of March 3, 1899, the Colombian Government would be disposed to construe and apply the terms of the concession of the Panama Canal. In spite of every effort which the President of the Company could make, it was only last Spring, upon the arrival at [*18126*]-4- Washington of a Colombian Minister Plenipotentiary, that he could obtain from the latter a declaration to the effect that, with certain restrictions of a political nature, the Government of Colombia would authorize the transfer of the Panama Canal Concession to the United States. In fact, he did then authorize the necessary negotiations to that effect, and at the same time, he requested the Company to state, in a general way, what such conditions would be. To this request due response was made on May 1st. 1901. The Colombian Minister communicated the Company's answer to the President of the "Isthmian Canal Commission". The latter, on May 8, 1901, wrote a letter to the President of the Company, in which, after recognizing that the Company had been previously unable, owing to the stipulations of its concession, to reply to certain questions addressed to it in his letter of April 10, 1900, he now renewed these questions, to wit: "1st. - Is the New Panama Canal Company willing to "sell to the United States all of the rights, privileges and "franchises, together with all the works, railways (including "the Panama Railway), telegraph or telephone lines, buildings, "lands, plant, material, drawings and documents, of every description, "which it owns or controls in connection with the "construction of a Canal across the Isthmus of Panama?" "2nd. - Is the Company able - that is, has it the [*18127*]-5- "legal power - to give a clear title to such rights, privileges, "franchises, property, etc., etc., of every description, "free of all encumbrance or claim of any nature, from any "person whatsoever, and particularly from the stockholders or "creditors of the old Panama Company"? "3rd. - For what sum of money, in cash, will the "Company transfer to the United States all of the rights, "privileges, franchises, property, etc., etc., of every description, "which it owns or controls in connection with the "construction of a Canal across the Isthmus of Panama?" On may 15, 1901, the President of the Company replied to the first question: that the Company would consent, with the authorization of the Colombian Government, to transfer all its concession and all its properties to the Government of the United States. He added that all the conditions of such transfer would be regulated by the Company independently of any special agreements which might be made between the Government of the United States and of Colombia. He also added that the engagement to transfer its properties could not bind the Company for an indeterminate period without compromising the progress of its works and its general interests. He therefore limited the duration of this promised engagement to March 1st, 1902, it being understood that all preliminary negotiations would be completed before December 1, 1901, so that they could be submitted to Congress at its approaching session. It will be seen below why these dates were established. [*18128*]-6- In reference to the second question the President of the Company confirmed his previous statements that the New Panama Canal Company has, in fact and in law, the right to give to the United States a legal and complete title to its concession and to its properties. With regard to the third inquiry, it must be borne in mind that, at the time in question, to wit: May 8, 1901, the publication of the preliminary report of the "Isthmian Canal Commission", had made known to the Company the value the Commission places on its works and properties. But the Company has always maintained that these valuations were incomplete and inexact, and that they ought to be revised. Moreover, it will certainly be admitted that the Board of Directors of the Company was in duty bound, as well towards its stockholders as towards the President and the Congress of the United States, to justify completely the price it thought fair to demand for its properties. This could not have been done by simply presenting a lump sum. On the other hand, it must be noted that, according to its own declarations, the "Isthmus Canal Commission" had "no authority "to accept or reject any terms which may be offered, but is "collecting information to be submitted to the President". [*18129*]-7- Under such condition, and being thus confronted by the different valuations of the Commission and of the Company, upon what basis could Congress have reached an equitable solution? It must be seen that to name any lump sum would have opened the way to ill-founded and arbitrary reductions; and the Company would have been left without any opportunity to argue against indefinite modifications of the sum named. It was, therefore, incumbent upon the Company to establish the basis for a reasonable and fair estimate. This could have been done by discussing the relative advantages and disadvantages of completing the Panama Canal and of constructing a new one by the route of Nicaragua. However useful and instructive such a comparison might have been, the Company has not adopted this line of argument. It does not, however, hesitate to emphatically assert that if such a comparison had been made, the route by Panama would be found top be vastly superior, whether the comparison be based upon technical results attained by scientific investigations and practical experience, or upon the actual expenses of construction, or upon the annual cost of maintenance and operation, or finally upon the comparative economical advantages offered to commerce by the two routes. [*18130*]-8- the method proposed by the Company was more simple and was less liable to engender passionate discussions. By adopting this method indisputable results would have been attained. The Company simply requested that the true value of its works and of each of its properties should be estimated, by applying ordinary business methods. On the files of the "Isthmian Canal Commission" will be found the essential elements, plans, profiles, volumes and prices which are necessary to a full and elaborate investigation. The Company still holds itself ready to furnish anything further which may be desired. For all these reasons, the Company, in a letter dated May 16, 1901, presented its propositions in the following form: The purchase price to be established between the Commission and the Company as far as possible upon estimates determined by friendly discussions, but, if notable differences of opinion were developed, recourse would be had to arbitration in the usual form, the preliminary understanding to be reached prior to December 1, 1901 that is to say, before the assembling of Congress, so that the figures after having been approved by the General Meeting of the Company's stockholders, could be presented to Congress at its approaching session. [*18131*]-9- In fine, the proposition was, by the aid of a technical study, made pro and con, between the Commission and the Company, to agree upon a price which would bind the Company, but not bind Congress. This price would represent the maximum of the Company's demands, but would be subject to a new discussion or to a revision at the pleasure of Congress. In his reply of May 18,1901, the President of the "Isthmian Canal Commission" made no fundamental objection to applying the method suggested to him, but requested that the Company's engagement to sell to be extended from March 1, 1902, to the end of the next session of Congress. This request was accepted. After this correspondence, the Company immediately undertook to prepare a classified list of its different properties and to fix a value for each item. This study was made and its results were incorporated in a memorandum, a copy of which was forwarded, in advance, to Washington, and reached the "Isthmian Canal Commission on October 2nd. 1901. The original of this memorandum was handed, by the President of the Company, on October 17, 1901, to the President of the Commission, accompanied by a letter, dated Paris, October 4, 1901, in which the former, in referring to the figures mentioned in the memorandum, expresses himself as follows: [*18132*]-10- "I hasten to add, Mr. President, that these are "only the amounts to which we have come from a personal "estimation of the elements to be mutually discussed, pro and "con, in our negotiations, and which, as a result of such "mutual discussion, might be altered in a more or less important "degree. Such is therefore, properly speaking, the first "expression of the views of our Company, to which you have "referred in your letter of May 18th, last, as forming the "basis of discussion, on our side, in the proposed negotiations, "which negotiations we will take up, you may be sure, "with the most ernest wish to reach an amicable understanding. "With that object in view we are willing to follow a "sincere course of conciliation and concessions with the hope "that we may be met from the other side with the same spirit "and the same desire to conciliate, in an equitable manner, "the weighty interests which are confronted in the subject". But verbally, at first, and later in a letter dated October 13, 1901, the President of the Commission declined to mutually discuss pro and con, the figures and valuations contained in the Company's memorandum. After some general criticisms, which can in no way be considered a discussion pro and con, he demanded an evaluation, in a lump sum, of the Company's properties, without any reserve whatever. He, at the same time, offered to transmit in his final report to the President of the United States, any proposition which the Company might desire to submit. It thus appears that the Company, contrary to its legitimate expectations, based on the Commission's letter of May 18, 1901, found [*18133*]-11- itself cut off from any opportunity to explain in detail the value of its properties and to justify its own estimates. Nevertheless, the Board of Directors of the Company took into consideration the criticisms, raised by the Commission, in regard to one of its propositions, upon the ground that it might seem prejudicial to the principle of absolute ownership of the Canal by the United States. The Board, therefore, relinquished this item, believing that this action would be construed as an act of conciliation, worthy to be taken into account in discussing the other items. This decision was communicated to the Commission in a letter dated November 2, 1901, which, at the same time, reaffirmed the other elements of the Company's proposition. On November 5, 1901, the President of the Commission replied in terms that indicated that he proposed to regard the prices, which the Company had offered merely as bases for discussion, as constituting, in reality, when summed up, the definite price, in a lump sum, intended by the Company to be placed upon its properties. Against this view the President of the Company protested in a letter dated the following day (November 6,1901). He reasserted that the figures of the Company's memorandum represented simply estimates, believed by it to be correct and just, but which [*18134*]-12- were submitted for discussion and upon which the Company was prepared to make reasonable concessions. This letter marked the end of the negotiations between the Commission and the Company. In consequence and in view of all the facts set forth in the above brief summary and which are demonstrated by the full statement to the Secretary of State on November 22, 1901, confirmatory of all its previous declarations and promises, the Company now requests an opportunity to establish the true value of its properties before one of more persons, duly qualified and officially empowered to discuss mutually with the Company, the several items, pro and con, with authority to refer to arbitration any points which may not be amicably settled. The price thus fixed would be accepted by the Company as binding upon itself, but nor binding upon the President or the Congress of the United States. This mode of procedure would supply a positive, fair and true basis upon which to estimate the relative value, to the United States, of the two routes for an Isthmian Canal. It would be a great favor to the Company, in a matter which may so deeply affect its general interests, if it could [*18135*]-13- be informed, at the earliest convenient date, what decision has been reached upon this application, after it has been duly considered. I have the honor to be, Mr. President, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed): M. HUTIN, President and Director General of the New Panama Canal Company. [*18136*][*[Attached to memo, 12-13-01]*][[shorthand]] [*akd 12-2-1901*] P.O. Box 2158 Little Brown and Company 254 Washington Street, Boston. Publishers, Booksellers, and Importers of Law and General Literature. November 30, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Esq., Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: We have received your letter of Nov. 27, and must beg to refer you to our previous letter in which we distinctly stated that the pamphlet had been printed, not for publication, but for purposes of copyright. The only form in which the matter will be published is as a part of “The Royal Navy,” vol. VI. In this volume the publishers include a statement regarding the period at which the President wrote the work and we understand information to this effect, and a copy of the Publishers’ Note, was sent to the President by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. with their letter of Oct. 17. Yours very truly, Little, Brown & Co. [*18137*][*[ansd File Ackd*] ABNER McKINLEY, 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Nov 30th 1901 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. President of The United States Washington D.C. My dear Mr President At your request I write in relation to the appointment of Doctor Hermanus L. Balt (my son in Law) to a place on The U. S. Board of general appraisers when a vacancy occurs. On my last visit to Canton about four weeks before my brother's death unsolicited by me or any one else. He said- Abner: How would Mabel like Hermanus appointed to a place on the Board of general appraisers, and then added I will appoint him as soon as a vacancy occurs. I have hesitated owing to my personal interest in the matter to broach it to you [*18138*]in spite of the cordial warmth of sentiment you have always shown me, I feel however that it is my duty to apprise you of one of the cherished purposes of my brother which was unprompted desire growing out of his affection for my daughter. His words were, I am going to do this for Mabel. I must hardly say to you that my brother would not have been moved by any consideration to select Doctor Baer for this post unless he were fit to discharge its duties with 'credit' to himself and justice to his public. Doctor Baer is a graduate of his Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the Jefferson Medical College. He lives in New York, and on the medical staff of the New York Life Ins Co With thanks for your uniform kindness all of my very best wishes I am with sincere respect - Abner McKinley [*18139*]McKinley. What was the color of his eyes, & was one a little smaller than the other? Am I right in saying that his hair was just beginning to turn grey, also eyebrows? and that his complexion was pale, not sallow. Thanking you in [*Ackd 12-3-1901 enc pr*] The Cairo Nov 30th 1901. Dear Mr Cortelyou As I am sure you can answer the following questions better than any one I can think of I refer to you, and ask you to pardon me for taking any of your time. It is for an artist in Germany who is doing a miniature of President [*18140*]in advance for reply I am dear Mr Cortelyou with kindest regards Sincerely yours W. H. Milburn [*[Millburn]*] Chaplain U.S. Senate [*18141*]After that I feel sure I can smooth out the wrinkles in the pension commissionership appointment. To do it easily and without hitch I hope you can consistently withhold, temporarily, the appointment of J. M. Simpson - revenue collector - and if Senator Burton objects say that you have heard that Governor Stanley refused to appoint Simpson railroad commissioner because he is a politician. This happens to be true and Burton [*[ca 11-30-01]*] [*ackd 11-30-1901 wrote Gal.[?] Bristow*] HOTEL NORMANDIE. MCPHERSON SQUARE WASHINGTON, D. C. H H CANE, PRESIDENT. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt Here I am - unexpectedly - doing some work for McClures, which I'll tell you about when its done. I don't want to bother you for several days, till I get my business over and you get your message out of the way. [*18142*]think this is intrigue. I want to be fair and above board and will say frankly if Burton draws the line at Leland you would be more than justified by drawing the line at Jesse Simpson. Truly W. A. White Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States knows it. And if he finds you know it he will be throwing fits, particularly if he thinks the name of J.W. Parker of Olalie has been suggested. Then when I get my McClure business over Tuesday or Wednesday, I can bring Burton up to the White House begging you to appoint Leland. This will please all hands and make peace in the party to Kansas and leave you without a fight with the senators I dont [*18143*]Kings County Republican General Committee. Walter B. Atterbury, President. Adolph Kendl, Vice President. JACOB BRENNER. [M. J. Durly] Chairman Executive Committee. Julius L. Wieman, Secretary, Residence, 695 Bushwick Avenue. Frank J. Gardner, Assistant Secretary. John Drescher, Jr. Treasurer. 200 Joralemon Street, corner of Court Street. Telephone. 298 Main. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 30th, 1901. [*Woodruff*] [[shorthand]] [*ackd 12-3-1901 C.F.*] T.L.W. The President, White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President:- I herewith return the letter of Mr. Alfred T. White which you enclosed to me in your letter of November the 25th. I telegraphed you on receipt of that letter on November the 27th, it having been delayed by the delivery at my residence on Tuesday, the night of which I spent in New York with Mrs. Woodruff, that I had explicitly denied the sentiments attributed to me in the article Mr. Atkins sent to the Brooklyn Eagle in all the Brooklyn papers published the night after the article appeared. I enclose clippings cut from the Eagle, Standard Union and Citizen of Thursday, November 21st., and you will therefore see how prompt I was to put myself and you right on this question before the public. The article from the New York Sun which you sent to me I did not see until your clipping reached me. Upon comparing it with Mr. Atkins' article, I find that it wast taken almost bodily from his article and was prefaced with the statement that it was from a dispatch received in Brooklyn. As I wrote you on Tuesday at length. I never dreamed of using any such argument with you, and, of course, you are aware I did not. I would be the last man to threaten or to say that I conveyed a threat to the President of the United States, as I said to you in my letter of Tuesday last, and above all a President who has always treated me so kindly and cordially as you have. Referring again to Mr. White's letter, --you will note that he says nothing derogatory of Mr. Roberts. I happened to meet him at lunch yesterday and he told me that he had recently heard many complimentary things of Mr. Roberts, and believed that he would make a good postmaster. Mr. Ogden and Mr. McKeen have both written you, and Judge Steale, I understand has also forwarded to you a brief letter commending Mr. Roberts for the position of postmaster. No end of letters could be gotten from the most representative citizens of Brooklyn if it were necessary to make an attempt to get them. I enclose an editorial from the Standard Union on Mr. Roberts, published three nights ago. [*18144*]I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Loeb in which he says that a German paper of Baltimore has re-published an article from the New York Journal, in which I am alleged to have stated that the President had told me he would not appoint foreigners to any important office within his gift. I never made any such statement to any man, connected with a newspaper or otherwise. I had not heard anything about it until I received Mr. Loeb's letter. Nor have I been able to find anyone here who saw any such article in the New York Journal or any other paper. I am only too ready to make any kind of denial you want, and your secretary is at liberty to use my name in any way that will best serve the purpose of counteracting any impression that may have been conveyed to the public mind by the article referred to. It seems to me it could be done better, perhaps, in Washington, where you have access to the Associated Press and where they will publish anything you desire them to do. I shall, however, be only too happy to carry out any suggestion you may make on this subject. I sincerely hope that we have succeeded in satisfying you in regard to Mr. Roberts, and that you will appoint him and re-appoint Mr. Sharkey. It is really a matter of much importance, in view of the fact that we are certain they are both men worthy of your favorable consideration. As I told you in Washington, action looking to their endorsement by our organization would never have been begun without consultation with you had you been President when it was necessary for us to make a selection last August. But in view of the fact that we had begun such action at that time; that it was unanimous, and that they are in every way fit for the positions they seek, it seems to me it would be most unfortunate to select other than them for these places. I beg to remain, Yours very sincerely and respectfully, [*Timothy L. Woodruff. P. S. Have you seen all the letters in favor of Roberts sent by the Pres.t & other officers of the N. Y. Produce Exchange last summer? Mr. McKeen has declined the Corporation Counselship of Bklyn salary $10.000 in line with his professional work & would not think of taking Postmastership. Mr Darwin R. James is an old man, a factor in politics 25 years ago.*] [*18145*]THE PERSONALITY OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. BY AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. Having been requested to give impressions of President Roosevelt, based on a long and intimate acquaintance, I will not dwell on a personality so attractive that it compels those who know him best to love him most, but upon certain characteristics and training calculated to fit him for the successful performance of the high trust imposed upon him. Born of Northern father and Southern mother; commingling in his veins the blood of the English, Dutch, Scotch, and Huguenot; reared in New York, and educated in New England; living a part of his life in the far West, and a part in Washington, where all sections meet on a common plane, Theodore Roosevelt is the most catholic, cosmopolitan, and non-sectional American in public life since Henry Clay. The youngest of our Presidents, he yet has had the advantage of more varied and peculiarly valuable preparatory training than any man who has occupied the position. Graduating with distinction from Harvard, where the training and association are as broad and non-sectional as in any college in the land, he began early in life to study the history of his country as a preparation for his subsequent historical writings. His earlier works, "The Navy in the War of 1812," and his lives of Benton and Gouverneur Morris, demonstrated that he had mastered his country's history on the broad national lines so characteristic of his later writings. When at a receptive age, he had useful training in practical legislation in the legislature of his native State. His ranch life in the far West gave him an insight into Western life and thought, and his greatest historical work, "The Winning of the West," was evidence to the South and the West that no historian of those sections could have written with a more thorough appreciation of all that was best in the lives and history of the men who carried our civilization over the mountains and across the plains to the Pacific than had this New- Yorker educated in New England. In his conspicuously valuable services of over six years as a civil-service commissioner, he availed himself of the exceptional opportunities to learn the practical workings of the executive departments at Washington, and by personal investigations throughout the country he gained a knowledge of the working of our postal and revenue service. As president of the Police Board of New York he acquired a practical knowledge of the municipal government of our largest city. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, at a time when it was necessary to prepare the navy for threatened war, he mastered the problems of that great department, investigating personally the work and methods at the navy-yards, the armament and equipment of our war-ships in comparison with those of foreign navies, and the measures necessary to make the navy an efficient fighting-machine. When urged that he was going too fast with his preparations, he retorted: "There is no excuse for the existence of a navy if it is not made an efficient fighting-machine ready for an emergency." The efficiency of the navy had been endangered by the hitherto irreconcilable differences between the line and the staff, and by the slow promotions, preventing officers from reaching positions of responsibility until they were advanced in years. A board of naval experts was appointed, with the Assistant Secretary as chairman, for the purpose of devising means of righting the evils. I was informed by a distinguished naval officer who served on that board that it was due to the admirable tact, patience, and diplomacy of the chairman that an agreement was reached, and that a bill was drawn which the chairman personally explained before the naval committees of the House and the Senate, and for which he secured favorable reports and enactment into law. It is too soon to write of the masterly work he performed in the preparation 277 [*18146*]278 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. of the navy for the approaching war, or of his potential influence in the direction of the quick and decisive blows which brought the war to a speedy termination and perhaps averted threatened foreign interference. In addition to a wide, personal acquaintance with army officers, he has acquired a knowledge of our army by active participation with it in actual war. While serving in Washington, he was in close touch with much of the work of the scientific bureaus, and some of the men in charge of this work are among his valued personal friends. I have heard him, at some of the meetings of the scientific societies, discuss most intelligently the problems connected with the scientific investigations carried on under government supervision. Thus we see that our youngest President has had a practical training in the civil service, in the army, and in the navy. As a working member of the board of governors of Harvard University he is in close touch with the educational methods and thought of the country. Added to this he has, as governor of the largest and richest State, had experience as an executive. This executive experience as governor of a State with a larger population than had the United States during the administrations of Washington and some of his successors was a most fitting completion of his course in practical administrative work. Coupled with this training, he is by nature well fitted for the tasks before him. First, he has a tremendous capacity for work, and a joy in his work. Whatever he has to do is the thing he most likes to do, and it is done with enthusiasm. Recently, writing of Governor Taft's assumption of the difficult work in the Philippines, he said: "But he gladly undertook it, and he is to be considered thrice fortunate; for in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled with the capacity, to do well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." He disposes well and quickly of any work he may have to do, because his quick perception enables him to see almost at a glance the essential and important points, and to eliminate less important details. Then he never allows his time to be occupied or wasted when work is to be done. A judge of men, he soon gages the capacity and limitations of his subordinates, and is thus enabled to utilize their services to the greatest advantage. Just before the outbreak of the Spanish War, when the Navy Department was purchasing yachts and ships as auxiliaries to the navy, a personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt's called at the department to try to influence him to reopen a case where a certain ship had been rejected. Without hesitation Mr. Roosevelt said: "It is useless to waste your time or my time in discussing this matter, which has been intrusted to a board of naval officers, and I will positively make no recommendation contrary to the recommendation of that board. Now come and lunch with me, and we will discuss something else." While an intensely earnest and serious man, his keen sense of humor and all-pervading cheerfulness make it a positive pleasure to work with him. A somewhat exuberant enthusiasm, which may sometime in the past have caused the most conservative and timid element some apprehension, arises from quickness of intellect and perfect health, with excessive vital force. Men frequently get a reputation for caution and conservatism, when, in fact, their seeming deliberation may arise from low vitality, or slowness of perception. President Roosevelt, while positive and aggressive in advocating and carrying forward what he believes to be right, has little mere pride of opinion, and is as amenable to reason and argument as any man of positive convictions I have ever known. I have never known a man who always has his faculties under such complete mastery. This enables him to read rapidly and absorb and retain from the printed page or manuscript the essential points. I have heard him dictate to his stenographer reviews of such books as Pearson's "National Life and Character" and Kidd's "Social Evolution," his comments demonstrating a complete grasp of the subjects treated. He dictates with rapidity, and when interested in his subject, walks the floor and hurls sentences at his stenographer like bolts from a catapult, each sentence so accurate in thought and construction as seldom to require correction. He is a kind-hearted man, yet a rigid disciplinarian, and will demand a faithful and efficient discharge of public duties by public officials. I happened to be present when graduates of Harvard and other universities, and Western mining engineers, to the number of thirty or forty, collected in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy to be enlisted in the "Rough Riders" regiment. Mr. Roosevelt stood in front of his desk, whileTHE PERSONALITY OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 279 these earnest, manly young fellows stood ranged around three sides of his office. Addressing them in his peculiarly quick, earnest manner, to the effect that they must not underestimate the dangers or difficulties they would encounter, he told them that it would probably be the roughest experience that they ever had, and he wished them to understand that after once being sworn in they must take whatever came without grumbling. "Positively, gentlemen," said he, "I will have no squealing," and he urged them, if any of them thought they could not endure the greatest hardships, to withdraw before it was too late. Then, turning to a pile of volumes of mounted infantry tactics, he said: "I will remain behind a few days and hurry forward the equipments. You, gentlemen, hurry to San Antonio, and if you do your part toward getting the men in order and licking them into shape, I promise to get you into the fight. There are not enough tactics to go round, but I will distribute these, and you must read and study them on the cars." Calling out their names, he hurled the books at the men so fast that several would be in the air at once, the men catching them on the fly. I could see in their faces that every one of them was ready to follow him to the death. He has always favored those policies at home and abroad which he believes will best advance the well-being of America and the best interests of civilization and humanity throughout the world. He is an expansionist because, as he said in a speech, "expansion does not necessarily bring war; it ultimately brings peace;" or, as Fiskeputs it, "Obviously the permanent peace of the world can be secured only through the gradual concentration of the preponderant military strength into the hands of the most pacific communities." Having an unbounded confidence in his country, he has for it "no craven fear of being great." The lamented President, so foully murdered and so universally mourned, was probably the last of our Presidents who had participated in the Civil War. Standing at the threshold of a new century, President Roosevelt seems to mark the dawn of a new era in our public life. His military record belongs to the whole country, even more so than the military records of our Presidents who had served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War; for those wars had both sectional and political opposition. The country during the Spanish War was united as never before in its history, and it is among the greatest of President McKinley's achievements that during that war he contributed so materially to the obliteration of sectional and political differences. Most of our Presidents have been well fitted for the work they had to do, but no President has had the forcefulness and ability, combined with the education and varied training and experience, of the young man who is now the twenty-sixth President of the United States. Out of the clouds of misconception and the false impressions thrown about this picturesque figure by the cartoonists and the paragraphers, more interested in sensationalism than in reality, there suddenly emerges this intensely earnest, forceful, brave, patriotic, humanity-loving, broad-minded, non-sectional American, this practical idealist, to become the youngest ruler of the greatest country in the world. [*18147*]"'SAY, HENRIETTA,' SHE CALLED TO A LITTLE GIRL IN PIGTAIL BRAIDS." THE TESTIMONIAL. A RURAL COMEDY. BY GELETT BURGESS. WITH PICTURES BY FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN. TRIPHAMMER was the least important village in the town of Kingston, and Mrs. Noles was the least important woman in Triphammer. The villagers knew her as a little, beady-black-eyed, white-haired, silent body, who was continually sitting at her front window sewing upon piece-work, or doing odd jobs of mending for her neighbors. She had one familiar in Mrs. Liscum, who lived next door, and she was nominally a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but, coming as a stranger to the village, without friends or relatives, for ten years she had been the nobody of Triphammer. The young man at Hubbel's store knew her, perhaps, as well as any one, and the two held periodical conversations upon her favorite subject-patent medicines. These were her hobby, and she knew them as a mother knows her children. To-day she had 280 invested in a new remedy. As she walked down the village street she saw chairs being moved into the vestry of the church from Mrs. Huxter's large white house near by. " I wish 't I felt well enough to go to the sociable to-night," she said to herself. "Perhaps this 'Thaumaturgic Compound' might perk me up some, after all. Not that it matters much whether I go or I stay," she thought bitterly. "I ain't got nothin' but that black shalli to wear, an' I 'll only sit on a side seat with Mrs. Liscum, an' watch the young folks make sheep's eyes at each other. I ain't a-goin' to take that green bombazine out o' the chest just to be snubbed in!" The little red cottage in which she lived was high above the street, and the climb up the front steps tired her back so that she had to sit down and rest when she reached IMPRESSIONS OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. 275 productions are increasing in such unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial relations. For this purpose reciprocal trade arrangements with other nations should in a liberal spirit be carefully cultivated and promoted." Just before the Presidential journey to the Pacific coast which followed after the inauguration he told me of his purpose to call public attention to reciprocity in his speeches; and he did so. After all this consultation of the people of the United States his last intimation to me was of an intention to make a stronger demand than ever before in his annual message of next December. But he did not wait for that official occasion. The international assemblage of industrial and commercial interests at Buffalo in September gave him an earlier opportunity for the most emphatic expressions on the subject ever yet uttered by him. After a striking description of the magnitude of our production, and of our capacity to increase it, he said: The problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention. Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more. A mutual exchange is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible, it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can, and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a demand for home labor. The period of exclusiveness is past. Commercial wars are unprofitable. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times. Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth. And this, alas! was the final message of a great and patriotic President to the people whom he loved and who loved him. He saw clearly that the prosperity of our country, standing alone, could not endure. If other countries are impoverished they cannot buy. If increasingly prosperous they increase their purchases. It is the self-interest of every country of cast and varied production that the buying countries should grow in wealth. A national in poverty is no purchaser, or buys little. A seller must treat his buyer fairly, or he goes elsewhere. It is of Holy Writ that the "liberal soul shall be made fat." It is equally true of the life of nations and of individuals. Witness the present condition of Spain and Portugal, after many years of an exclusive tariff, in comparison with France and Belgium. This lesson of international fair-dealing, combined with national industry and energy, is the dead President's last legacy to the United States. Patiently, thoughtfully, he approached his conclusions. After that, no more hesitation, no more doubt. He assumes his proper leadership. Until then he is patient, considerate, receptive. After it he becomes clear, positive, and urgent. Never since its colonial settlement has the country presented a more admirable type of American and Christian citizenship -- Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. So it has come to pass that we profoundly respect the opinions of him whom we profoundly love. Both his heart and his intellect have conquered us. We trusted him in life, we trust him in his grave. Nay, not in the grave art thou, O beloved President, but warmly nested in the heart of the great republic! [*18148*]FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY ROCKWOOD, NEW YORK. Theodore RooseveltOld Brick Academy The Old Brick Academy Roswell Ga [*18149*] The Old Bulloch house in which Miss Mittie was married - The Bulloch Residence Roswell Ga [*18151*] The Presbyterian Church Roswell Ga in which Maj Bulloch died one Sunday morning just before Sunday School [*18150*]From ADVERTISER, Address. MONTGOMERY, ALA. Date NOV 30 1901 ESTABLISHED: LONDON, 1881. NEW YORK, 1884. [*18152*] The World's Work. The "World's Work" for December does not celebrate Christmas, but it is an uncommonly good number. "The Rebuilding of New York," an illustrated paper by M. G. Cunniff and Arthur Goodrich, is extremely interesting, and "A Day's Work of a Locomotive Engineer," by Henry Harrison Lewis, is only behind because the subject is less important. "The Romance of the Fur Trade," by W. S. Harwood and Forrest Crissey, is another fresh and entertaining article. President Roosevelt appears as a contributor, but it is only by virtue of publishing extracts from an introduction written by him early last summer for A. G. Wallihan's forthcoming volume entitled "Camera Shots at Wild Animals." Some of these "camera shots" are given with this introduction, and they are certainly very interesting. The introduction itself is explanatory and straightforward. The full page portraits are of L Hung Chang, President Roosevelt and President Hadley as they walked together in procession at the recent Yale celebration. Rear-Admiral Schley, and George W. Perkins. Mr. Perkins is a lightning-like business man, both as to details and the whole, who is now usefully packed away in J. Pierpont Morgan's firm. The "World's Work" portraits are always finely made, and these are up to the standard. 18152My dear White: The Ghent consulship went to an Ohio man. What is Hay there for? Stuart Henry is now after the place at Genoa, Italy. Help him by note to the president if you can Have I told you? I finally read your Roosevelt article. It is almost good enough. I am almost inclined to resent your intimation that he is human. Still I suppose he is. [*18153*] I find good men numerously in favor of Leland on your theory. They forgive the suit against Grimes and the attack on Burton because they dislike Burton so much. Yes they never would have forgiven you or me for the same offense. J W Gleed [*I ask you especially to consider the underscored words in the light of Gleeds other letter. As for the suits - that was not bad in view of the facts. Ill give you the facts if you want me.*] [*18154*][*[ca Nov. 1901]*]12803[?] Department of Public Instruction for the Philippine Islands. Office of General Superintendent. Manila, P. I., December 1, 1901. To the American Teachers: Please send as soon as practicable to the office of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction full and careful data on the following subjects: 1) What branches of school work are of most interest to the boys? 2) What branches are of most interest to the girls? 3) In what way are the books now in use unsuitable? 4) What text books would you substitute for the present books? 5) What additions to the present list of books? 6) What is needed to make your work a success in way of supplies, books, etc.? 7) In what games do the boys take interest? 8) In what games do the girls take interest? 9) Do the boys and girls play together? 10) What do you think of the advisability of mixed schools? 11) Do you observe as good results from the schools in the way of desirable habits, such as punctuality, regularity, neatness, accuracy, truthfulness, industry, etc., as you do in scholarship? 12) In what lines, if any, does the Filipino child surpass the American child? 13) In what lines does he fall short of the American child? 14) Suggestions. Very truly yours, Fred W. Atkinson, General Superintendent. [*18155*][[shorthand]] [*ackd 12/4/1901*] JACOB A. RIIS, 524 BEECH STREET, NORTH, Richmond Hill, New York. New York, Dec 1 1901. My dear Mr President, Only this: I saw in the paper yesterday that you want a Postmaster for Long Island City. Please remember that the most absolutely unfit man who is applying — so he writes me — is the man Adam Ackerman, [whom] the eastard haler you perhaps remember as a philanthropist in the old days. He has degenerated into a senseless, charity-seeking crank. I have had much experience with him for a year past. Faithfully yours Jacob A Riis no answer, please. [*18156*][*File ppf B*] Calcutta December 1 1901. My dear Roosevelt Only a line to tell you as regards the question which you put at the beginning of your last letter in connection with my return to Washington that I had a letter from a prominent member of the Foreign [*18157*]Office who happened to be in the colonial office when I was at work in Samoa, - and it was mainly he who managed to convince the German Government that the lines I was working on were the only right ones to follow. In his letter he says that I ought to be in WashingtonWashington & not removed to a consular post like this. Of course he admits the difficulties in carrying about a change & remarks: "Questions of that nature can be better settled at the tea table than through an exchange of notes." My salvation would be, I think, a little cloud over the relations [*18158*]relations of the two countries. We are just off to Mhow Central India, where the senior general Sir Richard Westmacott, has invited us to join the manoeuvres. Large contingents of british & native troops of all arms have been concentrated there, & I'm most anxious to form an idea of my own as regards the value of the troops 3 in the field, especially of the native who has been so much discussed in China. I'll send a report to my Govt on my observations & will furnish you with a copy. Of late the papers out here have been hitting hard at the Germans as regards the conduct of their last autumn manoeuvres, retaliating for what the Germans told them about their [*18159*]South African campaign. But as far as I can learn no European Power has carried out any radical reform since the british experiences in South Africa. Even here, among the men you see who have returned from the seat of war, the ideas as to what ought to be done are blurred, & most amazing proposals are expounded. I always tell them that there are 3 things the modern soldier must know how to do well, & that if he can do them well reforms as to tactics can always be carried on speedily & quietly. He must know how to shoot, ride & think, just the things your corkers know how to do. I wish our people at home would learn how to hold their tongues & keep their criticisms about other people more to themselves. They are gradually growing to [*18160*]be the most unpopular nation out here. Please accept all our good wishes for a most prosperous & successful year. With the same to Mrs Roosevelt & the family I remain yours most sincerely Speck [Sternburg] P.S. I send Ted the latest or rather earliest in indian guns. GOVERNOR TALKS OF NEW YORK SUN'S CRITICISM Was Misquoted in Interview Sent Out From Washington, and Which Has Attracted National Attention. DID NOT SAY HE WOULD BE "BOOSTING" THIRD TERM Executive Favors and Expects Endorsement of President's Policies by Republican Nation Convention. [Special Dispatch to the Morning Journal.] Santa Fe, N. M.., Dec. 1. -Governor Curry today gave out a brief interview in connection with the statement accredited to him by Washington correspondents, during the governor's recent visit in Washington, and in the course of which he was quoted as follows: "I have not talked with the president about his third term boom. No friend of the president has to. We are going to have six delegates from New Mexico, and the six will be instructed for Theodore Roosevelt. I am not going to be a delegate, and I suppose no federal official will be, but I will be at the convention whooping it up for the president. The real friends of the president need no instruction from him. They can go ahead and do what they think wise and the best for his interest." This interview has been widely copied throughout the country, and has been severely criticised byy newspapers opposed to the administration, especially by the New York Sun. "My attention has been called to this interview," said the governor today, to a representative of the Morning Journal, "in connection with the criticism by certain newspapers in the east, which point it out as a violation of the expressed desire of the president, sent out in a circular letter and warning office holders not to seek election to the national convention, with a view to advocating his endorsement. I have not received this circular as yet, and all I know about it is what I have seen in the newspapers; but I suppose I will receive it in time. In the mean time, it is well known that I have always publicly stated that I was opposed to any federal office holder in New Mexico going to any political convention as a delegate, and that I would oppose such a course. "In the interview with me sent out from Washington I have been misquoted in that I said nothing whatever about an endorsement for the president for a third term; and I said nothing about being at the national convention 'whooping it up' for President Roosevelt. "What I did say was what I have said before; that the republicans of New Mexico are hearty supporters of President Roosevelt and his policies, and that the delegation from this territory to the national convention would undoubtedly go there instructed by the republican party of New Mexico to stand for the endorsement of President Roosevelt's administration and his policies, and for the nomination of the candidate most likely to carry out these policies. "During my recent visit in Washing- president on New Mexico matters, but at none of these interviews was the presidential situation touched on in any way. "In so far as the interview with me quoted in the east expresses the support and friendship for President Roosevelt by the republicans of New Mexico and their endorsement of his policies, it is correct, but at no time have I stated that I would be at the convention 'whooping it up' for the president, in connection with a third term." 18161 MR. CLANCY LIKELY TO REMAIN HIS PRESENT PLACE BELIEVED HE WILL NOT ACCEPT HIGHER OFFICE No Announcement Made as Yet, However, as to Conclusion of Matter- Roswell Man Mentioned For Place. [Special Dispatch to the Morning Journal.] Santa Fe, N. M.. Dec. 1.- In the absence of any announcement from any authoritative source,- it is still unknown whether or not District Attorney Frank W. Clancy, of Albuquerque, will accept the position of attorney general of New Mexico, offered to him last week by Governor Curry. The general impression here tonight, however, seems to be that Mr. Clancy will not accept the position. It is well known that Governor Curry has been very anxious to have Mr. Clancy take the position and that the appointment would have created general satisfaction in official circles and throughout the territory. Mr. Clancy has been here much of the time during the past week, and has had several conferences with the governor at which the matter has been carefully gone over. It may be said that a thorough understanding exists between the governor and Mr. Clancy, and while the district attorney has made absolutely no statement of the causes guiding his action, the impression is that local conditions in Bernanillo county have much weight in determining the result. In the absence of any statement from either Governor Curry or Mr. Clancy, it is not definitely known that he will not accept the appointment, but the impression here seems to be that he will not. In the meantime the names of a number of well known New Mexico lawyers are being mentioned about the capital as possible successors to Judge A. B. Fall, among them being the name of Mr. James E. Hervey, of Roswell, one of the best known young lawyers in the territory, and for some time district attorney in Chaves and Eddy counties. Mr. Hervey has been here for several days on business, and to attend the statehood meeting. 18162[*Ackd 12-4-1901 PPF B*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM Dec. 2, 1901 My dear Mr. President: In reply to your letter of the 27th, I may say that Alfred T. White of Brooklyn would be an ideal incumbent of the Commissionership of Immigration. But I understand that his health is not very good, and because of that fact he has declined the appointment by Borough President Swanstrom to the Commissionership of Public Works in Brooklyn. You may expect me without fail at luncheon on Saturday, the 7th, at 1:30. A number of important things have come up here, some of them confidential, that I shall want to talk to you about, and if you are going to have any free time on Saturday evening or on Sunday, perhaps it will be best for me to arrange to stay over in Washington until 4 P.M. Sunday, in order to have opportunity for a full discussion with you. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*18163*][*Ackd 12-3-1901*] CABLE ADDRESS "NEWWILLARD" THE NEW WILLARD, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE & FOURTEENTH ST. F. S. HIGHT, MANAGER. WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec." 2d 1901 Dear Mr President Messrs Gilman, Billings, & Walcott and Pritchard. Heads of Geological Survey & Boston Polytechnic respectively, have approved enclosed - Profr Langley Smithsonian Institute is heartily in favor of the scheme as I unfolded it to him, He has not yet seen the enclosed - It is as I expected, these three new men who were not committed are delighted as I believe all true friends of progress will be. Again thank you for your cordial reception. I feel sure you would be captivated by the scheme - Mr Gilman has just left for Baltimore asking me to send you the enclosed Pray take your own time for [*18164*][L. condensed gases] sending matter to Congress, Secretary Root was good enough to say he would see that the required Act would be ready authorizing the Treasurer of the United States to accept the Bonds to pay over proceeds. Again thanks, Sincerely Yours Andrew Carnegie Please remember the Carnegie Steel Co was no trust, but a limited partnership. No stock for sale - I never bought or sold stock on the Exchange. My money was all made in making Iron & steel, no gambling. AC[*[12-2-01]*] [*Ackd CF*] SEMPER PARATUS AD ARMA His Excellency The President. My dear Mr Roosevelt The portrait of my Uncle, President Buchanan which now hangs in the White House - is such a libel upon his fine handsome face & physique, that I desire to see it replaced [*18165*]by one more lifelike. Those in authority may intend to have the portraits of several of the Presidents - my Uncle included - made more artistic & worthy of them & their surroundings - which of course would be most proper & satisfactory. If however - they have no such intention, I ask to be allowed to exchange the portrait of President Buchanan. Believe me - with high regard - Very sincerely yours Harriet Lane Johnston 1739 I. St Dec 2nd 1901. [*18166*]Clinton and Russell Architects Mutual Life Building 32 Nassau Street New York Charles W. Clinton, William H. Russell F.W. Winterburn, J. Hollis Wells, C.E. December 2, 1901. [*ppf Pr ackd*] [* Dear T. Joe Murray asked me to send you this*] My dear Mr. Robinson, Two years ago, when I was candidate for Superintendent of Public Buildings, I was unfortunate enough to have the organization opposed to me. The situation has changed since then. Now Mr. Platt, Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Morris will endorse me for any position that the President sees fit to give me. I had a long chat with Mr. Gibbs last Monday and he so informed me. Trusting that you are enjoying good health, I am Very sincerely, Joseph Murray Douglas Robinson, Esq., 160 Broadway, New York. [*18167*][*[Enc. in Robinson to TR 12-19-01]*][*[12-2-01*]] [shorthand] [*Ack'd 12/5/1901*] Melincourt Millneck L.I. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I saw today in the Art Collection of Carl Glücksmann No. 14 East 45 New York a portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Sir Peter Lely. It is for sale, I didn't ask the price, as you are such an admirer of Cromwell, I write you Faithfully Yours Elbert Wakeman Decr. 2.301 [*18168*][*ackd 12-3-1901*] HOTEL NORMANDIE McPherson Square WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec 2nd 1901 My Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Here are some papers which seem to me to be vital in the Leland matter. They should be accompanied by telegrams from A. A. Hurd general solicitor for the Santa Fe rail road who has done more to take the Santa Fe out of politics and keep it clean than any other man; also from Bailie Waggener a gold Democrat and the most important attorney in the west; from Paul Morton whom you know and from A. C. Jobes, President of the largest bank in Wichita and director - as Gleed is - of the Santa Fe road. He is a business man, not a politician in any sense. But he knows the game and he knows Leland. Mr. A. Low, the real force behind Burton, the most important - because the cleanest factor in the whole Burton organization, is in town. He is general manager of all the Rock Island system [and over] west of the Missouri - and [was] president of much of that part. He - strange as that may seem - is for Leland and wants to talk with you. He has been working with Burton and has him "almost persuaded." Low told me that if he could have an intimation from you that the opposition of Burton to Leland is making the situation the least bit unpleasant for you, he (Low) would guarantee to make Burton withdraw his objection to [*157*] [*18169*]HOTEL NORMANDIE McPherson Square WASHINGTON, D. C. Leland at once. Low can do it. He would do it [now] without further parley except that he [pu] dislikes to put the screws to Burton without knowing that he may not be really embarrassing you by so doing. If you could see, Mr. Low and when he has endorsed Leland, tell him that Burton's objection to him is a strong element preventing the appointment, Low will bring Burton to tune. Low has the same influence [for] over Burton that you have over me - strong absolute and clear. Low will not call, I fear unless he has an appointment. If you are too busy to see him a note to me saying - in your own words - that the withdrawal of Burton's objection to Leland would simplify matters and make the appointment easy, [how] would make Low act. [on that.] I, of course would keep the note. If Burton endorses Leland it means peace till Burton's next campaign for re-election. You could do no more important service to Kansas Republicans than to bring this reconciliation about. Low can certainly perform his part of the contract. Truly W. A. White For Theodor Roosevelt President of the United States [*158*] [*18170*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-3-1901 CF*] In Your P Reply Refer to N D. DOUGLAS WILSON, EDITOR AND MANAGER. For Advertising Rates, etc., Address W. N. Gates, Garfield Bldg, Cleveland, O. AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. GRAND LODGE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS A OF M WASHINGTON D.C. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS MONTHLY JOURNAL OFFICE OF THE EDITOR, 82-85 CORCORAN BLDG. Washington, D. C., Dec. 2, 1901. Mr. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, White House, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:-- I have just been informed that Mr. Scott, President of the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, is in the city and stopping at the Willard. I believe if you were to use your good offices with the President, you might induce him to see Mr. Scott and try and effect an adjustment of the trouble now existing on the Pacific Coast between Mr. Scott's firm and our organization. Our President O'Connell in an interview with President Roosevelt, advised him that he would let him know of anything that might arise having any bearing whatever on the San Francisco situation. As Mr. O'Connell is at present in Scranton attending the Convention of the American Federation of Labor, I take the liberty of advising you. With best wishes, Respectfully, D. Douglas Wilson Editor & Manager. [*18171*] [*146*]Telegram. White House, Washington. 16 PO. AR. KQ. 29 Paid – 4 P.M. Brooklyn, N.Y., December 2, 1901. George B. Cortelyou: Yours to hand. Clippings carrying denial which I make immediately on return from Washington were forwarded to President with letter from me Saturday. Hope they may receive his attention. Timothy L. Woodruff. [*18172*] Mr. Forster: Have you the letter of Secy. Long referred to? I do not recall any, BFH[?] I have no recollection of it & Mr. Latta has been unable to find it. F. 12-2-1901 [*18173*][*[attached to Yates 11-25-01]*]Received By Express Harriman Alaska Expedition Vol. 1-2. with the compliments of the Publishers Doubleday-Page & Co. 34 Union Sq. N.Y. City By John Burroughs - John Muir and George Bird Grinnell. Dec. 3rd 1901. [*M 1 Doubleday Page & Co.*] [*ackd 12/3/1901*] [*18174*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-4-1901*] NEW YORK, 256 Fifth Avenue. BOSTON, 120 Tremont St. CHICAGO, 175 Dearborn St. ST. LOUIS, 708 Pine St. PITTSBURGH, Ferguson Block. MINNEAPOLIS, Lumber Exchange. BALTIMORE, Moore Building. Harrington & Goodman, 619 CHESTNUT ST. & 616 JAYNE ST. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 3rd 1901- My dear Mr. President. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Tiger!! Thanks to Almighty God! At last, we have a whole-souled American who is a statesman before a politician. My sincere congratulations, for the able message you sent to Congress, worthy "of the noblest work of God", a man! Most Respectfully Wm. C. Dix Hon Theo. Roosevelt Washington. D.C. [*188*] [*18175*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-5-1901*] Princeton, New Jersey December 3, 1901. The President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt My dear Mr. President: Doubtless you are now too much occupied to give thought to the matter concerning which you gave intimations in a letter last summer to me; and perhaps now you would not wish to be identified with the movement you had then in mind; but I think the object and general plan, (of a nonpartisan league) of which I have had more definite advice from others, verily and admirable. There [*18176*] is developing interest in it among "the students" of Princeton and I should like to encourage it. If then you have a word of advice or any definitely formulated plan and [could] can without inconvenience cause it to be sent to me, I shall be greatly obliged. I have the honor to be Yours sincerely John H. Finley [*Finley*] [*18177*][*[For 1 enclosure see 11-23-01]*] [[shorthand]] [*ackd 12/3/1901*] Hon Theodore Roosevelt Pres. U. S. Washington, D.C. Your Excellency: Believing you may be interested in same, I beg to mail under separate cover, a few photos of the Foot ball game between Harvard and Yale, at Cambridge Nov 23rd last. I regret that weather conditions were such that I could not secure as good photographic [*18178*]results as I desired. The three photos in combination give a fairly good idea of the field and crowds, the smaller one shows one of Harvard's Touchdowns. Trusting they may be some satisfaction I have the honor to be Yours Vert Res'y Frederick E. Haynes 1867 7th Ave New York Dec 2", 1901-- 18179TELEGRAM. [*file*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. 23 WU HG JM 10 Paid 3 pm. New York, Dec. 3, 1901. Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary:- Accept kind invitation for Monday lunch. See you Saturday morning. Fredk. W. Holls. [*18180*][*P.F*] Dec. 3rd 1901 U.S. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, D.C. Dear Theodore- The message was fine--all I expected which is saying a great deal & I am very proud of your first utterance as President. I have never seen an annual message followed with so much interest & attention in the Senate & I am told they were even [*18181*]more marked in the House. I heard nothing but strong commendation & satisfaction expressed by everyone on our side. Nannie went up & listened to it all a tribute to you I assure you. Congress is very friendly & all looks well for good work. I shall try to get off tomorrow for a ride but if it proves impossible I will [*18182*] telephone to the White House-- Ever yrs H.C.L. [*[Lodge]*][*CF*] THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Dec. 3rd 1901 Hon G. B. Cortelyou Secretary to the President Dear Sir: I return as requested the letter of Professor Hooper which the President was good enough to send to me through you. With best wishes Yours truly St. Clair McKelway [*in letter from Franklin W. Hooper 11/19/1901*] [*18183*]United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. December 3rd, 1901 Colonel William Elliot House of Representatives. Dear Sir: - The matter of the appropriation for the Charleston Exposition is one in which the people of South Carolina are vitally interested, and I hope that you will be able to successfully push thebill through the House. In the Senate the bill was introduced by Senator Tillman at the last Session of Congress, and [***] but due his official position that he be given an opportunity to again introduce the measure. I will cooperate to the fullest extent. The whole purpose of every representative and senator from South Carolina should be to win the contest. In my judgment it would not be advisable to introduce a bill frames on the lines of the original exposition bill of the last session of Congress. It is a unique case, and by differentiating it from other exposition bills we can avoid much of the unfavorable sentiment in the House. I have kept rough notes of my conversations with the late President and members of the Cabinet and the preamble of the bill should recite the fats, and it should be specifically, a bill to pay the expenses of the transportation, installationand care of the Government exhibit. You are the immediate representativeof Charleston, and if you will take the matter under advisement I will be pleasedto cooperate in any way I can. The recommendations in the President's message gives us an opportunity which should not be lost. Yours very truly, [JOHN LOWNDES MCLAURIN] Dictated. [18184]President, you sometimes make one forget with your kindness & modesty that you are President. Yours Sincerely Jno Lowndes McLaurin [shorthand notation] Ackd 12-4-1901 CG Confidential United States Senate, Washington, D.C. Dec. 3, 1901 Mr. President: Many thanks for your intimation yesterday concerning the bill for the Charleston Exposition. I have considered the matter carefully and enclose a copy of a letter to Congressman Elliott. Against an opportunity to gratify his malice towards me, the good of the City of Charleston weighs but little with my Colleague. Again, as he introduced the bill last session, I feel that the common courtesy due his position, should restrain me from appearing to wish to take advantage of your friendliness & rob him of a chance to vindication by the passage of the bill. Anyway if I am mistaken, I would rather be too much than too 181852 little of a gentleman. Furthermore, I regret to say that if I introduce the bill, no delicacy of feeling will prevent him from secretly antagonizing its passage through other Senators, while if he introduces it, I will as I did last session help all that I can. I do not make such a grave statement without positive knowledge which I gain from the Director General of the Exposition, who told me that he was shown in confidence a letter from My Colleague to one of his political adherents in Charleston. I tell you this confidentially because I wish you to understand that if I do not introduce the bill, it is not lack of appreciation of your kindness, but because I am more interested in the passage of the bill than the political advantage to be gained from its passage. I hope you will pardon the breach of good manners on my part in permitting Mr. Sirrine to speak to you yesterday about a pardon when we were invited on other business, but really Mr. [*18186*][*PF*] December 3rd 1901. 122 EAST 34TH STREET Dear Mr President. They are both bought, & they are not white! I hope you will like the blue one, for which I am responsible. I was firm, remembering what you had said to me, but Edith thought it "unsuited to her years!" She looks so young and girlish & pretty in it that I think you may feel about it as I do, at any [*18187*]rate it is blue. Thank you so much for the pleasure you gave me all day Saturday. I shall always remember it. Faithfully yours Teresa Richardson [*18188*][*Ackd 12-12-1901*] EVERY EVENING. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER COLUMBUS DISPATCH W.D. BRICKELL, PROPRIETOR SUNDAY MORNING. Columbus, O. Dec. 3. [*[01]*] 1901 [*Personal*] Prof. Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. My dear Sir:- Since you have placed the confidence that you have in me, and since it is generally accepted that you stand closer to the President than any other member of our race, I want to apprise you of a matter in confidence. I have no objection, however, to you relating the facts to the president, should perchance you meet again to talk over matters of interest to our race. It is this: Senator Hanna will be a candidate for president. As to this, just now, there is no possible chance for doubt. I have it straight, and further I have it that, so far as our people is concerned, his plans are pretty well formed. Every colored office-holder, as you are doubtless aware, holds his appointment upon the recommendation of Senator Hanna, and every such one, at the proper time will work for his interests, this includes Cheatham, Lyons, Green, of Ohio, Powell, of New Jersey, Adams, of Illinois, et al., all of whom will be assisted by Bishop Arnett. The plan is, and they confidently bank on it, to go to the next National convention with a solid delegation from the South for Senator Hanna. I am confident that these men, at least those now in this country and holding office, already have their instructions. and while certain ones who are anxiously awaiting reappointments at the hands of President Roosevelt may be inactive pending their reappointment, as soon as reappointment, they will, in a quiet way, begin to exert their influence for Senator Hann, for as you well know, with the possible exception of Minister Powell, all are professional politicians, selfish politicians, who consider their own interests first and those of the race as a secondary and unimportant matter. In '96 I represented this paper at the National convention in St. Louis, and it was then that I became perfectly disgusted with the professional colored politician and office holder, who danced every rime Mr. Hanna cracked the whip. As a rule, I found that they were immoral and greatly over rated, and at the time I remarked to Mr. George A. Myers, who had charge of the "influencing" of colored delegates, that my idols had been shattered; that colored men whom I had looked upon as the personification of greatness, were bar room patrons who frequently were in their "cups." Of the whole lot of "prominent" colored politicians who attended that convention, I observed but two who bore themselves with the dignity that reflected credit upon themselves and the race, and those two were Bruce and Lynch. And they, as perhaps you will recall, cut no figure at that convention. I have every reason to know that the same influence? that was used [*18189*]EVERY EVENING. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER COLUMBUS DISPATCH W.D. BRICKELL, PROPRIETOR SUNDAY MORNING. Columbus, O. by Senator Hanna in '96 to corrall the brother in black for the late President McKinley, will prevail for the Senator's personal interests, and that a selfish policy, rather than a broad race interest and principle will actuate the colored man now in office, and whose appointments are due to direct dictation of Senator Hanna. I simply give you this for your own information, knowing that you have the interest of the whole race at heart. The only way to circumvent these colored politicians, and the power of the A.M.E. Church, which will be exerted through the influence of Bishop Arnett, is to have "new faces at the window", new men - a higher type of Negro manhood, men who place race advancement far above of temporary personal political gain. Very truly yours, Ralph W Tyler [*18190*][*[Enc. in Washington, 12-8-01]*]In connection with which is to be done a glance over the accompanying pamphlet may be of interest to you - Very sincerely & respty, Chas D Walcott [shorthand] [*Ackd 12/4/1901*] OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Department of the Interior U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON Dec. 3d/01. Dear Mr President, The news Dr. Gilman bro't me yesterday was like a breeze from Montana on a sultry summer day - We have been working hard to get such a movement in shape. Its future depended on just such a result as has come about. I feel like going out on the hills to work off pent up enthusiasm. [*18191*]SCHLOSS MATZEN, BRIXLEGG, TYROL Dec. 4, 1901 Dear Charles, I wrote to you a few days ago about the Price book & today send you a press copy of a letter I have just sent by this mail to Theod. Roosevelt re a rare chance to purchase one of the most complete sporting libraries that exists. Read it & if you can do anything in the matter I wd. [*18194*] From PIONEER PRESS Address ST. PAUL MINN. Date DEC. 3 1901 Pre-eminent among the attractions of The World's Work for December is a superbly illustrated article on "The Rebuilding of New York," by M. G. Cunniff and Arthur Goodrich. Nothing before published gives on so fair an idea of the immensity and costliness of the changes now being wrought in the architectural appearance of America's greatest city. Another "winning number" is an article made up of extracts from Theodore Roosevelt's introduction to Wallihan's "Camera Shots at Wild Animals," soon to appear, with some specimens of those camera shots which move one not only to admiration, but to wonder that such results could ever have been achieved by the camera marksman. [*18193*]call it a very charitable act & one that wd. secure to yr. country what so far as I know it does not possess. I have no interest (pecuniary) in this matter & only want to help the poor fellow out & preserve the library from being dispersed. Yours sincerely W. A. Baillie Grohman [*Illustrated $1.50 Cardigan By*][*Ackd 12/19/1901*] Personal Dec. 4, 1901 Schloss Matzen, Brixlegg, Tyrol. Dear Mr. President, Have you any inclination to purchase what is one of the most complete sporting libraries in the world? I say that it is one of the fullest on the subject of sport very advisedly, for I know as a fact that no public library in Europe has all the books this one contains comprising over 2000 volumes of English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Greek, Latin printed and manuscript volumes with a few exceptions in first class condition for which the owner who is the well known authority on old sporting literature Baron Christian Biedermann of Dresden, has paid over $25,000 as he is prepared to prove by bills. One of the late banksmashes in Saxony has ruined him and he is now forced to sell what is almost dearer than life to him. I know him and the library and have no hesitation in saying that such a chance of picking up such a comprehensive library on an interesting subject has so far as I know, hardly ever offered itself before. Were I a rich man I would buy it instantly, though I do possess many of the books he has - we got acquainted through this hobby - and as it would be a great pity to see this man's life work dispersed in an auction room I thought I would write to you concerning the matter, which is urgent, for if the library is not sold before the end of this month by private sale it will be chucked away in a forced sale. A catalogue can be furnished and of course some body representing the purchaser who knows about this class of books must be deputed to examine it. If you or any friends at all think of it please cable me Grohman, Brixegg, Tyrol and I would see that further particulars be sent you with a catalogue. Pray pardon my writing to you about this but the great interest you take in everything concerning sport must plead as my excuse. Yours very truly W.A. Baillie-Grohman The library could I think be bought for $15.000. [*200*] [*18195*][*ackd 12-5-1901*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM, Dec. 4, 1901 My dear Mr. President: I have been so fortunate as to have today a conference with Mr. Carnegie upon the details of his splendid plan for promoting the highest type of research and scholarship, through the cooperation of existing institutions, and using the city of Washington as the base of operations. In my judgment Mr. Carnegie has hit upon the one possible way in which the end he has in view can be accomplished without injury to the existing tendencies for higher education, and without tending to check the flow of private beneficence in all parts of the country, which is so marked and so stimulating a feature of our national life. It seems to me that by this plan the spirit of Washington's wish will be thoroughly carried out, and that Washington himself, if he were permitted to know what has happened in America since his death, would agree that the details of the suggested plan are far more effective than anything that even his wise mind could conceive of a hundred years ago. It is a great pleasure to me that this magnificent act takes place under your administration. It will be epoch-making in our national history and in the history of the world's higher education. Always sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler The enclosure is sent by Mr. Carnegie, & is endorsed by him in his own hand. To the President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*18196*][*[For 1. enclosure see ca. 1901]*][shorthand] [*acnd 12/7/1901*] JOHN FARSON Chicago, December 4, 1901. My dear President:-- I hesitate to take much of your time, because of your awful responsibilities, and yet I am just as much your friend as I ever was! I appreciate the kindly telegram of sympathy. It was very hard to give up my mother. Mrs. Farson and I will be in Washington next Wednesday (December 11th) and we want to run in a moment and say "God bless you". I wish we could see the little children, because I love them dearly. Some times I wish you were not the President, because then I think you would visit us sometimes. My business is expanding wonderfully, and especially our western office is making rapid strides. The day is not far distant when the west will dominate the country. Your message was broad, statesman like, conservative, considerate. I congratulate you. Yours very truly, John Farson To The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. [*18197*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-6-1901*] 614 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md., December 4, 1901. Dear Mr. President: Mr. Carnegie proposes some slight changes in the statement which he intends to send you. I expect to see him in New York tomorrow, Thursday, and after that will send you the statement in duplicate form. It does not involve any fundamental changes, and does not refer to the letter now in your hands. I hope you will not deem me intrusive if I express my high gratification not only with the Message as a whole, but particularly with the passages that are so frank and clear on the subject of the Merit System. I intend to quote them in my speech at Boston, before the League, next week. I am, dear sir, Yours with the highest respect, [*Dr.*] Daniel C. Gilman [*18198*][*PPF B*] Dec. 4, 1901 Dear Theodore I congratulated you on your Message when I read it - now I congratulate you on its reception. It takes both speaker and hearer to make a speech, and this time they are in harmony. Your Message has collared the world, and brought it into camp. I am glad, to the heart, of this immense and far- reaching success. Yours faithfully John Hay [*18199*]T/W DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. December 4, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Esquire, Secretary to the President, White House. Sir: I enclose a letter addressed to the President by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, requesting him to interest himself in the Olympian Games which are to take place in Chicago in 1902, and to accept the honorary presidency on the occasion. A translation of the Baron's letter is likewise enclosed. I am, Sir, your obedient servant John Hay Enclosures: Enclosures with No. 912, November 18, 1901, from France. [*18200*][*Ackd 12-6-1901*] Dec 4th [01] Calumet Club 267 Fifth Avenue My Dear Theodore; I wish to thank you in my name and in the name of my friends for your wonderfully clear, beautifully expressed message. It is simply clasic and stamps the intense patriotic, honest, clear headed man as a conservative statesman as well. How proud your father would have been had he been here & how proud I am to sign myself [*18201*]your oldest cousin Cornelius Roosevelt P.S. Please dont feel it necessary to answer this but I simply could not help writing it. [*18202*][*File cr*] [*B*] State of New York Lieutenant Governor's Room Albany Brooklyn, New York, December 4, 1901. Mr. George B. Cortelyou, Sec’y to the President, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: I return you herewith letter of F.M. Brooks, in relation to the Postmastership. The Governor has no comment to make upon it. Yours very truly, J. E. Smith Secy 8th Avenue and 18th Street [*18203*]voice, that of approval. Party lines here are wiped out in entire satisfaction. The Philippines' question as newly presented by the decision of the Supreme Court offers difficulties. It is probably just as well the decision came after the Message. I have no idea how you regard it. For myself, I cannot believe that a constitutional provision framed in view of entirely different circumstances was ever intended or has any moral right to extend itself to mere land, and to land occupied and administered in a different purpose and for different ends than any contemplated in the provision referred to. The only line of emergence out of the tangle created by the three decisions seems to me to be this: failing affirmative legislation by Congress, [*Ackd 12-11-1901 CF*] PRESIDENT'S HOUSE BERKELEY Dec. 4. 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, My dear President Roosevelt: I cannot forbear sending you a word of thanks for your noble message. My American blood tingles anew in my veins as I read it. I do not know what part pleases me most; I know that the tone of the whole pleases me, and that I take issue with no part of it. The section on anarchy is a statement of a position that need never be restated; men have only to cite. It is forthwith a classic. [*18204*] The position taken regarding irrigation is absolutely sound and conclusive. Your allotment of responsibilities respectively to the national and state governments and your formulation of the principles involved are precisely what my observation commends to me as wise. If you had proposed no other new thing in your message, you would have had enough ground, upon which to claim the approval of the generations to come, in that section alone. The section regarding the trusts is as right as it can be. It may be that leaders in the Republican party have their doubts. You probably have occasion to know whether this is so. I know that the party stands in constant peril of being identified with the interests of corporate wealth, and in the event of financial depression will go to defeat through such identification. It is a purely political point of view, which I know had a small weight with you, or none at all, - but the very leaders who may have had their doubts, will very likely to have occasion to be thankful yet. The chief thing however is that what you say is right. Publicity is a good thing for much besides trusts. It ranks along with the ballot box as the concrete underlying democratic institutions. I will say no more concerning my approval; I approve en bloc. I have talked to-day with many leading business men of San Francisco, and there is but one [*18205*]PRESIDENT'S HOUSE BERKELEY the Constitution must be held to apply merely through lack of further definitions. If this seems to put the legislation of Congress above the Constitution, it is after all a reversion to the Anglo-Saxon type and spirit of government which creates its constitution out of the facts as they emerge, interpreting its documents in view of the facts. The facts are observed and officially made known through Congress. I am in other words essentially with Justice Brown, - though I am not sure [*18206*]he would accept my statement as his. It is people occupying land, and people ready or preparing to join with us under a scheme of self- government, when our system in its expansion can take account of, - not land containing people. It is unthinkable under modern conditions that a nation should in advance adopt theoretically a plan of declining all responsibilities for the maintenance of order in the "unassimilated" lands. I can hardly expect you will ever find time to read all this, but I have had pleasure in writing it, merely as an expression of the exceeding joy I have had to-day in reading what you have written. Very faithfully yours, Benj. Ide Wheeler [*18207*][*Please return*] The Evening Post Editorial Rooms New York Dec 4, 1901. Dear Mr. Gunton: I did not know anything about Bidwell's interference in the Steele Douglas contest till I saw your pamphlet about ten days ago. [If] If I had been aware of the facts in that case, we (the Evening Post) should never have supported Mr. B. for a moment. The object of my writing this note [*18208*]is to thank you for the prompt, sturdy & unremitting fight you made for good government & right principles in that office Yours very sincerely Horace White George Gunton, E. Union Square, City.December 4, 1901. Memorandum: Eyes, hazel; no noticeable difference in size. Hair, partially gray. Eye-brows, partly gray. Complexion, pale but not sallow. [*18209*]PROPOSED PLAN FOR EDUCATIONAL UNIFICATION Public interest imperatively demands the reorganization and uniting of the two systems now supervising the educational work of the state. This reform can not longer be delayed. Personal preferences, and loyal adhesion to existing systems must alike give way to an aroused public sentiment. The plan herein proposed has been carefully considered by us. In view of the conflicting interests and as a result of our experience, it is submitted as a solution of the problem along the lines of least resistance. The minor details necessary in the preparation of a bill may readily be adjusted. FIRST- A STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION A State Board of Education should be created, to consist of nine members of the present Board of Regents, selected in the manner hereinafter provided. The nine members so selected shall also constitute the State Board of Regents of the State of New York. EXPLANATION: A Board of Regents with a membership of not less than nine is made obligatory by the Constitution of 1894. Therefore it seems wise to recognize this body, which must exist, as the directing force of the educational work of the state. There have been two fundamental objections to placing the entire educational work of the state, including the state common school system, under the control of the Board of Regents as now constituted: (1) A board of twenty-three is unwieldly and can not be made an efficient working body. (2) The present provision that the members of said board shall serve for life violates a fundamental principe of American government and is likely to encumber the board with much useless material. 18211 [*[ca. 1901]*] PROPOSED PLAN FOR EDUCATIONAL UNIFICATION 182102 The state school system should always be in as close touch with the people as is possible without danger of injury through political, religious or social influences, and, at the same time, should command the best energies of active men in the prime of life. SECOND-METHOD OF SELECTION The act should provide for the selection by lot from the present nineteen elected regents of nine members thereof, and these nine members, so selected, should again determine by lot the length of their term of office-one for nine years, one for eight years, etc. There should be one of two further safeguards in the method of selecting from the present Board of Regents, and also in future elections, viz: a) A provision similar to that contained in the Constitution of 1894 relating to the election of State Senators, guarding against this board-which is to supervise the rural as well as the city school system-being massed in any section of the state; or, b) A provision guaranteeing that at least one of the members of said Board of Regents shall come from each of the judicial districts of the state. The selection of either of the foregoing methods would accomplish the same result. SUGGESTIONS: There is a deep-seated opposition to the abolition of the present Board of Regents. That its membership is too large is universally conceded. The plan proposed reduces the number without invidious distinctions and would guarantee to the rural schools proper representation upon that board, which is to administer a school system for the country as well as the city. The plan recognizes the well-known dissimilarity of needs in different sections of the state, guaranteeing intelligent supervision for all alike. At present twenty of the entire twenty-three members of the Board of Regents reside in the cities, while sixteen of the nineteen elected regents reside in cities of the first or second class. Two of the eight judicial districts of the state have no elected regent5 cooperation of each is essential to secure the enactment of any legislation. While the main criticism to the report of the Roosevelt educational commission was that it indirectly might perpetuate in office those now holding positions in each department, the restrictions thrown around the selection of the first Commissioner absolutely destroy the force of any such criticism of this proposed plan. Furthermore, this restriction of the choice of a Commissioner is not without precedent in the statutes. (See section 4 of the university law.) This plan is submitted for the consideration of the people in the firm belief that it safeguards our school interests in the largest measure- not from politics in the sense that politics is government by the people, but from any possible abuse or perversion of political power; makes possible such changes as an aroused public sentiment may demand; preserves intact a body whose continued existence is made necessary by the Constitution of 1894, and a Department of Education which has for nearly one hundred years abundantly justified its existence and is among the sacred traditions of the state. It is true that the plan calls for mutual concessions from the two existing departments, but it makes no unreasonable demand upon either. If either department merits a modicum of the criticism which has been made upon it, this plan renders impossible future evils along the lines which such criticism has emphasized and would result in giving the State of New York an ideal educational system, protecting alike the entrance to the professions: the great work of the Board of Regents in its library, home education and scientific departments; the higher educational interests of the state; the private educational activity as represented by private schools, and the greatest of all American institutions, the common school system. Any solution of the present difficulty which merely transfers from one department to the other a modicum of the duties performed by either, leaving still two supervising bodies of public education in this state, works no substantial reform and is only 18213 3 residing therein. Only ten counties of the state are represented on the board, and a majority of the entire board reside in two cities. The plan proposed makes impossible this discrimination against the rural school interests. This plan would also agree with the spirit of American institutions by rendering it possible to completely alter the personnel of this board by election by the people or their representatives within a reasonable time, and removes the un-American system at present prevailing. Fourth: The State Board of Education shall select a Commissioner of Education, who shall be its executive officer and who shall have general supervision of all educational interests, including primary, secondary and higher education. He shall administer the consolidated school law, the university law, and the general statutes of the state relating to education. He should have power to create such departments as in his judgment shall be necessary and to appoint deputies and heads of departments, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, and also to appoint such subordinates as in his judgment shall be necessary. .The State Board of Education shall be empowered to adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry into effect the educational statutes of the state. The Commissioner of Education shall serve during the pleasure of the State Board of Education, and should receive a salary 182124 adequate to secure the services of a capable man of recognized ability for the performance of these large duties. One of the following three restrictions should govern the selection of the first commissioner of Education: a) Neither the State Superintendent of Public Instruction now in office, nor any member of the present Board of Regents, nor any person holding an appointment by either the State Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Board of Regents should be eligible to appointment as the first Commissioner of Education; or, b) The act itself should name the first Commissioner of Education; or, c) The Legislature by joint ballot should select the first commissioner of Education under this proposed law, and the act should not limit such choice to any present citizen of the state of New York. EXPLANATIONS: The above provision would reserve to the Board of Regents the power to adopt regulations, confer degrees, guard the entrance to the legal, the medical and all other professions or employments entrance to which is now regulated by the Board of Regents; would reserve to them all the powers now exercised in the granting of charters for higher educational institutions, and would place the administrative work in the care of a skilled man selected by this board. The Commissioner so selected should have the largest latitude in the selection of deputies and heads of departments who would be in accord with him, while the power of confirmation should be left to the State Board of Education in order to guard against any individual favoritism or possible abuse of powers. The selection of subordinates should be entirely in the hands of this chief executive officer, who is and must be directly responsible for the administrative work, and therefore should be unhampered in the selection of subordinates. It is idle to close our eyes to the feeling now existing between the two state educational departments. The perusal of almost any daily newspaper and the reports of the two departments recently remove any possible doubt as to this. The active 6 temporizing with a great question. It is a greater question than one of conflict between two departments, and should be so disposed of as not only to remove the present friction but operate as a substantial advance in the work of the state in public instruction. JANUARY 2, 1904. MEMORANDA I approve the plan for the unification of the administration of the New York State educational system, proposed in the above paper, because it- (1) Substitutes a single for the existing dual administrative authority; (2) Abolishes neither the Board of Regents nor the State Department of Public Instruction; (3) Reduces the number of Regents and gets rid of their life tenure; (4) Puts all tax-supported schools under the general charge of a single board (the Regents or State Board of Education) and of a single executive (the Commissioner of Education) where they belong. The condition of affairs from which an escape is sought is discreditable to the state of New York and an obstacle to the improvement of the schools. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER President Columbia University I consider this plan, which is very manifestly animated by a spirit of sane and reasonable compromise, in general both wise and statesmanlike. I append two or three qualifying observations which are not to be regarded as criticisms: (1) I should prefer having the regents elected one by each judicial district and the rest by the state at large. But I am willing to wait until public sentiment demands that this method of election be substituted for election by the legislature.9 I approve this plan for the following reasons: (1) It unites under a State Board of Education all the educational interests of the state. (2) It fixes responsibility in providing for one chief educational officer who shall have the management of all schools of all grades. (3) It conserves the best features of our present system, but does away completely with its duality. (4) It places all school interests in the hands of the people. AUGUSTUS S. DOWNING Principal New York Training School for Teachers, New York City There has never been a moment since the beginning of the unfortunate controversy between the two educational departments of our state when I have not been ready to gladly give my support to any genuine plan of unification of the state's educational work which would not injure our common school system. I will cheerfully do all I can to secure the enactment of the foregoing plan, without any heartburnings over the fact that it eliminates my personality entirely from the question. CHARLES R. SKINNER State Superintendent of Public Instruction The following have also approved the plan above outlined William H. Maxwell, Superintendent of Schools, New York City. Charles E. Gorton, Superintendent of Schools, Yonkers. A. B. Blodgett, Superintendent of Schools, Syracuse. William J. Milne, President State Normal College, Albany. S. R. Shear, Superintendent of Schools, Kingston. 18215 7 (2) It occurs to me that it may be perhaps not indeed a violation of law but at least a breach of legitimate expectation to legislate out of office a Board of Regents who were presumably life appointees. And in case the members of the present Board of Regents do not individually give their consent to the selection by lot from among them of a new board of nine members, I suggest that the fourteen members not selected for this new State Board of Education might be retained along with the others as a Board of Regents in some nominal capacity while the more important functions of the present Board of Regents are devolved upon the new Board of Education. (3) As the plan provides for the election of the Commissioner of Education by the new State Board of Education, composed of nine regents, it seems a reflection on that board to have the first Commissioner either named in the bill or selected on joint ballot by the Legislature. Furthermore, as the Commissioner is to serve only during the pleasure of the State Board of Education, the board might drop the Commissioner elected by the Legislature or named in the bill within a twelvemonth and select a candidate of their own. The election of the first Commissioner by the Board of Education is also in perfect harmony with the spirit both of conciliation and of confidence by which this plan in general is so conspicuously inspired. I think the bill would be improved by the adoption of these suggestions. I ought to say, however, that even without them it is the most hopeful piece of constructive legislation which has yet been offered for placing the administration of the educational affairs of our state on a wise, sound and efficient basis. J. G. SCHURMAN President Cornell University Not capable of seeing the bearings of the above, but approving its general tenor and spirit, and earnestly desiring some radical solution to the present status. M. WOOLSEY STRYKER President Hamilton College 182148 The plan commends itself; is simple, direct, preserves all that is essential to regents, and really unifies. JAMES M. TALYOR President Vassar College I approve the foregoing plan of unification. RUSH RHEES President University of Rochester The foregoing plan for unifying the educational interests of the state has my approval. ANDREW V. V. RAYMOND President Union University I approve of the plan of unification, in general terms. Perhaps it is the best that can be made practical at this time. All of our educational interests demand a radical change of present conditions. JAMES R. DAY Chancellor Syracuse University The plan here outlined meets my approval as under existing conditions well adapted to the work proposed. I trust legislation may come closely on these lines. OREN ROOT Professor of Mathematics, Hamilton College I believe this proposed plan is worthy of favorable consideration. In general, it accomplishes theoretically the conditions of school administration which I believe ought to exist in this state. GURDON R. MILLER Superintendent of Schools, Binghamton While this plan is not, in my opinion, the most desirable, I approve it as the best attainable at present. CHARLES W. COLE Superintendent of Schools, Albany [*[Enclosed in Butler, 12-4-01]*] [*Ackd 12-9-1901 CG*] EDITORIAL ROOMS GUNTON'S MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK December 5th, 1901. My dear Mr. President, The enclosed letter received this morning from the editor of the Evening Post speaks for itself. I send it that you may have the internal evidence that at last even the Post thoroughly endorses your action in the Bidwell matter. Yours very truly, [*George Gunton *] [*18217*] [*Ackd 12/7/1901*] New York Dec. 5, 1901 Dear Mr President: When saw Mr. Carnegie this morning, I found that he had mailed to you his "statement", explanatory of his letter. After very satisfactory interviews with Mr. Hewitt, & Dr Butler he decided to name the ten trustees, & he requested we should give the enclosed list, asking that when you make known his statement you cause these names to be inserted in the paragraph on organization. Very Respectfully Yours D. C. Gilman [*18216*][*Ackd 12/7/1901*] New York Dec. 5, 1901 Dear Mr President: When saw Mr. Carnegie this morning, I found that he had mailed to you his "statement", explanatory of his letter. After very satisfactory interviews with Mr. Hewitt, & Dr Butler he decided to name the ten trustees, & he requested we should give the enclosed list, asking that when you make known his statement you cause these names to be inserted in the paragraph on organization Very Respectfully Yours D. C. Gilman [*18216*] [shorthand] [*Ackd 12-9-1901 cg*] Gunton's Magazine Union Square New York December 5th, 1901. My dear Mr. President, The enclosed letter received this morning from the editor of the Evening Post speaks for itself. I send it that you may have the internal evidence that at last even the Post thoroughly endorses your action in the Bidwell matter. Yours very truly, George Gunton [*18217*]DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON. Dec. 5, 1901 Dear Mr. President Nicaragua comes down to Six Million and renounces annual rental. Pretty good, when we reflect they wanted 15 million and rental. "And the Star spangled etc" Yours faithfully, J.H. [Hay] [*18218*][*see also Carnegie, Andrew*] [*Ackd 12-7-1901*] New York, December 5th, 1901. Dear Mr. President. Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Dr. Gilman called upon me this morning for considering an endowment, which Mr. Carnegie proposes to make for the promotion of knowledge in this country. I need not recount the general features of the plan which has been submitted to you, and which I understand receives your approval. I am glad of this, because for many years persistent efforts have been made to establish at Washington a great university, in accordance with the well known suggestions of President Washington. I had occasion when I was in Congress to make a very careful examination of this question, and I came to the conclusion that a National University at the Capital would not be the best application of the money required for its formation and maintenance. On the other hand, the legislation of the last Congress, providing for a Commission to utilize the agencies now existing at Washington for the spread of knowledge, appears to me to be a very wise policy, fraught with benefits which can hardly be properly anticipated or estimated. The scheme which Mr. Carnegie has formulated is in entire harmony with the ideas which led to the formation of the Commission. It will put ample funds, to be used in connection with the various institutions at Washington, under the control of a Board of Trustees, representing the intelligence of the country, and adequate to the need which undoubtedly exists for supplementary aid to the work of the great universities, fortunately diffused throughout the country and not concentrated in a single locality. [*18219*]-2- It is of course not possible to discuss the matter in much detail. especially as Mr. Carnegie desired me to send you this letter by today's mail. I can only briefly say that in my judgment the wise use of the great fund, which he proposes to give to the United States, will serve to coordinate the work of the great universities and enable them to engage in original research under the direction of men who are most fitted to conduct each particular branch of investigation. I hope therefore you will see your way to recommend to Congress the acceptance of the munificent gift which Mr. Carnegie proposes to make. Its proper use will certainly tend to make the Capital of the country a great intellectual center, and fulfill the objects which Washington must have had in view, when he recommended the foundation of a National University. Conditions have so changed since this recommendation was made that I feel quite sure that if the Father of his Country were still living, he would recognize the greater advantage of a central organization, working in harmony with all the other educational forces which the last century has produced in this favored land. It seems to me that Mr. Carnegie's idea is in marvelous accordance with the spirit of the age, and meets the demand coming up from all quarters for specialized knowledge in the new fields of scientific and intellectual effort, which will determine the destinies of the Twentieth Century. Faithfully yours, Abram S. Hewitt To Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., President of the United States. [*18220*][shorthand] [*wrote him 12-6-1901 cr*] United States Senate, Washington D.C. Dec 5, 1901 Mr. President: This indicates that the same means used (justifiably or excusably) against negroes and carpet baggers, are to be employed to throttle men to the manor born. There is a great opportunity in this situation. I have wired Capers to come, and will draft a speech tonight in reply to this attempt. Have you time or do you wish to be consulted? I would like to know whether you feel more than a personal or purely local interest in the situation. Yours Truly Jno. L. McLaurin [*18221*][*[For 1 enc. see McLaurin, ca. 12-5-01]*]in your efforts to be a wise and just ruler! That is the prayer of your affectionate Aunt Elizabeth N. Roosevelt Dec. 5th [*F*] [*[12-5-01?]*] 4. West 57th Street Dear Theodore How very kind to remember my infirmities, and send me the Message in such shape, that I could read it. As I ponder over it, I am so impressed with the importance of the interests, with which it deals. May God bless you [*18222*]CHICAGO EVENING POST, J.C. SHAFFER, Prest. [*Ackd 12-11-1901 C.7.*] Chicago, December 5, 1901. My dear Mr. Cortelyou:- I have your courteous favor of the 3rd and note fully its contents. I have been informed by a banker from Indianapolis today that Attorney General, Knox, is opposed to the appointment of Judge Baker to the Circuit Court because of an unpleasant experience he had in Judge John H. Baker's Court a year or two since when he was representing the interests of Messrs McKee & Vernon and the Citizen Street Railroad in a suit, I think brought by the city or the state. I know these gentlemen and the conditions that prevailed that brought them into the court, and I am very sure that if the President was made acquainted with all the facts in the case it would influence him more in favor of Judge Baker than anything that has thus far been brought to his attention. I was President and large owner of the Citizen Street Railroad Co. from 1888 to 1892 when I sold it to Messrs McKee & Vernon. They endeavored, after I had sold the property, to secure a certain legislation which finally brought them into the court. The action of Judge Baker in this matter was one that would commend him, I am very sure, to the President and to every law-abiding citizen. I trust the President will investigate this matter if it is to be used against Judge Baker because the more information he would get upon the subject the more thoroughly would he be pleased with the action of Judge John H. Baker. 18224Chicago Evening Post, J.C. Shaffer, President. I am very busy but if the President desires information upon this subject, and cannot get it elsewhere I shall be pleased to come, at his request, to Washington and give him the benefit of whatever knowledge I have in regard to the situation. Please present my congratulations to the President on his message. The Chicago Evening Post is devoting much of its space to the publication of the same and to the discussion of it editorially. You may assure the President that he is receiving our hearty and earnest support. Yours very truly, J.C. Shaffer Mr. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. [*18225*]READ OUT OF HIS PARTY. Senator McLaurin No Longer Regarded as a Democrat. Senator John L. McLaurin has been read out of the Democratic party. Like Senator Wellington of Maryland, the South Carolinian, who occupies the seat once held by such great leaders as Haynes and Calhoun, is now a political orphan in the upper house of Congress. The decision was reached yesterday by the Democratic Senators, each one agreeing to it without exception. The matter has been talked of ever since the leading members began to arrive in Washington. Each incoming member was sounded, and the opinion was unanimous that McLaurin by his acts was no longer entitled to be called a Democrat. While Senator Tillman is emphatic in his denunciation of his colleague and is thoroughly in accord with McLaurin's expulsion from the party, other Senators were equally instrumental in bringing about the decision now reached. Action by the Democratic caucus is expected to be taken next week. The Republican Senators will hold a caucus the latter part of this week and make their committee arrangements. The Democrats will then be asked to select minority committee members. For this purpose they will call a caucus. McLaurin will not be invited to attend. If he appears and seeks to participate he will be told in polite by plain and unmistakable language that his presence is not desired. The proprieties of the occasion will dictate to him the advisability of retiring. 18227 Furthermore, the Democrats will notify the Republicans that they will not ask to have the junior South Carolina Senator assigned to any committees, but that the Republicans must look after him. They declare that he is one of their own.[*[Enclosed in Harris, 12-5-01]*] [*[ca. 1901]*] [*18226*]The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. 120 Broadway, New York, Dec. 6, 1901 [190] President's Office. My dear Mr. Robinson:- I telegraphed you from Washington thanking you for procuring me the interview with the President. I wish to supplement this with a further word. I was received with the greatest cordiality; given plenty of time to tell my story privately; placed on the footing of a friend, and invited to luncheon, and had a capital time; and accomplished exactly what I wanted. I feel very grateful to the President, and also to you. Sincerely yours, James W Alexander Douglas Robinson, Esq. [*18228*][*[Enc. in Robinson 12-19-01]*][shorthand] [*[ca. 12-6-01]*] [*cr Panama*] Admiral Walker Wishes to know if the enclosures should not be returned to his office for file WLJr [*[Loeb]*] [18229][*[Attached to Walker 12-6-01]*][*[12-6-01]*] [*Ackd 12-7-1901 PPF*] Hotel Manhattan New York Dec 6th Dear Theodore I have a beautiful French Gun given me by your Uncle Corneal - and I want to give it to you to put with your collection. Corneal bought the Gun at the Paris Exposition in 1868 - after it had received the first prize for breach loaders - and paid Six Hundred Dollars for it - It is a pinfire so of no use nowadays for shooting - but is the most beautifully finished Gun I have ever seen - and I want you to have it if you will. [*18230*]I am living in Berlin now - and sail on my return to Germany on the 14th Dec pr Kaiser William. Of course I know how busy you are - so if you will just say - Yes - I shall understand - and will leave the Gun here with Douglas Robinson - so you can get it at your convenience With kind regards to Mrs Roosevelt - your children and yourself - and best wishes for your Administration I am Most sincerely yours S Grosvenor Porter [*18231*][*[ca 12-6-01]*] (Ed. 12-14-1900- 1,000,000.) No. 19 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Dear Mr. Cortelyou: The inclosures, or the length of them, explain why I was obliged to ask for time on Monday. This bill was drawn so as to meet the requirements of the President's message. Yours etc T. V. P. [*[Powderly]*] [*18232*] [*File*] WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY. WASHINGTON, D. C. December 6, 1901. My dear Mr. President: A recent letter received from Judge Andrews, of New York, whom you know, contains this statement: "We are awaiting with great interest, but with entire confidence, the President's message. The country believes in him. His course so far has been marked by great wisdom, and he is developing qualities which will mark him, I think, as one of our great Presidents. Sincerely yours, Wm. Cary Sanger [*[SANGER]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, The White House. [*18233*][*file*] WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY. WASHINGTON, D. C. December 6, 1901. My dear Mr. President: A recent letter received from Judge Andrews, of New York, whom you know, contains this statement: "We are awaiting with great interest, but with entire confidence, the President's message. The country believes in him. His course so far has been marked by great wisdom, and he is developing qualities which will mark him, I think, as one of our great Presidents. Sincerely yours, [*Wm. Cary Sanger*] [*[SANGER]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, The White House. [*18233*] [*[ca 12-6-01]*] (Ed. 12-14-1900- 1,000,000.) No. 19 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Dear Mr. Cortelyou: The enclosures, or the length of them, explain why I was obliged to ask for time on Monday. This bill was drawn so as to meet the requirements of the President's message. Yours etc T. V. P. [*[Powderly] [*18232*] [*[For 1 enc. see 12-6-01 HR 3089]*]Telegram. [shorthand] [*Look up B.*] [*ackd 12-11-1901 cr*] [shorthand] White House, Washington. 3WPO.MB.RA. 32-DH. Stamp, 9:15 am. Evanston, Illinois, December 6, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President. Wrote you last night that I was informed attorney general Knox opposed Judge Baker’s appointment, have just learned this is not true. Please consider my letter as not written and remail it. J. C. Schaffer. [*18234*][[shorthand]] [*Received*] [*ackd 12-9-1901*] Dec. 6. 1901. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I find that there is a "Man of Letters" by an Englishman named Paul, and a "Letters" by another Briton named Brown. I suspect that the first is the volume you had in mind the other night. But I am sending [*18235*]both to you to-day by express to be sure, & I hope it will give you as much pleasure to read them as it has given me to send them. Sincerely yours T. H. Sears [*18236*][*Ackd 12-11-1901 Encls. returned to Adml. Walker for filing CF*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. Rear Admiral JOHN G WALKER, United States Navy, PRESIDENT. Honorable SAMUEL PASCO. ALFRED NOBLE, C. E. Mr. GEORGE S. MORISON. Colonel PETER C. HAINS, Corps of Engineers, United States Army. WILLIAM H. BURR, C. E. Lieut. Colonel OSWALD H. ERNST, Corps of Engineers, United States Army. LEWIS M. HAUPT, C. E. Professor EMORY R. JOHNSON. Lieut. Comd'r SIDNEY A. STAUNTON, United States Navy, SECRETARY. Room 79 Corcoran Building. Washington, D. C., December 6, 1901. The President. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter dated November 30, 1901. addressed to you by Mr. Hutin, President of the New Panama Canal Company, with an English translation, relating to the action of the Isthmian Canal Commission in its efforts to obtain information from the Company as to the value of its privileges, property and unfinished work upon the Isthmus of Panama, in which he requested an opportunity to establish their true value "before one or more persons, duly qualified and officially empowered to discuss mutually with the Company, the several items, pro and con, with authority to refer to arbitration any points which may not be amicably settled." You ask for an expression of my views on the matters contained in this letter, and I respectfully submit the following statement: The law authorizing the appointment of the Isthmian Canal Commission and the instructions of the President thereunder 18237-2- required the Commission to ascertain what rights, privileges and franchises were held and owned at the different canal routes, what work had been done at each and the cost of acquiring such rights and property by the United States. The uncompleted canal on the Panama route belonged to the Panama Canal Company, which also owned nearly all of the stock of the Panama Railroad Company; the control of the Railroad Concession as well as that of the Canal Company was essential for the completion and operation of the work; and this control could only be acquired with the consent of the Government of Colombia. The treaty-making power alone could arrange the terms upon which this consent could be obtained, therefore the work of the Commission was limited to ascertaining the actual value of the rights, property and unfinished work of the New Panama Canal Company, in the execution of whatever canal project it might recommend, and also the price for which the Company would dispose of the same to the United States. The Commission has made this ascertainment of value after a thorough investigation and with opportunities of a most favorable character for obtaining full and accurate information upon the different branches of the subject. The officers of the New Panama Canal Company opened their books, records and data to the Commissioners, who visited Paris in August, 1899, [*18238*]-3- and supplied copies of their maps, profiles, estimates and printed matter for the examination and use after their return to the United States. The Commission visited France in March, 1900, inspected the entire canal line and the property of the Company, and became well acquainted with the natural features and topography of that region. Before going there a corps of engineers and assistants was sent to the isthmus to verify the results by the Panama Canal Company and make further explorations under the instructions which were given them; their work was examined by the Commission during this visit and was continued under such additional instructions as the conditions required. The results of these examinations have been arranged and tabulated in the office of the Commission in this city and have been considered and used in working up the final estimates. The conclusion has been reached that this property is worth $40,000,000 to the United States, liberal percentages having been allowed for omissions and contingencies. The Commission entered upon its investigations without bias or prejudice; the estimates were made under the direction and supervision of its engineer members selected from the United States Corps of Engineers and from civil life because of their eminence in their profession and their personal integrity. and an appeal by a party whose interests would be advanced by 18239-4- an exaggerated valuation, from a decision thus reached, cannot be regarded as meritorious. But it was not sufficient to determine the value of the property; an ascertainment of the price for which it could be purchased was also necessary and the Commission, soon after its organization, put itself into communication with the officers of the Canal Company in order to obtain this information. A history of the efforts made by the Commission to accomplish this and the correspondence between it and the Company are embraced in the report which has recently been submitted to you. Upon examining this record you will find that, on the 10th of April, 1900, I addressed a letter to Mr. Hutin, asking, among other things, for what sum of money the Company would transfer its rights and property to the United States, and that no definite answer to this question was received till the 18th day of October last. This answer and the valuation of the Company's property by items is included in the report of the Commission. The aggregate of these items is 565,000,000 francs, or $100,141,500. All of these items were included in the result reached by the Commission except two, one covering the headquarter and other buildings and real estate bought upon the isthmus by the Canal Company, valued at $1,737,000, the other the hospitals and dependencies at Colon and Panama, valued at $868,500. Three full days were consumed in examining with Mr. 18240-5- Hutin these items and discussing the points raised by the Company's paper, but the only change made in the terms was the withdrawal by Mr. Hutin of the extraordinary proposition that the Company after receiving its full price for the property should be entitled to a share in the profits of the enterprise after the canal is completed and in successful operation, and this was done as "an act of conciliation." Mr. Hutin then proposed that there should be a thorough examination of the data and estimates made by the Commission and the Company, so that the differences might be developed and, if possible, adjusted and if no adjustment could be reached in this manner, that they should be settled by an arbitration. These differences had been fully developed during the discussion and the arguments in favor of the Company's views had been stated at length in the paper which Mr. Hutin had presented, and after being carefully considered the Commission saw no reason for reviewing the conclusions already reached. It was evident that the differences were irreconcilable and the proposition for an arbitration could not be accepted. The Commission could not shift its responsibility to a board of arbitrators and it was too late for an arbitration, if one had ever been desirable of practicable. The proposition meant further delay and postponement and was in harmony with the entire 18241-6- course of the Company in its dealings with the Commission. When Mr. Hutin was informed that there could be no further conference with a view to agreement as to the price, and a reference to arbitrators if agreement should not be reached, he cabled to his Board of Directors for further instructions and I then felt obliged to notify him, in m letter of October 22 , 1901, that the Commission must shortly close its report and that any proposal that he wished to make would be received until November 5th, at which date the question would be considered as closed. Thereupon he notified me that his Board of Directors had proposed "a price for the sale which has been established according to calculations and estimates and which it considers exact and justified until the contrary is proven." He therefore confirmed his letter and memorandum containing the terms. except the part relating to a share in the future profits, which he withdrew. I then informed him that his figures would be presented in the report of the Commission as the price for which the company would dispose of its rights and property to the United States. In the letter of Mr. Hutin to the President, now under consideration, he practically renews the proposition for an arbitration. This means a submission of questions which have [*18241*]-7- been before the Commission for more than two years, to a new set of investigators who must take up the subject anew, and months, perhaps years, will pass before a conclusion is reached. We are apparently drawing near to the period of construction, but further examinations and dickering as to price mean an indefinite postponement of action. The New Panama Canal Company has had abundant time to fix a price for its rights and property. Mr. Hutin claims to have been engaged with his Board of Directors for six months after he had been relieved by the Colombian Government of all embarrassment on account of the terms of his concessions, in examining the Company's books and papers, before reaching the conclusion which he presented to the Commission. It seems, therefore, like trifling with a great subject when, after presenting the results of this long labor in an elaborate paper, he says that "the Company's memorandum represented merely estimates" and that the Company had offered the figures "merely as bases for discussion." I think, Mr. President, that the Company has had ample opportunity to determine its price for the Canal property and to present it to you through the medium indicated by the law authorizing the appointment of the Isthmian Canal Commission and the instructions thereunder.; that it has been treated with 18243-8- great consideration and that it cannot reasonably ask for the appointment of other commissioners or agents to aid it in determining the value of its rights and property, to be followed in case of an inevitable disagreement, by a prolonged arbitration. In response to your request for my opinion, I do not hesitate to express my belief that Mr. Hutin's application for a further examination of the question of price before one or more persons, with authority to refer to arbitration any points which may not be amicably settled, is for the purpose of continuing the policy of delay and that it should not be favorably entertained. I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your obedient servant, J.G. Walker President of the Commission. 18244[For 1. attachment see [Loeb] ca. 12-6-01]HOTEL NORMANDIE MCPHERSON SQUARE WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY NIGHT DECEMBER SIXTH [*[01]*] My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Here are two clippings from the Wichita Kansas Eagle. Mrs. White sent them to me to hand to you. They were written by Victor Murdock, my friend, who knows Oklahoma like a book. I think perhaps the one about Jenkins would interest Mrs. Roosevelt. I may send you two or three copies of your own books up from the book store tomorrow, as i go to the train for Charleston. I would be grateful if you would write your name in them. I am going to use them for Christmas presents among my political friends in Kansas. I know of no better way of disseminating political morality in Kansas -- and Heaven knows it is needed, -- than to send the fellows your books. For now that you are virtually the pope of the party the faithful have just naturally got to read what you say, and follow your dictum. If you can send them over to the Normandie addressed to me any time before Tuesday -- when I shall return-- it will oblige me. Truly -- [*W. A. White*] Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. [*P. S. We thought if you could let an intimation that you have decided on Leland get out of the White House, it would stop the pressure on Burton against Leland. P. make Low's work easier. If the intimation came to Curtis Scott, or Miller it would quiet things. W. A. W. [*159*] 18245[for enc. see 12-6-01][*Mr. Cortelyou- This bill was prepared here in the Bureau under my direction. T. V. P.*] 57TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3089. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DECEMBER 6, 1901. Mr. Kahn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. A BILL To prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United States, its Territories and possessions and the District of Columbia, of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That all Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent, other 4 than such as heretofore, by birth or naturalization therein, 5 have become citizens thereof, such as by the terms of article 6 three of the convention between the Government of China and 7 the Government of the United States of America, ratified December 8 eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, are secured 9 in the right then enjoyed by them of coming to and residing 10 therein, and such as have established their right to reentry, 11 as provided hereinafter, either as domiciled merchants or as registered 12 laborers who have acquired a residence as such therein, [*18246*]2 1 shall be refused admission into the United States, its Territories 2 and possessions and the District of Columbia, and after 3 such refusal shall be returned to China or to the countries of 4 which they are respectively citizens or subjects, at the expense 5 of the masters, owners, agents, or consignees of the vessels or 6 transportation lines by which such Chinese persons or persons 7 of Chinese descent are brought to the border of the United 8 States or its territory. 9 SEC. 2. That the masters, agents, owners, or consignees of 10 the vessels or transportation lines, or conductors of railway 11 trains, bringing any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 12 to any port to which the authority of the United States 13 Government extends, shall detain every such person thereon 14 until a final decision has been rendered, as approved hereinafter, 15 as to such person's right to land; if said decision is 16 adverse to such person's right, shall return him, as provided 17 in section one of this Act. 18. SEC. 3. The neglect or failure, for any reason, of any master, 19 owner, agent, or consignee of any vessel or transportation line to 20 detain on board, or to detain on board and return any Chinese person 21 or person of Chinese descent, as provided in sections one and 22 two of this Act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable 23 by a fine for each and every such person as to whom said 24 neglect or failure occurs of not less than one thousand dollars, 25 or by imprisonment for one year, or by both such fine and3 1 imprisonment, and the collection of such fine as may be imposed 2 hereunder shall be enforced as to vessels by the refusal 3 of clearance papers until such fine is paid; and, if such neglect 4 or failure occurs on the part of a conductor of a railway train, 5 the border ports of entry through which Chinese persons or 6 persons of Chinese descent on such railway trains might gain 7 access to territory within the jurisdiction of the United States 8 shall be closed t all such persons thus seeking admission 9 thereto. 10 SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the master or officer 11 in command of any vessel bringing Chinese persons or persons 12 of Chinese descent to any port of entry within the jurisdiction 13 of the United States Government, immediately upon 14 arrival thereat, to deliver to the collector of customs at such 15 port, or to such other officer as may be designated by the 16 Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the approval of 17 the Secretary of the Treasury, lists or manifests in duplicate 18 of all Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent thereon, 19 containing the following information as to each such person: 20 Family, tribal, and individual name; age; sex; place of birth; 21 whether having a father, mother, husband, wife, child or 22 children, and, if so, the name or names and present residence 23 of such relative or relatives; pursuit or occupation; whether 24 ever in the United States or its territory, and, if so, where, 25 and the city or town and State or Territory or possession of 182474 1 the United States resided in; whether ever deported from or 2 refused admission to the United States or its territory, and, if 3 so, at what time, and the ground of such action; whether 4 coming to reside with a relative, and, if so, the character of 5 the relationship claimed, as well as the location and pursuit 6 of the alleged relative; final destination in the United States 7 or its territory; amount of money brought and purpose as to 8 occupation or pursuit if permitted to land; and ground upon 9 which claim of right to land is based; and each of said manifests 10 or lists of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent 11 arriving by water at any port of the United States or its territory 12 shall be signed by the master or officer in command of such 13 vessel at the foreign port of departure, certifying that the information 14 contained therein is true to the best of his knowledge and 15 belief, and shall be acknowledged before the United States consular 16 officer of said port prior to departure therefrom; and, if such 17 Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent come by land carriage 18 from foreign contiguous territory, it shall be the duty of the 19 conductor of the railway train on which they come to furnish 20 similar lists or manifests, in duplicate, to such customs, Chinese, 21 or immigration officer, at the port of arrival, as may be 22 designated for the enforcement of this Act by the Commissioner- 23 General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of 24 the Treasury; and said lists or manifests prepared as aforesaid5 1 shall be signed by the conductor of such train and sworn to 2 before the officer to whom delivered as being true in every 3 respect to the best knowledge and belief of said conductor. 4 SEC. 5. That in case of the failure of the master, or officer 5 in command, of any vessel bringing Chinese persons or 6 persons of Chinese descent to ports of the United States or its 7 territory to deliver lists or manifests of all such persons on 8 board, containing as to each of them the information, duly 9 verified, as required in section four of this Act, there shall be 10 paid by said master, or commanding officer, or by the agents, 11 owners, or consignees of the vessel upon which such Chinese 12 persons or persons of Chinese descent are brought, as aforesaid, 13 to the collector of customs, or such officer as may be designated 14 for the enforcement of this Act, at the port of arrival, 15 the sum of ten dollars for reach Chinese person or person of 16 Chinese descent concerning whom the above information is 17 not contained in any such list or manifest, and the said 18 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent shall not be permitted 19 to land but shall be returned, as provided in section 20 one of this Act; and all Chinese persons or persons of Chinese 21 descent seeking admission across the land boundaries of the 22 United States as to whom such lists or manifests, duly verified, 23 and containing the information specified in section four 24 of this Act, are not furnished by the conductor of any train 182486 1 on which they are brought, shall not be permitted to enter 2 the United States. 3 SEC. 6. That upon the arrival at any port of the United 4 States or its territory of any vessel bringing Chinese persons 5 or persons of Chinese descent it shall be the duty of the 6 officers charged with the administration of this law at such 7 port to go, or to send competent assistants, to such vessels 8 and there to examine all such Chinese persons or persons of 9 Chinese descent and their baggage, and when the necessary 10 examination and the investigation of the claims of such persons 11 to the right to admission to the United States or its territory 12 shall not have been completed and said right determined 13 prior to the departure of such vessel, then the proper officer 14 or officers may order a temporary removal of such persons 15 to such place of detention as may be authorized or designated 16 by the Secretary of the Treasury, but such temporary removal 17 shall not be considered a landing, nor shall it relieve the said 18 vessel, or the master, owner, agent, or consignee thereof, 19 from any of the duties and obligations imposed by section 20 three of this Act. 21 SEC. 7. That any person who, either as principal or 22 accessory, shall knowingly bring into, or attempt to bring 23 into, or shall engage in a conspiracy or plot to bring into the 24 United States or its territory any Chinese person or person of 25 Chinese in any manner other than as prescribed in 7 1 this Act, or in Acts amendatory hereof or supplementary 2 hereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, 3 upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than one 4 thousand dollars and be imprisoned for a term not less than 5 one or more than five years. 6 SEC. 8. That every vessel whose master, owner, agent, 7 or consignee shall knowingly violate the provisions of this 8 Act shall be deemed forfeited to the United States, and shall 9 be liable to seizure and condemnation into any customs district 10 of the United States or its territory into which such vessel 11 shall enter, or in which she shall be found. 12 SEC. 9. That no Chinese person or person of Chinese 13 descent, other than such as by birth or naturalization therein, 14 have become citizens thereof; an official of the Chinese Government, 15 a teacher, a student, a merchant, a traveler for 16 curiosity or pleasure, a returning laborer, or domiciled merchant, 17, under the conditions named hereinafter, shall be permitted 18 to enter the United States or its territory; nor shall 19 such permission be granted to any Chinese person or person 20 of any of the classes of persons enumerated in this section; 22 nor shall such permission be granted by any United States 23 officer upon any other conditions or under any other circumstances 24 than those specified in this Act. 25 SEC. 10. That no Chinese person or person of Chinese 182498 1 descent applying hereafter at any port of the United States 2 or its territory for admission, either upon the ground of birth 3 or naturalization therein, shall be permitted to land by the 4 officers designated for the enforcement of this Act at such port, 5 except upon the production by such person of the duly certified 6 transcript of a court of record with lawful jurisdiction to hear 7 and determine such cases, that the said claim has been considered 8 and affirmed, and upon the production of evidence 9 satisfactory to said officers that such person is the person to 10 whom such record refers. 11 SEC. 11. That every Chinese person or person of Chinese 12 descent seeking admission at any port of the United States or 13 its territory upon the ground that he is an official of the 14 Chinese Government, a teacher, a student, a merchant, or a 15 traveler for curiosity or pleasure, shall be required, as a prerequisite 16 to such admission, to deliver to the diplomatic representative 17 of the United States at the port or place from 18 which such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent comes 19 a certificate, in duplicate, in the English language, of the government 20 of which he may at the time be a citizen or subject, 21 with his photograph attached, identifying the said Chinese 22 person or person of Chinese descent, and giving the tribal, 23 family, and individual names, sex, age, height, general physical 24 features and special distinguishing physical marks, former 25 and present profession or occupation, with capital value9 1 of such occupation and pecuniary interest of such person 2 therein; specific periods of time when, and the town 3 or village and district where, such occupation or profession 4 has been followed, and the town or village and 5 district of residence. The said diplomatic or consular 6 officer, if satisfied, after careful investigation, of the truth of 7 the statements made therein shall verify the same and affix 8 his official seal thereto and return the original, open, to the 9 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent to whom it 10 refers. The duplicate of the said certificate shall be sealed 11 and addressed, by said diplomatic or consular officer, to the 12 officer charged with the enforcement of this Act at the port 13 of the United States or its territory at which such Chinese 14 person or person of Chinese descent intends to seek admission 15 thereto, and shall give said duplicate certificate, thus sealed 16 and addressed, to the master of the vessel or conductor of the 17 railway train on which said Chinese person departs for 18 delivery to the said officer to whom it is addressed, or, if the 19 vessel on which such person embarks has its terminal port in 20 foreign contiguous territory, for delivery to the master of the 21 vessel or conductor of the railway train upon which such 22 person intends to reach the port of destination of the United 23 States or its territory, to be in turn by the last-mentioned 24 master or conductor delivered to the officer to whom addressed; H. R. 3089-- 2 1825010 1 and the said diplomatic or consular officer shall send through 2 the mail a letter to the said officer at the port of intended 3 arrival in the United States or its territory, informing him 4 that on a certain day a certificate, as hereinbefore described, 5 has been delivered to a certain captain of a vessel or conductor 6 of a railway train for transmission to him; and failure 7 to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be 8 deemed a sufficient ground for refusing to permit the admission 9 into the United States or its territory of any Chinese person 10 or person of Chinese descent as to whom such failure is made. 11 SEC. 12. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall apply 12 to the Chinese Government for a list of the names and official 13 designations, respectively, of all Chinese persons or persons of 14 Chinese descent who are officials of said Government, and who 15 desire to visit the United States or its territory in their respective 16 official capacities; and any Chinese person or person of Chinese 17 descent claiming to be an official of said Government as to 18 whom such information is not furnished in any list, as aforesaid, 19 shall, upon application at any port of the United States 20 or its territory, be refused admission and returned, as provided 21 in section one of this Act. 22 SEC. 13. That the term teacher as used in section eleven 23 shall be construed to have the following meaning and none 24 other, to wit: A Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 25 who has been engaged continuously for not less than two 11 1 years next preceding his application for the certificate provided 2 for in section eleven of this Act in giving instruction in the 3 higher branches of Chinese education; and no Chinese person 4 or person of Chinese descent shall be admitted unless he submits 5 proof satisfactory to the officers designated to enforce the 6 provisions in this Act at the port of arrival that he is qualified 7 to teach such higher branches, and that definite and complete 8 arrangements have been made for him to conduct a class 9 in a college or university in the United States or its territory, 10 and that such pursuit is to be his sole occupation while therein, 11 and otherwise complies with the provisions of this Act. 12 SEC. 14. That the term student as used in section 13 eleven of this Act shall be construed to mean only a Chinese 14 person or person of Chinese descent who shall satisfactorily 15 appear, upon examination, to the officers designated to enforce 16 the provisions of this Act at the port of arrival, to have 17 acquired a sufficient knowledge of the English language and 18 of the preparatory courses of an English education to enable 19 him to enter at once a recognized institution of learning in 20 the United States, there to be educated for some profession 21 or pursuit for which facilities are not attainable in the country 22 whence he came; to have provided for his maintenance and 23 tuition during his full course of study thereat, and to purpose 24 upon the completion of such course of study to return immediately [*18251*]12 1 to the country whence he came, and there to practice 2 such profession or to follow such pursuit. 3 SEC. 15. That the term merchant as used in section 4 eleven of this Act shall be construed to mean only a Chinese person or person of Chinese descent who shall, by the possession 6 of the certificate prescribed in section eleven of this Act, 7 and by proof satisfactory to the officers designated to enforce 8 the provisions hereof at the port of arrival, establish the facts 9 that he was the owner in his own individual right, in whole 10 or in part, of the mercantile business described in said certificate 11 for at least one year prior to the date thereof; that said 12 business was of the precise nature and was conducted at the 13 place mentioned in said certificate, and that he has the means 14 under his immediate control and has completed the necessary 15 arrangements for becoming the owner, in whole or in part, of 16 a bona fide mercantile business located at a fixed place in the 17 United States or its territory, the premises and business of 18 which have no connection, direct or indirect, with a laundry 19 lodging house, restaurant, barber shop or manufactory, and 20 wherein neither pawnbroking, gambling, lottery dealing, 21 opium smoking, retail liquor selling, nor any pursuit or amusement 22 other than the purchase and sale of merchandise is conducted 23 or permitted, and that his whole time and attention 24 will be devoted to the occupation of buying and selling merchandise 25 in such a place of business.13 1 SEC. 16. That the term traveler for curiosity or pleasure, 2 as used in section eleven in this Act, shall be construed 3 to mean only a Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 4 who shall, by the possession of a certificate, as prescribed in 5 section eleven hereof, and by proof satisfactory to the officers 6 designated to enforce the provisions of this Act at the port of 7 arrival, establish the facts that he is in personal possession of 8 the means necessary to defray the expense of the travel 9 intended; that his financial and class standing in his own 10 country is such as to remove any reasonable doubt of the 11 credibility of his statements as to his purpose in seeking 12 admission; that he has arranged for a specified itinerary in 13 the United States or its territory, and that upon the conclusion 14 of such itinerary he will immediately depart from the United 15 States. 16 SEC. 17. That the term domiciled merchant, as used in 17 section one of this Act, shall be construed to mean only a 18 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent who shall establish 19 to the satisfaction of the officers designated for the 20 enforcement of this Act at the port of arrival that he was 21 the owner, in whole or in part, of such a mercantile business 22 in the United States as is described in section fifteen hereinbefore, 23 that he still retains such interest as he claims to have 24 had therein at the time of his departure from the United 25 States or its territory; and shall establish, furthermore, by the 1825214 1 sworn testimony of at least two disinterested credible witnesses, 2 other than Chinese, that for a year prior to his said 3 departure he was the owner of the said interest in his own 4 name and right, and that during such time he was not 5 engaged in the performance of any labor, skilled or unskilled, 6 and that the conduct of said mercantile business was his sole 7 occupation, and that all of his time and attention were actually 8 devoted to the purchase and sale of merchandise in said 9 place of business; but the said evidence may be controverted 10 by the United States officers designated for the purpose of 11 investigating such cases: Provided, That no such Chinese 12 person or person of Chinese descent so claiming to be a 13 domiciled merchant as above described shall be permitted to 14 reenter if it shall be shown that he was a salaried employee 15 in any business or occupation in the United States or its 16 territory. 17 SEC. 18. That any Chinese person or person of Chinese 18 descent who shall hereafter apply for permission to reenter 19 any port of the United States or its territory, as provided in 20 section one of this Act, upon the ground that he is a duly 21 registered laborer and entitled to admission, shall prove to the 22 satisfaction of the officers designated to enforce this law as such 23 port that a lawful certificate of residence has been issued to 24 him and is in his personal possession; that at least one month 25 prior to his departure from the United States or its territory15 1 he had made application to the collector of customs of the 2 district in which he resided for a certificate of his right to 3 return thereto, and that he had furnished said collector with 4 a complete statement, sworn to before said collector, the truth 5 of which has been certified by at least two disinterested 6 and credible witnesses, other than Chinese, of his claims as to 7 family or property, or debts, and with such additional proofs 8 of the facts entitling him to return as shall be required by 9 the rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the 10 Secretary of the Treasury; and if his claim of right to such 11 reentry be based upon the allegation that he has a lawful wife, 12 parent, or child in the United States or its territory the alleged 13 relationship shall be established by proof satisfactory to the 14 officers charged with the enforcement of this Act, and in 15 case of such allegation as to the residence of a wife in the 16 United States there must be satisfactory proof that the marriage 17 occurred at last one year prior to the date of his application, 18 that he had no other wife living at the time of such 19 marriage, and that he cohabited with said wife continuously 20 for at least one year prior to said date of his application; 21 that is said claim be based upon the possession of property 22 in the United States or its territory it shall be established 23 to the satisfaction of the officers charged with the enforcement 24 of this Act that he is the bona fide owner in his own 25 right of such property, other than money, real, or personal or 1825316 1 mixed, that its net value is not less than one thousand 2 dollars over and above all encumbrances, liens, or offsets 3 of any sort or kind whatsoever, and that the title to said 4 property was not colorably acquired for the purpose of 5 evading this law; that if the said claim be based upon 6 debts due said Chinese laborer it shall be established to 7 the satisfaction of the officers charged with the enforcement 8 of this Act that said debts are unascertained and 9 unsettled, but aggregate over and above all offsets or 10 discounts the full value of one thousand dollars, and that the 11 said debts are not evidenced by promissory notes or other 12 instruments or acknowledgements of ascertained pecuniary 13 liability indicating balanced or settled accounts, and are not 14 of a colorable character, acquired for the purpose of evading 15 this law, and that the debtors are solvent. And it is hereby 16 declared to be the meaning and intention of the convention 17 between the Governments of the United States and China, 18 herein before mentioned, and of this Act that the privilege of 19 returning to the United States or its territory shall extend to 20 such Chinese laborers only as shall establish to the satisfaction 21 of the officers designated for the enforcement of this Act at 22 the port of arrival that they still possess in the United States 23 or its territory the family, property, or debt qualifications upon 24 which were based their original applications for return certificates, 25 and the right to exercise such privilege of reentry shall17 1 be limited to a period of two years from and after the date of 2 departure from the United States or its territory of any such 3 Chinese laborer returning after said departure. 4 SEC. 19. That when any Chinese laborer duly registered 5 and entitled to the privilege of returning to the United States 6 or its territory shall desire to exercise such privilege, he shall 7 file with the officer designated for that purpose in the State, 8 Territory, or customs district in which said laborer resides his 9 application, in triplicate, which shall contain a statement of 10 name, age, sex, height, physical marks and characteristics, 11 place of residence, occupation, family and property, and the 12 claims upon which his application is based, and such other 13 facts as may be required by the rules and regulations which 14 may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of the 15 Treasury, the original and each copy of such application and 16 statement to contain the photograph of the applicant; and if 17 the contents of said application and statement are, in said 18 officer's judgment, after a thorough examination by inspectors 19 designated for such duty, shown to be true in every respect, 20 he shall attach thereto his certificate thereof, together with his 21 official seal, retaining one copy of said application and certificate 22 for the files of his office and forwarding the original and 23 the remaining copy thereof to the officers charged with the 24 enforcement of this Act at the port whence such Chinese H.R. 3089-3 1825418 1 laborer desires to depart from the United States or its 2. territory; and the officer thereat, designated as aforesaid, 3. if he is satisfied that such Chinese laborer is entitled 4 to return to the United States or its territory 5 as lawfully resident and duly registered therein, at 6 such time and place as he may designate shall sign and 7 give to said Chinese person so applying for a number 8 corresponding with that attached to the said application and 9 certificate, which shall be known as a return certificate and 10 shall be the sole evidence given such person of his right to 11 return: Provided That the officers designated to enforce this 12 Act shall refuse admission to such Chinese laborer upon his 13 return should it appear to them that any of the allegations 14 upon which such return certificate was based were false at the 15 time that they were made or that they are not shown to be 16 still true at the time of such return: And provided further, 17 That any such Chinese laborer residing in the customs district 18 of the port from which he desires to depart shall file the application 19 and statement, as provided for in this section, with 20 the officers of said port charged with the enforcement of this 21 Act, who shall make the above-required investigation and certification 22 before granting the said return certificate. 23 SEC. 20. That is the Chinese laborer to whom the return 24 certificate provided for in section nineteen of this Act 25 shall transfer or otherwise dispose of said certificate, it shall19 1 become void, and the person to whom it was given shall 2 forfeit his right to return to the United States or its territory; 3 and any person who shall alter or substitute any name for the 4 name written in, or forge any certificate or knowingly utter 5 any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate any 6 person named in any certificate provided for under this law, 7 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 8 thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than one thousand 9 dollars for each such offense and be imprisoned in a penitentiary 10 for not less than one or more than five years. 11 SEC. 21. That at the expiration of two years after the 12 date of departure of any lawfully registered Chinese laborer 13 from the United States or its territory provided with the 14 return certificate aforesaid, if such Chinese laborer has not 15 returned thereto by the port from which he departed there- 16 from, which shall be the sole port through which he may be 17 permitted to reenter, the officers charged with the enforcement 18 of this Act shall cancel the application and certificate of 19 residence upon which such Chinese laborer was granted a 20 return certificate, and shall notify the Treasury Department 21 of such action. 22 SEC. 22. That it shall be unlawful for any Chinese 23 laborer resident in the United States or its territory, to whom 24 has been issued a certificate of residence showing his right 25 to be and remain therein, to pawn, sell, or in any manner to 1825520 1 transfer to another person for any purpose such certificate, or 2 to so transfer any other certificate or paper issued to him 3 under the provisions of this Act; and any such certificate or 4 paper, if found in the possession of any person other than the 5 Chinese laborer to whom issued, shall be take up by any 6 customs, Chinese, or immigration officer, of any United States 7 marshal or his deputy , who shall it, and shall be forwarded 8 to the Commissioner-General of Immigration for cancellation; 9 and any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent, 10 applying for a reissue of a certificate of residence shall establish 11 to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General of Immigration 12 that the original certificate of which he desires a 13 duplicate has passed out of his possession, been lost and 14 destroyed by circumstances beyond his control, before each 15 duplicate shall be issued to him 16 SEC. 23. That to facilitate the investigation and determination 17 of the right of any Chinese person, or person of Chinese 18 descent, to reenter the United States or its territory as a 19 domiciled merchant therein, the business manager or other 20 member of every mercantile firm in the United States or its 21 territory shall be required within ninety days after the passage 22 of this Act, and annually thereafter, to file with the officer 23 designated for the enforcement of this Act of the district in 24 which such mercantile business is conducted a full and complete 25 report of the nature and character of the business of21 1 said firm, the average value of the stock on hand, and the 2 average daily sales made by said firm at the time of such 3 report; the capital invested; the number of partners comprising 4 said firm; the full tribal, family, and individual name, 5 including any anglicized version thereof, of each partner and 6 the amount of his interest in such firm; when each partner 7 acquired his interest; whether he owns such interest in his 8 own right and how much he paid for it, and also the specific 9 work performed by each partner in the conduct of the firm 10 business; and the said business manager, as often thereafter 11 as a change is made in the character of the business or partnership 12 of the firm of which he is a member, shall report to the 13 said officer designated for the enforcement of this Act the full 14 name, as above required, of any new partner and all facts as 15 to such new partner as are required above in regard to the 16 originally reported members of any such mercantile firm. 17 SEC. 24. That the reports of Chinese mercantile firms 18 doing business in the United States or its territory, required 19 in section twenty-three of his Act as provided in said 20 section, shall be used to identify any Chinese person, or person 21 of Chinese descent, who shall apply at any port of the United 22 States or its territory for permission to reenter as a domiciled 23 merchant therein; and if such identity in detail as to each 24 and every particular required in section twenty-three hereof 25 can not be established from information contained in any such 1825622 1 report, said alleged domiciled merchant shall be refused admission 2 and returned as provided in section one of this Act. 3 SEC. 25. That no Chinese person, or person of Chinese 4 descent, except diplomatic and consular officers of the Chinese 5 Government, their immediate families ad necessary official 6 and domestic attendants, shall be permitted to enter the United 7 States or its territory at other points than San Francisco, Port 8 Townsend, Portland (Oregon), Boston, New York, New 9 Orleans, Honolulu, San Juan, and Manila, and such other 10 ports as the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the 11 approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall designate: 12 Provided, That if additional ports are designated on the 13 boundary between the United States and the Republic of 14 Mexico or Dominion of Canada, such designation shall not 15 be made except after the execution of contracts between the 16 Commissioner-General of Immigration and the transportation 17 lines which purpose bringing Chinese persons, or persons of 18 Chinese descent, to such designated ports on the said boundary 19 lines, and all such contracts shall provide for the observance 20 by such transportation lines of all the provisions of this Act 21 and Acts amendatory hereof and supplementary hereto, and 22 of such rules and regulations as may hereafter be promulgated 23 by the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the responsibility 24 of vessels bringing Chinese persons, or persons of Chinese 25 descent, to seaports of the United States or its territory, so far23 1 as such provisions may be made applicable to said land-transportation 2 lines; and upon the failure of any such land-transportation 3 line to comply with the terms of any such contracts 4 it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to close 5 any of the ports designated hereunder on said boundary which 6 is used as a port of entry by the land-transportation line so 7 failing to comply with the terms of any such contract. 8 SEC. 26. That any Chinese person, or person of Chinese 9 descent, seeking the privilege of transit by land or by water, 10 as provided in section twenty-seven of this Act, shall, as a 11 prerequisite to his application for such privilege, exhibit to 12 the officers charged with the enforcement of this Act a through 13 ticket calling for transportation from the port of departure in 14 the country whence he came, through and across the territory 15 and waters of the United States to point of ultimate destination 16 in a foreign country shown by the ship's manifest, which 17 said ticket shall be viséed by the United States diplomatic or 18 consular officer at the said port of departure, and present to 19 the officer charged with the enforcement of this Act a certificate 20 under the seal of said diplomatic or consular officer that 21 he has investigated and is satisfied of the truth of said Chinese 22 person's claim that he is going to reside in said foreign country 23 and has completed arrangements for permanent employment 24 or occupation at the said point of ultimate destination. 25 SEC. 27. That any Chinese person, or person of Chinese 1825724 1 descent, who shall seek the privilege of transit, either by land 2 through and across any part of the United States or its territory 3 or by water carriage through or to and from any part 4 thereof, or through and across any of the waters under the 5 jurisdiction of the United States, as provided in article three 6 of the convention of December eighth, eighteen hundred and 7 ninety-four, hereinbefore referred to, shall submit to an examination 8 of his person and baggage and to such investigation 9 as may be deemed necessary by the officers charged with the 10 enforcement of this Act, and shall establish to the satisfaction 11 of such officers that he intends solely to proceed immediately 12 to an ultimate destination, beyond the United States or its 13 territory, that he has the assurance of employment or occupation 14 at such ultimate destination, and that he does not intend 15 to make use of such privilege as means of obtaining unlawful 16 entrance to the United States or its territory; and such Chinese 17 person, or person of Chinese descent, shall comply in all respects 18 with the rules and regulations in regard to such persons 19 seeking permission to exercise said privilege which may be 20 issued from time to time, as hereinbefore provided, and a refusal 21 to grant permission to any such person to exercise said 22 privilege by the officer designated to consider and determine 23 applications for such permission at any port of arrival shall 24 be final. 25 SEC. 28. That the ground upon which any Chinese person25 1 or person of Chinese descent shall claim, at any port, the 2 right of entry into or the privilege of transit through the 3 United States or its territory shall be the only ground upon 4 which such right or privilege shall be considered and determined; 5 and no Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 6 who has been refused admission thereto shall be allowed to 7 exercise as an alternative to such admission the privilege of 8 transit across and through the United States or its territory, 9 provided for in article three of the convention between the 10 Governments of the United States and China ratified December 11 eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. 12 SEC. 29. That upon the arrival at any port of the United 13 States or its territory of any vessel or railway train bringing 14 any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent who desires 15 to pass through any port thereof, either land or water, on the 16 way to foreign territory, in accordance with the provisions of 17 article three of the convention between the Governments of the 18 United States and China ratified December eighth, eighteen 19 hundred and ninety-four, it shall be the duty of the master or 20 officer in command of such vessel or conductor of such railway 21 train to deliver to the officers designated to enforce the provisions 22 of this Act at any port a separate list or manifest 23, in duplicate, of all such Chinese persons or persons of 24 Chinese descent thereon, containing as to each such person H. R. 3089-- 4 1825826 1 complete information required by any provision of this Act, 2 or by such rules and regulations in regard to such persons 3 as may be issued from time to time by the Commissioner- 4 General of immigration, with the approval of the Secretary 5 of the Treasury; and the failure or neglect of any such master 6 or officer in command of any such vessel or of the conductor 7 of any such railway train to comply with the provisions of this 8 section in every respect shall incur the like penalties as those 9 imposed in section five hereinbefore for failure to comply 10 with the provisions of said section. 11 SEC. 30. That the master of any vessel which shall 12 bring Chinese persons or person of Chinese descent not 13 entitled to admission to the United States in the crew of such 14 vessel, or otherwise, to the United States shall be required to 15 execute a bond satisfactory to the Treasury Department in the 16 sum of one thousand dollars for each of such Chinese persons 17 or persons of Chinese descent on board such vessel, the condition 18 of said bond to be that none of such Chinese persons or 19 persons of Chinese descent shall be permitted to land therefrom 20 for any purpose, either with or without the permission 21 of such master; and the same shall be canceled upon the certificate 22 of the officer designated for the enforcement of this 23 Act that all Chinese person or persons of Chinese descent 24 have departed from the United States on such vessel.27 1 SEC. 31. That nothing contained in this Act shall be 2 construed to relieve Chinese persons or persons of Chinese 3 descent or the masters, officers, agents, owners, or consignees 4 of the vessels or transportation lines by which such persons 5 are brought to the United States or its territory of any of the 6 obligations, duties, or penalties imposed under the provisions 7 of any Act or Acts passed to regulate the immigration of 8 aliens into the United States or its territory. 9 SEC. 32. That, in addition to his other duties, the Commissioner- 10 General of Immigration shall have charge, under 11 the Secretary of the Treasury, of the administration of this 12 Act and such further legislation as may be enacted for the 13 exclusion of Chinese person or persons of Chinese descent 14 from the United States or its territory, and he shall have 15 authority to issue, from time to time, with the approval of 16 the Secretary of the Treasury, such rules and regulations not 17 inconsistent with law, and prescribe such forms of reports, 18 certificates, and other papers as may be necessary to carry 19 out the purposes of this Act and of any legislation supplementary 20 hereto or amendatory hereof, and, with the like 21 approval, shall designate the respective duties of the inspectors 22 and other officers and employees appointed to enforce 23 the provisions of this Act and assign them to such points, 24 from time to time, as may appear to him necessary to accomplish 25 the purposes of this Act and of Acts supplementary 1825928 1 hereto; and all appointments of inspectors, officers, and employees 2 hereunder shall be made by the Secretary of the 3 Treasury under the recommendation of the Commissioner- 4 General of Immigration. 5 SEC.33. That the inspectors and other officers appointed 6 to enforce the provisions of this Act and of all laws supplementary 7 hereto or amendatory hereof shall have power to 8 administer oaths touching the right of any Chinese person or 9 person of Chinese descent to enter the United States or its 10 territory, to be and remain therein to exercise the privilege 11 of transit through any part of land or water of the United 12 States or its territory on his way to foreign territory. 13 SEC. 34. That any Chinese person or person of Chinese 14 descent found within the United States or its territory who 15 was not born, or who has not been lawfully naturalized 16 therein, and who does not possess a certificate of residence 17 issued to him in accordance with the provisions of any Act 18 heretofore passed or any Act which may hereafter be passed 19 providing for the issuance of such certificate, or who is not a 20 domiciled merchant therein, and may be arrested by any United 22 States officer and taken before any United States commissioner 23 or judge of the district court in which such Chinese 24 person or person of Chinese descent shall be arrested who may 25 be designated by the district attorney thereof; and it shall be29 1 the duty of such commissioner or judge to order that such 2 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent shall be deported 3 to China or to the country of which such person is a citizen 4 or subject, unless he shall clearly establish to the satisfaction 5 of such United States commissioner or judge, by the testimony 6 of at least two disinterested and credible witnesses other than 7 Chinese, that he is entitled to a certificate of residence but 8 through unavoidable cause has been able to procure it, or 9 that the one issued to him has been destroyed through unavoidable 10 accident. 11 SEC. 35. That if any Chinese person or person of Chinese 12 descent shall enter the. United States clandestinely or 13 otherwise, without having first obtained from the officer designated 14 for the enforcement of this Act permission to enter 15 the United States, the justice, judge or commissioner having 16 jurisdiction shall make a peremptory order for the deportation 17 of such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent to China, 18 or to that country of which he is a citizen or subject, without 19 inquiring into the right of such Chinese person or person of 20 Chinese descent to enter the United States if he had applied 21 to enter in the manner provided by law; and such Chinese 22 person or person of Chinese descent shall be so deported, even 23 though he might have been entitled to enter and remain in 24 the United States if he had applied for such privilege in the 25 manner provided by law. 1826030 1 SEC. 36. That an appeal to the district court of the 2 United States for the district wherein the cause is heard from 3 any judgement or order of a United States commissioner ordering 4 the deportation or discharge of any Chinese person or 5 person of Chinese descent who may be brought before such 6 commissioner upon complaint that such Chinese person or 7 person of Chinese descent is in the United States contrary to 8 law shall be allowed to such Chinese person or 9 Chinese descent upon his written application or to the United 10 States upon the written application of the United States attorney 11 within and for the district where the cause is pending: 12 Provided, That the same is filed with such commissioner 13 within three days from the time of the announcement of such 14 judgment or order. 15 SEC. 37. That in case of appeal by the United States as 16 aforesaid, such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 17 shall, upon the motion of the United States attorney, be 18 remanded to the custody of the United States marshal, pending 19 such appeal, unless-substantial bail is furnished to the 20 satisfaction of such commissioner or said district court, as the 21 case may be, in a sum not less than two thousand dollars, for 22 the appearance of such Chinese person or person of Chinese 23 descent to abide the final order and decree of the said court 24 or of the Supreme Court of the United States upon appeal 25 from the said order or decree. In case of an appeal by31 1 such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent from a 2 judgement or order of deportation, he shall stand committed 3 pending said appeal unless he shall furnish bail as aforesaid 4 in sum not less than three thousand dollars. 5 SEC. 38. That an appeal to the Supreme Court of the 6 United States from the decision or decree of a district court 7 ordering the deportation or discharge of any Chinese person 8 or person of Chinese descent who may be brought before 9 such district court, either originally or upon complaint that 10 such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent is in the 11 United States contrary to law, or on appeal from the decision 12 of a United States commissioner, or otherwise, shall be allowed 13 to such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 14 upon his written application or to the United States upon the 15 written application of the United States attorney within and 16 for the district where the cause is pending: Provided, That 17 the same is filed with said district court within three days 18 from the announcement or entry of such decision or decree or 19 of an order based thereon. 20 SEC. 39. That in case of an appeal by the United States 21 from the district court to the Supreme Court of the United 22 States, herein provided, a certified copy of the testimony taken 23 on the hearing before said district court shall be transmitted 24 within ten days after said hearing to the Attorney-General 25 of the United States, who shall have the power to prosecute 1826132 1 said appeal to final determination, or, if in his opinion said 2 appeal should not be prosecuted, he is hereby empowered to 3 direct the United States attorney in and for the district where 4 said proceedings originated to file a motion in said court to 5 dismiss the same, and thereupon the district court may dismiss 6 said appeal and enter a final order in the cause for the discharge 7 of such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent. 8 SEC. 40. That upon appeal from the decision of the 9 commissioner to the district court or to the Supreme Court of 10 the United States, as herein provided, a transcript of the 11 record and copies of all testimony taken on the hearing before 12 such commissioner shall be transmitted to the district or Supreme 13 Court, as the case may be: Provided, That either the 14 Supreme Court or the district court may order any original 15 document or exhibit or other evidence to be sent up, in addition 16 to the copy of the record, or in lieu of the copy or of a 17 part thereof. No new evidence shall be received in the 18 Supreme Court, except by the order of said court upon motion 19 duly made for that purpose. 20 SEC. 41. That in all cases prosecuted to final determination 21 before the Supreme Court of the United States under 22 this Act, the Supreme Court may review all the facts as well 23 as all questions of law, and shall have the power to make all 24 necessary orders, either for the discharge of such Chinese33 1 person or person of Chinese descent, or for his deportation to 2 China or to that country of which he is a citizen or subject. 3 SEC. 42. That the decisions of the officers designated 4 for that duty by the Commissioner-General of Immigration' 5 with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, at the 6 ports named herein, or at such other ports as may be designated 7 under the provisions of section twenty-five of this Act 8 for the entry of Chinese person or persons of Chinese descent, 9 as to the right of any such Chinese person or persons of Chinese 10 descent to admission to the United States or its territory 11 shall be final, except upon appeal from such decisions, either 12 on behalf of such Chinese person or person of Chinese 13 descent, or by any inspector or other officer designated to 14 enforce this Act on behalf of the United States Government, 15 to the Commissioner-General of Immigration, whose action 16 thereon shall be subject to review by the Secretary of the 17 Treasury. 18 SEC. 43. That if any Chinese person or person of Chinese 19 descent excluded by the appropriate officer designated 20 to enforce this Act takes no appeal therefrom, or, having 21 taken an appeal therefrom, is denied the right to enter the 22 United States by the commissioner-General of Immigration, 23 with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, such Chinese 24 person or person of Chinese descent, if thereafter found H. R. 3089-- 5 1826234 1 within the United States, shall, upon proper complaint made, 2 be ordered to be deported to China or such other foreign 3 country of which he may be a citizen or subject, by any judge 4 or commissioner having jurisdiction of the matter before whom 5 such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent may be 6 brought. A duly certified copy of the decision of the appropriate 7 officer designated to enforce this Act shall be produced 8 to the said judge or commissioner, as the case may be, and the 9 same shall be accepted as final and controlling by such judge 10 or commissioner: Provided, That if any Chinese person or 11 person of Chinese descent bases his right to enter the United 12 States upon the claim of citizenship by reason of birth within 13 the United States, the decision of the appropriate officer 14 designated to enforce this Act, whether adverse to or 15 in favor of the admission of such Chinese person or 16 person of Chinese descent, shall not be controlling upon the 17 judge or commissioner before whom such Chinese person or 18 person of Chinese descent may be reexamined upon appropriate 19 proceedings before such judge or commissioner, and 20 full opportunity shall be allowed such Chinese person or person 21 of Chinese descent to substantiate the claim to citizenship 22 and to the United States to controvert the same. In any 23 application by a Chinese person or person of Chinese descent 24 for admission to this country, or in any proceeding before a 25 judge or commissioner against a Chinese person or person of35 1 Chinese descent for being unlawfully within this country in 2 which rights based on citizenship are asserted, such Chinese 3 person or persons of Chinese descent shall establish clearly, 4 to the satisfaction of the appropriate officer designated to enforce 5 this Act, or to the satisfaction of such judge or commissioner, 6 as the case may be, the fact of birth within the 7 United States by at least one credible white witness and by 8 the production of a duly authenticated copy of the record of 9 the birth of the applicant in the United States: Provided, 10 That said record was actually made and recorded within one 11 year from the birth of such applicant. 12. SEC. 44. That any hearing before any justice, judge, or 13 commissioner for the determination of the right of a Chinese 14 person or person of Chinese descent to be and remain in the 15 United States or its territory, wherein the said right is claimed 16 by reason of birth of such Chinese person or person of Chinese 17 descent within the United States or its territory, the officer 18 or others designated for the enforcement of this Act at the 19 point claimed as the birthplace of such Chinese person of 20 person of Chinese descent shall be furnished with the necessary 21 information and requested to make a full investigation 22 and report upon the evidence introduced in behalf of such 23 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent, and to procure 24 and furnish to such justice, judge, or commissioner any additional [*18263*]36 1 evidence which may be obtainable at said alleged place 2 of birth. 3 SEC. 45. That whenever any certificate issued by a 4 United States officer purporting to show that a certain 5 Chinese person or person of Chinese descent therein named 6 has, upon hearing, been adjudged to be lawfully within the 7 United States, is false or fraudulent, or whether false or 8 fraudulent or originally genuine, has been or may be the 9 subject of barter and sale for false or fraudulent use, the same 10 shall, upon proper proof of the facts, be declared and held to 11 be invalid; and any United States officer issuing such false or 12 fraudulent certificate, and any United States officer or other 13 person who may become a party to the false or fraudulent use 14 of such certificate, or who may become a party to the false or 15 fraudulent alteration or use of a certificate which was originally 16 genuine, shall be subject to the pains and penalties 17 provided bu sections fifty-four hundred and eighteen, fifty-four 18 hundred and forty, and fifty-four hundred and seventy-nine, 19 Revised Statutes. 20 SEC. 46. That is shall be unlawful for any United States 21 officer to issue any certificate that any Chinese person or 22 person of Chinese descent has been found by him to be a 23 native of the United States or to be entitled to be and remain 24 in the United States, or to issue any certificate or instrument 25 of any kind as to the status or the rights of any Chinese person37 1 or person of Chinese descent; and any such certificates 2. shall be null and void and shall be seized wherever found by 3 any officer of the United States and be transmitted to the 4 Commissioner-General of Immigratiion for cancellation. 5 SEC. 47. That hereafter no State court or court of the 6 United States shall admit any Chinese person or person of 7 Chinese descent to citizenship. 8 SEC. 48. That any person who, either as principal, witness, 9 attorney, broker, notary public, or public officer, shall 10 be guilty of making, signing, uttering, or authenticating any 11 false statement, orally or written, in relation to any investigation, 12 examination, or inquiry conducted under the provisions 13 of this Act, or who shall by any means procure to be made 14 such false evidence, or who shall directly or indirectly solicit 15 or accept any gift for such false evidence, and any person who 16 shall tender or receive money or other valuable consideration to 17 secure favorable action on the case of any Chinese person or person 18 of Chinese descent arising under the provisions of this Act, 19 shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 20 thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one thousand 21 dollars and imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term not less 22 than one year, 23 SEC. 49. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with 24 the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. [*18264*]57TH CONGRESS, } H.R. 3089. 1ST SESSION. } A BILL To prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence with the United States, its Territories and possessions and the District of Columbia, of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent. By MR. KAHN December 6, 1901.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.4 Daily Eagle M. M. MURDOCK, EDitor. OKLAHOMA'S NEW RED-HEADED GOVERNOR. Through a set of curious circumstances, as Koko sang, Oklahoma has come to a governor of her soil- Tom Ferguson. When he went to Oklahoma, Ferguson was just out of boyhood. So the twelve odd years which have made Oklahoma have also made its new governor. The characteristics of the territory are its characteristics. He is the first governor of the yong territory to have an intimate acquaintance with elemental rural life in Oklahoma; he has had the wind grind the red dirt into his face; has been blistered by a sun that curled the prairie grass under its relentless heat; has been frozen by a blizzard, which, when it strikes the level plains, gains impetus and scoots madly across, through and under the clap-board defense of a new settlement. He has known what a drouth on top of hard times in a new country menas; has knowledge of that which is little known, because pride and a cheerful spirit supposed word of it- the extremely hard struggle the first settlers of western Oklahoma made for a foothold. The town of his choice wasn't a railroad town. It flung its yellow pine up out of the prairie west of the "gyp hills," full of difficult grades. The people who settled in the surrounding country were poor. Ferguson, as an editor, followed the functions of that craft as they are practiced in this part of the west. He glorified his county; boomed his town; wrote up the farmers individually and generally; led in peculiarly ferocious political contests, such as are certain in new and struggling countries; kept up an unrelenting warfare on the wayward gentlemen who insisted on "shooting up the town;" tore the hide off an erring official occasionally; threw the sum of all his energies into the construction of a building large enough to accommodate "meetings;" learned to know men for what they are, and to discount for what they seem; in sohrt, went from the primer to the fifth reader in that school which every town in this section furnishes in its growth upward out of the buffalo kinks, to an apt pupil. It is the Eagle's prediction for Ferguson as governor of Oklahoma that he will be a success; that the first time a man comes along with a "deal" the governor's face will grow redder than his hair, and a man will leave the governor's office on the point of a large and vigorous boot; that all subordinate officials will conduct the affairs of their officers as punctually and as strictly as they do their own affairs; and that before the sun has come up and gone down many times the man with a scheme will be sufficiently advised that he will not crave or seek an audience. President Roosevelt's remarkable memorandum pinned to the dismissal of Governor Jenkins indicates what strict official decorum the new president intends to exact. He will not be disappointed in Ferguson. 18265 [*Eagle*] CUT DOWN WHEN FAME WAS HIS Arthur Grissom's Death Seems Unusually Sad to Those Who Watched His Career. The news yesterday of Arthur Grissom's unexpected death in New York of typhoid fever aroused sympathetic comment, for he was cut off just as he had struck success and fame. It is not known if he will be buried here. Some time ago his aged parents left Independence, where they had lived many years, and joined him in New York. It had always been Mr. Grissom's purpose to bring his parents to New York when he had attained a position equal to his ambitions. All Mr. Grissom's life had been devoted to a persistent and studious effort to attain literary distinction. As a very young man he underwent the hardships which attend the steps of the beginner in literature. His career was divided into three chapters and he died before the third and best was more than well begun. As a mere youth, chiefly known at home for his persistent determination to be an author and poet, he went to New York with no capital but towering ambition, and what prestige there was in being president of the Western Author's and Artist's club of Kansas City, which he had organized. With this uncertain capital he contrived, somehow, to launch a periodical called Spirit. His nerve brought him to the favorable notice of a set of gilded literateurs. The unfashionable Western youth of a few years before became as one of the metropolis bred, but he was not satisfied with this transient distinction in a narrow circle and the thirsted for substantial fame. This first chapter of his career ended with his marriage to Miss Julia Woods, daughter of the noted Kansas City banker, under romantic circumstances. Mr. Grissom's literary progress was interrupted by his role of being a millionaire's son-in-law. He returned to Kansas City and undertook to learn the banking business. But Grissom was a poet. He soon quit trying to be a financier and launched the Independent, with George Creel as associate editor. Matrimonial troubles filled this part of Grissom's life. The chapter closed with divorce, and then he went back to Gotham, alone, with the idea of starting a magazine devoted to society stories, written by society people. As the editor of the Smart Set the third chapter in Grissom's career was full of promise. Arthur Grissom was not a newspaper man, but a writer of short stories, magazine articles and verses of society. his greatest talent was as a verse maker. His best style was the light, sentimental figurative poetry. Mr. Grissom's literary style was most noteworthy for its severe accuracy of constitution. He never used coined words or indulged in plays on adjectives. His accurate editing was a feature of the Smart Set. Finally he was a man with many experiences although only in the early thirties, and fortune smiled upon him and he sent for his parents even as death approached stealthily to strike him down. 18267 Sad-looking and silently he paced the brick-paved platform at the union depot with measured tread. The day was very gloomy and he was gloomy, too. He paused frequently at the end of the promenade and leaned for awhile on his cane, with one knee bent. He was not erect at any time. He looked like a hopeless person- like a bankrupt when winter first bites and snaps at him. Two acquaintances were with him, but there was not a suggestion of merriment about them. They looked like a lodge committee who were waiting for the corpse of a deceased brother and wanted to be far ahead, where the baggage car stops. Poor Jenkins, he that is, for a few days yet, governor of Oklahoma! Mr. Jenkins came in on the Frisco early in the afternoon and was waiting for the Santa Fe to complete the last stretch of the saddest trip he has ever made. His friends pitied him, they had genuine sympathy for him. Six months ago an Eagle reporter met him, practically on the same spot. He was then en route from Washington to Oklahoma with a commission in his pocket making him the first citizen of the great territory. Then he had the confidence of the highest citizen of the land- the president of the United States; this time he was en route from Washington to Oklahoma, deprived of his commission as the first citizen of his commonwealth and with a caustic rebuke from the first citizen of the country- the president of the United States. What a fall! It was impossible not to have pity for the governor that has been, and is- for awhile. He was bearing a cross that weighed heavily upon him. He felt his humiliation, and more so perhaps, as he was within a quarter of a day of meeting his family and friends "a marked man"- a man branded as an unfaithful servant by the chief executive of the nation. It was hard to approach the governor on the subject of his downfall. It was hard to make the heart conquer the natural hesitation it feels in the matter of opening a wound that must surely be painful. The governor was cordial but not talkative. He answered questions politely but rather briefly. He was in the mood he was in when somebody named him "William, the Silent." "I did not know that my successor was appointed," he said, 'until I reached St. Louis and read it in the Globe-Democrat- yes, since I come to know of it, I read it this side of Cincinnati in the Enquirer." "Didn't you know when you left Washington Saturday that you had been removed?" "No, I did not. I had not been informed of it.' "It was a surprise to you, then?" "I knew that my case had been prejudged. I am only surprised at the haste of the president." "What do you say of the president's action?" "It is unjust and unfair. I am not guilty. The charges against me were not sufficiently investigated." "In your opinion will any other territorial officers be removed?" "I do not know.' "you had some friends who did good work in your behalf?" The governor's answer was lost in the rolling sound of the oncoming train. About his successor- Tom Ferguson- he had nothing to say, but he listened with interest to a bitter roast on the new governor published in an Oklahoma Democratic paper. "What are your plans for the future?" he was asked. "I have no definite plans made." "When do you think you will go out of office?" "That I do not know. I have no idea when the change will take place." Mr. Jenkins admitted that he was feeling badly over the turn affairs have taken and reasserted that his punishment is unjust and that he had been prejudged by the president. Governor Jenkins was well-buttoned up in a heavy overcoat and carried a cane in his hand. 18266add Wayne MacVeagh. Mr MacVeagh like Mr Hay resides in Washington, & this is an advantage Mr Carnegie thinks, because a quorum will be so much more easily obtained. Very truly yrs Jas Bertram Dec. 7 01 [*[Dec. 7. 1901]*] Andrew Carnegie. 5 West 51st Street. New York. G.B. Cortelyou, Esq. White House, Washington. Dear Sir, Mr Carnegie desires me to say that he omitted one name from the list of proposed directors: he gave ten when he should have given eleven names, to make the number odd. Will you please [*18268*][shorthand notation] File PLEASE FORGIVE DICTATION BECAUSE OF WRITER'S CRAMP. Private 21, Gramercy Park. (NEW YORK.) My dear TEDDY- The first thing I did when I reached WASHINGTON, was to call on you- and I suspect that your door keeper never let you know of this. I had come on to attend the convention of the American Historical Association, of which we are fellow members. This letter is written to you from aboard the train carrying me to the NORTHWEST where I am to address various Universities on the German Military preparation and American Interests- a theme on which I should have vastly relished a chat with you. Judging by what is in Mr. ROOT's report and what he said to me, my work is in harmony with his. Goodluck to you faithfully yours Poultney Bigelow Dec. 7. [01?] Letters are forwarded to me from my NEW YORK address. 18270 For enc see 12-9-012 and know what their examples have been. M. B. Macfarlane has been Collector four years, of such prosperity as we have never before known. With his influence, and that of his office, and most popular candidates for President and Vice President, the County cast forty per cent less Republican votes for President, than in 1896, when there was not a Republican Officer in the County, State, or or Federal. Vote for President, 1896 - 584 1900 - 346. He is the choice of the Democratic Organization. [*18272*] Washington D.C. Dec. 7. 1901 Sir: Your letter of the 3d inst. was duly received. I would suggest if you had a trusted agent, who you could send down to Tampa Fla, you would learn more than I could tell you, and you would find that every word I have written the truth. I am thinking of our young men down there, who will vote their first vote for President in 1904, boys who now say, look at these men who are appointed, to the best places! I have always been a friend to the young men here [*18271*]4 over while drunk. I know of Patrons of the office who have called there to see him on business, and found him too drunk to attend to them. I also know he used abusive language to John G. Long, while drunk at St. Augustine last summer. These are truths, "but the half has not been told". I can refer you to citizens in Tampa who have not one personal motive to gain by telling what they know these men to be. J. H. Fessenden was one of the men who called at the Post Office to see [*18274*] 3 because his prominence in the Republican Party, makes it impossible for the Party to be strong, and the Democratic Senators and Congressman, naturally prefer the weakest leadership we can have. M. B. Macfarlane works only for himself, cares nothing for the Party. I could give you the names of good people in Tampa who can tell you what he is, one of the lowest men living down there. G. B. Reynolds our present P. M. certainly is a drunkard, twice of my own knowledge, have I known him to be run [*18273*]6 your kindness in considering these matters I am Respectfully Mrs. Nellie McD. Crummer 453 C St. N. W. Theodore Roosevelt President of the U. S. Washington D.C. [*18276*] 5 the Post Master and found him intoxicated. Rev. Franklin Sprague the Congregational minister, and Arthur Cuscaden with many other good people can inform an Agent what Macfarlane is. He fights men on the street, when they are unprepared, but he always takes his brother or Cousin with him, when the only offence of the party attacked, was because they do not approve of the actions of M. B. Macfarlane, I pray these men may see the error of ways, and repent, but I pray also they may retire from office until they do, Thanking you for [*18275*]For 1. attachment see 12-7-01][*File PPF*] [*Private & Personal*] Office of the Commercial Bulletin. 282 WASHINGTON STREET. Boston, Dec. 7, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D. C.: Dear Theodore, Your letter in regard to Cadet Maguire, noting incidentally your intention to reserve appointments at large to West Point and Annapolis for the sons of army and navy officers, is exactly what I wanted, and absolutely right. You never will hear from the case again; but only way to settle such a case is to squash it. I telegraphed you the other day about the message. You have made us all who love you very happy. From the nature of my usual comments, I think you are aware that flattery is not in my line. I honestly think your first message contains a larger variety of sound suggestions for good government than any other message recorded. I am not a constant reader of Mr. Richardson’t little work, and I really mean what I say. I think you will be glad to hear that all the democratic papers here praise your message, and – what may perhaps surprise you – many of our business men thoroughly agree with you and me in regard to the matter of irrigation, which is not, you know, [*18277*]Office of the Commercial Bulletin. 282 WASHINGTON STREET. Boston, 2 a matter generally understood in the East. I did not see a thing in [it] the message that was not good and helpful. I think I could have used my editorial blue pencil on it, but only in order to reduce its length by cutting out superfluous phrases. I would not change a single idea. My article on you at Harvard is just out, and I shall send you a copy to-day. Remember that your “bull moose” constitution is, after all, human, and don’t wear yourself out. Public opinion strongly with you all over the country, and you need not fear the politicians, big or little. Affectionately yours, Curtis Guild, Jr. [*18278*][*For one enclosure see ca. 1901*] ancient when I see "Little Nell?" among this season's debutantes. I met you on two occasions in Abingdon but as I was quite young I am sure I am not remembered. Now to the objective point - "Prince George Episcopal Church Winyah" the third oldest in our United States will give a fete on Dec 18 & 19th to raise money to build a parish house, and the [[shorthand]] Georgetown, S. C. Dec 7th 1901 My dear Mr. Roosevelt, Writing your name thus recalls for me such pleasant memories of your brother, Mr. Elliott. He was the most charming man I have ever known save one (my husband) and his death was a sad one to us. It makes me feel quite [*18279*]books, pictures &c have been given me to work up as best I can on short notice, so I have decided to try and secure several autographed copies of books and I shall be so pleased if you will honor us with one of yours. Any one that you care to send will be so acceptable. Our church was used during the Revolution by the British to stable their horses in. Thanking you for your attention Believe me to be Very sincerely Mary A. Taylor Harris (Mrs. A. B. B. Harris) [*18280*]BARTLETT S. JOHNSTON & CO., 239 E. GERMAN STREET, BALTIMORE, 190 #2 I believe you know that you can trust the Johnston's you have known for some time past and you can do the same with the Governor. The Republican machine in Ala. is worthless. There are no gentlemen in the lot Faithfully yours Bartlett S. Johnston [*18282*] BARTLETT S. JOHNSTON & CO., 239 E. GERMAN STREET, BALTIMORE, Dec 7th 1901 [*Ackd 12-9-1901 CF*] Mr President My brother, ex Gov Johnston of Ala writes me has had had an interview with you. I feel, that I can state to you that if he tells you anything you can rely on it absolutely. I know he has repudiated the Democratic Ring, in Ala and you can rely on his coolness courage and his street honesty of purpose. he will never use any influence he may have with you, in an unworthy manner [*18281*][*[CA 12-7-01]*] [*9 pm[?] Ackd 12-7-1901 cr*] Saturday Dear Sir Before leaving Washington I wish to see again the President for a leisurely talk of twenty minutes - not on Missouri politics. May I have that privilege? Sometime late this evening, or during the afternoon of to-morrow would answer my purpose. Very truly John Leland Mr G.B. Corteleyou [*18283*] Crummer, Mrs. Nellie McD., Washington, Dec. 7, 1901. Acknowledging office letter of 3rd inst., says if the President would send a trusty agent to Tampa to investigate conditions, he would find that Collector M.B. Macfarlane and Postmaster G.B. Reynolds are unfit to be continued in office. [*File*] [[shorthand]] [*18284*][*[CA 12-7-01]*] [*Ackd 12-7-1901 CF*] Saturday Dear Sir Before leaving Washington I wish to see again the President for a leisurely talk of twenty minutes-- not on Missouri politics. May I have that privilege? Sometime late this evening, or during the afternoon of to-morrow would answer my purpose. Very truly John Leland Mr G.B. Corteleyou [*18283*] [*File*] Crummer, Mrs. Nellie McD., Washington, Dec. 7 1901. Acknowledging office letter of 3rd inst., says if the President would send a trusty agent to Tampa to investigate, he would find that Collector M.B. Macfarlane and Postmaster G.B. Reynolds are unfit to be continued in office. [*18284*][*[attached to Crummer 12-7-01]*]wish to do--I hope I have the pleasure of paying my respects to Mrs. Roosevelt & yourself. Yours sincerely Charlotte Hastings Fraser [*Ackd 12-21-1901*] 3 Royston Gardens, RICHMOND, S. W. 8th December 1901. Dear Mr. Roosevelt. I have been much interested in hearing you have become President & desire to send you my congratulations. Your brother, Mr. Elliott Roosevelt, paid my husband [*18286*] I have my eye on you ! PBwish to do--I hope I have the pleasure of paying my respects to Mrs. Roosevelt & yourself. Yours sincerely Charlotte Hastings Fraser Ackd 12-12-1901 3 Royston Gardens, Richmond, S.W. 8th December 1901. Dear Mr. Roosevelt. I have been much interested in hearing you have become President & desire to send you my congratulations. Your brother, Mr. Elliott Roosevelt, paid my husband 18286and me (the late General Hastings Fraser) a visit some years ago-in Hyderabad India, for shooting, and I have never ceased to have a very happy recollection of him & of that time. I was extremely grieved to hear from lady Curzon-- whom had the pleasure of meeting this year in Scotland, that Mr. Elliott Roosevelt died some years ago--I had not heard of his death. I am on the eve of starting for India, having got a free passage from Government to see my two sons now both in the Army-- and if I return to England by the United States, as I 18287[1901] [shorthand notation] CF Dec 8th Mr. President If you can find the time please run over the enclosed clipping from to-day's N.Y. Sun. The writer, whom I know, is well informed in Vatican affairs, and is an exact interpreter of Vatican opinions. What he says of the Pope's wish to cooperate with the American government in the 12=8288pacification of the Philippines is significant in view of the project which you are now asked to consider. I will see on Tuesday, as you suggested, the editors of the "Independent", and of the "Outlook". Allow me to ask that you talk with Mr Hay on our project. I have mentioned it to him, & he seems to me to look upon it very favorably. Respectfully John Leland Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States 182891719 Massachusetts Avenue [*Ackd 12-8-1901*] [*CF*] December 8: Dear Mr. President: I heard last evening by accident of the Carnegie matter and there are some considerations affecting that subject which to my mind are of such grave importance as to justify me in asking you to listen to me for ten minutes before you act. I will hold myself in readiness to come to the White House any time this afternoon or evening which may be least inconvenient for you - or this forenoon either if you prefer it. Sincerely yours, Wayne MacVeagh [*18290*][*Personal & Confidential*] [*Ackd 12-11-1901*] [*PPF Pr*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. December 8, 1901. Mr. President: I trust I may be pardoned for submitting, in as brief a manner as possible, a few observations relative to the political situation in Oregon, and bearing upon the question of Federal appointments for citizens of that state, as owing to the great press upon your time by such a constant multitude of callers, I dislike to claim even a few minutes for the purpose of personal presentation. Furthermore, I fear you are laboring under some misapprehension in regard not only to the present situation, but also in reference to my disposition personally in reference to appointments. In the first place I have had no disposition from the first, nor have I now, to attempt to boss or control things in Oregon, or to do anything that will embarrass you in your relations to my colleagues in the Senate and House. Upon the contrary, I have been disposed from the first that my colleague in the Senate shall have this reasonable share of appointments, which it is deemed wise and proper to accord to citizens of Oregon, and i now submit that, as the matter stands at this time, Senator Simon stands credited with more and responsible places than I do. First, permit me to speak of appointments of citizens of Oregon to positions outside of the state; Here is the list of gentlemen, personal and political friends of Senator Simon, who have been appointed as I believe, every one of them, at his solicitation and on his recommendation: [*18291*]2. 1st. Ex Governor William P. Lord, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, at Beunos Ayres, Argentine Republic. 2nd, Hon. Henry B. Miller, United States Consul at Newchwang, China. 3rd, Hon. Albert J. Apperson, Register of the United States Land Office at Sitka, Alaska. 4th, Hon. Patterson, Examiner of United States Surveys. 5th, Hon. George A. Steel, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee for the State of Oregon, was appointed on Senator Simon's recommendation as Special Agent of the General Land Office; he resigned, and on Senator Simon's recommendation, in connection with that of Representative Tongue, I. A. Macrum was appointed to the place and still holds it. 6th, Pevey, on Senator Simon's recommendation, was appointed Assistant Quartermaster with the rank of Captain in the Volunteer Army and perhaps holds his position yet; I think, how- ever, he was recently discharged. While the only appointment accorded me so far to any position outside of the state, is that of Hon. George W. Celvig to a small Consulship at Baranquilla, Columbia, and the only other appointment outside of the state I have asked for or intent to ask for, for the present, is that of Hon. John W. Minto for Collector of Customs for Alaska. I have not asked for the appointment of any person to any diplomatic position, nor, as I have said, for any other position outside the limits of my state. [*18292*]2. Should you determine to not accord me the Alaska Collectorship I shall be, under the circumstances, exceedingly embarrassed. You will remember, Mr. President, in a conversation with you early in October I desired to know if I might be permitted to control that appointment. Your answer, as you will remember, was substantially if not identically in these words: "I do not see why you might not be permitted to control that appointment." following it immediately by the following inquiry, "Will your colleague, Senator Simon, join with you." I replied as follows, "No, Mr. President, I do not think he will." To this you replied in substance and effect, "Well it will not make any difference." And then you said further this, "Of course you will recommend a good man," to which I replied I certainly would. Now, Mr. President, based upon and in pursuance of this conversation, and relying implicitly upon it, I on the ..... day of October sent you a letter by special messenger recommending Mr. Minto for the place, in that letter referring, as you will find by a reference to it, to the above conversation. But not only so, Mr. President. Relying further on your assurances as above indicated, I assured Mr. Minto and his friends that he would undoubtedly get the place when the matter was taken up. A failure now would be a great humiliation to me and would place me in a most unenviable light at the beginning of my service here, and my good friendly relations with the administration would be at once misconstrued and misinterpreted, as it is understood not only by Mr. Minto but all his legion of friends, and they are among the most influential [*18293*]4. and best citizens of Oregon, business and otherwise, that I have recommended him for this place. That Mr. Minto is a most thoroughly worthy and competent man is evidenced by the letters and telegrams in his interest transmitted by me to you in my letter of November 22nd. Now then, Mr. President, a word further for the purpose of showing you that I have not the slightest desire to shove my colleague in the Senate aside, and that I am earnestly desirous of relieving you from all embarrassment, I will state: There is a vacancy at present in the office of Register of the United States Land Office at Burns, Oregon; there are eight applicants for this place. I have heretofore, over a month ago, stated to Senator Simon through a mutual friend, that if he would permit me to eliminate one of the eight applicants, that I would join him in recommending any one of the other seven. I am still willing to do this and even more. I now withdraw the exception, and, while I may not join him in reference to one of the applicants, I will make no objection to his appointment, and will join him in recommending any one of the other seven he may indicate. Again, there is a land office at Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon, with a Register and Received drawing maximum pay, I believe, each of them. The present Register and Receiver, as I understand are personal and political friends of Senator Simon. I am perfectly willing that they shall both be reappointed--and their time will expire before a great while -- if Senator Simon desires it; These two gentlemen have not been my political friends. [*18294*]5. In regard to the four other land Offices in the State, namely The Dalles, Oregon city, La Grande and Roseburg, I am willing when the time comes to make every honorable effort to agree with my colleagues in the Senate and House, as to the reappointment of the register and receiver thereof, or of their successors. The tenure of some of these I think expires before a great while, but as we have an important state election coming on the first Monday in June next, I think it would be a part of wisdom, from a political standpoint at least -- unless there is some public reason in connection with the business for sooner action -- that these matters be not determined until after the election. One word further: This same remark and suggestion will apply to the following more important offices, namely, Collector of Customs at Portland, Oregon, Collector of Internal Revenue, United States Marshal, United States Appraiser, and Collectors of Customs at Astoria and Yaquina. It would be very unwise, as I am at present advised, to agitate the question either as to the reappointment of the gentlemen now in, or of their successors, until after the election for the reasons above stated. All the men now holding these important positions were appointed while I was a private citizen, and when I took no part whatever in controlling Federal appointments, although most of them are my personal and political friends; and I am willing when the time comes to make every reasonable and honorable effort to agree with my colleagues in regard to their reappointment, or as to the appointment of their successors. [*18295*]Of course, Mr. President, I do not forget and am grateful for your designation of my son for examination, with a view should he pass to an appointment to a first Lieutenancy in the Regular Army, although I confess, when I withdrew my recommendation for his appointment as Quartermaster with the rank of Captain, if I has understood the law as it is, I should not have made the recommendation for a First Lieutenancy, as I was not aware at the time either of the fact, the a man of his age going in as a first Lieutenant can have but small hope of ever getting much, if any, advancement or promotion until he reaches the age of retirement, or that all future vacancies occurring in the quartermaster's and paymaster's department must be filled bu temporarily from the line for periods of not exceeding four years. The only appointment is the state on my recommendation, since my election, is that of Hon. Henry Meldrum, Surveyor-General of the State. The only appointment of any kind, either within or without the state, ordered by you on my recommendation since my election, is that of Hon. George W. Bibee for Receiver of the United States Land office at Oregon City, Oregon, and even that appointment has, at the instance of my colleague is the Senate been held up and is still being held up; and yet, having had two months nearly in which to show if he could that Mr. Bibee was not in all respects a competent and wroth man, I imagine he has failed to do so because I know it is an impossibility, as Mr. Bibee, as will be seen not only from my own recommendation, but from the letters and telegrams from many other of the best business men in Oregon, is a thoroughly [18296]7. worthy and competent man. Should the embargo on Mr. Bibee be released, I shall then have one appointment and only one -- besides what you have done for my son -- accorded to me by your administration, and none whatever outside of the state. I submit, Mr. President, the republicans of Oregon are entitled to some consideration more than they have received in connection with appointments to positions outside of the state of Oregon, and in view of the fact that Senator Simon is already credited with the above appointments, including a ministership, it seems to me I should have consideration to the extent of the only appointment I am asking outside of the state, namely , the Collectorship of Alaska. Begging pardon for occupying so much of your time, permit me in conclusion to say, what I have not had a personal opportunity to say, that I regard your message to Congress as one of the best I have ever read, comprehensive and direct, in reference to so many local matters in which the great West is so vitally interested, I am, Very respectfully John H. Mitchell [*18297*][*[For 1. enc see 12-3-01 Tyler]*] [*ackd 12-12-1901*] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. INCORPORATED. TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. Crawford House, Boston. December 8, 1901. My dear Mr. President: The enclosed letter I hope you will find time to read. The writer is a clean, clear-headed colored man who holds a responsible position on the Columbus Dispatch. This will be my address for ten days. Of course this man may not have sufficient information upon which to base his conclusions. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington. [*18298*]FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. THEODORE E. BURTON, Ohio, Chairman. Walter Reeves, Ill. Blackburn B. Dovener, W. Va. Roswell P. Bishop, Mich. Ernest F. Acheson, Pa. Page Morris, Minn. De Alva S. Alexander, N. Y. Thomas H. Tongue, Oregon. George P. Lawrence, Mass. James H. Davidson, Wis. Thomas C. Catchings, Miss. Rufus E. Lester, Ga. John H. Bankhead, Ala. Philip D. McCulloch, Ark. Albert S. Berry, Ky. Stephen M. Sparkman, Fla. Thomas H. Ball, Texas. Luman M. Ellis, Clark. Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives U. S., Washington, D. C. Dec. 9, 1901. Mr. Ansley Wilcox, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr.Wilcox: I hear so many expressions of good will for President Roosevelt from Senators and Congressmen representing all parties that I am inclined to write you of it. He seems to have started where President McKinley left off. Everybody, without exception, is speaking in the President's favor. By everybody, I mean, of course, such Senators, Members and others as I meet. It is particularly gratifying to his former friends that this should be so. I have had occasion to go to the Executive Mansion on business three times, and I was never more kindly or considerately treated by President McKinley than I have been by President Roosevelt. If the press says he is not popular with Congressmen, and suggests a break-up between the President and Congress, put it down as being absolutely without truth. Sincerely your friend, [*D.S. Alexander*] 18229[Enc in Wilcox 12-12-01]"it jumps"-- Very truly yrs Jas Bertram Sec Dec. 9.01 PPF [?] [shorthand notation] Andrew Carnegie. 8 West 51st Street. New York. G.B. Cortelyou Esq Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Mr Carnegie thanks the President for giving him an opportunity to read the enclosed from such a high authority as Mr Butler. Mr Carnegie says it seems with him as with the President, 18300File PPF B The Commercial Advertiser. ESTABLISHED 1797 187 BROADWAY AND 5 & 7 DEY STREET. Editorial Department. NEW YORK, 9th Dec. [1901] Dear Mr. President- Thank you--I should like nothing in the world so much as a talk with you and shall try to get on as soon as I can. It is immensely gratifying to know that in the great throngs of people about you I am not slipping out of your mind. I have a most delightful bit of gossip for you which Fred Whitridge gave me on Saturday. As you know Godkin has gone to England to die because he really cannot stand this country any longer--will not consent to die in it. Well, he is overrun with Englishmen who go to him now, under the impression that they are giving him joy, and congratulate him on the 18302The Commercial Advertiser. ESTABLISHED 1797 187 BROADWAY AND 5 & 7 DEY STREET. Editorial Department. NEW YORK, [*2*] glorious condition of American politics with Theodore Roosevelt in the Presidency! They are literally driving him wild. Then, too, every English paper he takes up is filled with praise, flamboyant, disgusting praise of you! It is, to speak plainly, simple hell. Where can he go to find peace? This whole world has gone crazy over you--and the only harbor of refuge seems to be the other world. By the way, the Post is getting tired of supporting you and will soon be doing you the favor of opposing you in the old venomous style, Nothing better could happen to you. Yours always J.B. Bishop 2/President Roosevelt [*18303*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3 WU HF JM 19 Paid, 11:41 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, White House:- Please tell President that dispatch in to-day’s HERALD about Carnegie matter, did not come from me directly or indirectly. Nicholas Murray Butler. 18304[*[For 1. enclosure see ca. 12-9-01 Dec]*] [*[12-9-01]*] [*Ackd 12-13-1901*] His Excellency Theodore Rosevelt President of the United States I take the liberty of enclosing you an anicedote, which will probably interest your Excellency it is an extract from a paper known as Pearson's Weekly Published in London hoping same will be appreciated. I am your humble servant Mrs Corinne Campbell 626 Columbus Ave New York City 12/9/01 [[shorthand]] [*18305*][*File*] United States Senate, Washington, D.C. December 9th 1901. Sir: I take great pleasure in recommending for appointment to the office of Public Printer, Mr. Joe Mitchell Chapple, of Boston, Mass., editor of the National Magazine. Mr. Chapple is a young man of splendid character, strict integrity and unbounded energy. He has had an extended experience in the printing business and will administer the affairs of that office with that care and ability that the position just deserves. The public printing of the United States is a work that should be intrusted to no one but an active man of good executive ability and strict integrity, and such a man is undoubtedly found in the person of Mr. Chapple, whom I have the honor to recommend for the office. Respectfully, C. D. Clark U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*18306*][*[Enc in Robinson to T.R. 12-19-01]*] a candidate for nomination for his first term - Ex Gov. Bradley of Ky. desired to be a candidate & wished Mr. Roberts support - through his paper - Mr. Roberts however supported McKinley & thus incurred Bradley's enmity - Bradley is now using every effort to secure Mr. Roberts removal from the office & the situation is becoming very serious - Knowing that you are a personal friend of Mr. [*[12-9-01]*] My dear Frank: - [*[Wissman]*] You no doubt will be surprised to hear from me, but it is on a little matter of business. Mr Roberts - from Ky. is Collector of Internal Revenue for the 7th district - & my brother Charlie is his deputy - At the time McKinley was [*18307*]Roosevelt - I thought you might write him a letter in behalf of Mr. Roberts generally considered to have carried Kentucky republican for McKinley. I am particularly anxious in regard to this matter since if Mr. Roberts is removed - two of my brothers - who are under him - will lose their positions - To be of any assistance in this matter - your letter should reach the President as soon as possible - since the question in regard to Mr. Roberts removal will be determined this week - Hoping this will not be asking too much of you - I am - Very sincerely yours Mary B. Day. Dec. 9th 1901. Canton, Ohio. Remember me to Helen & Ernest Kittee [*18308*]SECRET SERVICE DIVISION Treasury Department OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Washington, December 9, 1901 Sir:- In compliance with your request I have the honor to make the following statement in regard to action of the United States marshal McCord of the Territory of Arizona in connection with the Chinese smuggling cases which are now pending in Tucson, Ariz. At the beginning of these cases it seemed impossible to get any assistance from the marshal's office----in fact we could not get a reply from the marshal to telegrams that were sent him from Nogales, and his Chief Deputy refused to serve a capias sent him from Nogales. The capias in question was for B.F. Jossey,who within forty-eight hours committed suicide and thereby avoided arrest. Jossey, I am informed, was notified in advance by the marshal's office that they had a warrant for his arrest. At the time mentioned above, I had never met United States Marshal McCord, and did not meet him until court convened in October, at which time he showed a disposition to do his duty and rectify any mistakes made by his office. 18309-2- Replying to your inquiry as to the connection of B.F.Daniels in the Chinese cases, I beg to state that while Mr.Daniels is a friend of Ex-Collector Noey, he was in no way connected with the Chinese cases. I know nothing of Mr.Daniels' antecedents, as I have never had occasion to look him up, but he has impressed me with the belief that he would make a competent and fearless officer. Respectfully, Henry C. Dickey. Operative. The President, White House. 18310was delayed in reaching me, having been sent to the Concord by mistake, hence my uncle did not see it before calling on you, when you did a most wonderful thing, I consider. You denied a man the dearest wish of his heart, for which he had been struggling & striving for three long years--you denied it positively & plainly, & you sent that man [*File PPF*] 1820 Jefferson Place Dec. 9th 1901- My dear Theodore Physical inability alone has kept me from writing before to thank you most heartily for all your kindness as regards the case of Sorrel Stoddard. Your last note, with its enclosure from Secy Root [*18311*]people-May Our Father keep your head as level & your heart as true as they always have been. Your Affecte Cousin Maud Elliott The President I am very glad to hear that your Alice is well enough to come home. away your honest friend & admirer. Politicians promised him everything, & he being honest, believed them-You refused him but gave an honest reason- & you have won a warm advocate, one who is himself most honorable & upright. You are winning golden opinion & the loving admiration of all right thinking 18312[*Ackd 12-13-1901*] [*Heins, G. L*] Piedmont Hotel Geo. W. Burton, Proprietor. Reidsville, N. C., 9 December 1901. Dear Theodore, Will you try to have Heinsy & me invited into the competition that will, I take it, be held for the new Executive Office? You know that Mr. Taylor, Supervising Archt. of the Treasury, after his written promise to you & his emphatic verbal promise to Heins, managed to "forget" to have us invited into the Dept. of Agriculture competition. It was a good deal of a disappointment to me for I have the keenest desire to have one of the great buildings of the Capitol. To have the [*18313*]under your administration would enormously increase the Triumph. I think we deserve it, too, but one gets but little without eternal wire-pulling - either by one's self or someone else. I suppose, that being usually the course, that this thing will be first in Taylor's hands, and that he will turn it over as he did with the Agriculture Bldg, to the Committee now charged with the general Washington improvement plan, wh. means McKim and Burnham. I am here with my brother on our way up country for a few days' quail shooting. I shall be back in N.Y. shortly after you get this. Ever yours: C. G. La Farge[*came in Dec 23— ackd 12-11-1901 PPF Pr*] [*X*] Office Superintendent of Public Works, Albany, N.Y. (Personal.) December 9th, 1901. My dear Mr. President: I have the honor to acknowledge yours of the 5th, and I think you very much for your kind congratulations upon my prospective appointment as Police Commissioner of New York. I thank you very much for what you have said of Roundsman Burke and Sergeant Rathgeber. I would be very glad of your opinion of some of the higher officers of the department. There are some questions that can be asked and answers given, preferably by word of mouth. I dislike exceedingly to encroach upon the valuable time of a very busy man, but I am going to take the liberty of asking if it would be possible for you to give me a quarter or a half an hour on either December 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, or 28th. If you can I will have my questions ready to submit,so as not to detain you but a very few minutes. If it is not convenient, or would be more convenient at a later date, please do not hesitate to say so. I am, Yours very truly, John N. Partridge To Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. [*18315*]Little Roosevelt and the Zeal. Here is a good story of the new American President. When Mr. Roosevelt was a little boy, the sexton of a New York Presbyterian church, finding him peeping in through the open door one morning, asked him if he would like to come in. Little Roosevelt, however, declined, and ran away. Presently, however, he was found again peeping in, and again bolted when invited to come in. This occurred several times during the morning, and when little Roosevelt got home he told his mother of the sexton's invitations and his own fear of going into the church. "But why didn't you go in, my dear?" she asked. "It is the House of God, but there is no harm in entering it quietly and looking about." The little fellow confessed that he was afraid to go in because the zeal might jump out at him from under a pew or somewhere. "The zeal? What is the zeal?" the mother inquired. "Why," explained Theodore, "I suppose it is some big animal like a dragon or an alligator. I heard the minister read from the Bible about the zeal, and it frightened me." Down came the concordance from the library shelf, and one after another of the texts containing the word "zeal" was read to the child, whose eyes suddenly grew big, and his voice excited, as he exclaimed: "That's it- the first you read!" It was Psalm 1xix. 9: "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." ROYAL MAGAZINE is almost sold out. 18317 From [*Journal*] Address [*Indianapolis Ind*] Date [*DEC 9 1901*] The Romance of the Fur "Trade" and "A Day's Work of a Locomotive" are striking articles in the World's Work for December, made the more so by their very effective illustrations. Theodore Roosevelt is represented by extracts from an introduction to a forthcoming volume by A. G. Wallihon, "Camera Shots at Wild Animals." In these the President speaks approvingly of the substitution of the camera for the rifle, though he adds that "It is an excellent thing to have a nation proficient in marksmanship, and it is highly undesirable that the rifle should be wholly laid by." Julian Ralph writes about conditions in South Africa. An allustrated article describes 'the gradual rebuilding of New York city. There are some sketches of the recent municipal campaign, the work of the Industrial Commission is outlined, there is a character sketch of Li Hung Chang and a paper giving an account of the combination and extension of electric systems in the West- the first step towards a transcontinental road. Altogether, the range of topics and extent of the field covered justifies the title of the magazine 18318 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. 12-9-1901. By Telephone: Commissioner Procter states that he has made no recommendation for the Fire Department at Manila; that he understood the President had written Mr. ([Schieffelin] Sheffield), and he has been waiting to hear further from the President. 18316Little Roosevelt and the Zeal. Here is a good story of the new American President. When Mr. Roosevelt was a little boy, the sexton of a New York Presbyterian church, finding him peeping in through the open door one morning, asked him if he would like to come in. Little Roosevelt, however, declined, and ran away. Presently, however, he was found again peeping in, and again bolted when invited to come in. This occurred several times during the morning, and when little Roosevelt got home he told his mother of the sexton's invitations and his own fear of going into the church. "But why didn't you go in, my dear?" she asked. "It is the House of God, but there is no harm in entering it quietly and looking about." The little fellow confessed that he was afraid to go in because the zeal might jump out at him from under a pew or somewhere. "The zeal? What is the zeal?" the mother inquired. "Why," explained Theodore, "I suppose it is some big animal like a dragon or an alligator. I heard the minister read from the Bible about the zeal, and it frightened me." Down came the concordance from the library shelf, and one after another of the texts containing the word "zeal" was read to the child, whose eyes suddenly grew big, and his voice excited, as he exclaimed: "That's it- the first you read!" It was Psalm 1xix. 9: "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." ROYAL MAGAZINE is almost sold out. 18317 From [*Journal*] Address [*Indianapolis Ind*] Date [*DEC 9 1901*] The Romance of the Fur "Trade" and "A Day's Work of a Locomotive" are striking articles in the World's Work for December, made the more so by their very effective illustrations. Theodore Roosevelt is represented by extracts from an introduction to a forthcoming volume by A. G. Wallihon, "Camera Shots at Wild Animals." In these the President speaks approvingly of the substitution of the camera for the rifle, though he adds that "It is an excellent thing to have a nation proficient in marksmanship, and it is highly undesirable that the rifle should be wholly laid by." Julian Ralph writes about conditions in South Africa. An allustrated article describes 'the gradual rebuilding of New York city. There are some sketches of the recent municipal campaign, the work of the Industrial Commission is outlined, there is a character sketch of Li Hung Chang and a paper giving an account of the combination and extension of electric systems in the West- the first step towards a transcontinental road. Altogether, the range of topics and extent of the field covered justifies the title of the magazine 18318 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. 12-9-1901. By Telephone: Commissioner Procter states that he has made no recommendation for the Fire Department at Manila; that he understood the President had written Mr. ([Schieffelin] Sheffield), and he has been waiting to hear further from the President. 18316[*Ackd 12-13-1901 PPF Pr*] Cardinal's Residence, 408 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. [*Personal*] Dec. 10. 1901 Mr. President: Having learned that you have under consideration the project of sending to the Vatican a representative of our Government to treat the Philippine questions, I am persuaded that such a course is very desirable. If a judicious representative were chosen, he would hasten the solution of Philippine matters. In Rome reside the [*18319*]Heads of all the Religious orders who are subject to the Pope. I do not see any reasonable objection to such an embassy It would be the action of one great Power treating with another on vital issues. The mission of course would be a specific or temporary one. I trust you will pardon me for the suggestion which is prompted by my interests in the welfare of our common country. Very sincerely yrs J. Cardinal Gibbons Theodore Roosevelt President of the U. States. 18320Department of Public Instruction For the Philippine Islands. Manila, I. F., 10 de Diciembre de 1901. Al President del pueblo de _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Provincia de _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Muy Sr. mio: Este departamento desea obtener los datos mas fidedignos posibles de la poblacion tanto general como escolar de las Islas Filipinas. Se suplica por lo tanto encarecidamente que preste su ayuda segun sus fuerzas y remita a esta oficina la contestacion, en el adjunto pliego de papel y sobre, que no requiere sello alguno, a las siguientes preguntas: 1. Poblacion total de su pueblo, incluyendo todos sus barrios. 2. Poblacion total de cada barrio del pueblo. 3. Poblacion total escolar entre los 6 y 12 anos inclusive. 4. La distancia del pueblo a cada barrio: y medios de llegar a ellos. 5. Algunos pueblos y barrios tienen mas de un nombre. Sirvase darlos todos consecutivamente, el que sea mas usual debe escribirse primero. 6. Si hay alguna tribu feroz o salvaje en su pueblo, debe informarse separadamente. Afirmo de nuevo el aprecio y consideracion de su, Respetuosamente, FRED W. ATKINSON Superintendente General. [*18321*]COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK [*File*] PRESIDENT'S ROOM Dec. 10, 1901 My dear Mr. President: On reaching New York I found that Mr. Sheffield was in Michigan, and telegraphed him at once asking when he would return. I have this morning a telegram saying that he will be back on Thursday night or Friday morning. Mr. Low, meanwhile, has advised me confidentially that he has tendered the Fire Commissionership to Mr. Sheffield, and would like very much to have him accept it. Pending Mr. Sheffield's decision and return to the city, I have given the matter some thought, and am now prepared to make a suggestion which I think the best possible, and one that will leave Mr. Sheffield free to take the Fire Commissionership, for which he is undoubtedly well suited. I propose for your consideration as an excellent Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York, John E. Eustis, lawyer, of 80 Broadway, whose residence is in the Borough of the Bronx. I wonder that the name of Mr. Eustis did not occur to me before, as he is in every way an admirable man for just this sort of work. Mr. Eustis is a Republican, is about fifty years of age, and was educated at Wesleyan University. He worked his own way through college, and afterwards worked with his hands while studying law an establishing himself in New York. He was a well-known athlete, and stroked the Wesleyan Crew at the time when that Crew was very successful, about 1872-4. [*18322*]-2- Mr. Eustis is very active in all movements for good government and good citizenship in New York, and by appointment of Mayor Strong served for several years, with great usefulness, upon the Board of Education. His uprightness and integrity are beyond question, and politics would have no place in his administration. He is direct, kindly, and forceful, and I believe him to be by training and temperament the best fitted man to deal with the problem at Ellis Island that has yet been suggested. If the name of Mr. Eustis strikes you favorably, I can arrange for letters from all sorts of persons who know and respect him. My own impression is that if you were to send for Mr. Eustis and have an interview with him, you would be greatly delighted. It goes without saying that I have not mentioned this to him in any way. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C. [*18323*][*Ack'd 12/19/1901*] [[shorthand]] Auditorium Hotel Breslin & Southgate R.H. Southgate, Manager Chicago Dec. 10th 1901_190__ [[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12/19/1901*] George B. Cortleyou, Dear Sir:-- I am very much indebted to you for your letter of the 3rd and am writing to Mr. Robert E. Roosevelt and now I am in another trouble. The prosaic publisher to-day asked me a sturdy question, whether I had got into the life of President Roosevelt the name and ages of his six children and the maiden names of his wives, and whether the dates of the marriages and births had been put in my paragraphs about the Roosevelt family. I remembered that I had not got that information and I tried to get out of it by circuitous language but it did not do any good and I had to own up which I did very reluctantly. I looked two or three newspapers which ought to have that information, one of them Harper's week, if you call that a newspaper and they did not have it, but had the children all in a row with the exception of Ethel, and there was'nt a blessed word about the age of any of them. I have been asked repeatedly whether the youngest child was a boy or a girl and not knowing anything about it, gave the wrong answer. I said it was a nice name for a girl anyhow, and a rude man said it was a boy. It ought to shock the President if he should hear of it but I counted up the words to-day as near as I could that have been prepared for copy and they were 157,962 I believe [*18324*]Am sure of the thousands. I wonder if Mr. Loeb would not just jot that down for me and send it right out here c/o Auditorium Annex, Chicago. If he did I would be everlastingly grateful I do not know but what a slight suspicion of levity may have crept into a phrase or so of this letter, but I wish to be understood to be entirely serious in saying, I have read the whole message with care and it is the most extraordinary document for the masses of information it contains and the excellent literary style in which it is written. There are thousands of good things in it. When I read what he says about the arid lands, I was appalled to think I had dwelt so long in ignorance. Very truly yours, Murat Halstead 18325[*Private not for public files*] Law Offices of HOLLS, WAGNER & BURGHARD 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK [*File CF*] FREDRICK WH HOLLS LOUIS A. WAGNER EDWARD M. BURGHARD Dec. 10, 1901 Dear Mr. President: I called upon Mr. Sheffield this morning, according to my promise of yesterday, and I find that he is in Grand Rapids, Mich., on some patent law business. His address there is James R. Sheffield, the Morton House. I would respectfully suggested that you have Mr. Cortelyou telegraph him to return to New York via. Washington, which he could do quite easily, and not to commit himself to Mr. Low in the meanwhile. I believe that you can carry out your point with him. I happened to meet Mr. Duer at the Lawyers' Club at lunch today. He joins with both yourself and myself in hoping that Sheffield will accept; but I am again convinced that if Mr. Sheffield declines and you send for Mr. Duer at once, you can persuade him to accept, and his experience with politicians seems to be very much greater than I had supposed it was, so that I do not believe that you would find inexperience or awkwardness on this score a fatal objection. Sheffield, however, would be better, but I am sure Duer would reflect immense credit upon your administration. I saw Mr. Beer today, and he tells me that he will be in Washington next week. In accordance with your direction he will report to Mr. Cortelyou at once. Again thanking you for your cordial hospitality and reception yesterday, I remain, dear Mr. President, very respectfully, Your[s] Obedient Servant, Frederick W. Holls [*18326*]Ack'd 12/13/1901 [shorthand notation] WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M.D. 1126 N. Calvert Street. Baltimore, Md. December 10, 1901._____190 In the matter of PERSONAL. Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President:- My conscience has troubled me for some years, and I think confession will lighten the load. Do you remember bringing wine and delicacies to Charlie Ware during his severe illness in New York 1881-2? Charlie and I were living at the Benedict. You called daily to inquire after Charlie, but as he had brain fever you were not allowed to see him. Well, I thoroughly appreciated your kindness and also the delicacies. This is my confession: Charlie could not eat the jellies nor drink the wine, but I could, and as I was a bachelor, all alone with Charlie, I thought I could nurse him better if I kept in good humor by having a full stomach. I wonder if you ever thought what a good appetite poor, sick Ware had. You and Ralph Ellis must have wondered how such an ill man as Ware was could eat so much. When Charlie recovered I confessed to him, as I do now to you. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, I remain, Very cordially yours Wm Lee Howard Dictated to L.G.. 18327[shorthand notation] Treasury Department, Office of Commissioner-General of Immigration. Washington, December 10, 1901. Personal. My dear Mr.Cortelyou: The letter of George Clinton,Jr., under date of November 25, to the President, in behalf of John R.DeBarry, has been filed with the other papers in the DeBarry case. Special Immigration Inspector Watchorn has investigated matters at Buffalo, and is now waiting to hear from one of the petitioners in DeBarry's behalf. When the report is in I shall send it over for the information of the President, but I can say to you now that it will show that Mr.DeBarry has personally stirred up all this commotion himself, as the case now stands I am strongly inclined to recommend his removal from the service, instead of a transfer to another service. In any event, if he remains in the Immigration Bureau, he will have to earn his salary. I was informed this morning that strong pressure was being brought to bear upon the President in behalf of Edward F. McSweeney, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island. I do not know what view the President may take of it, but I would urge that he withhold judgment until the Secretary of the Treasury presents a statement which is now being prepared in relation to McSweeney's conduct. That statement will show that gross neglect of duty has characterized, and still characterizes, the conduct of management at Ellis Island, notwithstanding the 18328--2-- instructions issued by the Bureau of Immigration. Immigrants are ill-fed, ill-treated,and robbed. The report will go far toward showing that Mr.McSweeney received free transportation to Europe and return, and that he charged full fare to his expense account. I have all along believed the man to be tyrannical, brutal, and insubordinate. He has made it his special business to court the favor of Senators, Congressmen, clergymen, commercial men, professors of colleges, students, and prominent men in various walks of life, with a view of having them exert their influence in his behalf. He is protected by civil service,and the man who does his duty faithfully need not invoke political, commercial, or church influence to hold him in his place. Not one of these men would say a word for him if they had had experience with him and knew his real character. Mr.Fitchie is completely under his domination; instead of retaining a strong grasp of the reins placed in his hands by President McKinley, he abjectly surrendered full authority to Mr.McSweeney, who ruthlessly ignored every sense of propriety in domineering everything and everybody in and around the station, and in setting up the rule of favorites, who, by browbeating, intimidation, and flattery, and granting of special privileges, brought others beneath their sway. There are a few good, true, souls at Ellis Island, but, with the exception of Mr.Fitchie, those in authority are venal, inefficient, and insubordinate. I do not believe Fitchie is venal, but he fails to exercise authority over those who are. The whole nest should be wiped out as completely as though they were swine. 18329--3-- You have noticed that Mr.McSweeney made a speech before the American Federation of Labor Convention at Scranton last Friday. I have no doubt but that the speech was well written and contained many interesting facts. The President will, no doubt, be provided with a copy of it in the hope that he will be impressed by the scholarly attainments of Mr.McSweeney. It is as well to let you know that I am informed that officials of the Immigration Bureau were detailed, at the expense of the Government, to visit the Astor and other libraries of New York to collect data for this speech, and that Dr.Safford is said to have pruned it down, and gave it its rhetorical and grammatical finish. While Mr.McSweeney, the real chief at Ellis Island, busies himself in preparing speeches, lectures, and illuminated maps for the use of students, colleges, etc., immigrants, who should receive his attention, are neglected, ill-treated,and wronged. The missionaries on duty at Ellis Island are so terrorized or dominated by him that they rush forward to give him a certificate of character on demand. I believe that something more than circumstantial evidence will be forthcoming to show that some of the homes, under charge of these missionaries, are closely related to the padrone system which Mr.McSweeney openly protests against. Immigrants are forced to purchase food they do not require, at exhorbitant prices, if they refuse they are held when 18330--4-- they should be set at liberty. The schedule of prices required by the contract with the caterer is not posted in the languages of the immigrants, except possibly when some Treasury Department official visits the Island. It is the duty of the Commissioner and his assistant to have this attended to. Extra stands, from which food is dispensed, are set up occasionally, and a servant of the caterer is permitted to wear a uniform, which gives the immigrants the impression that he is a Government agent, and when he tells them they must buy food, they seldom fail to respond. Immigrants who lack funds are held, friends telegraphed to for money, the immigrants are frequently set to work in the kitchen, when the funds arrive the names of the immigrants are called in the detention rooms, but not in the kitchen, and the poor unfortunates are deported, sometimes the checks are handed them as they "walk the plank," and are cashed abroad. I could go on indefinitely, for I have during the last four years exerted every influence at my command to purify that place, but it cannot be done so long as corrupt officials remain in power over there. The case of August Bostroem, which you went over the other day, contains statements which give the truth concerning the persecution to which faithful employees are subjected by McSweeney, who has only to tell Mr.Fitchie a damaging story and it is believed without investigation. Impressed, as I am, with the gravity of the situation 18331--5-- and the necessity for heroic measures, I sincerely hope the President will not move in the matter until he has examined into the facts which are now being gathered by two competent officials of this Bureau. Very truly yours. T.V. Powderly Mr.George B. Cortleyou, Secretary to the President. 18332[For 1 attachment see Powderly [?] 12-10-01][*CF*] (Ed. 12-14-1900-1,000,000.) No. 19. TREASURY DEPARTMENT [*[ca 12-10-01]*] Dear Mr. Cortelyou:- I know the secret of McSweeney's power over Mr. Gompers, it is very interesting. Any time you wish to have it I will furnish it. The statement you called for in re Chinese ports of entry on Canadian border will be ready for you in the morning. Yours, T.V.P. [*[Powderly]*] [*18333*] [*File PPF pr*] Dec. 10. 1901 WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. Dear Mr. President 1. Henderson suggests that it would be a good idea to have Allison & Aldrich at the meeting tomorrow at 2 P.M. 2. I hope you will take or make time to read Noyes' article in the Star of last night [*18334*]& tonight on our "appurtenant territory" Faithfully ER [Root] [attached to Powderly 12-10-01]CG No. 19 TREASURY DEPARTMENT [ca. 12-10-01] Dear Mr. Cortelyou:- I know the secret of McSweeney's power over Gompers, it is very interesting. Any time you wish to have it I will provide it. The statement you called for in re Chinese ports of entry on Canadian border will be ready for you in the morning. Yours, T.V.P. [Powderly] 18333 File PPF [?] Dec. 10. 1901 WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. Dear Mr. President 1. Henderson suggests that it would be a good idea to have Allison Aldrich at the meeting tomorrow at 2 P.M. 2. I hope you will take or make the time to read Noyes' article in the Star of last night 18334& tonight on our "appurtenant territory" Faithfully ER [Root] [attached to Powderly 12-10-01]WILLIAM A. OTIS & CO. WILLIAM A. OTIS BANKERS AND BROKERS PHILIP B.STEWART COLORADO SPRINGS, WILLIAM P SARGEANT COLORADO FRANCIS GILPIN [*Ansd 12-16-1901 by wire*] December 10th 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Dear President Roosevelt: - I am in receipt of your letter of December 5th in reference to matters in the Surveyor General's office. The enclosures from Byron E. Shear are not from a responsible source, and yet there may be justification for his complaint. There are conflicting stories in reference to the conduct of that office. I have not, so far, been able to assure myself that its conduct has been either dishonest or inefficient. Goodale seems to be a man without force enough to make strong enemies and is treated as of little consequence one way or the other. He does not share in the odium attaching hitherto the ilk of office holders in Denver. I am starting inquiries along new lines in reference to both himself and Christian, but am called east tomorrow to New York to be absent some ten days, and I cannot follow these inquiries to a conclusion until my return, when I will use the utmost diligence to satisfy myself of the real character of these men and the conduct of their offices. Mr. Wolcott has sent for me to meet him in reference to appointments, and Seaman has been telephoning to the same end. [*18336*]T.R.-2 I understand that Mr. Wolcott has planned another position for Brady connected with private business, and perhaps this is what he wishes to speak of. Perhaps I would better see him before answering your inquiry as to the best way of getting at the naming of successors to Brady and Hodges. I can advise you between Xmas and New Years. I did not know that there had been any foot-ball played since the Yale-Harvard game of 1900, so that the score as you append it to your letter is evidently a mistake. I have understood that Harvard promised Gordon Brown that they would not play the game anymore. Always most sincerely, Philip B. Stewart PBS-P [*18337*][[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-14-1901 CF*] The Independent 130 FULTON STREET NEW YORK EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone 3928 CORTLANDT Cable Address INDEFULT NEW YORK Dec. 10, 1901. To His Excellency President Roosevelt: My dear Sir:- I have this morning had an interview of an hour with Archbishop Ireland and have talked with him over the Philippines matter, Allow me to say that I heartily sympathize with his views and aims, and if in any way an arrangement should be made by which the lands held by the friars can be purchased by the United States on a fair valuation made by a suitable commission, such a plan as already approved by Mr. Taft, would have the hearty endorsement of THE INDEPENDENT. And, furthermore, if there should be difficulty in the Philippines over the matter through the unwillingness of the friars there to sell, and if it should be desirable for the sake of peace that the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome should indicate to the friars what would be desired in the interest of good government by the United States in those islands, I feel confident that our intelligent Christian people would approve of any courteous way in which the United States Government should make its desires known to the Vatican, whether through a personal representative sent to Rome or otherwise. It would not be difficult, I think, to make it understood that this was not an ecclesiastical matter in which there was any dealing with the Vatican, but that the method was taken with a view of settling a financial transaction, important for political purposes, with those who have the final authority in the matter. I presume it should be understood that the money paid remains in the Philippines and is not sent to Spain. I can assure you that THE INDEPENDENT would support our Government in any such action that might be found [*18338*]The Independent 130 FULTON STREET NEW YORK EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone 3928 CORTLANDT Cable Address INDEFULT NEW YORK (2) wise. I have the fullest confidence in the patriotism of Archbishop Ireland, who is working no less intelligently for the country than he is for his Church. I am, Yours very respectfully, William Hayes Ward Editor. [*18339*][*No*] [*Ack'd 12/14/1901*] S. OSGOOD PELL HENRY E. LONEY WILLIAM TOD WILCOX TELEPHONE 3121-38TH CABLE ADDRESS "SPELLGOOD" S. OSGOOD PELL & CO., REAL ESTATE, NO. 542 FIFTH AVENUE, S.W. COR. 46TH ST. NEW YORK, December 10th, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- We have a wealthy client who wishes to buy or rent a handsome place on the North shore of Long Island, and we write to inquire if you would consider renting or selling yours at the above address. Hoping to receive an early and favorable reply, we are, Yours very truly, S. Osgood Pell & Co by H. J. Washburn [*18340*][*(For the President's Autograph)*] BRETANO'S ORDER BLANK. DATE NAME ADDRESS [*[CA 12-10-01]*] Mr President: These are the books I spoke of in my letter last night, kindly autograph them and send them to the Normandie by Tuesday when I shall return W A White [*Returned by messenger 12-10-1901 to the Normandie PPF*] CHARGE, PAID OR COLLECT, AND AMOUNT REMARKS: SALESMAN 18341Ackd 12-16-1901 CF Harvard University Preachers Room Wadsworth House Cambridge, Mass. 11 Dec. 1901- My dear Mr. Roosevelt. I am asked to sign a petition requesting the President to permit Aguinaldo, in company with the representative Filipinos, to visit Washington & to present in person the desires of his people. I have declined to sign the petition simply because I do not know the conditions in the Philippines well enough to be sure whether such a permission would not then be taken to [*18342*]constitute a sort of semi-official recognition of Aguinaldo a a true representative of the Filipinos--which I do not believe he is--and so would tend to rehabilitate his now vanishing influence. I sincerely hope, however, that either he will be permitted to visit this country and present his views in person, or, if that is deemed for the reason above stated to be inexpedient, that he will be encouraged to present his views in writing, that they will be respectfully received and regarded, and that his views & the reply to them will be given to the public. I am sure that the Administration cannot do [one] a wiser thing in the matter than encourage Aguinaldo's free expression of his sentiments and take the country into its confidence by making public both his address or paper & the reply thereto. Yours very respectfully, Lyman Abbott [*18343*]Copy for the convenience of The President December 11, 1901. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am asked to sign a petition requesting the President to permit Aguinaldo in company with other Filipinos to visit Washington and to present in person the desires of his people. I have declined to sign the petition simply because I do not know the conditions in the Philippines well enough to be sure whether such a permission would not be taken to constitute a sort of semi-official recognition of Aguinaldo a a true representative of the Philippines--which I do not believe he is--and so would tend to rehabilitate his now vanishing influence. I sincerely hope however that either he will be permitted to visit this country and present his views in person, or if that is deemed for the reason above stated to be inexpedient, that he will be encouraged to present his views in writing, that they will be respectfully received and regarded, and that his views and reply to them will be given to the public. I am sure that the Administration cannot do a wiser thing in the matter than to encourage Aguinaldo's free expression of his sentiments and take the country into its confidence by making public his address or paper and the reply thereto. Yours very respectfully, (Signed) Lyman Abbott 18344differences between the Friars & their tenants are irreconcileable; (3) because to have the Church of their faith represented to the people more or less by such non-resident landlords will prevent the normal religious development of the people. To confiscate the lands because they are held by religious corporation is not to be thought of: it would be un American, unjust, & in flat contravention of our treaty with Spain. The kind & only alternative is to purchase the lands at a lump sum & sell or lease them as far as practicable to small [hold] holders who will reside on the soil & cultivate it, on the principle of a Homestead Law. First [Ackd 12-14-1901 PPF Pr*] Harvard University Preachers' Room Wadsworth House Cambridge, Mass. 11 Dec. 1901. My Dear Mr Roosevelt. My son asks me to write you my opinion as to the wisdom of sending a Commissioner or Commissioners to treat either with the Friars or with His Holiness the Pope, concerning the purchase, by the United States, of the lands now owned by the Friars, in the Philippines. It seems to me that it could be a right & wise thing to do. Whether the negotiations should be conducted with the Friars or the Pope of course I do not know; I hope that it would be feasible to conduct them with the Pope, for [*18345*]the simple reason that it is easier to conduct complicated & delicate negotiations with one person than with several separate Corporations. To doubt the announcement that such a Commissioner had been appointed might excite some bitter arrived version from a small number of impracticables, who are so bitter that they are unwilling to recognize the Church of Rome as worthy to be negotiated with; some criticism from others, who would have no better plan to pursue; and possibly, from a few partisans who would try to seize the occasion to renew their notably to any policy which involves our political responsibility for the Philippines. But I believe the act would be generally welcomed, and if the negotiations were successful the result would be warmly welcomed. Any judgement on this general subject has from the first been clear, that the plan preferred by the full Commission & endorsed by the second Commission were absolutely right. To leave the lands in the ownership of the Friars & worked by the tenants is unpracticable: (1) because all testing shows that agricultural prosperity is infeasible when the land is held in large tracts by non-resident landlords, & the tenants, consequently become a kind of serfs; (2) because, whatever the cause; the [*18346*]Harvard University "Preachers" Room Wadsworth House Cambridge, Mass. we should endeavor to analys a purchase price by negotiation; failing in that the lands should be condemned under the law of eminent domain and the price for them should be fixed by a disinterested Court. But from every point of view the method of fixing the price by negotiation is preferable if practicable. I am sorry to send you so lay a letter not type-written; but I have no short-hand writer here, and if I wait to find a copyist, I fear [*18347*] that the delay may involve a greater inconvenience than will be counter balanced by the greater legibility of the letter. You will be interested perhaps to know that I lunched today with Professor J. B. Thayer & that, speaking broadly, he sustains your view as to the power of government over trusts - at least over every branch of interstate commerce. Yours Sincerely Lyman Abbott.Ackd 12-16-1901 CG EDITORIAL ROOMS Gunton's Magazine Union Square New York December 11th, 1901. My dear Mr. President, I have had the enclosed communication for several days but, feeling confident that under your administration mere political enmity could not secure the removal of an honest and efficient officer, I refrained from calling your attention to it. In view of the announcement in the press yesterday regarding Mr. Wakeman, however, I take the liberty of asking you to read this statement through. The facts therein stated (which are admitted by Mr. Gage) made a profound impression on my mind, and I feel certain that if you will read it they will make an impression on yours. I ask this because I cannot believe that you are acquainted with these facts. An honest official always incurs the enmity of political crooks. If a man with such a record as this can be forced out of the federal service by the enemies of honest administration and clean political methods, the friends of decency may well put on mourning. Yours very truly, George Gunton I beg you not to act in this case without a full knowledge of the facts. 18348File C[?] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 2 WU HS GI 91 Collect GR-2p St Augustine Fla Dec 11. The President: For reasons wholly apart from my own convenience am glad matter will be postponed. It is desirable that you and I should first determine some important points relative to scope of action, if you are to take legislative responsibility. All its bearings must be carefully considered. The intervening time is not being wasted. Am giving it constant consideration to the end that your wishes with which I am in full sympathy can be creditably executed. Am improving rapidly, leave for Summerville this evening. P.C. Knox 18349[*file - PPF Pr*] ABNER McKINLEY, 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Dec 11th 1901 Hon Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States Washington D. C. My dear Mr President I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 7th inst - relating to the matter of Doctor Baer. I trust that I have some appreciation of the complex considerations and difficulties that in the discharge of the official duties of your great office enters in to the questions of appointments and realize that it is for no man to gainsay the wisdom of decision of him upon whom is cast the responsibility of administration, and yet Mr President - in view of the suggestion made by those whom you have advised you will let me say one thing which is on my mind. I have no right to say what qualifications of Doctor Baer and what requirementsrequirements of the office led my brother to link Doctor Baers name with it, for he did not state this to me, He however knew Doctor Baer's equipment and he intimately saw the character of ability required for the office falling within an act which embodied some of his life work, an office created by a bill presented to Congress by him, as Chairman of the Ways & Means committee, and with that knowledge out of all the range of federal offices he selected the post of General Appraiser for Doctor Baer. The suggestion presented was the late President's not mine and in my personal interview with you and in my letter of Nov 30. 1901 I placed it entirely on that basis. Thanking you for giving this your personal attention and with my very best wishes for your success, I am sincerely yours Abner McKinley [*18351*]918 Seventeenth Street, Washington, D.C., December 11, 1901 [*Ackd: 12-14-1901*] To the President: My dear Mr. President: Enclosed you will find a letter from ex-Senator Donelson Caffery in reply to one which I wrote him some time since, as I told you I should do. The letter when it reached me was marked "Confidential" and I was obliged to write him again asking permission that I might read it to you. I received his permission yesterday and I called this morning for the purpose of talking it over and ascertaining whether you thought it worth while for me to enter into correspondence with the gentlemen named. Of course I am conducting this affair entirely on my own motion and without involving you in the slightest degree. I wrote Mr. Caffery simply that I was sure you would like to know his views, and it was for that reason I wanted permission to show you his letter. When I called this morning, however, so many persons were in the room, most of them ahead of me, that I thought it would be better to send you a copy of the letter, which I now do. If you should care to talk with me on the matter I shall be glad to call either at a given time or in the morning with the 18352rest of those who have business with you. Yours sincerely, H.L.NelsonBALTIMORE MORNING HERALD. ESTABLISHED 1875. BALTMORE, MD. DAILY, SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY. FAYETTE AND ST PAUL STS. WESLEY M. OLER, PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER. FRANK F. PEARD, TREAS. AND BUS. MANAGER. BALTIMORE December 11th, 1901. [* Ackd: 12-13-1901*] Dear Mr. President:- Now that the appointments of Maryland seem to be up for discussion, agreeable to your request, I give you herewith a general idea of the candidates. United States District Attorney; incumbent, John C. Rose. You know so much about Rose, that it is not necessary for me to comment on him. He is the best that could be found. Collector of the Port; incumbent, William F. Stone. Mr. Stone is admirably qualified for the place and has given an ideal administration of the office. I never hear but one opinion from the public transacting business through his office and this is of a most favorable character. Mr. Stone is one of the few men in public life, taking an active part in party affairs, who has kept his name perfectly clean. He is honest, intelligent and industrious. I hear of no other candidate for that office. Collector of Internal Revenue; incumbent B. F. Parlett. Mr. Parlett has also made an excellent officer and attends closely to his business and, as far as I can learn, has given perfect satisfaction to the public in the conduct of his office. He is sober, industrious and reputable in every way. The only name I hear mentioned as an applicant for the position is that of Wilbur F. Jackson, brother of the congressman from the first district of Maryland. Mr. Jackson was, until recently, president of the Continental National Bank here and was obliged to resign that position because he had almost wrecked the institution. His standing in the community is not at all good and his appointment to that office would not be a creditable one to the Republican party. 18354THE MORNING HERALD. SHEET No. 2. United States Marshal; incumbent, W. F. Airey. This man is a relic of the old spoils system which kept Maryland safely democratic for more than thirty years. During all that time he managed to carry enough wards in Baltimore to make him the delegate to the National Convention, or give him such prominence as to insure him a federal appointment. He is shrewd, plausible and unscrupulous. He cares nothing for winning a general election; his fights are all made in the primaries. At the last congressional election we nearly lost a congressman because the nominee, Mr. Wachter, was not willing to make pledges to Airey and it cost Mr. Wachter several thousand dollars to make a fight in Mr. Airey's ward, which ought to have cost him nothing, because the ward is republican. I believe he performed his duties as United States Marshal in a satisfactory manner, but his influence in politics here is altogether bad. The other applicant for the position, John F. Langhammer, late Judge of the Orphan's Court, is an excellent man with a first rate character and reputation. By the way, probably you will recollect Mr. Airey, as he was sponsor for Mr. Johnson, whom you investigated as postmaster when you were one of the Civil Service Commission. I think you will be serving the party and the state, if you fail to reappoint Mr. Airey. Senator McComas may endorse him for political reasons, although he told me that he had supported him twice and he thought that was all that could be asked of him. United States Assistant Treasurer; present incumbent, James M. Sloan. Mr. Sloan hails from Western Maryland and was an appointment of Geo. L. Wellington. He is rather colorless; I have never heard anything derogatory to him. I imagine that, because Wellington appointed him, the organization of the state will urge some one to fill his place. I have heard no names mentioned as yet. Surveyor of the Port; incumbent, John B. Hanna-- a very good, clean man. Naval Officer; present incumbent, John W. Cable. He was appointed temporarily to fill a gap caused by the removal of the regular appointee. I do not know who is applying for this position. The wonder to me is that the Government does not abolish it. It is a sinecure, pure and simple, and it seems to me a great deal of money could be saved the Government if the office were abolished altogether. I write you this in strict confidence, as you requested. I regret to say that our mutual friend, John Rose, is quite seriously ill with an abcess in the head. He seems some easier today and I hope he will now improve, as a discharge has begun in one of his ears. If you desire to see me personally in relation to any of these matters, I shall always be glad to place myself at your service. Yours respectfully, Wesley M. Oler 18355 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.[*[For 1 attachment see 12-14-01 "Hold for..."]*][shorthand notation] Hamlin-- Extract sent to Mr. Hamlin 12-13-1901 CG[?] Treasury Department, Office of COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION. Washington, December 11, 1901. Mr. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President. Dear Mr. Cortelyou: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your personal communication of the 6th instant, stating that the President has been informed that the closing of the ports of entry on the Canadian border to Chinese persons of the classes admissible under the laws and treaty would be productive of disastrous results to the trade now existing between New England and China, and requesting, for the further information of the President, an expression of my views thereon. Candidly, I may reply that I am ignorant, both of the amount and the character of any trade, other than the introduction into New England of Chinese persons, between those states and China. But were I fully informed thereupon, it would be a difficult, and from my point of view, an unnecessary question for an administrative officer to determine how far, if at all, such trade would be affected by an honest and intelligent effort on his part to prevent violations of the laws he is appointed to enforce. I realize fully, however, that it is incumbent upon every public officer to so administer the laws over whose enforcement he presides as, without diminishing their efficiency, will as far as possible avoid injury to the business of citizens of the United States. 18356--2-- Soon after the administration of the Chinese exclusion laws was transferred to the Bureau of Immigration, in June, 1900, I became aware of the fact that (the most frequent and the least controllable violations of those laws (the Chinese exclusion laws) occurred along the Canadian boundary,) and that some positive remedial steps should be taken at once, or through that means those laws would become virtually of no effect. (Chinese laborers were coming in large numbers via the Pacific Mail Company's steamers to Vancouver and thence by rail to Montreal, under bond to leave Canada within ninety days to avoid payment of the large head tax imposed upon such aliens by the Dominion government. Some of them applied at the ports designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and were either rejected or admitted upon the claims made by them. The greater part of them, however, and probably most of those who had already been rejected at the ports, effected an entry across the border line by some of the many arts known to the race, often with the assistance of smugglers; were arrested as being unlawfully in the country, taken before a United States Commissioner, and, upon palpably artificial testimony, which Government officers were powerless to refute directly, though they could sometimes impeach the credibility of the witnesses, were released as American born citizens. Some of the jails on the New York and Vermont boundaries were, and are, filled with such Chinese persons awaiting trial, especially where experience showed theses persons that their attempts to gain admission met with the least resistance:) and all of the available officers at my disposal, and approximately 18357--3-- approximately one-fourth of the annual appropriation, were insufficient to materially lessen, much less to put an end to, the abuse. (The obvious cause of this unmanageable situation was the opening, without condition, of the ports on the Canadian border; for the Canadian Pacific Company, if such ports were closed, would not undertake to bring to Canada, as they do now, and give bond that Chinese shall depart therefrom within ninety days, Chinese persons classed on their ships' manifest as of other than the admissible classes; to become subsequently under the instructions of smugglers, native-born Americans for the purpose of effecting as unlawful entry into this country.) It appeared incumbent upon me under these circumstances, to endeavor to make some arrangement with the Canadian transportation lines, and as a preliminary thereto, I addressed a letter to Mr. D. McNicholl, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, copy of which is inclosed for your information, as well as of the circular referred to therein. Since then no action has been taken, though I have had the assurance of the Hon. Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, who is of counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, that his principals would consider favorably an arrangement to deliver all Chinese passengers coming on their line and destined to the United States, into the hands of Government officials at the Canadian border. From my point of view it seems incredible that such an arrangement would affect any legitimate trade between New England and China, any more than the Chinese exclusion laws affect the 18358--4-- general trade between China and the United States. I inclose herewith copy of a bill, prepared with much care by officers experienced in the administration of the present Chinese exclusion laws and aware, from practical observation, of their defects, together with a report thereon, and synopsis of the sections, which I believe fully meets the recommendations on the subject in the President's message, and for which I greatly desire his approval as a means of facilitating its passage. I am apprehensive that, otherwise, those hostile to a continuation of the policy of Chinese exclusion, will, as apparent friends of such policy, secure the enactment of ineffective legislation thereon, thus, in part, at least, finding the means of making their hostility effective. I particularly refer you to page 22, beginning at line 12, for my views as to opening border ports of entry. I also refer you to third paragraph on page 52 of the Annual Report of the Bureau, containing a recommendation made in view of the suggested legislation above referred to. Very truly yours, T. V. Powderly 18359 to do anything but breathe--He is with his mother now at Phoenix Arizona and seems latterly to be improving. Scotts letter has just overtaken me. I enclose it for his remark concerning yourself. I hope the family is well C.E.S. Wood Ackd 12-11-1901 422 MADISON AVENUE. Mr President I shall be in Washington at the New Willard monday and perhaps tuesday but out of regard for your time I shall not gratify myself by calling on you for mere 18360personal chat but if you desire to question me in any particulars I shall be at your disposal. I have just learned from Mrs Robinson that Erskine did not write you that he could not come to Oyster Bay. He asked me to write you and afterwards countermanded it saying he preferred to do so himself; but he was in a ghastly state, too weak 18361File PPF Nt cal Harvard University, Cambridge, 12 December, 1901. Dear Mr. President,- We tried here to find some young men who wanted to go into the Army as second lieutenants,- that is, we tried in a private way, without public announcement; but we could not find any. Apparently, the Army is not attractive to our young men at this moment: the present service is an unattractive one, and no patriotic motive stirs the educated youth. If it had been possible to make a public announcement of the vacancies, the result might have been different. I only report this, in order that you may understand that we endeavored to meet your wishes. I congratulate you and the country on the work you have already done for the Civil Service. Very truly yours, Charles W. Eliot President Theodore Roosevelt 18362 [David Bremner Henderson] Speaker's Room, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Dec. 12. 1901 To the President My Dear Mr President: Reflection and consultation confirm me in the opinion expressed yesterday. Let Mr Carnegie nominate his own Trustees With Great Respect D.B. Henderson 18363 Gvt[?] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASHINGTON. December 12,1901. Dear Mr. Cortelyou: Referring to the President's request for information concerning the Indian Agent at the Winnebago Agency, Nebraska, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advises me that the records of the Indian Bureau show that Mr. C. F. Mathewson has made a good agent, everything at his agency being in first class shape. There are no charges on file, either in the Department or Indian Bureau, affecting Mr. Mathewson's management of the Winnebago Agency. Mr. E. Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has found fault with Mr. Mathewson because he would not recommend, for purely political reasons, a change in the Indian leadership at the Agency. Charges were filed against the present agency traders, and were investigated by Special Agent Jenkins, who reported that the same were undoubtedly due to spite work, and that the present traders were conducting their store in a most creditable manner. Mr. Rosewater demanded, however, a change in the tradership and sharply arraigned Commissioner Jones for declining to make it, and for not licensing a man who had been active in the politics of the State, taking the ground that "a tradership is a privilege granted usually in recognition of valuable service rendered or expected to be rendered". 18364-2- Outside of the objections raised by Mr. Rosewater against Agent Mathewson for declining to recommend a change in the Indian tradership, there is nothing in the correspondence of this Department which in any way reflects upon the latter's management of his agency. A copy of Mr. Rosewater's letter is annexed. Very truly yours, E. A. Hitchcock Secretary. Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, White House.[For 1 enclosure see 7-31-01; Rosewater]Ebbitt House Army & Navy H.C. BURCH, Manager Washington, D.C. Dec 12 1901 Mr. President, Mr. Ward of the "Independent" and Mr. Abbott of the "Outlook" have written to you saying that not only they see no difficulty in sending to the Vatican a representative to treat of the purchase of the Friars' property, but that their papers furthermore will support such a policy. I am fully satisfied that the sending of a representative to settle once for all this property question will be understood by the country as a wise and statesmanlike act. It comes simply to this--you wish to purchase the property and you treat with the effective owner, [*18367*] [*Ackd 12-12-1901 CF*] Ebbitt House Army & Navy H.C. BURCH, Manager Washington, D.C. Dec 12 1901 Dear Sir, Please place the enclosed letter in the hands of the President and. also, let me know whether I may have the privilege of seeing him some time this evening. Very truly, John Ireland Mr G.B. Cortelyou [*18366*]POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY ALBERT B. CHANDLER, President. J. O STEVENS, Sec'y. WM.H. BAKER, V.P. & G.M. IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY. JOHN W. MACKAY, President. ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G. WARD, V.P. & G.M. Design Patent Dec. 30-19-- POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY COMMERCIAL CABLES MACKAY-BENNETT REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 24. TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. Received at HOUSE CORRIDOR, U.S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) 3-W Sa. Ke.14 paid nite ent W. 804-a.m. 2 extra words. Topeka, Kansas, December 12-1901. Hon. Charles Curtis, M. C., Washington, D.C. Metcalf will suit regiment number one U V U for pension agent. A.K. Rodgers, Col., Commanding. [*18369*] 2 Ebbitt House ARMY & NAVY H.C. BURCH, Manager Washington, D.C. 190 If a non-Catholic is preferred, as the one to go to Rome, the name of Gen. Merritt suggests itself to me as worthy of consideration. I wrote to Mr. Cortelyou to ask when I may have the privilege of a conversation with you. Respectfully, John Ireland Mr. Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States [*18368*]Ebbitt AR H.C. Washington, If a non-Catholic as the one to go to Rome, the Gen. Merritt suggests itself worthy of consideration. I wrote to to ask when I may have of a conversation with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt President of POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY ALBERT B. CHANDLER, President. J. O STEVENS, Sec'y. WM.H. BAKER, V.P. & G.M. IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY. JOHN W. MACKAY, President. ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G. WARD, V.P. & G.M. Design Patent Dec. 30-19-- POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY COMMERCIAL CABLES MACKAY-BENNETT REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 24. TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. Received at HOUSE CORRIDOR, U.S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) 3-W Sa. Ke.14 paid nite ent W. 804-a.m. 2 extra words. Topeka, Kansas, December 12-1901. Hon. Charles Curtis, M. C., Washington, D.C. Metcalf will suit regiment number one U V U for pension agent. A.K. Rodgers, Col., Commanding. [*18369*]Ackd 12/14/1901 Encl ret'd [shorthand notation] Oyster Bay, N.Y., December 12, 1901 The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. My dear Colonel Roosevelt- I have been asked to send you the enclosed, and to commend it to your favorable consideration not because you are President of the United States, but a citizen of Oyster Bay, and an old friend of the Presbyterian Church. There is no need to assure you that the object contemplated is of the highest importance, and that its attainment will prove a great benefit to the Church. Notwithstanding this, I feel reluctant to speak of the matter, knowing how manifold and urgent are the calls upon your generosity. Fortunately, however, the fifty dollars you so kindly sent us some months ago, to be used for the Church in any way I saw fit, awaits disposal. If agreeable to you, that amount can be applied to whatever subscription you may be pleased to make. The Ladies' Aid Society believes that your name will prove a valuable help, and trust that you may place it upon their list. We are all watching your course with great interest and pride,and shall never fail to pray for your continued success. With kindest regards to Mrs. Roosevelt, and yourself, believe me to be very sincerely yours, Alexander G. Russell 18370Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. -INCORPORATED- 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for Transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. 887 930p 930p NUMBER 201a SENT BY Neq REC’D BY RE CHECK 20 paid 3 Ex RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F. Streets, Washington, D.C. Dec 12 1901 Dated Atchison KS 12 To Charles Curtis Or Senator Burton Washn DC Inform President Roosevelt general Metcalfe will be acceptable to all republicans and old Soldiers as pension agent Captain John Seaton [*18371*]Dewey's MacMillans Tim Maulding stay [*File*] [[shorthand notation]] [*Jany 18th noted*] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. INCORPORATED. TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. Crawford House, Boston. December 12, 1901. Mr. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. My dear Sir:- The bearer of the note, Mr. I. Garland Penn, of Atlanta, Ga., is very anxious to see the President with a view of securing his interest in a National Negro Religious Congress which is to assemble in Atlanta next year. I hope that you can arrange in some way for him to get a short interview with the President. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington [*18372*][[shorthand]] [*X Ansd by wire 12-13-1901*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3WU. DY. RA. 24-Paid, 7:42 a.m. Buffalo Depot, New York, Dec. 12, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President, U. S. Long wires situation twill help Low and me if Senators friends get no encouragement for any one not civil war veteran. Give us time. W. A. White. [*18374*] [[shorthand]] [*Ack 12/14/1901*] WILCOX & MINER COUNSELLORS AT LAW ANSLEY WILCOX. WORTHINGTON C. MINER. ROOM 816 ELLICOTT SQUARE, BUFFALO, N.Y. Dec. 12th, 1901. To the President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President:- This morning I received a letter form Mr. Alexander which it was a pleasure to me to read, and I send it forward to you, thinking that it will give you some satisfaction. With sincere regards, Yours truly, Ansley Wilcox Enclosure. [*18375*][[shorthand]] [*X Ansd 12-13-1901*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3WU. DY. RA. 24-Paid, 7:42 a.m. Buffalo Depot, New York, Dec. 12, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President, U. S. Long wires situation twill help Low and me if Senators friends get no encouragement for any one not civil war veteran. Give us time. W. A. White. [*18374*] [[shorthand]] [*Ack 12/14/1901*] WILCOX & MINER COUNSELLORS AT LAW ANSLEY WILCOX. WORTHINGTON C. MINER. ROOM 816 ELLICOTT SQUARE, BUFFALO, N.Y. Dec. 12th, 1901. To the President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President:- This morning I received a letter form Mr. Alexander which it was a pleasure to me to read, and I send it forward to you, thinking that it will give you some satisfaction. With sincere regards, Yours truly, Ansley Wilcox Enclosure. [*18375*][For enc see 12-9-01]Hm. EXHIBIT NO. 31. Manila, P.I., December 12, 1901. Honorable Manuel Corrales, Governor of Misamis, Cagayan, P.I. Sir:- I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 12th ultimo, enclosing the protests of the people of the Pueblo of Jimenez against the friars being allowed to legate in that Pueblo. I beg to say in reply that there is no law which forbids friars from going to and remaining any town of the Archipelago. In this regard religious persons stand upon precisely the same footing as other people; their right of free locomotion stands upon the same footing in every particular as that of any other citizen. So long as they do not violate the law they should not be interfered with and are entitled to the protection of those civil officials charged with the enforcement of law and the protection of individuals. Of course if they violate the law they are amenable to its provisions, just in the same way as are other people. It is to be regretted that these padres should insist upon remaining in a community which does not desire their presence or ministrations, but their right to do so is unquestionable and must be respected. One of the fundamental principles of American government is the complete separation of Church and State, and another is the complete right of every person within the jurisdiction of the United States to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. It is therefore impossible for any priest or religious teacher to exact attendance upon divine service; so that the people of Jimenez, if they elect to do so, may remain away from church whilst these padres officiate, and are not compelled in any way to contribute to their maintenance. This being so, it is not easy 18376-2- to perceive why the presence of the padres in the Pueblo of Jimenez can in any wise injuriously affect the people. Governor Taft some months ago addressed a communication to the Honorable Wallis O. Clark, Governor of Tarlac, defining at some length the respective rights of priests and people, a copy of which I herewith enclose for your perusal and guidance, and also for the information of the municipal authorities of Jimenez. This communication so completely covers the entire subject it need not be further discussed here. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully. (Sgd) Luke E. Wright, Acting Civil Governor.[*Ackd CF*] Charles S. Gleed. Eugene F. Ware. James Willis Gleed. David E. Palmer. John L. Hunt. Cable “Gleed.” Telephone 217. Law office of Gleed, Ware, & Gleed, Topeka, Kansas. December 13, 1901. To the President: Permit me to say that in calling your attention to the vacant chancellorship of the University of Kansas I had no desire to impose a task on you or to put you to any trouble. I only thought it might be a somewhat novel and pleasant experience to have offered to you a place for a man instead of a man for a place. With great respect, C. S. Gleed [*18378*][*ackd*] Charles S. Gleed. Eugene F. Ware. James Willis Gleed. David E. Palmer. John L. Hunt. Cable “Gleed.” Telephone 217. Law office of Gleed, Ware, & Gleed, Topeka, Kansas. December 13, 1901. To the President: I made haste to examine a copy of my letter to you of December 2nd in order to find what you considered a reflection on William Allen White – for nothing could be further form my intent than any unfavorable reflection on him. My love and admiration for him are of the highest and, of course, I agree with you that he is absolutely square. I cannot, however, agree with your inference that because he is square he is necessarily right. Square men squarely wrong occur very frequently – at least out here. On reading my letter I conclude that you probably consider it a reflection on my friend when I say that his interest in Mr. Leland is, partly at least, due to the interest which certain of his friends have in Mr. Leland. Now that the question is raised, I must say that that is exactly the truth. But I do not see how that statement can be a reflection on White. If I had said that he believed [*18379*]-2- Mr. Leland to be a bad man and yet supported him to please friends I should certainly be making an adverse reflection. I did not and do not mean that. I only mean that Mr. White, who is praising Mr. Leland as bearing the same relation to politics that you bear, and who is abusing Mr. Kerens for being "bad," is in the main reflecting the opinions of friends and acquaintances and is not speaking from personal knowledge of the two men. He has had precious little to do with Mr. Leland personally and very much less with Mr. Kerens. Most of the political work of these two men was ancient history before Mr. White had put down his school books, and since that time Mr. White has had no better opportunity for judging the not-public performances of these men than he has had for judging the not-public performances of Blaine, Platt, Aldrich, Hanna, Lodge, Hill or Croker. It has been my misfortune to have personal knowledge of the life and works of almost every conspicuous politician in this part of the country from Jim Lane down, and this experience has given me, among other branches of knowledge, a knowledge of those who do not know. It is not possible for Mr. White to know much about the actual doings of actual political workers in 1838 -3- Kansas or elsewhere. He must know such men as most men know most men - through intermediate acquaintances. So I say that Mr. White's enthusiasm for Mr. Leland is based chiefly on the enthusiasm of certain of his friends on whom he relies. One word more as to Mr. Leland. As I said to you in our conversation, you can consistently re-appoint him in execution of the promise undoubtedly made to him by your predecessor. The office in Mr. Leland's hands will be well conducted, there will be no scandal, and you will secure the support of a clever worker in the field of "Stratagems and Spoils." Mr. White in a letter to me argues that with Mr. Leland re-appointed you can have the next Kansas delegation but with Mr. Leland evicted he will fight you and not let you have the delegation. I do not understand that you are in the habit of appointing men to office because you are afraid of them, and I credit Mr. Leland with having more sense than to make such a fight on you for such a cause. If I thought he would do so I should certainly beg you to displace him. For I repeat what I said to you in our conversation - that neither Mr. Leland nor Mr. Burton, nor [*18381*]-4- both of them with all their friends, can deprive you of the next Kansas delegation if your only offense is the appointment to office of men who can stand the microscope. With great respect, C. S. Gleed. [*18382*][*718*] [*632 P*] Form No. 168. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD The company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is nor presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS T. ECKERT, President and General Manager.           RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F. Streets, Washington D.C. 247C Jm Cv 37 D H 6:28P Topeka Kansas Dec 13 1901 Senator J.R. Burton, W.D.C. Saw Low He don't intend to come he says he don't intend to do anything further. He will be satisfied with what ever happens Had a very satisfactory visit No more danger from there sure. Wire me. F.E. Grimes. State Treasurer of Kansas [*18383*]File PP7 Department of State. Washington, December 12, 1901. Dear Mr. President:- On returning to the Department I find a very sensible despatch from Spencer Eddy, our Charge in Constantinople. He is evidently of the impression that there is still a chance of reaching the brigands by negotiation, and I think it only fair to allow his scheme to be developed before making any change in the programme. Yours faithfully John Hay 18384[*File*] [*PPF*] Dec. 13th 1901- U.S. Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Dear Theodore I had been counting on a ride with you this afternoon but this confounded cold & laryngitis which I have been struggling with all the week came on with renewed force last night & altho' better this morning I am going to keep housed [*18385*]This will be doing well for before the holidays. The House will not get the Philippine bill over to us until Thursday so we cannot touch it until after the recess but I have had my committee together & we are ready for it. Yrs H.C.L. [*[Lodge]*] today & try to get rid of it. I hope I shall be all right tomorrow & able to ride with you in the afternoon if so be as you want me.-- Meantime I have steered the treaty into calm waters by getting an agreement to vote on Monday which is the essential point.-- I have gone over the lists & we are safe for a more than ample two thirds. [*18386*] [Ack'd 12/16/1901] [*Wrote Treas*] [[shorthand]] Guaranty Trust Company of New York Mutual Life Building corner Nassau and Cedar Streets WALTER G OAKMAN PRESIDENT ADRIAN ISELIN JR VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE R TURNBULL 2D VICE PRESIDENT HENRY A MURRAY 3D VICE PRESIDENT JOHN GAULT MANAGER FOREIGN DEPARTMENT WM C EDWARDS TREASURER E C HEBBARD SECRETARY F C HARRIMAN ASSISTANT TREASURER R C NEWTON TRUST OFFICER LONDON BRANCHES 33 LOMBARD STREET E C 60 ST JAMES STREET S W R C WYSE MANAGER LONDON COMMITTEE ARTHUR JOHN FRASER ESQ CHAIRMAN DONALD C HALDEMAN ESQ HON LEVI P MORTON New York December 13th 1901. Douglas Robinson Esq., New York. My dear Mr. Robinson: I had the pleasure of a short conference with the President recently, regarding an application of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York for appointment as Fiscal Agent of the United States at Manila, at Hong Kong and at Shanghai, where our branch offices are now being established. I regret to see that some newspaper articles have appeared, stating that the Company has been appointed, and am anxious that the consideration by the Government of our application should not be prejudiced thereby. The large responsibility of the Company, and the high standing of its Directors, giving assurance that the interests of the United States confided to it would be amply and completely protected, and the fact that it is the first American financial institution to establish itself in the Far East, will undoubtedly receive full [*18387*]Guaranty Trust Company of New York Mutual Life Building corner Nassau and Cedar Streets WALTER G OAKMAN PRESIDENT ADRIAN ISELIN JR VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE R TURNBULL 2D VICE PRESIDENT HENRY A MURRAY 3D VICE PRESIDENT JOHN GAULT MANAGER FOREIGN DEPARTMENT WM C EDWARDS TREASURER E C HEBBARD SECRETARY F C HARRIMAN ASSISTANT TREASURER R C NEWTON TRUST OFFICER LONDON BRANCHES 33 LOMBARD STREET E C 60 ST JAMES STREET S W R C WYSE MANAGER LONDON COMMITTEE ARTHUR JOHN FRASER ESQ CHAIRMAN DONALD C HALDEMAN ESQ HON LEVI P MORTON New York December 13th 1901. Douglas Robinson Esq., ......2. consideration by the President. I enclose a statement of the Company, giving its capital and surplus and the names of its Directors, and would be glad if you could kindly convey to the President the fact that any publication made upon the subject has not been through us. Yours very truly, W.G. Oakman President. Enclosure [*18388*][Enc. in Robinson to TR 12-13-01][*Ackd 12-16-1901 Wrote Secy Treasry PPF pr*] CABLE ADDRESS: "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." TELEPHONE CONNECTION. DOUGLAS ROBINSON 160 BROADWAY New York, December 13, 1901 To the President, White House, Washington, D.C. Dear Theodore:-- I happened to meet Mr. Walter G. Oakman, the President of the Guaranty Trust Company, the other night at dinner at the University Club. He told me that the Company had made application to the Government to represent them at Manilla, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and that he only wanted you to realize that the Company he represented was amply able to take care of the business and guard the United States in every way. he thought an American Co would be preferred to an English one You may remember you met him at lunch at the Downtown Club with Augy. Belmont. Really the Guaranty Trust Co. is one of the offshoots of the Mutual Life, and they are behind them, as I understand it. I enclose you a letter which he sent, still I presume he wants it to get to you and show you that the Company had nothing to do with the matter that came out in the paper. Mr. Oakman I know very well, and he is a first rate fellow in every way--and I found him one of the best business men I have met. I have just heard that Teddy had appendicitis at Cambridge, not severe enough for an operation yet. Corinne is going on tonight- I dont think I can get away until tomorrow night as I am rushed to death here and I do not understand at the moment there is anything critical about it- still I am very much upset, naturally. Yours DR[*[obinson]*] [*18389*][For eve. see Oakman to Robinson 12-13-01]HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON. December 13", 1901. TO THE PRESIDENT: Executive Mansion, City. Sir: With reference to the application of PATRICK F. GARRETT, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to be appointed collector of customs at the Port of El Paso, I have the honor to say: That I have known him and his history for about twenty years last past, and have been quite intimate with him the last few years. That he accompanied me for about eight hundred miles in my campaign last Fall over southern New Mexico, by rail and overland, during which time I had good opportunity to get to know the man and form an estimate of his general character, and I unhesitatingly pronounce him as an extraordinarily well balanced able and sensible person. He is about fifty years of age, and well preserved: has a wife and five children, and he and they are considered as of our very best and most respectable citizens. He is a native of Alabama, but moved into Texas in early life, and for the last twenty-two years (save for an interim of five years when he lived again in Texas) has been a resident of New Mexico, and now lives at the town of Las Cruces in our Territory. He is an active energetic man whose word is his bond;is very proper and temperate in his habits,and has the respect and confidence of all his fellow citizens. Because of his courage as a man, his well known good sense and discretion,and his executive ability he has many times been chosen by both the Governor of New Mexico and of Texas and by the people of New Mexico to quiet turbulent conditions in several counties. He gained a national reputation years ago in his management and settlement of what was known as the "Lincoln county war", and in finally ridding the countyy of the notorious desperado "Billy the Kid." Later he brought chaos to an end and restored law and order in Dona Ana county,N.M. after the killing of Col. A.J. Fountain. The Governor of the Territory chose him for this duty. Apart from his duties as a peace officer and sheriff he has been for 18390HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON. 2. many years engaged in the cattle and horse raising business. He has several times been engaged as the manager of extensive cattle and ranch companies, and has given entire satisfaction to all his employers. He has live stock interests in the Territory at the present time. In politics he was born and came to New Mexico a democrat, although he was never an intense partisan. He was several times chosen as a nonpartisan candidate for sheriff of his county. About five years ago he came out as a Republican, and has acted with that party ever since. He is respected by all who know him, even his former democratic friends. I was indeed pleased Mr. President when I understood you were considering him for appointment to the office for which he is an applicant, and I know, and assure you sir, that you have made no mistake in considering him, and if you appoint him, he will be a credit to his country and to your administration. I make this latter statement advisedly, and fully appreciate the responsibility it involves. With assurances of my most distinguished consideration I have the honor to subscribe myself Most respectfully yours, B S Rodey Delegate in Congress from New Mexico. [*General Lew Wallace introduced Garrett to me & vouched for him most warmly. T. R.*] [*18391*][*ansd by wire 12-14-1901 PPF Pr*] [*X*] [*come by Wednesday*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 32WU .HF .RA 75-Paid 2 Ex. 6:05 pm. New York, December 13, 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Deeply regret appointment with Seth Low Saturday morning to determine fire commissionship prevents acceptance of your invitation for Saturday. Would some day next week be equally as convenient and agreeable to you as I have promised to speak at dinner here Saturday evening. If not equally convenient and agreeable I can break dinner engagement and come for luncheon on Sunday or any day next week after Tuesday. Kindly answer 63 East 74th. St. James R. Sheffield [*18392*]Ansd by wire 12-14-1901 PP7 120 Broadway New York Dec. 13" 1901 My dear Col. Roosevelt. On my return from Michigan this morning I find your letter of Dec. 10', offering me the position of Immigration Commissioner. It is needless to state how greatly I appreciate the honor of such an offer coming from you. I, too, want to help and do the thing that you feel will best serve your great purposes and interests. But I have grave doubt as 18393to do all in my power for your interests here in New York or elsewhere. Indeed I do want to talk this matter over with you--and I second with enthusiasm your suggestion of a personal interview. I place myself at your disposal at any time convenient for yourself, and meanwhile I will give the offer most serious consideration--though I know it is doubtful if I am in a position to be able to accept. With loyal appreciation believe me, Very Faithfully Yours James R. Sheffield o whether the circumstances and reasoning, which prevents my accepting Mr Low's offer of the Fire Commissionship (which he has made me) ought not to be of weight in determining my decision of the position which you have so flatteringly offered me. I should be gratified beyond words to be associated with your administration-- although whether in an official capacity or not will not alter in the slightest degree the intensity of my personal loyalty, or my intention 18394[[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-17-1901*] Editorial Staff Lyman Abbott, Editor in Chief Hamilton W. Mabie, Associate Editor R. D. Townsend Charles B. Spahr Elbert F. Baldwin, James M. Whiton The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue (near 23rd Street) New York December 13, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: A petition signed by Bishop Potter, Mr. Gilder, and others, left at this office by Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell for Dr. Abbott’s signature, was forwarded you yesterday afternoon, before we could hear from Dr. Abbott, in accordance with the instruction that it should be sent you by Thursday afternoon, at the latest. Dr. Abbott’s reply to the request made him reached us this morning, and will be forwarded you. Yours very truly, Charles B. Spahr [*18395*]POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY ALBERT B. CHANDLER, President. J. O STEVENS, Sec'y. WM.H. BAKER, V.P. & G.M. IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY. JOHN W. MACKAY, President. ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G. WARD, V.P. & G.M. Design Patent Dec. 30-19-- POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY COMMERCIAL CABLES MACKAY-BENNETT REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 24. NIGHT TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers Night Messages subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. Received at HOUSE CORRIDOR, U. S. CAPITOL WASHINGTON D. C. (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) 5-W. Y. Ke. 36 paid. Nite 20 exa. ent w.8 29-a Emporia, Kas, Dec. 13-01. J. R. Burton, U. S. Senate, Washn, D.C. We and many other veterans of Civil and Spanish wars here, urge the appointment of Metcalf. Lieut. W. S. Weaver, 32 Infantry Vol., Capt. E. P. Bruner, 23rd Ind. Vol (Sergt N. A. Vine) First US Cavalry Vol. [*18396*] Telegram. White House, Washington. 34 WU. BI. RA. 31-Paid…6:46 p.m. Emporia, Kansas, December 13, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President. Burton filled todays Kansas papers with interview announcing Metcalf’s appointment. Wire Leland immediately. Alleges charges; if charges have been filed Leland will gladly meet them. Kindly defer matter till letter arrives. W. A. White. [*18397*]NIGHT TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers Night Messages subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. Received at HOUSE CORRIDOR, U. S. CAPITOL WASHINGTON D. C. (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) 5-W. Y. Ke. 36 paid. Nite 20 exa. ent w.8 29-a Emporia, Kas, Dec. 13-01. J. R. Burton, U. S. Senate, Washn, D.C. We and many other veterans of Civil and Spanish wars here, urge the appointment of Metcalf. Lieut. W. S. Weaver, 32 Infantry Vol., Capt. E. P. Bruner, 23rd Ind. Vol (Sergt N. A. Vine) First US Cavalry Vol. [*18396*] Telegram. White House, Washington. 34 WU. BI. RA. 31-Paid…6:46 p.m. Emporia, Kansas, December 13, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President. Burton filled todays Kansas papers with interview announcing Metcalf’s appointment. Wire Leland immediately. Alleges charges; if charges have been filed Leland will gladly meet them. Kindly defer matter till letter arrives. W. A. White. [*18397*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. RED. 16PO.H. RA. 42-Paid Night December 14, 1901. Emporia, Kansas, December 13, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President U. S. Mr Lowe believes positively can fulfill his contract in spite of present flurry. He asks me most earnestly to request that the matter be held open according to our agreement until middle of January. I am sure he can do it then. W. A. White. [*18398*]TELEGRAM. Executive Mansion, Washington. PO 1 CH V GI 315 Paid Night-2:10a. [*Ansd by wire 12-14-1901*] Emporia Kas Dec 13/14. Theodore Roosevelt, President: Kansas conditions have not changed Wares theory and mine still abides. It is vital to good government in Kansas. You have steadily maintained that you wish not to make this a certain mans victory. This appointment would mean nothing, absolutely nothing else, a victory for one, by appointing his partisan, a humiliation for a good officer and worse than all the abandonment of Kansas to unchecked incipient Quoyism. More than this whatever they may tell you to the contrary and Leland's enemies may say, the appointment of any one not a Civil war Veteran will unnecessarily offend eighty thousand Veterans of the rolls of this office as against five hundred from Spanish war. Low and I can get you the entire Kansas delegation united. We left Washington understanding that we could have time. If Low had stayed this situation would not have occurred. But he can't change it by telegram nor letter. We both beg of you to give us the time we expected. Low joins me in this as your friend fearing a grave mistake made by action sooner than we understood it would come. Today's papers are all full of Burton's personal triumph, given out in exulting interviews. The purpose of your appointment could not possibly be understood, even though your man is a fine fellow whom I respect as a citizen and soldier. When it was given out Tuesday that Leland's would win the press of the state absolutely without exception praised the appointment as an act of simple justice to the dead President. There was no line of criticism. Leland was universally praised even by boss Burton's organ, and the Capital. A change now makes it a personal victory because the appointee is distinctively a partisan and stands politically 18399TELEGRAM. Executive Mansion, Washington. for nothing else, utterly unlike Ware. Its not for a man that I pray and plead but for the welfare of a state. W. A. White.WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. December 13, 1901. Memorandum: Commissioner Wright telephones that owing to the delay in the confirmation of Mr. Willoughby as Treasurer of Porto Rico, he has communicated with Senator Foraker, who tell him that they have been unable to find anyone who knows Mr. Willoughby. He has therefore written Senator Foraker a strong letter about Mr. Willoughby, and suggests that Secretary Cortelyou communicate with the Senator and tell him that the appointment is all right. 18401 Memorandum: [*[ca 12-13-01]*] The attached document is a copy. The original was returned to Admiral Walker a few days ago for his files. 18402[attached to memo (?) 12-13-01]WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. December 13, 1901. Memorandum: Mr. Boeufvé, chancellor of the French Embassy, called this morning and said that Mr. Hutin had stated that the President told him he would send this document to Congress. Mr. Boeufvé also called attention to the request in the last paragraph that Mr. Hutin be advised of the President’s decision upon the application. Upon calling this to the President’s attention he said he had never promised Mr. Hutin anything of the sort; that so far as the request for a decision upon the application was concerned, it was made when he returned the papers to Admiral Walker. 18403[*[For 2 attachments see 11-30-01 Hutin & memo ca. 12-13-01]*]the money, but I have not and under these circumstances it looks very much like - asking for a gift. Such however is not my wish. I would be perfectly willing to pay any reasonable interest and undertake to repay the principal within a certain term or what would be better so much off at the end of every 6 or 12 months. Now what I want to ask you is, could you make this advance. As I said before I can't go to a business man here & ask such a thing without offering some material security, so am forced to do a thing which really goes against the grain, but which, although to a certain extent it is or would be a risk for you, I feel sure you would not regret. I have been trying to figure it as low as I can and I think I could manage with £400 but still if you are not prepared to advance that amount I would take whatever you could. I would pay 5% interest. I mentioned to Mr. Nevett that I was writing to you. I did not give him particulars of what I was writing about [*Private*] [*Ackd 1/15/1902*] Encl ntd P.F.*] Miss Rotherham 10 Urquhart Street Ballarat Victoria. Australia 14th December 1901 My dear Theodore, I have to thank you for your prompt reply to my letter and also for the very handsome photograph of yourself which arrived safely - it was good of you to so promptly accede to my request when you must be almost at your wits end for a spare moment. I know very well you like work because although I have not been in communication with you directly yet one can constantly hear about you and even in this far away land your public work is as well known as it is in America. I had made up my mind a few days ago to write to you again for a certain purpose and had even written the letter when your letter arrived. A week ago the idea of doing so had not entered into [*103 18404*]my head but once there I couldn't get it out and although I shall have to wait for a couple of months before I again hear from you as to whether you can grant this my second request, yet I felt there was no harm in putting the matter before you. Now as you are such a busy man you will not want a long story so I will make it as short as I can. I came out to this country about 8 years ago after a very severe illness at home, but not with the intention of staying here permanently. However after being here for a short time I thought there was a better chance in a young country like this so determined to stop, I soon found out however that without capital and without influence it was just as difficult to advance here as elsewhere & although I have been able to keep my head above water I am sorry to say I must own to a certain amount of defeat. Still I don't despair yet. My object is not merely to advance myself but to make a home for Loulie who as you are probably aware is unmarried & living in Liverpool with Jessie. I don't mean that I would ask her to come out here, but I feel that I should be the one she should look to for help. I may add that I also have not married. During the last seven years I have been in the employment of Mr. H. A. Nevett of this City one of the leading Solicitors in Victoria and a Notary Public. However, lately I have realised that without capital there is no chance for a man who is only an ordinary clerk to advance at all in the legal profession in addition to which I feel certain that I am not cut out for office work - at any rate as a clerk. I mean from the point of view of health. With a little capital however I think I could start in a business of my own here and make it pay well. Personally I haven't the slightest doubt of it, but there is always a little difficulty in persuading anyone else to take the same view. Of course if I had the security here it would be perfectly easy to borrow [*104 18405*]5) but told him that a letter written by him showing that I had been with him for over 7 years & was not a harum scarum would facilitate matters. He very kindly had the enclosed letter written and signed it himself - the change in the staff he refers to is his own son who is coming into the office He (Mr Nevett) informed me that he knew I was not doing myself justice in being in the office. I have known this a long time only hesitated to leave, unless I had something with which I could start with. Now my dear Theodore I hope you won't vote me a detestable bore in writing to you like this you may be sure I would not unless I felt I was in a corner, so to speak, but if for any reason (and there may be many) you find it impossible to accede to my request don't hesitate to let me know as soon as possible as I shall be leaving Mr. Nevett's [*105 18406*]office at the end of January next. I'm afraid I have made this letter long enough for a busy man to read so will defer to some future occasion some topics which I would very much like to write to you about. Your public actions & policy as reported in the papers appear to give great satisfaction here & the general opinion is that you are making a capital start as President. You would like this Country I know and the people also. With kind regards and trusting you will forgive me forcing such an epistle on you Believe me Yours faithfully Stuart E BullochMr. & Mrs. Samuel Altman request the honor of your presence at the marriage ceremony of their daughter. Augusta to Mr. Harry Evans, Sunday Afternoon, December 22nd, 1901, at the Pine Street Synagogue Ball at Golden Hall, cor. Oak and Clinton Streets Ceremony at 4 P. M Invitations required at the door. Brides Residence, 204 Broadway. At Home after Dec. 29th, 1901. 372 South Division Street. 18407Ack'd 12/14/1901 [shorthand notation] Hon. Theo. Roosevelt President of the U.S. My dear President: On the opposite page you will see and invitation to my wedding. Undoubtedly you have forgotten me by this time but I wish to inform who I am. I was Captain of the "Rough Riders" in Buffalo during your gubernatorial campaign, and my company acted as your escort furthermore I had the pleasure of meeting you and having a long chat with you. With best of wishes I beg to remain, Sincerely Harry Evans [*Private.*] [*ackd 12-17-1901 PPF*] ALBERMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST, New York. O. D. LIBBEY, PROP'R. Dec. 14, 1901. Dear Theodore: I'm glad you liked the article in the "Graduates'." As to your glasses you must blame Hanks '79 to whom I went for a detailed account of the bout. He swore you always used them and though I did not remember them he insisted that not only at the gymnasium but in practice you invariably wore them! Ehem! I did not wish [*18409*]ALBERMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE WEST, NEW YORK. O.B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. to trouble you, so hunted information from the other end. I 've sent you today Dr. Arnold of Georgia. The doctor doesn't wish any office. He wants to win back the South to the Republican Party. He has no prejudice against the colored brother but he does object to the criminal colored or white as a Federal office holder. In short he believes, as I do, thatALBERMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST, NEW YORK. O.B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. the time has come for the uplifting of the Republican Party in the South from the slough of office jobbery into which it has sunk. I do not know Dr. Arnold very well but he expressed these sentiments long before you were President and I do know and trust his Boston commission house. Please don't let me thrust myself on you. I only wish to help. I'm in close contact with the menALBERMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST, New York. O.D. LIBBEY, PROP'R. who control the Southern cotton mills. I've been commissioner to two Southern expositions. I've had change of Savannah as a military port and Jacksonville as a camp. I've been on the staff of a Virginia general and have been lauded by the New Orleans Picayune as the saviour of their boys from "Camp Hell." If you ever want me to dig up information on Southern matters, I can, perhaps, do it pretty well. Anyhow of course you know [*18412*]ALBEMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE WEST, NEW YORK. O.B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. how I feel towards you and, well you won't misunderstand me towards our country. God bless her. Affy, Curtis [guild] 18413[[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12/16/1901*] All letters, to ensure prompt attention, should be addressed to the Firm CHICAGO OFFICE 378-388 WABASH AVENUE BOSTON OFFICE 4 PARK STREET NEW YORK OFFICE 85 FIFTH AVENUE HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS Boston, December 14, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Our records do not indicate that we have ever sent to you volume 32, which was the index volume for the Large Paper Edition of the American Statesman, in buckram. We sent you thirty-one volumes that were ready and if we have failed to send you the 32nd volume, we want to forward it to you. Yours very truly, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. GM [*18414*] [*ppF*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 19 WU HG 27 Paid, 12:20 p.m. OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Dec. 14, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou, White House: Informed at office HOHENZOLLERN due Tuesday afternoon. Have arranged with Western Union for notice at Quarantine. Will be at fifth Avenue Hotel from Monday noon until arrival. A. M. Knapp. [*18415*]President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Our records do not indicate that we have ever sent to you volume 32, which was the index volume for the Large Paper Edition of the American Statesman, in buckram. We sent you thirty-one volumes that were ready and if we have failed to send you the 32nd volume, we want to forward it to you. Yours very truly, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. GM [*18414*] [*ppF*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 19 WU HG 27 Paid, 12:20 p.m. OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Dec. 14, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou, White House: Informed at office HOHENZOLLERN due Tuesday afternoon. Have arranged with Western Union for notice at Quarantine. Will be at fifth Avenue Hotel from Monday noon until arrival. A. M. Knapp. [*18415*]December 14, Ackd. 12-14-1901 The President. I am glad to be able to report that Senators Allison & Spooner are now quite favorably disposed. They have both promised to tell you so. I now ask the privilege of a final talk with you. I desire to leave tomorrow night on the midnight train. Respectfully, John Ireland 18416[[shorthand]] [*ackd 12-17-1901 CF*] (PERSONAL) 120 Broadway New York Dec. 14th. 1901. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President:- Pardon me for reminding you of our conversation on Monday evening last as to the importance of availing of the present opportunity of securing as early restoration of peaceful conditions in the Philippines by the removal of the Friars and the purchase of the lands of the religious orders there, upon the lines suggested in the official report of the Secretary of War. Apart from the matter being right in itself, under our treaty obligations, nothing is likely to give greater satisfaction to the public or redound more certainly to the credit of your administration than the prompt salvation of this difficult situation, the opportunity for which is now for the first time clearly presented. If you have not had the suggested conference at luncheon with the official who can do most to aid you in accomplishing this most important result, I earnestly beg, in the public interest that it may not be long delayed. Faithfully yours, John J. McCook [*18417*][*Ackd 12-17-1901 PPF Pr*] EXCELSIOR STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY Newburgh, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1901. My dear Mr. President:-- I am just recovering from my recent illness so as to be out today. In reference to the Goddard proposition about which I wrote you some time ago, I wish you would do nothing so far as you and he are concerned for the present. We are still anxiously awaiting developments in the scarlet fever case, but are hoping for the best. With kindest regards to Mrs. Roosevelt and yourself, and regretting our inability to visit you this week as intended, I am Very truly yours, B. B. Odell Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. [*18418*][*Ackd 12-18-1901*] ANSON JUDD UPSON Chancellor WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE Vice-Chancellor INCORPORATED 1 MAY 1784 University of the State of New York JAMES RUSSELL PARSONS JR Secretary of University Director College and High School Departments HENRY I. KNICKERBOCKER Head Clerk Dictated V In reply to yours of Departments ADMINISTRATIVE HOME EDUCATION COLLEGE STATE LIBRARY HIGH SCHOOL STATE MUSEUM Regents office Albany, N. Y. 14 D 1901 [*Ackd 12-18-1901*] To the President Washington, D.C. Dear Mr President: I want you to see the inclosed statement which Bishop Doane filed with Mr Carnegie about two weeks ago after a more satisfactory interview than was anticipated. Governor Odell told me about a month ago that he realized the need for a new library and museum building and that he expected to take this matter up next year. We feel, however, that if the means to erect this building were given to the University of the State of New York, the state would without doubt increase its measure of support to such an extent as could not be expected if the building were put up by the state. As is said in the statement, if the building were put up by private means it seems sure that the legislature would make any reasonable agreement for maintenance, and that this obligation would be a debt of honor on succeeding legislatures. On this subject I am most enthusiastic as I fully believe that with such help public libraries in the state of New York under the system of the regents of the University would develop more rapidly than in any other political division in the United States. Faithfully yours J R Parsons j [*Since writing the above I have talked with St Clair McKelway. Perhaps I am oversanguine as to the attitude of the legislature in the event of an offer from Mr Carnegie.*] [*18419*]Philadelphia you know; but you cant ask a girl to marry you & support you - Can you? This is all a secret - Please & only that the two care for each other. The Pells have no business influence at all. The President of Farmers Loan Mr Marston and Mr Samuel Sloan will say nice things of Theodore. If you think I am daft [*[12-14-01]*] [*Ackd 12-14-1901*] My dear Teddy, Think of my calling the President of the United States "Teddy." The spirit moved me I am home all alone tonight & can write to you an absolutely confidential letter. [*to be so open with you Theodore would be furious did he know I was writing. Please not to write one word of all I have said & do not bother to answer at all unless you have an offer to make. Very sincerely yours Caroline E. Pell*] [*18420*] Its all about my "Theodore" but I wont begin to ask a favor until I tell you that in all my rejoicing over the height that you have attained to, I keep all the time thinking Oh! your dear "Mittie" and "Mr. Thee" know it all. How proud they were of the "boy" I am glad my boy met you. Now I will confide He wants a position that will warrant him to ask a "little love" or rather her father to give her to him. He has been years in the "Farmers Loan & Trust Co", & gets $16 a week. Fancy it. That is all. No prospect. He & little Miss Florence Cramp ofIn laying down the trust committed to my hands I want to thank you most sincerely for the confidence you have reposed in me, and for the great pleasure I have found in an association which has deepened my esteem for yourself personally and my admiration for the spirit and aims of your Administration. With my best wishes that you may have the largest measure of success, I remain Faithfully yours Chas Emory Smith To the President Ansd Jan. 4, 1902 PP7 THE POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON. Dec. 14, 1901 My dear Mr. President, Following my verbal communication of some time ago I beg to tender my resignation of the office of Postmaster General, to take effect at you early convenience on the appointment and qualification of my successor. This step is taken in fulfillment of a plan long since formed, for purely personal reasons, the execution of which has been delayed until it could be carried out without embarrassing your declared policy, and until Department measures in which I am deeply interested could be satisfactorily advance and assured. 18423 Ackd 12-19-1901 [shorthand notation] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. INCORPORATED. TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. Crawford House, Boston. December 14, 1901. President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington,D.C. My dear Mr. President:- I confess that I am greatly troubled about R. L. Smith, of Oakland, Texas. I appreciate, I think, in some degree, your difficulties because of the color feeling and your wanting to respect as far as possible the wishes of the regular organizations when they are in any degree decent. The case of smith is peculiar. You will perhaps recall that when we had our first talks in New York regarding the South, both of us referred to Smith as the type of a colored man to be recognized. Knowing Smith to be strong and clean and not in the hands of your enemies, I asked him to aid me in Texas and elsewhere in moulding influence for you. This he was doing effectively. At present it is true that in Texas there is but one recognized organization, but until lately 18424there have been two organizations and both contained some good men. Smith happened to be with the wing that was not recognized by Mr. Hanna. Smith has gotten practically all the endorsements that it was suggested he get except that of Mr. Harley and his element; this Smith said he could not get in the first place. But the thing that is on my heart about Smith is this: His political enemies have brought all kinds of false charges against him, even going so far as to try to injure his moral reputation. This being true, for him not to be appointed will almost ruin his influence in educational and other work in Texas, among our people and the whites. His failure will be placed on the grounds that you believe these charges. It will seem like a recognition of the worst element of our people and a throwing down of the best. Smith's appointment will help the race. Is it not possible to pacify the regular organization so that they will consent to Smith's appointment? If you will give him the chance, I think that Smith can suggest a transfer of some of the white officers that will give satisfaction to most of those opposing him. I will not burden you with recommendations, but I hope you will read the two that are enclosed. Smith has scores just like these from colored people, white Republicans, and white Democrats. Mr. Ware is the ex-Attorney General of the State. I dislike so very much to seem to become a special pleader, and do not mean to become such in any case in the future This will be my address until December 19th, 1901, after that at Tuskegee. Yours sincerely Booker T. Washington. 18425TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 12 PO TY JM 198 Paid, 2:18 p.m. EMPORIA, Kansas, Dec. 14, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President:- Low and I are strangers in politics. To work with me for Leland, he had to overcome the Burton prejudice. When I asked you, at our last interview, for time to let matters shape up after Foley outburst and when I suggested some time in January when Low would be in Washington, said all right, and I told Low. He saw present situation coming with complacence, not trying to check it, fearing nothing. Now that it threatens our plans he cannot understand the stress you'r in, as I can, nor appreciate, as I do, the altered situations. This morning I feel Low believes me either a weak bungler in the time extension understanding, or what is as bad, in politics, a common liar. I turn to you, puzzled to know what to do. If the matter comes to immediate action or implied promise or action at the end of our time expectation, I fear it will cripple, but shall not halt me in any good cause. My terror for myself has overcome my fear for Leland after a sleepless night, at which you may smile now and I may be able to after awhile. W. A. White. [*18426*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 10 PO Y JM 28 Paid 11:25am EMPORIA, Kansas., Dec. 14, 1901. Geo. B. Cortelyou, White House:- Have just sent telegram to President, which I hope he can see quick. It isnt so much for Leland as it vitally concerns me, and my good name. W. A. White. [*18427*] THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE EDITOR EMPORIA, KANSAS 12-14, 1901 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I wired you last night to wait for my letter upon acting in the Leland matter; then came your telegraphic note through Mr. Cortelyou and I sent my letter by wire. I have only this to add: if as Burton and his friend allege he (Leland) [*18428*]THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE, Editor EMPORIA, KANSAS 1901 is to be turned down because of his record in the civil service matter, he should be given a fair chance in open court to refute those charges. I am sure he is innocent. There are two sides to everything. Leland is an officer with a record clean enough to entitle him to a hearing. I most [*18429*] THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE, Editor EMPORIA, KANSAS 1901 earnestly [to] urge you to give him a chance to present evidence in rebuttal. I say this knowing nothing of the charges, and nothing of the evidence [against] for him. The Topeka Capital Burton's personal organ calls the probable appointment of Metcalf "a personal factory". for Burton. It will not be considered otherwise any [*18430*]THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE, Editor EMPORIA, KANSAS 1901 where in Kansas accept in the office of the Emporia Gazette where you are known and your courage and honesty understood. If the worst comes to the worst - which I still hope will not happen - the Gazette will try to show what a good high clean thing the appointment of Metcalf really stands for - [*18431*] THE EMPORIA GAZETTE DAILY AND WEEKLY W. A. WHITE, Editor EMPORIA, KANSAS 1901 even as you would have it. My telegram about the possible stigma on my name [com] through the failure of Low to get his time extension, comes from a sore and worried heart. I hope it did not seem melodramatic and arbitrary to you. Truly W. A. White For Theodore Roosevelt President of the United State. [*18432*][For enc see 12-14-01]December 14, 1901. Hold for President's attention when the Maryland appointments are taken up. [*18433*] THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION. 7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET. New York, December 15, 1901 Dear Mr. President, I have spent several hours with Mr. Carnegie. He will probably go to Washington tomorrow or Tuesday. If you suggest it, he will give the Steel bonds outright to his own trustees, & thus both avoid any government complications & save the full 5% of income for research. I should like to wring the neck of whomever is responsible for this premature publication of this matter. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, Washington, D.C. [*18435*][attached to Oler, 12-11-01]December 14, 1901. Hold for President's attention when the Maryland appointments are taken up. [*18433*] THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION. 7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET. New York, December 15, 1901 Dear Mr. President, I have spent several hours with Mr. Carnegie. He will probably go to Washington tomorrow or Tuesday. If you suggest it, he will give the Steel bonds outright to his own trustees, & thus both avoid any government complications & save the full 5% of income for research. I should like to wring the neck of whomever is responsible for this premature publication of this matter. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, Washington, D.C. [*18435*]The Topeka Daily Capital. Topeka, Kansas. Saturday, December 14, 1901. Mr. Burton Wins Fight Appointment of Metcalf is Almost Certain. Just as Good as Settled Politicians New Wait on Pleasure of President Roosevelt to Announce Him as Leland's Successor - What Kansans Think. Special to the Capital. Washington, D. C., Dec. 13. - None of the Kansas Congressman visited the White house today in the interest of the Kansas pension agency appointment. The general belief among them is that President Roosevelt will appoint Colonel Metcalf, and they are now only awaiting the pleasure of the President to make the announcement of his decision. The Washington Star, the official organ of the administration, in commenting upon the situation today, said: "The announcement that Colonel W. S. Metcalf is to succeed Cirus Leland as pension agent of Kansas is regarded as being premature, but the facts are that Senator Burton has probably won his fight against Mr. Leland, and that Colonel Metcalf, who commanded the Kansas regiment in the Philippines after Gen. Funston was promoted now has the best chance of being nominated, notwithstanding the report that the President had decided upon Leland. Senator Burton made a hot fight, with probable success." President Changed His Mind. Until yesterday Roosevelt gave all of the politicians interested in the Kansas patronage to understand that Leland would not be removed, for the reason that President McKinley had made up his mind to reappoint him. Since General Metcalf was at the White house last week a report has been going the rounds that he wanted a civil appointment and that he would be given Leland's place. Mr. Burton Is Pleased. Mr. Burton is delighted at the decision of the President and declared the removal of Leland will be a personal victory for him. Politicians generally agree that Metcalf's appointment will go a long way toward the re-establishment of the Senator's prestige which received something of a jolt when B. H. Tracy, his candidate for United States district attorney, was turned down. D. W. Mulvane, the national committeeman, was among the Kansans at the capitol today. He was in good humor over the prospect that Leland would be displaced. 18434 TELEGRAM. WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. [*Ansd by wire 12-16-1901 by wire*] 1PO.B.RA. 8-Paid 2:03 am. New York, December 15/16, 1901. George B. Cortelyou, Washington D.C. If convenient will spend Friday night in Washington. P.B. Stewart. [*18436*][*Ackd 12/18/1901*] LMGT December 15th [*[01]*] My dear Mr President- Ever since you have been our President, I have intended writing to you to offer my congratulations, but knowing how busy you were at first I concluded to wait awhile before sending my note. I hope it is not too late to do this now. Father [*18437*]very much like to have it, so I could put it in my library and keep it always-- Please remember me to Mrs Roosevelt, and with all the best wishes that you may continue to be first in the hearts of Americans; in which Mr Taylor joins me I am Sincerely yours Lillian Gary Taylor Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor-- 12 Central Park West, New York-- told me that you asked after me when he saw you last Fall, and I felt much flattered-- I wonder if you are going to vote me a nuisance now, if I make a request. I see in the papers that your message is bound in book form, and I wish to know if you will send me a copy. I wish to read it carefully, and at the same time I would 18438TELEGRAM. [*Ansd by wire 12-16-1901*] White House, Washington. 38WU.HG.RA. 78-Paid Night 8:08 am S.F. Depot, Emporia Kansas; Dec. 15/16, 1901. George B. Cortelyou,. Telegram received; took it to Topeka read it to Low, no one else. He asks me to say to President that he, Low, can do what he promised at dinner. What your wire indicates and he asks for time. He expected this too in face of dispatches from Senator protesting that he wont do it. However, Low has strong card and seems to me can win. My judgment would be that its only fair to give him chance. W.A. White. [*18439*] [*8-30 Wednesday Evg. (Ackd 12-16-1901)*] [*File*] [*[12-16-01]*] Monday. Dear Roosevelt. Could I see you for five minutes sometime, if you have so much leisure? I have a word which perhaps you might think worth hearing. Yrs truly. Brooks Adams. [*1603 H--NW*] [*18440*] [*8-30 Wednesday Evg. (Ackd 12-16-1901)*] [*File*] [*[12-16-01]*] Monday. Dear Roosevelt. Could I see you for five minutes sometime, if you have so much leisure? I have a word which perhaps you might think worth hearing. Yrs truly. Brooks Adams. [*1603 H--NW*] [*18440*] TELEGRAM. [*Ansd by wire 12-16-1901*] White House, Washington. 38WU.HG.RA. 78-Paid Night 8:08 am S.F. Depot, Emporia Kansas; Dec. 15/16, 1901. George B. Cortelyou,. Telegram received; took it to Topeka read it to Low, no one else. He asks me to say to President that he, Low, can do what he promised at dinner. What your wire indicates and he asks for time. He expected this too in face of dispatches from Senator protesting that he wont do it. However, Low has strong card and seems to me can win. My judgment would be that its only fair to give him chance. W.A. White. [*18439*][shorthand notation] [*ackd 12/17/1901*] Dec. 16, 1901. My dear Roosevelt. May I ask you to let me off on Wednesday as I have a dinner party at home just at the hour you name? And never mind about troubling yourself for so small a matter. I have nothing to ask or suggest on my own account, only I have heard and seem some things of late that I thought might affect you, and I would like to be sure you knew what was going on. Probably your information is far better than mine. I think I am justified in assuming that it is; and if you know and are prepared all is well. Sincerely yours, Brooks Adams [*1603 H NW*] [*18441*][*Enc. in Butler 12-17-01*] [*RECEIVED DEC 1? 1901*] COSMOS CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C. 16 Dec. 1901- My dear Dr. Butler - I want a favor and am willing to render an equivalent and more for any service you may render - As you know I am not a politician but am a good Democrat, ready to vote for a "Teddy" continuance through another term - Mrs Curry is desirous of attending officially the coronation of the King of Spain - Representatives will be appointed to London, why not to Madrid? I was present when Alfonso made his advent, and saw him officially in puris naturalibus. Mrs Curry has [*18442*]than a compliment, even a rebuke, unless the Representative is a persona grata I send you a little book on Spain, that may interest you for ten minutes. When you come to W. Mrs C & I would be very glad for you to dine with us en famille. Please pardon the trouble I am giving you. Cordially yours J L M Curry [*[Curry]*] Dr N. Murray Butler New York. had him in her arms and she has kept up, since my mission terminated, a pleasant correspondence with members of the Royal family. I may make bold to say, we were very popular in Spain and have had repeated evidences, even since the war, of the esteem in which we were held. I am not an office- seeker, prefer not to have an application as coming from myself--I know of no candidates for this position, but it may be given to some one unsuccessful in his wish to go to London, in order to placate him. The sending of a special representative to Madrid would be less [*18443*]File Ackd 12-19-1901 [shorthand notation] [12-16-01] THE YEATES SCHOOL. LANCASTER, PA. My dear Ted: I am going to Cuba for my vacation sailing 21st inst./ I want to see what I can. I wonder if it would be proper & convenient to take a line from you to Genl. Wood. I 18444snubbed if not wanted & deserve the deep gratitude of yours truly Frederic Gardiner Dec 16 1901 Wld. give a great deal to meet him knowing him Thro you & I thot. it might smooth the way to my seeing some things if I have time. You can trust me I think not to be a nuisance. Just tell him I am respectable & easily 18445Department of State, Washington, D.C. 1901. His Excellency Dr. von Holleben, etc. etc. etc. Dear Excellency: I enclose a memorandum by way of reply to that which you did me the honor to leave with me on Saturday, and am, as ever, Faithfully yours, JOHN HAY. MEMORANDUM The President in his message of the 3rd of December, 1901, used the following language: "The Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the old world." The President further said: "This doctrine has nothing to do with the commercial relations of any American power, save that it in truth allows each of them to form as it desires. ### We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power." His Excellency the German Ambassador, on his recent return from Berlin, conveyed personally to the President the assurance of the German Emperor that His Majesty's Government had no purpose or intention to make even the smallest acquisition of territory on the South American continent or the islands adjacent. This voluntary and friendly declaration was afterwards repeated to the Secretary of States, and was received by the President and the people of the United States in the frank and cordial spirit in which it was offered. In the memorandum if the 11th of December, His Excellency the German Ambassador repeats these assurances as follows: "We declare especially that under no circumstances do we consider in our proceedings the acquisition or the permanent occupation of Venezuelan territory." In the said memorandum of the 11th of December, the German Government informs that of the United States that it has certain just claims for money 18446and for damage wrongfully withheld from German subjects by the Government of Venezuela and that it proposes to take certain coercive measures described in the memorandum to enforce the payment of these just claims. The President of the United States appreciating the courtesy of the German Government in making him acquainted with the state of affairs referred to, and not regarding himself as called upon to enter in to the consideration of the claims in question, believes that no measures will be taken in this matter by the agents of the German Government, which are not in accordance with the well-known purpose, above set forth, of His Majesty the German Emperor. Department of State, Washington, December 16, 1901 [*18447*]UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA PRESIDENT'S OFFICE R.H. JESSE 16 December 1901. Hon. F.M. Cockrell, Washington, D.C. My dear General Cockrell:- The letter enclosed explains itself. Will you do me the honor to present it to the President and to add your invitation to my own. You understand of course that an honorary degree[s] [are] is not conferred except when the gentleman is present to accept [them] it. Therefore it would be impossible for us to confer this degree upon the President unless he would come to receive it. I enclose a four page circular which gives in brief much about the University. I could not of course enclose it to the President but thought that perhaps you might tell him something about the University and then hand him of your own accord this circular which is full of information. No doubt the people of St. Louis would like to have the President stop there and by a show of interest give impetus to the World's Fair. Very truly yours, R.H. Jesse If the President would prefer the Degree of Doctor of Letters we would gladly confer that instead of Doctor of Laws. He is, as is well know, an author of great reputation. 18448[*[Enclosed in Cockrell, 12-19-01*] Dr. R.H. Jesse Pres. Mo University. 12/16/01 sends letter to President R-- tendering degree of LLD or Doctor of Letters for the President to present with Inclosures 12-19-01 [[shorthand]][*Ack'd 12/11/1901*] UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA PRESIDENT'S OFFICE R.H. JESSE 16 December, 1901. His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C. Mr. President:- The University of Missouri wishes to confer upon you at its next Commencement on 4 June, 1902, the degree of Doctor of Laws. Will you let us confer this degree upon you in person here? This is, as you know, perhaps, the leading Democratic state of the Union. It cast an enormous vote for Mr. Bryan at the last Presidential election. The University of the foremost Democratic state would like to confer her highest degree upon you, our Republican President. This is partly in token of the fairness with which you have dealt with all sections of the country, but chiefly because of our admiration of you, Mr. President. In the sixty years of its history this University has never before offered to confer a degree upon any President or indeed upon any high official of the United States. We would like to confer the degree of LL. D. upon you in person here next June. Have we your permission to do so? Let me add that this invitation is given not only by me but also by unanimous vote of all the Professors and Assistant Professors of the University and has been further ratified by unanimous vote of all the Trustees. We have asked Senator Cockrell to present this letter in person to your Excellency and to tell you something about our University. Very respectfully yours, R.H. Jesse President. [*18449*][FORENCL SEE 4.22-01][*[12-16-01]*] [*Ackd 12-19-1901*] Studio 318 West 57th Street Mr President Dear Sir Your statuette is finished and awaits your criticism. Shall I bring it on after the holidays or wait till you come to New York I am now ready to return your uniform but before doing so will you please [*18450*]let me know if you had your jacket strapped behind the saddle as I want to get the bulge of the roll-- Do you remember whether your cartridge thimbles went entirely round your sword- belt or were merely in front-- Very sincerely yours J E Kelly Dec. 16th 1901 [*18451*][shorthand] [*Ackd 12-18-1901 C.G.*] District Attorney's Office. County of New York. Eugene A. Philbin, District Attorney. 16 Dec. 1901 Hon. George B. Cortelyou, My dear Sir;- It may be possible for me to visit Washington the latter part of this week and I would like to know if the President will be in the City then. Will you kindly inform me? May I ask you to say to the President that the Archbishop recently heard a story of the effect that Colonel Roosevelt had cabled to Bishop Farley at Rome to ask the Pope to appoint [*18452*]Archbishop Ireland a Cardinal. I do not think my statement to his Grace that the story is absurd was necessary for I felt he already so viewed it. The enclosed clippings may interest the President. Yours very truly Eugene A. Philbin Hon. George B. Cortelyou E. MONT. REILY, PREST. J. S. WELCH, 1ST VICE-PRES. DR. B. H. WHEELER, TREAS. J. ED. JEWELL, 2ND VICE-PRES. M. E. GETCHELL, SEC'Y. G. W. LODWICK, ASS'T SEC'Y. [*A*] THE 1904 ROOSEVELT CLUB NO. 1 KANSAS CITY, MO. Executive Committee: JOSEPH H. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. M. A. PURSLEY, SECRETARY. DR G. O. COFFIN, CHAS. E. SMALL, A. G. LACKEY, A. H. CHURCH, W. S. PONTIUS, L. M. COX, FRANK C. PECK, C. C. ANDERSON, BENJ. SPITZ, CHAS. R. PENCE. GEO. L. NELLIS, CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAS. A. MCLANE, CHMN. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE. Dec. 16, 1901. Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, Washington, D. C. Dear Senator:- We organized Roosevelt men here read with much pleasure that you had announced that you would support our stalwart President for the nomination in 1904. This is the first club organized in the United States for Roosevelt for President. We organized this club July 18th last, two months before President McKinley was assassinated, and now have a membership of about 3,000. We would like very much to have you come here some time, and give us an address on President Roosevelt. We think it would be exceedingly appropriate that the first club organized in his interest, be addressed by the first Statesman who had the manhood to put himself on record so far in advance, as you have done. Let us know if some time in the future you can't visit our city, and address our club, the largest political organization in Missouri. Yours sincerely, E. Mont. Reily, Pres. "1904 Roosevelt Club No. 1" [*18453*] This is the First Club Organized in the U. S. in the Interest of the Great and Stalwart American for President.[*[Enclosed in Foraker, 12-20-01]*][*Ackd 12-25-1901*] Marietta Ga 12-16-1901 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Washington D. C. Mr President My Dear Cousin When you were commissioner of police of New York I thought I would write you but I thought then you were pressed with the duties of your office & I would be tresspasing on your valuable time & I still hesitate to do so now. Your grand father was my mother's 1st cousin they being brother & sisters children, her maiden name was Caroline Irvine she was the youngest of her fathers children Alex Irvine, grandfather Irvine died when she was quite a child & your grandfather was appointed her guardian, as this must have made cousin Stephen Bulloch feel very fatherly towards her. I know you are taken up with afairs of state but there is so much I know you would be interested in if you should visit our part of the States. I want you to come to Marietta & to Georgia, to your Grand Fathers old house which is still standing. If you will come, I want you to come to my home I was too young to remember the old people in Roswell for I was but an infant when Cousin Mittie married, but when you come I will try & treat you right & give you an old Georgia dinner Roast Turkee & Hoppin Jon & pulow rice, & jelly that trembles on the glass, & a nice old fashion Apple Dumplin, & I will try an find an old [*18454*]woman with her head tied up in a bandanna, & I will tell you about our old woman Harriet my mothers nurse & she was a good one, yes besides being a nurse she could do fine washing I know she washed your grand fathers fine shirts & your mothers fine dresses. She is dead but Heaven watches a welcome guest, & along with my mother & all the loved ones gone before she will give you & I a welcome home when we get there. Now Mr President I hope I havent tresspased too much on your time pardon me if I have. I mail to you today a view of Little Kenesaw Mountain. I am standing on an old brestwork this was a dangerous place in June 21st 1864 for it is not far from this spot where the Federal Gen Harris was killed & see in sight of same is Pine Mountain where Gen Leonidas K. Polk of Confederate army was also killed. This Photograph was taken by a Mr Albert Kean of 30 Main St. Dayton O. no dangerous instrument is aimed at me here but one of peace & friendship, in times of peace & of a reunited & happy country. I would like you to come & I would like to go with you as I did with him to visit these historic places. I will close with the wish of a prosperous administration of our countrys affairs, a merry Christ mass & a happy New Year to your self & family Yours sincerely Irvine SmithTelegram White House, Washington. [File pjmp] 8PO.NY.DQ.RA. 47-Paid 2:35 am. Emporia, Kansas, Dec. 16, Dec. 17, 1901. George B. Cortelyou. Make it perfectly clear to President that Low believes exactly as he did at dinner that he can get Senator to withdraw present candidate and endorse other despite fact Senator now declares vociferously he will never do it. On this basis only Low asks expected time. W. A. White. 18455 Telegram. Executive Mansion, Washington. RED 14NY.PO.JS.RA. 114-Paid Night 7:35 am. Emporia, Kansas, December 16, 17, 1901 George B. Cortelyou, White House. Message received, replying, would say Low and I are asking for time to get Senator to withdraw Metcalf and endorse Leland. Solely for reason of party harmony but this week or even next it would be folly to argue with Burton. Low, whom I have consulted at length, believes he can do it and asks for time to try that's all on earth we want of time extension. If he fails at the end of time limit agreed upon to get Burton for Leland all hands are for Metcalf, no one could possibly object to Metcalf. I asked last time I saw President till middle of January, better have distinct understanding is that satisfactory? W. A. White. 18456 Boyer May Leave the Mint Service Said to Contemplate Resigning as Superintendent Treasury Opposed Changes Obstructs Business and is Very Expensive to Count the Cash May Revive the Old System Appointee Hold During Good Behavior and be National Officer [Special to the Public Ledger.] Washington, Dec. 16. - It is intimated in circles usually well informed about local politics in Philadelphia that Mr. Henry K. Boyer, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint, contemplates resigning, if he has not already decided upon that step. Nothing definite is known at the Treasury Department about the matter. If Mr. Boyer intends to resign, it is reasonably certain he will advise Senator Penrose and the Philadelphia Congressmen about his intention, and will make no publication of it until the Senators and Representatives have had opportunity to take steps looking to the selection of his successor. At the Treasury Department a change in the office of Superintendent of the Mint is never regarded with favor, and unless there are strong and urgent reasons for it the Treasury deprecates any change. The objection to a change in the Superintendent is based upon the fact that it involves a count of the money and a close inspection of the entire machinery of administration, which results in a temporary dislocation of business, and imposes upon the Government the expenditure of about $60,000. Appointment During Good Behavior. In the early years of the Mint a change could be made without any of the business inconveniences and comparatively little of the expense that now attaches to a transfer of authority and responsibility. But now, with hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and silver coins and bullion on hand, the labor and expense has become a very serious as well as very expensive matter. So important is a change in the Mint regarded that consideration has been given to a proposition that the Superintendent should be selected from the country at large, and that a man should be taken whose standing in the community and whose well known business experience and qualifications will give assurance that the office will be managed with efficiency. ability and fidelity to the best interests of the Government. It is urged in this connection that the Mint being a national institution the selection of a Superintendent should not be limited to Philadelphia or Pennsylvania, but should be taken without regard to locality and because of undoubted qualifications and business equipment for a successful discharge of the duties of the office. Of course it is recognized that the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania should not be discriminated against in the selection, but the point has been made that the only way to divorce the Mint from local politics and convince the politicians who in the recent past have had so much to do and say with its management is to take a man from another State. It was suggested that there are men in Philadelphia whose high character and business reputation would furnish every possible guarantee of efficiency and successful administration, men with an ample competence, to whom the salary would offer no inducement, but who would assume the office for the honor that attaches and the reputation which they could win in it, and who would be retained during good behavior, regardless of changes in the head of the Government. This class of men includes C. Stuart Patterson, George D. McCreary, Effingham B. Morris, Colonel R. Dale Benson, Charles Roberts and many others who might be named. The System First in Vogue. The appointment of a man of this class would bring the Mint back to this class would bring the Mint back to the high position it occupied during the first seventy- five years of its history, when its Superintendents included Judge Henry William de Saussere, of South Carolina; David Rittenhouse, Elias Boudinot, who was President of Congress under the Confederation, and who was at the head of the Mint from 1795 to 1805, when he resigned. Boudinot was succeeded by Robert Patterson, one of the professors of the University of Pennsylvania, who held the office from 1805 until his death in 1824. Dr. Samuel Moore, who had represented the Bucks District in Congress, followed Robert Patterson, and continued from 1824 until 1835, when he resigned and was succeeded by Dr. Robert M. Patterson, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania, who continued as Superintendent until 1851. With its largely increased facilities and vastly extended capacity for coinage there is even greater urgency for selecting men of the class described than there was in the early days of the Mint's history, and if Mr. Boyer resigns the office of Superintendent there is reason for indulging the hope that an effort will be made to induce the President to look at the matter in this light. It is due to Mr. Boyer to state that the Treasury regards him as an efficient officer, who has discharged his duties with satisfaction to the Department and with fidelity to the Government. [*18457*] J. M. C.