ALBANY JOURNAL. FOUNDED BY THURLOW WEED. The Journal Company, Publishers. William Barnes jr. President Albany, N. Y. Circulation yesterday Daily and Weekly Best Advertising Medium in Eastern New York. JOHN H. LINSDAY, MANAGER. [*Ack'd 12-12-04*] December 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am very sorry to see your apparent determination not to select Mr. Davison for Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, for the reason that I believe that Mr. Davison would make a most efficient man for the office because of his energy and enthusiasm. The premature announcement made last July that he was about to be selected for Assistant Secretary of Agriculture was unfortunate for him, in that it combined the forces of all other candidates; and from what Senator Platt has told me the fusilade upon Mr. Davison has been continuous. First, that he is not a real farmer, that he is rich and that he has no interest with the farmer. Mr. Davison is not rich in the sense that the term is used today. His sympathies are naturally with the farmer. He has lived in the country all his life and makes stock-breeding a business. Senator Platt also informs me that he had been advised that Mr. Davison was a "boozer." The charge is absurd. A "boozer" I believe is a man who is under the influence of liquor to the extent that he has not his wits about him. Mr. Davison is a practical man who has business to transact and transacts it daily. His ruddy complexion is an indication of health of which he has a superabundance. I do not believe that any farming interest if they have Mr. Davison would be antagonistic to him. Of course he cannot command the support of those who know nothing of him. During the four months that I was in New York, this was one political [*3.*] ALBANY JOURNAL. FOUNDED BY THURLOW WEED. The Journal Company Publishers. William Barnes, jr. President. Albany, N.Y. Circulation yesterday DAILY AND WEEKLY, Best Advertising Mediums in Eastern New York. JOHN M. LINDSAY, MANAGER. 2-Mr. Roosevelt. obligation I incurred and I sincerely hope that you may change your views in this matter. I do not believe that the people or yourself will be disappointed in the man. Very truly yours. William Barnes, jr. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C.Copy, b WAR DEPARTMENT Office of the Chief of Staff, Washington, December 10, 1904 M.I.D. No. 359, Captain John H. Parker, 28th Infantry, Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Sir;- I have the honor to enclose herewith for you information copy of report No. 367 of the 19th ultimo, from Captain T. Bentley Mott, Artillery Corps, Military Attache, American Embassy, Paris, France, containing translation of an article on"Machine Guns in the Present War". Please acknowledge receipt. Very respectfully, (Signed) W.D.Beach, Major, General Staff, Chief 2nd (Mil. Inf.) Division[*[Enc. in Parker 12-19-04]*] Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney at Law, 216 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Telephone 1712. [*Ans'd 12-12-04*] Confidential Decr. 10th, 1904. To The President. White House, Washington. D. C., Sir, The enclosed letter shows that I have failed to secure our first choice. He was much flattered, as well as surprised, by the offer and, if I could have induced him to to decide then and there, I believe he would have accepted. He insisted, however, that he be allowed to consult a single intimate friend and, when he told me who it was (that is to say, Mr. Michael Jenkins), I felt sure and so told him that Mr. J, a most estimable man but always too timid,- would advise him not to accept. The result shows that I was right.Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney at Law, 216 St. Paul., Baltimore, Telephone 1712. Praeses (2) If you approve, I propose now to approach Mr. Walter B. Brooks Jr., son of the late Walter B. Brooks who ran for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1887, against his inclination and with the least possible hope of success, to conciliate the independent vote. Mr. Brooks is a man of about forty five, interested in a number of enterprises, such as the Canton Co. and the Pa. & Md. R. R., but not a very rich man. With him, as with Mr. Randall, the grave doubt is as to his acceptance, but I have some reason to think he may accept, and I can but try. Should he also refuse, and should it appear, as the result of inquiries I have set on foot, that it would be useless to approach yet another gentleman who would be an admirable nominee but whom I regard as almost certain to declineCharles J. Bonaparte, Attorney at Law, 216 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Telephone 1712. Praeses (3) I shall, if this meets your approval and I can think of no better person to recommend, lay the matter before Mr. W. Hall Harris, and try to secure his acceptance if necessary by the exercise of a little personal pressure. Mr. Harris is a lawyer of excellent standing but moderate practice, about 52 years old, the son, like Mr. Brooks, of a Republican gubernatorial candidate, the late J. Morrison Harris, who was undoubtedly elected, but "counted out" in favor of John Lee Carroll, in 1875. His nomination would be an excellent one; but I must own to some reluctance in suggesting it for he is known to be my intimate friend and married my cousin and his selection would immediately lead the politicians to think that I was distributing the "plums". This must not, of course, stand in the way of properly filling the office, but it would beCharles J. Bonaparte, Attorney at Law, 216 St. Paul., Baltimore, Telephone 1712. Praeses. (4) a source of considerable annoyance to me. That the idea has already occurred to some of them is evident from the enclosed anonymous letter, written on behalf (although hardly, I should think, with the knowledge) of a respectable man whose friends have several times intimated to me that I ought to get him an office because he is at once a Republican and and a Catholic. It is needless to say that he is altogether out of the question. This "spoils mongering" is a melancholy falling away from virtue in view of my occupation during the past two days, but it may be hoped that my colleagues of the League will pardon it when they understand the facts, - which is not always the case with all of them, - before passing judgement. Please let me know if I shall act as outlined above; and believe me, as ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte[For 2. enclosures see 12-9-04 & 12-10-04][For 2. enclosures see 12-9-04 & 12-10-04]20 M 10-'04 AGENTS FOR THE WORKS ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITIES OF CAMBRIDGE (ENGLAND), COLUMBIA (NEW YORK), MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO., LTD., MESSRS. GEORGE BELL & SONS, BONN'S LIBRARIES, MESSRS. A. & C. BLACK AND MESSRS. WHITTAKER & CO [*SHORTHAND?*] HE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, Dec. 10, 1904 [*P.F*] Dear Sir:- We are this morning in receipt of your letter of the 8th in regard to the use of the material contributed by you to the volume on "The Deer Family" in the American Sportman's Library, and we take pleasure in enclosing herewith receipt for your obliging remittance. Yours very truly, The Macmillan Company George P. Brett PresidentOFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 10, 1904. My dear Secretary Barnes: I return herewith, for the President's private files, the communication sent me with your note of the 9th instant. I am very glad to have seen this letter and beg to thank the President for his courtesy. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Hon. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C.are. Bishop Spalding's testimony will, I am sure, please you. Mr. Roche will be in town on Tuesday. I should regret, - you will excuse my plain-speaking? — to have "The Pilot" get into the Hon. Mr. Fitzgerald's hands. Yours, Sincerely Maurice Francis Egan [*ackd 12/10/04*] 212, South Capitol St, December 10, 1904. Mr. President:- I hesitate to call this morning, as I know how full your time is. I write to say that if any further knowledge of DoctorSecretary of the Faculty of Philosophy during most of my term as Dean of that Faculty in the Catholic University. He has a very fine, rare quality of mind, - extremely analytical yet not narrow. He is as straight, - well, - as you are. Doctor Neill's character and ability in dealing with delicate situations is needed. I can supply this. I have known him intimately for fifteen years; he was with me at Notre Dame, and the secretary [*cs*] WARREN & GARFIELD COUNSELLORS AT LAW 60 STATE STREET Bentley W. Warren Irvin McDowell Garfield Andrew J. Peters Alexander Whiteside Clement R. Landon Telephone Main 1371 Boston, Mass., December 10, 1904. My dear Mr. President:- I had a very interesting conference with Major Higginson and Mr. Hill, of his office, relating to that portion of your message having to do with the Interstate Commerce Commission. I took the liberty of suggesting that they meet you, and probably the Attorney General, in Washington on Monday or Tuesday. Major Higginson is to be there Tuesday for a Carnegie Institute meeting. Much will be gained by a full conference with the Railroad men who have made the rate question their special work. Very sincerely yours, James Rudolph Garfield To The President, Washington, D. C.[For 1. attachment see ca. 12-10-04] CG Dec. 10, 1904. My Dear Mr. President: I am glad you have concluded to appoint Father Waring in behalf of whom I wrote to you yesterday. I hope before long to propose a candidate from the East. Sincerely yrs J. Card. Gibbons Theo. Roosevelt President[*cs*] UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. [*Personal*] Wilmington, Delaware, December 10th, 1904. My dear Mr. President: Your letter received this morning makes necessary some explanation of why I said that Dr. Neill was the best equipped man I knew for the position. First, I would class him with Mr. Clark as a man of strict integrity, general intelligence, disciplined mind and courage. Second, in the matter of experience in dealing with labor troubles, the two men have approached them from different standpoints,-- Mr. Clark as the head of a strong labor union, Dr. Neill, more judicially, as a conciliator of opposing interests. Dr. Neill, too, has perhaps the advantage of having had the confidence of both sides in the late anthracite troubles, and has been a special student of the sociological side of political economy. I do not think the balance is very great on one side or the other, but sufficiently so to justify what I said of Dr. Neill. Now as to Mr. Clark, I have the highest opinion of his character and abilities. He is not easily thrown off hisbalance, and has more than an ordinary faculty of clear statement, which was often of great use in the arbitration proceedings, when it was necessary to accurately formulate propositions embodying the exact point in the controversy. He has a discriminating mind, and would have made an excellent lawyer. So you see the impression received by me of Mr. Clark during the arbitration was a most favorable one. I, perhaps should give utterance to a thought that suggested itself, when he was spoken of for Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor, after the Commission adjourned, and that is, whether his impartial administration of such an office would not expose him, more than another, to jealousy and estrangement on the part of the Labor Unions, who are too prone to resent a want of partizanship by one of their own order in public office. This may or may not be worthy of consideration, and I can hardly say what my judgment is in the matter. I have given you my best judgment, and do not think that a mistake will be made by the appointment of either of the gentlemen named. I thank you very much for what you say in regard to the Meigs matter. Very respectfully and sincerely, Geo. Gray To The President[*Acss'd 12-12-04*] HEINS & LA FARGE, ARCHITECTS. 30-32 EAST TWENTY-FIRST STREET, NEW YORK. G. L. HEINS. C. GRANT LA FARGE. 10 December, 1904. Dear Theodore: This is to ask your help and interest. As you doubtless know, a bill is before Congress providing for a new Post Office here, and specifying the Committee to be appointed by you for securing plans. I understand they are to be the Postmaster, the Sec'y of the Treasury and the President of the Chamber of Commerce, but whoever they may be you could give me great assistance either in obtaining the work or being included in the competition if there is to be one. Will you do this, in such way as seems to you best, and is proper for you? If you can [conditionally?] express an interest to the various members of the Plan Committee it will go a long way. There will be a lot of the usual pulling & hauling to get the work, and I am constitutionally unfitted for that sort of thing and hate it, but I must do what I can. I think there can be no question that we are fully competent to do the work, and thoroughly well. I am sure of it, but it will be largely a question of influence. Ever most faithfully yours C. Grant LaFargeTo/ The President.little book of curiosities of literature? - the 'Recreations of an Anthologist'? If you haven't, I'd like to send it to you, for there is an article collecting American epigrams that might interest you. Yours Ever Brander Matthews [*Ack'd 12-12-04*] Dec 10th 1904 681 West End Avenue. N. W. Corner 93rd St. New York. Dear Mr. President: We greatly enjoyed our dinner at the White House; and we have recorded it on the tablets of [xxx] memory as a Historic Occasion - for us. And we were both delighted to find you and Mrs Roosevelt looking so well - and so happy. I enclose the little drawing of Oliver [Herford's?] that I spoke about. I don't know why it seems to me so funny; but it does. That Lucerne "Peace & War Museum" (of which I gave you the catalog) is visited by thousands every summer; and I was sorry to see that we had nothing there to show. I don't know what we could show; but it seemed to me a little forlorn that we should be represented by the portrait of Andrew Carnegie! - even if he is - what William Black once called him - "The star-spangled Scotchman." Have you seen myJOHN MITCHELL STEVENSON BLDG. [[shorthand]] INDIANAPOLIS, IND., December 10, 1904. [*ackd 12/13/04*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President: I understand that the appointment of a successor to Mr. Carroll D. Wright as Commissioner of Labor, is to be made in a short time, and I take the liberty of writing you in regard to the matter. During the past year I have heard this question discussed very frequently by the officers of international and national trade unions and it has seemed to be the consensus of opinion that the position should be held by some representative labor man. Along with a number of others, I had agreed to present for your consideration the name of John B. Lennon, Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor for the past fifteen years, and Secretary of the Journeyman Tailors' International Union. Mr. Lennon combines the necessary qualifications to make him an efficient and worthy officer, who, I am sure, would do credit to himself and to your administration; but he has declined to make application for the position, feeling that the interests of his own people demand his services. I spoke to him over the telephone this morning concerning his attitude upon this subject and he tells me that he would prefer that his name be not presented. I therefore avail myself of this opportunity to speak a word in favor of Dr. Charles INDIANAPOLIS, IND., The President-2- P. Neill, whose name, I understand, you have under consideration. I am quite intimately acquainted with Dr. Neill: I know his views upon the labor question. I am confident that he is well equipped and fully qualified to perform the duties of this office, and I most earnestly urge the favorable consideration of his candidacy. I am, Very respectfully, John Mitchell[*CF*] DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA SEQUITUR Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D. C. December 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Barnes: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 8th instant with accompanying communication from Governor Carter. I have noted the wishes of the President in regard to judicial appointment in Hawaii. Very truly yours, W. Moody Attorney-General. Hon. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President.Republican State Committee Fifth Avenue Hotel New York December 10th, 1904 Benjamin B. Odell Jr. Chairman William Barnes Jr. Ch. Ex Committee Louis Stern, Treasurer Reuben L. Fax. Secretary [*aced 12-12-04*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President:- A great many of your friends here in New York would be very much delighted and pleased if you could find it possible to appoint Mr. James H. Hyde as Minister to France. I assume, from my conversation with you, that it is your intention to make changes in the diplomatic service in England and France. I take the liberty, therefore, in trespassing upon your kindness in suggesting the name of a man who I would like to fill this position. As you know, our organization in this city has really no representative abroad. The appointment of both Mr. Choate and Mr. Porter, as you will recall, were made as personal appointments by President McKinley. Mr. Hyde, it seems to me, is eminently qualified for this position. In education and training, he is peculiarly adapted to fill this responsible [position] and because of his knowledge of the country would perhaps be better than any other men that you could consider. Large business interests have given to him splendid executive ability and his association with so many prominent business men would be fiting recognition of the effective work done by them in the last campaign. In addition to this, he has behind him I am sure the approval of both Senator Platt and Senator Depew and, so far as I can speak for the organization, I believe his appointment would be, without question, more satisfactory than any that could be made from New York at the present time. Personally, I should appreciate your favorable consideration of this suggestion almost beyond anything else that you could do for me. If you so desire, I shall be glad to come down to Washington and talk with you about it but I believe there are othersBenjamin B. Odell Jr. Chairman. William Barnes Jr. Chmn. Ex. Committee. Louis Stern, Treasurer. Reuben L. Fox, Secretary. Republican State Committee, Fifth Avenue Hotel New York, 1904 T.R. #2 who are close to you and who feel just as I do and I thought therefore that this letter would be sufficient as showing the attitude of the organization and myself personally upon this important appointment. With kindest regards, I am Very truly yours, B. B. Odell jrUNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON. [[shorthand]] [*ackd 12-12-04*] December 10, 1904. Mc Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., The White House. My dear Mr. Loeb: I have had referred to me the nominations of: John B. Torres, of New York, to be Consul at Port au Prince. Jerome B. Peterson, of New York, to be Consul at Puerto Cabello Paul Nash, of New York , to be Consul at Venice. Before consenting to their confirmation, I should like to have some advice respecting the inspiration of their appointments. Will you kindly advise me? Very truly yours, T. C. PlattPersonal Baltimore, 10 December 1904 Charles G. Bonaparte Esq. Baltimore Dear Mr. Bonaparte, Referring to the subject of our last conversation, I have thought carefully of the pros and cons connected with my acceptance of this proposition. I feel most happy in the confidence expressed and shown me by your friend and grateful to you for your interest. It is with regret that I refuse a request and reject an offer, to serve "The State" in a capacity so useful and important, but, I put that my pressing personal duty is, as I described to you more at length, to accept no public trust to which I cannot afford to devote my entire time. I must therefore positively and regretfully decline. With much respect, dear sir. Yours truly Blanchard Randall[*[Enclosed in Bonaparte, 12-10-04]*][*acss'd 12-12-04*] Bishop [?s] House, Washington, D. C. 10 Dec '04. To the President— My dear Mr. President— The Rev. Dr. John Morgan, Rector of Holy Trinity Parish, Paris France, has written to me, asking me to communicate to you the great importance, at the present time (when France is in such a state of religious ferment), of having an American Ambassador in Paris, if any change should be made, who had definite religious principles. It matters not to what religious body he belongs, so long as he is a distinctively Christian man. Dr. Morgan has also written to you about this matter, and I am glad to say this one word, if you will allow me to do so,along the same lines, and to express the earnest hope that if an Ambassador is appointed, he may exercise the same kind of influence for good, both in ethical and religious ways, that you yourself do. I have the honour to be my dear Mr. President, Very respectfully yours, Henry Y Satterlee Bishop of Washington20 M 10-'04 AGENTS FOR THE WORKS ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITIES OF CAMBRIDGE (ENGLAND), COLUMBIA (NEW YORK), MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., MESSRS. GEORGE BELL AND SONS, BONN'S LIBRARIES, MESSRS. A. & C. BLACK AND MESSRS. WHITTAKER AND CO The Macmillan Company, PUBLISHERS, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, Dec. 10. 1904 Received from Theodore Roosevelt, Esqrs. Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00), being payment in full for the right to use in a collected edition of his writings the material contributed by said Theodore Roosevelt, Esqrs. to the volume entitles "The Deer Family" in the American Sportsman's Library. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY [?] Schumacher Treasurer [*[Schumacher]*][*ack'd 12-12-04*] FREDERIC H. BETTS. SAMUEL R. BETTS. JAMES R. SHEFFIELD. L. F. H. BETTS. BETTS, BETTS, SHEFFIELD, AND BETTS, COUNSELLORS AT LAW, EQUITABLE BUILDING. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. TELEPHONE 4554 CORTLANDT. CABLE ADDRESS, "MIRAGE", NEW YORK. December 10, 1904. President Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. Dear President Roosevelt:— I have just learned this morning, through one of your friends and mine, that Mr. Robert C. Morris has already obtained letters from some of the very people we thought it would be wise to reach, upon the District Attorney matter, including two or three of the Federal Judges. It is his intention, so I am told, to lay these letters before you and obtain your views upon his going ahead with the matter. I feel you should know these facts, not so much because it may affect my situation, as to give you the knowledge of what Mr. Morris is doing, and his intentions, before you see him. I was unable to reach Senator Depew before leaving Washington, but I have wired him to find out his plans and will either go to Washington to see him, or will see him here, in case he expects to be in New York within a few days. The situation here is somewhat complicated by the senatorial contest, and I regret exceedingly I did BETTS, BETTS, SHEFFIELD, AND BETTS. PAGE, 2. Dec. 10, 1904 not get your views on it sufficiently, so that your close friends would know what way it was best to treat the matter, without, of course, committing you in the slightest degree. I know the extreme delicacy of this, but I also know that it could be handled in a way that would bring about the result you would wish without in the least involving you, provided only one of two of us could know what your wishes were in the matter. I have had a long talk with Collector Stranahan and have learned some of the more recent developments in the New York Senatorial situation which are becoming acute. It is needless for me to add how greatly we enjoyed our delightful visit at the White House, which was, from every point of view, wonderfully attractive. With affectionate regards, believe me, Very faithfully yours, James R. SheffieldHARRY J. HAMLIN, SYRACUSE, SECRETARY LUTHER W. MOTT, OSWEGO, TREASURER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Reuben J. Getz, Buffalo, Chairman James B. Reynolds, New York William Blau, New York Charles R. Borzillieri, Buffalo Arthur J. Lowery, Utica William Rubin, Syracuse Robert F. Downing, Brooklyn John A. Stewart Mason M. Swan Harry J. Hamlin Luther W. Mott Hector W. Thomas COMMITTEE ON PLAN OF CAMPAIGN AND DISTRICT ORGANIZATION James B. Reynolds, Chairman FINANCE COMMITTEE Luther W. Mott, Chairman JOHN A. STEWART, NEW YORK, PRESIDENT "ORGANIZATION--VICTORY." REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF CLUBS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 445 PRODUCE EXCHANGE NEW YORK TELEPHONES: RESIDENCE, 906 MORNINGSIDE HEADQUARTERS, 4876 BROAD J. J. MCWILLIAMS, BUFFALO, VICE-PRESIDENT J. STANTON GILLETTE, CANNONSVILLE, SERGEANT-AT-ARMS GENERAL COMMITTEE Mason M. Swan, Watertown, Chairman George M. Bostwick, Schenectady, Secretary James Lanzetta, Syracuse, Assistant Secretary Vincenzo Monasco, Rochester, Sergeant-at-arms ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, Chairman Hon. Nevada N. Stranahan Hon. James S. Clarkson Hon. John W. Vrooman COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL ORGANIZATION John J. D. Trenor, Chairman December 10th, 1904. Theo. Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. [*ackd 12/02/04*] Mr. President: Will you please permit me, now that the election has come and gone, to say a few words in commendation of the work which was done during the two years prior to November 8th by Mr. John J. D. Trenor, of this city, among the Americans of Italian parentage. As you may remember, Mr. Trenor had a long residence in Italy, speaks the language, vernacular and classic, as well as the dialects, and as readily as a native himself. Mr. Trenor is a man of wide business experience, of social standing and of liberal education. He could occupy with credit to himself and honor to you any Governmental position wherein his linguistic attainments would be of value. Will you pardon if I bespeak for him your kindly remembrance. With great respect, I am,- Yours most sincerely, John A. Stewart JAS/GRP[*C.F*] All quotations subject to change without notice Travers Brothers Co., Manufacturers of Cordage, 41 Worth Street, New York, Orders will be entered subject to delay through Strikes, Fire or other unavoidable causes. F. C. Travers, President. A. F. Travers, Vice-Pres't. V. P. Travers, Treasurer. Dec 10th 1904 Hon Theodore Roosevelt President United States Mr. President Dear Sir Should you require a first class man in any way for Philippine Commission or like position where it would require a man fond of hard work I wish to recommend Hon. Thos. W. Hynes of this City who you know well Major Byrne & many others will guarantee him Yours Truly Frank. C. TraversAll quotations subject to change without notice. Travers Brothers Co., Manufacturers of Cordage, 41 Worth Street, New York, Orders will be entered subject to delay through Strikes, Fire or other unavoidable pauses. [*N [[shorthand]] O.K.*] F. C. Travers, President. A.F. Travers, Vice Prest. V. P. Travers, Treasurer. Dec 10th 1904 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President United States Mr. President I would suggest that you ask secty Murphy of the Panama Canal to call and see you ask him to bring with him letters he recvd from New York. I think is important for you to know, the facts Secty Murphy is one of the best men on this earth and should be supported Yours Frank. C. TraversOffice of the Commissioner. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington. [*Ack'd Encl.ret'd 12/12/04*] December 10, 1904. Mr. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President. Dear Sir: Another Kansas newspaper says Mr. Cy Leland has filed with the President criticisms against me by Mrs. Johnson with regard to estate matter. It would be somewhat undignified for me to charge the woman with being what she is and proceed to show her up, and as she had two brothers who were gentlemen and fine lawyers, I content myself with submitting herewith the statement of one showing that both brothers sided with me as against their own sister. I would like this filed with the charges if there, if not, please submit to the President and then return them to me. Very Respectfully, E.F. Ware Inclosure. [*wrote him 12-10-04*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. December 10, 1904. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan is to be here to-night for the Gridiron Dinner at the Arlington. It would be will be well if the President would ask him to come over for a little talk some time to-morrow. [[shorthand]][*F.*] [*Duell*] [[shorthand]] [*Shown to the President, who says to keep it.*] WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. December 10, 1904. These letters were left by Mr. Cortelyou, who says he thinks it would be well when the President is ready to make this appointment if he would ask Justice Morris to come in and talk about it. The letter from Mr. Bliss Mr. Cortelyou thinks should not go to the Department in view of the sentence marked. [*[ca.12-10-04]*] [[shorthand]] Has been designated for examination on Jan. 17; if he passes, will be appointed. Secy. Taft will bring the papers over to the president.[*[attached to Gibbers, 12-10-04]*][*[attached to Foster, 12-12-04]*]SAYS ROOSEVELT ERRED. Dr. White Criticises President's Efforts on Behalf of Murderer. New York, Dect. 10. -- "Much as I admire President Roosevelt as a true man, we have seen to-day the sorry example of the mistake a strong man can make. The President was appealed to by a colored Baptist minister to save the latter's son from the gallows for the murder of a farmer in Canada. The President listened to the appeal, and has succeeded in securing a commutation of sentence. I don't admire the President for that." This statement was made to-day by Andrew D. White, formerly United States Ambassador to Germany, in the course of an address on "Evolution vs. Revolution in Politics," before the League for Political Education. Mr. White had declared that high crime is more frequent in this country than anywhere else in the world, save Sicily, and that there is a widespread superstition here that is the duty of the people to protect criminals. It was in calling attention to what he termed this mistaken leniency that the former Ambassador referred to President Roosevelt, as quoted. "Crime is crime," said Mr. White, "and it is our duty to make its prosecution more speedy and less intricate. We should stand together to exterminate criminals." Present American business methods, Mr. White declared, are leading to catastrophies and filling lunatic asylums and poorhouses. He predicted that if better methods are not developed, Anglo-Saxons will die out and be succeeded by a cruder race of tougher fiber.[*Enc in Bishop 12-30-04*] [*[12-10-04]*]ay review. 10, December, 1904 MR. ROOSEVELT'S SERMON. THE principal entertainment of the average American is to attend lectures, and many Britishers of but mediocre reputation in their own land have profited thereby. Has President Roosevelt, in gratitude for his enormous majority, endeavoured to make some return to his countrymen by affording them an extra large supply of the recreation they most affect? That they will be amply satisfied when they have triumphantly negotiated those "13 columns of solid type" we do not doubt, for though the most practical and direct of people in their methods, Americans demand that public affairs should be treated in a platitudinous and sermonising style. They have also a love of lecturing the Universe and in this accomplishment the President is a past-master. To the Universe this preaching is no matter, especially when the sermon is delivered in terms so well worn and roundly generalized as these: "Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. Many times peoples who were slothful or tired or short-sighted, who had been enervated by ease or luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their ignoble motives, by calling them 'love of peace'. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice --all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war". The President might have made this finely purple passage still more purple if he had indicated the awful examples we are bidden to avoid. A little "blazing indiscretion" in the style of the late Lord Salisbury would have added some piquancy to this somewhat flavourless rhetoric. We have, in fact, only two foreign peoples singled out for particular reprobation on other grounds, the Turks and the Russians, and we are probably making a large allowance when we suggest that it is possible that half a dozen Turks and fifty Russians may one day learn that they have been solemnly admonished from Washington. When they do apprehend that they have been stigmatised in this fashion they may inquire how far the sermon is likely to bear fruit in action, and they will be considerably tranquillised when they learn that, although "it is inevitable that this nation should desire eagerly to give expression to its horror at the massacre of Jews in Kishineff or such systematic, long extended cruelty and oppression as the cruelty and oppression of which the Armenians have been the victims", yet that the proper action depends upon the degree of atrocity, and "upon our power to remedy it". We fear that neither Jews nor Armenians are likely to benefit by the homily fired at their masters. Mr. Roosevelt does not, unfortunately, possess among his many gifts those of logic or humour or else he would see that he has been lecturing himself as well as the Sultan and the Tsar, for he expatiates at great length elsewhere as follows: "It is not merely unwise, it is contemptible for a nation, as for an individual, to use high-sounding language or to take up positions which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force....If there is no intention of providing and of keeping the force necessary to back up a strong attitude, then it is far better not to assume such an attitude." It is, indeed, and the President will only be saved from a rude reminder because nowhere the world over are Presidents' Messages taken quite seriously. If the rulers of non-republican States were to address their legislatures in this fashion grave results might ensue, but there is nothing weighty in Mr. Roosevelt's sermon but its style. The preacher (owing to the unfortunate lack of the qualities we have indicated) does not see that to call the world to a new Peace Congress one week and to argue against disarmament and advocate enormous extensions of the United States navy the next is somewhat outré'. But the reader in search of the comical side of things will draw much refreshment of mind from the general treatment of this subject in the Message. In the first place we are told that "Congress should keep ever vividly in mind the fundamental fact that it is impossible to treat our foreign policy save as10 December, 1904 The Satur majority, but irritation at the settlement of the Fishery rights in Newfoundland prevented a unanimous vote. The disproportionate discussion on this detail of the agreement suggests a curious difference in English and French perspective; and even M. Delcasse' scolded the Senate for emphasising a detail of which the chief importance is sentimental. "From a colonial point of view", said M. Delcasse', "France had but one concern--the exploitation of her vast colonial possessions in Indo-China and Africa"; and no one will deny that to this ambition his diplomacy has made a great contribution. Except by M. Delcasse', little was said of Morocco, where anarchy, which is French opportunity grows steadily. The tragic end of M. Syveton is not without the farcical touch that has never been wanting throughout all the miserable scandal in which his misbehaviour was an incident. Whatever the real explanation of his death may be, the fact that the ventilating aperture of his gas stove was closed by a number of the "Intransigeant" cannot fail to excite some irreverent suggestions. Had the unfortunate deputy, whose means were so unworthy of his ends, known how nearly the fate of M. Combes as a Minister coincided with his own he might have consoled himself even at the prospect of facing a Parisian jury which would certainly not have convicted him. The interesting point about M. Combes' motion is that it shows that their responsible supporters are rapidly slipping away from the Ministry. Not every bullet has its billet, except in French duels. M. Jaures and M. Deroulede only fired two bullets apiece, but they wrote a score "billets" and vexed half a dozen governments, before the Premier permitted the picturesque exile M. Deroulede to cross the frontier and flatten his bullets against the rocks in a retreat among the Pyrenees. A modern Brutus M. Deroulede stopped his motor car, as it touched French soil, leaped out and embraced his dear country's earth, on the chance --it was a very off change-- that M. Jaures' bullet might by misadventure fly vagrantly--"in aeternum exilium impositura cymbae". But accidents do not happen even in the best regulated duels and considerable encouragement has been given to the amusement. M. Deroulede bestowed some five hundred francs on local charities; and we shall soon expect to see quiet retreats in the Pyrenees advertise themselves as an agreeable mise-en-scene for patriots anxious like Mark Twain's duellist to "die that France may live". Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is a rather unexpected person to conduct a deputation to the Prime Minister about the colonies and the navy. His chief concern has been neither with the colonies nor the navy. He comes in of course as an economist. Even Mr. Chamberlain, when he discussed colonial contributions to the navy at the last Colonial Conference, took the ground that England would not endure the exclusive burden indefinitely. The name of Sir John Colomb, who is associated with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, is more strongly suggestive of imperial defence. Except Canada, all the greater colonies contribute to the navy. But the aggregate of colonial contributions does not amount to a sum that counts; and we spend on the navy L40,000,000 a year. More than any other concrete thing the navy represents the common property of the empire. Without it every colony would be at the mercy of any enemy who pleased to attack. How long can we go on using this popular word "empire" if the biggest member contributes nothing and all the rest together do not provide the cost of a single battleship? But it is not in Mr. Balfour's hands that the answer lies. It seems such a long while ago that Lord Rosebery last made a speech that one may be excused for not remembering very distinctly such serious arguments as he set forth. He has not indeed spoken, at least at any length, since last Monday. And we cannot recall his figures and the graver portions of his speech. But the lighter fare he offered was unquestionably delicate10 December, 1904 Th conditioned upon the attitude we are willing towards our army and especially towards our nav The steady aim of this nation, as of all enligh nations, should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice." This sentiment is very like many utterances of the French Jacobins. But of course it has no similar meaning. President Roosevelt has no idea at all of crusading over the world in search of that splendid platitude, "the peace of justice". It is only his pulpit style, but we have a very shrewd notion that he well knows what he means when he comes to apply his theories to South America. It will be found, when the occasion seems to demand it, that Poundtext and Balfour of Burley are one because this is a case where there is no aggravating limitation of "so far as is possible" but where "the force necessary to back up a strong attitude can be brought to bear". We all remember how deftly and yet effectively the "peace of justice" came to reign in Panama. The "Times" correspondent is probably right when he points out that S. Domingo and Venezuela are instances where this force may be "brought to bear". The negro Republics of Hayti and S. Domingo are in a chronic state of anarchy and unfortunately for them their great and fertile island, as large as Scotland, commands the Atlantic entrance to the future canal. Where better could the preacher of the "peace of justice" find one of those "exceptional cases to take action which in a ore advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police"? The President has told us that in our fallen state this international force is represented in the Americas by the United States alone. Therefore the effect of the preacher's reprimands to Europe will differ widely from that of his warnings to the "sister-republics" of South America. The first will not be regarded as insults by their objects, for they are not intended seriously, and are really for home consumption alone. It is insolent stuff, but it has no particular meaning and "this great nation" likes to feel that it is on a moral elevation unattainable by the rest of the world. The "Daily Chronicle" has shown a wise enterprise in securing letters by Dr. Albert Shaw on the policy of President Roosevelt. That gentleman is well known to be the intimate adviser of the President and is a writer of wide influence, "son Eminence grise" adapted to the environment of a modern Richelieu. The article published on the 6th of this month shows a complete knowledge of the coming Message which is to be, according to Dr. Shaw's correct estimate, a "State-paper of considerable length, largely devoted to those varied topics that relate to the general welfare". Dr. Shaw comments upon it in interesting fashion but he does not satisfactorily explain why the President evades sermonising his own countrymen upon matters which the benighted universe around has yet sufficient discernment to descry as blots upon their civilisation. Why does not the "peace of justice" take the place of wholesale lynchings and why should the average of 10,000 homicides a year be so consistently maintained? After all every nation has its faults and we have no right to lecture the Americans on their shortcomings except as a retaliatory measure for the President's sermon to the rest of the world; but we cannot help being amused in observing how lightly the congregation itself is let off. It would see as if the Empire of the Trusts is rather a mild and beneficent régime than otherwise. We learn from Dr. Shaw that "the money contributed came voluntarily" because a continuance of Republican policy was believed to mean continued prosperity. We cannot expect the divine to deal with the paying members of his congregation in the drastic fashion recommended by some reformers, whether they put their offerings in the plate or send them to the vestry. That certain great combinations should control the railway system and the politics of their country seems the accepted creed of the majority in America. It is not therefore the business of other nations to complain but they may be forgiven for extracting a modicum of mild amusement from the prodigious outpourings of the President's perceptual pen. So little sack to such a prodigious amount of flapdoodle.[??iew.] 10 December, 1904 [??nal] reform, on the secular side, but not helpful [??gious] education, and to Church schools dis- [??ous.] Secularly the Act is working admirably ; administration is on the whole harmonious ; interest in the schools is quickened ; secondary education is emerging from its amorphous stage ; and the teacher problem is beginning to be thought of. Religiously the process is reversed. In no single respect is religious teaching being strengthened, confirmed, extended, or improved : there is more talk than ever of secularising the State schools, by which we mean schools wholly under public control ; differences between the local authority and denominational managers increase instead of decreasing ; in some cases clergymen have been excluded from the Church school of their own parish ; the general influence of the clergy in education has plainly been diminished, and not a few of them soon to accept the present position as a dismissal from the field. State schools, whence religious teaching may be excluded altogether, and where children can never be taught according to the principles of the Church to which they belong, steadily gain on the schools of the Church of England and of other religious communions. And over all the Church schools there hangs the very significant threat of repairs—a threat so very far from empty that it is certain to close many of these schools at a single stroke in London, and will steadily squeeze out more and more of them as time goes on. Behind all this gathers the Radical attack in the form of alteration of the status of managers of denominational schools, an attack extremely easy to drive home, for Churchmen have deliberately destroyed their own defences and made the way easy for the enemy. These are the circumstances of which the Archbishop of Canterbury takes a smilingly optimistic view. Mr. Riley, he says, will forgive him for not going into his alarmist arguments : he cannot believe any body so pure and so learned as Parliament could possibly have any evil designs on Church schools ; all that is wanted in the money for repairs : the Act is working well, and English Churchmen have every reason to be satisfied. This is a pleasant way of shirking difficulties, which, if Dr. Davidson were a politician instead of an Archbishop, we should call dishonest, for it would be dishonest. What is the use of his saying all we want is the money for repairs? Who did not know that before? Is the Archbishop raising the money? Is he aware how things stand as to the raising of the money? He cannot be, or he would not dare to assume such complacent optimism. The truth is the money required for repairs is not being raised, and never will be, to anything like the amount required. Yet English Churchmen are quite happy : the Archbishop says everything is going well ; why trouble ourselves? And even more significant than the careless Anglican's content is the pathetic failure of some who are genuinely alarmed to perceive where the mischief lies, so that they are making a new mischief of their own. For the zeal and the motive of the Church Schools Emergency League we have all respect, while we have not unmixed respect for the National Society's statesmanship ; but the League's want of perspective in judgment amazes us. In this time, when the position of Church schools is critical, and religious education generally in danger, these [?] Churchmen select for their ground of attack a circular of the Board of Education affecting permission to [?] children to church during school [?] and [???] the National Society for submitting to the Board. The legal position taken up by the League, put at its highest, amounts to nothing more than that it has not yet been found untenable in a court of law. Its religious position touches hardly the fringe of the real question ; if the League won against the Board everything for which it contends, religious education and Church schools would be in as grave peril as they are now. We can hardly imagine a worse point of attack to select ; and for the diplomacy which would risk alienating the Board of Education for an offence which at worst cannot amount to more than a mistaken reading of the law we can hardly restrain contempt. In the tremendous gravity of the present situation we hardly care to stop to consider the dispute [therein?] Canon Cleworth and the Board, or National Society. .TELEGRAM. White House Washington 1NY. (FO) GU. RA. 50- Night. 7:35 a.m. New-York, December, 11 (Received December 12,1904, ) The President, White House. We go to press Monday. I want to say editorially President McKinley took over eight thousand places entirely out of competitive civil service lists. President Roosevelt has not only immensely extended the scope of the lists, but his comparatively few exemptions from examination are individual porsonal temporary not class cases. Elbert F. Baldwin.Mr. Lewisohn expressed to me this morning his great delight at the very hospitable and entertaining reception accorded him; while his son is in serious jeopardy of becoming "an original Roosevelt man." These social functions disposed of, -permit me to say, what I had no chance to say yesterday, that your recommendation in reference to the Interstate Commerce Commission is one of the most important and beneficent plans you have ever proposed, - and it will prove to be the most widely applauded. Sincerely Yours Nathan Bijur To the President; December 11th 1904. Personal [*[12-11-04]*] [*Ack'd wrote Mr. Zangwill 12-13-04*] B 172 West 75th Street. My dear Mr. President, Mr. & Mrs, Zangwill have arranged to go to Florida on Tuesday the 20th inst. If, therefore, Wednesday the 21st suits you, it will be a particularly convenient date for the luncheon which you suggested. They look forward, with the greatest pleasure, to the opportunity of meeting Mrs. Roosevelt and yourself. If the 21st (or say 22nd) are not agreable to you, they can come at an earlier date; but that would necessitate some disarrangement of his plans regarding rehearsals of some of his plays here.[*Mike Donovan*] No 28 East 38 St NY Dec. 11, 1904. [*Ackd 12/13/04*] To The President, White House, Washington, D.C., My dear President Roosevelt, I am deeply sensible of your kindness in answering my letter so soon, and am equally grateful for your consideration. In reply to your query I beg to say: Briefly, my thought is this; that there might occur in the course of your administration, say, a Commission on some medical or allied topic, or a foreignerrand of a temporary character, or a subject involving a special line of investigation, suited to my training, to which you might deem me eligible. I assure you that I seek no position now in existence, and certainly none to which I could not bring the right kind of experience and judgement. I fancy that you, who know something of my life and work, can decide as to what sort of work I am best adapted. I feel like begging your pardon for my presumption in writing to you, but I assure you I am activated solely by a desire to serve my country in some humble capacity With profound respect and gratitude, Faithfully Yrs Newton M ShafferThe Globe AND Commercial Advertiser. NEW YORK'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. 5 AND 7 DEY STREET EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT NEW YORK 12 Dec. [*ackd 12/13/04*] Dear Mr. President - I am sure this will interest you. Yours always, J. B. Bishop[*[For 1. enclosure see 12-12-04]*][[shorthand]] [*CF*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM December 12, 1904 Dear Mr. President: I have your kind note of the 9th. I am glad you had Mr. Lewisohn at luncheon. He will appreciate that immensely. Of course you are having difficult work in connection with the tariff, and this last letter of yours is conclusive evidence that you have the problem well in hand from the standpoint of practical accomplishment. I should think it wise to keep steadily before the members of the Lower House, particularly, the unwisdom of their seeking reelection in 1906 with tariff changes very fresh in the public mind. This consideration should, I think, appeal to their own selfish interests. Of course from my point of view a session in April would be better than a session in September or October. But a session in September or October would be better than none at all. I cannot see how we shall fail to lose heavily in the Lower House, and perhaps lose control, if the matter dawdles over into the next session of Congress and the country finds itself disturbed by a long political debate on the tariff, which, through purely academic in character, would, nevertheless, upset things more or less. How would this do? For you to try to agree with a small group of leaders in the two Houses upon specific tariff changes, such as books and art on the free list; serious reductions in the duties on steel, glass and hides, abolition of the of the one hundred dollar-2- limit upon incoming trans-oceanic passengers; the maximum and minimum provision which you have in mind; and abolition of any duty that, directly or indirectly, helps the Beef Trust, and then to put these specific recommendations in a brief message calling the extra session? These specific changes would then have your personal prestige behind them, and having been agreed to in advance with the real leaders it would be easier to stave off side issues and amendments, destructive or other, brought forward by individuals or special interests. In other words, it would substitute a Roosevelt revision of the tariff for a general revision of the tariff. Such a course as this would utilize your great personal prestige throughout the country, and might stave off the dangers of a long tariff debate. because it would be known in advance what your personal views were. After there had been an opportunity in the House for a few gentlemen to deliver academic orations, a vote would doubtless be speedily reached, and by holding the House in three-day adjournments, as at the time of the repeal of the Sherman Act, the Senate would certainly hasten its final consideration of the pending measure and discourage too much talk. Always yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C.Personal Ackd 12/24/04 AMERICAN EMBASSY. LONDON. 12 December 1904. Dear Mr. President, Ever since the election so many people have been busy designing my office for me- apparently without having consulted either you or me on the subject- that I have waited for the present lull in their activity before writing to you about it. To ensure your absolute freedom of selection of your foreign representatives I assume that every Ambassador and Minister now in office will tender to you their resignations before the fourth of March -- It is with this new, at any date, that I now surrender to your absolute disposition the office which, by your favor, I have held so long. and enclose my formal resignation to take effect on that date. I have always regarded my tenure of office as limited to the term of the President who appointed me- and for every reason my recall will now be most agreeable and welcome to me. I have certainly been here long enough - six years on the first of March next. and, as I have lately been happily reminded, longer than any of my predecessors since Mr. Adams - I ought to be at liberty to devote myself to my personal and family affairs. too long neglected - and I have many other things to do for which time is getting short- The moment is most opportune. The friendship and goodwill between the two Countries which I was instructed by President McKinley to cultivate as my Chief duty, are now apparently perfect, and are I think, certain to remain so as long as you are President. With the free voice and plea of a private citizen I hope to be able to render good service to your cause at home. And so I shall await my letter of recall as a welcome summons. I shall be glad to know, as soon as your convenience permits at about what date I may expect it. After so long a residence in London it will necessarily take some time to prepare for my departure. I shall leave no important business unfinished- There was one personal object, which I had much at heart, to complete and dedicate, while I was yet Ambassador in London, my memorial window to John Harvard in St Saviour's Church where he was baptized- I intended in both as a memorial of Harvard's growing fame in England, and as a suitable gift to signalize my long residence in London. In spite of interminable delays I still hope to accomplish it before my recall reaches me. but if not, it can be safely entrusted to other hands I shall retire form the public service. Mr. President, with the most grateful appreciation of the constant kindness and consideration which I have always received at your hands - I remain most faithfully yours, Joseph H. ChoateAmerican Embassy. London. 12 December 1904 To the President of the United States: I hereby tender to you my resignation of the Office of American Ambassador at the Court of St. James Such resignation to take effect on the Fourth of March 1905 Your obedient servant Joseph H. Choate [*CF*] [*not cal*] Harvard University Cambridge, December 12, 1904. Dear Mr. President:- It is not only the monopolistic corporations which need to be regulated by government; the monopolistic unions - they are all monopolistic - need to be regulated quite as much and in the same way, -as you say. I see no chance at present of my getting on to Washington, although I should much like to talk with you about some of these questions - for instance, about the way out of the Southern difficulty. Sincerely tours, Charles W. Eliot President RooseveltTELEGRAM. White House, Washington 2NY. MN. RA. 54-Paid 2ex. 7:35 p.m. Toronto, Ontario, December 12, 1904. B.F. Barnes, Acting Secretary. No communication of any kind received from White House with reference to case of son of colored Baptist minister, convicted of murder. A letter from father was transmitted to me by department State and forwarded by me to Canadian minister of justice. No intervention suggested, and no request for clemency by me. John G. Foster, Consul General.[For 1 attachment see 12-10-04, " Says Roosevelt/??][*F*] JAMES A. GARY, BALTIMORE, MD. CONFIDENTIAL. Dec. 12th, 1904. My dear Mr. Secretary: I have just written a letter to the President suggesting Judge Henry Stockbridge of this State as an eminently good man to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Alvey as Chief Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Judge Stockbridge is a graduate of Amherst College and of the Maryland University of Law, and for years enjoyed a large law practice in this city. In 1888 he was elected to the Lower House of Congress, on the republican ticket, (defeating Hon. Isidor Rayner, the present Senator-elect from Maryland), in the Fourth Congressional District, which was recognized as a Democratic stronghold. In 1896 he was elected to a Judgeship on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City by a large Republican majority, and has served with distinguished ability. He is recognized generally as being one of the best equipped Judges on our Bench. He is forty-eight years of age, enjoys vigorous health, and it seems to me is in every way qualified to fill the place which Judge Alvey will vacate. If you have an opportunity, I will be very glad if you will advance his interests. He is an all around good man for the place, and my very dear personal friend. He and his father before him were legal advisors, and while I have a personal interest in his appointment, I believe it will do our party good in the State. I understand Senator McComas will urge his own claims for theJAMES A. GARY BALTIMORE, MD. #2 , Dec. 12th, 1904. place, but I do hope the President will not favorably consider him. He has proved a miserable party leader in our State, and practically given it over to Democracy. Recently he has been relegated to the rear, and now the Old Guard are taking hold again, and I believe will in a short time return Maryland to the Republican Ranks. Certainly McComas should receive no consideration at the hands of the President, for he has not earned it. My family are all well, and did they know I was writing you, would join me in sending their kindest regards, Yours sincerely, James A. Gary Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [*NEW YORK,N. Y STA.0 DEC 13 5.30 PM 1904*] THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTMARK. POSTAL CARD. THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt Washington D. C.66 Fifth Avenue New York, 12/12/1904 We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 8th inst. enclosing a remittance of $250.00 which we have placed to your credit. Very truly yours, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY For P. [L?thy]. [*No enclosure*] [*acc'd wrote Sec'y Taft and Mgr. Agius 12-13-04*] PHILBIN, BEEKMAN & MENKEN, 52-54 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. EUGENE A. PHILBIN. CHARLES K. BEEKMAN. S. STANWOOD MENKEN. December 12, 1904 The President, My dear Mr. President:— Mgr. Agius, the Delegate to the Philippines, who, as you know, has been deferring his departure in order to meet Secretary Taft, understands, that the Secretary will arrive in Washington on Thursday next, and he would greatly appreciate it if it could be arranged so that he could have a conference with you and Mr. Taft, and leave for the Philippines this week. He has expressed the desire that I should be present at the conference, although I explained to his, that my popularity in certain church circles was not excessive, as I inferred from certain remarks you had repeated to me at various times, and that therefore, it would be better for him not to incur any prejudices by having me associated with him. He still desired, however, that it be so arranged, and I thought it might be possible to have the interview under circumstances that would not necessarily involve it becoming known that I had been present. I think, myself, I could do more to bring about a clear understanding than Mgr. Falconio, who would otherwise attend. The impression that it was within the power of the Administration to dispose of the controversies over church lands by executive order, instead of having recourse to the Courts, as new proposed, I feel satisfied has been removed by my explanation of the law, and the unwisdom of such a policy, even if it were legal. I have carefully studied the Wright and Harty bills, and am sure that Secretary Taft will find both seriously defective. The Wright measure has jurisdictional defects besides not being in harmony with the determination to have a full and complete hearing of all claims. I have prepared a draft which is designed to carry out the ideals of both proposed measures, so far as they are consistent with the intention as I understand it. The name of Thomas B. Minahan is suggested for the office of Judge. Mr. Minahan is new in this City, but was for many years engaged in active practice in the West, and had occasion to appear before Mr. Taft when he was on the Bench, although, of course, it is not likely that the Secretary would remember him. I enclose some clippings that were taken from yesterday's "Sun", and which may not have come to your notice and may interest you. I am, with sincere regard Yours respectfully, Eugene A. Philbin (Enclosures)your desire to make Washington a pattern city. The worst thing in our country is the corruption in State legislature and in municipal governments. During the canvass in arguing with my mugwump friends I maintained that your administration by the force of its example would be a corrective by inspiring young men of good family, intelligence and education to go into politics. It did not occur to me that you could do more than this, hence your treatment of the subject is an agreeable surprise. [*Ack'd 12-15-04*] 392 BEACON STREET Boston Dec 12 1904 My dear Mr. President I have re-read and pondered your message before venturing to write you a word. It is a remarkable state paper in its grasp of many subjects, its breadth of view and its attractive literary expression. Everyone who voted for you must feel proud that his President has the ability to handle in so masterly a way so many and various questions, The able man and the availableman are this time combined in one. You know so much more about most of the subjects touched upon than I do that in common with most of your supporters I am ready to endorse nearly all of your opinions and recommendations because, guided by able advisers, you have made them. With your statement to me in your letter of Nov. 29 of your "solemn realization of the responsibility your triumph entails" in mind, I feel confident that your administration will prove a blessing to the American people. Honesty and sincerity joined to intelligence and ability cannot help winning a large measure of good and renown. It is pleasant to me to think that we are at one in our ideas of Washington and Lincoln; but there is a tremendous difference between the influence of a President who received between 7 000 000 and 8 000 000 votes and a student who from the nature of his work can reach only a small number I must express my special admiration of your criticism of American municipalities in contrast with European and392 BEACON STREET 5 The comparative insignificance of questions of tariff and finance as you state it (assuming that the gold standard is fixed) is in my judgment excellent political philosophy. The general content of labourers and of the masses is to-day apparent. Much of this is due to causes beyond government control but so far as the government can do anything to maintain this position, so far it will help the success of your administration.With renewed congratulations on your very able paper and with the expression of my high regard I remain Very truly yours James Ford RhodesDOUGLAS ROBINSON, CHARLES S. BROWN & CO., REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND BROKERS, 160 BROADWAY, DOUGLAS ROBINSON, CHARLES S. BROWN, FREDERICK WINANT. UPTOWN OFFICE 570 FIFTH AVENUE "CABLE ADDRESS" "RYRAPORT, NEW YORK." TELEPHONE CONNECTION. NEW YORK, December 12, 1904 [*Ack'd 12-15-04*] Dear Theodore:- Dr. Mottet, Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, (Mr. Gracie's old church) called on Corinne the other day with a rather important to him question. It seems that he is very much exercised over an endowment matter. He has been promised $25,000 from one gentleman; $10,000 from another and so on, provided he can raise the balance before January 1st, some $40,000 or $45,000 which would complete the fund of $100,000. He is anxious, naturally, to raise the balance. He, with that modesty that always displays itself in a church-man who is trying to raise money for spiritual things, said he thought that if you and others, out of the money you have all received from Mr. Gracie would give the amount needed to make up this endowment to the Church, which would represent the amount Mr. Gracie seemed to give to the Church during the year, (he did not seem to know what this amount was, and I don't) he was so indefinite, that he would be able to raise the endowment fund. I believe he thinks that possibly $25,000 might not be out of the way, as a memorial to Mr. Gracie, which would mean a thousand dollars a year (I think this is strong) whether he gave that or not I do not know. I suppose we ought to do something for the Church, and also for the Orthopaedic in memorial of Mr. Gracie. Mr. Gracie left $28000 [????] to the Orthopaedic in his Will. He left nothing to the Church of the Holy Communion. Bamie and Corinne had some conversation as to this matter the other day and Bamie & Corinne felt that something ought to be done. I am an outsider on this question,- but I am perfectly ready to do my part also. I, as you know, dislike to write this letter to you, as you are are so very busy, but I should not mind it. I would like to know just what you think you would be willing to do; and what you do Corinne will do, and I presume Bamie willDouglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown & Co. Real Estate Agents and Brokers. 160 Broadway. Douglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown, Frederick Winant. Uptown Office, 570 Fifth Avenue. Cable Address, "Robur, New York." Telephone Connection New York_________________190___ also. It seems to me that if you all were to give a fund of [$?000], to a Church you do not attend, and we all however owe something to it for many reasons, which I need not go into; and [say?] a small amount to the Orthopaedic, you would perhaps be doing your duty. Corinne intended to write you herself, but she has not been at all well for the last few days, in fact has been in bed with a cold, and if she will only take care of herself she will be all right; but I told her I would relieve her by writing this letter, by typewriter and thus enable you to read it more quickly. Apologizing for this long letter but I could not very well avoid it, as I wished to place the matter fully before you, and with best love to the family, I am Yours sincerely, Douglas Robinson The President, White House, Washington, D. C.[*Ack'd 12-16-04*] P. O. BOX 1222 CABLE ADDRESS, ROOSEVELT Roosevelt & Son, 33 Wall Street, New York, December 12, 1904. The President, Washington, D. C. Dear Theodore:-- Mr. Scrymser requests me to enclose you a copy of a letter he is sending to Mr. Hay, as he seems to fear that Mr. Hay may not receive it at once, and wishes me to keep you posted about this matter. The matter is really important, and it shows how foreign governments view this question of telegraphic control with foreign countries. All other countries but ours practically subsidize these foreign cables. That, our government does not do, nor would I think that desirable. But, I do believe it very much in the interest of our government to sustain in every way American cable communication with Central and South America. Yours truly, W. Emlen Roosevelt [*See letter Same subject P.P.F.*][*ackd 12-13-04*] [[shorthand]] JOHN C. ROSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 38 POST OFFICE BUILDING, BALTIMORE. Dec. 12, 1904 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The White House, Washington. Dear Mr. President: -- Your popular plurality last month was the largest, relatively and absolutely, is the history of the country. I am interested in having its precise figures definitely ascertained and in setting the precedent which will enable the future popular vote to be ascertained in a more definite and precise way than has been the case heretofore. Under the laws a statement of the votes given to each elector is required to be returned to the Secretary of State. Cannot it be arranged when they are all is that the Secretary of State shall issue an official bulletin stating the vote given to the highest elector on each of the tickets in each state in the Union. This bulletin would then be accepted as the correct official announcement. In the past there has been no agreement among the political almanacs and other authorities. In some states one almanac has taken the highest elector, in another the average vote for all the electors, and in another perhaps has arrived at the result in a still different way. The matter, of course, is of no great importance, but it is of interest to some statistical cranks like myself. I have been spoken to by a gentleman who has for some thirty years past compiled the principal political almanac in use in this part of the country. The suggestion - 1 -JOHN C. ROSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 38 POST OFFICE BUILDING, BALTIMORE. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt #2 I have made herein originated with him but when made to me it commended itself very strongly to me. I am so glad that you are concentrating your fight on the regulation of the big corporations and especially the railroads. I should like to see the tariff revised but then the revision of the tariff up or down is something that is always doing or always to be done. Nothing now done, however desirable it may be to do it, and I think it is, will have any permanent result. Your immense majority and great influence can, however, accomplish something in the matter of regulating corporations which if once done will stay done. Nothing short of the strength you now have will ever enable it to be wisely and well done. It may be necessary to put forth even that strength to the full limit before anything worth the doing can be accomplished. One thing else. I have received a letter from one of our American consuls abroad, a man whom I knew quite well before he entered the consular service. He writes me that he fears there will be great political pressure for appointments to the consular service and asked me to say something on his behalf. I have written to him telling him that I cannot ask any favors for him but expressing the belief that if in the discharge of his duties he has shown ability, zeal, tact and efficiency, and, of course, integrity, -2-JOHN C. ROSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 38 POST OFFICE BUILDING, BALTIMORE. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt #3 I do not believe that it will be the policy of the administration to disturb him. I think it not unlikely that I may have similar letters from other people. Did I make the right answer? I was over the Civil Service meeting on the 8th and 9th. The delightfully impracticable type of Mugwump was there in force, but so long as men like Swift, Dana, Bonaparte and Foulke are as thoroughly satisfied as you are yourself you may very well ignore what the rest of the gentlemen are disposed to do and say. I am, as ever, Sincerely yours, John C. Rose R. to B.- -3-Central and South American Telegraph Co., 66 Broadway, New York December 12th 1904 James A. Scrymser, President [*Copy*] Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- The exclusive telegraphic contract between this company and the Republic of Peru, copy annexed marked A, executed December 15th 1879, will expire by limitation on Thursday next, December 15th. The Peruvian Congress passed a Bill (March 8th, 1904) authoring a renewal and modification of the contract. Copy annexed marked B. From time to time the officials of Peru have ensured the officers of this Company that its contract would be renewed to the satisfaction of the Company. Within the last few days much opposition to a renewal of the contact has developed in Lima Peru. This opposition is traceable to the English Cable Company, operating a cable from England via Brazil, Argentina, Chile to Lima Peru. I was informed, by telegraph December 8th, that the British Foreign Office-2- has several times written to the British Minister, Lima, presumably at the instigation of the English Cable Company, for information regarding the concession to this Company." In the printed Memorial of this Company, dated August 15th, mailed to you August 26th, also my letter to Assistant Secretary Adee dated October 28th, I explained that it was of vital importance to the United States Government that it should exclusively control all telegraphic communication, as far as possible, North and South of the Isthmus of Panama, on the Pacific side, and that much control could only be secured by the United States Government upholding the contract rights of this Company covering the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama and beyond. You will observe that a renewal of our Peruvian contract would strengthen very materially the American control of telegraphic communication with South America, via Panama. You are aware that the English Cable Companies monopolise the coast of Brasil for many years to come, and that a French Company holds the monopoly for fifty years for all telegraphy between Brasil and the United States Via the West Indies. This you will observe there is grave danger of - 2 - has several times written to the British Minister, Lima, presumably at the instigation of the English Cable Company, for information regarding the concessions to this company. In the printed Memorial of this company, dated August 15th, mailed to you August 26th, also my letter to Assistant Secretary Adee dated October 28th, I explained that it was of vital importance to the United States Government that it should exclusively control all telegraphic communication, as far as possible, North and South of the Isthmus of Panama, on the Pacific side, and that much control could only be secured by the United States Government upholding the contract rights of this company covering the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama and beyond. You will observe that a renewal of our Peruvian contract would strengthen very materially the American control of telegraphic communication with South America, via Panama. You are aware that the English cable Companion monopolize the Coast of Brazil for many years to come, and that a French Company holds the monopoly for fifty years for all telegraphy between Brazil and the United States Via the West Indies. Thus you will observe there is grave danger of-3- foreign lines being established covering the short gap of 1600 miles between Callao Peru and the Isthmus of Panama, which would give the English Cable Companies a double connection with England independent of the United States, via Colon, Jamaica, Bermuda and Halifax. You will remember that in 1898 your Department, by telegraph and otherwise, supported my effort while in Japan for the establishment of an American Pacific Cable, which, as I subsequently informed you, was defeated because of the opposition of the British Minister to Japan, under instructions from the Foreign Office London. You are aware that shortly after the English Cable Companies obtained a monopoly of all telegraphy on the Coast of China, which monopoly (controls Japan and the Philippines) is practically guaranteed by an Act of the British Parliament, as set forth in the Memorial of this company of August 15th. This company desires to obtain an extension of its present contract with Peru for twenty years, the only modifications being that the exclusive right shall include all telegraphic means of communication, electric, magnetic or otherwise, between Peru and any county North thereof. The company in return grants to Peru quarter rates on all official messages to and from places on its lines between Galveston, Texas, and-4- Buenos Aires, Argentina. In an interview between the President of Peru and this company's superintendent, December 6th, the President stated that he was informed that this company's rights covering the Isthmus of Panama and Colombia were illegal, as the contract was not executed until after the secession of Panama. Also that he was informed the United States Government did not approve of exclusive rights, to which I replied that this company's rights were legal, that its contract had been negotiated by the United States Government in behalf of the company and was concluded October 14th, 1903. Also that the United States Government has granted an exclusive telegraph right between the United States, Cuba and the West Indies. I enclose for your information copies of instructions issued by Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State, dated February 25th, and September 5th, 1887, wherein your Department acted in a similar case, in behalf of an American company which at the time was striving to establish an American cable connecting the United States with Brazil. In view of all these circumstances, I respectfully ask that your Department will, at the earliest possible moment, telegraph to the American Legation in Lima, Peru, instructing-5- it to use its good offices for extending the Peruvian concession asked for by the Central and South American Telegraph Company. Will you kindly telegraph me on receipt of this letter what action, if any, your Department will take in the matter. I have the honr to remain, Dear Sir, Very respectfully, (sgd.) James A. Scrymser President. [*James Alexander Scrymser*]WILLIAM A. OTIS & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO. WILLIAM A. OTIS. PHILIP B. STEWART. WILLIAM P. SARGEANT. FRANCIS GILPIN. [[shorthand]] [*ackd 12/16/04*] 12/12/14 The President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President, I knew you would help in our efforts here if it were practicable. I was disheartened the day I wrote, for it seemed as if our forces were going to pieces. The opening of the ballot boxes helped do what I then thought you alone could accomplish. Patterson threw up his hands editorially and the vague cry of fraud became a definite, terrible thing. It was an aroused public feeling that we had to have both to cow the desperate opposition and to unite our allies. There are now seventeen in jail in Denver - including James H. Mullins, who lacked only a few votes of being Brooks democratic rival for Congressman at Large. His brother, Judge Mullins, has been the bulwark of crime onWilliam A. Otis & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Colorado Springs, Colorado. William A. Otis. Philip B. Stewart. William P. Sargeant. Francis Gilpin. 2 the bench for years: and only by jumping him to the Supreme Court have these exposures and punishments been possible. You speak of letters alleging a vast Republican corruption fund. This money, some $225,000, passed through my hands. We carried on the most exhaustive campaign of education ever undertaken by a State, beginning last July. We had 110 Republican papers in our service and sent weekly material to a mailing list of some 40,000. This work was most expensive, and absolutely clean. To the 60 counties of the state we sent about $100,000 on the request of the respective chairmen. Considering the great area covered this was a small sum! and while doubtless some of it was dishonestly spent, there was not more than was absolutely necessary for proper organization. The entire expenditure is covered by vouchers and then vouchers are on file at the State House as part of the sworn report of the Republican Committee.William A. Otis & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Colorado Springs, Colorado. William A. Otis. Philip B. Stewart. William P. Sargeant. Francis Gilpin. 3 On the whole, I believe our campaign was as clean as any campaign run during this Presidential contest. There are republican counties in this state where fraud is habitually practiced. I sincerely hope every Republicans so doing may be treated as are the Denver democrats. I fear it can not be done. Our plans against these democrats were laid for months and we have systematically massed our evidence when it was possible to have it. Adams majority is a fraudulent one. Our campaign before the people was successful-- We had the big corporations - but we had also an overwhelming majority of the business men of the state. I am awfully sorry to have troubled you. Always most cordially yours, Philip B Stewart December 12th 1904[*12 30 [AM] [???]*] OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C., December 12, 1904. My dear Mr. President: By your kind permission I will leave on the 15th. inst. I will call and say good-bye on the 14th, and when I do I would like to bring with me Mr. Wm. A. Henderson, formerly of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, now the General Attorney of the Southern railroad, and the historian of John Sevier, the ancient Governor of Tennessee, of whom you have yourself written. Col. Henderson is a gentleman and a scholar, and one of our kind of Democrats. I would like to introduce him, very briefly, and if you will set the time for his introduction and my farewell I will be very much pleased. Would be glad to receive a 'phone from Mr. Loeb so that I can notify Judge Henderson. Yours very truly, E. F. Ware[*F*] Department of Labor. Washington. December 12, 1904. My dear Mr. President: If you care to know just the attitude of prominent officials of the railway brotherhoods and officials of other labor organizations concerning Mr. Clark as my successor, it will be very well to consult the Commissioner-General of Immigration, Mr. Sargent, who can tell you more about this than any one I know. Let me thank you most cordially for your kind letter accepting my resignation. I feel that I am hardly entitled to the very warm expressions which you have given. I am, sincerely yours, Carroll D. Wright. To the President.M. Agius, apostolic Delegate of the Philippines, is to see Secy. Taft on his arrival, and asks when he may see the President for a final talk before leaving on the 26th. 12-12-1904 [[shorthand]][For 1 attachment ca 12-12-04 Salvaggianni] [*[Attached to 12-12-04"Mr Agius"]*]Rev. Francis Marchetti Solvaggiani Auditor of the Apostolic Delegation 201-l.NW Washington D.C.[*[Enclosed in Bishop 12-12-04]*][*GLOBE AND COMMERCIAL A.*] of the smell of a large bonus on which Mrs. Chadwick relied. In justice to the banking profession, however, it is to be noted that the banker victims are old me, which suggests that like the army and the navy, banks should have a retiring age-an age the attainment of which shall be construed as an evidential fact, as a pension order No. 78 puts it, of incapacity [*TWO TO ONE STATES*] In the following states, at the presidential election, the plurality received by President Roosevelt was greater than the vote cast for Judge Parker: [*State. Roosevelt. Parker. Plurality California.......206,228 80,404 115,822 Idaho................47,788 18,480 29,808 Iowa...............287,907 149,141 158,766 Kansas...........210,808 84,800 126,083 Maine...............64,437 27,630 36,807 Michigan.........362,315 187,018 225,828 Minnesota.......214,978 68,632 146,347 Nebraska.........188,358 52,920 85,688 Oregon..............60,488 17,521 48,984 Pennsylvania...840,949 335,430 506,510 Vermont.............40,450 9,777 30,682 Washington.....100,086 28,015 72,688 Wisconsin........280,164 124,107 156,057*] In all these states the Roosevelt vote was thus more than twice as large as the vote for parker, or the Roosevelt vote more than 66 per cent. of the vote for the two principal candidates. In some states the preponderance was most extraordinary. In Vermont, which heads the list, the Roosevelt vote was four times larger than the Parker vote, and in Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota three and one-half times as great, and in Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, and Michigan nearly three times as great. The significant fact about the above table is the large representation of the west in it. Maine, Vermont, and Pennsylvania are the only three eastern states. States which in 1896 were carried by Bryan show extraordinary Republican pluralities.The Outlook Company 287 Fourth Avenue New York [*Ack'd 12-16-04*] December 13, 1904. My Dear Mr. President: The enclosed paragraph from this week's Outlook will perhaps indicate the interest which we are taking in the question of the Congressional representation of the Southern States in its relation to the negro. We have just received, as I write this letter, a very strong article, though moderate and conciliatory in tone, from Mr. John B. Knox of Anniston, Ala., discussing the "reduction of representation in the South." Mr. Knox was President of the late Constitutional Convention of Alabama, and therefore not only knows the Southern point of view, but knows both the Federal and the State constitutional questions involved. So far as my acquaintance goes with Southern men who know this question, Mr. Knox seems to me to be an admirable representative of the broad, progressive and patriotic Southern view of this phase of the negro question. We want to print his article, but we want to accompany it with an equally broad statement of the Northern point of view--the view which emphasizes the political doctrine that representative should represent not population, but actual voters--if I may be allowed The Outlook Company 287 Fourth Avenue New York 2. to say so, your view, as you have expressed it to me. It is out of the question, of course, for us to have an article from you, but I write to ask if you can suggest to us the man who ought in our columns to give our readers the liberal, broad and patriotic Northern point of view. Thus Outlook readers will have the South and the North speaking as gentlemen jointly on one platform. Can you give me the name of such a man? I am Respectfully yours, Ernest Hamlin Abbott The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, White House, Washington, D.C.[For 1 enclosure see 12-17-04]JOHN T. DEVINE. [*ack'd 12-18-04 CF*] Washington, D.C., Dec 13 1904 Dear Mr. Barnes: Please say to the President, in explanation of my sudden disappearance without having reported one or two things to him, that I was taken down Saturday with a malignant sore throat – from having got wet in the snow that day. Dr. Krogstad has been tussling with it ever since, & he promises to have me out tomorrow, when I will proceed to do the errands I was to look after. Always yours, James S. Clarkson When does Mr. Loeb come back?OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO WASHINGTON, D. C., December 13, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Loeb: Kindly note the enclosed communication from Captain John R. Lynch in connection with some previous correspondence on this subject. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.(For 1 enc see Lynch 8-22-04) Office of Surgeon GEneral Dec. 23 1904 A 108763 War Department [*Ack'd 12-21-04*] C. G. Gunther's Sons Furriers, (Estab'd A.D. 1820) No. 184 Fifth Avenue New York, Dec. 13. 1904 Mr B.F.Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- We are in receipt of your two letters of 10th inst. Accept our thanks for check for $36 enclosed. We are surprised at the judgment passed on the men in question, one of whom had been on the ground previously, and we have never learned that his sobriety or familiarity with the work was doubtful. Both of them have been with us for many years and nothing has ever occurred to cause us to view them as other than industrious and competent workmen. However we certainly want to have everything satisfactory to the President and would be glad to send one or two other of our men down to Oyster Bay to look over the work and arrange for repairs to any damage which may have been inflicted. If this meets with approval, as the house is probably closed, will you kindly mail us an order which will instruct Mr Seaman to admit them. We have just read the carbon copy of the letter to Mr Seaman, dictated by the salesman, to the first paragraph of which the President naturally took exception. It is misleading and should have been put very differently. It is true that the work was done at a special figure, and that we are pleased to do it, but we do not for a moment feel that the President is under even the shadow of obligation- if the latter exists it is and should be entirely on our side. We are very sorry for the annoyance which has evidently been cause, but trust that we may nevertheless continue to look after the wants of the President in our line whenever occasion arises. We remain, Very truly yours, C. G. Gunther's Sons17 Copy: NCB. M. I. D. No. 2680-s Tokio, Japan. December 13 - 1904. [*WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE CHIEF OF STAFF NO.___ JAN -6 1905 MILITARY INFORMATION DIVISION*] The Chief of the Second Division, General Staff U.S. Army. Sir: I have the honor to report that after waiting three weeks to secure new credentials and a reassignment as a military observer, our minister has just been informed that there were no objections to my going to the Second Army. This means that my application to go to Port Arthur is again refused. Since June 1, I have been endeavoring by all proper means to secure an assignment to the 3rd Army before Port Arthur and this last refusal appears to remove all hope of the United States securing an accredited observer at this important point. No satisfactory reasons for these continued refusals are apparent and I am unable to offer any explanation for what seems to be an unfriendly attitude on the part of the Japanese Government towards the accredited military observers from the United States of America. I am keenly disappointed over the result as I feel that my country's interests would be better served by my presence at Port Arthur than with the field army, especially the Second, where my sphere of usefulness is much curtailed. I leave for the front in a few days, as soon as arrangements for my journey are perfected. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOSEPH E. KUHN, Major of Engineers.[*ackd 12-13-1904*] Dear Mr. Barnes, I worked over this note an hour last night, but do not understand it. Will you please strike out of the draft what the President desires to have omitted, and add what he wants added? Yours faithfully John HayZoological Societies or animal dealer your side to recommend a reliable man to go with them to New Zealand as they are far too precious to be entrusted to the Tender mercy of a scratch steamer crew If you could give me any idea as to the approximate date when they would be ready I would try & make arrangements. As an ardent sportsman yourself I trust you will forgive my keenness in this matter The Duke of Bedford has very kindly given me some [*Ack'd wrote Maj. Patterson & Prof. Langley 1-11-04*] [*Littledale, Sir George*] WICK HILL HOUSE. BRACKNELL. Berks. Eng. 13th December 1903 Dear Mr President- A few days ago I took the liberty of sending to you by parcel post a copy of Wards last edition of Horn Measurements should you not have previously received the book I venture to think it may be of interest to you. The New Zealandgovernment have expressed great joy at the possibility of receiving some Wapiti and are very grateful to you for your kindness in the matter they have been requested to treat the matter at this stage as confidential should nothing in the meantime have occurred to prevent the carrying out of your most generous idea I should be very glad to know about how many you could share if it would not be considered greedy should suggest that 3 young males and 7 young females would be a suitable number of course of course could one be sure that none of the males would die en route 2 would be enough, but unfortunately one cant. In regard to shipment possibly my best plan would be to get one ofWICK HILL HOUSE. BRACKNELL. Tahr Hemitragus Jemlaicus & they I hope will be starting for their new home in a week or two Chamois which would be particularly suitable appear to be very difficult to procure & none of the regular dealers hold out much hope for females males are comparatively common. Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein is coming here this week & it will not be my fault if he is notinduced to ask one or two of his influential Austrian friends to try & get some netted Two shooting companions of mine. Mr Vander Bye & Lord Elphinstone have just returned from Alaska with two fine moose heads apiece the sight of them has filled me with frenzy to go there next Autumn & do likewise I had a letter from Sternburg from Berlin he never mentioned his own health which somebody said was precarious so it is to be hoped the rumour had no foundation Tammany almost make one despair of the future of the United States Thanking you in my wifes name as well as my own for your great kindness to us in Washington I remain Very faithfully yours S. George Littledale[*Acc'd 12-15-04*] [*Enc rec'd 12/20/04*] THE CHURCHMAN 47 Lafayette Place New York Editorial Rooms December 13, 1904. Mr. B. F. Barnes, Asst. Sec'y to the President, White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Barnes: At a convenient time I want you to bring the enclosed letter to the attention of the President. Please let him understand that I would not impose it upon him except for what this young lawyer stands for. In the first place, he is the grandson of the President's old friend, Judge John M. Lea. He graduated at Sewanee and later took his degree in the Law School at Columbia, and is now a visiting instructor in the Law School at Sewanee. He is the best blood and the best type of Tennessean. His grandmother's father, Judge Overton, was an intimate friend of Andrew Jackson. The President will understand that I want him to read this letter for the insight that it gives into the change that is taking place in the South, and without any regard whatsoever for the appointment referred to. Kindly return the letter to me when the President has seen it. Appreciating always your courtesy, I am, Very truly yours, Silas McBee (Enclosure)Cordova, Alabama, December 13, 1904, Mr. J. O. Thompson, Chairman State Committee, Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Sir:- I desire, as a member of State Committe, to give you the views of my people about the Collectorship of the Port of Mobile. The people of my[r], Section of the State, are almost solid in desiring the appointment of Judge B. W. Walker for this position for the following reasons: 1st: Because he was mobbed while stumping his District in the interests of republicanism by a gang of hoodlums headed by his opponent, Tom Heflin. This attack was made while Mr. Walker was alone which shows the cowardice of the "Bullies." And for the additional reason, that the following day, Heflin made that hellish remark about the President. At the time this occurred I, myself, was on the stump in that same part of the Fifth District in the interests of Judge Walker, and the Presidential Electors. I am personally acquainted with the present Collector, Mr. W. F. Tebbetts, and do not believe he should be reappointed. I share with our people in their support of Judge Walker. The appointment of Judge Walker would mean the annihilation of Heflinism. (Mr. Walker believes in a square deal to every man, Mr. Tebbetts does not, as his record in Alabama clearly demonstrates.) Mr. Walker stands for firmness and decision of character, and Mr. Tebbetts stands for arrogance and as a "fashion model." Wile Mr. Walker was risking his life in the defense of of the policies of the President, Mr. Tebbetts was in New York working for reappointment. The appointment of Judge Walker would be a just tribute to an honest, and worthy man; would be dealing a death blow to anarchy, as taught by Heflin and on the other hand, the APPOINTMENT OF TEBBETTS WOULD STAND FOR NOTHING. I think that you will all in your power to accomplish the appointment of Judge Walker. Respectfully, H. T. Nations.[Enc in Thompson 12-14-04]TELEGRAM, White House, Washington. 8 PO KE GI 21 Collect Govt--12:55p Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 13, 1904. The Thresident: Arrived Pensacola this morning; hope to reach Washington tomorrow night half past nine. Wm. H. Taft.[*442*] [*425*] Form 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 23,000 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 the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager [*POSTMASTER GENERAL RECEIVED DEC 15 1904 OFFICE OF PRIVATE SECRETARY*] [*DEC 14 1904*] [*60 CS*] RECEIVED at Wyatt Building Cor. 44th & F. Streets, Washington, D. C. 168. C ir of 78 pd 36 ex in nig, Jackson Tenn.14. [*1538-17*] [*Dear Mr. Wyand, please speak to us at once about this. T.R.*] Hon T W Sims. House Reps, Washn DC. We, both as ministers of the gospel, and as pastors of Churches in Jackson Tennessee and as citizens, desire to protest against the appointment of J L Lancaster, a saloon-keeper, to be postmaster here and request you to present our protest to the President and to the chiefs of the postoffice department. J L Blackard. G S Williams, C L Noth, J T Raymond, T F Sanders, J N Evans, Chas W Welch, Terry Martin, H F Wells, D A Ellis. 240PM[*shorthand?*] [*CS Encl to P.M.G. Dec. 18-04*] OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 14, 1904. My dear Mr. Barnes: I return herewith the letter from Representative Brownlow accompanying Mr. Loeb's note of the 2nd instant. It has been the practice heretofore, I am informed, to do what Mr. Brownlow requests, and, until further advised, I think it might be well to adhere to this custom. Inquiry of the Postmaster General might develop whether he knows of any serious objection to following this plan. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Courtelyou Hon. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. Enclosure.OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C., [*Ack'd & Encl. retd 12-16-04*] [[shorthand]] Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 14, 1904. My dear Mr. President: I send you herewith a characteristic letter from Col. S. G. McLendon, of Thomasville, Georgia. The McLendons are delightful people, were warm friends of Senator Hanna, and President McKinley came to know and respect them highly. While you may not agree with some of Col. McLendon's contentions, I am sure you will be glad to note what he says in this letter - which I hardly think he expected would reach your eye. Will you be good enough to have the letter returned to me when you read it? Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou To the President. Enclosure.DR. ADOLPHE DANZIGER 23 Gramercy Park New York December 14, 1904. The President, In view of the disparaging remarks made to you by Mr. Nathan Bijur relative to my work during the last campaign, it becomes my duty to state the following facts: On the approach of the Jewish New Year, I issued card with greetings to the Jewish people on the East Side of the City of New York. On the reverse side of the cards was printed a clean, dignified statement setting forth that prosperity was ours and that it becomes us to be loyal to so noble a friend of the Jews as Theodore Roosevelt. These cards were received with much appreciation by the Jewish people. They were distributed in letter boxes, in cafes, and in theatres. I absolutely forbade their distribution in synagogues, not because it is against the Jewish law, but because I did not desire to offend the sentiments of the worshippers. On the holy days my department was nominally closed, and my Jewish help did not report for work. But the cards had made a "hit" among the people, and men like Mr. Brown, Charles Adler, and other leaders were very eager to get them. The originality of the idea startled the Democrats, and it startled still more Mr. Nathan Bijur, who saw that I was not a "dummy" at the headquarters. To put it frankly, Mr. Bijur was jealous. He had made certain promises to the Sarasohns, the DR. ADOLPHE DANZIGER 3085 METROPOLITAN BUILDING NEW YORK -2- proprietors of the Jewish Daily News, with regard to printing. He even promised Fromenson - a man once tried for fraudulent colonization - the very position I held with the Republican National Committee. The Sarasohns, hearing that I managed the Jewish Department, were afraid lest Bijur be unable to "deliver the goods". They approached me and made me "offers". I spoke of the matter to Mr. Coolidge. My knowledge of the questionable methods employed by these people caused me to fight shy of them. I was also anxious to get a printer who would do clean, honest work, and who would serve me with the people on the East Side. I found Lipshitz, the printer for the Jewish theatres, and through him I got the largest field for my labors. I stuck to this printer, and the pamphlets he turned out were models, as you yourself had occasion to note. Mr. Bijur was reproached by the Sarasohns, and he in his turn tried to get back at me. The inveracities this gentleman uttered about me were known to me almost as soon as they were uttered, but I had greater things to accomplish than to pick a quarrel with a jealous lawyer politician. I had staked my very existence on a full Jewish sweep for Roosevelt. I said to the Jews, "You must be grateful," and drove even the unwilling ones into line. I know Bijur's people, the Sarasohns, received money from the Democratic National Committee to help Congressman Goldfogle, who bitterly fought the President. I saw how Mr. Blaustein, the pretended friend of Roosevelt, fawned on Parker and wished himDr. ADOLPHE DANZINGER 3085 METROPOLITAN BUILDING NEW YORK -3- "luck" at the time the candidate was in Lorber's restaurant, but I knew also that they could not harm us because we were wideawake, and because I took advantage of every opportunity. My work made inroads on Mr. Bijur's boast that he could "handle the East Side". He could not, for he has not the Jewish learning, nor does he know the Russian Jew as well as I, who speak his tongue and think his thoughts, know him. Bijur saw that his work was becoming secondary. He went so far as to send to my office Fromenson - for whose record I refer you to Commissioner Charles H. Murray, Chairman of the New York Republican County Committee - requesting me to give up my work. This man Fromenson told me in the presence of my secretary that prominent Jewish Republicans wished it, and if I refused, would make me quit. I asked the reason for this request, and was told that I had sent out my distribution corps to the synagogues and had them give cards to each worshipper on the High Holidays. I immediately called in the Jewish translators and the captain of the distributing corps and they stated that they were not employed on the holy days, and did no work whatever on those days. Fromenson still insisted that "prominent Jewish Republicans" wanted me to quit. Thereupon I told him to go and see the Chairman, adding that he had best fortify himself with the signatures of these men. Needless to say that he did not go to the Chairman, but I told Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Brooker the story. Their answer was: "You are doing great work; go ahead."DR. ADOLPHE DANZINGER 3085 METROPOLITAN BUILDING NEW YORK -4- Unsuccessful in his first attempt to make me quit my work, Bijur tried to malign me to Mr. Coolidge, to Mr. Brooker, and to others, but with no effect. Under ordinary circumstances, I would shrink from making a statement that would appear boastful, but in view of the fact that one of "my own people" tries to hurt me, I say to you, Mr. President, quite frankly, that Adolphe Danziger was the first to start a healthy Roosevelt agitation on the East Side, and kept it up to the very day of the election. I call upon Governor Odell, Charles Adler, Otto Rosalaky, Commissioner Murray; I call upon every lessee and manager of every Jewish theatre; I call upon the proprietors of cafes Lorber, Marcus, and others, to substantiate My statement. I am at this moment more influential on the Bast Side than my detractors, and it is my firm intention to remain so. Mr. Bijur cannot forgive me that I opposed the election of Goldfogle for Congress. He tried to convince the member's of, the Republican National Committee that my opposition in that direction would harm the President. The result has show that if Bijur and his confederates had acted rightly, Joseph Levenson would have been elected. I reiterate that I did the very best and most successful work, and that it merits the recognition I have asked at your hands. I am The President's Obedient Servant, Adolphe Danziger.[*[For 1. attachment see 12-20-04]*]NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB Dec 14 1904 My dear Mr President Your kind and welcome Letter came duly to hand, I will be in Washington next Monday, Dec 19. I will call at the white House in the afternoon. when you are through with your oficial business. and I will stay in washington three days. [ ] So as to getyou and your son well started. With best wishes I am Sincerely yours Mike DonovanCardinal's Residence, 408 N. Charles St. Baltimore. [*Ack'd 12-28-04*] Dec. 14, 1904. My Dear Mr. President, If you have not yet selected a Postmaster for Baltimore, I beg to recommend for this position Mr. W. M. McIntire formerly member of Congress. If his name is not available, I would urge the nomination of Mr. J.S. McDonald a prominent citizen and merchant of Baltimore. Either of these two gentlemen would acceptably fill the post to which they aspire. Faithfully yrs, J. Card. Gibbons Theodore Roosevelt President.[*CF*] Department of State Washington, December 14, 1904 Dear Mr. President:- Mr. P. M. Mattheeff who was Commissioner to the World's Fair from Bulgaria, is calling upon you with a letter of introduction from Dr. Shaw, and with an autograph letter from his Prince to you. I thought it best not to come with him, as that would give too formal and official character to his visit. He is a graduate of Robert College, speak English perfectly and seems a very intelligent and decent sort of man. Faithfully yours John Hay [*see also Shaw, Albert 11/26/04*]TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3WU. PE. RA. 134-Paid 16 ex. 11:08 p.m. Repeat back. Little-Rock, Arkansas, December 14, 1904. The President, Washington, D.C. The Arkansas Democrat of this city has been suspended from the Associated Press for publishing your message to Congress before it was released. It happened through a blunder of one of their employees, while the management were busy moving into their new building. The Democrat has been one of the few Gold Standard papers of this section, always decent and exerts a powerful influence in this section for good. We understand that Associated Press officials in New-York say that a waiver from you personally is required to reinstate paper in Associated Press service. We personally vouch for sincerity and accuracy of Democrat's explanation. The matter will probably be presented to you tomorrow. Trust you may grant waiver asked. W. S Holt, Secy' Arkansas Republican State Committee; Sid B. Redding, Vice Pres't. at-large, National Republican League.[*Ack'd 12-16-04*] Thos. H. Hubbard THE BROAD-EXCHANGE, 33 BROAD ST. New York, December 14th, 1904. PERSONAL. His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. My dear Mr. President: From your letter of September 16th, I could not help inferring that you would probably not attend the New England Dinner, December 22nd. I do not regret this as much as I would if I did not gather from your declination some assurance that you will attend the Centennial of the Society, early next May. But I am much disappointed that Attorney-General Moody has also declined the invitation for the 22nd. It looks as if we should have no one to respond for the "The President of the United States." I mean no one directly representing the President; and you will remember that you wrote me that, if you could not come yourself, you would try to have Attorney-General Moody represent you. Can you not get him to revoke his declination and speak for ten minutes, or longer if he prefers? Yours truly, Thos. H. Hubbard.PHILBIN, BEEKMAN & MENKEN, 52-54 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. EUGENE A. PHILBIN. CHARLES K. BEEKMAN. S. STANWOOD MENKEN. [*Ack'd 12-15-04*] [[shorthand]] December 14, 1904. B. F. Barnes, Esq., My dear Mr. Barnes:-- I have just received your letter stating that the President will see me at 9 o'clock, Friday night, the 16th instant. I assume that he also expects Mgr. Agius to attend in accordance with the suggestion made in the letter to which your communication is in answer. Will you kindly let me know if this is correct? Yours very truly Eugene A. PhilbinJOHN C. ROSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 38 POST OFFICE BUILDING, BALTIMORE. [[shorthand]] Dec. 14, 1904 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The White House, Washington. Dear Mr. President:- I have your note of the 13th inst. and shall be very glad indeed to accept your kind invitation to lunch on Friday. The name of the consul spoken about in my letter was Mr. Talbot J. Albert, and he is consul at Brunswick. I did not intend that my letter should be construed as a plea on his behalf. I feel that as he has been in the consular service some six or eight years he should have made a record in his service known to his superior officers and by which he should be judged. He tells me in his letter that he desires to rest upon that record, but whether he desires to do it or not he ought to, and I have no doubt that you will see that he does. I am, Sincerely yours, John C. Rose R. to B.-PARTIDO REPUBLICANO PUERTORRIQUEÑO. [ *senator* ] COMITÉ EJECUTIVO MANUEL F. ROSSY, PRESIDENTE. JOSE C. BARBOSA LUIS SANCHEZ MORALES PEDRO C. TIMOTHEE JUAN HERNANDEZ LOPEZ PEDRO JUAN BESOSA JAIME SIFRE SECRETARIO. San Juan, P.R., Dec. 14th, 1904. Honorable Joseph B. Foraker, United States Senator, Washington, D.C. My dear friend:- I have the honor and pleasure to acknowledge receipt of a letter from your Secretary advising me that my letters have reached you and that same would merit your attention. I have been unable to finish the report on the Elections of Porto Rico, which I stated in my former letter would be sent to you and to the President that you may form an opinion as to the action of a part of the Administration in said Election. I believe I shall have this report finished my next week. To-day, I again trouble your attention to relate a case showing how personal government is taking root here by certain Officers who have made up their minds to act as they please with the deliberate purpose of placing matters in such a manner as to make it appear in Washington that we are not qualified to follow the path of american liberties. The appointment of two members of the Executive Council to succeed Dr. Gomez Brioso and Lawyer Guzman Benitez is still pending of action from the President. These appointments were made by the PresidentPartido Republicano Puertorriqueño Comité Ejecutivo Manuel P. Rossy Presidente. Jose C. Barbosa Luis Sanchez Morales Pedro C. Timothee Juan Hernandez Lopez Pedro Juan Besosa Jaime Sifre Secretario. -2- on December 1900, and were confirmed by the Senate on the 13th day of the same month and year. Since the beginning of this month the Secretary of Porto Rico, Mr. Post, is making efforts to have these gentlemen cease as such members and yesterday he [calls] caused a meeting of the Council to be held to take up the question. Mr. Post, holds that Messrs. Brioso and Guzman and no longer Councilmen and without waiting for the action of the President, which is a lack of respect and of courtesy to the Chief Executive of the Nation and while such appointments are still pending Mr. Post, insists that these Councilmen cease in the discharge of their duties as such even though it is not known whether or not they will be re-elected. Neither the Governor nor the Executive Council should have power to decide the question, as it refers to appointments, which, by law belong to the President and his action should be awaited, if for nothing else, as a mark of respect to his high authority. Mr. Elliott, ex-Commissioner of the Interior, found himself in the same case as Councilmen Brioso and Guzman and nothing was done at that time; and the President, in a recent letter, expressed his desire that Mr. Elliott, would cease at the expiration of his [legal] leave of absence, which was granted after his term of office had expired. The people notice that when a question comes up as to an American, however great his merits may be such as Mr. Elliott, everythingPARTIDO REPUBLICANO PUERTORRIQUEÑO. COMITÉ EJECUTIVO MANUEL F. ROSSY, PRESIDENTE. JOSE C. BARBOSA LUIS SANCHEZ MORALES PEDRO C. TIMOTHEE JUAN HERNANDEZ LOPEZ PEDRO JUAN BESOSA JAIME SIFRE SECRETARIO. -3- is allright, but when identical apply to a Portorican then everything is all wrong. This is a matter that stirs up unpleasantness and is the cause of the belief that there are two laws for application as the case may be, namely, one for the Portorican and another for the American. The Executive Council resolved today to leave the matter as it is for the present but the intention has been shown and I submitt to your high sense of justice these alarming symtoms which would seem to be making a Colony of Porto Rico where the will of the person administering the Country will be Supreme Law. With the greatest consideration, I am, Your obedient servant, Manuel F. Rossy. President Porto Rican Republican Party.of our country. I have no body to suggest for this place, but I would be most happy, before the selection is made, if I might be permitted to give you my views as to the person you may intend to select before he is definitely decided upon. We require a broad-minded unprejudiced man, who will not subordinate human interests to a hunger for [social] favors. I hope you will pardon me for making this suggestion Ever faithfully yours Oscar S. Straus [*CF*] re Civic Federation and Russian Mission 5 WEST SEVENTY-SIXTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. [*ack'd 12-16-04*] Dec 14/1904 My Dear Mr President I was gratified to learn that upon consideration you did not accept the proposal to become the honorary President of the National Civic Federation. I being absent in Texas did not know of the intended proposal, had I known it, I would have advised against it, for your sake. We are doing increasingly excellent work, but we can not tell when contingencies might arise which might cause a serious and radical divergence upon some such question for example as the "open-shop." Itrust this may never recur, as we have kept such questions out of our deliberations, concentrating our efforts upon such lines wherein we could agree. Should such a contingency arise, it would indeed become embarrassing for the President of the United States and place him without his fault, perhaps in a fake light. When I learned that such a proposal was to be made to you, it was too late for me to make known my views. I know, we all know, how much you are in sympathy with our purpose to promote Industrial Peace and I hope we shall grow in power and influence as time [runs on] to more and more be an effective force to that end. I think we will - but it will require [consideral?] diplomacy to avoid the rocks which constantly obtrude. While writing, there is one other matter I wish to say a word to you. I understand you intend to replace Ambassador McCormick. I am gratified if such be true, for obvious reasons. A man should be at that post capable of interpreting and effectively carrying forward your view and the best interestsInternal Revenue Service, District of Alabama, Collector's Office, Birmingham, Ala., Dec 14, 1904. The The President, White House: Sir: The within letter written by a member of the Republican State Executive Committee from a rural district in regard to the Collectorship matter, I send you thinking you might wish to read it. It is upon the marked paragraph that Capt. Scott and I are contending for a change at Mobile. At a later date we will furnish you with proof of this assertation. After writing you in Mr. Walker's behalf and receiving your reply, I called capt. Scott over the long distance 'phone and told him of it, and he in turn informed Mr. Walker and his family, telling them, in substance, that they would have a nice Christmas Present from the White House. You can imagine how keely they were disappointed when I had to inform them on my return of the real situation. Mr. Walker is a wealthy man and in no wise needs an appointment of any sort but he has a nice family, and after having made such a vigorous campaign in opposition to Heflinism and Vardemanism, they feel keely the disappointment that an opportunity has been lost to repudiate Heflinism. However he fully appreciates your position and has no word of complaint to offer. The worst feature of the situation is that Tebbette does not measure up to the standard of a man who should occupy such a position.. I have made someInternal Revenue Service, District of Alabama, Collector's Office, Birmingham, Ala. inquiry as to how he was able to get such strong endorsements and I find that Mr. Exum, who came with Mr. Tebbetts to my office seeking my endorsement, is a wealthy young man and has a great many of friends in the Commercial Club here who endorsed Tebbetts on account of him. Mr. Jackson the President of the Commercial Club, the largest organization in the State, informed me on yesterday that it was through Mr. Exum's influence that he wrote the letter for Mr. Tebbetts, and that he had no interest in Tebbetts; and also that since charges had been preferred against him by the Chief of Police for drunkenness and licentiousness that he would wire you withdrawing his endorsement until and investigation of them could be made. I mailed the charges direct to Capt. Scott with the suggestion that he hand them to you in person. When they were received I doubted the propriety of sending them still they are of such a serious nature that I think you would like to look into them before taking any action. I know it is a very easy matter to prefer charges, and I do not know anything of the truthfulness of those sent me, still I am of the opinion they should be laid before you. Very respectfully, Jas. O. ThompsonOffice of Collector of International Revenue District of Alabama Subject No of Inclosures Officers of Internal Revenue must fill out the indorsement and brief on the back of each letter to the Department[*CF*] 1328 Connecticut Avenue Washington, D.C. Dec. 14th 1904 My dear Mr. President; I have the honor to receive your letter of yesterday, and to thank you for calling my attention to the error made in my recent address at New York. The statement on which it was based had been published in sundry morning papers so circumstantially that I was utterly misled,and took it for granted that you had yielded to a kindly impulse and secured a commutation of a capital sentence as stated My remark was a mere "aside" from my address as prepared, and was prefaced by some such phrase as "you have doubtless noticed in various morning papers that" &c. &c. But I regret none the less sincerely my error in the matter, ask you on the score of a friendship of twenty years to pardon it, and shall esteem it not only a duty but a pleasure to correct it in the most effective manner possible to me. I remain Mr. President Most respectfully and truly yours Andrew D. White For Theodore Roosevelt, Esq. President of the United States [*Has it come?*] Department of Justice. OFFICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHAL, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON. COURT TERMS. AT JACKSON: First Mondays in May and November. AT VICKSBURG: First Mondays in July and January. At BILOXI: Third Mondays in February and August. AT MERIDIAN: Second Mondays in March and September. [*ackd 12/20/04*] personal December 24, 1904. My dear Mr. President: By to-night's Southern Express I have the honor to send you a copy of the Life, Times and Speeches of L. Q. C. Lamar. On the fly leaf you will find a telegram sent out from Washington with reference to your gracious treatment of Mr. Lamar's son which has been widely reproduced, not only in Mississippi, but throughout the south. I beg to especially invite your attention to Mr. Lamar's speech, as senator, refusing to obey the instructions of the Mississippi legislature and his eulogy on Chas Sumner when he was a member of the House of Representatives. In fact I think you will find much in this volume to interest you. There was one thing I forgot to tell you when I was in Washington recently and that was, despite the most frantic appeals of the democratic organization and the Vardaman-press especially, to democrats to come out and vote at the recent election in order to manifest their displeasure over the Indianola incident and the refusal of General Payne to name a postoffice after the long haired barbarian, I am officially advised that fifty three per cent of theDepartment of Justice. OFFICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHAL, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON. COURT TERMS. AT JACKSON: First Mondays in May and November. AT VICKSBURG: First Mondays in July and January. At BILOXI: Third Mondays in February and August. AT MERIDIAN: Second Mondays in March and September. white democrats of the state neglected and refused to vote. I hope you are well and with the compliments of the approaching season, I have the honor to be, as ever, more than ever, and forever, Sincerely yours, Edgar S. Wilson Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C.DECEMBER 14, 1904. A GOOD [?] recent issue of The [?]minghain Herald, we find the following: s stated that in Tallade[?] County, ma. there is a negro father who lend from a white landlord, and s year began work owing $1,000. om the proceeds of his farm work That negro has paid his rent, pa[??} the this negro has money in bank to his $1,900 and credit. ro is not a politician. He pays his taxes - in fa[??}, that as death. [??] The neg doubtless is as certain less true that his children any, are at school, and that the [?] ing of those children costs two, three, or four times the amount of taxes he pays the county and the State, the bal- ance of the burden being borne by the white land-owner; borne willingly, too; for the white people of Alabama vote the school tax upon themselves each and every time the question is sub- mitted. Now the thought of inducing an ener- getic, law-abiding negro of Alabama to forsake the farm and leave in a coloni- zation scheme for the Northwest or for any other part of the habitable globe, is preposterous. He will not do so. He knows exactly where he belongs, and that in the South his efforts for good are always encouraged by the best ele- ment of the whites. We know nothing of the circum- stances alluded to, but take it for granted that The Age-Herald has them correctly stated, and we copy it be- cause it shows what one colored man can do when he tries. This man may be a politician to the extent that he goes to the polls on election day, if he is a voter, but it is evident that he doesn't waste his time on politics or politicians or he would not be able to make the showing he has. No doubt he is a plain, unassuming working ne- gro, who has set his mind to be an independent and good citizen, and is going the right way to accomplish his object. [?] The Age-Herald says about [?] [?] [?] [?] States will naturally want just such men as this Talladega negro, and they are just the men who ought to remain in Alabama, and who will remain here if they have the right kind of encour- agement. All they need is equal and exact justice in the effort to live. They do not want social equality nor polit- cal supremacy. They want exactly the same change to earn an honest living and to enjoy the fruits of their labor that a white man has, and they should have it. They want a chance to edu- cate their children in their own schools, just as the whites do, and they shou dhave that opportunity. If they can qualify themselves to vote, they should enjoy the privilege of voting their choice equally with the white man. If negroes like this one are treated fairly and justly, they will remain in Ala- bama and become good and prosperous citizens. What is equally important, their example will have much to do in forming the character and habits of others of their race. There is room and need for many negroes of their [?] in Alabama, and we will have them if we go at it the right way. Governor Vardaman of Mississippi may [?] be accused of saying [?] not of the United States, and he that they produce something ever [?] million eggs each or above one million doses per Sundays and legal holidays [?] An industrious and well-drilled rarely takes a day off, but keeps up steady daily lick. What becomes of of them? Ask an easy one. All know is that the utmost efforts of hens don't seem to bring the pr down any. That keeps up, no ma how industrious the hens show the [?] or how closely the stiok But what do t[?] Simply and undeniably that the sup enormous as it sounds in figures, is equal to the demand. Eggs are al high at this season of the year when have they really been othe in any of the large cities? Has been a time this year in Montgo for example, when they could really called cheap? Out in the remote r districts, where there is little dem and virtually no market, they sell low prices, but not in the cities. Th the demand is always good, and prices what may properly be call high. But there is another lesson equall patent, and equally important, and tha is that there is money in chickens, even the plain, old-fashioned kind. If they are good layers and good brooders, and produce healthy chickens of good taste for the table, there's profit in them. Fine fowls and fine eggs may bring fancy prices, but the common breed are money producers, beyond a doubt. And we doubt if any portion of the [?] is better suited to the industry than is much of Alabama. We can conceive of no reason why they may not be [?] ed here with profit, and the price now [?] in the cities prove it. As The [?] fowls,, but there is more room and more money for the regular business of sup- plying the towns with eggs, fowls, and feathers. It is a business that women can follow as well as men, and it is more certain that many of the lines of work that give wages and take health Each such farm will earn more than 10 per cent a year in the mere growth in real estate value. The President and cashier of the bursted Oberlin National Bank admit that they endorsed that somewhat fa- mous Chadwick-Carnegie note, but did it on the express condition and under- standing that it was not to be dis- counted. this adds another to the non- understandable features of this busi ness. did these bank officials endors that note and thus jeapordise the stand ing of the institution merely for f or because they thought their nan were an ornament to it? If that is best excuse they can put up, it wo become them to play silent. A point that is worth making is as expressed by a Washington [?] "Newspapers as well as statements all been referring to the protest nion as the [?] of this Congr It is this third. The fifty-eighth [?] [?][*Ack'd 12-16-04*] [[shorthand]] The Globe AND Commercial Advertiser. ESTD 1787 NEW YORK'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 5 AND 7 DEY STREET UPTOWN OFFICE: 1389 BROADWAY HARLEM OFFICE: 109 W. 126TH STREET EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT NEW YORK Dec. 15th, 1904. Dear Mr. President:-- I was overjoyed to learn from your letter that your mind is turning to that festival of yours. But do, pray, abandon any idea of making it a breakfast, and have it a dinner. Of course, I say this with all due respect to your "High Mightiness", but we can have a much better time at a dinner than at a breakfast. However, I shall be delighted to have you at either time. I hope you will be able to fix the date a little in advance in order that I may get the room we have usually had at the Club. This is a busy time for it and it is apt to be engaged somewhat in advance. It is the only one that is really suitable for the joyous occasion for which we wish to use it. I can come on at almost any time, but, as you know, the end of the week causes me less inconvenience than any other time. I will come joyfully for any kind of visit that may best suit your convenience. Taft made me promise when I was last in Washington to spend some time with him at his house after I had finished with you. So if you happen to have a full house when I come on, I can go to him. I have refrained from writing to you about the senatorship or any other matter because I know your time was more than occupied at present. The situation on the senatorship as I understand itThe Globe AND Commercial Advertiser. ESTD 1787 NEW YORK'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 5 AND 7 DEY STREET UPTOWN OFFICE: 1389 BROADWAY HARLEM OFFICE: 109 W. 126TH STREET EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT NEW YORK -2- now, and I am sure I am right about it, is that a large majority of the members of the Legislature are in favor of Black, but Odell controls enough of them to prevent Black's nomination in case he wishes to do so. In other words, if Black gets the nomination he will owe it to Odell. I am quite sure that Odell has not yet received satisfactory assurance from Black and that he is holding off about deciding absolutely upon his nomination. In the meantime, Depew's friends are working with might and main to save him from defeat. They have been to me in large numbers to write to you and warn you of the fierce struggle over New York patronage which will be certain to follow if any one except Depew should be elected. I have asked each and all of them if they thought it necessary for me to seek to give you information on that point and have asked them also if they did not think that you understood New York politics about as well as they did. I think that Odell is a little alarmed about what might happen to him if Black should be elected and should set up for himself and build up an organisation in this state, and if at the same time Higgins should set up for himself in the governorship. This would leave Odell with no hold upon either the state or Federal patronage and his followers, who do not love him any too well, might all desert him. I doubt not the same view of the case has not occurred to you. I have seen Willcox several times since his appointment and have been greatly pleased with the way he is going into theThe Globe AND Commercial Advertiser. ESTD 1787 NEW YORK'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 5 AND 7 DEY STREET UPTOWN OFFICE: 1389 BROADWAY HARLEM OFFICE: 109 W. 126TH STREET EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT NEW YORK -3- duties and possibilities of his office. I am sure he is going to do very well in it and be a credit both to himself and to you. This is a long screed and I apologize for taking so much of your time, but you must remember that I have been very quiet of late. With love to Mrs. Roosevelt, I am, Yours always, J. B. Bishop President Roosevelt, The White House, Washington, D. C.Dept of State Give a bulletin of official vote for highest & lowest elector for us each ticket for each vote[*[12-15-04]*] 609 Grace Street, West, Richmond, Va. My dear Dr. Mitchell, Just one year ago, if you remember, we were talking about the neglected grave of Augustine Washington. Virginia moves very slowly, but she sometimes accomplishes much, and I am proud to tell you that the grave of the father of George Washington is now neatly marked and the God's acre put in good condition. The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia are responsible for this excellent work. Some day a patriotic impulse may result in a splendid monument in the old Wakefield graveyard, but until then our modest slab will tell the world who lies there. The other graves in this sacred spot have been restored to their former dignity; Jane, the first wife of Augustine, as you know, was honored by a very fine tombstone which had sunk into the earth; this has been put on a brick foundation, and the other stones also are put on substantial brick work, the ground cleared of all weeds and rubbish and the graveyard enclosed with a good fence,--a neat gate swing (which will be kept locked) and Miss Wilson is going to see that the place is kept tidy. Is not this a step in the right direction? This is not all work accomplished by the Virginia Dames this year. We have copied, printed and put on sale the parish register of Saint Peter's Church in New Kent county, where Martha Custis often went, we doubt not, with her future husband. If--2-- "Saint Peter's" sells well, we shall at once print the Vestry book of the same pariah, which will be a most interesting pendant to the register. We have now copied all the Colonial registers and four of the Vestry books. I tell you this because I feel that you will approve of this effort to preserve history which is literally crumbling away. With kindest regards and good wishes for Christmas and the New Year, I am Very cordially yours, (Signed) Kate Cabill Claiborne. December fifteenth, 1904.[Enclosed in Hay12-21-04] OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK. H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N.B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L. WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. B. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO [*Ack'd Encls ret'd 12-17-04*] Personal. Washington, D. C., December 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Barnes: I hand you herewith a communication from Mr. John P. Clum, of Nome, Alaska. Will you be good enough to advise me what has been done in regard to filling the vacancy to which he refers: Kindly return the papers with your reply. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Hon. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. Enclosures.because apparently it was the first information as to the election that reached Constantinople. Devotedly Bye [*[Cowles]*] [*Mr Feid??*] [*photos*] [*Ansd by phone*] [*PPF*] 1733. N. Street December 15 1904 Dearest Mr President, just after reading you Lizzie Reids letter I received one from her saying the one I read ought to have been marked private! I of course only read it to you [???] & you will never remember it again Still I thoughtpeople that he does not wish to trouble you, but, leaves it to me. For the sake of old friendship I feel I ought to tell you & if there be any hour at which he could call just to pay that respect please let your Secretary tell me & I will let him know — Did I tell you he telegraphed of your election from the Reids to his boy in Constantinople & was delighted I ought to tell you of course she did not mean private in the sense of not telling you. Gussie Jay (the Father) has just written me he is to be in twice Saturday & Sunday. He says he would like just to pay his respects & give you his congratulations, but, feels you must have so many [*F*] NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB Dec 15th 1904 My Dear Mr President I regret very much you and your son have hurt yourselves, it is not likely it would occur in sparring with me. If agreeable, and as soon as you are ready, I can get away from here for three or four days to start you offand then, I could manage to make a monthly trip to Washington to work with you and the boys for a few months, The rest we can leave for future consideration, Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I remane yours sincerely Mike DonovanCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Metropolitan Park Commission Congregational House, 14 Beacon Street Boston COMMISSIONERS WILLIAM B. DE LAS CASAS, CHAIRMAN EDWIN B. HASKELL. EDWIN U. CURTIS. DAVID N. SKILLINGS. ELLERTON P. WHITNEY. JOHN WOODBURY, SECRETARY Dec 15, '04. Dear Mr. President, Your esteemed favor received. In reply let me say that I did not write to you in the Herald's interest. I have told the editor of the Herald very plainly my opinion of his offence and his duty. But an offensive publication by a news paper is one thing, and the freedom of the press is another. I regret to say that I believe you have taken an untenableposition and for that I am very sorry. The Herald opposed your election on the ground that you are over-impulsive and incapable of self-restraint utterly without my sympathy, as I hope you believe. I chiefly regret that you should give any support to that arguement, which night have effect with others, if not with me. Faithfully Yours, W B HaskellDistrict Judge's Chambers, United States Courts, Thomas G. Jones, Judge. Montgomery, Ala., [*Acn'd 12-19-04*] Dec 15th 1904 My Dear Mr President. Your letter of 9th was directed to Huntsville and was forwarded to Birmingham, where I have been holding court. When it reached there, I had come home to hold court here -- hence it was only received this morning. Had it been received earlier, I could have come on 20th. I have, however, important cases set down for trial, until 24th and then after interval of three days for Xmas, have others set for dates up to 3rd Jany. Parties and witnesses, on some of them, come from a great distance, and I could not arrange to postpone them. From 3rd Jany until 14th of January I will be free to come. If any time between those dates will suit, all you need do, is to select date, and write me. I will hold myself in readiness, and will come with pleasure. Yours faithfully, Thos. G. Jones His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt Washington D.C.handed to him by one of our officials. Very sincerely yours, Francis B Loomis. B. F. Barnes, Esquire Acting Secretary to the President, The White House [*[For 1 enc. see 11-29-04 Skimmer]*] [[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12-16-04*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. December 15, 1904. Dear Mr. Barnes: I handed to the President to-day a handsome copy of "Mereille", a celebrated Provençal poem by Frederic Mistral, which he sent to the President, together with a silver medal for Mrs. Roosevelt. These were forwarded through our Consul-General at Marseilles, who knows Mr. Mistral. The President said that he thought he would write a personal letter to Mr. Mistral, and in case he does so, will you be kind enough to let us forward it to its destination, through Mr. Skinner the Consul-General at Marseilles, because the recipient would be much pleased to have such an acknowledgement [*CF*] Court of Appeals. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 15, 1904 Sir, Understanding that the resignation of our Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of this District will be received by you to-day, or has already been received by you, I take the liberty, as the Senior Associate Justice of the Court, on whom the duties of the Chief Justice are devolved for the time being, to call your attention to the somewhat anomalous condition of the Court, and to the necessity for prompt, indeed for immediate action to fill the vacancy. The court, as you are no doubt aware, is composed of three members, one chief and two Associate Justices; and two of the three do not constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. For that purpose the presence of all three is required. The law by which the Court was created provides that, in the event of the absence of any one of the Justices, the other two may for that special occasion fill the temporary vacancy by calling2 in one of the Justices of the lower court, the Supreme Court of the District; but this expedient has been found to be extremely unsatisfactory in practice. It amounts simply to stopping the administration of justice at one end in order to let it go on at the other. And at the present time, when, as has been stated to us by way of protest that the business of the Supreme Court of the District is in a very congested condition, the expedient is wholly impracticable. But even if it were entirely practicable, there have been grave doubts entertained whether, under the law of the creation of the Court, we have the right temporarily to fill a vacancy caused by resignation or death, since that law would seem to contemplate only a vacancy created by absence. At all events we do not feel that we should endanger the legitimacy of judicial proceedings by assuming to act where there is such doubt. My Associate Mr. Justice Shepard and I have discussed this matter quite fully; and I am authorized to say that I speak for him as well as for myself. The consequence is that the business of the Court must necessarily be suspended until there3 is an appointment by you and qualification of the person so to be appointed. A prolonged vacancy would be extremely undesirable, and might even be disastrous to the administration of Justice in this District. In bringing this matter to your attention, I feel that I am only performing a public duty, which it is imperatively incumbent on me to perform as the senior Associate Justice of the Court. I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, M. F. Morris To the President[For enc. see 12-15-04] Court of Appeals. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASHINGTON, D.C.[*CF*] Personal & Confidential 1314 Massachusetts Avenue. Washington. D. C. Dec. 15, 1904 Mr. President, It may be proper for me to put in writing what I said to you orally yesterday morning — to the the effect that , if the arrangement, which you gave me to understand met with your approval, that my associate Mr. Justice Shepard should be appointed by you as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals2 of this District, with Mr. Duell as Associate Justice in his place, I would place my resignation in your hands in the not distant future -- most probably within twelve months, very possibly within twelve weeks, -- unless something very unexpected should happen that to your satisfaction should delay it. And I do this in order to enable you more freely to carry the arrangements into effect, which I deem to be for the best interest of the Court, for which I am exceedingly solicitous. Very respectfully M. F. Morris[*Ack'd 12-17-04*] UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON. December 15, 1904. Hc The President, The White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: I am exceedingly anxious to have William Miller Collier appointed to the Ministership to Spain. It is not necessary for me to make an argument in his behalf because you know him as well as I do. You also know something about the reasons which might actuate him in desiring such an appointment. Again, let me say that I feel a deep interest and anxiety in the matter. Very truly yours, T. C. PlattFIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. W. A. REEDER, Kans., Chairman. Wm. H. Jackson, Md. Wm. H. Flack, N.Y. E. B. Lewis, Ga. James J. Butler, Mo. Committee on Mileage House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 1904., 190 To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. My dear Sir:-- At your request I herewith set before you my ideas as to the land laws. 1st. There is no matter of greater importance to this nation than that of making it possible for worthy poor families to own and occupy homes upon the land. 2d. Western members of Congress and western men at the heads of the land departments are not safe men to set upon or advise with in land matters. Why? Because the west is interested in present development more than it is in the future good of the nation or the rights of homeless citizens, including these yet unborn, and for The further reason that they who desire to get gain by depraving the people of their lands or its product of timber in many cases make preferment doubtful to these who would stand against their wishes in these matters. I thus set forth the facts as they appear to me and cast supersions upon no man. Result: Millions of dollars' value of timber gains into the possession of speculators, which belongs in the Irrigation Fund; Thousands of mores becoming the property of great corporations which by every reason men can conceive should be made into homes for our worthy poor citizens.FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. W. A. REEDER, Kans., Chairman. Wm. H. Jackson, Md. Wm. H. Flack, N.Y. E. B. Lewis, Ga. James J. Butler, Mo. Committee on Mileage House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D.C., 190 (2) Reasons: Practically all the persons active in these matters are looking after the interests of the speculators. Many are bewailing the loss of the poor man's home leaving the matter in the hands of those who live in the region of the wreckage and making no real effort to correct the evil. Probably no more important duty devolves upon these in power than to see to it that no man acquires any land who does not need it for a home and that no public timber is sold so that a large percentage of its value goes into the coffers of syndicates, whereas it belongs to that sacred fund set apart to prepare our vast arid domain for home for the people. These matters of national importance as against local interests, should be considered and administered by men of national repute and free from prejudices and local influences. Delays are costing so much that we should move this term. Very respectfully, W. A. Reeder[*CF*] [*[12-15-04]*] 48 TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (PRIVATE) New York Dec. 10--- The board of directors of The Associated Press have summarily withdrawn the news report from the Little Rock, Ark., Democrat, that paper having published the Presidents Hostage before its delivery to congress and release. MELVILLE E. STONE, General Manager, The Associated Press. -In- 950a [*(They have also been fined $1000)*]POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Office of the Postmaster General Washington, D.C. December 15, 1904 The President. Washington, D.C. Sir: J. L. Lancaster, mentioned in the attached telegram from Jackson, Tenn., is not a saloon-keeper. He had an interest in a saloon business for a brief period, but sold out on the 1st of December. These facts are given me by Mr. J. C. R. McCall, Chairman of the State Republican Committee, and by T. A. Lancaster, Chairman of the Congressional Committee of the State. Congressman Sims has notified the signers of the dispatch returned herewith that their characterization of Lancaster as a saloon-keeper is incorrect. We will wait to hear further from the signers of the dispatch. Respectfully, R. J. Wynne Postmaster-General. Enclosure.[For 1 attachment see 12-1904] [For 1 enclosure see 12-14-04][*CF*] [*Takahira*] The Japanese Chargé left this photo for the President with the Prince’s thanks for the President’s photograph. The Japanese Minister again expresses cordial thanks for the many courtesies the President has shown him during his illness. He is about to go south to recuperate. 12-15-1904M'COMAS TO BE JUDGE ------------- But Morris Says He Has Not Decided To Retire Now. ---------- PRESIDENT WAS PREMATURE ------------- Attorney-General Moody Made The Announcement After The Cabinet Meeting. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] Washington, May 19.-Though the President practically announces that he has decided to appoint former Senator Louis H. McComas, of Maryland, to be an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, to succeed Judge Martia F. Morris, Judge Morris this evening complicated matters by saying that he had no intention of resigning now. It seems that a letter from Judge Morris to the President was misinterpreted. The announcement regarding Mr. McComas was made after the Cabinet meeting today by Attorney-General Moody. Senator McComas was at the White House yesterday and had a long talk with the President, who decided some time ago to give Mr. McComas a position on the bench. Judge Morris Is Indignant. Judge Morris, on being informed of the announcement of his successor, stated emphatically to a correspondent of THE SUN that he had not indicated to the President an intention to retire and that someone had arrived at a hasty conclusion. "It is untrue, absolutely untrue, from first to last," said Judge Morris. "I have not decided when I will retire. I have not told anyone when I intended to retire, and all these stories are without foundation. I have known for some time that Senator McComas was anxious to succeed me in the Court of Appeals. I saw that he was at the White House yesterday. I presume this incident started the story. I have not seen the announcement in the afternoon papers to which you refer, which states that I am to retire and be succeeded by ex-Senator McComas." "It is stated that you wrote to the President, indicating a desire to retire and saying that you understood Senator McComas was to succeed you," suggested the correspondent. "That is untrue; I have written no such letter," said Justice Morris, with some show of annoyance. "I did write a letter to the President some time ago, but that is altogether a different matter. You are at liberty to say for that I have not indicated to the President or anybody else an intention of retiring and that I consider the stories that are being circulated under the circumstances to be is very bad taste." Moody Made Announcement. When this statement by Judge Morris was called to the attention of Attorney-General Moody he said he had made the announcement on the strength of a letter from Judge Morris to the President. He said he had not read the letter, but that the President had told him of its contents, and that the President understood the letter to state that Judge Morris intends to retire. The President authorized Mr. Moody to make the announcement that a letter had Senator McComas would receive the appointment upon the retirement of Judge Morris. Mr. Moody said he did not know when Judge Morris would retire and that the Judge had not filed application for retirement under the law, which allows Federal judges to retire at the age of 70 after serving 10 years on the bench. Might Have Succeeded Alvey. The President wanted to appoint Mr. McComas on the same bench at the time of the retirement of former Chief Justice Alvey, from Maryland, it is said, but the term of Senator McComas in the Senate had not then expired and the President could not than do so. The statement is made that "immediately upon the receipt of a letter from Justice Morris giving notice of his intention to retire, which he would probably do about the end of the present term of court, about the first of June, the President sent for Mr. McComas and tendered the appointment to him." The salary of the position is $1,000 annually, the same as the salaries of judges of Circuit Courts of Appeals, with the advantage that the court is located at the national capital, and, unlike the circuit judges, the judges of the Court of Appeals of the District have broader jurisdiction over Federal questions and do not travel. It is understood that Senator McComas, like former Chief Justice Alvey, will retain his home in Western Maryland. His friends throughout the State are said to be looking to him to lead the campaign in Maryland, but his appointment to judicial office will bar him from that. While on the bench before Mr. McComas serapalously avoided political matters. He refused to adjourn his court during his Senatorial contest, and was trying a case when he received a telegram announcing his election. [?] [?] after he returned to his K street residence from his law offices in Baltimore. The only comment he would make on the announcement of his selection was: "The President sent for me and told me of the intention of Judge Morris to retire and tendered the position to me. I deeply appreciate to confident the President has then shown me." Judge Morris was appointed on the District Court of Appeals when it was created in 1898 and has been eligible for retirement for two years. Some time ago it was reported recently that Judge Morris was not inclined to retire and that he would not leave the bench unless he felt that a District man would be appointed to succeed him. But he was [?] today that Judge Morris in his letter to the President, which was construed [?] concerning his prospective retirement, will be understood that Mr. McComas was to [?] him. Senator McComas [?] to his last service in the Senate was a member of the [S?] Chair of the District of Columbia, [? ?] the oath of often as a Senator of the [? ?] on November 22, 1892, [? ?] on that [?] until [18??] when [? ?] to take his seat in the Senate, [? ?] to the indication of [? ?] by the [?] [? ?] Maryland , Judge [?] [? ?] who is now the Chief Justice [? ?] Supreme Court.HIBBARD, SPENCER, BARTLETT & CO. CHICAGO. Dec. 16, 1904. My dear Paul :- I am not writing to the Secretary of the Navy, but to Paul Morton. You know that my daughter lives in Arizona, that I have some landed interests in and about Phoenix, and that I spend a portion of each Winter in that locality. Naturally I have become much interested in people and in their prosperity and welfare. Many of them (I presume a large majority), especially those having political aspirations, are anxious for statehood. Personally I am not in favor, simply because as a citizen of the United States, I do not believe it just or right to make states of small communities and give each of them equal voice in the Senate with New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Whether or not I am right in my position in this regard, you who are conversant with conditions in that far western country I feel sure will agree with me that to yoke Arizona and New Mexico together would be nothing short of a calamity. In my opinion it would be a crime. The two territories would coalesce and mingle as readily as oil and water. Arizona is American, New Mexico is Mexican. A large percentage of the members of the New Mexican legislature cannot speak or understand the English language. All the acts, business and speeches are translated upon the spot by an interpreter. The judiciary is said to be of an order which would not be tolerated in Colorado, Kansas or Arizona. The two territories have little in common. What would we think of the formation of a state which should-2- place the capitol of present Illinois at Albany, N.Y.? And yet, wherever the capitol of Arizona-New Mexico might be placed, it would be further in hours, from remote railroad towns of the new state, than Boston is from Chicago. The only excuse I have heard for the proposed legislation is a purely political one, and the present administration is not noted for making that kind of excuses. I hope that you feel as I do about his unequal marriage and will exert your influence to prevent it. Very sincerely yours, A C Bartlett BF Hon. Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.[enc in Morton 12-19-04][*Ack'd 12-19-04*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM December 16,1904 Dear Mr. President: There was some extremely significant talk at a luncheon given yesterday by Thomas Nelson Page, and I agreed with the gentlemen present that I would promptly advise you of its character and significance. Among the guests were three prominent Southerners, in addition to Mr. Page, one of them being President Alderman of the University of Virginia. The others present were Mr. Mabie, Col John J. McCook, and myself. The Southern men were unanimous in advising us that there is a very interesting and curious psychological situation in the south just now so far as you are concerned. They say that the best people everywhere are, despite appearances in the past, turning to you with confidence and respect, and that not much will have to be done in order to bring about those cordial relations which we have all hope for and looked forward to. I think it would be of inestimable value to you if, when you have a half four free and would not have to divide the time with other callers, you could send for President Alderman and ask him to unbosom himself to you as he did us. Because of his personal characteristics, his eloquence, and his high academic position, he can do more during the next four years to cement the relations between you and the South than any other individual. He realizes this and is anxious to do his part in a discreet and tactful way.-2- During the luncheon it was stated that you had accepted an invitation to speak at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Republican Club in the city of New York. We were unanimous in feeling that the speech offers the opportunity for you to make some general statement before you go South, that will be of the greatest assistance in bringing you into the closest touch with it. The Southerners said that such a statement should be made in the North first rather than in the South, where it might very well be repeated afterwards, because of the fact that if made in the South it might, by captious critics, be attributed to the desire of a distinguished guest to be agreeable and amiable to his hosts. The sort of statement which they think would be helpful is one which you have often made, and would doubtless be glad to make again in more emphatic form, namely, that it is your desire to be President of the whole country and to go out of office leaving no feeling of sectionalism in the nation. They said, also, that it would be of extreme help if you could or would say that, subject to the just authority of the national government and the provisions of the constitution, there is no desire on the part of the people of the United States to prevent the working out in the wisest possible way of important problems which are especially characteristic of a given locality, or which, for historical reasons, are bound up with the social life and development of a given part of the country. You will catch the idea and I will expand it a little more fully when I am next in Washington.-3- What I want to make clear is that the talk was most helpful and kindly, and that we all arose from the table feeling that something important had been suggested and something that would make direct appeal to you. Among other things, Alderman described a dinner given by Mr. Page in Washington a few nights ago, at which there were present such representative Southerners as ex-Secretary Herbert of Alabama, ex Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, Senator Martin of Virginia, and others. He said that the talk was all concerning you, and was most complimentary and flattering. Your reelection and your statement as to the future have absolutely removed any political feeling toward you, and there was evident in the talk of the men an appreciation of your underlying motives that it was a delight to hear. I am sure that you will be very happy to know this. Always sincerely yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C.[Copy.] Office of FRANK T. CAMPBELL, Editor "Daily Gazette", Lima, Ohio. Dec. 16, 1904. Hon E. P. Bacon, Chairman Ex. Com. My dear Sir:- I wish to congratulate you on the progress you are making on the rate question before congress and the country, and assure you that the people are with the president in his suggestion in favor of more power to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Our present danger is in a "compromise" with the corporations, and the surrender of half what we are battling for. The Morton proposition is along that line. It is the voice of H. P. Ridley talking through the Secretary, and seeking to reach the president by that avenue. The corporations have been battling for the "right of peeling" for years, and a measure of that kind will be the end of all competition in rates the country over. I wish I was on the ground to talk this matter ever with you, and talk to the President. You need and expert there outside of railroad influences who is posted on rates, earnings, expenses, dividends, peeling, etc.,all of which I have made a study for twenty-five years. The railroads are aware of the revolution coming, and I hope the President will let it spend its force and clear up the situation, before fixing terms. The people are anxious for relief, and will hail the work the President has mapped out as a second emancipation proclamation - this time from the thralldom of the corporations. He measure pending meets with such popular favor as the proposition to give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to-2- make that body effective- it has been an ornament long enough. With sincere regards, and best wishes, I am, Yours truly, (signed) Frank T. Campbell. [*[enc in Morton 12-22-04]*]DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. WASHINGTON. answ'd 12-16-04 My dear Mr. President, I am very happy indeed to accept your offer of the ministry to Spain. I am deeply sensible of the very high honor you have done me. I have already seen Senator Platt and he has said if you will give me the position he will gladly support me. I think the Senator will endeavor to see you with reference to the matter very soon. I shall earnestlyendeavor to discharge the duties of this high position in a manner which will meet your hearty approval. Will you permit me to express the thanks of Mrs Collier as well as my own for your very great kindness in this matter? I remain, Very Respectfully, Wm. Miller Collier To Hon Theodore Roosevelt President of the United StatesGEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN Republican National Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. December 16, 1904 asw'd 12/19/04 Dear Mr. President: We have had specially bound for you some of the most important documents issued during the campaign, and I take great pleasure in sending them to you herewith. Very sincerely yours, George B. Cortelyou To the President. D. B. FAIRLEY, Chairman THALIA A. RHOADS, V.-Ch'n CHARLES W. COCHRAN, Secretary PHILIP B. STEWART, Treasurer W. K. BURCHINELL, Sergeant at Arms Executive Committee F. W. HOWBERT RICHARD BROAD, JR. W. S. BOYNTON J. W. MILSOM JAMES WILLIAMS E. E. HUBBELL S. S. DOWNER J. A. LOCKHART HORACE T. DELONG JEFFERSON B. FARR C. H. BRICKENSTEIN GEORGE W. BAILEY CHARLES CAVENDER W. Z. KINNEY C. B. TIMBERLAKE C. L. DICKERSON F. D. CATLIN N. S. WALPOLE Republican State Central Committee P. O. Box 850 Boulder, Colo., December 16, 1904 (Enclosure) [*Ack'd 12-19-04*] My dear President: - I am informed that it has been represented to you that our State Committee used a large corruption fund in the election of Governor Peabody. I herewith hand you a copy of our sworn statement as to expenditures. Vouchers for all accounts in excess of one dollar paid out by our Committee is made a part of the report, and is now on file with the Secretary of State, in full compliance with the statutes of this State, We will be able to show conclusively, that the Democrats have certified (18) or twenty (20) thousand fraudulent votes in favor of Adams. There are more than twenty (20) persons serving jail sentences for election thievery and we expect to see fifty (50) or a hundred (100) more landed before we get through. Faithfully yours, D. B. Fairley Chairman To, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Washington, D.C.[for 1. enclosure see ca. 9-14-04]It would be a waste of his time for me to bring them over to the President until we get a final word from the Navy. Very sincerely yours, Francis B. Loomis B. F. Barnes, Esquire, Acting Secretary to the President, The White House. [*CF*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. December 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Barnes: Referring to your note of the 15th instant, in which you say that the President would like me to see Señor Yroysen and Mr. Scott, now at the New Willard, I beg leave to say that I am in conference with Admiral Converse and the General Board of the Navy who are looking, with careful and critical scrutiny, into Mr. Scott's project and plans. I just had a talk with Admiral Converse, and as soon as they come to some conclusion, I will communicate with the President.[*Ack'd 12-19-04*] UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY ATLANTA, GA. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILLIAM H. MOYER, WARDEN FNA December 16,1904. (Personal) Hon. B.F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, White House, Washington, D.C. My dear sir:- Replying to your letter of the 12th instant, in which you say the President desires to know if the photograph which I sent is a picture of the old house at Roswell, I have the pleasure to say that the photograph is a picture of the old house in Roswell. In order to be absolutely sure on this point I went to Roswell on the 14th instant and saw the house. I took my Record Clerk, Mr. Nye, with me, hoping to be able to obtain some other views of it. By this mail, under separate cover, I am sending you, for the President, some outside views of the house, and two unmounted views of the room where the President's parents were married. The day was dark and stormy, so that good views, especially interior views, were impossible. While in Roswell I had the good fortune to converse with Mrs. Rev. Dr. William Elliott Becker who has been a resident of Roswell for many years. Her maiden name was Evelyn King and she was bridesmaid to the mother of President Roosevelt.B.F.B (2) From her I obtained a verification as to the house, and also information as to the room in which the marriage ceremony took place. Mrs. Becker informed me that the bridal couple entered the room from the main hallway through a door not shown in the photograph, but which is between your point of view and the piano, and took their position where the stove now stands, facing the middle of the room. If the president would like to have good pictures of the interior and exterior of this house and its surroundings, it would afford me great pleasure to go to Roswell again, on some bright day, and take them for him. With favorable light, I feel certain that I could obtain some fine photographs for him and it will be nothing but pleasure for me to make the trip, if he desires the pictures. With wishes for a happy holiday season for the President and yourself, I remain, Very truly yours William H Moyer Warden.(Copy) 1759 R Street, Corner New Hampshire Avenue December 16,1904. President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia College, New York, N.Y My dear Mr. Butler: Thinking it may serve to keep in mind the points we were discussing at our luncheon yesterday, I venture to write them down for you as they appear to me. The first is the inviting of "B.W." to his table; the second the unfortunate reference in his Arlington speech to the Confederate Soldiers in illustrating his attitude towards anarchy; the third is the removal of the Indianola Post Office; the fourth the shutting down the movement to establish a White Republican Party in the South by removal of certain officers who had taken a prominent part in the movement; the fifth was the appointment of Dr. Crum to the collectorship in Charleston, S.C.; and the sixth his subsequent reappointment of him. Now, while all of these were probably natural things for the President to have done, and some may have appeared to him necessary things, the first put it out of the power of the President to do any of the other without giving to them an effect far beyond what they would have had if the first had never occurred, and all taken together have appeared to be in one consistent line of policy - a policy which appears to South a blow at what is really her most passionate dogma, after her devotion to representative government, that of white supremacy all along the line.-2- We, who know the President, know that so far from ever intending any injury to the South, his intentions have been always most friendly and that he has been, it may be said, almost shocked by the general hostility which these few acts taken in connection with so many acts indicative of his friendship, have aroused there. It perhaps cannot be explained so that it will be understood, but the feeling is there because the people believe that these acts are essentially hostile. The inquiry was made at the table, "What concrete remedy could be suggested?" and in reply to it I now repeat the view I expressed yesterday, that the thing for the President to do was to disabuse the minds of the Southern people generally as to the idea that he is hostile to them. And this, in my judgement, he can start to do best by making some declaration, as soon as may be, of the sentiment, which I believe he holds, of friendship for the South. The best place for him to do this is somewhere in the North, and the best time as soon as he can do it. Curiously enough, what a man says is often more effective with large masses than what he does, and the President might appoint fifty Democrats to office without its having the effect of fifty words of real friendliness towards the South, expressing the appreciation of her distressing condition in the present and in the past. If your suggestion could be carried out of having him say at the Lincoln Celebration something that would make clear to the country that his meaning in his Arlington speech had been utterly misapprehended, that whether or not he had felt it his duty to appoint to office some good and-3- respectable negroes, who had been recommended by whites as well as blacks, because of their character, whether or not he had selected the best places for such appointees, he felt too much with the people of the South ever to add intentionally to the unhappy burdens which they have to bear, and his desire and steadfast purpose to follow Lincoln's example and know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to execute the law to the best of his ability, and to seek to give the South the best government he is able. It need not be thought that anything he can say or do will prevent a certain element from assailing him. There are those in South, as well as in the North, who find in sectional hostility their bread and meat. There are others, in both sections who are perfectly honest but mentally astigmatic, and can see but that side of anything which is nearest them; but counting these out, the great body of the Southern people would love to be friends with Mr. Roosevelt -- I mean with the real Theodore Roosevelt, who has been obscured in their minds by the dust kicked up by a few unfortunate occurrences. And whether they become conciliatory or not, it seems to me that this is the right thing for him, as President of the whole country, to do. The obliteration of the sectional lines is one of the things which is going to give the President who accomplishes it, his fame. What he was able to accomplish in this matter is one of the chief elements of McKinley's fame, and in the South his chief element. Very truly yours, (signed) Thos . Nelson Page.[Eve. in Butler 12-19-04]MEMORANDUM. OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. December 16, 1904. C.P.P. No changes have taken place along the line of the Sha River. Skirmishes to the eastward in the vicinity of Sian chan have been reported. The rivers are now frozen over so that bridges have lost their great importance. At Port Arthur the Japanese have taken full advantage of the occupation of the Metre Range and 203-Metre Hill. The inner harbor has been bombarded in all its parts and the last remaining battleship, the SEVASTOPOL, took refuge outside under the guns of the Tiger's Tail forts. A strong boom defense was placed around her, using the torpedo nets of the other ships and this defense has proved partially successful in spite of the almost continuous attacks for five days during snow storms and heavy weather by the Japanese destroyers and torpedo boats. It is reported that she has been struck by a torpedo and is down by the head to the forward torpedo tube, but she has also been under fire of the guns of 203-Metre Hill during these attacks. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions of the Second Pacific Squadron appear to be making for Diego Suares, Madagascar. @9pm Answd Mr. Washington 12-17-04 Booker Washington wishes to know whether the President can see him on Wednesday, the 21st inst., at some time between 3 and 10:45 p.m. = the hours during which he will be in Washington. Address: Crawford House Boston, Mass.[Copy] 684 St. Michelas Ave., Washington Heights, New York, December 17, 1904. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. My dear My President: It has been brought to my notice that there are likely to be in the near future appointments to positions under the control of the board of directors of the Panama Railroad Company. My general business experience for many years in the City of New York has given me a training which has fitted me, I believe, to serve efficiently the directors of the company referred to. Presuming upon an acquaintance which possibly you may more particularly recall in connection with the late campaign, I venture to present my name to you personally for consideration when such appointments are made. Trusting my application will receive your consideration I remain, Yours obediently, Joseph H. Barker. [Enc in Barker 12-17-04]Richard H. Edmonds, President Thomas P. Grasty, Vice Pres. Frank Gould, Secretary Manufacturers' Record Publishing Co. Richard H. Edmonds Editor and General Manager. Baltimore, Dec 17, 1904 To the President Washington, D.C. Dear Sir, Referring to my pleasant interview with you on the 5th inst., and my suggestion that I would likely make some reference to my visit through the columns of the Manufacturers' Record: I beg to hand you herewith copy of the communication in order that you may look over same and have modified or omitted such portions as you may desire. I feel that this letter, written in the spirit that I know actuates it, will be helpful in many ways. If you desire to make any changes of any kind, if you will write Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, Editor and General Manager of the Manufacturers' Record, Baltimore, Md., under personal cover, he will gladly attend to same. He is authorized by me to comply with your wishes in this matter. If you do not write him by Tuesday next, I will take it for granted that you have no suggestions to make. Referring to your proposed visit to the South next spring: I hope you will make your plans to make the trip with ample time to meet many of the Southern people. You will remember that you expressed a desire-2- To the President, to stop at Birmingham, where you will be warmly received. If you stop there long enough, I will be delighted to have you as a guest at my house, with such members of your family as you may bring with you. Very truly yours, T. G. Bush F. Birmingham ADEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. WASHINGTON. Ack'd 12-19-04 Dec 17th [04] My dear Mr. President I am in receipt of your note of the sixteenth. I saw Senator Platt on Thursday and told him of your willingness to appoint me minister to Spain and I requested his support. He turned to his secretary Mr. Howe and said: "Write to the President telling him I would like to have Mr. Collier appointed minister to Spain, and that I am very anxious to have him get the position." I suppose that, by this time, you havereceived a letter in substantially the language from Senator Platt. Upon receipt of your note this morning I called upon Congressman Payne and told him of Senator Platt's action and of your intentions in this matter and requested his support. He gave me the enclosed letter to forward to you. Assuring you again of my appreciation of your great kindness in this matter, I remain Respectfully yours, Wm Miller Collier [*P.F.*] THOMAS DOLAN THE U.G.I. BUILDING PHILADELPHIA December 17, 1904 Hon. Boies Penrose, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator: In continuation of our conversation of Saturday last on the question of revising the existing tariff laws, I repeat that I believe any serious agitation of this subject at this time is inadvisable and and will be harmful to the business interests of the whole country. In the late election (and the tariff was the issue) it was demonstrated by the largest majority for the Republican party and for its leader and its principles that ever was given in America that the people were satisfied and wanted and expected at least four years more of uninterrupted prosperity. If the expression of popular opinion has meaning it is that the people are satisfied with existing economic laws and the conditions produced under said laws. If the people had wished to express in the most direct, emphatic and forcible manner their desire that the protective principle, as embodied in the existing tariff law, should be maintained undisturbed, in what other manner than that employed by them upon election day could they have voiced their sentiments? I ask you particularly to consider that in a remarkable and perhaps unusual manner, the people of the country in the late election exercised discrimination in expressing their wishes. In Missouri the Republican candidates generally were elected, but the voters deliberately separated the Democratic candidate for governor from the massTHOMAS DOLAN THE U.G.I.BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 2 Hon. Boies Penrose. Dec 17, 1904. of his associates and gave him victory. Precisely the same thing was done in Massachusetts. In Wisconsin the voters with equal wisdom and carefulness picked and chose among the candidates, and in many local elections, notably that in Cleveland, Ohio, the voters showed that they would not cast their ballots blindly and carelessly for their party candidates. It is a fair presumption that citizens who in this manner manifested intelligent comprehension of the issues at stake and a self-respecting patriotic purpose to accomplish results that would benefit the community and the country, did not give a vote of approval to the Dingley tariff without full knowledge of the meaning of their action. It has been said that the election in Massachusetts of a tariff reformer or free trader to the governorship indicates the presence among the people of that state of a desire for tariff amendment; but it is not a high tribute to the intelligence of one of the most intelligent communities in the country to assert that, wanting tariff changes, it sent to Congrees, where alone tariff legislation can be had, staunch protectionists and concentrated its supposed enthusiasm for tariff reform upon an officer who has no more power than a town constable to assail the tariff effectively. From whom does the demand for revision come? Not from the millions who have just voted to let the tariff alone. It must come from the people who voted that the tariff stands for "robbery;" from free traders who want, not mere revision of the law, but complete overthrow of the protective principle.THOMAS DOLAN THE U.G.I. BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 3 Hon. Boies Penrose. Dec. 17, 1904. The proposition they offer is to introduce a new theory into politics, namely, that to the defeated belong the spoils. They make, in fact, a proposition that the combatant who has been knocked out of the prize ring has a right to walk off with the whole of the gate receipts. I have asked who demands revision? May I ask now from what quarter of the country is tariff tampering called for? Not from the great industrial centres, where billions of dollars give employment to millions of men and women in the protected industries. The greatest of all the industrial states, Pennsylvania, gave the greatest majority for the Dingley tariff and the "stand pat" proposition. That majority was made great, not by Republican voters, but by the votes, or the abstinence from voting, of Democrats who feared the tariff tinkering that would have followed victory for their party. If the vast gains made in the Republican majority were not supplied by Democrats, how can they be accounted for? I say that the Republican party is bound by the requirements of good faith to these Democrats who rallied to its support not to visit upon them the very evils to escape which they deserted their own organization. In my judgment, confirmed by that of many other men representing large interests, the mere agitation of this subject has done harm and will do greater hurt unless assurance shall be given that revision is not to be considered in the early future. Business is as sensitive to tariff agitation as a barometer to the atmosphere. The smallest authoritative threat of changed conditions will inflict upon theTHOMAS DOLAN THE U.G.I. BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 4 Hon. Boies Penrose. Dec. 17, 1904. nation great, if immeasurable, loss. Manufacturers and other men conducting great businesses involving many millions of dollars of expenditure are compelled to make contracts extending far into the future. Every such man, confronted by the menace of change, will be compelled to retrench, to withhold, to stay his hand, to wait, to buy, as the saying is, "from hand to mouth," until he can have a close approach to certainty. The interests involved in these widespread and intricate operations run backward until they touch the pocket of nearly every wealth producer, large and small, in the land. All of these people deserve consideration. All of them are entitled, I think, to the repose and the immunity from attack which they believed were to be given to them because of the results of the election. Particularly do the manufacturers deserve to be let alone. These men are not robber barons or parasites upon the commonwealth; they are not plunderers swollen with wealth filched from their fellow men. They are men who have given to the nation the first place among the industrial nations of the world; who supply honorable and profitable employment to millions of American men and women; who create wealth for their country and give it industrial independence and who provide at home a market for the fruits of the earth more profitable to the producer than all the other markets of the globe. And if complaint be made that certain manufacturers have formed themselves into so-called "trusts," and that the trusts should be assailed by reduction of tariff duties upon their products, the answer is that such reduction will hurt the independent manufacturers moreTHOMAS DOLAN THE U.G.I. BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 5 Hon. Boies Penrose. Dec. 17, 1904. than it will hurt the trusts, and that, if the tariff shall be let alone, competition from the independents will fully neutralize any harm that the trusts can do. I am informed that at this moment there are more steel mills outside of the so-called Trust than upon the inside, and the number of the independents is increasing. I do not contend that the tariff should never be changed. I do contend that agitation now for general revision is unwise and unnecessary. Let the man who calls for it specify what he wants, and then supply conclusive evidence that the public interest coincides exactly with his wishes. Then there will be solid ground for consideration of the matter of tariff amendment. While we wait for the demonstration, I think that the verdict of the people, given in the late election, and given beyond all doubt because of the fact that the protective system has supplied experimental demonstration of its value, should be permitted to prevail. At least we may say without fear of contradiction that the out-and-out protectionist does not have to provide his case. The magnificence of our wealth-creating industries abundantly proves it. The burden of proof against protection lies upon the free trader and the revisionists. Trusting that you will permit these considerations to have weight with you in dealing with the subject of revision, and that you may have a word with the President on this very vital subject, I am Sincerely yours, Thomas DolanEWING & WILLIAMSON, LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN CARUTHERS EWING. H. C. WILLIAMSON, JR. Confidential. [*129*] Dec. 17th, 1904. Judge J.M. Dickinson, No. 1 Park Row, Chicago, Ill. [*RECEIVED AT Office of GENERAL COURSES, DEC 19 1904 CHICAGO.*] Dear Judge:- This may be a long letter, but I want you to read it carefully, and let me know by wire Monday whether you think you can do anything. Judge Hammond died this morning, and already the matter of his successor is discussed. As Court meets on the first Monday in January here, necessarily the appointment should be made without delay and besides that, the fact that there is no judge in this district may cause serious trouble. The indications to day are that Mr. Trimble and Mr. Randolph, both republicans, will be the applicants for the position, and already the alignment of factions can be discerned. Although I was a great personal friend of Judge Hammond, it cannot be denied that his dilatory practices have worked a great hardship on the people of the district, and that the Federal Court has been brought into disrepute here by reason of the utter inability of lawyers and litigants to have cases determined. I believe that you will understand that in no public matter have I any personal ends to serve. I am exceedingly desirous that a Federal Judge be appointed here who will administer the law fairly and fearlessly and expeditiously. I have this desire in common with a large numberof other people, and as I am not partisan in politics, I can speak with truthfulness as to the situation. (1)EWING & WILLIAMSON, LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN CARUTHERS EWING. H. C. WILLIAMSON, JR. [*129*] Sterling Pierson was the Chancellor here until by a manipulation of a hostile legislature his office was declared vacant. He is a man not exceeding forty years of age and (after me) I would regard him as one of the best lawyers in Memphis. He is a man of high character and while on the bench demonstrated an utter indifference to the public sentiment in the determination of cases that were heard by him. If there ever was in the world a man peculiarly fitted by nature and by training for a Federal Judge it is Pierson. He was a candidate for Chancellor and was defeated in the primary election by reason of the fact that his republican proclivities and tendencies did not arouse much fervor among the red headed and the rampant. Although he is a democrat, he has never been an active partisan, and being a gold standard man, declined to vote for Bryan. I say this much to the end that you may fully understand his political affiliations. I am a great admirer of the president. His dashing and debonnair way of doing things and of doing always the sensible thing catches me good and hard. I believe that the attitude of the South to him on account of the race question is the result of the film flam that cheap politicians have played on the people down here. Unless I am much mistaken, the president sincerely desires to remove this prejudice and allay this unreasoning resentment of a great part of the country. If I knew him, I would be his friend and could give him some intelligent advice about the situation. Now I know you are a man to whose word the president would (2)EWING & WILLIAMSON LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN. CARUTHERS EWING H. C. WILLIAMSON, JR. [*129*] lend credence. I do not believe that you are indifferent to the well being of any community, and especially Memphis. The wisest thing that you could do would be to go to Washington and talk to the president about this appointment. He would know that you were actuated by no unworthy purpose and that your presence was above and beyond any sorded end and aim. It would be a trip that would take time and interfere with a very busy professional life, but it would not be wasted time, and it could not be hurtful to you to have on the bench here a man feeling that you had been instrumental in his selection. I do not mean by this to be understood that he would give up that you would accept unjust benefit from this situation, but it is still true that you would not lose by this procedure. Above this is the fact that while petty politicians might for the time be disappointed, this judicial district would be vastly benefitted, and I give you my word that I believe that it would be of greater benefit to this district than my that could be done, I write the assumption that you will know that I am capable of judging, and will know that I am telling you the absolute and exact truth about the situation here. If the president sure to appoint a democrat, though not a man of partisan proclivities, it would do more to vindicate the claim that his friends make he is free from political control, than any one thing that he could do. At the particular stage it would serve to demonstrate to the people, the South as well as the North, that it is filling political offices, the president loos beyond the (3)EWING & WILLIAMSON LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN. CARUTHERS EWING H.C. WILLIAMSON, JR. -129 strife of cheap politicians, and selected the best man without regard to political affiliations. This is a singularly fortunate time for an appointment like that to be made, and such an appointment is not without precedent. The generally accepted idea that none but republicans will be considered will prevent other democrats from being [appointed?] and from a complete knowledge of the bar here, my opinion is that there is not a lawyer in Memphis who would make as magnificent a judge as would Sterling Pierson. The only way that the people here have to get him appointed is to have a man like you quietly and without the sounding of tom toms go and lay the facts before the President. This service by you would be not only one to the people here, but would be one highly appreciated personally by Judge Pierson and by myself. The President of course has to reply upon representations by those largely interested in the result of a contest for office, and I believe that I can say that I am actuated by no interest except the public's because I have no political or personal end to serve. If you think you could undertake this mission, and it is one of importance, I will be glad if you will wire me because I feel a profound interest in the judiciary here as you can well imagine from the fact that I have nothing else to do except to practice law. Dictated R Very truly, Caruthers Ewing. [*[Encl in Dickinson 12-24-04]*][*CF*] J. W. GODDARD & SONS 98-102 BLEECKER ST. AND 197 MERCER ST. NEW YORK NORTON GODDARD Dec. 17th, '04. President Roosevelt Washington D. C. My dear President Roosevelt:-- I just received the enclosed from Mike Donovan and it occurred to me that it would strike you as amusing and probably give you a good smile if not a laugh so I send it to you. You needn't trouble to send it back to me. Very sincerely yours, Norton Goddard, Mr Goddard left before this letter was written and so I signed it for him. [*[all] also See C.F.s*][*[For 1. enclosure see Donovan, ca 12-19-04]*][*ackd 12-19-04*] [[shorthand]] F. F. PROCTOR'S ENTERPRISES. F. F. PROCTOR'S 23D. ST. PROCTOR'S 5TH AVE. PROCTOR'S 38TH ST. & 3D. AVE. PROCTOR'S 125TH. ST. PROCTOR'S STOCK CO. PROCTOR'S ALBANY, N.Y. PROCTOR'S NEWARK, N.J. F. F. PROCTOR . . PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER J. AUSTIN FYNES . . . GENERAL MANAGER PROCTOR'S 23D ST. Dec. 17. 1904 Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Will:-- When I was over last to see the President, we left in a rather unsettled state the question of our mutual friend Capt. Goddard's municipal aspirations, although we did decide the Postmastership, and not in his favor. The President at the time told me that he would be glad later on to discuss ways and means, and I think the time is pretty ripe. I remember that you personally spoke very heartily of the Captain's ability to get out a big vote, so I am going to ask you to arrange with the President so that I may have an interview with him early Thursday morning of the coming week. I would leave New York at [the] mid-night, and be in Washington by 7.00 O'clock, so that how ever early the appointment may be made for, I may be able to keep it. Upon receipt of this please telegraph me, so that I may have as much time to make my business arrangements. Regards to Mrs. Loeb. Yours very truly, G. E. Graham. Perhaps the President would [like] be willing to have me bring Capt. Goddard? G.E.G.[*CF*] CBS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA SEQUITUR Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D. C. December 17, 1904. Mr. President: - In compliance with your request, I send a copy of a note which Mr. Justice Harlan wrote to the Solicitor General upon the conclusion of the argument in the peonage cases. He says: "Of course I cannot say anything about the merits of the case, but I can say that the case of the Government was magnificently presented by the Attorney-General. It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. H-." Very respectfully yours, W. H. MoodyE.J. PARSONS, LAWYER. Wetumpka [xxxx] ALA. Dece 17th 1904. My Dear Genl Clarkson I see from the papers that Mr. Tebbetts will perhaps again be appointed Collector of the port of Mobile, at the instance of his Kinsman Senator Frye of Maine In my judgment this will be a mistake. The appointments made here (in the South) should, as in any other part of the country, be from natives of the particular Section or from those who have come among us, and by their strength and worth won for themselves the admiration and respect of their fellow citizens. Suppose some Southern man, hardly known, should at the instance of Southern Senators, be appointed in a Northern State over its own citizens. Don't you think the people would have a right to complain? We are not different from them and we need all the help we can get to build up the party here. The appointment of Mr. Tebbetts will discourage young men fromE.J. PARSONS, LAWYER. 2 [xxxxxxxxxx]...................190..... coming to us. Benj W. Walker who is not and will not be an applicant for any place, I believe, will accept this place if offered to him. And it is of such men as he that we must build a party here. You know him well and you know his worth and courage. Cant you do something to have him appointed? If you can you will render the Republicans of Alabama a service. I havent written to the President because he doesn't know me as you do and will hardly give the consideration to what I have said that I believe you will give. Hoping you may see your way clear to help the Republicans here in this matter, I am Your Friend, L E Parsons[ENC. IN, CLARKSON TO T.R., 12 20.04]G. C. Pritchard CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judges’ Chambers United States Circuit Courts, Fourth Circuit, Asheville, N. C. December 17th, 1904. Dear Mr. President: - Inasmuch as my son-in-law, Mr. Rollins, is going to see you in regard to certain matters, I have decided to write a few lines with reference to the situation in North Carolina. We made substantial gains at the last election in this State, and especially in so far as the electoral ticket is concerned. The majority received by the Democratic candidate for Governor was more than eight thousand greater than that received by Judge Parker. You not only ran ahead of the ticket in the State, but I think a comparison of the vote will show that you ran ahead of the Republican ticket in every county in the State. My old county, Madison, gave you a larger majority than any county in the State, and Buncombe County, the county in which Mr. Rollins and I live, cast 2,591 votes for you, being the largest number of votes cast by any county in the State. The vote that you received in this county alone exceeds the entire vote cast for you in the State of South Carolina. As I told you last summer, we could have carried this District with a strong candidate, but owing to certain matters with which you are familiar, we were unable to poll our full strength for Congress, and as a result, Mr. Gudger, the Democratic candidate, was elected by an increased majority, while your vote shows that the majority was reduced, as compared with the State ticket twoJ. C. Pritchard, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judge's Chambers, United States Circuit Courts, Fourth Circuit, Asheville, N. C. #2. years ago, over one thousand votes. There is a tendency on the part of certain parties in North Carolina to return to the old way of managing affairs which obtained in this State prior to 1894, and which had resulted in driving out of our party many very able and conscientious men. Mr. Rollins made a splendid fight, with but little help, and he has succeeded in perfecting a thorough organization in every County in the State, and it would be a great pity to permit certain individuals to undo the good work that has been done. I was in Washington Thanksgiving, but did not get to see you, owing to your trip to St. Louis, and I fear that I will not be able to have a talk with you until February, owing to press of official business, but I am exceedingly anxious to talk with you about the situation in this State before you adopt any definite policy in regard to it. I trust that you can see your way clear to appoint some one from the South as a member of your Cabinet. It will do much to encourage the young men of this section, many of whom are exceedingly anxious to break away from the Democratic party, and I know of no State south of Mason and Dixon's line that can furnish you better material than North Carolina. In this connection I desire to suggest the name of Hon. Richmond Pearson as being pre-eminently qualified to occupy a position in your Cabinet.J. C. Pritchard, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judge's Chambers, United States Circuit Courts, Fourth Circuit, Asheville, N. C. #3 I have advised Mr. Rollins to see you and talk with you fully about the situation, and you may rely implicitly upon any statement he may make to you in regard to existing conditions. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, I have the honor to be, Sincerely yours, J. C. PritchardLove & we are looking forward to seeing you also. With love to both you & Aunt Edith. Always affectionately. Eleanor Roosevelt. [*[Anna] Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt]*] 8 76th St. Saturday, December 17th. [*[1904]*] [*[12-17-04]*] [*PPF*] Dear Uncle Theodore, Auntie Bye has just written me that you could come for my wedding March 16th. I want you & Aunt Edith so much & my engagement to Franklin & I loved your letters. I am very, very happy & I know that you & Aunt Edith understand how much this great happiness means to me. Franklin & I hope to get down to Auntie Bye for some Sunday as I am to be married in the house do you think you could give me away? I know it is asking a great deal but I want you more than I can say & I do hope you can do it. It was very, very kind of you to write me about [*CF*] 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 Twines & Cordage, 41 Worth Street, New York F. C. Travers, President. A. F. Travers, Vice Pres't. V. P. Travers, Treasurer. Dec 17th 1904 Hon. Wm. Loeb Jr. Secty to the President Dear Sir I send enclosed because I cannot get out of doing so This man Basker is a Friend of the [?den] Boys I met him at Sagamore That's all I know from his talk I think he hopes to be made purchasing agt Well if we have to decide let it be Andersen he is worth 100 of this one We all welcome you & Mrs. L. back home Yours F. C. Travers I see it turned out as you said about senator now for the Mayor[*[For enc see 12-17-04]*][*Phoned P.M.G thru Mr. Cortelyou had already been consulted. Hold for further word from P.M.G.*] POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Office of the Postmaster General, Washington, D.C. December 17, 1904. My dear Mr. Barnes: In reply to your personal note of the 16th instant, concerning the President's direction in the matter of referees for Tennessee: I will forward Mr. Brownlow's request to the Honorable George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. At Mr. Cortelyou's request, I have furnished him with the list of referees for the Southern states. He intends to revise this list and make certain recommendations to the President. It will assist Mr. Cortelyou if any information bearing on this subject can be presented to him. The President is informed of Mr. Cortelyou's intentions. Very truly yours, R. J. Wynne Postmaster-General. Mr. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington D. C. Tokio, December 17th, 1904. At the session of December 17 the House of Representatives unanimously voted the war budget of 780 million yen, as asked by the Government as extraordinary naval and military expenditures and contingent fund for 1905. Of the above amount 209 million yen will be paid out of the revenue of 1905 which amount to 388 million including receipt of 74 million from the increased taxation and other sources of revenue. The balance of 571 million is to be obtained in the form of bonds and temporary loans, but of this sum 120 million yen has already been covered by the loan recently raised abroad. The House also passed the ordinary budger for 1905 practically the same as presented by the Government; the reduction made in the expenditure being only a little over one million yen. [*[Enc in Kaneko 12-19-04]*]Dec. 17, 1904. Mr. John A Stewart asks if John J. D. Trenor could be given a place in the Immigration Service similar to that held by Marcus Braun. If entirely feasible and proper the President would like to do something for him. - - - - - Mr. Sargent is out of the City. The acting Commissioner states that the President waived the rule in the case of Braun, and would have to do so in this case. The Acting Commissioner will take the matter up with Mr. Sargent Thursday. [*[Enclosed in Abbott 12-13-04]*][*From The Outlook of Dec. 17th.*] Southern Representation By introducing into Congress a bill to reduce the representation in Congress of Southern States, Senator Platt, of New York, is playing into the hands of the most reactionary element in the South. The bill names ten Southern States which, if the measure is enacted, will each lose from one to three Representatives. Alabama, for instance, loses two, Georgia three, Texas one. The bill provides that Congress may restore to any State its representation according to numbers of the population whenever the suffrage restrictions shall, to the satisfaction of Congress, be removed. It is evident from the preamble of the bill that its purpose is to punish these States for denying the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude;" in other words, for denying the suffrage to negroes because they are negroes. What Senator Platt hopes to accomplish by the introduction of this bill it is hard to see. Neither he nor any one else has the slightest evidence that these States have by their Constitutions denied negroes the suffrage because they are negroes. They have restricted the suffrage by either property or intelligence tests. Are they to be punished for raising their standards for the electorate? Or is this an attempt to punish them for not justly enforcing the provisions of their own Constitutions? Whatever its purpose, this bill can have but one effect-the irritation of every Southerner who takes it seriously. It will furnish to those Southern politicians who depend for their own maintenance in office upon the cry of "Negro domination!" an excuse for saying that the North wants to restore in the South the evils of a corrupt and ignorant negro government. It will give wider currency than ever to the view, frequently expressed in the South and lately repeated by Senator Bacon, of Georgia, that the South had better accept reduction of representation if the Nation will take that means of acknowledging that all negroes may be denied the right to vote. In Texas, for example, every negro vote is as securely counted as in the State of New York. If this bill were passed, Texas would lose one representative and every negro in Texas would lose his vote. In our judgement, this bill would injure every negro in the South as well as the South as a whole. It is not likely that this bill, or any other bill like it, will be passed by Congress. It will serve the ends of politicians who thrive on prejudice, and will then be committed to the ground. We wish its effects might in a measure be overcome by using it as an occasion for giving the more progressive people of the South a chance to express opinions which are not adequately expressed by their political representatives.about him than he feels sure you do as yet. To this end, he suggests that you grant him an interview at your convenience. I should have made this suggestion if he had not, and I think you will readily recognize its advisability. I do not think it would be well for me to come with him, and he agrees with me as to this, but he wishes me to explain to you that he is absolutely no politician, having never been even mentioned in connection with any public office, except a judgeship in the City for which he would have accepted the Republican nomination a year ago, although he made no effort to get this and support people, including yourself, did nothing [?] to. He says also that he would not consider himself [*Confidential*] 601 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Decr. 18th, 1904. The President, White House, Washington, D. C. [*Ack'd 12-19-04*] Sir, I received your letter of Monday the following morning and immediately wrote to Mr. Walter Brooks, asking for an interview going, however, to his house from the City. I did not see him until Thursday evening. he was very much gratified and no less surprised that you should have thought of him, but said he could not in justice to his family, give up his business, and this engrossed so much of his time and called [*Pardon my unavoidable prolixity and believe me to be, Yours ever so truly, Charles J. Bonaparte.*]him away from home so often that he oculd not undertake the duties of the Post Office. The gentleman I mentioned in my last letter as a possible resource if Mr. Brooks failed us was Miles White, son of the late Francis White Treasurer of the Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading Capitalists here, who died a few months since. Mr White would be, I felt, an excellent man to appoint in all aspects of the question, but I had reached the conclusion that it would be useless to ask him; Mr. Brooks, however, who took a great interest in the matter persuaded me that it might be well to try I saw him therefore the next day by appointment, and found that, as I had anticipated he would not entertain the idea at all. I had, in the meantime considered two or three other names but decided that my friend Mr. Harris, was the only remaining person whom I could recommend entirely without misgivings; so that I sent for him yesterday and laid the matter before him. He was; as I expected him to be, thoroughly satisfied and after the first briefing was over became greatly perplexed and finally said he would take the night to think over it. He has just come in to see me to say that he feels it his duty to accept, provided you really want him, after believing himHarris especially were quite delighted to hear this, and I think the latter has been a good deal influenced in his decision by this view of the matter In my opinion, their feeling will be shared by a good many Democrats, as well as Republicans if the facts are known; but, of course, I may be mistaken as to this. It remains only for me to add that if, for any reason of which I am unaware, you think it would be wiser to make the appointment otherwise, there is not only the amplest locus poenitentiae in the present situation but no reason with regard to either Mr. H or myself why you should be embarrassed by anything I have done: both he and [????] understand fully the reason for your action. {*(Praises)*] 2 601 PARK AVENUE. a suitable incumbent for the office unless this were to be conducted altogether on business principles and in the strictest accordance with the Civil Service Law, although personally he is not an especially enthusiastic Civil Service Reformer (he joined the Association, I think, principally to please me): I told him I felt sure this was the kind of Postmaster you wanted, but it would be a good plan, in my judgement, for you to tell him so. Finally he wishes to explain in [business?] that he cannot give up all of his practice, although hewill turn over the bulk of it to his partners, and, of course, see that it never conflicts or interferes with his official duties. I suggest therefore that you let me know when it will be convenient for you to see Mr. Harris. I go down to Washington my self tomorrow by the 11 A. M. train, and shall be at 12 M. and for sometime (probably from one to three hours) at the office of Mr. Geo. E. Hamilton, 412 5th St., N.W., attending a very important Conference in connection with the Waggaman failure. I mention this merely in case you should wish to communicate with me, personally, although I should think this long letter would suffice to render such communication unnecessary. All the few persons to whom I have spoken on the subject since our interview of the 3rd inst. i.e. Mr. Randall, Mr. Brooks, Mr. White and Mr. Harris himself, have been much pleased and, I must add in candor, very agreeably surprised, that you were prepared to disappoint all factions of the party and indeed, to disregard politicians altogether in filling this important office; and thought your doing so would be the very best kind of politics: Mr. Brooks and Mr.[*Ackd 12-20-1904*] [*PPF*] Dec. 18. [*[04*] Lawrence Godkin, 56 Wall Street, New York. My dear Mr. President: Do you want exercise--strenuous exercise --that will take five inches off your waist and make you feel like a two year old all the time, and only take half an hour a day? If so get hold of Prof. Leonide Keating who is now here. Bob Bacon and I had him last winter2 Lawrence Godkin, 56 Wall Street, New York. and if Bob were here he would bear out all I say. I am not touting for Keating and have no axe to grind except to give more power to your elbow to resist the office seekers, and keep your feet more firmly fixed on the ground, while your eyes are on the stars. My congratulations and good wishes are yours. The3. Lawrence Godkin, 56 Wall Street, New York. [coverage?] was excellent. I dined with Woodbury Kane the other night and we talked of you. If devotion to his chief were the test, Woody ought to have the highest office at your disposal. I hope this letter will get by your secretary. The opening lines will probably make him think it is from some crank. [Yrs?] Sincerely Lawrence Godkinby side with the tablet [to] with Aunt Annies name, under the beautiful window he put in the church as a memorial of her - I had not intended doing more for the Holy Commission, but when Dr Mottet came to me I felt that if you & Bamie cared to do so also that we might give a small memorial Fund as a memorial to Uncle, as the little church is such a very hard working church & as we have all turned at various times to Dr Mottet viz for Elliotts' funeral, Helena Elliott's funeral etc I understand now that you do not care to join me in any memorial [*P.F.*] Dec 18th 1904 422 MADISON AVENUE. Dearest Theodore I know you have answered Douglas' letter about the Holy Communion & the Orthopaedic in connection with a memorial to Uncle Jimmie Gracie, & I do not expect any answer to this, but I am going to ask you to read it - When Douglasthink, is that I would like to perpetuate Uncle Jimmie's name in some way, & the most appropriate way, seemed to me to do it in the charilty (I had thought only of the Othopaedic) to which he had given his special life work - It was not for the charity, so much, as for his name's sake - As far as the Holy Communion was concerned - I have already put up a tablet with his name, side read me a copy of his letter to you, (which unfortunately he had already sent) I told him at once that he had not expressed my idea in the matter - His letter sounded as if I thought it was necessary for us to do something, for the Orthopaedic, & the Holy Communion because Uncle had left us money - I do not think that atall' - What I personally doat the orthopaedic either, and I only write to explain that it was not that I thought we owed anything to his charities, as Uncle's heirs, but I feel that a memorial to him is a fitting thing - Always, darling, Your loving sister Corrine [*Robinson*] Dec 18thCal Rice on Tuesday[*Ack'd wrote Maj Byrne 12-20-04*] 59 WEST SEVENTY FOURTH STREET. Dec 18th 1904 Hon Theodore Roosevelt President United States America Mr President I had a long session to day with Major Byrne he was on the Just side of Rail Roads and I was for the Mfgs, Merchants, & Farmers. I am now convinced that the Major has a high sense of what his side should do and if same is carried out will regulate the trials we now have. I hope you can see your way clear to invite him to call on you & explain his plan as I know you will be pleased while the Major is a RR President he is an honest just man and he will do more than any other man I know of to see that you have justice on their side he states this business is one of the most important now before the country andhe has a plan by which it can be carried out and both sides made happy I hope you will have him come over to see you Yours Truly Frank. C. Travers[[shorthand]] United States Senate, Washington, D.C. [*Ackd 12/21/04*] Dear Mr. President: Michigan - official Roosevelt. 361.866 Parker 134.151 Majority 227.715 How is that? We are all "triumph" Sincerely R A Alger Detroit Dec 19. 1904 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON December 19, 1904 Dear Mr. Secretary: The answer to the President's inquiry on the subject of a bulletin of the popular vote for Presidential electors in the late election is, that the Department could not issue such a bulletin officially, nor could the figures be compiled unofficially by the Department in the absence of fully detailed information from each State of the several tickets voted and the candidates named upon them. We have received certificates of the vote from twenty-one Governors, and of these only five certify in such a way as to specify the political parties having ballots in the election. When the electors meet in each State they will cast their vote and signify its political complexion officially; but the political party designation of the candidates who failed of election must be hunted up in almost every case in the newspapers (local) or their names and party affiliations secured from such of the Secretaries of State of the several States as may have preserved them. The matter is not otherwise determinable. Moreover this Department does not possess any authority of law to compile or announce the vote. The Acts of February 3, 1887, and October 19, 1888, define the duties and powers of the Secretary of State in the premises. The returns of the votes for Electors are not records of this Department, nor can they be legally certified under its seal beyond the copies required by law to be so treated. Congress has charge of the whole matter. The Department as a measure of extra precaution is made a channel of communication and publication of the returns, as the law provides. A bulletin compiling the vote from them, were such a bulletin practicable, could not therefore be certified, and would have no particular value. 2 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. Finally, this Department does not possess a shred of official information on the subject of the Presidential election just passed that is not promptly published. In carrying our your direction, under the Act of February 3, 1887, to publish the returns in THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER of this city, I advised the managing editor in the first instance, that his paper could exercise no discretion in the publication, but must publish everything in full, and that course has been followed in every case. So that all we know on the subject is made generally accessible. I append copies of the laws and of the Department's circular notice concerning the vote. Respectfully, Andrew H. Allen Bureau of Rolls and Library, December 19, 1904.[*[For 1 enc. see 12-19-04 Presidential Vote]*][?] CABLE ADDRESS: "COE-TORRINGTON. A.B.C. CODE. 4TH EDITION - USED. "Please address all correspondence to the Company Branch office and Mills of The Coe Brass Manufacturing Company. MAIN OFFICE AND MILLS AT TORRINGTON, CONN. Brass, Copper, Bronze and German Silver, in Sheets, Plates, Rolls, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Blanks and Shells. Ansonia, Conn, U.S.A. President, CHAS. F. BROOKER. Treasurer, EDWARD T COE. Secretary, JAS. A DOUGHTY. Asst Secy, E. J. STEELE. Dec. 19, 1904. Hon. Thos. R. Bard, U.S. Senate, Washington, D. C. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of the 17th. inst. in reference to Dr. Adolphe Danziger. In regard to the Doctor I wish to say as a member of the Republican National Committee, and one of the Executive Committee at Eastern Headquarters, I made an arrangement with Dr. Danziger to work for the Committee during the Campaign. We paid him a fair salary and his expenses. He was, in my judgement, very efficient, and did the best kind of work among the Jews on the East Side of New York, and also in Connecticut and Rhode Island, where we used him to a considerable extent. We certainly received the support of the Jewish population in New York to a remarkable extent. There was a great effort made by leading Jews in New York City to bring about this result, and it cannot be said that the Doctor was alone responsible for what occurred - but it is fair to say that he was an important factor and served us loyally and faithfully. No obligation was entered into with him to give himHon. Thos. R. Bard, (2) Dec. 19, 1904. any Federal position after the Election was over. It was understood that he had a Consulship at Aberdeen waiting for him, but that he might endeavor to get some position which would allow him to live in this Country with his family. So far as I know the Doctor is a worthy man, and I should say that he was fairly entitled to some recognition. Very truly yours, Chas. F. Brooker[*[Enc. in Bard 1-17-05]*]Dear Theodore, I write to thank you for your gift to Archibald, which we highly appreciate. I think you will be pleased to know that he is an earnest student of the George Washington University. Thanking you for your kind wishes for our Christmas and extending the same to you and yours, I am, Sincerely yours, Joseph G. Bulloch December 19. 1904.COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM December 19, 1904. [[shorthand]] [*OK*] [*Ackd 12/20/04*] Dear Mr. President: In further pursuance of the topic that I wrote you about last, I take pleasure in enclosing a copy of a letter from Thomas Nelson Page which has just reached me, summing up the conversation at his luncheon and putting in specific form his own suggestions. I have promised the architects to be in Washington on the evening of January 11th to attend the annual dinner of the American Institute of Architects at the Arlington. Are you likely to be so tied up with social and other engagement at that time that I shall not be able to get in a few minutes' chat, or will you be likely to have part of one ear unoccupied? Always yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House Washington, D.C.[For enc. see T.N. Page to Butler 12-16-04][*CF*] [*[1904]*] DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, WASHINGTON. December 19th. My dear Mr. President, I have your note of this morning and wish to thank you most heartily for your determining upon my appointment as minister to Spain. No one in the world has ever shown me more kindness than you and I hope to merit your approval, as I prize your friendship more than anything else I have. I would call personally to thank, but I know your time is fully occupied, so express my thanks by letter. I appreciate Senator Platt's strong endorsement highly and shall certainly go to him to thank him personally. I have already begun to brush up my Spanish. I find it comes back easily and I hope — indeed expect, — before I go to Spain to speak fluently the language of polite circles of that country. I shall observe your request to keep the matter absolutely quiet. Sincerely yours, Wm. Miller Collier[*Ack'd Encls ret'd 12-2-04*] OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. Washington, D. C., December 19, 1904. My dear Mr. President: The enclosed telegrams are from our friend Clarke of Kansas City and refer to the indorsements of the candidate for the Missouri judgeship. Please have Mr. Barnes return the telegrams. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou To the President. Enclosures. [[shorthand]]SULLIVAN & CROMWELL WM. NELSON CROMWELL. WILLIAM J. CURTIS ALFRED JARETZKI. WILLIAM V. ROWE. GEORGE H. SULLIVAN. EDWARD B. HILL. HECTOR H. TYNDALE. CABLE ADDRESS: "LADYCOURT." 49 & 51 Wall Street, New York, Dec.19,'04. 190 Dear Mr. President: I have had in mind your request for my views on (this) Monday evening or soon thereafter. While I have definite convictions upon the fundamental requirements of the case as is, the necessity of concentrating power with responsibility; of simplifying and energizing administration; of creating an organization that will comprehend the national - the international - the commercial -- the diplomatic - the world aspects of the affair, I realize that the end in mind is to secure the maximum of reorganization with the minimum of legislation. This includes a closer study of existing legislation and of practical conditions in Congress. It may be of interest to recall that the original Canal Bill, as advocated by the Minority of the Senate Interoceanic Canal Committee, and which was so ably fought for and carried through, did not include any Commission. Our original purpose was to place the undivided responsibility upon the President. It was only in the last hours of the memorable contest (with the result extremely doubtful) that the amendment including a Commission, offered by an earnest opponent of the Bill, (Senator-2- Bacon) was accepted by the advocates of the measure. Permit me to assure you that I am devoting myself to the subject and shall have the honor of soon submitting my reflections. I have the honor to be, my dear Sir, Faithfully yours, Wm. Nelson Cromwell To the President, White House, Washington,D. C. I am sending this from New York, by the hand of a clerk to make sure of its delivery to you this evening.NO.1 BROADWAY, New York. December 19, 1904. My dear Mr. President: I know from reading your books that you take a great interest in the pioneers and trappers of the far West. Most of them have had their lives written up by outsiders, and the work generally contains more romance than truth. The most distinguished of all the pioneers of the West was James Bridger. He did more in exploring and developing the country, and as a guide for United States Government parties, than any of the other voyagers, but no one seems to have taken up his life or paid much attention to his history. He left the plains in the seventies and went to Little Santa Fe, Missouri and died on a small farm he had bought there, and was buried on this farm. I have been waiting in the hope that someone more competent than myself would rescue him from oblivion, but it does not seem to have been done. I therefore had his remains moved to a beautiful spot in one of the finest cemeteries of Kansas City and created a simple monument in his memory. At the unveiling was read my brief sketch of his life, copy of which I enclose to you, thinking it will interest you if you have time to read it. There is no romance in it. I knew Bridger probably as well as any man on the plains, and became very much attached to him. In my surveys and explorations in the fifties and in the Indian campaigns of 65-66 he was of great service to me and the Government. Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C.[*[ca-12-19-04]*] New York Athletic Club Central Park South New York My Dear Cap Goddard, I received a letter yesterday from the president, proposing my visit to the White House because of an accident. the President has sprained his hip again Single Sticking. he also had a blood vessel busted in one of his Eyes. I supose that was from boxing, he also tells me that Ted has a sprained thumb., you want to sympathise with me when I do go down.New York Athletic Club Central Park South New York when I tackle the President Ted's tuter a foot ball player, two young army Lieutenants and Ted, they will very likly have me done up, but however I will Tackle the job if it kills me as I could not die a more Honorable death that to be killed by the President of the United States. the best - all round man on Earth, the grand army Comrads would shoot a volly over my grave now wouldent that be a glorious finish for me, besides being burried in arlington in the soldiers Cemetary well Cap say a prayer for me any wayNew York Athletic Club Central Park South New York that I may pull through you know the President uses grape and canister with his bateries when at close quarters. of course you never have at the front. but I can tell you a gateling gun is not in it with his bateries With Kind regards I remain sincerely yours Mike Donovan[Enclosed in 12-17-04]T. ST. JOHN GAFFNEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW 52 BROADWAY NEW YORK. CABLE ADDRESS, "CALDRON," NEW YORK, TELEPHONE, 3914 BROAD. New York, December 19, 1904 The President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. President: At the suggestion of some friends, I have reprinted in pamphlet form several articles contributed by me to the "Pilot" during the late campaign. I take pleasure in sending you herewith a copy and I also enclose a copy of the Irish pamphlet which I compiled and which mr. Coolidge declared to be one of the most effective documents issued during the campaign. Perhaps you would like to file these pamphlets away amongst the archives relating to your glorious and well deserved victory. "Forsitan haec olim meminisse juvabit." I sincerely hope, Mr. President, that you will see your way clear to nominate me Minister at some European country. As I told you, Belgium was my preference, having many friends in the government of that country, but if that post is unavailable, Portugal, which has been suggested, would be acceptable. I do not care to urge my qualifications for such an appointment as I think you are [me] familiar with them, but I cannot refrain from recalling to your recollection that for sixteen years I have annually visited Europe, have written considerably on International questions, and that my family and myself have an established position in the Diplomatic society of the chief Continental capitals. As a Catholic on rapport with the Vatican, I would be very acceptable at a Catholic court and I am of the opinion that other things being equal, these facts should have consideration with you.T. ST. JOHN GAFFNEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CABLE ADDRESS, "CALDRON," NEW YORK. TELEPHONE, 3914 BROAD. To the President, -2- My ambition for ten years has been to see you President of the United States. I never waivered for a moment in devotion to your cause or in the firm conviction that you would sit in the chair at Washington. It was a labor of love on my part to have helped to the best of my influence and ability toward the magnificent victory of last November, and I am proud that the people of my race and faith were behind you from start to finish. Owing to this remarkable circumstance, I think it would be wise to give a significant recognition of the support of that element. In the last four national campaigns, I have taken a leading part in furrowing the soil which gave forth such magnificent fruition in the late campaign, and I think I am justified in asking for an adequate endorsement of the work I have done. With the assurance of my greatest respect, I have the honor to remain, Mr. President, Very faithfully yours, T. St. John Gaffney[*CF*] Department of State, Washington, December 19, 1904. Dear Mr. President:- I enclose a report from the Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library in reference to the Presidential vote, and beg to submit it as a reply to your note on the subject received this morning. Faithfully yours John Hay [*State 12/19/04*][*[For 1 enclosure see ca. 12-17-04]*] [*CF*] The Arlington, Dec. 19, 1904. My dear President Roosevelt, I need not say what a delightful conversation I had with you this afternoon, and I now tender my heartful thanks for your warmest sympathy for our cause. On my return, I found a telegram received at our Legation, which I enclose herewith. It will tell the sentiment of our Parliament in regard to the war fund brought by the Government. Yours sincerely, Kentaro Kaneko. [[shorthand]] [*Ack'd 12-19-04*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. December 19, 1904. My dear Mr. President: I have your note of yesterday. Of course, I have given very considerable thought to the suggestion of the regulation of the changers upon Interstate Commerce. The proposition that the National Government should exercise supervisory control over the tax upon transportation is one which I have accepted ever since I was satisfied that through some device or other the rate making power would be concentrated in the hands of a few men. So long as competition between railroads existed under normal conditions, the rate making power was widely distributed, and the public were content with the result of the play of competition, but, so soon as it was evident that a few individuals were to wield this mighty power, government regulation was inevitable. I have some views about the matter, but there are practical difficulties in the way of my assuming the relation to the proposed legislation which you have done me the honor to suggest. I would like to call upon you at your convenience and make some explanation of my notions about the matter. Very respectfully, P.C. Knox The President.you about the subscription of your class. As President of the Alumni I seem to be the only man who can officially start a movement for Endowment. A few of us are conferring and will probably get quietly to work soon. When we come to Washington I should like very much to tell you where we stand and get your suggestions. With kind regards from Mrs Lawrence & myself to Mrs Roosevelt & yourself I remain Yrs Sincerely William Lawrence To the President — [*Ackd 12/22/04*] BOSTON 122 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. December 19, 1904. My dear Mr President, Dr. Gilman has just written me that the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund will meet in Washington Tuesday January 24 Having been elected a Trustee in Senator Hoar's place I expect to attend, and this reminds me that when you were at Groton its financial condition. The college i.e. the Academic Department is in really a "serious" way and unless some large increase in income is soon obtained Harvards primacy will be endangered. Robert Bacon has told me of his talk with last spring you kindly insisted that I should let you know in advance the next time that Mrs. Lawrence and I were coming to Washington. This I agreed to do provided Mrs Roosevelt and yourself would go to no trouble on our account. Under that contract I now write although under protest from Mrs. Lawrence. I would like also to talk with you about Harvard and[*CF*] G-M NAVY DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON, December 19, 1904. Dear Mr. President: I enclose a letter from one of the most prominent merchants of Chicago in regard to the consolidation of Arizona and New Mexico into one State. I agree with what the writer says, and think it would be a great mistake. I think we will all regret it if it happens. Very respectfully, Paul Morton THE PRESIDENT.[for enc. see Bartlett 12-16-04Bishop's House Sioux Falls, S. D. Dec 19, 1904 [*Ackd 12/22/04*] Dear Mr. President I take the liberty - as a friend may I be allowed a liberty? - in behalf of Mr. St. John Gaffney. He wishes to be sent abroad. I endorse his application. He has been a 'strenuous' supporter of yourself. He is a dear & strong friend of Archbishop Ireland & myself. If any word of mine can furtherhis purpose & favor with you , I most emphatically say that word. Very Sincerely Yours Thos O'Gorman[*Personal*] Fort Snelling, Minn., 19 December, 1904. My Dear Mr. Loeb; I am sending you herewith some data which, I think, will interest the President as much as it has interested me, which is very much indeed. It relates to a demonstration of machine gun service made at Liao-Yang by the Russians, so important that it cannot be overestimated, and tot the points in common between it and our mutual experience on that line. Knowing him to be intensely practical, I have commented on this data, which is in my own particular field of specialism, with a view to placing te[s]rsely before him the exact situation of our own service in this respect. I think this part of it will interest him fully as much as the other: and hope he will take such action as may be necessary to bring us abreast the best in the world in this line. It goes without saying that I am willing to carry out my own ideas in this matter, if he will give me the opportunity. But I want the best man to have this job, and, if there is a better man to do it, I shall be glad to see him work at it, and will do all I can, of course, to make his work successful. I should say, to be properly understood, that I have no financial interest in the "Parker Cart", which belongs to the United States government by my free gift; neither, if I were selected to do this work, would it be of any financial advantage to me. I am now drawing the maximum pay of my grade (mounted pay); and it would cost me a dollar a day, nearly, to leave this staff job for such work, besides other increased expenses. That would not matter, however; it would be a great gratification to carry out the extension of my ideas on this subject throughout the service, if I were thought capable and worthy of the honor. I am gratified that the termination of my business last June was along the lines I think just. I learned a great deal more about that case, after I left Washington: but nothing that would have altered the result. All I learned subsequently would only indicate the justice of the final action, which I believe to have been the best in every way. Sometime, opportunity permitting, I will tell you the rest of the story, which will be entertaining. Please tell Colonel Roosevelt (not the President) that the "Trans-Mississippi point of view" is changing; see the results of the election in Missouri (my state), for example. A curious incident of our trip from San Francisco here was the formation of a "pool" on the electoral vote, by the officers of the regiment, which I won by naming in advance the exact electoral vote, predicting the results in both Maryland and Missouri. With best regards, Yours sincerely, John H. Parker[*[For encs see 12-10-04 ca 11-19-04 ca Dec. 1904 Dec. 28, 1904]*][*P.F*] Personal Department of the Interior, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. Yellowstone Park, Wyo., December 19th, 1904. My dear Mr. President: Your kind note of December 12th is just received. I hope to be in Washington for a few days, some time during the latter part of January, and if I get there, will promptly report my arrival to you, and we will be delighted to accept an invitation to either luncheon or dinner with you at the White House. I should think that you would need a little rest or recreation again next Fall, and if you do, we shall be glad to have you pay us another visit, and take a hunt in the mountains south or east of the Park. I have a few new game pictures and will send you copies of each of them. Yesterday I saw a band of forty mountain sheep near the feeding corral on the road to Gardiner; among the band were several beautiful old rams, with the finest kind of horns. As I write today, I can see by looking out of the window, a large band of elk on the top of the hills in front of the post. Mrs. Pitcher joins me in kind regards to both Mrs. Roosevelt and yourself. Yours sincerely, Jno. Pitcher The President of the United States, Washington, D.C.OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER. Department of the Interior, General Land Office, Washington. December 19, 1904. CONFIDENTIAL. [*ackd 12/26[?]/04*] My dear Mr. President: Under date of December 16th, you referred to me a letter from Hon. W. A. Reeder, addressed to you, and a copy of a speech delivered in Congress by Mr. Reeder upon April 15, 1904, with a suggestion that I give you confidentially my views upon the subject therein discussed, which I will gladly do. Mr. Reeder's letter is so indefinite and so general in its terms that I read the speech, searching for enlightenment, in which I was disappointed. The pamphlet consists of 42 pages of printed matter, 21 solid pages of which are extracts from newspapers, 16 pages are in whole or in part quotations from your speeches, official reports and resolutions adopted by sundry mercantile and other associations, leaving five full pages of original matter. The speech undoubtedly expresses the views of Mr. Reeder, but I recognize the greater part of the quoted matter as being original with Mr. George H. Maxwell, put forth in his propaganda for the repeal of certain of the land laws. The only idea new to me advanced by Mr. Reeder is -2- that the repeal of the land laws will inure to the benefit of the reclamation fund under the national irrigation law. The strongest argument advanced by those opposed to repeal is that it would cut off the funds provided for the reclamation service, to be derived from the sale of public lands. As I also favor the repeal of certain of the land laws, I failed to find any inspiration in this speech and fell back upon Mr. Reeder's letter in which he says -- "I herewith set before you my ideas as to the land laws. "1st. There is no matter of greater importance to this nation than that of making it possible for worthy poor families to own and occupy homes upon the land", with which statement I think we all agree. "2nd. Western members of Congress and western men at the heads of the land departments are not safe men to act upon or advise with in land matters. Why? Because the West is interested in present development more than it is in the future good of the nation or the rights of homeless citizens, including those yet unborn". Here is a new idea from an unexpected source. Guaged by the standard it prescribes it should be rejected. Mr. Reeder is a western congressman, therefore by his own dictum not a safe man to advise with in land matters. Ignoring this inconsistency, what is there in it? First. Western members of Congress and those now or heretofore connected with the land department are content to stand upon their records as to whether or not they are safe-3- men to act upon or advise with as to land matters. The irrigation act itself is an illustration. Second. The assertion is made that "the West is interested in present development more than it is in the future good of the nation". Upon what authority does this congressman, who discounts himself in advance, speak for the West? Third. Can he cite us to the particular section of this country where the people are not "interested in present development" but are so devoted to "the future good of the nation or the rights of homeless citizens, including those yet unborn", that it would be safe to go there for the heads of land departments? The whole proposition is unworthy of serious consideration. Continuing he says- "and for the further reason that they who desire to get gain by depriving the people of their lands or its product of timber in many cases make preferment doubtful to those who would stand against their their wishes in these matters. I thus set forth the facts as they appear to me and cast aspersions upon no man." This paragraph is in support of the two preceding it, and as Mr Reeder asserts it as a fact, I will admit that it may apply to some members of Congress, but emphatically deny that it applies to "the heads of the land department."-4- First. Because the occupants of such positions are not dependent for preferment upon those "who desire to get gain by depriving the people of their lands or its product of timber". Second. No man who would be influenced in such manner is likely to ever become a head of any department, especially under your administration, and if one should inadvertently reach such a position his stay would be very short. Mr. Reeder then bemoans the fact that speculators and corporations are obtaining title to land that should be made into homes for our worthy poor citizens. In every instance where a large body of land has been acquired by a speculator or corporation the land has been patented by the government in small tracts to individuals who appeared to be worthy and were often poor and who promptly relieved the latter condition by disposing of the land for a cash consideration. Mr. Reeder says, however, that the reason for this condition is that "practically all the persons active in these matters are looking after the interests of speculators". This is simply a slanderous statement. It seems to be the heads of the land department that Mr. Reeder is after. You know to what extent Secretary Hitchcock is looking after the interests of land speculators, and that I have just returned from a trip to Portland, Oregon, where I materially assisted a batch of-5- them on their way to the penitentiary. During my absence I am sure no speculators received any favors from the Land Office for Assistant Commissioner Fimple who was in charge, has no sympathy whatever for them, and must be acceptable even to Mr. Reeder, for he was appointed on account of fitness and without the aid of political influence and comes from Ohio, where there is no public land, and where, if anywhere, we may expect to find those elysian fields where the people are wholly devoted to "the future good of the nation, or the rights of the homeless citizens, including those yet unborn". The remainder of Mr. Reeder's letter consists of "glittering generalities" of a harmless character, - except that he concludes with his only suggestion of a remedy for the evils mentioned, which is that - "These matters of national importance as against local interests, should be considered and administered by men of national repute and free from prejudices and local influences", which is a sentiment that would do credit to a Dogberry. It is a wonder that something of this kind has not suggested itself before now. Seriously, Mr. President, I have but little patience with people of this kind, who are ever ready to impute unworthy motives to any body with whom they disagree, who are continually finding fault without proposing any practicable remedies. The-6- Public Land Commission has recommended the repeal of faulty land laws and you have twice urged it upon Congress. Why are they not repealed? The West could not prevent it if it was united against it, which it is not. It is the representatives from non-public land states that defeat the repeal bills. It cannot be otherwise. Can it be that some of them "depend for preferment" upon the speculators or corporations? Possibly. The greatest outcry has been made against the timber and stone act and Mr. Reeder in his speech lays great stress upon the amount lost to the irrigation fund through this act. But the large beneficiaries under this act are not residents of the western public land states, - they are mostly men living east of the Mississippi River. The timber land of the Pacific Coast, the entry of which we are now investigating, is mostly owned by such men. Yet it is to these localities where the men are "free from prejudices and local influences" that Mr. Reeder would have you go for land officials. Good ones could undoubtedly be found there, no part of this country has any monoply on good men, - the difficulty is to find them. The public land business is not in such a bad condition as some would like to have it appear to be. I have known the workings of the land department for thirty-five years, I have been in the land office here for nearly six-7- years, and can honestly say that the business is in better condition now than at any time within my acquaintance with it. There is less of fraud in entering public land than at any time within recent years, and greater activity in preventing it. It is desirable to have some of the laws repealed, but if it is not done the country will not go to the dogs, nor retrograde to any appreciable extent. I am somewhat fearful that this letter may not be what you expected or desired, and I would have preferred to talk the matter over with you, but with the tremendous pressure to which you are subjected, I know that to be almost impossible, and I trust that you will pardon me for taking advantage of the opportunity to relieve my mind. Very respectfully yours, W.A. Richards The President, The White House. Two inclosures.DOUGLAS ROBINSON, CHARLES S. BROWN & CO. REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND BROKERS. 160 BROADWAY. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROBUR, NEW YORK." TELEPHONE CONNECTION DOUGLAS ROBINSON, CHARLES S. BROWN, FREDERICK WINANT. UPTOWN OFFICE, 570 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK, December 19, 1904 [*Ack'd 12-22-04*] Dear Theodore: I am in receipt of your letter in answer to mine about the Church of the Holy Communion and the Orthopaedic Hospital. Corinne thinks I did not quite express her idea in my letter to you. She is going to write to you herself about it -- not to in any way advise you to change your mind but to explain [the] her point[s] she thinks I did not convey to you. I think she is right. I think you are right &c &c Only a line to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year; and to enclose to you a cartoon of yourself from the Glasgow News, of November 12th, a Scotch paper, with all the true Scotch instinct of wishing to claim the [sketch] Sabbath and everything else in sight including your self; they are now claiming you for their own, as you will see by the cartoon, and an extract from the paper. I am also enclosing in addition to this, Mr. Halpin's, the new Chairman of the Republican County Committee, speech he made when he was elected, and he asked me, as he did not like to do it himself, to send you the extract from his speech. Yours sincerely, Douglas Robinson The President White House, Washington, D.C.[*P.F*] P.O. BOX 1222 CABLE ADDRESS, ROOSEVELT ROOSEVELT & SON, 33 Wall Street New York December 19, 1904 The President, Washington, D.C. Dear Theodore: -- Many thanks for what you have done about the Peruvian matter. Mr. Scrymser tells me it is working all right, and he hopes to settle this matter without further difficulty. We are all well here, although still without much food in our own house. You will be sorry to hear that Mother's uncle, old Mr. Henry Norris, died on Saturday in his 94th year. He had always been a very active man, and was at his office on Tuesday, so that the end came quickly and without much suffering. Still, it means the breaking up of their old house at 1903 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, and Mother, of course, feels badly. This season is a sad one to her, as to-day is the anniversary of May's death; and, it is also full of memories, as the 22nd is the anniversary of both her wedding day and your Father's. Yours truly, W Emlen Roosevelt[*Ack'd 12-20-04 Wrote Dept of Justice*] United States Senate, WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 19, 1904. My dear Mr. President: Complying with your request of last evening, I herewith enclose copies of letters relating to Judgeship. Yours sincerely, John C. Spooner The President.[*[ca 12-19-04]*] MR. HALPIN SAID: Gentlemen of the Committee and Fellow Republicans: No words of mine at this time can convey to you the thanks and appreciation I feel in this expression of your confidence and regard in selecting me as the President of the Republican County Committee for the coming year. But I assure you that I am thankful and grateful, and that equally with that feeling I realize the responsibilities which you have so placed in my hands and shall endeavor that my appreciation will be expressed throughout the year in the confidence with which I shall treat your interests and the desire with which I shall maintain the integrity and the honor of the Republican County Committee of New York before the people of this County. At the moment we have very much to be thankful for. The campaign of this past year commemorated the jubilee year of the Republican Party. It was not that only chronologically, but it was a jubilee in the victory which the Republican Party gained throughout the Country and in this City. It gained that victory after a record of achievements and accomplishments which had gone before. It was not a cause but it was an effect of the history of the Republican Party throughout the Country during the past fifty years and of the Republican Party in the State of New York during the past ten years. I do not know with what prophetic spirit the gentlemen who revised the By-Laws of this Committee were moved when by their work the Committee was enlarged as it is tonight to be twice and a half as large numerically as it has been in the years which have gone by; I do not know if they felt that the coming year was one filled with momentous consideration to the people of the City of New York; I do not know if they realized how much the best interests and the welfare of the City of New York was bound up on the Republican Party in that part of the City of New York which is in our County. This Committee with its enlarged membership, more representative of the constituency of 90,000 Republicans which it represents may be considered as [???] [???] and the purpose of the Republicans of the City of New York in the coming municipal campaign. In entering upon the [???] of this next year it is well to look back on to the history of the Presidential contests for say the last twenty [?????]In that time in the old City we elected one fusion mayor and since the Greater City has been established we elected a fusion mayor and at the succeeding election a fusion mayor was defeated. I have been a student of the operations of the Republican County Committee during the entire period which I have stated and I am led to some conclusions as to the workings of the Committee during that time which may point out to use a wise course for the administration of the affairs of the Republicans of the County of New York during the next year. In the process of evolution which occurs in every sphere of life change comes after change and with most changes come improvements. I have no fault to find with the administrations of the County which have gone by during this period and it would ill become me to make them but that we have not succeeded better in the County and City of New York in that period that has been accomplished may perhaps lie in the history of the administration of the Party during that time. And with that thought in my mind it occurs to me that perhaps the work of the Committee has been too self-centered; that perhaps its scope has not been broad enough; that perhaps the interests with thich it was charged, that the responsibilities have not been maintained to the extent to which it would have been wise to do and certainly profitable. With that thought in mind it is possible to realize that our delinquency in this regard has led the organization to follow the progressive bodies which have taken up affairs of municipal life civically, commercially and philanthropically, which we may have done and with equal credit to ourselves as man and citizens, and as well to ourselves as members of the Republican Party. If that thought is correct it points out to us the way the Party should be administered henceforth. We have not won throughout the Country because we were Republicans; we have not won in this State because we were Republicans; we have won because of the principles of the Republican Party and because of the convictions with which these principles were expressed by the leaders of the Party. And until we lay down principles for ourselves for the administration of the City of New York and carry through these principles with the convictions of men and of citizens, neither can we win in the City of New York any more than we could have won in the country without them. As I say, it seems to me that the lessons which I have taken from the administration -- 2 --of the Party affairs during the past twenty years point out to us the course which we ought to follow during the coming twelve months in this County and City of New York. And who is better fitted, who is more responsible, who is more influential, who should be more effective and capable to meet the interests and to guard the welfare of the people of the City of New York than the Republican Party, in the majority in the State and with a Republican Governor? We represent 90,000 people; you represent 90,000 people and 90,000 of the best people of the City of New York. I do not draw any insidious comparisons in calling them the best, but I claim they do represent the intelligence and the progress and are the men who mark out the way which the City of New York can best follow to its greatest advantage, and unless we, representing these interests, take charge of them, look after them, not only care for them but progress them so that the wishes of that constituency are carried out we are delinquent to the trust which is placed in the representatives of ourselves here and the duties with which we have been entrusted as a Party in this County. I sincerely and deeply feel the responsibilities which are reflected in what I have just said to you and until we all realize them, not by words, not merely by actions, but by achievements for the people whom we represent and by accomplishments in behalf and for the benefit of the people of the City of New York, we can never hope for success in this County and City. In a word, gentlemen, it must be that we develop before the people of the City of New York a capacity to lead rather than to follow as we have done in the past decade. And then, by our regard for the interests of the people of this City, and then by our defense of those interests against attacks which mean for their injury, the Republican Party of the County of New York will be trusted with the confidence of the people to these offices. It so happens, gentlemen, that it was only at six o'clock tonight that the decision was reached which made me the choice of the members of the old Executive Committee to be nominated for this post tonight, so that I have not been able to give the preparation to these thoughts which I would like to have given and to express to you here on this occasion, but I wish to say to you this: -- 3 --that I have a purpose as intense to the accomplishment of the germ of the idea which I have expressed to you tonight that I hope will mean many good things for the Republican Party in the City of New York inside of the next twelve months. We cannot hope by the mere wish to accomplish success. It is unfair and unmanly to hope it only by divisions among the enemy. We must make our standard be to deserve it only and wholly by our own actions without regard to any other things which may effect it. And unless we pressed in the matter with that single purpose, disregarding every favorable contingency which may come along. we can never hope to win and I can assure you that the administration of this great place in which you have put me by your votes tonight will find me with that single object in view --that the Republican Party in the County of New York will work for the welfare of the citizens of New York, regardless of political or any other considerations; that we have to treat this matter not merely as Republicans, surely not as politicians, but as citizens of the great City of New York in which we love and which we love and which we must progress. Gentleman, it is with this realization of the duties of this office that I am pleased to accept it. I lay down to you my thoughts upon this subject as the policy of the committee during the coming twelve months with the assurance that the Republican Party in the County of New York, representing a constituency of 90,000 as we have said, will give careful consideration to every public municipal question of the hour or day and thatthe great influence which this Party wields in the County of New York as represented in the Legislature of the State of New York and in the offices of the State of New York, will be used and effected to the end that the welfare and the interests of the people of our great city will be protected and progressed to the limit of the ability and the integrity of the Republican Party.[*[Enc. in Robinson 12-19-04]*][*F*] [*J. C. S.*] [*[ca. 8-190?]*] Mr. Moseley telephones that the Supreme Court has decided the Johnson case in favor of Johnson. It is a case in which the President ordered the Govt. to intervene in the Supreme Court; and the result of it is that the Supreme Court has decided in favor of the Government's Contention on every point. It is a great victory. Dec. 19, 1904.[*BUREAU OF ROLLS & LIBRARY 19 DEC 1904 DEPARTMENT OF STATE*] PRESIDENTIAL VOTE. The Department of State does not compile results of the voting for President and Vice-President of the United States in the several States, and it has no information on the subject of the Presidential election for distribution. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, D. C.(ELECTORS FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.) An act supplementary to the act approved February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to fix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and Vice-President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the certificates and lists of votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, mentioned in chapter one of title three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and in the act to which this is a supplement, shall be forwarded, in the manner therein provided, to the President of the Senate forthwith after the second Monday in January, on which the electors shall give their votes. SEC. 2. That section one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby so amended as to read as follows: "SEC. 141. Whenever a certificate of votes from any State has not been received at the seat of Government on the fourth Monday of the month of January in which their meeting shall have been held, the Secretary of State shall send a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody one certificate of the votes from that State has been lodged, and such judge shall forthwith transmit that list to the seat of Government." Approved, October 19, 1888.(ELECTORS FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.) As Act To fix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and Vice-President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the electors of each State shall meet and give their votes on the second Monday in January next following their appointment, at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct. SEC. 2. That if any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to the said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the executive of each State, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of electors in such State, by the final ascertainment under and in pursuance of the laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to communicate, under the seal of the State, to the Secretary of State of the United States, a certificate of such ascertainment of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or cast; and it shall also thereupon be the duty of the executive of each State to deliver to the electors of such State, on or before the day on which they are required by the preceding section to meet, the same certificate, in triplicate, under the seal of the State; and such certificate shall be inclosed and transmitted by the electors at the same time and in the same manner as is provided by law for transmitting by such electors to the seat of Government the lists of all persons voted for as President and of all persons voted for as Vice-President; and section one hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed; and if there shall have been any final determination in a State of a controversy or contest as provided for in section two of this act, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon as practicable after such determination, to communicate, under the seal [*(over)*] 2 of the State, to the Secretary of State of the United States, a certificate of such determination, in form and manner as the same shall have been made; and the Secretary of State of the United States, as soon as practicable after the recipt at the State Department of each of the certificates hereinbefore directed to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, shall publish, in such public newspaper as he shall designate, such certificates in full ; and at the first meeting of Congress thereafter he shall designate, such certificates in full ; and at the first meeting of Congress thereafter he shall transmit to the two Houses of Congress copies in full of each and every such certificate so received theretofore at the State Department. Sec 4. That Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday in February succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon on that day, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon the the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules in this act provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice-President of the United States, and together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Upon such reading of any such certificate or p[paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon with withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral votes or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section three of this act from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified. If more than one return or paper purporting to3 be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate, those votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section two of this act to have been appointed, if the determination in said section provided for shall have been made, or by such successors or substitutes, in case of a vacancy in the board of electors so ascertained, as have been appointed to fill such vacancy in the mode provided by the laws of the State; but in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State authorities determining what electors have been appointed, as mentioned in section two of this act, is the lawful tribunal of such State, the votes regularly given of those electors, and those only, of such State shall be counted whose title as electors the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its laws; and in such case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State aforesaid, then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with the laws of the State, unless the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State. But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the Executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted. When the two Houses have voted, they shall immediately again meet, and the presiding officer shall then announce the decision of the questions submitted. No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of. SEC 5. That while the two Houses shall be in meeting as provided in this act the President of the Senate shall have power to preserve order; and no debate shall be allowed and no question shall be put by the presiding officer except to either House on a motion to withdraw. SEC 6. That when the two Houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or other question arising in the matter, each Senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes, and not more than once; but after such debate shall have lasted two hours it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of each House to put the main question without further debate. SEC 7. That at such joint meeting of the two Houses seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair: for the Speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the Hall upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives, in the body of the Hall not provided4 for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this act, in which case it shall be competent for either House, acting separately, in the manner herein before provided, to direct a recess of such House not beyond the next calendar day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon. But if the counting of the electoral votes and the declaration of the result shall not have been completed before the fifth calendar day next after such first meeting of the two Houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either House. Approved, February 3, 1887.[[shorthand]] [*ackd & enc retd 12/24/04*] EDWARD A. ALEXANDER COUNSELOR AT LAW 135 BROADWAY NEW YORK TELEPHONES 8085 CORTLANDT 8086 December 20, 1904. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America. Honorable Sir: I beg to call your attention to the enclosed correspondence, between a representative of the Hon. William R. Hearst and myself, in relation to the freight rate question. On March 9, 1904, some eight months, or thereabouts, before he introduced his bill in Congress, I had taken the pains, not only to suggest to him the idea, but also to furnish him with an outline of the subject, on the study of which I had spent considerable time. He is now publishing throughout the country, in his newspapers, that the Interstate Commerce Commission has adopted "Hearst ideas" and other articles of like effect. In view of the fact that these ideas are not "Hearst ideas", as the enclosed correspondence will show, Mr. Hearst, who lauds your Excellency for following in the footsteps of what he calls a progressive democracy, should not be given the credit for them. I have no desire to be known as the originator or creator of these ideas, although I conceived and conveyed them to Mr. Hearst sometime since. I am not writing this letter to you for publication, but for your own information. Mr. Hearst may not know as much about the subject as his newspapers pretend he does. As a private citizen, I am willing to furnish you or your representatives with my information or suggestions I may have. #2 EDWARD A. ALEXANDER COUNSELOR AT LAW 135 BROADWAY NEW YORK TELEPHONES 8085 CORTLANDT 8086 #2. I am not seeking any position at the hands of the government. You have shown yourself to be a fearless, upright, courageous leader of men and thought. Therefore, Mr. President, as a citizen of the country, I feel that if in any way I can assist you or your administration, I will be doing something, however small, of real benefit to the people. Permit me to suggest that the commission which has been appointed to investigate the subject, may gain some useful data if they subpoena the members of the railroads' classification committee, examine them concerning the manner or methods which they use in classifying freight, concerning how they are appointed, whom they represent, why they represent the railroads they do, whether they are not merely ostensible principals, with other real principals over them, and whether these real principals do not tell them exactly what to do. It would take too much time and space to thoroughly discuss a subject of this magnitude in a letter; nor would it be fair to trespass on your time. But if I can in any way be of service to you, privately, as a private citizen who is willing to work without publication, for the interests of the country, you are at liberty to command me. In the meantime, I beg to remain. Most respectfully, your obedient servant, Edward A. Alexander EDWARD A. ALEXANDER COUNSELOR AT LAW 135 BROADWAY NEW YORK TELEPHONES 8095 8096 CORTLANDT #3. P.S. Please find enclosed a copy of my letter to Mr. Brisbane, and a copy of Mr. Brisbane's letter to me, as well as the original letter. Will you kindly have the original returned? Edward A. Alexander (Enclosures).[For 2 enclosures see 3-9-04 & 3-25-04]I believe, active in his Church Organization. He is greatly interested in the "Sons of the Revolution" and in the Maryland Historical Society, of which he is Secretary. Through his mother (who was a Miss Hall) he is related to a good many more or less prominent people in this State, among them Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, mother of young John W. and Robert Garrett. You have met him, at least once , at my house when you saw for the first time Cardinal Gibbons and President Gilman. i think these somewhat minute particulars may serve a give you a notion of his idiosyncracies before you see him: and I am as ever, Yours very respectfully & truly, Charles J. Bonaparte [*wrote Sen. McComas 12-21-04*] Confidential. Baltimore, Dec. 20th, 1904. 601 PARK AVENUE. To The President, White House, Washington, D. C., Sir, Mr. W. Hall Harris will call upon you tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11A.M. in accordance with your instructions to me. I append a few details respecting him which it may be well for you to know before talking to him. He is about 52 years of age; was educated at good schools (at one of these became acquainted with him) but hadno College course, a deficiency more common in Baltimore then than at present. He went while quite a boy into the counting house of a Mr. Whitridge, a relative engaged in the shipping trade with South America, was sent as supercargo to Brazil and, on his return, became superintendent of a horse car line in which his father was interested. He left this to study law in the latter's office, and was admitted to the Bar, I think, in 1876. During the Summer and early Autumn of that year he served as Corporal in a battery of artillery organized by reason of the labor riots. The next year he married Alice Patterson, the daughter of Henry Patterson, my Grandmother's youngest brother, and consequently my father's first cousin, although some years younger than myself. They have four children a daughter married to a young lawyer of Boston named Sherburne, a son who is a Civil engineer, another just admitted to the Bar and a third who has entered the Johns Hopkins. Mr. Harris has a reputable and, so far as it goes, fairly lucrative but not very extensive, practice, his professional and social standing are both excellent He is a Presbyterian and,& present residences of those unknown to me - It is going to be a hard matter to make selection as to many more than the thirty allowed from the regiment will wish to ride in your personal guard on March 4th I will however make a selection from among the regiment of those whom I think would be suitable & shall if y— have no objections submit the same to you for your approval - It would seem OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, PHOENIX, ARIZONA. [*Personal*] Pennington N.J. Dec 20 1904 [*Ack'd 12-22-04*] Col Theodore Roosevelt President [[shorthand]] Washington D.C. My Dear Mr President I have learned from Cowdin the addresses of 26 of the Rough Riders at present in & about New York & Boston Know of the present address of many others & have asked Dame to secure & send me the namesto escort you to your inaugural--Will you kindly let me know if you will look over the list after completion by me & suggest any changes you may desire--I am leaving tomorrow with Mrs Brodie & our son for the west With sincere personal regards Very respectfully Alexander O. Brodie to me wise to take a few from all sections of the country & in a near proportion to the number present now residing in that particular section--We will have our outfit made at Heitbergers the Army tailor on 15th at Washington--We will all be in the same dress & I feel sure that I can assure you of as fine a personal body guard as you could wish to have behind your carriage[*B note[?] regret*] Columbia University In the City of New York President's Room December 20, 1904. My dear Mr. President: Heartiest thanks for your letter of the 19th. I am extremely sorry that I have an engagement for January 6 which will not permit me to be in Washington at that time, but perhaps, as I said in my letter of yesterday, you may be able to see me when I come down on the 11th. I can fall in with any plans which you may make for that time, inasmuch as I shall only need to be excused for the evening of the 11th long enough to attend the annual dinner of the American Institute of Architects at the Arlington. By that time you will have had a chance to think over the conversation with the other men on the 6th. Your suggestion could not be improved upon. Take those two sentences of Lincoln's as part of your text at the Lincoln dinner, and make that the opportunity of getting en rapport with the South; then when you go South, follow it up with the other things which you have in mind to say. What an amusing body Congress is! They are always explaining how difficult it is for them to take up any new and important topic because they have no time, and yet run along for weeks doing almost nothing. If you ran your office in that way -2- things would come to a dead stop. With heartiest Christmas greetings to each and all, I am, As ever yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.C.fared. We may then I hope see you in a way which would be impossible at the time of the inauguration and have some talks. With very sincere good wishes for a happy family Xmas and New Year as well as a fraternal blessing I am my dear President Yours faithfully E. N. Buxton [*Wrote Maj. Pitcher 1/3/05*] 20 Dec 1904 STATION. WOODFORD OR CHINGFORD. KNIGHTON, BUCKHURST HILL. My dear Roosevelt I hesitated for a time to accept your exceedingly kind offer to order in advance a camping outfit in the National Park. I misdoubted the weather and my daughters capability as she has not been very strong. Now however to her great joy she has free permission from her doctor. The measureof "roughing" is no deterrent in her eyes — quite the contrary. I therefore cordially accept your suggestion that you should put forward such preparations as may be necessary. I think it will be an extremely interesting feature of our trip. We also look forward – both of us with keen anticipation – to the epoch making inauguration, and whatever it may bring to us of personal interest. What we think we will do is to arrive in Washington about March 1. (I hope shortly to hear from my relation in the Embassy that he has secured rooms for us.), to see all the show through, then proceed west, and, on our return, to come and tell you how we have[*P.F.*] CUSTOM HOUSE, SURVEYOR'S OFFICE. NEW YORK, December 20, 1904. Dear friend: The letter which will be brought by this messenger is from Mr. Hyde of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, who is very anxious it should be delivered immediately to the President, as it is on a matter of much importance. Please see that this is done without delay. Sincerely yours, James S. Clarkson Mr. Wm. Loeb, or Mr. B. F. Barnes, White House.[*Ack'd 12-21-04*] CUSTOM HOUSE, SURVEYOR'S OFFICE. NEW YORK, December 20, 1904. Dear Mr. President: I do not know what to do with this letter from Col. L. E. Parsons, of Alabama, the US Attorney [General[ for that State under President Harrison and a republican of active record, except to send it on to you. You will remember I was present with Collector Thompson at the interview with you on this subject, and therefore there is nothing to add, only I feel that Colonel Parsons in writing this letter really desired that it should reach you. I, therefore, send it. Sincerely yours James S. Clarkson [[shorthand]] To the President, White House, Washington. 1 enclosure.[FOR ENC. SEE PARSONS TO CLARKSON 12-17-04][*Ack'd 12-26-04*] Mexico Dec 20th 1904 Dear Mr. President: Referring to previous correspondence between us relative to my retirement from the public service, I beg to say that it is my purpose to have my resignation in your hands by the 4th of March next, to become effective when relieved by my successor. I should be glad to know whether this proposed arrangement is entirely satisfactory to you. So you know it was my previous intention to retire at my 70th year, and it was at your kind suggestion that I consented to continue throughout your present term. If I retire at the time suggestedI shall then be in the last half of my 72d year - a time in my judgment, when men of my age should seek shelter from the storms of political life. Your uniform support of my official acts and the courteous treatment I have always received from Mr. Hay. has made it very pleasant for me to serve under you. In our personal relations you have been so kind and courteous as to cause me to always entertain for you sentiments of the highest esteem and friendship. If at any time during your forthcoming administration I can be of service to you as a private citizen, I shall only be too glad to respond. Very sincerely Your Friend and servant Powell Clayton [*[Clayton]*] President Theodore Roosevelt White House Wash. D.C.[*Ack'd 12-21-04 Enc. ret'd*] OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D.C., Personal. December 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Barnes; Please show the enclosed personal letter to the President. It is the simplest way to present the matter to him and I am sure he will understand the situation. Kindly return the letter for my files. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Hon. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.December the 20th, 1904 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States. My dear Friend: -- Now I am a happy possessor of your portrait, which, in compliance with my request, you were good enough to send me through our Charge' d'affaires. I have, in exchange, sent you one guinea through the same channel and I trust it has reached you by this time.Your portrait which, I assure you, I shall cherish, will not only be a precious souvenir of my visit to Washington where I had the honor and pleasure of receiving from you such manifold expressions of genuine friendship and courtesy, but also be a reminder of my visit to your country where, in all places that I have visited, cordial goodwill and friendly sentiments have been universally shown towards myself as well as to my country- With the expression ofhighest esteem and best wishes for yourself and your family, I remain Yours very sincerely, Prince Ladanaru Fushimi San Francisco, Cal. (Copy) LEGATION OF JAPAN, Washington. December 20, 1904. Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, addressed to Mr. Takahira, under date of the 19th instant, in which you state that the President directed you to send to Mr. Takahira, to be transmitted to His Imperial Highness Prince Sadanaru Fushimi, a silver cup of American manufacture, which the President presents to His Imperial Highness as a token of his friendship and esteem, and a souvenir of his visit to Washington. You further state that the President directed you at the same time to convey to His Imperial Highness the assurances of the pleasure he has had in Prince Fushimi's acquaintance, and his best wishes for a safe and prosperous journey. Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State, etc., etc., etc.(Copy) LEGATION OF JAPAN, Washington December 20, 1904. Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, addressed to Mr. Takahira, under date of the 19th instant, in which you state that the President directed you to send to Mr. Takahira, to be transmitted to His Imperial Highness Prince Sadanaru Fushimi, a silver cup of American manufacture, which the President presents to His Imperial Highness as a token of his friendship and esteem, and a souvenir of his visit to Washington. You further state that the President directed you at the same time to convey to His Imperial Highness the assurances of the pleasure he has had in Prince Fushimi's acquaintance, and his best wishes for a safe and prosperous journey. Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State, etc., etc., etc.-2- I have the honor to state in reply that the President's gift, together with a copy of Your Excellency's note accompanying it, will at once be forwarded to His Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs for transmission to His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, EKI HIOKIJHH New York 20th December, 1904. My dear Mr. President: Much as I appreciate the honor that you have been good enough to offer me, I have decided, after mature consideration and for business reasons, not to enter the diplomatic service at the present time.With sincere thanks for the compliment tendered, believe me to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, James H Hyde To His Excellency The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America Washington D.C.EUROPEAN PLAN CABLE ADDRESS NEWWILLARD F.S. HIGHT MANAGER THE NEW WILLARD PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, FOURTEENTH & F STREETS WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 20/04 190____ Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.C. My dear Colonel: I have the honor to advise that I will leave at 3:30 this afternoon for home to spend the hollidays with my family. Have just returned from New York, where I met one Dave Goodrich, whom I am glad to say is looking exceedingly well and who is delighted to be one of your escorts at the Inauguration. In this connection, I have also to report that Comrad Johnson, late of Troop "G" has been converted and is now a full fledged Evangelist, laboring in the Lord's Vineyard amongst the Swedish and Norwegian sailors. It may be of interest to you to know that he is quite successful in his work. One of his illustrations of the fact of the presence of Our Saviour and of the fact Our Saviour sees everything and knows everything is as follows: "I tells you boys that Jesus Christ sees us all the time; I tells you boys He has an eye just as sharp as a rat." [*Llewellyn*]--2-- You will doubtless be glad to know that at least one of the men of your Regiment is not in the penitentiary or a candidate for office. I very much desire he be one of the escort. Faithfully yours, W.H.H. Llewellyn1405 15th St N.W. Washington DC Dec 20/04 Mr B. F. Barnes Acting Secretary to the President My dear Sir: Your kind note with enclosed check for ten Dollars sent by the President for the poor in need of our church is received; and I will be pleased to have you assure the donor that it shall be used, with other contributions, to make glad a few hearts which otherwise might hardly make Merry on Christmas day. Wishing you all a gladsome Christmas Yours J M SchickNoah Seaman, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L. I., Dec 20 1904 My Dear Sir Your letter of Dec 17 at hand. I do not think the matter requires any more attention as the bill is paid I will explain to Mrs Roosevelt when I see her. Yours Truly Noah Seaman Inclosed find Gunthers letter. [For enc. see 12-20-04][*F*] ESTABLISHED 1867 R. SHERIDAN ENGLISH BOOT MAKER FORTY-SEVEN BROADWAY NEW YORK, Dec 20th 1904 Mr. B.F. Barnes Dear Sir Your letter ordering Patent leathers pump for evening dress for the President came direct. I will bear in mind, and see the dress pumps will be comfortable at the seam, and over the lower instep. I am sorry to know the shoes are not comfortable, and could make them so, if I have them a few days. I will ship them within two weeks. Yours respectfully, R. SheridanSheridan R. Leather pumpsCOPY. ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. Panama, December 20, 1904. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary: If you will kindly pardon me for doing so, I would like to make the personal suggestion that if the President and yourself should decide at any time to reduce the Commission to three members, resident on the Isthmus, the Governor of the Zone and the Chief Engineer should be members of this Commission, ex Officio. An organization of this kind, with the Chairman of the Commission resident in Washington to look after general and departmental matters, would no doubt work satisfactorily and be much less cumbersome than the present one. Of course this would not prevent the employment of eminent engineers in a consulting capacity, to such an extent as might be deemed desirable. Very truly yours, JOHN F. WALLACE Chief Engineer.[*Done*] WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON. December 20, 1904. Memorandum: Mr. Loomis says, after talking with Secretary Hay, that it is thought best that the President should not establish a precedent by going to the Dutch Minister's wedding; that it would be better to send him a note of thanks for the invitation, regret that the President can not go, and good wishes for his happiness, and so forth.[H] December 20, 1904. In conversation with Mr. Coolidge he stated to me that as far as he had opportunity to observe and was able to judge, Danziger's work in the campaign was greater and more effective than that of Mr. Bijur; that Danziger's relations with the National Committee were quite satisfactory. This letter was left by Mr. Danziger to-day. B.[12-20-04] [enclosed in Schurman 12 21-04]The Republican Springfield MA Tuesday, Dec[?] [?] vote from voting of more than a million radical democrats at the last election remarked President Schurman of Cornell University to the merchants' of [?] "Is it not" he then [?] "In its quiet, peaceful way, Just as significant as the red flag which waved last week in the streets of St Petersburg? Is it not, like a protest of good and honest citizens against what they believe to be injustice and the violation of the rights of man?" It is interesting to find a college president talking this view and proceeding, as Dr Schurman does, to advocate substantial concessions to the radical sentiment of the country. The democratic stay -at-homers seem to have had their votes counted, unofficially, without going to the polls. They are being taken into account by thinking men, and their influence probably is being felt to-day as they had no dreamed that it would be, in the government of the country and in the formulations of the policies of the ruling party, Dr Schurman is chiefly worthy of attention at this time because he presents a certain class that will never openly train with radical elements in politics, especially in election and campaigns, and that always supports the candidates of what may be called the vested ruling power of the land. Yes his utterances are probably representative in a peculiar sense of that section of opinion in the republican party which has the most prescience, intelligence and freedom from domination of the selfish and monopolistic interests. It is the shrewd, farseeing opportunist attitude of the old-time statesmen who was the first to learn from the experience of mankind kind that "if there be not revolution there must be reform." And so we find the president of Cornell speaking favorably of just so much socialism as may be embraced in the municipal ownership of waterworks, gas works, electric lighting plants, the telephone system and street railways. He demands public protection from monopoly and, especially, government control of transportation rates on the railroads. He calls for tariff revisions in the downward direction, and he concedes that justice of the income tax that Mr Bryan insists upon "In any event," says Dr Schurman, " I beg you to remember that "if you could check the development of radicalism and socialism now so imminent, you must satisfy the demands for justice in taxation which are made by the supporters of Mr Bryan, Mr Watson and Mr Debs." Nor does Dr Schurman fail to advocate the independence of the Philippines - here again speaking for those who think as he does that question, yet who have invariably voted for the party that was responsible for the conquest of the islands. Now speeches like this from a republican furnish considerable insight into political conditions in America. It is remarkable how far the admission goes that much of the great protest embodied in Bryanism is founded on the truth and justice. Dr Schurman shows, too, how much more real sympathy there is between certain features of Bryanism and certain features of republicanism than there is between radicalism and the conservatism of the old democratic party. We get a hint, finally, of the enormous political strength a combination of radical elements of the two parties would possess if those elements could be consolidated in one party and so led as to command the support of the middle as well as the lower economic strata of our population. But the fact that the radical democrats are separated from that portion of the republican party most in sympathy with them is a cardinal feature of the political situations, and illustrates once more the forces in practical affairs of the old Latin proverb "Divide et impera." By being divided against itself radicalism is strategically dominated by conservatism in this country - how much so the address of the president of Cornell leads one to inquire. The ablest conservatives have always appreciated the wisdom of the policy of partial concessions which Dr Schurman advocates, and which, one is free to say distinguishes more and more Springfield, Mass, Dec. 20, 1904 The Republican. Fitchburg Merchants' Banquet Address by Dr. Schurman. Cornell's President Discusses some unsettled public questions - in-proved by the advance of radicalism. The Fitchburg merchants' association held its annual dinner last evening. President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell university, one of the speakers, delivered an address on "some unsettled problems with public policy," an abstract of which follows - Gentlemen, while I have no faith in socialism, while I believe free competition the natural, the inevitable and the most beneficial rule for economic societies, I nevertheless am deeply impressed both with the magnitude of the socialistic vote and the abstention from vote of a million or more radical democrats at the last election. Is not this a surprising, indeed a startling phenomenon! Is it not, in its quiet, peaceful way, just as significant as the red flag which waved last week in the streets of St Petersburg? Is it not, like that, a protest of good and honest citizens against what they believe to be injustice and the violation of the rights of man. Evils there must be, evils real or imaginary, or such occurrences would have been impossible. It becomes all good Americans, therefore, to look into the matter, to distinguish facts from fancies, to discover the real diseases which prey upon the body politic, and if possible to find the means to exterminate them or to abate their virulence. If the public is to share in a larger measure the benefits of cheapened products which large combinations make possible, if the public is to protect itself against the oppression of syndicated capital, in some way it must put an end to uncontroled monopoly. This is not difficult to do in cases of those industries of a monopolistic character which locally supply general necessities. In such cases the local public may become the owners, And all over the country municipalities are now coming to own their own water-works, gas works, electric lighting plans, and sometimes their telephone systems and street railways. The problem is fa more difficult in the case of the great industrial trusts. Of these, too, socialism demands that there shall be public ownership. I have already indicated both political and economic considerations fatal to this proposal. But I recognize that something should be done. We must not, however, quarrel with the system of big productions or of consolidated interests. That is not only a natural economic evolution, but it may be the greatest benefit to society. We want to retain the combinations without giving them the weapon of monopoly. The question is, can anything be done to make the conditions of competition fairer and freer than they are to-day? I believe the hope of the public for protections against oppressive prices is in the development of potential competition, which is now re-strained and shackled by special favors to the trusts. The public must abolish and forbid all special privileges, And of the special privileges enjoyed by the trusts railroad discriminations has, undoubtedly, been the greatest and the most injurious to the public. the railroads have been guilty of discrimination between persons, localities and commodities. The most potent economic factor in the modern world, apart from the government itself, the railroad has an enormous influence on values and touches all the producing forces of society. It can exalt one locality or one corporation and pull down another. It can build an industry here or blight an industry there. The political influence of the railroad is only second to its economic power. And this vast force, economic, financial and political, is, in consequence of the progress of consolidation of the railroads, now passing into [?] Three fourths of the railway mileage of the country is to-day controlled by a group of men who can sit about a single table. The railways of the country are thus of themselves a monopoly, and as I have already said, the breeders of the monopoly among the industrial trusts. The demand of an outrages public is, therefore, for public regulation to prevent discriminations and secure just and steady rates to all shippers. It is the great merit of President Roosevelt to have sigualized this remedy in his message to Congress. And I fully concur with the president that a law vesting the interstate commerce commission with the power to revise rated and regulations for railways engaged in interstate commerce is "the most important legislative act now needed as regards the regulation of corporations." But monopoly is not the only [?] that when we are making [?] Improvements in the Philippines we might not talk of politics. Is it because these improvements are all made with the money or the credit of Filipinos themselves? Certainly I notice [?] ourselves that we continue to talk politics even in the presence of the railway contractor, nay in the very presence of the railway financier! If this super-subtle policy is an attempt to lull the political aspirations of the Filipinos. all history shows it is doomed in failure. Men who have died by the thousands in a war for independence are not likely to have their aspirations quenched by the whistle of the railway locomotive. And the Filipinos are absolutely united in their demand for independence. I read two Manila daily newspapers - one that Spanish organ of the federalists and the other the Spanish and Tagalog organ of the nationalists, who together represent the entire populations - and they both clamor for independence. And what is the American view? We have recently official expressions of it, And I think even the despised anti-imperialists must feel there is ground for congratulation at the progress the good cause is making. The democrats have declared for the independence of the Philippines in the near future, with the promise of independence now. And while the republicans platform dealt only with our past in the Philippines. President Roosevelt has outlined a complete policy for the future which, with the great power and influence that have come to him as a result of the election, he will undoubtedly by able to incorporate in the official program of the republican party, especially as the rank and file of the party (whence comes the president's strength) already incline to that solution. The president's policy is first to convert the present government of the Philippines by the Americans with the aid of Filipinos into a government by the Filipinos with the aid of the Americans, and when results have demonstrated the success of this policy the president hopes the Philippines will be able to stand "in some such relation to the United States as Cuba now stands" It seems to me that the difference between the Philippine policy of President Roosevelt and that of the democratic party concerns only the time when the Filipinos shall become independent. But once a principle is adopted, the time of its enactment is not a very material consideration. I observe too, that in politics the tendency always is to quicken pace when a goal has been set. Mr Gladstone once said that the disestablishment of the Irish church was if it ever came, a matter for the "dim and distant courses of futurity." Yet Lord Salisbury afterward made the House of Lords merry by recalling that Mr Gladstone himself disestablished the Irish church, and did it only two years after uttering that vague and sonorous phrase that suggested eternity. There is warrant. Therefore. for the expectation, now that all parties have agreed on the principle, that in the near future the Philippines will be free and independent as Cuba is free and independent. Our reward will be the establishment on the Americans model of the first republic in Asia.If you would check the development of radicalism and socialism now so imminent, you must satisfy the demands for justice in taxation which are made by the supporters of Mr Bryan, Mr Watson and Mr Debs." Nor does Dr Schurman fail to advocate the independence of the Philippines - here again speaking for those who think as he does on that question, yet who have invariably voted for the party that was responsible for the conquest of the islands. Now speeches like this from a republican furnish considerable insight into political conditions in America. It is remarkable how far the admission goes that much of the great protest embodied in Bryanism is founded on truth and justice. Dr Schurman shows, too, how much more real sympathy there is between certain features of Bryanism and certain features of republicanism than there is between the radicalism and the conservatism of the old democratic party. We get a hint, finally, of the enormous political strength a combination of the radical elements of the two parties would possess if those elements could be consolidated in one party and so led as to command the support of the middle as well as the lower economic strata of our population. But the fact that the radical democrats are separated from that portion of the republican party most in sympathy with them is a cardinal feature of the political situation, and illustrates once more the force in practical affairs of the old Latin proverb, "Divide et impera." By being divided against itself radicalism is strategically dominated by conservatism in this country - how much so the address of the president of Cornell leads one to inquire. The ablest conservatives have always appreciated the wisdom of the policy of partial concession which Dr Schurman advocates, and which, one is free to say, distinguishes more and more the statesmanship of President Roosevelt in matters of domestic concern. His movements against the trusts, and now against the vicious practices of rebates and special privileges on railroads, are all half-measures, sagaciously designed as compromises between the demands of selfish interests and of radical reformers. Mr Roosevelt, from this point of view, has been truthfully called by some the best friend the capitalistic interests possess in the country. It is being seen the more clearly how these half-way measures tend to satisfy popular demands for a time and check the forward movement of the root-and-branch extremists. The situation, then, takes on an aspect that may or may not be long-continued. At present, with Mr Roosevelt disposed to adopt advanced programs, the prospect seems very good for what the English call "tory democracy," that is, the controlling of democratic forces by just enough humoring to hold them under what is essentially an aristocratic rein. From this point of view, Mr Roosevelt reminds one most strikingly of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, the English aristocrat and conservative who did so much to found "tory democracy." There is, however, a very formidable doubt as to whether that branch of the republican party for which Dr Schurman now speaks, and which President Roosevelt seems inclined to lead, would be able to dominate it without a struggle that would result in a disruption of some sort. The spirit of "tory democracy," either in England or America, is, of course, essentially aristocratic in character, for it strives, through superior intelligence, to rule perpetually by making, whenever necessary, opportune concessions to the justly discontented portion of the people. In principle the moderate reform policy now advocated in Russia by the liberals under Prince Mirsky and M Witte is the same as that which Dr Schurman advises in America. Whatever one's natural sympathies may be in such matters, it is certain that this is the most sagacious policy that any party of conservatism or aristocracy can adopt in the effort to retain power in the state, whatever the form of government may be. recognizing that something should be done. We must not, however, quarrel with the system of big productions or of consolidated interests. That is not only a natural economic evolution, but it may be of the greatest benefit to society. We want to retain the combinations without giving them the weapon of monopoly. The question is, can anything be done to make the conditions of competition fairer and freer than they are to-day? I believe the [?] [?] potential competition, which [?] [?] [?] strained and shackled by [?] [?] the trusts. The public must [?] [?] [?] bid all special privileges. And of the special privileges enjoyed by the [?] [?] discrimination has, undoubtedly, been the greatest and the most injurious to the public. The railroads have been guilty of discrimination between persons, localities and commodities. The most potent economic factor in the modern world, apart from the government itself, the railroad has an enormous influences on values and touches all the producing forces of society. It can exalt one locality or one corporation and pull down another. It can build an industry here or blight an industry there. The political influence of the railroad is only second to its economic power. And this vast force, economic, financial and political, is, in consequence of the progress of consolidation of the railroads, now passing into fewer and fewer [hands?] Three fourths of the railway mileage of the country is to-day controled by a group of men who can sit about a single table. The railways of the country are thus of themselves a monopoly, and, as I have already said, the breeders of monopoly among the industrial trusts. The demand of an outraged public is, therefore, for public regulation to prevent discrimination and secure just and steady rates to all shippers. It is the great merit of President Roosevelt to have signalized this remedy in his message to Congress. And I fully concur with the president that a law vesting the interstate commerce commission with the power to revise rates and regulations for railways engaged in interstate commerce is "the most important legislative act now needed as regards the regulation of corporations."' But monopoly is not the only evil from which our people suffer. The party of Mr Bryan demands an income tax. And, though I have always opposed Mr Bryan on the question of the monetary standard. I have always thought an income tax one of the fairest modes of levying taxes, associated as it would be in this country both with federal tariff taxes and with state and municipal property taxes. In any event, I beg you to remember that, if you would check the development of radicalism and socialism now so imminent, you must satisfy the demands for justice in taxation which are made by the supporters of Mr Bryan, Mr Watson and Mr Debs. And the tariff - what shall I saw of that? First, that it is bearing hard on men with fixed wages and salaries by raising the cost of the things they eat, drink, wear and use. One of the ablest railway presidents of the country told me the other day that he had expected the democrats to win in the last presidential campaign on that issue alone. Do I deny that the tariff has encouraged infant industries, diversified production, and developed a home market? Far from it; the facts are indisputable. I am not arguing against the theory of protection; still less am I dreaming of free trade. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that, however it be with the consumer, the business men of the country would prefer any kind of tariff - high, lower, or middling - to frequent changes. Yet one great fact stands out in blazing light. Since our present tariff was framed the whole economic world - the business of production, transportation and financial management - has undergone a revolution. And in many respects tariff schedules are as antiquated as an old hand loom. Naturally they work injustice. In his message the president says nothing about the tariff. But he has probably taken a leaf out of Gladstone's book. John Morley, in his great biography, tells us that Gladstone never took the first step in a new policy till he saw his way to the second. President Roosevelt did not decline a renomination till he had won his election. And so in due time I expect we shall hear from him on the tariff. And all indications point to the probability that his voice will be for reform and revision. Among policies of reform I include our Philippine policy. Are those Asiatic islands to be admitted into our Union as territories and eventually as states, are they to remain a subject colony of our republic, or are they to become an independent country with some such safeguards as we have already established for Cuba? I observe that certain wiseacres amongst ourselves have discovered that it is a bad thing to talk about political policies in regard to the Philippines, and that we should concentration our entire attention upon providing highways, railways, and other material improvements in the archipelago. But when you hear that doctrine you may be sure that the fellow who preaches it is using it as a cloak for a political policy of his own; and if you tear it open you will in probability discover beneath a political program of jingoism or permanent forcible retention of the Philippines, as a subject colony of our republic. For the rest, it is a startling nov- [?] that [?] [?] parties have agreed on [?] in the [?] [?] [?] Our [?] establisment on the [?] [?] of the first republic in Asia. OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. [*F*] [*Encl. to A.G.*] WASHINGTON, D. C., December 21, 1904. Dear Mr. Barnes: Kindly note the enclosed telegram from Mr. W. F. Cody. [*(?)*] Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Hon. B. F. Barnes Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.SULLIVAN & CROMWELL WM. NELSON CROMWELL WILLIAM J. CURTIS ALFRED JARETZKI WILLIAM V. ROWE GEORGE H. SULLIVAN EDWRAD B. HILL HECTOR H. TYNDALE CABLE ADDRESS "LADYCOURT" [[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12/20/04*] 49 & 51 Wall Street New York Dec. 21, '1904 Re Panama - Columbia - U.S. My dear Mr. President: You know that in the general scope of the questions I have, for the past year, kept constantly in mind the relations between the United States and Columbia. The re-establishment of relations upon honorable footing will fitfully crown your great work. In one of our recent conferences I made brief mention of progress being made toward this end. While General Reyes was in Washington, too closely related to Democratic Senators interested in defeating the Panama Treaty, I had no communication with him; but when he left Washington after the conclusion of his unsuccessful mission, he sought me here. I need not say that I more than fortified all that you and Mr. Hay had said and done, and I think I convinced him upon many points. I give him large credit for a breadth of view far beyond that of his countrymen and especially for imperatively using his influence as Commander-in Chief of the Columbian Army to prevent suicidal invasion of the Isthmus. This-2- course I urged daily with the greatest earnestness and I can bear witness to the sincerity of his course by saying that it was in my presence that several of the most imperative cables were prepared and sent by him to prevent the reckless designs of Colombian leaders. The fact that he went to Paris (as he told me) to personally conduct the injunction suits to prevent the transfer to the United States, and that I quickly followed him and in the courts of Paris defeated his suits, in no wise changed our friendly relations. He frankly exchanged with me views as to the attitude he should take if elected President. By a narrow majority he was elected and his public addresses to his Congress have been in entire harmony with the conferences with which he honored me and with the advice which I was permitted to give him. The general attitude of Colombia is still hostile to us, but he has received Mr. Russell our new Minister and has also designated a Charge de Affaires at Washington. Both steps are extremely unpopular, but he has pushed forward. When he assumed office both the Senate and the House were in full control against him; little by little the opposition has faded away and I am now happy to report to you a distinct gain toward the end which I have ventured to strive.-3- He has not won over a majority of the House to his favor, and in the Senate he has gained several votes. A Minister of Foreign Affairs, more favorably inclined toward the United States has been appointed by him, namely Mr.Calderon whom you may remember as being once Consul General for Colombia in New York and afterwards Minister at Washington, and therefore familiar with our ways. He is a nephew of General Reyes and was an advocate of the treaty. It is hoped that Mr.Cortes who resigned from the cabinet with the expectation of becoming Minister at Washington will be able to undertake that mission. His disposition is friendly to us, and if he comes here I have much hope of good results. I believe he is now in London. The efforts to prolong the session of Congress and thus the control over General Reyes have been defeated and I received a cable dated Bogota, December 14th, stating that the session of Congress closed on the 13th. Thus General Reyes will have more liberty of action. I report the foregoing only as a matter of information. I have the honor to be, Faithfully yours, Wm Nelson Cromwell To the President, White House, Washington.[[shorthand]] [*Ack'd 12-22-04*] EMBASADA DE MÉXICO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Washington, December 21, 1904. Excellency: With the view to deliver into Your Excellency's proper hands the His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States of America etc., etc., etc.the Autograph Letters addressed to Your Excellency by the President of Mexico announcing his re-election to the Presidency of that Republic for a new constitutional term of six years that has begun the 1st instant, I beg to request Your Excellency, if there is not inconvenient for it, to grant me a private audience for such a purpose. I have the honor to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my most respectful consideration. M. de AzpirozJoseph H. Harris Postmaster Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 21, 1904. Dear Mr. President:- In addition to my wire message, I beg to enclose herewith a public denial of the Kansas City Journal's statement, which is as strong as I could make it and get it published in the Journal, and that is where I wanted it as I believe they did not succeed in getting it in any other paper. It is its practice to write interviews without giving victims a chance to talk. Major Warner was served in a similar way upon his return. He made a public denial. General Wynne or any one who knows Harvey Fleming, the local manager of the Journal, will tell you of his methods. There is not a man living, the Journal's entire staff included, who will say I was ever heard to make any statement of the kind, and when I asked Mr. Fleming for his authority, he said the circumstances naturally led up to such a statement, and he thought it true that I had made it, and when I asked why he or any one thought the President would take action in a senatorial contest, he said because the President had meddled in seven other such cases, naming Kansas and Washington among them, and said that he was now engaged in making a senator for Indiana. This is the same paper that had you criticising your treatment by the citizens of St. Louis at the time you passed through in May 1903, and when it was denied overMr. Loeb's name, they still remembered it and said so as their reporter had written it. If you will give this a thought, you will see what we have had to endure for the past four years. This statement that they are having me make is just the one they and the Kerens leaders would like for me to make but no one knows better than themselves that I never would have done so and there is not a man in this state who would believe it even without my denial, as they would not believe I am devoid of all sense, tact and honor. The misleading statement was published by the Journal, which perhaps eminated from [Ker?ns'] headquarters, for the sole purpose, no doubt, of getting it before you. I am not publicly active in the senatorial contest and shall do nothing that will be objected to by decent people. After writing Mr. Loeb I had determined to make a public denial, although I have always advised by newspaper friends to pass the Journal by in silence, but upon this occasion it could not be done. I very greatly regret the circumstance but it was in no manner my fault and I have handled it to the best of my ability and I hope to your satisfaction. Very obediently, J. H. Harris The President, Washington, D.C.[*[For enc. see Harris 12-20-04] " attachment see Harris 12-24-04]*]Ossman the 21st December 1904 on the Nile, near the First Cataract JEROME A. HART 246 SUTTER STREET SAN FRANCISCO My dear Sir: Your letter of November 12th in which you speak so kindly of the "Argonauts" humble efforts during the campaign, has followed me. just reaching me. Your thoughtful courtesy is all the more appreciated when I read in the press that you are still replying to over 10,000 congratulatory messages. Never before, while abroad, have I noticed foreign peoples so interested in the United States. Never before have I seen so much space in the foreign newspapers given to the United States. At the risk of seeming to flatter I may add that more space seems to be given to America's President than to America herself.and apropos: if the statesman has not effaced the author, you may be interested to know, that I have seen your books selling across Europe all the way from England to Egypt "The Strenuous Life" in London became "La Vie Intense" on the Paris Boulevards, while even in Italy a translation was on sale in the Vernacular. In the Khedive's capitol, too, "Roosevelt Intime" is selling at Zachariah's shop in the "Gharia Kamel," which is "the Old Book Corner" of Cairo. Even here at the First Cataract, where Egypt ends and Nubia begins, I note in the little book - shop "L' Ideal Americain" par T. Roosevelt. Many thanks for permission to call upon you when next in Washington. Mrs Hart and I expect to arrive in New York about the middle of April and shall return to San Francisco by way of Washington, when I shall hope to have the honor of calling at your office and presenting my respects to you. Sincerely yours, Jerome A. Hart Editor of the Argonaut To. President Roosevelt White House Washington D.C.[*PF*] Department of State, Washington, December 21, 1904. Dear Mr. President: I have just received a note from the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires, of which I enclose a copy. Faithfully yours John Hay [*state 12/20/04*][P.F*] Department of State, Washington, December 21, 1904. Dear Mr. President: Our dear friend, Weir Mitchell, seemed to think that this copy of a letter he has received would be interesting to you. People have different ideas of what constitutes interestingness, but I could not refuse to send it on to you. Yours faithfully John Hay[For 1 enclosure 12-15-04][*F*] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON December 21, 1904 My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 14th instant transmitting, by direction of the President, a letter from Governor Odell, of New York, relative to alleged friction between officials at Ellis Island and the State Board of Alienists of New York, and in answer to inform you that Governor Odell's letter has been forwarded this day to the Bureau of Immigration for consideration and report. Yours truly, V.H. Metcalf Hon. B.F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the PresidentOdell - B.B. Jr. In re alleged friction between officials at Ellis Island and State Board of Alienists New YorkOFFICE OF THIRD ASSISTANT SECRETARY. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. December 21, 1904. Dear Mr. Loeb: I understand that the President desires an abstract of my report upon Consul General Goodnow of Shanghai. There are eighty-two charges against Mr. Goodnow, of varying degrees of gravity, some unsubstantiated, some but partly so, some trifling, some now before the Courts, and some grave and supported by such evidence as leaves little if any room for defence. Among the more serious and better substantiated charges are: Permitting the transfer of Chinese-owned ships to the flag of the United States, under cover of fraudulent bills of sale, in connection with which officials of the Consulate received large compensation, which Goodnow appears to have participated in; Irregularity of accounts and failure to make full William Loeb, Jr., Esquire, Secretary to the President, White House.-2- full returns; and apparent appropriation of the funds of the Government; Conspiracy to deprive a foreign citizen of his property, valued at $72,000, whereby officials of the Consulate received considerable sums of money; Compelling, by threats of criminal procedure, an American citizen to surrender a contact worth over $11,000 cash; (the threatened procedure was for embezzlement). The case was settled by arbitration by Goodnow's direction, the arbitrator finding (the contract having been surrendered) that the charge of embezzlement was unfounded; and the records of the Department show that the monies covered by said contract were paid to the son of the then Vice Consul General at Shanghai. The evidence indicates that Goodnow was a beneficiary by the surrender of the contract; Breaking and entering the premises of an American citizen on a trumped up charge, ostensibly to collect the sum of $61, alleged to be due by the same citizen as Court costs, but which the records show was not due, nor were any Court costs due from this citizen. Property to the value of over $1000, gold, was seized by Goodnow in this action-3- action and no account has ever been rendered, but it appears the Goodnow appropriated the property. The Department informed Goodnow that he would be permitted to make answer to the charges against him, and telegraphed him to come to Washington for that purpose as soon as he received a summary of the charges. I may add that Goodnow's reputation in Shanghai is unsavory, and, while he has some strong adherents among the American colony there, the concensus of opinion among the majority of the better element is distinctly unfavorable. Very faithfully yours Herbert H.D. Peirce [Peirce]Quan Yick Nam, 28 Henry St., New York City. [*ack'd 12-22-04*] New York Dec. 21st 1904 His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt., President of the United States Washington D.C. My Dear President I have give the special order to my Father in Canton China and make a pair silk embroidet curtain of the center door on front of the parlour in your house on Oyster Bay LI. I believe it will be fit, this curtain I ordered to embroidet both side and extra long and wide, this curtain has been arrived by the Empress of India, at Vancouver on the 7th day this month till now unable for me to get it out from the Custom-house it my delay on the train, this made me worry every day for the reason I could not get it to send to you, now I hope it will out from the Custom-house upon the New Year, the curtain is make to you for your Christmas, NowQuan Yick Nam, 28 Henry St., New York City. (2) I hope you will accept with this note for Christmas and a happy New Year, as soon as it come I will sent it to you, now I have something to your children, was send by the Express, for the Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, With my best wishes to Mrs. Roosevelt, yourself and the children for a very happy New Year, I beg to remain Respectfully yours Quan Yick Nam. [*[over]*]Marine Bd Cigars (special box to San [?]) copy [**] Cornell University Ithaca, New York, December 21st, 1904. Dear Mr. President: In an address in Fitchburg, Mass., I have been discussing some of the themes raised and considered in your recent Message to Congress, which struck me as a very able document. The Boston newspapers have not yet come to hand with reports, but on the way home yesterday I got at Albany the Springfield Republican, which has both an abstract of the speech and an editorial upon it. These I enclose herewith, thinking they would be of some interest to you. I am serving in the good cause as a volunteer, and if you know of any way in which I could render further aid in instructing and enlightening public opinion I beg you to command me. I am very desirous of seeing the reforms you champion enacted into law during your term of office as President. The party must meet the demands of the age, yet it is the tendency of every successful organization to "stand pat." It is your mission, Mr. President, to lead the party and keep it moving forward and upward. And we all believe you will. With Christmas greetings and all good wishes for the New Year, I remain, Mr. President, Very faithfully yours, (Signed) J. G. Schurman.[for 2 enclosures see 12-20-04] News ClippingsOffice of the President Cornell University Ithaca, New York December 21st 1904 Dear Mr. President In an address in Fitchburg, Mass., I have been discussing some of the themes raised and considered in your recent Message to Congress, which struck me as a very able document. The Boston newspapers have not yet come to hand with reports, but on the way home yesterday I got at Albany the Springfield Republican, which has bothan abstract of the speech and an editorial upon it. These I enclose herewith, thinking they would be of some interest to you. I am serving in the good cause as a volunteer, and if you know of any way in which I could render further aid in instructing and enlightening public opinion I beg you to command me. I am very desirous of seeing the reforms you champion enacted into law during your term of office as President. The party must meet the demands of the age, yet it is the tendency of every successful organization to "stand pat." It is your mission, Mr. President to lead the party and keep it moving forward and upward. And we all believe you will. With Christmas greetings and all good wishes for the New Year, I remain, Mr. President, Very faithfully yours J. G. Schurman[*ackd 12/22/04*] POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Office of the Post Master General Washington, D.C. December 21, 1904 My dear Mr. Barnes: I am in receipt of the request of the President, as outlined in your communication of the 16th instant, for advice on the suggestion of Representative Brownlow that he and the Honorable James C. R. McCall of Nashville be designated as the referees for Tennessee. In reply I beg leave to say that I can see no objection to the plan suggested by Mr. Brownlow, since the Department is compelled, in a greater or less degree, to depend upon his recommendations in the selection of local district advisers. The plan suggested would not result in any material change in Tennessee appointments, except for the third district. There the postmaster at Chattanooga (Sharp) is the adviser. The letter from Congressman Brownlow is returned herewith. Very truly yours, R. J. Wynne Postmaster-General. Mr. B. F. Barnes, Acting Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.[*[ca 12-21-04]*] Memorandum as to letter to Paymaster General Harris. Officers on the retired list are entitled to the rest and liberty accorded them by law in return for their long and valuable service, unless peculiar circumstances demand from them the continued active service in the public interest. It was the opinion of Secretary Norton and also Secretary Bonaparte that such circumstance as existed in your case, and you merit my thanks and due appreciation from the public for your willingness on two successive occasions to continue the discharge of your present onerous duties. Immediately after the recent Naval Review, the Secretary of the Navy submitted to me, in accordance with my orders, a personal report as to a suitable officer to relieve you. He informed me that, having obtained as I desired him to do, your own views in the matter, you had recommended any one among three of the Pay-Directors for this purpose, and that upon the strength of this recommendation and as the result of a very careful consideration on his part of all officers of the corps who could be reasonably thought of in this connection, whether candidates for the position or not, he had decided to advise the choice of one of the three, namely, Pay-Director Eustace B. Rogers, U. S. N., as your successor. After a full conference with the Secretary, I reached the same conclusion which he had announced, and, as Mr. Rogers was not a formal applicant for the position, directed an inquiry as to his willingness to accept it. I learn that he will accept, and have therefore authorized the Secretary of the Navy to announce his selection. Before this should be done, however, I wished to write you personally, informing you, in advance of the public ,of the action upon which I had decided, and expressing my satisfaction with the administration of your office. I may add that I have been especially gratified to learn, through the Secretary, of the energetic and efficient measures which you took to secure satisfactory results in connection with the food of the enlisted men at several of our Naval Stations[attached to Harris CA12-21-04] during the present summer. The Secretary of the Navy mentioned November 1st next as the appropriate date when it would be probably most convenient for the new Postmaster general to take charge of the Bureaus. I suggest therefore that you let your resignation take effect on that date. It is, however, my desire, as well as that of the Secretary, that you remain on active duty as President of the Board representing the Pay Corps in connection with the pending enquiry as to legislation affecting the commissioned personnel of the Navy until that Board shall have completed its duty, which may continue, I am informed, until the meeting of Congress.[*[attached to Harris CA12-21-04]*][*[ enc in Harris 12-21-04]*][?] To the [???] In [???] St. Louis correspondent says: [???] of [???] [???] [???] made [???] he had [???] the president to make the [???] he disclosed [???] the interview given to the Associated Press by the president that he would have nothing to do with the senatorial [???] in Missouri. As evidence of his standing with the president and his power and right to speak, he referred to the president's intended promise to [???] him as postmaster at Kansas City. This immoral promise a year and a half in advance. Mr. Harris [???] desire to [re???] him (Harris) so that he can be effective in representing the president in the senatorial contest. In making the above statement your correspondent was imposed upon by some one for what purpose I leave others to judge. Never have I assumed to speak for the president, nor have I ever intimated that he commissioned me to make known his wishes in regard to the election of a United States senator for Missouri, not have I ever so stated. Neither have I in any manner referred to my reappointment in connection with the senatorial contest. I assume that the president will make no action for or against any candidate in a senatorial contest in this or any other state. J. H. HARRIS. Kansas City, December 20, 1904.[*[12-22-04]*]CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 216 ST. PAUL ST., BALTIMORE, TELEPHONE 1718. Confidential. [*Ackd 12/23/04*] Dec 22nd, 1904. To The President, White House, Washington, D.C. Sir, The annexed clipping is from today's "American". My note to Walter Brooks was evidently opened by some lady, possibly Mrs. Brooks for, since the fire, his place of business is at his residence) or possibly his stenographer, since a female voice announced over the 'phone that he was out of the City. This note contained only a request for an interview on a matter of urgency, but it must be what suggested his name to the reporters; since I am quite sure that neither Miles White nor W. Hall Harris nor yet Brooks himself would say a word about the matter, and these three are absolutely the only persons beside myself, who know anything about the offer to him. However, beyond obliging him to tell a fib, no great harm has been done. As ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. [*P.S. Since the above was written another reporter has come in, this time from the "News", to ask if I knew anything about a rumor that Jno. C. Rose was trying to get Blanchard Randall appointed: the idea that there may be a personal appointment has excited all the newspapers.*] A STARTLING [?] ABOUT [?] [?] That [?] [Not? ?] [?] In [Ti ?] [?] interesting [?] lated yesterday [?] more [postmaster? ?] effect that, which [?] had not officially taen [?] mooted selectes, [?] cognisant of the [?] the part of the Maryland [?] garding a [recon? ?] reached in the [?] fake the matter in his [?] and the name of some well [?] timorean to Congress for [?] In this connection it was [?] the President had under [?] one time the name of his [?] Brooks, president of the [?] Company, and one of the most representative Republican business men in Baltimore. It was also claimed that [?[ tender had been made to Mr. Brooks [?] this was denied yesterday by that gentleman, who said tat had such a [?] been made he could not have [?] it for the reason of his varied business obligations. The most startling of all the rumors, however, was to the effect that, [?] selection were left to President Roosevelt, or, in other words, if he decided to make a selection without regard to the Maryland delegation, his [?] would be a nonpartisan Democrat. In this connection it was pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt has under [?] the name of a Democrat [*X*] of [?] business qualifications, whom, for reasons best known to himself, he might appoint as the successor to Postmaster Warfield. [*X don't know why this is*] While these statements were discussed in certain quarters, they could not be traced to any authoritative origin. This aroused considerable interest, nevertheless, and speculation is rife as to who will be selected ultimately for the position. In the face of all these remain, the friends of Gen. J. Stuart MacDonald are sanguine of success, and believe that eventually he will be the President's choice. ---- JUDGESHIP AWAITS SENATOR M'COMAS Believed That He Will Be Chief Justice of Court of Claims - The Reasons for This. It is generally accepted in Republican circles that upon the expiration of his term in the United States Senate in March next Hon. Lous E. McComas will be appointed to a position on the federal bench. It is no secret that the Senator was offered an appointment on the bench of the District of Columbia when Chief Justice Alvey retired, had he declined this tender because the acceptance would have compelled him to resign his seat in the United States Senate, a step which he was unwilling to take. He was sustained in his decision by the party leaders in Washington. After his declination of this post the President expressed a wish to bestow upon the Senator a judicial appointment which would be agreeable to him, the appointment to be made after the expiration of his term in the United States Senate. It is understood that the appointment will be that of chief justiceship of the Court of Claims. The position pays $3,500 per annum. It is stated that Chief Justice Charles C. Mott, of the Court of Claims, will retire from the bench within the next few months, and that the fact of his retirement has been communicated to the President. That he President was aware of the prospective vacancy was apparent in view of the fact that immediately after the recent election, which resulted in the defeat of Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, Mr. Roosevelt [?] the [?] the choice of two positions-on the bench of the Court of Claims or a membership of the Interstate Commerce Commission. A few days ago Mr. Cockrell indicated that his preference was to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The coming vacancy on the bench of the Court of Claims will, it is stated, be tendered to the Maryland Senator. It is also understood that he will accept.CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 216 ST. PAUL ST., BALTIMORE, TELEPHONE 1718. Confidential. [*Ackd 12/23/04*] Dec 22nd, 1904. To The President, White House, Washington, D.C. Sir, The annexed clipping is from today's "American". My note to Walter Brooks was evidently opened by some lady, possibly Mrs. Brooks for, since the fire, his place of business is at his residence) or possibly his stenographer, since a female voice announced over the 'phone that he was out of the City. This note contained only a request for an interview on a matter of urgency, but it must be what suggested his name to the reporters; since I am quite sure that neither Miles White nor W. Hall Harris nor yet Brooks himself would say a word about the matter, and these three are absolutely the only persons beside myself, who know anything about the offer to him. However, beyond obliging him to tell a fib, no great harm has been done. As ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. P.S. Since the above was written another reporter has come in, this time from the "News", to ask if I knew anything about a rumor that Jno. C. Rose was trying to get Blanchard Randall appointed: the idea that there may be a personal appointment has excited all the newspapers. Office of the First Deputy Commissioner. 3--1902. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington MTS December 22, 1904. [*Rec? 12.23.-04*] To The President: The time has arrived when I can no longer refrain from speaking a word in my own behalf for the appoinment of Commissioner of Pensions, temporarily at least, that I may inaugurate improvements essential to the service, thereby placing the Bureau upon a businesslike and enduring basis. In the files of this Bureau there are packed away the papers in about seventy thousand Revolutionary claims. These papers, owing to age, are ready to fall to pieces when handled. The card system should be immediately adopted, that the records of these Revolutionary heroes may be preserved indefinitely. Properly managed, this can be done at this time without interference with the current work of the Bureau or extra expense other than the money required to purchase file cases. In addition to the above, the records of the claims filed on account of the War of 1812 to 1814, the different Indian outbreaks, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, the War with Spain and the Regular Establishment should be placed under the same system. This can all be accomplished by utilizing some of the older clerks who are good penmen, yet not quite equal to handling the current work.2 The records of the Bureau, as kept today, are not up to date. They are cumbersome and unreliable, requiring double the force of clerks to keep them that would be required under a card system. This is in the direct line of economy and good service. Before General Ainsworth placed the War Department records under the card system it took from six months to two years to get a report of the record of a soldier; now it takes but one day. The system is just as essential in this Bureau as in the War Department. Many improvements in the methods of procedure have come about during the administration of this Bureau by Commissioner Ware. Among them was the abolishment of the so-called Rejected Section and having letters of rejection written in the adjudicating divisions where the claims were handled. These adverse and unpleasant letters are now written in courteous, dignified language, instead of in the sharp and offensive style which at one time prevailed. The practice of giving out the good that the Bureau does has shown the veterans that they have friends here and has changed the sentiment of resentment towards the Bureau to that of confidence. The divisions have been consolidated in such a way as to bring out the best results for the labor performed. Many other and minor changes have been made which have proved to be of benefit to the service. Others should be made, and the good work go forward. No man, however able he may be, can grasp the situation in the usual term of a Commissioner. Mr. Ware realized this and kindly left the business of adjudicating claims to his3 First Deputy. I do not say this in egotism, because in everything that I advocate he heartily agreed. He paid more especial attention to the financial business and to the personnel of the Bureau and the different pension agencies. Order 78 I struggled with for nearly a year, and not until it received your sanction was I able to put it in operation. It has proved of great benefit in the adjudication of claims and has been of great value to worthy applicants for pension. I thank you for the interest you took in the matter and for the very able way it was handled in your letter of acceptance. You will recollect that during my last conversation with you upon the subject you held me responsible for the Order and for the carrying of it into effect in this Bureau. I surely have not failed you. The first thirty-six thousand claims filed in the Bureau under this Order were personally looked into by me, that I might know that no mistake would be made in the proper adjudication of them. Before the provisions of Order 78 were brought to the attention of any one I personally examined more than five thousand certificates of examination of those who had reached the age of sixty-two years and the same number of those who had reached the age of seventy years. Of the former I found one and one-third per cent not ratable at $6; of the latter, about three per cent not shown to be totally disabled for earning a support by manual labor. While Order 78 is apparently running smoothly here in the Bureau, there are inconsistent actions being taken thereunder. This condition must be met, sooner or later. I refer to the bearing of Section 4698-1/24 of the Revised Statutes upon the Order. I have carefully examined the law of July 14, 1862; also the act of March 3, 1873, from which is taken Section 4698-1/2: and I know that I can defend the elimination of this section from any claims under the act of June 27, 1890 as amended by the act of May 9, 1900. If this position is not taken by a new Commissioner confusion will result. Many people have been to me, and I have received many letters from others in different parts of the country, offering to intercede with you in my behalf. To each and every one I have said, that this was a matter for you to decide; and not until day before yesterday did I ask influence of any person. At that time I did write to Senator Gallinger and ask him if he would not present the condition of affairs to you. To manage this great Bureau, feeling under obligations to others, is a hardship. Favors are continually being asked; and, while any man should have the stability and courage to say "No" to a request that he cannot grant, it is harder to say it to a man to whom you are under obligations. Mr. Ware's term of office will expire December 31st. I am now acting as Commissioner under Section 472 of the Revised Statutes; yet as acting Commissioner I do not feel like attempting any improvements in the service that might not be correctly understood by an incoming Commissioner. I am making no changes, further than those necessary for the good administration of the Bureau. I do not ask for a temporary appointment unless my present5 present position can be held vacant, that I may drop back into it upon the permanent appointment of a new Commissioner. I can manage the Bureau without any deputies. I understand it thoroughly. There is not a law in the pension code, from March 3, 1859 to 1904, which I am not familiar. I understand, Mr. President, that it appears like presumption on the part of one in my position to address a letter of this kind to the Executive of this great nation; but something has impelled me to do it. As I said in the beginning, I cannot conscientiously refrain from presenting the condition of affairs to you. I hope that you will take time to read this letter and treat it in the same kindly spirit in which it is written, for I know in my own heart that I am writing it more in the interest of the Bureau than I am in my own interests. Assuring you of my highest esteem and entire confidence, I have the honor to remain Your obedient servant, J. L. Davenport .EWING & WILLIAMSON, LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN. CARUTHERS EWING. H.C. WILLIAMSON, JR. Dec. 22-1904. Judge J. M. Dickinson, Chicago Ill. Dear Judge: I think the situation here such that a compliance with my request, even if you were disposed to lend ear to it, would be a great mistake. You are very popular with the folks here and I have heard many rumors of your connection with the appointment, -- that is, persons desiring to invoke your good offices. I would be slow to get into it, if I were you. But you need no advice from me. There is a large opposition to Trimble among the lawyers here; the sentiment seems to be in favor of McReynolds. I do not know him. When I say the "sentiment seems to be in favor of McReynolds" I do not mean that a majority of the bar favor him. I refer to the "sentiment" of those who are opposed to Trimble. The lawyers here do not know McCall and they are in doubt about him. It seems that the two who will split the local bar are Trimble and McReynolds. I can not believe that Trimble is a fit man but I may be mistaken. I understand that you are very much his friend; -- that is, the general notion here is that you will favor him. I get this from several, but notably, Eldridge Wright, who came to see if I would join in a request to you to help Trimble. This I declined, but said nothing of my letter to you. From what he said I gathered that great reliance is placed in your getting Trimble the place. Others here seem to be looking to you for aid, so I concluded that you had better wait until you get a full line on things. As to Pierson: I earnestly desire that you send the letter to the President if you can do so, merely vouching for reasonable intelligence and integrity on my part, fully stating that you do not join in the request of the letter. EWING & WILLIAMSON, LAWYERS MEMPHIS, TENN. CARUTHERS EWING. H.C. WILLIAMSON, JR. I am only anxious to see a good man here: We have never had any Federal Judge and it has been a serious hardship to me as well as to others of the bar. I have a pretty hefty State Court practice and by reason of Judge Hammond's dilatoriness I have been forced to keep out of his Court. Pierson will make the best Federal Judge in America and my only desire is to get his name before the President as there is no telling what complications may arise out of which good might come. If you can do this, that is send the letter so he will read it, - I'll appreciate it. Do not do this if it will embarrass you in the least. What I have said about the situation here is for you alone. I just wanted to "tip" off to you what was doing. Very truly yours, Carruthers Ewing[*[Enclosed in Dickinson, 12-24-04]*]-COPY- Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. December 22, 1904. The Postmaster General/ Sir:- Your letter of December 15 informs me that at the request of the Secretary to the President your predecessor detailed for duty at the White House, in April last, a clerk in the Registry Division of the Washington Post Office; that this detail continued until October, during which period the clerk was paid his regular salary by the Postmaster under direction of the Postmaster General, and that in the settlement of the Postmaster's account for the last quarterly period the accounting officers of the Treasury have refused to allow credit for the payments to the clerk for the period covered by the detail. The Comptroller of the Treasury has advised you that he is unable to find any authority in law which legalizes or justifies the detail of a clerk from one executive department to another; but he has suggested that the question be referred to me for an official opinion, and accordingly you request my opinion on the subject. In the letter of the Comptroller to you he cites sectionThe Postmaster General 2. 166, Revised Statutes, which allows the head of a Department to detail the clerks therein among the various bureaus and offices of the Department as he may find necessary and proper to do; from which the Comptroller draws the conclusion that this grant of authority negatives the idea that any such power exists independent of statutory grant to detail to other branches of the public service, and in this connection he cites section 3678, Revised Statutes, and section 4 of the act of August 5, 1882 (22 Stat., 219), which generally restrict the employment and payment of clerks for services not rendered for the purposes for which an appropriation is made and from which payment is claimed. I may add that the act of March 15, 1898 (30 Stat., 277) even forbids (sec.9) the detail of clerks or other employees from any branch of the postal service to any of the offices or bureaus of the Post Office Department at Washington. The Comptroller, commenting upon his suggestion that the inquiry be referred to me, says that my opinion would no doubt be persuasive to the accounting officers, and would be followed by them unless found to be contrary to the decisions of a court of competent jurisdiction. The authority of the Comptroller to decide a question involving a payment to be made from the Treasury, so as to govern the auditing officers and himself in passing upon accounts, is complete (act of July 31, 1894; sec.8; 28 Stat., 162, 207-208). Accordingly, in various instances my predecessors have declinedThe Postmaster General 3. to give an opinion upon a question of this nature (21 Op., 178; id. 530; 22 Op., 581; 23 Op., 468; 24 Op., 553). On the other hand, although a disbursement may be involved, when the question is of general and great importance, and especially when the Comptroller, in advance of decision by himself, requests that the matter be referred to the Attorney General, and states that the opinion of the Attorney General will be followed by him, then it is the view of this Department that the question may properly be answered by the Attorney General (21 Op., 181; id. 224; id. 402). Of course the opinion of the Attorney General, when rendered in a proper case, --as must be the presumption always from the fact that it is rendered,-- must be controlling and conclusive, establishing a rule for the guidance of other officers of the Government, and must not be treated as nugatory and ineffective (20 Op., 648, citing 5 Op., 97; 6 Op., 334; 7 Op., 699; 9 Op., 37). I am unable, however, to agree to the proposition that the act of 1894 establishes a rule which is universal and without the exception under all circumstances. While I do not challenge the authority of the Comptroller under that law to determine conclusively the question of the legality of a payment out of the public Treasury, I am nevertheless of the opinion that Congress intended to confine the power of the Comptroller within a relatively narrow range, and did not mean thereby to curtail the occasions for the rendering of opinions by the Attorney General or to diminish their scope and weight. I do not believe that Congress by that enactment intended to shorten the reach of sections 354 andThe Postmaster General 4. 356, Revised Statutes, as construed to give to opinions of the Attorney General controlling authority (5 Op., 97; 6 Op., 334; 7 Op., 699; 9 Op., 37; 20 Op., 648), or to repeal pro tanto those laws. If a questions is presented to the Attorney General in accordance with law,- that is, if it is submitted by the President or the head of a Department, if it is a question of law and actually arises in the administration of a Department, and the Attorney General is of opinion that the nature of the question is general and important in other directions than disbursement, and therefore conceives that it is proper for him to deliver his opinion, I think it is final and authoritative under the law, and should be so treated by the accounting officers, even if the question involves a payment to be made. There is, of course, in this matter a large element of propriety and etiquette, which has led Attorneys General (as noted) to decline to pass upon many questions, however important in their essential and abstract bearings, because payments are also involved. But certainly, without touching upon the question whether a Comptroller of the Treasury may delegate his authority - for that matter is not really involved here - when the Comptroller waives his right to determine a matter involving disbursement within the scope of his authority under the law, and requests or suggests a ruling by the Attorney General, I entertain no doubt whatever that the Attorney General's opinion should not only be justly persuasive to the accounting officers, but should beThe Postmaster General 5 controlling and should be followed by them unless contrary to some authoritative judicial decision which puts the matter at rest. It is always to be assumed that an Attorney General would not overlook or ignore such a decision in announcing his own conclusion. Taking up, now, on the merits the important question presented in your letter,- I am of opinion that the Comptroller is right in the views which he suggests rather than lays down, and that there is no authority in the law for the detail of the clerk in question to the White House service. However natural and legitimate such calls by the Executive and ready response to them may be, and however true it is that thereby important public business is performed and expedited, quite apart from just considerations of the personal convenience of the President, nevertheless, in view of the statutes cited and without express authority in law, which is not to be found, such detail is unauthorized and the items in question in the Postmaster's account must therefore be disallowed. But the nature of the inquiry demands exhaustive treatment; I proceed therefore to a fuller consideration of the law. Section 166 R. S., as amended by Section 3 of the Act of May 28, 1896 (29 Stats., 140-179), provides that: Each head of a Department may, from time to time, alter the distribution among the various bureaus and offices of his Department, of the clerks and other employees allowed by law, except such clerks or employees as may be required by law to be exclusively engaged upon some specific work, as he may find it necessary and proper to do, but all details hereunder shall be made by written order of the head of the Department, and in no case be for a period of time exceeding one hundred and twenty days: Provided, That details so made may, on expiration, be renewed from time to time by written order of the head of the Department, in each particular case, for periods of not exceeding one hundred and twenty days.The Postmaster General 6. All details heretofore made are hereby revoked, but may be renewed as provided herein. This specific authority to distribute and detail clerks and other employees is restricted, as will be observed, to the Department in which they are regularly employed. I am unable to discover any other express authority for such service details. On the other hand, Section 3678 R. S., lays down a fundamental rule in the public service, namely, "all sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditures in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others." Section 3682 provides: Sec. 3682. No moneys appropriated for contingent, incidental, or miscellaneous purposes shall be expended or paid for official or clerical compensation. Section 4 of the Act of August 5, 1882 (22 Stats., 219, 255), forbids the employment of any clerk, among other officers and employees, in any of the executive departments or offices thereof at the seat of government except at such rates and in such numbers as may be specifically appropriated for by Congress, "and no . . . clerk . . . or other employee shall hereafter be employed at the seat of Government in any executive department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purposes, unless such employment is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the appropriation, and then only for services actually rendered in connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which payment is made . . ." This statute repeals Section 172 of the R. S., which contained an exception from the prohibition against payment ofThe Postmaster General 7. clerical and other services out of contingent funds, in case the employment was authorized by law, or is necessary to carrying into effect some object for which specific appropriation was made. The Act of 1882 saved Section 166 now amended (ut supra); but it seems clear that Congress by these various laws has strictly limited the power and discretion of a head of department in this matter of employment and detail, to cases falling within amended Section 166. It necessarily follows that the Postmaster-General was without authority to detail the registry clerk from the Washington post office to the White House. But the detail was on the request or direction of the President, based of course, upon the natural assumption that the particular exigency or demand of the public service found a corresponding authority in law. In general it may be stated that while outside of the express constitutional grants of power to the Chief Executive there are large and necessary inherent powers in the President essential to his function as the executive head of a civilized government, and always contemplated, some of them accurately defined in the natural evolution of usage and legal decision, as under the war power and in all foreign relations, and others which are not susceptible of precise anticipation and delimitation, nevertheless, it is the customary rule that the President's authority in appointment to offices not falling within the enumeration of the Constitution and "which shall be established by law," and all employment and detail by him in various branches of the service, rest upon enactments of Congress. Thus, to illustrate from recent laws, the President is authorized to appoint judges of the courts ofThe Postmaster General 8. the United States when new judgeships are created, although notwithstanding the language of such acts, those particular offices with many others, plainly fall within the reasonable limits of his power under the Constitution, the power of Congress to vest appointment in other authorities than the President being confined to inferior officers. The President also, by recent statutes not necessary to cite in detail, might appoint officers of the regular to the volunteer army; may appoint cadets to the military and naval academies; may appoint various officers of the army and navy; may appoint or designate various officers of the army and navy on the retired list; may promote notwithstanding physical disqualification incurred in the line of duty; may restore to the active list; may transfer on the retired list, and may detail a retired officer on detached service as for instance to be adjutant general of the district militia. In all such cases the authority of the President is traceable to direct and positive grants of power by statute. Further, in annual appropriation acts (e.g. Act of March 18, 1904, 33 Stats., 85, 97), under the heading "Executive", an appropriation is made for the compensation of various officers, clerks and employees in the office of the President of the United States, and for contingent expenses of the executive office, in which is an exact specification of items which may be expended in the discretion of the President. In consideration therefore, of this review of the law and of the various prohibitions on details for service and on the use ofThe Postmaster General 9. contingent funds for the payment of compensation to clerks and employees, I am constrained to conclude that there is no authority in existing law for the employment of the clerk in question on detached service at the White House; and therefore the subject must be remitted to Congress for due appropriation for the relief of the Postmaster. Very respectfully, (SIGNED) W. H. MOODY. Attorney General.[*[Enclosed in 1-5-05]*]PERSONAL. NAVY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON [*F*] December 22, 1904 Dear Mr. Loeb: I return herewith copy of letter from Mr. Franklin T. Campbell, of Lima, Ohio, addressed to Mr. E.P. Bacon, enclosed with your communication of December 21st. Mr. Campbell was formerly an Iowa Railroad Commissioner, and had a few years experience as such. He is not a practical railroad man, knows very little about the question, and would properly be classed as a populistic demagogic agitator. Very truly yours, Paul Morton Secretary. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President[for enc. see Campbell 12-16-04][*P.F*] [*Retd to files*] United States Senate Washington, D.C. December 22 1904 My Dear Mr. President I return you herewith the statement of Sec. Pierce in respect of Consul Gen. Goodnows conduct, & thank you very much for letting me read the same. Should have returned it to you in person but for the fact that I have been confined to the house with a very severe cold ever since last Friday from which I have not yet fully recovered though I am daily improving. The charges are grave & serious indeed, & if not substantially disproved, merrit no mercy. Goodnow was Pres. McKinleys personal appointment. Neither Gen. Davis nor myself recommended it. But Washburn came on & made a bitter fight against confirmation, & on that a/c Sen. D. & I were obliged to meet the fight & secure the confirmation in order to sustain the President--who was much interested in the case. Goodnow has I understand been gathering up evidence in his defense, & is on his way here. If he is likely to be here soon, & I presume theState Department will know, I should be glad if you would defer action till he returns so that he can put in his defense--and if he makes a fair showing give him a chance to resign. As soon as I get better will call on you & explain my idea a little more fully. Yours truly Knute Nelson TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER 22, 1904. -Fd- THE PRESIDENT, Washington, D.C. All four of the defendants on trial at Boston were convicted. The Glasgow Manufacturing Company was composed of Greenburg, Burman and Bentley. Bentley pleaded guilty and the other two were convicted. With them were convicted Examiner Shedd and Examiner Trafton. The case has been on trial since October fourth. Through false entries and undervaluations the government had probably lost above a half million dollars. L. M. Shaw.[*F*] Tracey Cooper & Townsend Albany, N.Y. 22 Dec 1904 Dear Mr. President: On returning to Albany I find your very flattering note of December seventeenth offering me a justiceship in the Supreme Court of the Philippines. With your permission I will hold the offer under consideration for a few days, as I desire to consult my brother Charles, who has not beenin good health of late and also is to spend Christmas with us here. I will answer as soon as possible. Thanking you for your consideration I am Very Sincerely Yours James F Tracey The President White House Washington DCTELEGRAM. [*Ackd 12/24/04*] White House, Washington. 6WU. G. RA. 41-Paid 5:05 p.m. New-York, December 23, 1904. The President. You are quoted, probably erroneously, as favoring Panama canal with locks, I want to say editorially that if earthquakes and other causes damage locks why not adopt engineer Wallace's sea level plan, would it not be economy in the long run. Elbert F. Baldwin.[*F*] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE CITY OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT'S ROOM December 24, 1904. Dear Mr. President: It will give me the greatest possible pleasure to spend the night at the White House on January 11, if you do not think me imposing upon your hospitality. I am to go down with the other guests of the American Institute of Architects on a special train on Wednesday, the 11th, and if you still find it entirely convenient to have me, I will go to the White House and spend the night. There will certainly be chance for two or three chats with you in the late afternoon, in the late evening, and the next morning. If this seems to you in the least inconvenient do not hesitate to say so. For dinner I shall have to go to the Arlington at 7:30, where they are planning what seems to be quite a distinguished function. Root is to make the great speech. Faithfully yours, Nicholas Murray Butler To the President, White House, Washington, D.CWAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY [*[12-23-04]*] CHIEF CLERK DEC 23 1904 WAR DEPT Memorandum for the Surgeon-General: Secretary Loeb transmits correspondence, and states the President desires to know if a colored contract surgeon cannot be appointed to serve with colored troops. Will you please furnish the Secretary of War a memorandum in this matter? By direction of the Secretary of War: Fred W. Carpenter Private Secretary December 23, 1904.OFFICE OF SURGEON GENERAL WAR DEPARTMENT DEC 23, 1904 A 108763 Dec 23, 1904 Dec 23: 1904. Secy of War Returns correspondence concerning appointment of colored physicians as contract surgeons, N.J.A., to serve with colored troops, and desires a memorandum in the matter for the information of the President. S.G. [upt?] [*[For 1 enc. see 12-24-04 Reilly]*]3-1913. OFFICE OF FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER. MTS Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. Dec, 23, 1904. Hon. Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President. My dear Mr. Barnes: May I ask you, in the absence of Mr. Loeb, to place this letter in the hands of the President? I know how hard it is to reach him without an intermediate, and I am very anxious that he should personally see the contents of this letter. With kind regards, I have the honor to remain Yours very truly , J. L. Davenport[[shorthand]] [*Ackd 12/27/04*] 19 WEST 31ST STREET NEW YORK Dear Mr. President:-- I am a thousand times obliged to you for the interest you take in my small boy. I want very much to put him in Groton, but I judge from Mr. Peabody's letter that he must go in as a Western lad, if at all. Would it be a tolerable evasion to call him a Western lad? Western I am and hope he will be in spirit, but in fact and in flesh, my residence is in New York and he was born in New Hampshire. I must tell you tardily how much we enjoyed our visit and how stimulated and encouraged I was by what you told me. How you manage to work so hard and still have so much to give to your friends is more than I can understand. We go to Washington again next week to escape the associations that cling to Christmas in New York. I hope you will let me call on you then. With many wishes for a happy Christmas for you and your family, I am Sincerely yours, F.P. Dunne 23rd December, 1904 President Roosevelt[*Ackd 12-24-04*] 118 West 85 St [*[12-23-04]*] My dear Mr. President I have not been able to write since my dear husband was taken from me. On behalf of my daughter and myself I wish to express our deep appreciation of your telegram, and kind letter of sympathy, and to thank Mrs Roosevelt and you for the beautiful flowers, some of which were placed on the casket with Mrhumanity. He had a deep loyal appreciation for you, not only as the head of the Nation, but as a man. His great admiration for you dated back from the beginning of your public career, and he did all in his power to further your interests. His one regret during his last illness was that he was not strong enough to take an active part in the campaign, particularly the National Roosevelt League. He never wavered in his conviction of your election and that you would carry our State. His judgement proved correct. On election day he was not so well, but in the evening, when the returns began to come in with such overwhelming victory for you, and that the Democratic walls of Missouri had fallen, he was filled with deep emotion, and broke down and wept (he was unused to tears) When he hadTrautmann. While my dear one had been ill with heart trouble for some time we never gave up hope of his recovery. The Reaper entered our home so unexpectedly that we cannot realize our loss. His soul has taken its flight to the Great Beyond, and we are left desolate and lonely. Mr. Trautmann was a true patriot - with the highest ideals for the uplifting ofregained himself he said "I am glad "that I have lived to "see Mr Roosevelt "elected the unanimous "choice of the people "and I know that the "country will have the best four years." "My next hope is "that I will see my "life long friend "Richard [Kerens?] "a United States "Senator, and if I "regain my health "will do my part to "help him get there,"The Republican Party "owes it to him for "what he has done "for the past twenty "five years, and "Missouri should "recognize his merit." I know your strict mentality regarding State politics, but I touch upon this, as I feel that I voice the sentiments of my husband, who had he been spared would undoubtedly have talked this overwith you. I have known Mr. Kerens all of my married life, and know the depth of affection and strong friendship Mr. Trautmann had for him. They went through the Civil War together an experience which strengthened the tie between them. The friendship is shared by all of my family, and we feel a keen interest in the hope of his election. In the near future I would like to see you on a personal matter, and in the event of Mr Loeb coming to this city, if he will let me know I can convey the matter to you through him. With best wishes for long years of happiness to you and yours I remain Very sincerely Mary S. Trautmann December 23/1904Department of State, Washington, December 23, 1904. [*Ack'd 12-23-04*] Dear Mr. President:- Perhaps you may find time to look at this letter of Cameron Forbes to Higginson. I wish it might be read by all the antis. Faithfully yours John Hay [*State sent 5/04*][*F*] TELEGRAM White House, Washington. 9WU. V. RA. 31-D.H. 10 p.m. Washington, Connecticut, December 23,1904. The President. Perhaps Philippine bill before Senate if from House, my idea was that if House and Senate were agreed on amount we could pass it. When I return will look after it. O. H. Platt.[*P.F*] 392 Beacon Street, Boston. December 23 1904 My dear Mr. President Mr. Pritchett sent to me you comprehensive and earnest letter to him and I showed him what you had written me; we spend an evening discussing the letters and the question generally. I desire to acknowledge yours of 15th and 17th inst. It is a matter of great satisfaction to me that you, Mr. Pritchett and I agree on the interpretation of the past history and on all the premises. I was glad to get your account of the policy you had pursued in regard to appointments at the South. If I may except the Dr. Crum appointment I cannot conceive a better policy. I sympathize fully with you in the unjust attacks made upon you by Southern speakers and newspapers. If they have irritated you one half as much as the malignant criticism of you by the Boston Herald and New York Nation have irritated me I do not wonder at your righteous indignation. When you say that you can only go on as you have been going on and that you are doing all in your power to allay the "corresponding bitterness at the North" that is acting in the spirit of Lincoln who when he was called by the Southern press an ape, a baboon, a drunkard and an idiot, proposed only about two months before Appomattox to compensate2. the Southerners for their slaves; and still nearer to the surrender uttered the noble words of his second inaugural address. Your statement that the good results of your policy "have not so far been particularly apparent although I think they will be apparent in the end" remind me of the contrast between the violent abuse which Lincoln received from the South when he was carrying out his plans and the respect and love with which his name is now so frequently mentioned by our then "erring brethren" and their descendants. Last January an [actor] orator in Florida, presumably an ex-Confederate soldier, said to his brother soldiers on the occasion of the dedication of a soldiers' monument, "that typical American Abraham Lincoln could do you justice" and he also referred "to the brave and generous Grant." I read with great interest the interview of Hon. W. H. Fleming (which I returned at once). I have had similar talks with other Southern gentlemen. In fact the same spirit is manifested by all with whom I have had speech. Of course they have prejudices but they remind me of Dr. Johnson's remark that "every honest gentleman should have prejudices." In thinking of the Southerner's point of view I cannot forget that within fifteen years the public library of Thomasville (Ga.) refused a gift of "The Origin of Species" and of some of Spencer's works. The only way that I can account for the apparent political success of Vardaman et al is by recalling things at the North during Johnson's and Grant's administration. Then the Southern question was the one to conjure with. Corruption and incompetence3. were forgiven the Republican politicians who would abuse the South roundly and who would exhibit a proper degree of wrath at the Southern outrages on the negroes -- that was "to be sound on the main question." Under such a standard Butler and others of his kind developed. I suspect that at the South the politician, by the same token, appeals to the hatred of the poor whites for the negroes in order to get himself an office. I hope that era will pass away as has the Johnson & Grant era at the North. You refer to my endorsement of the XIV Amendment plan of reconstruction in my Volume. But to enforce a reduction of representation now is different from what it would have been in 1866. We tried a different plan which has failed. (Here we are practically at one and I am only supporting your argument.) It is neither generous nor politic to recur to the scheme which was supplanted. It is not politic, for in the endeavor to cut down representation at the South by 19 (which I believe is the number proposed) the Republican party would undoubtedly lose more than that number of seats at the North. I cannot forget the lessons of the Congressional elections of 1874 and 1890 when the Southern question was one of the potent influences of Democratic success. It is not generous as the South has suffered much since 1870 from the carpet bag negro [vote] rule; moreover she has now to pay her part of the pensions and gets nothing back; and outside of the iron and sugar regions the tariff works distinctly to her material detriment. I feel sure that every Republican opposed to the revision of the tariff, everyone who does not want railroad rebates stopped4 and every Republican corruptionist in the national, State, or municipal governments will hail with joy the recrudescence of the Southern sectional question. They will rejoice as, judging from the past, they will argue that the issue will be so intense that the attention of the President and the public will be distracted from their own operations. I feel highly flattered that you have given me this opportunity to express my opinion. Your closing words of Mr. Pritchett's letter show an openness of mind exceedingly gratifying to men whose views you have asked. With the expression of my high respect and kind regard I remain Very truly yours James Ford RhodesBOOKER T. WASHINGTON. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. INCORPORATED. TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. December 23, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. President:- I have just reached home, and hasten to enclose to you the editorial from the Advertiser to which I referred. The Advertiser is by far the most influential daily paper in Alabama and is the oldest. It seems to me that what they say about giving the Negro the right to express his choice at the ballot box cannot be improved upon, and coming from an old, conservative paper in the heart of the South makes it doubly strong. I shall write you about some other matters very soon. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington President Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington.[for 1 enc. see 12-14-04]MEMORANDUM. OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. December 23, 1904. C.P.P. No changes have been reported in the positions of the armies along the Sha River. Both sides seem to keep in very close touch, but the weather appears to have stopped any intended movements on a large scale. At Port Arthur the remaining Russian battleship (SEVASTOPOL) appears to have been damaged sufficiently to compel her to take bottom, as she is apparently aground at all stages of the tide. This damage has probably been accomplished during some of the numerous torpedo attacks which have been delivered almost nightly. The 1st and 2nd divisions of the Second Pacific Fleet have not been reported since last bulletin, but are now in the Indian Ocean. The 3rd division is still at Suda Bay. The arrival of Japanese auxiliary scout cruisers at Singapore indicates that an attempt will be made to get in touch with Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet as soon as possible and keep informed of his movements while beyond the limits of present cable facilities.ENC IN [?] 3-11-04 CA 12-23-04[*Times*] Cunard Line steamer Umbris from New York. In an interview Mr. Mosely expressed his great satisfaction with the commission's tour. He said he hoped the reports would be published within a few weeks and that as a result changes would be made in the methods at present employed in several English trades. He said he could not anticipate the reports, but that he was greatly impressed with the superiority of American to British workmen. The Americans worked harder and were better trained and educated than the Englishmen. Mr. Mosely said he intended to take another commission to the United States in the Autumn to investigate educational conditions. DR. SCHURMAN FAVORS FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE. He Believes Them Equal to Cubans for Self-Government - Would Buy Friars' Lands. President J. G. Schurman of Cornell University made it clear to about 1,000 person who filled the basement auditorium of Cooper Union last evening that he was in [?] favor of independence for the Philippines. After a lengthy address, in which he went into the various problems which confront the American people regarding the archipelago, the question was put to the audience whether it agreed with President Schurman or not in his advocacy of independence. Save three men, the entire audience arose. On the subject of the friars in the Philippines Dr. Schurman said, among other things: "A plan has been discussed for some time, as you may know, that the Government buy the land which the friars have acquired, and that it should afterward be sold in small holdings to the Filipinos. The Government, however, rather expects that if this is done the Pope ought to call the friars back to Spain. I'm not going to tell you what I am- Catholic or Protestant. "I maintain, however, that the Vatican cannot do this. Certain charges of immorality have been brought against the friars, and to recall them is practically admitting that they are true. Leaving the question of religion entirely out of consideration, I maintain that no power, for purely diplomatic reasons, can afford to do that. My idea is that it would be wise to buy the land without asking the Pope to withdraw the friars. "I have a shrewd suspicion that with the land out of their hands the friars would find it unprofitable to stay. At all events, I'd buy the land and take the chances." [Applause.] In regard to the charge of immorality, which Dr. Schurman said had been brought against the friars, he said that in the majority of cases he considered them untrue. On the subject of education in the Philippines Dr. Schurman said: "Fancy your sending into a village in New Jersey of say 8,000 inhabitants a single Spanish teacher and expect her to teach the village Spanish. What good do you think she'd do? I think it is fair to assume that so long as the world stands a child will learn to speak the language of its mother. "The thing to do is make the teachers learn the language of the Philippines, and teach them American ideas and principles through their own tongue. I can't quite understand why so many women went as teachers to the Philippines, unless they thought that white women would be at a premium there." At the close of his speech after saying that it was possible that the Philippines might be admitted first as territories and then as States, Dr. Schurman went on: "If you won't admit them as Territories or States there remains but one substitute-independence. I will not believe that the American people will ever believe that they have been true to their principles, true to their flag, until they have granted to a land over which the flag floats that which it stands for-liberty, human rights, national sovereignty, and independence." The usual questions were allowed and answered. The best of them seemed to be: Q. -Don't you think that greed enters into our attitude toward the Philippines? A. -I think we were dominated by a humanitarian feeling at first, but that our motives now are becoming mixed. That's the reason I am here to-night. Q. -Has the immorality of the Friars ever been proved? Can you give us any specific instance or proof of it? A. -I was informed by a reliable person in Manila that the charge of immorality could perhaps be proved against 10 percent of the Friars, but that all the rest of them were good men. Q. -Dewey is quoted as having said that the Filipinos were as capable of self-government as are the Cubans. If that is so, why don't we give it to them? A. -You are a politician. I think they are as capable and think they should have independence. Q. -You have told us that the Sultans in the Philippines cannot be interfered with. Does that mean they can have as many wives as they wish? A. -Yes: under our Paris treaty we have no right to interfere with them. We may educate them, but cannot compel them to our religious views. MR. SCHURMAN SEES PHILIPPINES FREE Cornell President Says Our Course Must Establish Islands' Independence. [*Herald*] SHOULD BUY FRIARS' LANDS People's Institute Audience Indorses the Speaker's Views Almost Unanimously President Jacob G. Schurman of Cornell University delivered an address on "The Problems of the Philippines" before the People's Institute last night to an audience that completely filled the large hall in Cooper Union. Then he answered questions for an hour. He was applauded as he stated his belief that the course of the United States in the Philippines must ultimately establish their independence and a vote of the audience on the question of indorsing his views was almost unanimous. Only three persons voted for the proposition that the flag, having once been raised there, should never come down, while those supporting President Schurman's views numbered about fourteen hundred. After [?] general conditions the speaker reviewed the political, ecclesiastical and educational problems confronting the United States. In the islands, saying that practically all the constitutional rights which we enjoy had been given to the Filipinos, and that when their legislative body assembled in 1904 he thought it would flood us with petitions for greater home rule, culminating in independence. He stated that we would doubtless help develop the considerable resources of the islands, but that he would not advise any young man to go to the Philippines expecting to make a future for himself. He declared that a stable currency should be fixed and that sentiment and interest should be substituted for force as the tie binding the Filipinos to the country: that we should give them at least a measure of free trade with us; that we should buy the lands of the friars and resell them to the Filipinos in small parcels, trusting to chance that the friars would die out in the course of time, and not insisting as a condition of the purchase that they be recalled: and that the education of the Filipinos should be in their own language. Three possibilities of action are before us, Professor Schurman said-to continue the forcible subjection of the Filipinos, which is contrary to American principle; to admit the islands as Territories and then as States, or to give the people ultimate independence. Asked how much he thought greed rather than humanity had entered into the considerations determining the original acquisition of the islands, he said he believed the motives of the administration had been humanitarian at the beginning, but that he had seen the greed all along, and that because he thought it was increasing was why he was making his address. Asked if the Monroe Doctrine has not been weakened by the acquisition of the Philippines, he remarked, "Theodore Roosevelt is at this very moment asserting the doctrine, and asserting it hard." GENERAL NORD IS PRESIDENT. He is elected Chief Executive of the[*F*] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer COMMITTEE ON INVESTMENT OF ENDOWMENT FUND: MR. WM. H. BALDWIN, JR., President Long Island Railroad, 128 Broadway, New York City. MR. J. G. PHELPS STOKES. 100 William St., New York City. MR. GEORGE F. PEABODY, 54 William St., New York City MR. ROBERT C. OGDEN, 784 Broadway, New York City The... TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Tuskegee, Alabama For the Training of Colored Young Men and Women Clipping which was ommitted from letter written by Booker T. Washington on December 27th, 1904.[?Trans] 1904 ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH Alabama Man Has Important Interview President Concerned About Nation's Prosperity His Interest Applies Alike to All Sections Fairness Shown in his Appointments to Office Baltimore, Dec 23 - President Roosevelt's deep interest in the broadest industrial development of the Sough is pointed out in an article in this week's Manufacturers' Record by T. G. Bush of Alabama, one of the foremost business men of the South, and a lifelong Democrat, who recently in a long interview discussed with the President important questions covering the South's remarkable progress and prosperity, and likewise the race question. Among other things Mr Bush writes: "No one can talk with President Roosevelt without being impressed with the fact that he is hones, capable and patriotic, and that he deeply feels the burden of his great responsibility and is greatly concerned about the prosperity of every section of the country. His action with reference to appointments is understood and duly appreciated by the people of my own State, when they remember the appointment of Judge Thomas G Jones, Judge Houlauac and Judge Kyle - all Democrats - to important and responsible positions. "On inquiry I learned that of 2400 postmasters in Mississippi seventy-eight are Negroes, five being in communities where no white people live. The appointments made in the Southern States generally have demonstrated the fact that where the President could not in his judgment find competent and satisfactory Republicans he has not hesitated to appoint Democrats, eight of the gold or Bryan persuasion. "I do not hesitate to say that the President has no desire whatever to see Negro domination in the South,and is in no sense in favor of Negro social equality. he does not think that the formal recognition of the Negro in connection with the functions of the great office he holds could be fairly construed as making him an advocate of negro social equality. He is, of course, a friend to the Negro, certainly to the extent of his having a fair showing, as to improving his environments and equipping himself for the privileges which the constitutions of the several Southern States in form and substance grant to him. "Every fair-minded Southerner will concede as much, for it must be apparent to every intelligent southern man that the negro will be more acceptable and useful to the extent of being better equipped for the department of work in which he can advantageously engage and has his moral character improved. We cannot afford to have the prosperity of the South retarded by any man or set of men, but it must be known and understood that the Southern people are for progress, for a sound and stable currency, for all governmental measures protecting the rights of every class [?Trans] 1904 ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH Alabama Man Has Important Interview President Concerned About Nation's Prosperity His Interest Applies Alike to All Sections Fairness Shown in his Appointments to Office Baltimore, Dec 23 - President Roosevelt's deep interest in the broadest industrial development of the Sough is pointed out in an article in this week's Manufacturers' Record by T. G. Bush of Alabama, one of the foremost business men of the South, and a lifelong Democrat, who recently in a long interview discussed with the President important questions covering the South's remarkable progress and prosperity, and likewise the race question. Among other things Mr Bush writes: "No one can talk with President Roosevelt without being impressed with the fact that he is hones, capable and patriotic, and that he deeply feels the burden of his great responsibility and is greatly concerned about the prosperity of every section of the country. His action with reference to appointments is understood and duly appreciated by the people of my own State, when they remember the appointment of Judge Thomas G Jones, Judge Houlauac and Judge Kyle - all Democrats - to important and responsible positions. "On inquiry I learned that of 2400 postmasters in Mississippi seventy-eight are Negroes, five being in communities where no white people live. The appointments made in the Southern States generally have demonstrated the fact that where the President could not in his judgment find competent and satisfactory Republicans he has not hesitated to appoint Democrats, eight of the gold or Bryan persuasion. "I do not hesitate to say that the President has no desire whatever to see Negro domination in the South,and is in no sense in favor of Negro social equality. he does not think that the formal recognition of the Negro in connection with the functions of the great office he holds could be fairly construed as making him an advocate of negro social equality. He is, of course, a friend to the Negro, certainly to the extent of his having a fair showing, as to improving his environments and equipping himself for the privileges which the constitutions of the several Southern States in form and substance grant to him. "Every fair-minded Southerner will concede as much, for it must be apparent to every intelligent southern man that the negro will be more acceptable and useful to the extent of being better equipped for the department of work in which he can advantageously engage and has his moral character improved. We cannot afford to have the prosperity of the South retarded by any man or set of men, but it must be known and understood that the Southern people are for progress, for a sound and stable currency, for all governmental measures protecting the rights of every class of citizens, for the enforcement of the laws and for the sacredness of human life. "The late Abram S Hewitt, one of the greatest ironmasters America has produced, a year or more before his death predicted that Alabama would dominate the basic steel industry of the world. President Roosevelt, with a lively appreciation of the latent coal and iron wealth of the south, the development of which is only in its infancy as compared with what the future is to show, and with its other great resources and advantages for manufacturing, must of necessity become the centre of vast industrial activities such as have created the enormous wealth of Pennsylvania and other Eastern States and New England, hopes to see his term of office signalized by such business development in the South as will make that section an equal sharer in the prosperity of the whole country. "As already said when President Roosevelt was working out the Panama Canal situation, he fully realized that its construction would prove of untold value to this section in helping to bring about the fulfilment of Commodore Maury's prediction, made nearly sixty years ago, when he said that the cutting of an Ishmian canal would break down the barrier which separated the South from the trade of the Orient, with it six hundred million people, and would make the Gulf of Mexico the centre of the world's shipping." [*NY Post Dec 24 1904*] WESTMORELAND CLUB PRANKS Gov. Montague Refused to Sing, but Mayor Mimicked President. Special to The Washington Post. Richmond, Va., Dec 23 - The Christmas celebration of the Westmoreland Club here to-night developed many features of a most amusing nature. An attempt was made to force the governor to sing, but he declined to attempt it. Mayor McCarthy gave an imitation of President Roosevelt, and other grave and reverend seignors disported themselves like boys. Lieut. Gov. Joseph E. Willard was marked out by the committee for a song, but he escaped by his fleetness of foot. he, by the way, has the distinction of having once outrun a rabbit[*[Enclosed in McCarthy, 12-24-04]*][*P.F.*] ALBERMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST. NEW YORK. O.B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. Dec. 24, 1904. My dear Roosevelt- Generally I believe with Grant that a man makes a fortune holding his tongue, but this rate business touches me very nearly. I also think if study and practical experience go for anything, I should know something of it. This experiment also is the last. If this fails the waters are out. Since Holmes showed his hand you must also accept the fact that the Supreme Court will hardly aid you. The situation, as I see it, is this. The roads want to merge and to give as little as possible in return. Three things only are essential to the public. 1st Equality as between individuals. 2 Equality as between towns. 3 - Reasonable charges throughout, but chiefly at points between terminals. 2 ALBEMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST, NEW YORK, O. B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. Nothing to me is plainer than that no result can be obtained through a commission. We must have courts. There are a thousand reasons for this; the first is, you can't get the men for a commission. The second, that I can't have local knowledge. The third, that I can't enforce is its own decrees unless you make it a court. It is also plain to me that matters would be made distinctly worse by giving the present commission power to make rates. It would create confusion. You know, at the outset. [They] This commission were supposed to have had that power, and that on the very first case, "In re L. C N." Conley admitted that the flood of petitions for relief could not be handled. It takes weeks of labor to correct a single schedule, as I well know. The roads must be left to do this under3 ALBEMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST, NEW YORK, O. B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. Supervision. I have just gone through such an experience at Spokane. The shippers and managers meet and work out a compromise which can be [enforce] completed by judicial order in the negative, if the roads are too greedy in certain particulars which they seldom would be with a capable tribunal over them. Lastly, however, and chiefly, you can expect nothing from the Supreme Court unless you define a "reasonable rate" in your act. Seventy years has proved this. Yet the reasonable rate will fix itself very simply by a few words in the statute. First, the roads should not be permitted to charge more for the less distance because of competition at the terminal. Second, the roads should not be permitted to declare dividends on watered stock. With these simple limitations in the4 ALBEMARLE HOTEL, MADISON SQUARE, WEST. NEW YORK. O. B. LIBBEY, PROP'R. statute and a good set of Circuit Court judges with original jurisdiction, I have slight doubt but that you will have enough success to carry us over a good many years. I write in great haste as I am now going on board the steamer for Europe. Very truly yours. Brooks Adams[*Ack'd 12-29-04*] ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS, 1100 FRANKLIN STREET. San Francisco, Cal., 24. Dec 1904 To the President of the United States Mr President On the eve of my departure for the Philippine Islands, I consider it my duty to present to you my most sincere thanks for the kind & cordial reception extended to me whilst at Washington. I am leaving the United States with a most pleasing impression of its people and& Government. May God grant you Mr President, health & a long life to continue the work so well begun by you & your most courteous officials. Please accept my most sincere good wishes for a Happy and prosperous New Year & believe me me with a sense of deepest gratitude faithfully yours. + A Ambrose Agius O.S.B. Abp of Palmyra Apo. Del. of the Philippine Islands[*P.F*] GEO. H. CARRICK REAL ESTATE BROKER MORTGAGES, INSURANCE, 26 BRATTLE STREET, OFF HARVARD SQUARE TEL. 1248-2 Cambridge Cambridge, Mass, Dec.24/04. TEL. 1248-2 CAMBRIDGE. Hon. T. R. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- Sometime ago Mr. James A. Roosevelt applied for a single suite in Randolph Hall for your son T.R.Roosevelt Jr.. for the next college year. I have the single suites which Mr. Roosevelt wished me to offer. No. 18 and 28 and as your son is to be a freshman next year he recommends No. 28. Enclosed please find plan of hall with suites marked. No. 18 rents for $400. No. 28 for $200. with extras in either case of $20. for janitor service and $80. for heat. We have in this hall a home telephone system which enables the tenants to be connected with each other's room; the janitor and also with the long distance phones outside. This telephone system enables us to give perfect janitor service as a tenant can talk with the janitor or one of his assistants and make known his wants. We also have a breakfast room in the hall where breakfasts are served to tenants of the hall only. I am also enclosing a complete list of the tenants showing the schools at which they prepared for college, their parent's names and their addresses to enable you to judge as to the class of boys in this hall. I would like to say as to this that of last year's sophomore class of the first three ren taken into the D.K.E. Club twenty-four were Randolph boys and of the eight taken into the GEO. H. CARRICK REAL ESTATE BROKER MORTGAGES, INSURANCE, 26 BRATTLE STREET, OFF HARVARD SQUARE TEL. 1248-2 Cambridge Cambridge, Mass, Dec.24/04. Hon. T.R.R. 2- Porcellian six were Randolph boys. May I ask that you kindly let me know as soon as convenient as to which of these suites you prefer if either and if it is not asking too much may I expect a personal reply from my President? Yours respectfully, Geo. H. Carrick[*[For 1 enclosure see ca12-24-1904]*] [*Wired him 12-26-04*] CENTRAL STATION CHICAGO. December 24, 1904. Sir:- I enclose you herewith two letters, one of December 17th, and the other December 22nd., written to me by my friend, Mr. Caruthers Ewing of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Ewing is a Democrat of somewhat independent proclivities. He is not, in any sense, a politician, but in purely and simply a lawyer, and in this matter, has no interest beyond having a good Judge appointed for the Western District of Tennessee. I have known him from his childhood, have confidence in him, and give great weight to any views expressed by him. I have written to Mr. Ewing that I gave to you the very highest endorsement of Mr. McReynolds], and that I stated to you that he would, in my opinion, make a [??e] and fearless Judge, and that you could not do better than to appoint him. Respectfully, J. Mc. Dickinson The President.[[*For 2 enclosure see 12-17-04 12-22-04]*][*[Dec 241904]*] Dear Theodore -- This seems to me quite perfect - It will doubtless gratify him extremely JH [*[Hay]*] [*see Roosevelt - Th. to Joseph H. Choate 12/24/04*][*McCarthy*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. Copy of telegram received by Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, from Richmond, VA, and telephoned by him to White House. RICHMOND, VA., Dec. 24, 1904. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Washington, D. C. Statements in column 6, page 1, of the Post, December 24, from Richmond correspondent, that the Mayor mimicked the President in a speech at the Westmoreland Club is utterly groundless and false. One hundred of the best men here will testify that the statement is false. Carlton McCarthy, Barton H. Grundy, John B. Milnor, Jas. R. Gordon.[*[For enclosure see 12-23-04]*][*P.F*] G. NAVY DEPARTMENT. \WASHINGTON. December 24, 1904. Dear Mr. President:-- Referring to the direction contained in Secretary Loeb's letter of the 23rd instant in regard to the docking of the steamship SHAWMUT at the Puget Sound Yard, I beg to say that several days ago I asked Assistant Secretary Darling, who has recently been to the Pacific Coast, to take the matter up and give it careful consideration. The proposition made by those interested in the matter may involve the Department in difficulties on the dockage question and we ought to go slowly. I am sure that Mr. Darling will work out a result that will be for the best interests of the Department and will do as much as possible for the private interests involved and that he will come to a conclusion as soon as possible. Very Respectfully Paul Morton Secretary. THE PRESIDENT.[*PF*] Dec. 24th 1904. 1759 R Street, Corner New Hampshire Avenue. My Dear Mr. President Pray accept my thanks for the Volumes with the addresses. I had already seen most of the speeches, for I have followed you with much interest; but now for my "sins" I have gone over them again and I must say that taken all together they make a fine showing, a bully one. Now, about that title: It may not be a bad thing for even the President to feel humble now and then; but Heaven forbid that I should make you feel as humble as that. I am reminded, however, of what Disraeli said when someone whom he had knighted resented not getting a peerage. He said he need not be insulted by an honor which had been thought good enough for Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Raleigh. That title was given to George Washington. However, Mr. President, I will gladly give you the title the American People have given you, and among them all you have no more sincere well-wisher than, Your old friend, Thos. Nelson Page The President White House. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours T.N.PWAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL, WASHINGTON. 108763- A. December 24, 1904. MEMORANDUM for the President: UNDESIRABILITY OF COLORED CONTRACT SURGEONS. The appointment of colored physicians to serve with colored troops is not deemed desirable or for the good of the service for the following reasons: 1. At no post known to this office is the entire command colored. The officers are white and to them and their families the attendance of a colored physician would be repugnant, as also to the white civil employees who are under certain circumstances entitled to medical attendance (the civil population of a garrison which is entitled to medicines is usually a little over 20% of the military population.). This would be especially the case in the intimate relations of family practice and in obstetrical cases and the diseases of women. Bu while the white population of a post desires a white physician the converse doesn't follow, that the colored population would prefer one of their own color. On the contrary it is probable that they would prefer and have greater confidence in the ability of a white surgeon. 2. Contract surgeons have the official status of officers and their social relations and contacts are by military custom required to be not with the enlisted men but with the officers. A colored surgeon would thus by his official status be cut off from the society of the enlisted men of his color and by his color from the society of the officers and would be thus a social pariah.3. Contract surgeons like medical officers are ordered from post to post and from one command to another in the field as the exigencies of the service dictate. To have a surgeon who would not be thus available and who could be used only under certain special conditions or at certain special places, is obviously not for the good of the service. 4. The superiority of white officers for colored troops over those of their own color is well known and is recognized by Congress in the organization of the colored regiments. This is equally true of surgeons as of other officers and of contract as of commissioned surgeons. Very few of the Hospital Corps men are colored and to place a colored man in the position of an officer over white enlisted men would be injurious to discipline. The truth of this statement has been demonstrated in actual experience. A colored contract surgeon placed on duty in 1898 with the 10th Cavalry, terminated his military career of seven months by a personal encounter with a hospital steward in which he was shot and wounded by the latter. This office does not concern itself with any abstract question of the rights of the colored race, but under present conditions as a matter of expediency and military efficiency is opposed to the appointment of colored men as military surgeons. R. M. O'Reilly Surgeon General, U. S. Army.[*[Enc in Carpenter 12-23-04]*][*Ack'd 12-26-04*] Decr 24, 1904 Mutual Life Building New York Dear Theodore Just a Merry Christmas to you & Mrs. Roosevelt & the children You may see by the very crude reports of Friday mornings papers that at the New England dinner I tried to help the big policeman. I hope you will go slow on Garfield's license proposition. It was Bryans & I think involves evils far greater than its benefits. Faithfully yours Elihu Root FBW Patterson, Louisiana December 24, 1904 [[shorthand]] [*CF*] [*Ack'd 12-29-04*] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President Washington, D.C. My dear Sir:-- Referring to our recent correspondence in reference to politics matters in this State,- while the result of the last election would not justify us in asking very much more at your hands, at the same time, taking into consideration the difficulties under which we labor in the way of getting a square deal at the polls, and also, considering the fact that owing to local conditions in New Orleans --- there being a split in the ranks of the Democrats --- instead of its being a benefit to us it was a detriment for the reason that the Democrats who were opposed to the State Administration secured a large number of our voters, who did not support our own ticket but voted with the opposition for the purpose of turning out the State Administration. This cost us a good many votes. Then again, the Cohen Faction, while their numbers are not large, gave their undivided support to the regular Democratic ticket. The qualified negro voters in this state amount to about 1100. Less than 300 voted. Therefore, the votes which we did receive were nearly all white Republicans. A large number of Republicans among the poorer class did not pay their poll taxes, which is a prerequisite for voting. Therefore, they were not qualified. Then, quite a large number who had paid their poll taxes were left off of the registration books, and also the poll list at the polling boths. This is particularly the case in the country Parishes where the Democrats control the entire election machinery, and use intimidation and fraud in order to prevent our qualified voters from casting their votes. Notwithstanding all those we cast our usual percentage. I thought it proper to write to you about what I thought necessary to be done to strengthen our cause, and as I have to attend the American Forestry Congress Convention, to be held in Washington dueing the first week of the new year, I will give you an idea of what I think ought to be done, and while in Washington would like to call on you and discuss the matter with you. The fact of General Behan's name not having been sent to the Senate as postmaster for New Orleans, and also the fact that Mr. Cortelyou has not yet made the appointment of National Committeeman, is keeping quite a number of RepublicansMr. Roosevelt....................................#2.........................................12/24/04. on the fence, and we would like to have those two matters settled as soon as you think proper. When Mr. McCall and I saw you last we had a talk with you in reference to having some one appointed in Walter Cohen's place. He, with his small faction, has given us a great deal of trouble. If I remember correctly, you stated that after the election you might see your way clear to remove him, but it might be that you would have to appoint another colored man in his place. Should you think this best we would readily agree to it provided you did not want to appoint some white person. If, however, you want to select a colored man for the place we could name you a first class man who would be recommended by such men as J. M. Holland and A. B. Kennedy, both your appointees and who are first class men. We could also get the endorsement of other reputable colored men. We think that it is absolutely necessary that Walter Cohen be removed. He is a disgrace to the Party in the State. It is no use for me to say anything about his private character as you have been fully informed of this before. There is another federal office holder who has given us a great deal of trouble, and on account of what you told me in my first interview with you about four years ago in reference to him, I have never favored his removal. But, since Cohen has been so active, he has joined forces with him and has openly defied us. I refer to H. Dudley Coleman, Refiner & Melter at the Mint. He has made application to you for the postmastership at New Orleans. He is now giving Mr. Suthon, Supt., of the Mint, a good deal or trouble in reference to the appointment of an assistant. It seems that he has the right to appoint his assistant subject to the approval of the Superintendent. Some time since he wanted to appoint his son. Not long after that there was a position in the Treasury Department for which the son applied and to which he was appointed. Since then he has changed his mind and wants to be appointed as Assistant to his father, to which Mr. Suthon objects, and there has been considerable correspondence between Mr. Suthon and Mr. Roberts the Director of the Mint, and some action has to be taken right away . . Mr. Coleman has opposed us in every honest effort that we have ever made in any election. While he claims to be with us, he has always opposed us, and accepted the nomination as Mayor on a municipal ticket which Walter Cohan and his faction put out at the last election, but which was turned down by the Secretary of State for the reason Cohen's Faction was not recognized as the Republican Party in the State. He has always been a disorganizer and always will Mr. Roosevelt #3 12/24/04. be. He has no following whatever, but on account of the position he holds he has been able to give us a good deal of trouble. He never goes to his office until three o'clock in the day, and stays only about half an hour. He absolutely gives it no attention whatever. He is working with the Cohen faction hoping that Cohen will be recognized and would have the dispensing of the patronage, and in this way secure a better place for himself and also for his son-in-law Armand Romain, the party who wrote you recently and which I replied to sending you Romain's letter to me. Mr. Coleman has held this position for about nine years, and as long as we have such men as Cohen and Coleman to fight us it is going to make up hill work for us. You understand that my motives are entirely unselfish and patriotic, as there is no position of any kind that I could or would accept, and if I can be the means of building up a respectable party in the State under your administration, this will be all the reward I ask for. We have quite a number of others whose motives are the same as mine and no doubt in time we are going to succeed. The State was never better organized than at present. We have an organization in every Parish and District, and while the Democratic Press of the South were bitterly opposed to you before the election, there has been a decided change particularly in some of the New Orleans Journals, and I am satisfied before your present term has expired you will have more friends in the South than any President who has ever held office since the Civil War. The sentiment is changing rapidly. The course which you have persued in your appointments in the South, particularly in this State, is making friends for you every day. I will not take up any more of your time by making this any longer. I will be in Washington soon after January 1st, and while there would like to have an interview with you. Yours Truly, F B Williams F.B.W.Mr. Bond telephones that Mr. Murray now finds he can get here in time for the Wednesday evening appointment (Dec. 28). If the President has no objection they will bring with them Mr. Randolph, the First Vice President. 12-24-1904. [*B/ OK*][*[ca 12-24-1904*] Tenants School Parent's Name Home Address. R.S. [?] [?] S.S. [?] Phila. T.[V????????] [?ill] T.S. [V????????] . F.M. [?] Andover F. [?] New York, N.Y. [?] Tutor H.L. [?] . . . H.P. [?] St. Paul's H.S. Fargo . . . [?] . . . . L.B. Harding Jr St. Mark's L. [?] Harding [?] Hill L.G. [?] . Stanford [?] New York, N.Y. J.[?] . T.N. [?] [?], N.Y. G.A. Smith . J. [??n?kley] Greton G.P. [??n?kley] New York, N.Y. H.D. [?] . P. [?] [?????ler] Boston, Mass. J.A. [?] Jr. Netles J. A. [?] Boston, Mass. R.R. [????wood] . M.S. Sherwood . . G. [??rillard] St. Mark's Pierre Lorillard [?] [?] Park, N.Y. G.S. [?oll] [?] M.S. [?all] . . . [?] Hill G.S. Field Buffalo, N.Y. [?] [?] on High J.L. [?] Boston, Mass. R.J. [?] . . G. [?]. [?] . . N.W. [?] Netles [?] Boston, Mass. F.H. [?] [?] D.A. Mavis New York, N.Y. D.H. [?] . [?] Buffalo, N.Y. J.O. Parriola Jr Greton J.G. [?] New York, N.Y. F.H. [???ley] . M.H. [?] [?], N.Y. R.F. [?etts] Hill R.G. [?etts] Pittsburgh R.S. [?] Netles J.R. [?] Boston, Mass [?] Tutor A.H. [?] New York, N.Y. S. Harvin Jr. St. Mark's [?][??vin] Phila. R. W. Fay Fay W.B. Fay Southboro, Mass. J.S. [??rles] Netles [?] Boston, Mass. F.S. Sarrtello [?] Mrs. B.F. Sarrello Malden, Mass. F.H. Ellis St. Mark's Franklin Hills Washington, D.C.Tenants School Parent's Name Home Address. F. R. King St. George's Mrs. Leroy King Newport, R.I. J.A. Roosevelt Nobles Mrs. Cath. Bowlker Boston, Mass. O'D. Iselin Blake's S. O'D. Iselin New Rochelle,N.Y. A.H. Hard Jr. Pomfret A.H. Hard New York. N.Y. J .Richardson Jr. Hobbes J. Richardson Chestnut Hill A. Hellingsworth St. Paul's Boston. Mass. Grenford Burton St. Mark's R.L. Burton New York. N.Y. S.F.T. Brock St. Paul's J.H. Brock Philadelphia H.H. Bell Cutler's New York. N.Y. J.D.C. Rodgers St. George's Alex Rodgers Philadelphia J.D.C. Bradley St. Mark's Harrisburg. Pa. V. Hellingsworth St. Paul's Boston, Mass. J.R. Hooper Jr. Groton J.R. Hooper Brookline B.R. Corbett St. Paul's Mrs. H.L. Corbett Portland, Ore. F.O. Thompson St, Paul's M. D. Thompson Des Moines, Ia. O.P. Thompson " " " Samuel Powel St. George's Mrs. Hope Powel Newport, R.I. L.C. Josephs Jr. Groton L.O. Josephs Newport, R.I. S.H. Heyes St. Mark's Newport, R.I. W.P. Hearten Groton W.F. Hearten Groton, Mass. Wm. Chick Tutor I.W. Chich Boston, Mass. J.J. Rogers Moykinsen Jacob Rogers Lowell, Mass. H.C. Pell Jr. Pomfret H.C. Pell Tuxedo Park, N.Y. R. Lounsbery Cutler's R.P. Lounsbery New York. N.Y. S.S. Sands Eton, Eng. Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt New York. N.Y. G.N. Sands " " " H.S. Vanderbilt St. Mark's Mr. W.K. Vanderbilt " H.R. Tweed " Helen M. Tweed Roverly Farms W.S. Franklin Jr. Tutor W.S. Franklin Baltimore, Md. N.S. Tilney " Orange, N.J. Tenants School Parent's Name Home Address T.M. Claflin St. Paul's Wm. H. Claflin Boston, Mass. O.B. Whitney " Lottie J. Whitney Brookline, Mass. James Park Penfrod Mrs. G. Park New York, N.Y. S.J. Begstaff " Alfred Begstaff " E. G. Bartels St. Paul's G.C. Bartels Denver, Col. E. G. Kellogg " Wm. Bigelow Milwaukee F. Gilbert Jr. Stone's Fitch Gilbert Brookline, Mass. Wm. Sabine Noble's Dr. Sabine " Robert H. Sayre St. Paul's Elizabeth D. Sayre Denver, Co. " " " is a brother of the late Hal Sayre. D.C. Moyes Noble's Boston, Mass. O.H. Connell " " M. Gray Jr. " Morris Gray Brookline, Mass. D.A. Newhall Pomfret Wm. T. Harrison Philadelphia D.J. Knowlton " West Upton, Mass. C.A. Despard " C.L. Despard Jr. New York, N.Y Carl Wiggin " St. Louis, Mo. R.A. Cunningham Brown & Michels New York, N.Y. J.F. McDonald " " Cambridge, Mass. R.B. Bradley St. Mark's Chas. Bradley Convent, N.J. C.S. Brown Jr. Groton C.S. Brown New York, N.Y L.A. Pettibone Hill L.H. Pettibone Buffalo R.D. Laphan " " R.W. Bryant " " P.E. Wood Jr. Pomfret Mrs. J.D. Wood New York, N.Y. R.G. Barr Tutor Wm. R. Barr New York O.R. Comstock " G.F. Comstock E.G. Benedict St. Paul's James Benedict New York, N.Y W.P. Anderton " W.B. Anderton " H.L. McVicker St. Mark's Janet L. McVicker " C.C. Nash Nobles Herbert Nash Boston, Mass. W.R. Long " Harry V. Long " G.S. Biddle Groton Mrs. Sidney Biddle Philadelphia Geo. Hose " Helen E. Hose Boston, Mass. Tenants School Parent's Name Home Address Thorne Kissel Groton G.E. Kissel New York, N.Y, W.A. Brown Morristown P.A.H. Brown New York, N.Y. W.W. Corlett " J.H. Tisdale "Enclosed in Carrick 12-24-04[*[12-25-04]*] [*Ackd 1-9-05*] AMERICAN EMBASSY VIENNA Dear "Theodore:" You have so much to give away (almost everything except "Heaven"!) and I am asking for very little this Christmas Day -- I hear that we are to have a third Secretary - and I beg you to send, young Joseph Grew now in Egypt -- He is just the young man for a diplomatic career -- with breeding and education - He is also a brave and courageous hunter - I read a brilliant little article written by him in a magazine [of] about a cave hunt where he killed a tiger (in China) - Please send him to Vienna, you must still remember what it is to a youngman to have a chance to start in public life -- I know that this one is the very best material -- and what better reason can there be for urging his appointment? Whether we stay or go I do hope that you will send him to Vienna and I beg it of you in memory of the old days -- we ask nothing for ourselves - remember - Wishing you a happy Christmas and New Year. always affectionately yours Maria Longworth Storer - Christmas 1904 -Henry L. West [*Personal.*] [*P.F*] Commissioners of the District of Columbia Washington Dec. 25, 1904 Dear Mr. President: I want to thank you for making public your letter on the smoke nuisance. And, in justice to myself, I want also to say that during the past three weeks I have made a positive and clear record in favor of enforcing the law. This record, I shall insist, must eventually reach you, so that you can read the story of neutralized endeavor. The administration of the smoke law, under an assignmentof duties made before my appointment, does not come under my immediate jurisdiction. My regard for you personally and the high value which I place upon your good opinion prompts this note. With respect, I am, Very truly yours Henry L. WestOffice of the Governor Phoenix Arizona. Personal. December 26, 1906. [*Ackd 12-31-04*] My dear Mr. President: Reached home this morning at 2 o'clock, and hasten to notify you of the names of the men whom I have selected for your guard of honor on March 4, next. Of course this list will be subject to change should any decline, and I will make a supplementary list to choose from. I have believed the following would make a particularly representative showing for the regiment, and if you cause a wire to be sent me in case the men are satisfactory to you, I will at once address a letter of notification to each man selected. This list is as follows: Brodie, Alexander, McClintock, Mills, and Daniels, from Arizona; Muller, Llewellyn, Ballard, Dame, and Leahy, of New Mexico; Sloan Simpson, of Texas; Deveroux and Bell, of Colorado; Frants, and C. E. Hunter, of Oklahoma; Culbert, of Indian Territory; McIlheny, of Louisiana; Crockett, of Georgia; Wren, Goodrich, Ferguson, Knoblauch, Kane, Dean, and Cowden, of New York and Boston; Greenway, of Michigan; Jordan, of Washington; Waller, of Chicago; Jenkins, of South Carolina; and last, Guy Murchie. The four men I have selected to ride two on each side of your carriage are Kane, Greenway, Goodrich, and Ferguson. Should you desire changes made in the detail and will notify me by wire whom you wish placed on and when left off I shall be delighted to make the changes before sending my letters of notification of appointment. I found my desk here today covered with letters from members of the regiment from different sections of the United States asking that they be placed on this detail. All members of our old regiment would like the detail; still, as we are limited to thirty, I feel that I have made a good selection.Col. Theodore Roosevelt.--2. I selected Captain Dane as acting adjutant for that day as he would know more of the detail than any other, and for the reason I had him at hand and could talk over with him the manner in which I wished the details arranged. I have selected as nearly as I could representative men from each troop and from each section of the country. The uniform as selected will consist of a blouse and riding britches of kaki, a Stetson army hat, buckskin gauntlets, canvas leggings, blue flannel shirt, blue polka-dot silk handkerchief, and flat brass spurs, at a total cost of $45. The number of men being limited to thirty is going to be a great disappointment to the most of the regiment as all would naturally desire to be a part of that particular guard of honor; however, I am giving notice through the newspapers, and have already done so through the West, that you expect to meet the bulk of your regiment at San Antonio the latter part of March. Inclosed herewith I hand you copy of from of letter which I shall address to each man appointed a member of the force detailed for March 4th. If you desire change in that, and cause me to be notified by wire, I shall hold it up until I get copy of your amendments by mail. I believe, Mr. President, that this guard of honor from your old regiment will be one of the prettiest companies that will march down Pennsylvania avenue with you to your inaugural. Col. Theodore Roosevelt. -2- Again expressing my appreciation of the kindly honor you have conferred upon me , I am, Very respectfully, Alexander O. Brodie Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. Inclosure.[*[For 1 enclosure see ca. 12-26-04]*][*[Ca. 12-26-04]*] Phoenix, Arizona, 190. . Dear sir: By direction of the President I am to selecting [a] command from among the members of his old regiment, First United States Voluntary Cavalry, (Rough Riders) thirty men to act as mounted guard of honor during the inaugural parade on March 4, 1905. The requirement as to membership in this guard of honor as specified by the President and now laid down by me are: First: That all members of the force shall be dressed the same and to this end arrangements have been made with F. J. Heiberger, 535 Fift[en]teenth St. N. W., Washington, D. C to make for each man on receipt of is order a kaki suit, [?] blouse and riding britches; to furnish with each order one blue flannel short (army style), one pair canvas leggings, one pair flat brass spurs, one pair buckskin gauntlets, one blue silk polka-dot handkerchief, and one Stetson hat (army style). The estimated cost of the above dress for each member is about $45.00. Only in the above way can absolute uniformity be secured. Second: The conditions as to conduct of the guard of honor while in Washington is that they shall be exemplary in all ways at all times, of soldierly bearing, and absolutely temperate, to the end that this representative force from our old regiment may by appearance and bearing be worthy of the commendation of our old commander, and reflect credit upon our old organization. Third: In order that there may be miscarriage, and that the force will be an organized body on the morning of March 4, 1905, it is made an absolute part of the agreement, in case you accept the appointment which I take sincere pleasure in now tendering you as a member of the guard of honor above referred to, that you report in person to Captain W. E. Dame, secretary of the Rough Rider association, and detailed as acting adjutant on that day, at least two days before March 4, 1905. Captain Dame will inform you of his Washington address. The2... reason that early arrival in Washington is requested of members of the force is that each may become accustomed to the horse he is to ride, and for some little drill, if possible. Horses will be furnished from a trained organization. Further, I have to add that as it is advisable that all members of the force be housed at the same hotel, Captain Dame has been requested to correspond and secure proper accommodations and rates from either the New Willard or Raleigh, each member of the force being expected to be at all times at his own expense. The President has signally honored our old regiment by selecting from it his personal guard of honor on his inaugural day and we must do our utmost to justify this confidence evidence of his confidence and regard. It is particularly requested that your acceptance or declination of this appointment be forwarded to me at Phoenix, Arizona by wire, an acceptance meaning to me that you will be present fully equipped and without fail. With expressions of kind regard, Yours sincerely, [*[BRODIE]*][*[Enclosed in 12-26-04]*] HENRY HALL, PRESIDENT CHAS. D. WILLOUGHBY, CASHIER E.H. SHAFFER, ASST. CASHIER No. 1805 FIRST NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL- $300,000.00 SURPLUS - - $570,000.00 MOBILE, ALA. December 26/04 Mr. E.P. McAdams City Dear Sir: Referring to our conversation of this morning concerning Mr Tebbetts: I have had the pleasure of knowing him personally for some years and during that time have not heard any adverse criticism of his management of his office. Socially he stands well and associates with the best people in the city. While Mr. Tebbetts is not a prohibitionist, heHENRY HALL, PRESIDENT CHAS. D. WILLOUGHBY, CASHIER E.H. SHAFFER, ASST. CASHIER No. 1805 FIRST NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL- $300,000.00 SURPLUS - - $570,000.00 MOBILE, ALA. is certainly not what is known as a drinking man, and I have heard of only one occasion when he must have indulged too much ---he had been to a club supper and one his way home, imagined a passing pedestrian held him up. he reported this to[o] the police and was afterward man enough to retract his statement, stating that he must have had too much wine at the supper. Let me add that my opinion of Mr Tebbetts is not influenced by any personal or businessHENRY HALL, PRESIDENT CHAS. D. WILLOUGHBY, CASHIER E.H. SHAFFER, ASST. CASHIER No. 1805 FIRST NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL- $300,000.00 SURPLUS - - $570,000.00 MOBILE, ALA. connection. I have no business connections with him. Very truly yours Henry HallSaturday. [*Ack'd 12-26-04*] 1701 TWENTY-SECOND STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. My dear Mr. President,- I am sure you do not need this photograph, to remind you of Mark, and I hope you will not think me, presumptuous, in sending it. After the idea once took possession of me, I could not refrain from giving expression to it. This is a happy time for you, and dear Mrs. Roosevelt-. All together under one roof, you and the children, making a merry household. I hope you mayhave many just such delightful holidays" - This is a sad Christmas for me, I have been dreading it for many weeks, but -- I had no idea how sad it could be, until the time was actually here - Mark's photograph is just for your home rooms, where you live. I hope I am not intruding, with my sad note. Most sincerely your friend C. Augusta Hanna (COPY) WASHINGTON, D.C., December 26, 1904. Honorable George B. Cortelyou, Chairman, Republican National Committee, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Chairman: The enclosed letter from Senator Bard, relative to the services rendered during the campaign by Dr. Adolph Danziger, has been handed to me by Mr. Johns with a memorandum stating that you desire an expression of opinion on the subject. It is my belief that the efforts of Dr. Danziger in the Republican cause were decidedly effective in certain directions. He was unquestionably one of the most enthusiastic and indefatigable of our workers at the New York Headquarters. While at times his enthusiasm seemed to outstrip his judgment, leading him to take steps that were considered somewhat injudicious, particularly in the matter of campaign "literature," I am confident that his work in its entirety was productive of good results. In addition to his activity on the East Side, he rendered excellent service as a speaker at Rallies in Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The reports that came to me regarding his speeches were highly complimentary, and whatever the opinion may be as to the effect of his campaign documents, I have no doubts his efforts as a speaker brought definite returns. On the whole, it seems to me that Dr. Danziger's services during the campaign were of such a character as to merit recognition in the manner he desires. Very truly yours, (SIGNED) F.H. HITCHCOCK.[*[Enc in Bard 1-17-05]*][*[Enc. in Bard 1-17-05]*]MICHAEL J. MCDERMOTT, PRESIDENT. SIDNEY LOWENSTEIN, VICE-PRESIDENT. THOMAS J. O'CONNOR, CASHIER. ORGANIZED DEC. 2ND 1903. CAPITAL $100,000.00 7062 THE BANK OF MOBILE NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS. JOHN J. BLACKSHER. EDWIN MACARTNEY HENRY W. FRENCH. MICHAEL J. MCDERMOTT ABRAHAM G. LEVY. THOMAS J. POTTER SIDNEY LOWENSTEIN. ANDREW VAN ANTWERP JOSEPH H. LYONS. MICHAEL J. VICKERS MOBILE, ALA., Dec. 26th. 1904. Mr. E. P. Mc. Adams, Mobile, Ala. My Dear Sir: Referring to your enquiry regarding Mr. Wm. F. Tebbetts I take pleasure in stating that I have known the gentlemen for several years. So far as I knew he has filled the office of collector creditably extending all of the facilities at his command without discrimination. Have never seen him intoxicated nor with undersirable company. I think he enjoys membership of the best clubs and his associates are good so far as I know. I was recently serving on the Finance Committee of the Commercial Club with him solicting subscription for the Confederate Veterans and we met the majority of the business men and all seemed to receive him favorably, Very Truly Yours, M J McDermott President. [*[MCDERMOTT]*]WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. [*see War 12/23/04*] Memorandum for the Chief of Staff: Correspondence from the President in which he wishes to know if a colored contract surgeon can not be appointed to serve with colored troops. -------------- Respectfully referred to the Chief of Staff for his comment. Wm H Taft Secretary of War December 26, 1904.[For attachment see 12-31-04]Legation at Japan, Washington. Answ'd 12-27-04 Dec 26, 1904 Hon. William Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President White House - - Dear Sir, When the President expressed his desire to have some books about Japan sometime ago, I was suggested that among others, the "Tales of OldJapan" would be perhaps interesting to him. The books had been however out of print for some time and I asked a friend of mine in London to assist me to obtain them. On my return here a few days ago I found the books arrived from London and I now desire to request that you will be good enough to present them to the President, on my behalf. Very sincerely yours, K. TakahiraTELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3 PO. G. FD. 22 8:08p.m. Tuskegee, Ala., December 26, 1904. Mr. Wm. Loeb, jr., White House. Am sending the President letter to-day bearing upon his Lincoln birthday address, which I wish him to see before he completes address. Booker T. Washington.CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 216 ST. PAUL ST., BALTIMORE. [*Ackd 12/28/04*] Confidential. December 27, 1904. To The President, White House, Washington, D.C., Sir:- I send you herewith clippings from the several Baltimore papers, that is to say, the "Sun", which is Democratic, but rather hostile to Gorman and the present management of his party; the "Evening Herald," now the Democratic "Ring" organ; the "American", which is Republican, and the "Evening News", which is Independent Democratic and, on the whole, reflects the sentiments of the Independent vote and the most intelligent public opinion. It is not too much to say that the appointment of Mr. Harris has been a thunderclap; the politicians are fairly dazed, and the public generally, for the most part, thinks the news almost too good to be true. I have marked a few passages which may amuse you; I call to your special attention the editorial from the "News" and the picture of myself in the "Herald". I am happy to say that, so far as I know, there has not been a word of criticism of the appointee, and his entire fitness for the position is acknowledged even by the politicians who are distressed at his choice. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte Dictated.LAW OFFICE OF FREDERICK G. BROMBERG, 72 ST. FRANCIS STREET MOBILE, ALA. VS. December 27th., 1904 E. P. McAdams, Esq., Battle House, City Dear Sir: I take pleasure in stating that I have known Mr. William F. Tebbetts, the present collector of the Port of Mobile, ever since his coming to the City, and very intimately. I have never known or heard of anything derogatory to his moral character, or to his standing as a gentleman in this community. He moves in the best circles, and is received everywhere as an honorable gentleman. Yours truly, Fred'k. G. Bromberg. Dct.R.H.& N.R. CLARKE, LAW OFFICES, ROOMS 201-202 & 218 POLLOCK BUILDING, MOBILE, ALABAMA. Mobile, Dec. 27th., 1904. Mr. E.P. McAdams, City, Dear Sir: A friend of Capt. W. F. Tebbetts tells me charges have been made to you that he is intemperate and of bad moral character, and I am asked to say to you what I know about him touching such matters. I will premise that I am a democrat and feel that it is out of place for me to take part in any republican controversies, or to make any recommendations of republicans for office, and I do not wish this letter to be considered as written in furtherance of what I understand to be Captain Tebbetts's application for reappointment. But, I think the chargesR.H.& N.R. CLARKE, LAW OFFICES, ROOMS 201-202 & 218 POLLOCK BUILDING, MOBILE, ALABAMA. 2 do him a gross injustice, and that it is due him that I shall say so. He is received socially by the best people of Mobile, - is treated by them with the courtesy due a gentleman, and so bears himself with them. If he has ever been under the influence of liquor, I have not known or heard of it, and I have frequently been with him at entertainments where wine flowed freely. That his character is otherwise bad will, I am sure, be a surprising charge to those who are frequently associated with him here, and I have not heard of it before. I have had some business with his office and have always found him courteous and efficient. Very respectfully, R.H. Clarke.[*Ack'd 12-28-04*] December 27, 1904. Memorandum for Secretary Loeb: I spoke to the President today about J. E. West, Assistant U. S. Marshal, Virginia (Assistant in the office for which J. E. B. Stuart has just been nominated). West is a personal friend of Mr. L. A. Coolidge, and is said to be an excellent man. The President asked me to have him reminded of this so that he might speak of West to Mr. Stuart when Stuart called on him. Geo. B. Cortelyou [[shorthand]]OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 27, 1904. My dear Senator Bard: I have received your letter of the 7th instant, and thought the best way to get at this matter directly was to obtain an opinion concerning the gentleman from Mr. Hitchcock who, as Assistant Secretary of the National Committee at New York, was cognizant of the work done by him. A copy of Mr. Hitchcock's letter is handed you herewith. Thanking you for your kind message of congratulations, and with regards, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Honorable Thomas R. Bard, United States Senate. Enclosure.[Enc. in Bard 1-17-05]ESTABLISHED IN 1820 OFFICE OF THE MOBILE REGISTER, REGISTER COMPANY, PUBLISHERS JNO. L. RAPIER, PRESIDENT. E. CRAIGHEAD, VICE-PRESIDENT. MAT. TOOMEY, SECRETARY. Mobile, Ala., Dec 27, 1904 This is to say that I have known Captain W. F. Tebbetts since his appointment as collector of this port and have seen a great deal of him in social and business life. I have heard nothing against his moral character or his habits for sobriety. I have found him ever ready to perform his duty in representing the government in every local work for self development of its community, and I regard him as very useful to us in this work. He is in good standing socially, and is highly regarded by his friends. Erwin Craighead Edr. Register.[*Bus. F*] WILLIAM M. CRUIKSHANK. EDWARD A. CRUIKSHANK Wm. Cruikshank's Sons. Real Estate. 51 Liberty Street. New York. Dec. 27th, 1904. Mr. Wm. Loeb, Jr., White House, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Loeb, I am in receipt of your favor of the 24th inst., enclosing petition, affidavit, etc. in the matter of the appointment of Mrs. Roosevelt as guardian for Kermit, which completes the papers sent by me some little time ago. With best wishes for A Happy New Year, I am, Very truly yours, William M. CruikshankCABLE ADDRESS "DANNER" USE WESTERN UNION (UNIVERSAL EDITION) OR A.B.C. CODES. MOBILE COAL COMPANY A. C. DANNER, President. J. C. STRONG, Sec'y & treas. MOBILE, ALA. Dec. 27th, 19L4. Mr. E. P. McAdams, Mobile, Dear Sir:- In response to your request for a letter in reference to Mr. Wm. F. Tebbetts, Collector of the Port at Mobile, I will state that as president of the Mobile Coal Company, I have had more or less business with the Customhouse here since Mr. Tebbetts has been in charge as Collector of the port. I have found Mr. Tebbetts always ready to transact business promptly and with entire satisfaction. This is the co-census of opinion of all the business men with whom I have talked. I have never heard one of them say anything against Mr. Tebbetts. I think the tales that have started against him here are purely imaginary and are the result of a constant struggle for office going on in this section between various members of the Republican party. Yours very truly, A. C. Danner President.OFFICE OF STATE AND COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR PHELAN B. DORLON, TAX COLLECTOR MOBILE, ALA., December 27, 1904 E.P. McAdams, Esq., Battle House, City. Dear Sir:- I take pleasure in stating that I have known Mr. Wiliam F. Tebbetts, the present collector of this Port of Mobile, ever since his coming to the City, I have never known or heard of anything derogatory to his moral character, or to his standing as a gentleman in this community. He moves in the best circles, and is received everywhere as an honorable gentleman. Yours truly, Phelan B. DorlonORGANIZED 1890 TO PROMOTE THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF MOBILE MOBILE COMMERCIAL CLUB. DIRECTORS: MAX HAMBURGER, Jr. President, Manager Daily Herald. W. F. TEBBETS, 1st Vice President, Collector of Customs E. L. RUSSELL, 2nd Vice president, Gen'l Counsel, M. & O. Railroad. HARRY T. HARTWELL, Treasurer, Sect'y and Treas. Tow Boat Co. H. G. BARCLAY, Gen'l Agent, L. & N. Railroad. JOHN CRAFT, Capitalist. SAFFOLD BERNEY, Att'y in Charge Legal Dept. M. & O. Railroad J. P. WILSON, SECRETARY DIRECTORS: A. S. LYONS, President City Delivery Co. H M. WEFEL, Real Estate and Pine Lands. W. H. MONK, Jr., Furniture. T. A. YEEND, Merchant. W. K. P. Wilson, General Insurance. W. L. HENDERSON, Ind. Agent, So. Railroad. JULES E. ALFORD, Judge Inferior Criminal Court. MOBILE, ALA. Dec. 27, 1904. Mr. E. P. Mc Adams, City. Dear Sir:- I am told that reports reflecting upon the personal character of Capt. Wm. F. Tebbets, Collector of the port, have been put in circulation by his enemies, and that the same has reached your ears. I beg to state that I have known Capt. Tebbets in a business way since his arrival in Mobile; have been thrown in contact with him almost every day, and I am sure that these reports do him a grave injustice. He is not a man of intemperate habits and is not a man whose conduct reflects upon him as a gentleman. I know that you can easily verify this statement by talking with any of the prominent citizens of Mobile who are acquainted with Capt. Tebbets. I make this statement voluntarily in justice to one with whom I differ politically, but whom I esteem as a man, and respect as a public official. Yours very respectfully, Max Hamburger, Jr. League of Independents, Committee on Temporary Organizations DR. WM. N. HILL, Chairman, 2239 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md. DANIEL CAVANAUGH, Secretary. 132 E. 23d Street, New York. Dec 27 1904 Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte, Dear Sir Perhaps it may not be without interest to you for me to state that the general opinion of those who like myself are independent voters and who voted for Mr Roosevelt is favorable to the action of the President in appointing Mr Harris as Postmaster. Many of my friends have today expressed their gratification at the appointment as showing the Mr. Roosevelt intends to be himself President which is what we voted for him to be. With the Postmastership row over it is to be hoped that we will have now a fair discussion of the local public improvement scheme and how to pay for the improvements Yours truly Wm. N. Hill, M.D. The writer is an Independent and a great admirer of yours and he did work hard during this late campaign but he is also a good deal of a visionary: what he says is only a "straw", but it floats the same way with other "straws" as to this. C. J.B.[*[Enclosed in Bonaparte, 12 28-04]*]HUBBARD BROS. CABLE ADDRESS, "HUBBARD" MOBILE, ALA. December 27th., 1904. The Hon. Sec'y of the Treasury., Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- In view of the fact Mr. W. F. Tebbetts applicant for reappointment as Collector for the Port of Mobile, has been assailed by several as to character, etc. I beg to say in Mr. Tebbetts behalf, as far as I know, and can learn from inquiry the reports are from people of no standing, and that there is a possibility such are instigated and preferred at the expense of an opposition that does not hesitate in whatever action it is pleased to indulge. Mr. Whiting, President of the Peoples Bank here, says he wrote a letter of recommendation to Senator Frye, in which he stated Mr. Tebbetts was in social standing and visited his house as a welcome guest. Understand there is a special Agent here investigating the reports as here outlined; I only hope his report may be to you as I have stated, that the same are from people entirely unreliable, and only actuated by malice. Respectfully yours, E. H. HubbardALEXANDER LAMBERT, M.D. 195 EAST 86TH STREET NEW YORK OFFICE HOURS UNTIL 9.30 A.M. 1 TO 2 P.M. TELEPHONE 899 MADISON [*Ackd 12-29-04*] Dec 27 1904 Dear Theodore The world seems small at times. A short time ago I was called in by Dr Wylie to examine a mans heart & I found that the patient was a Thomas Lyons of Silver City New Mexico the same man Secretary Metcalf has been writing to arranging to take you bear hunting in the spring. Mr. Lyons tells me that April 1st to May 15th is the best time of the year & his method of hunting is as follows: he has a hound who will track a bear & as soon as a sufficiently fresh trail is found a leash is tied to the dog & a man on foot goes with the dog, this keeps him slow enough for the horses to follow over a very rough country When the dog scents the bear himself he bays & all to other dogs previously kept behind the horses are sent forward & are on the bear before he can go far. They have killed some 200 bears this way. If you are still hoping to go this spring I will join you. Any time up to the first of June will suit me all I want is a few days notice and I shall be ready. I thought I would write you in case you wished me to say anything to Lyons. He is a thick set rugged man & very entertaining. He will be here about ten days longer. With a happy new year to you & your family. Faithfully yours, Alexander Lambert.[*Ackd 12-27-1904*] Dear Mr President: I send you these books which you may care to look over if you ever have a moment of leisure. In "[??]" you will find an account of the prehistoric Egyptian civilization and the sequence dating which seems to me avery remarkable feat of archaeological ingenuity. In the "Royal Tombs" you will find the signary of which I spoke to you & a brief & interesting discussion of it. The Touareg alphabet is given in "Libyan Notes" with some further discussion of the remarkable use of these signs from apparently prehistoric times.I venture to enclose a translation I made of a famous Egyptian Lyric of the 18th dynasty which seems to me a very good example of Egyptian poetry at its best. I think the maturity of the thought & the just beauty of the expressions are very remarkable. I beg you Mr President to keep these books as long as you desire for I am quite thro' with them all for a long time to come. Believe me Sir With the highest respect Ever Yours George Cabot Lodge [*[Lodge]*][*Ack'd 12-28-04*] SPEYER & CO., 24 & 26 PINE STREET. CABLE ADDRESS; SPY, NEW YORK. MAIL ADDRESS; P.O. BOX 477 LAZARD SPEYER-ELLISSEN, FRANKFURT O/MAIN. SPEYER BROTHERS, LONDON. [*M*] NEW YORK, December 27, 1904 To the President WASHINGTON, D.C. Sir: The writer, who has just returned from a visit to Cuba, begs to submit the following observations in reference to the condition of affairs there. The payment of the Soldiers' Claims out of the proceeds of the $35,000,000. loan negotiated by Cuba in February last, is progressing slowly in accordance with the regulations made by the Island Treasury. The amount now being paid is 50% of the total claims, and the measures to be taken to provide for the balance are now occupying the attention of almost every one from the highest to the lowest in the Island. Just after passage of the Bill authorizing the loan for $35,000,000., a movement was started by certain speculators here and elsewhere to purchase the Soldiers' Claims at prices ranging from 20% to 40% of their face value, and ever since then this movement has been increasing in volume, until, according to common report, very large sums have been accumulated. It is impossible from the records to obtain any authentic information as to the amount, but the Secretary of the Treasury of the Island told me that from what he could judge, at least $8,000,000. to $10,000,000. had been done. These purchased claims are now held by a large number of speculators in this country and in Europe, and the very strongest2. efforts are being made to force the President of the Republic of Cuba to take a position in favor of paying these claims at their full face value, and similar influences are also at work among the Congressmen in favor of passing a bill to authorize the President to raise a further loan for this purpose. In this connection it is well to mention now that the rate of pay offered to the soldiers at the time they accepted service was $1. per day "plata" (Spanish silver), which is worth about 70c on the dollar, and if the soldiers did finally receive 70% in United States gold coin they would be getting all that they were entitled to. This, however, would not suit the book of those who now own the claims, and, as I have above said, these people are straining every nerve to obtain what they call payment "in full". It is needless to say that should they succeed a large amount will be diverted from Cuba to the pockets of outsiders. A bill has been introduced to authorize a loan of $28,000,000. for this purpose, but inasmuch as the Budget of Cuba could not provide for the interest and sinking fund on such a large amount, the President has heretofore declined to assist in the passage of such a bill. Another scheme has therefore been presented calling for the issue to the soldiers of a low interest bearing bond to the amount of about $28,000,000. the sinking fund for which it is proposed should not begin to run for a long time, possibly not before the $35,000,000. loan has been repaid. It is seriously contended that this is not a loan within the meaning of the Platt Amendment, as it is not issued for money borrowed and, therefore, the provisions of the Platt Amendment and the Constitution of the Island of Cuba would not apply. It is contended that the provision in the Platt Amendment in reference to a sinking fund is fully complied with if the sinking fund does not take effect until the revenues of the Island are sufficient for the purpose. This, of course, would4 a soldier, or the captain of a lake schooner, might possess in equal measure Theodore Roosevelt's physical and moral courage, his native intelligence and his tempered self-control, but might lack altogether the knowledge of public affairs that would be requisite for high political office. On the other hand, there are men whose information regarding American history, public policy, and statecraft might in some directions be even wider than President Roosevelt's, while lacking [but who would lack] that rounded development of personal character that the people of this country earnestly wish [long] to find in the man who occupies the White House and stands before the world as their foremost citizen and representative. Mr. Roosevelt is without question the highest authority in this country to-day upon the application of our laws and our system of government to the varied tasks of the Chief Executive. He has been before the public for almost a quarter of a century, always destined to great influence. Yet he has never been a conscious climber up the ladder of public preferment. He has never used one office as if it were a stepping stone on the way to another. He has never taken up any public task without putting his whole energy into its performance, as if it afforded the supreme opportunity for usefulness to his fellow-citizens.5 Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York, October 27, 1858. His father was a greatly respected citizen of New York City, and his mother was from the State of Georgia. He graduated [from] at Harvard University in 1880. His health had not been good as a boy, but systematic physical training through the school and college period brought him out strong and well. He was always interested in American history and politics, and entered almost immediately after leaving college upon the career which, without the slightest turning or deviation, he has pursued ever since. He found himself a Republican by inheritance and tradition, by association, and by his own independent study of the course of our country's [history and politics] public affairs. He determined to work within that party, believing it to be an organization designed to promote the country's good, within which men might find sufficient freedom for the advocacy from time to time of their own convictions, as public policies might develop and new questions might arise. His first public service was in the New York legislature, to which he was elected in 1881, and where he served three successive terms. He attained, almost immediately, a leading position through his frankness and courage. He saw dawning upon the horizon of practical politics two new and essential reforms. One was the substitution [for] in place of the spoils system of a business-like and efficient civil service, 6 and the other, in view of the rapid growth of our town life, was the improvement of the methods and character of [the] city government. With intelligence, courage, and conviction, he threw himself into both of these lines of active reform work. Thus he wrote the original civil service law of the State of New York, and as a Republican carried it through the Legislature. He instituted an investigation into the conditions of municipal government in the metropolis of the country, and headed the committee that made the inquiry. Young Republicans all over the United States took note of this resolute [young] new leader [still in the early twenties] in the great Empire State, and said to one another, If he shows staying power we shall some day make him President. In 1884, young as he was, he appeared at the National Republican Convention not only as one of the four delegates-at-large from his State, but as chairman of the delegation. Some of his most trusted and respected friends in New York and Massachusetts who had been prominent in the cause of civil service reform did not concur in the Republican choice of Mr. Blaine for president, and launched an independent movement. Mr. Roosevelt, however, adhered to the Republican Party and supported the ticket, although Mr. Edmunds rather than Mr. Blaine had been his [personal] convention preference; and he set forward his position in a statement so clear and final upon7 [his views] the obligations and duties of party [action and] allegiance, that he would not to-day alter a single word. In the twenty years from [this activity] this conspicuous appearance of his at the convention of 1884 to the convention which nominated him in 1904, his position in the Republican party and in the country has been one of steady growth, until he has now become firmly established as the highest authority in the party and the foremost public man of the nation. From his early days in college he had been a devoted student of history, the geography, the development, and the life in all phases, of this great country. While still a member of the New York Legislature, he had acquired a ranch near the Montana line of North Dakota, where for several years he spent much of his time, participating actively in pioneer life and gaining in practiced ways an invaluable knowledge of the processes of evolution through which all American commonwealths have had to pass. His work as a student of books, meanwhile, was never dropped, even while he was most [actively] busily engaged in the [life of practical] affairs of current politics or in frontier activities. In 1886 he was the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, but was defeated by Mr. Abram Hewitt as the Tammany Democratic nominee, around whom certain conservative interests rallied in the fear that otherwise the third candidate, Mr. Henry George, might be elected.8 It was not until 1889 that Mr. Roosevelt again held an office; but he was, meanwhile, in more than one way an active and influential figure in the busy life of the American people. In 1882 he had published his work on the second war with Great Britain, entitled "The Naval Operations of the War Between Great Britain and the United States, 1812-1815." This at once gave him a place among writers on American history and also among students of naval strategy. His next book, which appeared in 1886, was called "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." During the following three years, when he had no official duties, he gave his best energy to the study of the history and development of the United States, and embodied that study in a series of volumes, and So industrious was he, indeed, that he brought out in the years 1886-1889 (inclusive) no fewer than seven volumes that will stand permanently to his credit. It was in this period that he entered upon these remarkable studies of the conquest and settlement of the Mississippi Valley which have taken form in his four-volume work entitled "The Winning of the West," of which the first two volumes were given to the public in 1889. He had meanwhile, in 1887 and 1886, contributed two volumes to the "American Statesmen" series, on a life of Thomas H. Benton, the other a life of Gouveneur Morris. In 1888, [also] moreover, appeared his volume entitled "Essays on Practical Politics"9 which has recently been brought out with additional essays in the volume called "American Ideals." His second book on frontier life also appeared in 1888 under the title "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail." Mr. Roosevelt had always been interested in our foreign relations, and was proposed for Assistant Secretary of State when President Harrison's administration began in 1889, but he was offered instead what seemed the less attractive position of Civil Service Commissioner. He took the position cheerfully, and held it for six years. During that period, serving under President Cleveland as well as President Harrison, he saw the methods of appointment in the United States almost completely transformed. His activity and energy in this great work of putting business-like method into the detail of the public services brought him into close contact with the machinery of government in all the departments, and into [personal] relationship with cabinet officers, senators, members of Congress, and the whole personnel of administration. For a young man capable of taking on training, there could have been no better [training] school than this [fo] for [sbs] subsequent [work of the] personal direction of that great administrative machine. And when Roosevelt left the office of Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, he had served his full apprenticeship and was fit for any public work, no matter what its responsibilities, that might be10 assigned to him. He was in his thirty-seventh year when, early in 1895, Mayor Strong called him from Washington to take the presidency of the police board of New York City. He will be in his forty-seventh year, when, early in 1905, the victor in the pending Presidential campaign [ ] will be inaugurated at Washington. In these ten years, his career has led him upward and onward by swift bounds almost unprecedented in our political history; but the secret of his advancement [lay] is to be found in the thoroughness of his previous training. As New York Police Commissioner he was called upon to show great strength of character in the observance of [the] his oath of office by enforcing unpopular laws. He left a permanent impress upon the administration of the great metropolis. He helped to solve some of the most difficult police problems for all the cities of the country. He was one of the first to forsee the inevitability of the war with Spain. He had done what he could for the police department of New York, and meanwhile a Republican administration was coming into power at Washington. He was appointed by Mr. McKinley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Hon. John D. Long, of Massachusetts, being head of that department. We were wholly unprepared for war either on land or by sea. Of all men connected with the administration, Roosevelt most clearly perceived the fact that although armies may be ready after war breaks out, navies 23 frankness upon questions as they arise. He knows the Indians and sees that they have justice. He knows the difficulties that beset the race problem in the South, but he also holds that in ethics, as under the Constitution and laws of the United States, a man is a man, no matter what the color of his skin. While [holding] believing that the rights of property must be regarded and conserved, he holds the men higher than the dollar. He sees that in a country like ours, the radical and the conservative alike must demand of their chief executive that [they hold] he maintain the law as first and supreme, over rich and poor alike. To the young man of the country, President Roosevelt sets an example of the value of a sound mind in a sound body. [and] His career helps them to [feel] see the practical worth of industry, of system, of [a] temperate living; and [to know] helps them to perceive that faith in the highest public and private ideals still [survives] holds sway in our places of highest honor and power. #[*Digest of sections proposal here T.V.P.*] [*[1904]*] PROVISIONS OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW. Sec. 1:- Enacting clause -- All Chinese refused admission, except natives, citizens, officials, teachers, students, merchants, travelers, returning registered laborers and returning domiciled merchants. Sec. 2:- Requires transportation lines and officials to detain Chinese passengers until claims to right to admission are decided, and to return those refused. Sec. 3:- Declares neglect or failure to observe requirements of Secs. 1 & 2 a misdemeanor and provides penalties. Sec. 4:- Established requirements as to manifests of Chinese passengers. Sec. 5:- Prescribes penalties for failure to observe requirements of Sec. 4. Sec. 6:- Prescribes primary examination of Chinese passengers and their baggage and provides for temporary removal to places of detention pending decision to claims to admission.-2- Sec. 7:- Declares bringing or attempting, conspiring or plotting to bring into the United States Chinese other than those mentioned in Sec. 1, a misdemeanor and provides penalties therefor. Sec: 8:- Declares vessel liable to seizure, etc., if its officers violate provisions of this Act. Sec. 9:- declares that no Chinese, other than Chinese officials teachers, students, merchants, travelers, returning laborers and domiciled merchants shall be permitted to enter the United States, and that no Chinese shall be admitted by reason of relationship to any of the exempted classes. Sec. 10:- Prescribes character of evidence required for admission of Chinese as citizens by birth or naturalization. Sec. 11:- Prescribes character of certification for Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchants and travelers; verification of same by consular officers and method of transmission and delivery Sec. 12:- Requires Secretary of Treasury to obtain from Chinese Government list of Chinese officials entitled to admission, and provides for refusal of those not listed. Sec. 13:- Defines the term TEACHER, as used in Sec. 11, and provides character of evidence required for admission.-3- Sec. 14:- Defines the term STUDENT, as used in Sec. 11, and provides character of evidence required for admission. Sec. 15:- Defines the term MERCHANT, as used in Sec. 11, and provides the character of evidence required for admission. Sec. 16:- Defines the term TRAVELER, as used in Sec. 11, and provides the evidence required for admission. Sec. 17:- Defines the term DOMICILED MERCHANT, as used in Sec. 1, and prescribes the character of evidence required for admission. Sec. 18:- Prescribes necessary qualifications for return of registered laborers, and limits such returns to two years after departure. Sec. 19:- Describes pre-requisites for and provides for granting of return certificates to departing registered laborers. Sec. 20:- Provides that transfer or disposal of registered laborers' return certificates shall render the same void and forfeit right to return, declares alteration, forger, etc., or false impersonation or rightful holder a misdemeanor and defines penalties therefor.4 Sec. 21:- Provides for cancellation of registered laborers' return certificates if not presented within two years at port of original departure from the United States. Sec. 22:- Provides for cancellation of certificate of residence or other certificate issued to Chinese laborers if the same is pawned, sold or transferred and for evidence requisite for issuance of duplicate certificate of residence if original is lost or destroyed. Sec. 23:- Requires Chinese mercantile firms to furnish annually partnership lists and reports of business conducted. Sec. 24:- Provides that Chinese partnership lists and reports required by Sec. 23, shall be essential to identification of domiciled merchants. Sec. 25:- Provides for admission of Chinese at ports of San Francisco, Port Townsend, Portland, Ore.; Boston, New Orleans, Honolulu, San Juan and Manila, and that additional ports may be designated upon contracts binding transportation lines to observance of this law and subsequent regulations, such additional ports to be closed in case of violation of such contracts.-5- Sec. 26:- Provides pre-requisite to privilege of transit across United States territory to foreign lands, and requires certificate of diplomatic or consular officer as to claims to such privilege. Sec. 27:- Provides for examination of person and baggage of applicant for privilege of transit and character of evidence required and that decision of examining officer shall be final. Sec. 28:- Provides that Chinese persons refused admission may not make alternative claim nor exercise privilege of transit. Sec. 29:- Provides for transportation manifests of Chinese seeking privilege of transit. Sec. 30:- Requires bond from transportation company for each Chinese member of crew brought to United States ports. Sec. 31:- Provides that nothing in this act shall be construed to relieve any persons of obligations, duties or penalties imposed by any law. Sec. 32:- Provides that the Commissioner General of immigration, under the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be charged with the administration of this and subsequent exclusion acts, with auhtority to issue regulations, prescribe forms, designate assignments and duties and recommend appointments of inspectors.-6- Sec. 33:- Provides that officers designated to enforce this and subsequent exclusion acts shall be empowered to administer oaths. Sec. 34:- Provides for arrest, prosecution and deportation of Chinese unlawfully in the country. Sec. 35:- Provides for deportation of Chinese who enter the United States unlawfully even though justly entitled to enter. Sec. 36:- Provides for appeals to the United States district court from the United states Commissioner's decision by either the Chinese defendant or the prosecuting officer. Sec. 37:- Provides that on such appeal by United States officer Chinese prisoner shall be remanded to custody of United States Commissioner, or furnish bail in two thousand dollars, or in case of appeal by prisoner, he shall stand committed unless furnishing bail in three thousand dollars pending said appeal. Sec. 38:- Provides for appeal to the Supreme court from decree of district court by either the Chinese prisoner or the United States.-7- Sec. 39:- Provides that on appeal by the United States to the Supreme Court a transcript of testimony before district court shall be transmitted to Attorney-General who shall have power to further prosecute or procure dismissal by district court. Sec. 40:- Provides that upon appeal from decision of Commissioner to district court or Supreme Court a transcript of record and testimony before Commissioner shall be transmitted to district or Supreme Court provided that Supreme Court or district court may order any original document, exhibit or other evidence to be sent up. No new evidence to be received by Supreme Couty except upon motion. Sec. 41:- Supreme Court may review all facts on questions of law and order discharge or deportation of prisoner. Sec. 42:- Provides that decisions of designated officers as to right of admission of Chinese shall be final, but Chines denied admission may appeal, or Inspector may appeal against order of admission to Commissioner-General of Immigration whose action shall be subject to review by the Secretary of the Treasury.-8- Sec. 43:- Provides that Chinese denied admission by designated officer or Commissioner-General of Immigration and thereafter found in the United States shall be deported by United States judge or commissioner who shall accept as final and controlling a certified copy of original order of denial, except in case such Chinese claims birth in the United States. And further provides that Chinese claiming right to admission or of remaining in the United States shall satisfy designated officer or judge or Commissioner of truth of such claim by at least one credible white witness and production of record of birth, much record having been made and recorded within one year after said birth. Sec. 44:- Provides that testimony taken before justices, judges or commissioner upon claims of Chinese to birth in United States shall be investigated by designated officer at alleged place of birth. Sec. 45:- Provides that any false or fraudulent certificate issued by United States officer, or any genuine certificate disposed of or fraudulently used shall be declared invalid, and provides punishment of any United States officer becoming a party to much fraudulent issue or use. Sec. 46:- Provides against issuance to Chinese of certificate by United States officer to alleged native Chinese and any such certificate issued shall be void, seised and cancelled.-9- Sec, 47:- Provides against naturalization of Chinese. Sec. 48:- Declares false testimony, or procuring the same to be made, and solicitation or accepting, tendering or receiving bribes to secure favorable action in Chinese cases a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of at least one thousand dollars and imprisonment not less than one year. Sec. 49:- Repeals all laws in conflict with this Act. [*P.F under Oxnard*] [*[Ca 1904]*] Several months ago, when Senator Hanna was alive and the press dispatches were constantly containing reports that Wall Street would be opposed to the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt, the story went around here, as I presume it did in other states, that Wall Street would exert its influence against him, and all the firces directed from that quarter would consequently be arrayed in an attempt to prevent instructed delegations. Gossip of this kind circulated very generally and at times found its way into the newspapers, but nothing was ever done by anybody to bring about such an end, and as a matter of fact everything along those lines was confined to gossip and speculation. I am in a position to absolutely assure you of this, for I was, and am, in close touch with those who would direct any such movement in California, and am positive that at no time were any instructions given with the object of preventing California lining up for Mr. Roosevelt for president. When Hanna died, this talk immediately stopped and from that time on, it has been conceded in every quarter that the state will be solid for Mr. Roosevelt. As a matter of fact in my opinion, even had the proposed Wall Street fight been made, California would have remained loyal to the president, for the rumors as they went around, were met with rebuffs on every hand and while the Hanna talk was at its height, there was never in my judgement, any danger whatever regarding sending a solid delegation from California, instructed for Mr. Roosevelt for president. This therefore, is the extent of the so-called conspiracy of which we have been hearing so much of late, and which I can assure you never went beyond the limits of newspaper talk and street rumor and gossip. As matters are now, it is beyond question that this state will send a solid delegation to Chicago instructed for the President. Every local convention to date has instructed for him, the State Central Committee passed a strong resolution along similar lines, and the programs that have been prepared in connection with the approaching Congressional conventions all over the state, include similar endorsements. At the state Convention next month the strongest possible Roosevelt resolution of instructions is to be introduced, and in my opinion there will not be a Republican gathering held in California that will not declare for the president and instruct all its representatives to do everything possible to bring about his nomination and election.-2- So much for the convention, and now a few words as to election probabilities. Hearst is making a very hard fight in California, and despite opposition and factional differences, will, I am satisfied, secure an instructed delegation from this state. His representatives here are expressing confidence that he will get the nomination at St. Louis, but of this I am personally skeptical though of course in California we are not in a position to know what the large voting states really intend to do. The point I desire to bring out is this: That if by any chance Hearst should be nominated, there will be a red hot fight to carry California in his behalf. During the past couple of years the Labor organizations have been strengthened very considerably as is shown by the fact that they have twice elected the mayor of San Francisco. In addition to their strength in the metropolis they have also made considerable gains in other parts of the state, notably up in the northern and central districts. Hearst will appeal to all these elements, and should he have the presidential nomination, will stir them up, and with the assistance of his newspapers and his money, make it a hard fight here. I firmly believe though, that even under these conditions, the state will go Republican. Should Parker or some conservative Democrat be nominated, there is little if anything to figure on, for the state will go overwhelmingly for Mr. Roosevelt. However, there is little occasion to do any speculating along these lines now, as all that can be reserved until the Democratic nomination is made and we can see just what conditions are to be met. I have of course only briefly summarized the situation here, as it would be impossible in a single letter to do anything along the line of detail. My findings though in the matter, as I have set them forth, are, I am satisfied, correct, and I think I can take to myself the credit of being in closer touch with the state as a whole than any other one man, owing to my personal connections and working machinery in each and every county.[*[Ca 1904]*] INCIDENTS OF THE ACCIDENT. The evidence shows that about eleven o'clock a.m., the 13th of April, 1904, the U.S.S. MISSOURI, Captain W.S. Cowles, U.S.N., Commanding, was engaged in carrying out the "Record Target Practice," on Range No. 3, off Pensacola, Florida. The left gun of the after 12-inch turret was firing, being in charge of Lieutenant W. C. Davidson, Lieutenant J.P.V. Gridley, U. S. Marine Corps, and Midshipman W.E.T. Neumann, as assistants, and Lieutenant E.A. Weichert, of the CLEVELAND, as official Gun Umpire, were also present in the turret, Midshipman T. Ward, Jr., was in charge of the handling room. Five shots had been fired on the first, three on the second, and five on the last run. The normal time of each of these runs was five minutes and forty seconds. While expecting a sixth shot on the third run, the attention of many people on board was attracted by a muffled sound. Some of those on deck saw a flame, with small objects, shoot upwards from the after turret, followed a few minutes later by a flame of greater intensity and height. The gravity of the accident was at once appreciated. Fire and collision quarters were immediately sounded, and the crew went to their stations. The ship was headed for the beach to the Northward. The flood cocks were opened and the after magazines and shell rooms were flooded, the flood cocks being broken to prevent delay which arose in attempting to select the keys to unlock them. The vessels in the immediate vicinity stood towards the MISSOURI to render assistance. Captain Cowles at once went to the after turret as did also Lieutenants Crank, Scott, Marshall, Earle, White and Ensign Hammer. Lieutenant Scott was the officer in charge of the forward turret, but at the time of the accident was on the after bridge observing the shots from the after turret. All the others just mentioned were in the same locality, Ensign Hammer, of the CLEVELAND, being there as the official "spotter". Lieutenant Scott started forward to his fire station-2- and, meeting the men of his division coming aft with the hose, took charge and directed them to the after turret. He went on the quarter deck and to the top of the turret. As soon as the smoke would allow he climbed in the turret, accompanied by Chief Boatswain's Mate M. Higgins, C. Brewster, Gun Captain first class, and C. Holm, seaman, directing Lieutenants Marshall, Earle, and Ensign Hammer, who were there, to remain on the top and assist in passing out the bodies of those inside, because as he stated, he was familiar with all the ladders and hatches and knew where to stop. Lieutenant Marshall, Paymaster Dyer and Ensign Hammer, who had first gone to the top of the turret, had found there Chief Gun Captain P. J. Braun, still alive with the little clothing then remaining on his body on fire. Stretchers had almost at once arrived and Braun was passed down to the quarter deck and thence to the sick bay. Another man, dead, was also passed down. There had been in the turret four officers and sixteen men. The bodies of most of these were found heaped over the small escape hatch, 18 inches square, in the rear of the turret floor leading to the quarter deck. Captain Cowles had gone down to the berth deck to the hatch leading to the after 12-inch handling room, where he found the Executive Officer, Lieutenant-Commander Orchard, coolly directing streams of water, and Lieutenant Davis, who had been on the splinter deck below, assisting in getting out the injured. Captain Cowles himself went below and assisted in removing three men. Acting Gunner R. E. Cox, who at the moment of the accident was in the Ordnance Office forward on the gun deck, had at once taken steps to flood the magazines, realizing the urgency while going toward the cabin of the magazine keys. After the locks were broken by order of Lieutenant Davis, Mr. Cox went below with two men to the splinter deck, using dampened towels over their noses and mouths. A number of hose were at this time playing into the 6-inch and 12-inch handling rooms through the turret. The hose from all parts of the ship seem to have been brought into almost immediate use. The 12-inch handling rooms by this time had in-3- it some thirty inches of water, and the fire then being considered out the flood cocks were shut off and, the fumes being less dense, Acting Gunner Cox and five Gunner's Mates, under orders from the Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant Davis, started to inspect the magazines and shell rooms. Three were detailed to inspect the 6-inch magazines (on the splinter deck), and two, Chief Gunner's Mate Monsson and Gunner's Mate first class C. S. Shepke, accompanied the Gunner below. The after upper racks of the starboard 12-inch magazine, under and upon which were powder, were found to be afire and blazing. About one ton of smokeless powder was in this magazine. Attempts were made to throw water on these flames by hand by reaching through the scuttle in the magazine door, which door was closed. This scuttle is a hole about 18 inches square. Seeing the futility of this Gunner Cox, leaving Monsson and Shepke, went to the open the flood cocks again and get hose. Monsson climbed through the scuttle into the burning magazine and with his hands threw on the flames the water that had entered from the flood cocks, which he kept up until the arrival of the hose, when the fire was finally extinguished. There had been one officer, Midshipman Ward, and fifteen men below in the 12-inch handling room and magazines. Of these but four escaped, two from the handling room, R. Starr, seaman, and F.C. Schaub, apprentice second class, who had at once, on the appearance of the flames, jumped to the wooden ladder leading to the 6-inch handling room, but were badly burned, particularly the former; two others J. M. Mc Dade, ordinary seaman, and W. S. Wells, ordinary seaman, were in the port 12-inch magazine. On seeing the flames they had attempted to close the scuttle door, which lies horizontally, hinging from the lower edge of the scuttle. Several bags of smokeless powder had been taken from the tanks and were lying on the magazine floor near this scuttle. They were at once thrown into the back part of the magazine the door of which had remained closed. Being unable to close the scuttle door and keep the flames from licking into-4- the magazine, they took an empty 12-inch powder tank from the racks and shoved it into the opening; several of the wooden battens (6 feet long by 4 inches wide) were also placed about the corners of the openings. These men, upon the disappearance of the flames in the handling room, opened the magazine door and escaped above without injury, except that they were somewhat overcome by the fumes, the result of the burning of eight bags of smokeless powder in the handling room, the total of these being about 720 pounds which, with that burned in the gun chamber and turret, amounted to about 1080 pounds. The combustion of this large quantity of powder, the fire ignited within one of the magazines itself, and the danger of setting fire to the loose powder in the other magazine, brought an imminent danger of destruction from which it is difficult to see how the ship escaped. The discipline, readiness and alactrity shown by every person in every department of the ship deserves highest approbation. To these fine qualities must be added courage and re- source shown without exception under circumstances which made it most particularly noteworthy and commendable. The character of the accident was at once self-evident to the ship's company. It was known that a large quantity of powder in the lowest compartment of the ship and in immediate connection with the magazines, was afire; with this knowledge and the knowledge of what it meant, the work of extinguishing the flames and searching for the dead and injured was carried out with an energy, coolness and decision which cannot be overpraised. One life was lost and several seriously endangered by pressing too hastily into the powder fumes in the work of rescue. The Board, in conformity with your order, incloses in the finding a list of those who deserve special mention. This list is not as complete as it would be had it been possible to obtain the names of others equally deserving. The Board, however, cannot refrain from calling particular attention to the act of Chief Gunner's Mate Monsson, whose-5- act above mentioned of crawling into the starboard 12-inch magazine was one of perfect courage. The turret was found turned to starboard, the left gun in loading position, the right gun at extreme depression. The inside of the turret showed signs of intense heat, and the rear of the turret was much marked by unburned grains of powder (the normal size of which is about 1-5/8 inches long and 5/8 inch diameter) thrown to the rear by the blast of the burning powder in the open powder chamber of the gun. The shell was rammed home, but was two inches forward of the point to which it could be sent home by the rammer. The loading car was blasted to the rear and much bent and damaged; the sections of the rammer were driven to the rear and greatly damaged, the head being blown to pieces, one piece being found in the handling room Two sections (or half) of the charge had been burned in the gun chamber leaving there about 4-1/2 pounds of unconsumed smokeless powder grains and many broken smokeless powder grains in the corners of the turret. The other half of the charge had been dropped into the loading car, ready for ramming into the gun, and had burned there. Eight sections (two charges) in the handling room had been set on fire by ignited grains of powder falling from the turret, described by the boy Schaub as "flakes about the size of eggs", and possibly by flame itself from the burning mass above, directed downward by pressure. One section of a charge was on the flap of the scuttle in the door of the starboard 12-inch magazine. This burned and set fire to the wood-work of this magazine. The heat in this magazine melted solder. SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. The direct evidence shows that about 11 o'clock a.m., on the 13th of April, 1904, the U.S.S. MISSOURI, under the command of Captain W. S. Cowles, U.S.Navy, was engaged in carrying out "record target practice" on range number 3 off Pensacola, Florida, an accident occurred in the after 12-inch turret, handling room, magazines, and shell rooms of that ship,-6- which was disclosed by a muffled sound accompanied first by a burst of flame and burning particles from the top of the turret, followed almost immediately by a flame of greater intensity and rising higher; whereby four (4) of the officers and sixteen (16) men stationed in the turret and the one (1) officer and fifteen (15) men stationed below all, except two men (J.M.Mc Dade and W.S. Wells, ordinary seamen, U.S.N.) stationed in the port magazine ( compartment D-26-M) and two men (R.Starr, seaman, and F.C. Schaub, apprentice second class, U.S.N.) stationed in the handling rooms, lost their lives from burns or suffocation. That the ship was in imminent danger of destruction by explosion owing to a blazing fire in contact with the thing copper tanks containing a ton, more or less, of smokeless powder in the starboard magazine (compartment D-25-M) ; and from bags of unprotected powder to the amount of a thousand pounds, more or less, in the port magazine (compartment D-26-M) open to the flaming handling room through a passing scuttle which could only partially be closed by a powder tank and wooden battens. That, by the discipline the preparedness for emergency, the coolness, and the courage of the ship's company, led by the officers, this last great calamity was averted by flooding the after magazines, and bringing many streams of water to bear upon the fire with full pressure on the fire main, in less than two minutes after the accident occurred. That the command officer, the gunnery officer, and the officers in charge of the 12-inch guns, understood and realized the purport of the Department's orders to insure safety in firing these guns, and further that other precautions, not prescribed by order or regulation, were observed. That the late Lieutenant W. C. Davidson, in charge of the turret was taking every precaution known to him and was carrying out all orders, Departmental or otherwise. That the left gun of the after turret was firing to starboard and dead to leeward with a wind blowing about twenty miles an hour; that two runs had been made across the range firing five shots on the first run, three on the second run, and five-7- shots had been fired on the third run; that the ship was at this time between the middle buoy and last buoy of the range, about two-thirds of the run having been completed; that the interval between shots had averaged between forty and fifty seconds; that, prior to the last run, witnesses who had been present in the turret have testified to the fact that the late Lieutenant Davidson was personally superintending the loading and firing of this left gun; that he had just previously been injured slightly while removing a hang-fire primer; that on the previous two runs he had been guarding against a flare-back in spit of the firing being dead to leeward; that these same witnesses, especially the Gunnery Office (Lieutenant Davis), who had specific orders from the Commanding Officer (Captain W.S.Cowles) to guard against "flare-backs", did not, after observing the loading and firing on the first two runs, believe there was any danger of "flarebacks". This belief was also that of the Chief Umpire, Lieutenant T. S. Wilson, who was on board the MISSOURI at this time; and was the previous general belief as shown by the Department's Special Order No. 44, which calls attention to the probability of a "flare-back" when firing to "windward in a strong wind"; that the occurrence of "flare-backs" is very erratic, and this testimony, as stated in the direct evidence of Lieutenant T. S. Wilson, the Chief Umpire, is corroborated by that of several turret officers, Lieutenants L. A. Boatwick, F. H. Clark, and Ensign J. W. L. Clement; further evidence, as stated by Lieutenant T. S. Wilson, that, considering the weather conditions, the different type of gun (12-inch, 40 caliber) of the MISSOURI from the ALABAMA'S (13-inch, 35 caliber) where flare-backs had occurred, the different shape of powder chamber, and the greater weight of charge, he did not believe that a "flare-back" was to be expected while firing the 12-inch guns of the MISSOURI at this time. That only the loading car of the left gun of the after turret was in position for loading; that the shell had been rammed home in this gun and found forced about two inches farther-8- into the bore than could have been done by the electric mechanical rammer; that one-half of a charge of a bout 360 pounds of smokeless powder had been rammed into the chamber, and the second half of the charge had been dropped into the loading trough; that about this time this charge was ignited and more or less of it, burning within the confined space of the chamber, caused a blast to the rear, accompanied with burning grains of powder which as missiles were scattered in all directions, as shown by being blown through the opening in the roof of the turret, destroying light metal work; and by the finding of broken grains in remote parts of the turret; that about four and one-quarters pounds of partially burned powder grains was left in the chamber of the gun; that flames from this blast and burning grains of powder falling into the handling room ignited there, after a scarcely appreciable interval of time, two charges (eight sections) or about 720 pounds of smokeless powder; that this powder burned with a fierce flame being totally consume in a very short time; that there was no evidence of an explosion, but only that of great heat in all parts of the handling room and in the compartments immediately adjacent thereto, which were in open communication therewith at this time; that on the deck of the handling room surrounded by this fire were six 12-inch shell, each loaded with a busting charge of 35 pounds of black powder, and that the Index of smokeless powder was number 259, which index had been used for all shots. That upon a careful examination of the after 12-inch turret immediately after the accident it was found that the breech was open with the vent pointed at right-angles to the axis of the bore of the gun clear of the breech; that there was no primer or empty primer case in the lock; that the breech plug could not have been partially closed and blown open on account of the loading car being in the way and the impossibility of working the worn gear in reverse; that the loading car was about ten (10) inches below the loading position and caught by the safety pawls; it was badly damaged by the blast-9- and in being set to the rear had wrenched off one set of guide rollers and had bent the guide rails; that the sections of the rammer partially run out, or being run out, were driven back and badly damaged, the head demolished by the blast, except the last section; that the position of this section showed that the rammer head should have been in the position for ramming home the first half of the charge. If, however, the rammer, had been running at the time it could have been carried to this position, before being stopped by the blast, by the momentum of the electric motor; for the position of the control levers was not significant, as they could have been deranged by the bodies of the dead which were dragged over them. In fact the right rammer motor was found running after the accident. The positions of the dead gave no information regarding the accident nor did they indicate any premonition of coming danger. That no residue of any kind has been observed in the chamber or bore of other 12 and 13-inch guns, and but a very small amount on the face of mushrooms; that the many turret officers have testified to the absence of undue heating of the mushroom and the breech of the gun, and one turret officer testified that he could bear his hand on the mushroom and on the inside of the chamber after seven shots had been fired from a 13-inch gun in five minutes and forty seconds, an average interval between shots of about 57 seconds; Lieutenant J. Strauss, who had been in charge of the Naval Proving Ground for three years, testified that he had observed residue in the bore of guns, and even partially burned grains of smokeless powder, but that he had never examined the residue or unburnt grains to see if they were burning or incandescent. That, in the evidence of the inventor of the Navy smokeless powder (Lieutenant-Commander J. B. Bernadou, U.S.N.) it is substantially stated: that the residual gases from the combustion of smokeless powder are inflammable when supplied with oxygen; that there is a large volume of these gases; that their temperature of ignition is about 1200 degrees Fahrenheit but-10- that they might ignite at a lower temperature when in a nascent state; and also that the temperature of ignition of smokeless powder is about 400 degrees Fahrenheit. That, in the direct evidence of several officers who have been in charge of 12 and 13-inch guns, it is stated: that frequently, upon opening the breech of these guns immediately after firing, there is seen a dense white or gray smoke starting to come out of the chamber which is, at varying intervals of time afterwards, followed by what appears to be a luminous or yellowish-colored flame of greater or less volume, accompanied by a slight sound like the rushing of air under pressure through a contracted opening; that at a distance of about a foot from the breech this flame will burn and blister the bare skin, and at a distance of three to four feet it will ignite waste, singe the hair, and burn the nap from woolen clothes; that this flame, always rising through the smoke hatch, sometimes to the height of several feet above the turret, and dissipating in a very few seconds; that sometimes after the white or grey smoke has cleared away this flame is seen to form down the bore beyond the powder chamber and to either work to the rear out of the breech or to the front out of the muzzle; that until daylight can be seen through the bore the flame is liable to appear; that the occurrence of the flame (called a "flare-back") is very erratic and cannot be predicted; that rapidity of fire does not seem to affect its occurrence but appears to increase the volume of the flame; that a flare-back rarely appears immediately after the first shot, though Lieutenant T. S. Wilson observed a very severe one when loading after a first shot; this one occurred after the shell had been rammed in the gun, the bag of the smokeless powder charge, which was to the rear of the gun in its loading car, was scorched; that the direction of the wind does not affect the occurrence of the flare-back except to delay its appearance when the wind is blowing in the direction of the target and vice versa; that the smoke fans as now installed increase the volume of the flame and only delay the-11- time of its coming. Direct evidence shows: that Captain W. S. Cowles, Lieutenant Davis, Lieutenant W.P.Scott, Midshipman A.G.Caffee, Acting Gunner R.E.Cox, Chief Poatswain's Mate M. Higgins, Gun- Captain first class C. Brewster, Master-at-Arms second class H. E. Elliott, Chief Machinist G.H.Crofton, Coxswain W. Gibbons, Gunner's Mate first class B. Johnsen, Ship's Fitter first class S.C.Burgess, and Seaman C.Holm pushed forward into the smoke and poisonous fumes to the rescue of the injured and the bodies of the dead with fearless disregard for their own personal safety. Every one was ready to do the same, the volunteers being so numerous as to embarrass the work of rescue. Many of the rescuing parties were overcome and had to be assisted out to the fresh air, only to return when survived. H. E. Elliott, Master-at-Arms, died the same night of the accident from the effects of the fumes while doing this work. J.M.Mc Dade and W.S. Wells, ordinary seamen, closed the scuttle of the magazine to the best of their ability with the means at hand. M. Monsson, Chief Gunner's Mate, and C.M.Shepke, Gunner's Mate first class, remained in the 12-inch handling room while a blazing fire was in the starboard 12-inch magazine (which contained a ton of powder) until a hose was brought to extinguish the fire. During this time M. Monsson crawled through the passing scuttle into the burning magazine and attempted to put out the fire by throwing water upon it with his hands, there being about thirty of inches of water in the magazine, no bucket being available. [*[Encl in Wood Ca 1904]*][*[Ca 1904?]*] MEMORANDUM of LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, OR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Enacted by the 57th Congress,2d Session. An Act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four. Public - No.73. The changes made by the above Act are as follows:- The representative to Austria-Hungary made an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary without change of salary. Luxemburg added to the Mission to the Netherlands . The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece,Roumania and Servia also made a diplomatic agent in Bulgaria. An Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Siam is provided instead of a Minister Resident and Consul General. The salary of Minister Resident and Consul-General to Persia is increased to $7,500. The Secretary of Legation at Vienna is made a Secretary of Embassy,and salary increased from $2,250 to $2,625. A new office of Secretary of Legation to Siam and Consul-General at Bangkok at $1,800,is established. A new office of Secretary of Legation to Switzerland, at $1,500 ,is established. The Second Secretary of Legation to Austria is made Second Secretary of Embassy,with increase of salary from $1,800 to $2,000.CONSULAR. Titles Changed;- Canton, made Consul-General Auckland, made Consul-General Salaries Increased. Cape Town, $5,000 from $3,000 Canton, 4,000 " 3,500 Singapore, 3,500 " 3,000 Pretoria, 3,500 " 3,000 Coburg, 3,000 " 2,500 Monterey, 3,000 " 2,500 Marseilles, 3,000 " 2,500 Auckland, 2,500 " 2,000 Munich, 2,500 " 2,000 Amsterdam, 2,500 " 2,000 Bombay, 2,500 " 2,000 Sydney, N.S.W. 2,500 " 2,000 Amherstburg 2,000 " 1,500 Breslau, 2,000 " 1,500 Hull, 2,000 " 1,500 Sydney, N.S. 2,000 " 1,500 Yarmouth, 2,000 " 1,500 Celiba, 1,500 " 1,000 Gaspe Basin, 1,500 " 1,000 Stanbridge, 1,500 " 1,000 Clerk hire: Hongkong, $2,200 from $1,200 Manchester, 1,800 " 1,500 St. Gall, 1,000 " 800 Sheffield, 1,000 " 800 Canton, 800 " 600 Sydney, N.S.W., 800 new. Stockholm, 750 " Buenos Ayres, 600 "2 An Act To establish the Department of Commerce and Labor. (Public - No.87). This Act provides among other things as follows:- "Sec. 4. ... that the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, now in the Department of State, be, and the same hereby is, transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor and consolidated with and made a part of the Bureau of Statistics, hereinbefore transferred from the Department of the Treasure to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the two shall constitution one bureau, to be called the Bureau of Statistics, with a chief of the Bureau; Sec.5. ... And all consular officers of the United States, including Consuls-general, consuls and commercial agents, are hereby required, and it is made a part of their duty, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to gather and compile from time to time, useful and material information and statistics in respect to the subjects enumerated in section three of this Act in the countries and places to which such consular officers are accredited, and to send, under the direction of the Secretary of State, reports as often as required by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the information and statistics thus gathered and compiled, such reports to be transmitted through the State Department to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor." Sec. 9. Provides for the transfer of all officers, clerks and employees now in the various bureaus transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department. &c. "Sec. 11. A person, to be designated by the Secretary of State, shall be appointed to formulate, under his direction, for the instruction of consular officers, the requests of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; and to prepare from the despatches of consular officers, for transmission to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such information as pertains to the work of the Department of Commerce and Labor; and such person shall have the rank and salary of a chief of bureau, and be furnished with such clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by law."3 An Act To permit the Secretary of State to cause the destruction of invoices of merchandise exported to the United States, which have been on file in the consular offices for more than fifty years. (Public - No. 114.) An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes. (Public - No. 115.) The changes made in the foregoing Act are as follows:- Increases in salary. Assistant Solicitor from $2,500 to $3,000. Private Secretary to the Secretary from $2,250 to $2,500. New positions. One Chief of Bureau at $2,100. One Assistant Law Clerk at $1,500. Two clerks of class three. One clerk of class two. Two clerks of class one. Two clerks at $900. Appropriation for "Contingent Expenses increased from $3,500 to $4,000.An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other purposes. (Public - No.156.) For stationary &c., $1,500. " contingent expenses - care and subsistence of horses &c., for fiscal year 1903 $1,500; for fiscal year 1902, $439,16. For purchase of horses and vehicles for official use $1,200. To reimburse law clerk for expenses incurred in editing laws of first session of 57th Congress:clerk hire, &c., $1500. To pay assistant law clerk from Dec.1, 1902 to June 30, 1903, $875. To enable the Secretary of State to have the Great Seal of the United States recut &c., $1,250 (re-appropriation). To pay indemnity to certain Italians for injuries by armed mob at Erwin, Mississippi, $5,000. For rent of offices of United States dispatch agency, New York City $1,500. "To enable the Department of State to comply with the requirements of section eleven of the Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three: Chief of Bureau, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class two, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars."An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes. (Public - No.157.) This Act makes the following provisions, among other things:- "For the more effective demarcation and mapping of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada along the forty-ninth parallel west of the summit of the Rocky mountains . . . . to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State . . . . one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary." "For the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the twenty-fourth day of January, 1903, to become immediately available upon the exchange of ratifications of the said treaty, one hundred thousand dollars." "In order to provide for the new examination authorized by article nine of the award of the tribunal of arbitration constituted by treaty of Washington, February 29, 1892, . . . . . twenty thousand dollars, to be made immediately available." "For compensation and expenses of a competent and reliable person, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President, whose duty it shall be to carry out the recommendations in the tenth clause of the report of the Pan-American Railway committee to the Second International Conference of American States, held in the City of Mexico in the winter of nineteen hundred and oneand nineteen hundred and two, and unanimously adopted by that conference, two thousand five hundred dollars." "To enable the President to cooperate through diplomatic channels with the Governments of Mexico, China, Japan and other countries, for the purpose set forth in the message of the President and accompanying notes submitted to Congress January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three, and printed as Senate Document Numbered One hundred and nineteen, second session fifty-seventh Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars."[*This is a copy of report to be made on accompanying bill, prepared here. T.V.P.*] [*[1904?]*] This bill appears to have been framed with a view to reenacting all features of existing laws relating to the exclusion of Chinese and regulating the residence in the United States are its territory of those entitled to be and remain here, while seeking to harmonize all rulings and decisions thereunder, thus minimizing the evils now arising from contradictory interpretations, and rendering possible a uniform practice at all ports of entry and elsewhere, in its enforcement. To this end, the bill, in most respects, carries in its body the interpretation and definition of the specific and technical terms used in treating of the various classes of Chinese and the differing methods of treatment thereof. Every treaty right and privilege guaranteed to the Chinese by the existing Convention between the United States and China is herein provided for and clearly defined and construed, while the interests of the United States Government are safeguarded by the unequivocal declaration of the limitations of such rights and privileges.-2- The history of the legislation upon this subject is a most interesting study of the evolution of the sentiment of the United States regarding the immigration of Chinese. The Treaty of 1868, known as the Burlingame Treaty, lays down the principle of free immigration. The Treaty of 1880, known as the Supplemental Treaty, recognizes the right to reasonable restriction of immigration. The Act of May 6, 1882, is known as the Restriction Act, and provides for the suspension of Chinese immigration for a period of ten years. The Act of July 5, 1888 is likewise a restriction act, being amendatory to the Act of 1882. The Act of September 13, 1888 is strictly an exclusion law, positively denying entry to Chinese other than those especially exempted. (This Act being in part based upon a treaty then pending but never ratified is inoperative as to those sections which refer directly to said proposed treaty.)-3- The Act of May 5, 1892 recognizes the prohibition and regulation of the entry of Chinese and is entitled "An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States." The Act of November 3, 1893 amends and construes the Act of 1892 in severe and drastic manner. And the Treaty of 1894, in terms, "agrees that for a period of ten years, beginning with its ratification, the coming of Chinese laborers shall be absolutely prohibited", and extends to exempt classes only those privileges enjoyed under said prohibiting acts. This it will be seen that the temper of the people,as exemplified in legislation,has been steadily progressive from the doctrine of undesirable immigrants in 1894. The legislative steps by which the several phases of this progressive policy have been marked is aptly epitomized as follows:-4- Free Immigration, 1868 to 1882; Restriction, 1882 to 1888; Exclusion, 1888 to 1892 Prohibition, 1892 to date. That nothing in the history of the period from 1894 to date has modified the sentiment of the people, is obvious to any student of events, while the character of the memorials, petitions and demands now being uttered by the citizens of every class indicate a profound desire and intention that the law of 1892 shall not in its early death give birth to a policy of free or unrestricted immigration. Indeed, the past ten years have been replete with evidences of the real nature and characteristics of the Chinese race, which, perhaps, carry greater weight than if this period had been marked by the passionate clamor of the earlier struggles. There has been time to work out adequate methods of enforcing the law, and we find there is no force in the occasional argument that-5- that such legislation is not and cannot be enforced. There has been time to observe and study dispassionately the effects upon the body politic of the residence among us of people of the Mongolian races. The expressions of sentiment against the admission of Chinese are not now confined to the great West, but emanate from the people of every section of the country, from which it is evident that as the Chinese laborers and alleged merchants have become more widely scattered and penetrated the villages and towns of every State, they have made but one impression and developed but one idea -- that their employment or occupation, either in skilled or unskilled labor and in trade tends to cheapen the labor of the American working man and the markets of the tradesmen. The publications of the students of sociology, the reports of special commissioners and agents, and the experience of the officers charged with the enforcement of the law furnish irrefutable proof of the chicanery, fraud, corruption and vice for which the Chinese already here are responsible.-6- The statistics of the arrests and presecutions of Chinese for crime and misdemeanors show an appalling criminal record, several hundred per cent, greater in proportion to any other race of aliens, while their clannish and insular mode of life enables them to protect, and prevent the arrest of thousands of offenders. Not only is it impossible for the Chinese to assimilate American ideas of life, social or political, but no American community can assimilate them. They preserve in this country the tribal relations and practices of many centuries of the immutable laws of China, and their religion is that of the pagan philosophy of past ages. Reduced to cold English phraseology, the most prominent of their "Articles of Faith" would appear to be, First: Every man has his price, and, Second: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, etc". If, then, we consider this subject from an ethical point of view, we are forced to the conviction that the mercenary spirit of the religious and philosophical teachings of the centuries-7- furnish the basis of the moral code of the Chinese today, and reasoning from this basis, it is not difficult to find the cause of the wide gulf fixed between the advanced Christian civilization of America, and the depths of the ignorance, vice and wretchedness which are the common lot of the Chinese, whether at home or upon our shores. Our laws are not their laws, nor is our God their god, and within the United States the Chinese are governed and controlled by a mighty organization which rules with an iron rod, taxes them to support movements antagonistic to our legislative enactments and punishes, even with death, the infraction of its own laws, while shielding the offenders against the laws of the fair land whose hospitality they have sought. In the generous spirit animating our law givers the treaties and laws have been framed as to permit the immigration of Chinese of the better classes, and special privileges have been granted to merchants, students, teachers and travelers, while-8- Chinese officials have been secured in the very proper right of admission extended to diplomatic and consular officers. Bu these privileges and exemptions have been flagrantly abused by the Chinese corporations and pseudo merchant companies, and thousands have been brought to our shores, provided with fraudulent certificates and supported by false testimony, in the guise of merchants, students, teachers and travelers who were found to be ignorant, penniless coolies, under contract to labor in the United States. The great evils thus promoted have been overseen by the fearless and honest efforts of the Government's officers, in refusing admission to these classes, except upon positive proof of their claims, and this fact is sufficient answer to the peculiar argument that the "exclusion law should not be re-enacted because it cannot be enforced". Chinese residents were eligible for naturalization for but a brief period, and none are now admitted as citizens save those-9- few who were legally naturalized and those born within the United States. The right to return to the United States from foreign lands is granted only to domiciled merchants and laborers who were registered under the Acts of 1893 and 94. Your Committee, after careful investigation of this whole subject and of the several Acts now pending finds that the greatest difficulties arising in the enforcement of the present laws grow out of the fact that there is no one statute now in force which fully covers all of the provisions now in force, and, consequently, the officers of the Government dealing with these questions, whether as judge, commissioner, collector of customs, or inspector at the different ports of entry have so interpreted and construed the various laws as to create confusion and lack of uniformity in practice. The Act before us is intended to correct all such difficulties and to meet all objections. Much complaint is made on the part of the Collectors of-10- Customs, who urge that they are not the proper officers to be charged with the enforcement of the exclusion laws, and your Committee is convinced of the wisdom of the provisions of this Act requiring the Treasury Department to appoint and designate the administrative officers for that duty. The right of appeal against any decision favorable to Chinese, herein granted, will permit the investigating and prosecuting officers to protest the interests of the Government against any official connivance or dishonesty. Chinese Inspectors and other investigating officers are given authority to administer oaths. Heavy penalties are established for false testimony, bribery, etc., and such acts are declared misdemeanors. Provision is made for fuller investigation of the claims of Chinese on the part of diplomatic and consular officers in the countries whence the applicants come.-11- The decision of claims of Chinese, as natives, is properly made a judicial function and not, as now, an act of an executive officer of the Government. The much abused privilege extended to Chinese laborers of transit, under bond, across the United States is now carefully guarded and it is believed that if the proposed requirements are carried into effect the result will be a great reduction in the number who now obtain this privilege, accept the courtesy of the United States, travel to contiguous lands and then steal across the border line in defiance of law. In other respects this Act embodies all of the provisions essential to re-enact existing laws besides rendering them more effective.Expenditures 1904 Civil 180# Army 115 Navy 103. Indians 10 Pensions 143. Interest 24 Post. Defic. 7. Total 582. # Includes $50.000.000 paid for Panama Canal[*[1904?]*] [[shorthand]] Fairley, D. B. Denver, Colo. In re Recent Political Matters in Colorado: Meeting of State Central Committee was handled and packed by Federal office holders; generous contributions from Mr. Thomas Walsh and Mr. P. B. Stewart prevented defeat. There was never any deal entered into with the Democrats. Says the State is safe for the President and the electoral ticket in 1904. Wolcott and his managers are opposed to the President.[[shorthand]] [*[ca 1904]*] Frenor = [[shorthand]] Stewart = [[shorthand]] Attached [[shorthand]]send letters to all commissioners; P N. McDonough The Most Reverend Jeremiah J. Harty Archbishop of Manila St Louis Mo. [[shorthand]][*[1904?]*] Gertrud Giers. The number of German Tragedians, of note capable of personating in a truly perfect manner, the creations of classical authors, is but sparsely sown. Tragic Heroines of powers, as remarkable and extraordinary as those, belonging to Rachel, Ristori and Janauschek are but phaenomenal appearances of a century. To climb the heights on which these Actresses stood, requires not merely those natural gifts bestowed by a kind Providence, but also serious and continual study, a remarkable scenic temperament, and immense artistic power. Tragedians of this order must present perfect delienations of character and must be able to master with perfect ease the whole scale of human feelings and passions. Gertrud Giers belongs tho these few truly Heaven-favoured Tragedians: Born at Cologne her mother was her only teacher, endowed with the lively and mobile temperament of the "dwellers on the Rhine", gifted with sonorous and sympathetic voice, which tends itself to every modulation, the young girl became, as the years went by, ever more fitted for the representation of classic characters, and received more and more the impress of the true heroine, especially as an imposing stature of perfect symmetry, animated features, a noble profile, big, lustrous eyes that gave expression to every movement of passion, a temperament full of spirit and vivacity all combined to form a personality of true artistic power. The great Actress possesses moreover wonderful self-command; from the eyebrows to the tips of her toes she has perfect control over herself. At the early age of 16, she acted the part of Lady Macbeth and since then, on all Stages on which she has appeared, she has not only taken the Public by storm, but also has gained the favour of the Critical Press, which is often severe and hard. For above all she avoids all stage-tricks and aims steadily at giving perfect artistic expression, to Nature and Truth. Her Repertoire is a very full and extensive one, and she excels above all in purely classical rôles, such as Phaedra, Iphigenia, Lady Macbeth, The Maid of Orleans, etc. On the occasion of her appearing on the stage of St. Petersburg, the Critic of the "Deutsche Petersburger Zeitung" wrote of the "Phaedra" of Gertrud Giers: "The devouring passion that fills the heart of Phaedra, and whose breath consumes her, was represented in perfect graduation and with an intensity, that was greatly heightened by the grand moderation of the artist in the use of outward means. The acting was of a most deeply stirring truth, free from all exaggeration; J do not remember a Phaedra who in grandeur of personation surpassed that of Fräulein Giers." A Critic of the "Novoje Wremja"maintains, that the Artist surpassed even Adelaide Ristori, since her means are greater, than those of the famous Italian. In the same way, he gives her the preference to Rachel, in as much, as her gifts include also those softer chords, which were absent in Rachel. He speaks of the Chameleon-like qualities of her art as at times, causing terror, at others delicious enchantment, and calls her: a personation of two entirely different worlds." In a similar way the Press of Bucharest wrote of her, when Gertrud Giers, as the guest of the Queen of Roumania, before a "Parterre of Kings" tested her fame, as an interpretor of the greatest poets. On this occasion the "Indépendance Romaine" among others said of her acting" "All those who had the good fortune, to hear her, were enchanted with her wonderful voice, with her power of mastering feelings of every kind. Which richness of tone - at times annihilating and terrible, at others sweet and lovely; sometimes stormy and wild like the Sea in its uproar - but always true to life and to the character she personates. Touching and heroic as "Jeanne d'Arc", heart-rending as "Phaedra", sombre and terrible as "Lady Macbeth", she enchains her hearers and understands how to awaken in them every chord from highest inspiration, to the most haunting terror." Gertrud Giers belongs to those favoured Actresses, who possess in an exceptional measure the favour of the Great ones of this Earth. Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Roumania, not only received her repeatedly as a cherished guest at her Royal palace of Bucharest, but also wrote more than one charming poem in her honour. In one of them she says: Thy voice is like the clanging of shields, Like sounding metal, like softest winds whispering in the treetops; As the crowding waves above the dark deep- And thy face wears the lightening flash of noble passion. As the Heavens, chasing the stormy clouds And dispersing them with a smile, Thus victorious thou shalt step, Like the Elements in fulness of power. The Queen and the Artist were on one occasion together on the Isle of Sylt, and amidst a raging storm, the letter recited various pieces, which gave the royal Poet occasion for the following Sonnet on Gertrud Giers: O, hätt' ich doch das Meeresdröhnen, Das Dich im Donner hat begleitet, Da nur mein Beben Dich geleitet - Ein unvernehmbar Geistertönen. Ein tief Erschauern ob dem Schönen, Das Du vor Aug' und Ohr gebreitet, Als wenn ein Gott vorüberschreitet, Mit einem Wort die Welt zu krönen. Hätt' ich erfasst der Erde Klingen, Ihr Jauchzen in der Symphonie der Sphrären, Ihr ungeahntes Saitenschwingen, Dann wollt' ich Dich in [?] Wonnezähren Und Deines Geistes Tat besingen In Liedern, Dir geweiht, der Hehren. The Queen has written all her dramas for Gertrud Giers, who was protected since her youth by the excellent and genial woman, the mother of the Queen, the Widowed Princess of Wied. In Wiesbaden also Gertrud Giers was often together with the Queen of Roumania, and the latter wrote for her "Dawn" and "Ulranda" pieces, in which she repeatedly acted together with her. After one of these Soirées at the Queen's, at which Gustav Freitag was present, the famous poet remarked: "In my opinion you are the only actress in Germany, who forms a bridge between the classical and modern plays, uniting together these two apparently divided provinces of Art." Queen Marie of Hanover presented the Artist with her Portrait in 1898, writing on it these words: "Be as far as you can an angel to your world and, nothwithstanding its imperfections, it will become a paradise for you." And Princess Mary of Hanover wrote these lines for her: "Sublime art, which leads us to a higher and better world. Warm wishes for every blessing accompany the great Artist on her future career." On the occasion of her appearing at Vienna Gertrud Giers was at the Hofburg the guest of the Crown-Princess Stephanie. All the members of the Imperial Family of Austria then present at Vienna attended this performance. The Artist was greatly applauded, while reciting several scenes from "Phaedra" in German, and the sleep-walking scene from "Macbeth" in English, and was honoured by being presented with a Diamand brooch containing the initials and the portrait of the Crown-Princess. Queen Sophia of Sweden gave her her portrait with the autograph line: "In remembrance of a wonderful hour of real and great Art." Gertrud Giers enjoyed also the greatest appreciation of the Masters of the Stage. Ernesto Rossi saw her acting "Cleopatra" said to her: "You ought to go to the Italian, or English Stage, for neither in Italy, France or England, J [?] have seen art like yours; you will conquer the whole world." He presented her with a gigantic laurel-wreath, with red roses and the dedication: "To the Ristori of Germany." When she was acting the "Lady Macbeth" at St. Petersburg the greatest Russian Actor Samoylow said to her in his characteristic manner: "Young girl, you are of my blood, you are the greatest artistic demon." It would lead me too far, to tell of her connection with German poets of note; it may suffice to mention, that among the sincerest admirers of her art, were also Friedrich von Bodenstedt and Ernst von Wildenbruch. The former wrote of her the following charming lines, unpublished hitherto: Natur mit Kunst verklärt, Mit Geist und Glut verbunden, Kunst durch Natur genährt Bei Gertrud Giers gefunden. And Wildenbruch wrote on sending her a Copy of his tragedy "Die Karolinger", in which she acted the part of Judith: Was in tief geheimnissvoller Stunde Phantasie mir flüsternd eingegeben, Als en klang von Deinem holden Munde, Ward es Leben, Licht und Wahreit. Lange hat Judith seitdem geschwiegen, - Sprich, und lass mit Dir die Karolinger siegen. Gertrud Giers is unique among German tragedians of the present time from being able to interpret the great Heroines of Shakespeare in the Mother-tongue of the immortal Poet as well as in German. On one occasion she achieved a singular triumph of her art, in the rôle of Lady Macbeth. After the play she received a note from an unknown hand with the following contents: "By the appalling truth of the pangs of conscience represented in the scene of the sleep-walker you have prevented the commission of a crime, on which J [?] had resolved." Gertrud Giers has lately had a great triumph with her English art on Danish ground. By the Crown-Princess of Denmark, she was presented to the Queen Alexandra of England, and theEmpress-Widow of Russia in the Castle Amalienborg, near Copenhague, and was received most kindly by the Majesties. Gertrud Giers recited scenes of Shakespeare, poetries of Poe, Hood, Whittier, and got enthusiastic applause by both, the Empress and the Queen. Both Majesties were very much pleased with the rarely pure English of the recitor. Gertrud Giers is in the history of art the first German Tragedian, who recited Shakespeare in English before an English Queen. Gertrud Giers has kept faithful to the great dramatic style, which alone fits for Shakespeare's gigantic tragedies. Happily people begin to see that Shakespeare's greatness cannot be put into a weak modern style. All true connoisseurs of high art agree with this, and Gertrud Giers has the great merit of again making way for this conception of dramatic art, for she has in spite of greatest difficulties never yielded to the current idea of our times in regard to the aim of true art. Gertrud Giers intends reciting works of the great American poets in America, as well as interpreting the characters of Shakespeare's dramas. [*[Enc. in Travers 9-3-04]*] [*F*] [*We have 3700 Members. Travers Bros Co 41. Worth St*] CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1904 ISSUED FROM THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE 170 BROADWAY, NEW YORK [*How can we work them into our cause F.C.T.*]A convention, consisting of several hundred representative American manufacturers, met in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1895, and provided for the organization of a national association of manufacturers. At the first annual convention of the Association, held in Chicago, January 21, 1896, the name "The National Association of Manufacturers of the United States of America" was adopted, a preamble setting forth the objects of the Association was published, and a constitution was adopted. The constitution, after careful revision, elaboration and emendation at the Pittsburg Convention of May 17, 18, 19, 194, now reads as follows: 2 CONSTITUTION The National Association of Manufacturers: ARTICLE I: NAME Section I: This Association shall be known as the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States of America. ARTICLE II: OBJECTS Section I: The objects of this Association shall be: I. The promotion of the industrial interests of the United States. This Association aims to give support and encouragement to policies and undertakings that will assist the industrial development of the country and increase the wealth-producing power of its people. 2. The fostering of domestic and foreign commerce as one of the means for the promotion of the nation's industries. The position of the Association in regard to commerce was well stated in the principles adopted at the first meeting of the Association in Cincinnati on January 22, 1895, as follows: "To the largest possible extent our home market should be retained and supplied by our own producers, and our foreign trade relations should be extended in every direction and manner consistent therewith." 33. The maintenance of individualism. The social and material welfare of all classes of the people is dependent upon the full exercise of individual freedom consistent with the equal rights of all and upon the perpetuation of the principle of personal ownership which furnishes the necessary incentive to individual effort and best promotes the conservation of capital, the great assistant of labor. 4. To better the relations between employer and employe consistent with fair dealing and with the fundamental principles of individual liberty and ownership in property guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. This Association is opposed to discrimination in the employment of men by reason of membership or non-membership in any civil, political, religious or fraternal organization. It is opposed to boycotts, black lists and all interferences with the constitutional rights of employer or employe. It is opposed to restriction of individual output, to limitation of the number of apprentices, and to all means and policies that tend to reduce the efficiency of the individual and the productive capacity of the nation. 5. To establish bureaus of international trade, publicity, organization and legislation to further the purposes of the Association. This Association seeks to accomplish its ends through public education and is opposed to all 4 illegitimate methods in securing or preventing legislation at the hands of the lawmaking powers. ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP Section 1: The membership of this Association shall consist of individuals, firms and corporations actively engaged in manufacturing, who subscribe to the terms of this constitution and pay annual dues as hereinafter prescribed. Sec. 2: Wherever the membership is in the name of a firm or corporation the name of the individual who shall exercise the powers of membership shall be duly certified to the Secretary. ARTICLE IV: OFFICERS Section I: The officers of this Association shall be a president and one vice-president from each State and Territory in the United States in which it has members; a Treasurer and a Secretary. The President, the Treasurer and the Vice-President shall be elected annually by ballot at the annual convention of the Association. Each state delegation shall nominate its own vice-president. The Secretary shall be elected by the Executive Committee as hereinafter provided. No salaries shall be paid to any officer of this Association excepting the Secretary and the Treasurer. Sec. 2: The Executive Committee of this Association shall consist of the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, and Vice-Presidents from the 5twelve states having the largest recorded membership in the Association upon election day of its annual convention, and six members-at-large, who shall be elected by the Executive Committee as herein constituted at its first meeting after the annual convention. Seven members shall constitute a quorum of this committee. ARTICLE V: CONVENTIONS Section I: The Association shall meet in annual convention, the time to be fixed by the Executive Committee. Each convention shall determine by ballot upon the next place of meeting. In the contingency of some emergency arising which makes it necessary to change the place of meeting the Executive Committee shall have power to act. Sec. 2: Special conventions may be called at such time and places as two-thirds of the members of the Executive Committee may direct. A special convention shall also be called by the President upon petition of ten percent of the membership of the Association. At such special meetings any officer of the Association may be deposed by a majority of the members present and voting. Sec. 3: At least two weeks before the holding of any convention the Secretary shall send all members a written notice stating the time and place of holding the convention and giving proper notice of any special matters 6 to be brought up for action thereat; and the persons requesting the holding of a special convention shall signify in their request the business which they desire to be considered at the proposed meeting. Sec. 4: The constituency of any convention shall be the duly enrolled and qualified members of the Association. Five percent of the membership shall constitute a quorum, and in the transaction of business a majority vote of those present shall decide, except when otherwise provided herein. A firm of corporation that is a member of the Association my send its duly authorized representative to the convention, but the use of proxies shall not be permitted. Sec. 5: The order of business at the annual convention shall be as follows: 1. Call to order by the President; 2. Addresses of Welcome; 3. President's Address; 4. Selection of Committees on Rules and Order, Credentials, Resolutions and Nominations; 5. Report of Committee on Rules and Order; 6. First call for resolutions; 7. Report of Committee on Credentials; 8. Reports of Treasurer and Secretary; 9. Report of Committee on Resolutions; 10. Second call for resolutions; 11. Reports of other committees excepting that on Nominations; 12. Miscellaneous business; 13. Report of Nominations Committee and election of officers; 14. Selection of next place of meeting; 15. Adjournment. When a program of addresses has 7been previously provided, the time for the delivery of the addresses may be specifically set and the addresses shall have priority over the regular business of the convention pending at the time fixed for their delivery; provided, however, that unless an understanding to the contrary has been made, the Chair may call upon the speakers for the delivery of set addresses at any time that the business of the convention permits and makes advisable. Sec. 6: Roberts' Parliamentary Rules of Order shall be recognized as the standard authority by the Association. Sec. 7: All resolutions shall be presented in writing an referred without reading to the Committee on Resolutions. This section may be suspended at any time by a two-thirds vote of the convention. Sec. 8: The report of the Committee on Nominations shall not abridge the right of the any member to make nominations from the floor of the convention. ARTICLE VI: DUTIES OF OFFICERS Section I: The President shall preside at all conventions and at all meetings of the Executive Committee. As the executive head of the Association he shall enforce the laws of the Association and execute the will of the convention and of the Executive Committee. He shall appoint all committees not otherwise herein provided for. 8 Sec. 2: The Treasurer shall supervise and have charge of all monies belonging to the Association under the direction of the Executive Committee, as provided in the by-laws. Sec. 3: The Secretary shall act as Secretary of the conventions of the Association and of the meetings of the Executive Committee. He shall perform such other duties and have such powers as shall be assigned to him by the Executive Committee. Sec. 4: The President, the Secretary and the Treasurer shall each submit a report to the Association at each annual convention. Sec. 5: The Executive Committee shall constitute the governing body of the Association. It shall be vested with full power and authority to put into effect the laws, resolutions and decisions of the Association; by a two-thirds vote of the entire committee to make by-laws for the government of the Association and to amend the same; to appoint the Secretary, prescribe his duties and powers, and fix his compensation; to fix the compensation of the Treasurer; to fill all vacancies with may occur in the offices for the unexpired terms thereof; to exercise general supervision over the receipts and expenditures of the Association and to define the duties of officers of the Association other than as stipulated in this constitution and not in conflict therewith. 9 Sec. 6: The Executive Committee shall hold not less than four regular meetings each year. The first of these shall be held immediately after the annual convention and the last immediately preceding the next succeeding convention. Special meetings may be called at any time by the President or upon request of eight members of the Committee. The expenses of the members of the Committee in attending its meetings shall be paid from the funds of the Association. In the absence of a quorum the President may appoint the number of members, pro tempore, necessary to make a quorum from the membership of the Association, and all business transacted at such meeting shall be of the same effect as if transacted by a quorum of regular members. The office of any member of the Committee who may be absent from any regular or special meeting of the Committee without giving notice to the Secretary in advance of such meeting may be declared vacant at the option of the members present at the meeting, and the President of the Association shall thereupon fill such vacancy. In the absence of the President at any convention or meeting of the Executive Committee a chairman pro tempore shall be chosen by the Committee. Sec. 7: The Executive Committee may at any time submit any question relating to the objects and affairs of this Association to the members there- 10 of to be voted on by letter ballot, and the result of said vote shall be of the same force and effect as the vote of a convention. ARTICLE VII: MEMBERSHIP FEES Section I: Each individual, firm or corporation, on becoming a member of this Association, shall pay to the order of the Treasurer fifty dollars annual dues and a like sum annually so long as such membership is held. ARTICLE VIII: AMENDMENTS Section I: Proposed amendments to this constitution shall first receive the approval of a majority of the members of the Executive Committee and shall then be balloted upon by the members of the Association either in annual or special convention or by letter. It shall require a two-thirds vote of those present at any convention to adopt a proposed amendment and a three-fourths vote of those voting by letter ballot, if the latter method of taking the vote is followed; provided that copies of the proposed amendments, together with the approval of the requisite majority of the Executive Committee shall have been sent by mail to the members of the Association thirty days prior to the time of any convention at which such amendments are to be considered, or if the vote is to be taken by letter ballot, thirty days prior to the final day upon which ballots shall be received and counted. 11 [Encl in Proctor 3-25-05] [ca 1904]Farmers' National Protective League. BY-LAWS. Headquarters at SPRINGFIELD, - VERMONT. Chartered under the laws of the state of Vermont, 1903. SPRINGFIELD REPORTER PUBLISHING CO. 1904.OFFICERS W. L. DYER, President. F. F. DIVOLL, Vice President. E. W. BARNARD, Secretary and Treasurer. W. L. DYER, F. S. WILLIAMS, C. W. STREETER, A. F. GOING, E. W. BARNARD, Executive Committee.BY-LAWS Section 1. The League shall be known and designated as Farmers' National Protective League. Sec 2. It shall be within the province of the League and all that may follow, to take such action and measures aggressive, prohibitive elective, or legislative as shall best conduce to the property interests and well being of the members thereof as a body from time to time as may be deemed expedient. Sec. 3. Each member shall be an owner or occupant of a farm. Sec. 4. Each member shall have the same privilege of shooting or fishing on another members' property that he has on his own. Sec. 5. No member shall receive any compensation for shooting or fishing on his premises. Sec. 6. All property shall be posted according to law and all trespassers prosecuted by the League. Sec. 7. The signs shall be uniform in size, style and material. Sec. 8. Any member having invited guests can issue a permit using the blank form made and provided covering one day only in which the bearer may be allowed to hunt or fish on the property covered by the League, and any member may allow trapping on his own premises. Sec. 9. Not more than two permits a day shall be issued by any member. Sec. 10. No member shall be allowed to grant a permit to hunt and fish on Sunday. Sec. 11. Permit for fishing or hunting shall not include any other privilege or liberties to be taken on the property nor shall cross county horse back riding be allowed. Sec. 12. The territory included for fishing or hunting shall not include any reservoirs, ponds or head of streams set apart for propagating or feeding or private receptacles for fish culture or territory inclosed as a game yard or reserve. All fish and game so designated shall be considered private property. Sec. 13. The Executive committee shall be competent to pass on and elect a new member at any quorum meeting. Sec. 14. A two-third vote of all members present at any regular meeting shall be required to amend the By-laws. Sec. 15. It shall require a two-thirds vote to elect an honorary member. Sec. 16. A membership fee of fifty cents shall be paid by each member and an annual due of 50 cents on or before the annual meeting. Sec. 17. Any member may withdraw upon full payment of all fees and obligations. Sec. 18. A reward of five dollars will be paid for the arrest and conviction or evidence that will lead to the arrest and conviction of any one who shall tear down, destroy or in any way mutilate any sign or signs on any land posted by members of the League. Sec. 19. Orders on Treasurer shall be signed by the President, Vice-President and Secretary. Sec. 20. Any member breaking any of the By-laws shall be fined $5.00 Sec. 21. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the League. He preside at the meetings of the League, and of the executive committee and in general perform all acts incidental to his office. Sec. 22. The Vice-President in the absence of the President possesses all the powers and duties of President or until that office shall be filled. Sec. 23. The Secretary shall be ex-officio Secretary of the Executive committee. He shall keep the minutes of all the league meetings and of the Executive committee and shall give proper notice thereof. He shall have charge of the records of the League and perform such other duties as pertain to his office. In the absence of the secretary the League may appoint a Secretary pro tem to perform such duties as pertain to the proceedings of that meeting, and in the absence of both President and Vice-president he shall act as Executive officer until upon motion one is chosen to act pro tem. Sec. 24. The Treasurer shall collect all dues, initiation fees and other moneys due the League and shall have charge of all League funds and accounts and shall disburse the same.Sec. 25. The Executive committee shall have full charge and control of matters appertaining to all affairs of the League and shall make all proper rules and regulations for the control of the League and shall audit all accounts of the League. Three members present at any meeting of the Executive committee shall constitute a quorum. Sec. 26. The League shall have power under its charter, upon terms formulated by the Executive committee, to grant organization to branch or sub-Leagues and with respect to such under Leagues this League shall be designated as No. 1 or Parent League or as District No. 1. Sec 27. The annual meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday in July at 8 p.m. [*You see that we are clustered as a National League F.S.U.*]MEMORANDUM OF ACTUAL WORK DONE ON THE PANAMA CANAL between July 1, 1904, and January 1, 1906. The following brief, summarized data of the actual construction work on the Panama Canal, as accomplished since July 1, 1904, when Chief Engineer John F. Wallace took charge, are respectfully submitted by John Barrett, American Minister: I. COLON HARBOR AND CITY. 1. A careful survey has been made of Colon harbor on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. Soundings and borings have been completed which give full information in regard to the sub-foundations in the harbor and for some five miles up the Canal. 2. Plans and specifications have been made for the dredging of the inner or second harbor, raising the level of the City of Colon and filling in the extensive swamps adjacent thereto. 3. Larges areas of jungle have been cleared away in the vicinity of Colon, railroad tracks repaired and put into serviceable condition, and a temporary wharf has been constructed for the unloading of material consigned to the canal work. II. THE THREE DAM PLANS. 1. A party of engineers in the vicinity of Gatun have completed full and detailed surveys and borings across the valley, and have obtained the necessary information for the Commission to decide as to whether or not it will be practicable to locate a dam at that point. 2. Another party of engineers has been at work in the same manner at Bohio, and have acquired data sufficient for the Commission to decide on the possibility and cost if a dam at the location,--their figures making this plan, which was once highly thought of, seem almost impracticable. 3. A third party of engineers has demonstrated the practicability of, and has made estimates of and for, the construction of a dam at Gamboa. They have explored the watershed of the Chagres River and have located two tunnel sites or routes through the lateral mountains in order to provide waste spillways for the water impounded by this dam at Gamboa; one between seven and eight miles long discharging water into the Pacific, and the other three or four miles long discharging the waste waters into the Caribbean.-2- 4. The investigations made in the vicinity of Gamboa and the upper Chagres have further demonstrated the all-important fact of the feasibility of the control of the Chagres River for a sea-level canal with a dam which will also provide water for a lock canal- if one is built - and, incidentally, furnish not only electric power to be utilized in the work of construction but also water for the various towns along the line of the canal. III. THE GREAT CULEBRA CUT. 1. At Culebra the work under the old French organization has been continued and extended, and experiments made with the various French machines to determine how much material could be moved and what it would cost per cubic yard to move it. 2. The quantity of material now moved per month is about double what it was at the time the Commission took over the work and organization, and the cost has been reduced about 25 cents per cubic yard - a 3% reduction. 4000 cubic yards of warth and rock are now being excavated per day at Culebra and Mr. Wallace intends that this shall be increased to 15,000 yards by July 1, 1905. 3. Plans and specifications have been drawn for American steam shovels and American cars. Fourteen American shovels have been designed and contracted for, three of which are already installed and at work in the cut. The other eleven are expected to be delivered on the Isthmus inside of the next 90 days. Two hundred American flat cars are also being constructed for this work. 4. In the vicinity of Culebra 24 miles of railroad tracks have been provided, 4 miles being entirely new tracks and roadbeds. The other 20 are old French tracks which, after laying unused for over 18 years, have been repaired and put into service. 5. Extensive surveys have been made to obtain data to estimate the quantities of material in the summit excavation. A competent division engineer, W.E. Dauchey, has been placed in command of this work and an organization is being formed, consisting of bright young Americans, to take charge of the different parts of the work, acting as superintendents, supervisors and foreman. At the present time 1200 men are daily employed in this section. 6. A careful system of reports and cost keeping has been put into effect, which gives Chief Engineer Wallace accurate information as to the cost of every movement connected with the work. The efficiency of the various machines and the limit of expense of doing work in the different kinds of material is by this system ascertained. IV. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT. 1. A Mechanical Department has been organized under a Trained Mechanical Engineer, Mr. Strom. The machine shops at Cristobal Colon, Bas Matachin and Empire, and the smaller shops in Culebra Cut have been repaired, cleaned up and put in operation. This Mechanical Department is being rapidly enlarged, additional tools and machines installed, and every effort made to provide extensive shops to rebuild the engines, cars and excavators found on the Isthmus, and to keep the various machines in use in proper repair.-2- 4. The investigations made in the vicinity of Gamboa and the upper Chagres have further demonstrated the all-important fact of the feasibility of the control of the Chagres River for a sea-level canal with a dam which will also provide water for a lock canal- if one is built - and, incidentally, furnish not only electric power to be utilized in the work of construction but also water for the various towns along the line of the canal. III. THE GREAT CULEBRA CUT. 1. At Culebra the work under the old French organization has been continued and extended, and experiments made with the various French machines to determine how much material could be moved and what it would cost per cubic yard to move it. 2. The quantity of material now moved per month is about double what it was at the time the Commission took over the work and organization, and the cost has been reduced about 25 cents per cubic yard - a 3% reduction. 4000 cubic yards of warth and rock are now being excavated per day at Culebra and Mr. Wallace intends that this shall be increased to 15,000 yards by July 1, 1905. 3. Plans and specifications have been drawn for American steam shovels and American cars. Fourteen American shovels have been designed and contracted for, three of which are already installed and at work in the cut. The other eleven are expected to be delivered on the Isthmus inside of the next 90 days. Two hundred American flat cars are also being constructed for this work. 4. In the vicinity of Culebra 24 miles of railroad tracks have been provided, 4 miles being entirely new tracks and roadbeds. The other 20 are old French tracks which, after laying unused for over 18 years, have been repaired and put into service. 5. Extensive surveys have been made to obtain data to estimate the quantities of material in the summit excavation. A competent division engineer, W.E. Dauchey, has been placed in command of this work and an organization is being formed, consisting of bright young Americans, to take charge of the different parts of the work, acting as superintendents, supervisors and foreman. At the present time 1200 men are daily employed in this section. 6. A careful system of reports and cost keeping has been put into effect, which gives Chief Engineer Wallace accurate information as to the cost of every movement connected with the work. The efficiency of the various machines and the limit of expense of doing work in the different kinds of material is by this system ascertained. 7. The data already obtained has been absolutely necessary to enable the Commission to make its plans and its estimates, not only to determine the kind of machines to substitute for the French machines in order to get the best results and how much the work will be cheapened by the use of such machines, but also to determine how many machines can be used on the work, for this is the basis of finding out how long it will take to complete the canal.-3- V. BUILDING AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. 1. A Building Department, under Mr. M.O. Johnson, as supervising architect, has been organized for planning and constructing new buildings, and for the rebuilding, repair and maintenance of the 2400 existing structures erected [for] by the French. 2. Three hundred buildings have been repaired or rebuilt between Panama and Colon. A large Bachelor's quarters to accommodate 80 men with Social Hall, Reading Room and Dining Room, 20 houses for married couples and 40 houses to accommodate 1200 laborers are being constructed at Culebra. Bachelor quarters for 200 men, corresponding buildings for married couples and a home for 100 nurses, all with modern conveniences, are about to be erected at Ancon, Panama. The hospitals are being enlarged and police stations are being erected at Panama, Colon and intermediate points. 3. Sewerage and water works are being completed by Mr. Davis, a competent engineer in these lines, which will make Panama equipped within three months as well as any city in the United States. Water is being brought from Rio Grande Lake near Culebra, which will give ample supply to a population of 30,000. 4. Various other sub-departments have been organized and an efficient working organization is now in existence, which is being enlarged as fast as suitable men can be obtained. VI. RESULTS ACHIEVED AND MEN EMPLOYED. 1. The work accomplished during the last six months is the fundamental organizing work necessary in starting a large enterprise of this character, and it will soon tell in subsequent results. In the meantime, the actual moving of dirt, as stated before, in double what it was six months ago, and the quantity moved is increasing from day to day at such a rate that by the first of May, which is the end of the year from the date on which the Commission took charge, it is at least expected to be ten times what it was under the French organization. 2. About 3500 men are now employed in the engineering and constructing departments exclusive of 1500 more in the Executive and Sanitary Departments of the Commission, making approximately 5000 men now working for the United States on the Isthmus. VII. IN CONCLUSION, 1. This summary does not include the vast amount of work done by Governor Davis in organizing the Government of the Zone, by Colonel Gorgas in conducting the sanitation of the Isthmus, and by Minister Barrett in looking after the diplomatic questions constantly arising. 2. If the next six months show a progress corresponding to that of the past six, it is the conviction of the best engineers on the Isthmus that a sea-level canal can be constructed in ten years, or be ready for large vessels by January 1, 1915.4 3. Based on actual knowledge, therefore, of what has been done and is being done, as shown conclusively above, there are no good grounds for the reports current that little has been accomplished in advancing the construction of the canal during the past six or eight months. John Barrett, American Minister.Ackd 1/3/05 250 West 88th Street 1st- Jan My dear Loeb. Judge McLaughlin's wife is in mourning for her mother who died recently and as she does not feel like accepting the President's invitation for Jan. 26, he has written declining to come. He felt that he must decline for both himself and his wife because both wereasked together. Nevertheless he wants to come alone and will if you will have an invitation sent to him. I am sure you will be glad to do this for it is he that the President wishes to meet. Very truly Yours J. B Bishop To William Loeb - Esqasked together. Nevertheless he wants to come alone and will if you will have an invitation sent to him. I am sure you will be glad to do this for it is he that the President wishes to meet. Very truly yours, J. B. Bishop Mr. William Loeb -- Esqonly that he be judged on it for retention, says he has thoroughly mastered German to qualify himself for his duties, and certainly wrote me a very sensible and manly letter. He is the son of one of the most prominent Unions men in Baltimore, who was such during the Civil War at a time when loyalty was rare among person of his associations and surroundings, and if Talbot has really done well as an officer, and is keeping away from concentrated alcohol in his present post, I should be pleased to hear of his staying there. I take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year and abundant opportunities for official usefulness and personal prosperity during the year; and I am, as ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. [*Ackd 1/2/05*] Confidential 601 PARK AVENUE. Baltimore, Jany. 1st, 1905. To The President, White House, Washington, D. C., Sir, I do not write about the Postmastership, for that is now generally recognized here as a closed incident. I have been, however, very strongly urged to mention to you the names of two officers in the Consular Service, whose friends think (I fear with little reason) that what I can say of them may advance their interest. The first is a Mr. Willing Peters of Philadelphia, now at St. Gall, Switzerland, but who casts longing eyes on several other posts and especially on Ottawa, Canada. I have no acquaintance with Mr. Peters, but as he has been fifteen years in the Service, he must be an experienced official and I know him by reputation as a gentleman and a man of high character. I am quite well acquainted with his wife (formerly a Miss Shober of Philadelphia) and she persists in believing that a "good word" from me would strengthen the recommendations of Lodge and Senator Penrose and Judge Gray, who, she says are his sponsors. He only asks, according to her account to be judged for promotion upon his record; and, if so mild a good word as I have said for him can aid in securing this, I am willing to bear the resulting responsibility, especially as it would be a great boon to Mrs. Peters, whose health is very delicate to be on this side of the Atlantic, and therefore nearer her own family, or else in a European City of some size. The second is Talbot Albert, now consul, if I remember aright, at Brunswick. I think Rose has spoken to you about him. I could not have recommended him, if consulted as to his original appointment; for I suspect that his family and friends secured this with a view to checking his habits of intemperance. He claims, however to have made a good record, asksTELEGRAM WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 3 PO BO JM 11 Rec'd, Jan 1, 1905. 12:17 p.m. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 1, 1905. The President. Happy New Year to you from us both and the "Missouri." Anna Roosevelt Cowles. [*[1-1-05]*] Society of American Wars FOUNDED JANUARY 11TH, 1897 INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 10, 1987 --- Motto: Vicerunt et Viramus COLORS: SANGUINE AND BLUE --- Headquarters, Commandery-In-Chief --- CIRCULAR No. 1, 1905 San Francisco, January 1. 1. a. Dues of non-resident companions for the fiscal year, April 30th, 1904, to April 30th, 1905, are now due and payable. b. Dues of companions actually resident in the States of Minnesota and California, and in the District of Columbia, are payable to their respective Commandries. All other Companions are known as non-resident companions; their dues are payable to the Commandery-in-Chief. c. Dues are remitted for the fiscal year to those non-resident companions who have already paid dues for the fiscal year 1903-4. The dues of non-resident companions who have not yet paid dues for said fiscal year are remitted upon their paying dues for the fiscal year 1904-5. 2. The Commandery of the District of Columbia was established on the 11th day of April, 1902, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Major Gen. John C. Breckenridge, U. S. A. Commander. Mr. Henry Graham Crocker, State Department, Washington, D. C., is its present Recorder. 3. The new constitution has been adopted by the Commanderies of the States of Minnesota, California and the District of Columbia. Copies thereof may be had on application to the Recorder-General. 4. The date of the transfer of the Headquarters of the Commandery-in-Chief to Washington, D. C., has been postponed to February 22, 1905, and the present officers will hold over until that time. 5. a. All non-resident companions residing in States or Countries east of the Mississippi River are hereby assigned to the jurisdiction of the Commandery of the District of Columbia. [*[Encl in J.H.N. ca 4-1905]*] [*Society of American Wars*] b. All non-resident companions residing in the following states and territories: North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana are hereby assigned to the jurisdiction of the Commandery of the State of Minnesota, Mr. Fendall G. Winston, Commander, Mr. Seavey M. Bailey, 84 Willow Street, Minneapolis, Recorder. c. All non-resident companions in the remaining Western States, Territories and Island possessions are hereby assigned to the jurisdiction of the Commandery of the State of California, Rear Admiral Henry Glass, U.S.N. Commander, Mr. Howard G. Stevenson, Hobart Building, San Francisco, Recorder. d. Nothing in the foregoing changes the provision concerning the payment of dues as herein provided. 6. Insignias and Rosettes are now ready for delivery by the Recorders of the various Commanderies to those companions having on file their Statements of Eligibility. Certificates of Membership will likewise be furnished when orders for a total of not less than 100 are received. Blank forms for Statements of Eligibility may be had by applications to the several Recorders. A fac-similie of the insignia is herewith enclosed. 7. Companions who may not be able to qualify according to the strict letter of the Constitution, but whose names have been published in the list of companions of the various Commanderies, may refer to themselves as "Charter Companions," and such reference is to be deemed for all intents and purposes a full compliance with the requirements of the Constitution. On and after date, however, the receipt by the several Recorders of Statements of Eligibility, properly filled, is one of the indispensible conditions precedent to the election of applicants to companionship. 8. At the last session of Congress bills were introduced having for their object the prevention of the desecration of the American Flag. Similar bills have been proposed a number of times, but have been defeated through the influence of those using the flag of our country in connection with advertisements. Companions are earnestly requested to urge upon the Senators and Representatives of their respective states the passage of a law which will bring about the end suggested. HENRY GLASS Rear Admiral, U.S.N. Commander-General. Attest: Archibald J. Treat, Recorder-General, Claus Spreckels Building, San Francisco, Cal. they are rather touchy at times, -- and rather inclined to misunderstand. Did you see Brunetiere's wrongheaded paper on "L'Ame Americane"? Yours Ever Brander Matthews [*Ackd 1/3/05*] Jan 1st 1905 681 WEST END AVENUE, N.W. CORNER 93RD ST. NEW YORK. Dear Mr President: A Happy New year to you and yours!-- and four happy years for the nation. In the mean while I want to know if you have seen the December PoliticalScience Quarterly? There are two articles that would interest you, -- one a striking review of Steffens's book, and the other the address on the "Problems of Constitutional Law" that Burgess delivered at St. Louis. If you like, I'll send you the number. It may possibly be of value to know that a Frenchman here expressed to me his sincere hope that Mr. Meyer should not take Gen. Porter's place,-- for the sole reason that the German name would produce a bad effect on the French. AndState. This Denver System was of Wolcott's building. His influence was the power of money and the purchase of men. He had not and has not personal friends. No one loves him or ever did: and our troubles this fall have come from two or three hang over County organizations of his, built on the old corrupt lines. He cares nothing for Colorado or her interests or her people and when we finally shattered his machine, he fell like a charred stick, absolutely corrupt and cursing. [*P.F.*] 1/1/05 1228 WOOD AVENUE COLORADO SPRINGS My dear Mr President, Sentiment is coming Peabody words most rapidly. The opening of the Denver boxes by the Supreme Court has taken all vagaries from the claim we made of very great fraud, the disclosures have shocked the state - think of 176 ballots in one box written by one man! there are but 10 of 204 precincts reasonably clean of fraud: And our canvas back from the poll books shows 8360 & pad in 196 precinct. Adams, by personal petition, requested the Supreme Court onside. If any one is to hold a tainted seat, let it be Adams. We have a two thirds vote in both Senate and House to override him: but I think public opinion will be ripened to accept what I am convinced are the proofs of a majority for Peabody. Stevens misstated the situation and I write this to set that report of his right. Wolcott has not a particle of strength left in the party or in the Friday to open all boxes in Denver. We supported him at once but asked that registration also be investigated. The Court has made the order and placed the expense equally on both parties - some $12000. Adams at once plead poverty although rich. So does the democratic party and we propose to offer to bear the entire cost. The move was a bluff and has hurt Adams greatly. But we will show thousands of fraud above Adams plurality. However, I have been most strong on the conservative2 1228 WOOD AVENUE COLORADO SPRINGS this is an answer to a second question in your letter. Most cordially yours, Philip B. Stewart Jan'y 1st 1905.1/12/05 1228 WOOD AVENUE COLORADO SPRINGS [*[1-1-05]*] My dear Mr President, In answer to your letters of the 26th and 27th, in so far as the subject matter is clear, — I am in communication with Goff and shall have a meeting with him very shortly. I believe his country is the lower White River and some weeks earlier than the territory south of the Grand River. The ten Sections can be made progressive, with the Season -- Goff first. In both places lion probable and cats certain - perhapsout the plan to its details and see just what is best to carry out. Do you know how much time you can probably give, if you finally come? This will have bearing on what country to select. Always, Your friend, Philip B. Stewart Jany 1st, 1905 More of each in Goffs Country than the other. You can go everywhere on horseback. Jake Borah and his pack should certainly be tried after Goff: and when his country is exhausted A man named Matthews, still south and west, should be tried. I intend to meet Jake or reach him at once -- to engage him and to pump him dry on his equipment, etc. Until you check me by a change in Your plans I shall work [*PF*] EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MEXICO Jany 2d 1905 My Dear Mr. President: I received your very kind letter of the 26th inst. yesterday (New Years day.) I cannot express to you how much I appreciate your kind words relative to my work here, especially those added by your own hand at the end of the typewritten letter. Which I shall preserve and hand down to my descendants, who will doubtless give to it a double value. More, perhaps, because it is over the signature of one of America's best and greatest Presidents, than for what it contains concerning myself. Whenrelieved by my successor, I hope to visit Washington and to thank you in person for your many courtesies and this last evidence of your kind consideration. With best New Year's wishes for you and your family. I am sincerely Your friend & Servant Powell Clayton To President Theodore Roosevelt White House Wash. D.C.[*439*] 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 Pat. Dec. 20, 1897 24. 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 [*Willard*] (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) A-2NY. PH. H. BY Paid Night 132AM. New Orleans, La Jan 2 1905 Hon. Nathan B. Scott, Washington. DC. President about to take up appointment New Orleans postmaster. Endeavored to get Lily Whites agree on candidate thereby relieve President of embarrassment. They refuse and treat our efforts with disdain and contempt and still persist in their course.We feel entitled to the appointment and have named Mr.Emile Kuntz,as our candidate.You knowing conditions here I ask of you to back our claims to the President. Walter L. Cohen.[*[.Enc in Scott, 1-3-05]*][*P.F.*] OFFICERS GEO. B. CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N. B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R. S. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D.C. January 2, 1905. My dear Mr. President: I have your personal letter of the 31st instant concerning Thompson and the proposed elevation of the Brazilian Legation to the rank of Embassy. No intimation has ever come to me of Thompson's having any interests in Mexico that would properly disqualify him from holding the place there. I believe very earnestly that he should have the transfer. He was one of the men who rendered exceptional service. I have never had the time to tell you the extent of it, but if such service can constitute a claim for recognition, his is, in my judgment, the equal of that of any other individual whom you may appoint to any diplomatic position, however high. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou To the President. [*[Courtelyou]*]COPY. Atlanta, Georgia., Jan. 2, 1905 My dear Mr. Washington, Mr. H. A. Rucker, Prof. W. H. Crogman and myself went over the address carefully to-night. We regard the matter taken up an exceedingly delicate[ly] one for him. On the whole we think it a strong statement. We unanimously agreed on the following suggestions: 1. On the top of page "E", we would insert the words "moral" and "intellectual" after the word "social", making the sentence to read: "But the prime requisite is social, moral, intellectual and industrial uplifting". We think that would make a completer statement and avoid ambiguity raised by the word social in view of its double meaning. 2. In the sentence following the one just referred to on the same page we would omit these words: "Arrogance and insolence, laziness and shiftlessness these and above all vice of every kind". We would substitute the following so that the whole sentence would read: "Internal vice is capable of more harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men put together". To make the statement he does while true would likely be construed as his giving assent to the possession of these [trait] traits as a whole by the black race. The one we suggest would be an abstract statement which could not be construed. 3. The other [question] suggestion is that in the fourth line from the bottom on the same page where the question of social equality is referred to that instead of making it a matter for the locality to settle make it a matter for the individual to settle. This is the position he took and the country has sustained him in it. This statement would be weaker than his actions. Dr. Bradley of this city has stated in a public address andand printed in the the Constitution with approval that social equality is an individual matter. We believe that he can afford to say that. H. H. P.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 4PO. HO.RA. 30- 1:55p.m. Tuskegee, Alabama, January 2, 1905. President Theodore Roosevelt. Personal and confidential. Please don't make any definite announcement of any decision concerning registership to Bishop Grant or any one else until Messrs Scott and Anderson see you on Saturday. Booker T. Washington.LAW OFFICES OF WEATHERLY & STOKELY, 601-2-3-4 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA JAMES WEATHERLY J. T. STOKELY [*[ca.1-2-05]*] Hon: Thos G. Jones. Montgomery, Ala, Dear Judge: I enclose copy of page of Bhm News containing an editorial which I wrote at Gen Rhodes's request. It expresses my sentiments, & should be the wish of all good citizens. If Mr Roosevelt should study us, as he studied the West, before he gave us his "Winning of the West", do you think there could be any trouble between us? Why cannot there be a "Winning of the South"? It is a great stake, and immortal fame awaits the winner. Yours Sincerely, James Weatherly,[Enc in Jones, 1-2-05]COPY. Manila, January 2, 1905 [*see Taft 1/4/05*] Secretary of War, Washington. Confidential: Your letter of November 12th received three days since. Referring to Smith, he says would prefer position on Supreme Court to one now occupies even at present salary. Personally I should regret change as has thorough grasp of his Department. Schools are in especially good shape and he is in thorough accord with our policies. Suggest you hold appointment in abeyance nail you receive my letter of this date. WRIGHT.CUSTOM HOUSE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE NEW YORK. January 3rd, 1905. Dear Mr. Loeb: I am in receipt of this dispatch. I know nothing of the facts in the case, and therefore can do nothing but send it to you to submit to the President if you desire. Naturally I have a very strong sympathy for Mr. Herwig, Mr. Cohen and the other republicans of Louisiana with whom I have been fighting in national politics for 25 or 30 years, and who were good republicans when the Lily Whites were all democrats. The President understands the situation there at the present time, and I do not. Sincerely yours, J. S. Clarkson Mr. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Washington. Enclosure. [FOR ENC SEE HERWIG - COHEN TO CLARKSON 1-305][*WR*] [*Paid 18*] 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. 24.10 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 12:30 A.M. [*51 WILLIAM ST. DIRECT WIRES TELEPHONE 1113 JOHN.*] (WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT.) "D" 15 No Vb 105 Paid Nite 3 Extra. New Orleans La. 2. General James S. Clarkson, New York, N.Y. After repeated efforts and failure to have "Lily Whites" agree on candidate for Postmaster and relieve the president from any embarrassment, we have been forced by their arbitrary action notwithstanding our willingness to make sacrifices to name a candidate, Mr. Emile Luntz. We have repeatedly appealed to the Lily Whites for harmony as desired by the President. Our efforts were treated with contempt. Lily Whites now at Washington endeavoring to have their candidate named. We feel entitled to consideration and knowing your design to have all republicans receive proper treatment we appeal to you to present and push our claims to the President. P. T. Herwig Walter L. Cohen[*[ENC. IN. CLARKSON TO LOEB 1-3-05]*] [*PF*] Republican National Committee 1 MADISON AVENUE New York GEORGE B. CORTLELYOU CHAIRMAN ELMER DOVER SECRETARY CORNELIUS N. BLISS TREASURER WILLIAM F. STONE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FRANK H. HITCHCOCK ASSISTANT SECRETARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GEO. B. CORTELYOU, NEW YORK, CHAIRMAN AT EASTERN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CHARLES F. BROOKER, CONNECTICUT N.B. SCOTT, WEST VIRGINIA FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM L. WARD, NEW YORK CORNELIUS N. BLISS, NEW YORK AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO HARRY S. NEW, INDIANA FRANK O. LOWDEN, ILLINOIS R.B. SCHNEIDER, NEBRASKA DAVID W. MULVANE, KANSAS GEO. A. KNIGHT, CALIFORNIA ELMER DOVER, OHIO Personal. WASHINGTON, D.C. January 3, 1905 Dear Mr. Loeb: Referring to the papers enclosed herewith, which were forwarded to me from the White House, I beg to say that I shall take up the matters to which they relate upon my return from abroad - the later part of February. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou [Cortelyou Honorable William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. Enclosures.[*PF*] January 3, 1905 My dear Mr. President: Your telegram asking me to recommend a Chaplain to the Navy was received while I am in the country. I have no candidate this moment in view, but on my return tomorrow the matter will receive my immediate attention. Yours very sincerely J. Card Gibbons. To President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. I avail myself of the occasion by wishing you a happy New Year.[*F*] T/J DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. January 3, 1905. William Loeb, jr., Esquire, Secretary to the President. Sir: In answer to our letter of the 28th ultimo, I have to inform you that I have sent a letter to Prince Fushimi, acknowledging, in appropriate terms, the receipt of the Prince's telegram of the 28th ultimo to the President. The letter with be delivered to the Prince through the American Minister to Japan. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant John Hay[*Bill returned to Mr. Heyburn in person.*] W. B. HEYBURN, CHAIRMAN P. J. McCUMBER, A. S. CLAY J. H. GALLINGER PARIS GIBSON J. FRANK ALLEE, A. C. LATIMER ADDISON T. SMITH, CLERK United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON MANUFACTURES. January 3rd, 1905 To the President. Pursuant to our conversation in regard to legislation affecting corporations doing an Interstate Commerce business, I beg leave to submit herewith the enclosed bill which it is my purpose to introduce at the opening of tomorrow's session of the Senate. There are some blanks to be filled, and perhaps some minor corrections that I may desire to make in it before introducing. It represents my views as to necessary legislation on this subject. It doubtless contains imperfections which may be corrected upon the consideration of the bill. I regret that I was not able to submit it to you earlier; I have been overcrowded with work. Very truly yours, W. B. Heyburn[for enc. see Heyburn 8-31-03][*F*] WILLIAM H. H. LLEWELLYN. DISTRCIT ATTORNEY FOR DONA ANA, GRANT, SIENNA. AND LUNA COUNTIES. [BONHAM] & LLEWELLYN, Attorneys-at-Law LAS CRUCES, N. M. January 3rd 1905. Colonel. Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. My Dear Colonel:- Referring to the letter I wrote you recently regarding the proposition to hunt in the State of Chihuahua, I have to advise that I have obtained recent information regarding the Jaguar and I can assure you that you can have an opportunity to incounter this beautiful animal if you decide to hunt in Chihuahua. On page 18 Chapter 111 The American Natural History by W. T. Hornaday, you will find a very accurate discription of the Jaguar. The time could be arranged so that your car could arrive in El Paso in the night time and be transfered to the Mexican side and you could take breakfast at Casas Grande in the morning, that same night you would make your camp in the hunting country. All of the details can be worked out and submitted to you for your approval, and arrangements for complete protection, and the public need not know that you have been outside of the United States until after you have returned. I am so anxious to have you incounter the Jaguar and to have an opportunity to hunt in a hunting country that I sincerely trust that you can see your way clear to make this trip. Faithfully yours, W. H. H. LLEWELLYN Dict. G. L.[1-8-05] Gov. Higgins phoned that he might bring Collector Stranahan along with him, as he wanted to have him present when he talked over certain matters with the President. I told him to bring him with him to dinner. W.L.Jr. [W. Loeb, Jr.] 1-8-1905Mr. Albert, so far as I can judge, performs his duties well, but has made no special record, his post not being one of great importance. I return herewith Mr. Bonaparte's letter. Very sincerely yours, F. B Loomis The Hon. William Loeb Jr., Secretary to the President, The White House. (One enclosure) [*F*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON. January 3, 1905. Dear Mr. Loeb: I am in receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, enclosing one from Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte, in which inquiry is made concerning Consul William Peters, now at St Gall, Switzerland, and Consul Albert at Brunswick. Mr. Peters is considered one of our most efficient men in Europe and is now occupying a very important post.[*F*] MR. SCOTT, CHAIRMAN. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON MINES AND MINING. Jan. 3, 1905 Mr. William Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Loeb:-- Please find enclosed a telegram which speaks for itself. I do not care to get mixed up in these matters. Mr. Cohen is the colored man whose application was recognized at Chicago in the temporary organization and in the permanent organization it was divided between the colored and the Lilly Whites. Cohen was selected as National Committeeman and the Lilly Whites also selected one. I believe Mr. Cortelyou has never recognized either. If thought of enough importance you might call the President's attention to it. I know nothing about the racket down there. Very truly yours, N B Scott (Encl.)[For 1 enc see Cohen, 1-2-05]Confidential. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. Jan. 3, 1905. Jacob A. Riis, Esq., New York. Dear Friend: By this morning's mail, I received a letter from my good friend Senator Nelson informing me that the President had told him in a private talk that nearly all the diplomatic appointments had been made by his predecessor, President McKinley; and that he felt that after the present incumbents had been allowed to serve eight years, or nearly so, they had been given their fair share, and there2. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. ought to be a change. Mr. Roosevelt said that, while he had made no specific promises during the campaign, he naturally had prominent friends whom he felt like recognizing with these places. He accordingly expected diplomatic appointees to send in their resignations by the end of this term. He appeared to have somebody in mind for Copenhagen; and Nelson got the impression that there will be a change in nearly all the diplomatic appointments. From what you know personally of our love for this place, you may imagine how mortified we all were to receive such news. We had fully expected to remain here another four years — had in fact made3. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. certain arrangements under that supposition — in connection with renovating and furnishing our apartments with modern improvements, &c. Then too, our little girls are at stages in their school work, where a breaking off would deprive them of so much real value in their education. We feel so bad for them, on that account, as well as for other reasons. Mabel has been treated by an eminent Danish specialist for ear trouble; and though she seems almost cured, we should like to be near Prof. Schmiegelow for some time yet. — I dislike to refer in any way to my standing here or to my qualifications for this4. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. position I hold. I only want to call attention to the importance of knowing the language of the people where one is stationed as a diplomatic representative. As to the rest, you know something about that. I may tell you that the Crown Prince some time ago spoke to us about rumors of changes in the diplomatic service, and expressed the hope that we would not be disturbed. He went so far as to suggest that in case I should think it desirable, the king and other members of the royal family would be glad to make it known to the President that they would be much gratified to have me continued5. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. at the Danish court. Senator Nelson and other political friends will do all they can to induce the President to retain me; but I fear that their wishes may not be strong enough with him. I am therefore writing you, dear friend, to solicit your powerful influence in my behalf. I am diffident about doing it, and had hoped never to have to ask you to do me a political favor. I think you know that my friendship and admiration for you are of an unselfish nature; and it pains me to make an appeal which might be misinterpreted. But I have the confidence that you understand me. Now, I realize that I have no6. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. right to come to you with my troubles; but circumstances impel me, and I do so confidently. What I would ask you to do, is to see the President, lay my case fully before him, and make a strong personal request that I be retained at this post. I shall cherish an undying gratitude for such kindness on your part. I am aware that you do not, as a rule, bother yourself about political appointments of this kind; but in view of the fact that I represent the United States in your native country, I thought you might be willing to make an exception in this case.7. AMERICAN LEGATION, COPENHAGEN. In the event that you go to Washington, as I sincerely hope you will, please let me know what your expenses have been, so that I may reimburse you. I ask the above favor, assuming that you are not the person the President has in mind for Copenhagen. Should you be the man, I shall not only ask my friends to make no efforts in my behalf, but I shall feel it an honor to make place for you and to welcome you as my successor. With cordial New Years' greetings from myself and family to you and your dear ones, I remain your sincere friend, Laurits S. Swenson. P.S. Early action is important in the above matter[Enclosed in Riis 1-13-05]WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. January 3, 1905 My dear Mr. President: I have Mr. Loeb's note of December thirty-first, inclusing a letter from Commissioner Greene of the Civil Service Commission, concerning conditions in Panama. In reply, I beg to say that much of what Commissioner Greene says is true with respect to the difficulty of securing good quarters in Panama, and it is true that the Commission has been delayed in the construction of buildings, due to the inability to procure the land needed. The result of my visit to Panama was the institution of proceedings of condemnation, and arrangement with the Panama authorities on the subject. The Panama people have already appointed or intimated the names of the persons whom they would select, as two of the Commissioners to fix the price, and we have also agreed on the fifth member. It only remains for us to determine upon the two remaining commissioners and I had expected to talk over with you the question of whom to appoint. It will probably be necessary to send somebody from the United States - at least to send one person from the United States - for there is nobody in the Isthmus so free from relation to the Panama Commission as not to occupy a somewhat prejudiced status. The fifth person who we have agreed upon is the English Consul. It was necessary to modify the law which had been passed by the Isthmian Canal Commission for this purpose, in order to conform to the provisions of the treaty. This has been-2- done, and the work is progressing as rapidly as possible. Under the treaty it will be possible, since the Commission fixes the price, for us to begin judicial proceedings which will enable us at once to take the land and then to begin construction. It was proposed in the Philippine Islands at the one time to erect a number of houses in Manila, but the construction of houses in Manila in various parts under the influence of the high rents, finally produced houses enough so that I have heard no complaint within the last two years with respect to the expense of living in Manila, by employes. In other words, Manila is a large city and the evil is one which cured itself. In Panama this is hardly to be expected, and the policy of the Commission, with the large amount of money which it has at its disposal, should be to construct these buildings, and I am sure there will be no delay about it as soon as the land is obtained. Very sincerely yours, Wm. H Taft The President.[*The President*] Rear Admiral JOHN G. WALKER, U. S. N., Chairman Major General GEORGE W. DAVIS, U. S. A. WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, C. E. WILLIAM H. BURR, C. E. BENJAMIN M. HARROD, C. E. C. EWALD GRUNSKY, C. E. --- MR. D. L. MURPHY, Secretary ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. January 3, 1905. The Honorable The Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by your endorsement, of a letter dated November 3, 1904, addressed to the Secretary to the President by Mr. A. R. Smith, of New York, with the accompanying papers. Replying to your desire for "an answer as to the necessity for maintaining ships by the Government and for contracting for the construction of others," I have to say that I am advised that Mr. Smith's letter, marked "personal," expresses his personal views only, although it is written on the official paper of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, and consequently is likely to convey an erroneous impression as to the position in this matter of that Association. I am advised that is was so written without authority and against positive directions to the contrary, arising from a similar act by him last winter in connection with an unauthorized commitment of the Association as favoring the Subsidy Bill. I am also advised that the letter does not express the views of the Association, but those of only a small portion thereof. Mr. Smith states that private citizens now own and operate lines on the Pacific side and that it should be left to out citizensSec. of War. -2. to do the same on the Atlantic side; that the service can be performed much more cheaply by private citizens than it can by the Government; that the Government would save money by going out of the steamship business. He recommends the abandonment of the Panama Steamship Line as a beginning, and later the abandonment of the transports and colliers of the Government, claiming that the Government would save considerable money, etc. etc. I think it goes without saying that Mr. Smith and others who have been moving to obtain control of the Panama Railroad and of the Panama Steamship Line, are not wholly actuated by a desire to benefit the Government. I think there are some personal motives underlying their recommendations. I have nothing to say with regard to the advisability of constructing or maintaining steamships by other branches of the Government, but the maintenance of the Panama Railroad is absolutely essential to the construction of the Panama Canal, and the Panama Steamship Line (owned by the Railroad Company) is a highly valuable part of the Railroad property. It is run, not by the Government, but by a private corporation precisely as it would be run if the Government had no connection with is, and is a very valuable and profitable portion of the Railroad Company's property. Because of the Government being a large majority stockholder, represented by a majority of the Board of Directors, it is enabled to control rates and save large sums of money to the appropriation for building the canal. If this line were held by private individuals,Sec. of War. - 3 . they would, of course, run it for a profit and the rates could only be controlled by competition. While the Government would not desire to run the Steamship Line for purposes of profit, it is extremely valuable to it in other ways and there is no argument that can be advanced for throwing away its property or selling it at a sacrifice that could not be advanced against the ownership of the Railroad itself, or of the Postal Service, or of any other valuable and necessary business carried on by the Government. The Steamship Line maintains a weekly service between New York and Colon. It carries to and from Colon over 60 per cent of the total tonnage over the Railroad. The Railroad has at times depended upon the earning from the Steamship Line for the net profits from its operations. The complaint about American vessels is misleading, as where they are laid up it is often for special reasons affecting their seaworthiness or their adaptibility for ocean traffic. The United States purchased the rights and property of the French Canal Company, paying forty millions of dollars therefor. To throw away one of the valuable live assets so purchased, for which hard money was paid, would seem to me bordering closely upon maladministration of Government property, and should by all means be avoided. The ships of the Steamship Line are now crowded with freight and passengers. They are often forced to sail leaving passengers and many tons of freight on their piers, rendering an extra steamerSec. of War. - 4. necessary much of the time. It is very desirable that the Steamship Line should be maintained in an efficient manner, and the Board of Directors of the Railroad Company have favored the building of at least two ships larger and of greater speed than those now owned by it. I have no doubt of the correctness of this as a business proposition. Besides being a source of annual profit, the ships would more than pay for themselves during the period of construction of the canal; would enable the Canal Commission to control Isthmian rates, and upon completion of the canal, when the Commission would undoubtedly be ready to abandon the Steamship Line, the ships would still be a valuable asset of the Commission and would without doubt bring their value at public sale. Personally I strongly favor the building of the new ships as soon as possible and the maintenance of the Line until the canal is completed and ready for operation. I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your obedient servant, G. [J. G. Walker] Chairman of Commission. [*Page 2*] EVERY EVENING TODAY'S NEWS EXCEPT SUNDAY The Pocatello Tribune IN TODAY'S PAPER Vol. II Pocatello, Idaho, Monday Even??? August 31, 1903. No. 140 DECLARED OFF AGAIN THE RELIANCE IS THE FASTER In Any Kind of Weather She Skims Over the Sea Faster Than Challenger. The Race Today Winds Up in Another Drifting Match—Fine Jockeying For Position in a Good Wind, But the Wind Fails to Hold—Yachts Go Over the Line Neck and Neck. New York, August 31.—An autum storm which had kept the Reliance and Shamrock III for forty-eight hours within the shelter of Sandy Hook Bay had blown itself out sufficiently this morning to enable the two racers to venture one more into the open sea for a continuation of their race for the America's cup. The gale, however, had left a heavy swell. The day had little attraction for the spectators for the dark clouds seemed to threaten rain while theuneasy ocean had little to invite any except the stoutest sailors. The decision of the yacht owners to start the race and terminate it if possible, the series was accepted on all sides as the interest in the races had been pretty well dampened by the numerous delays. It was not surprising, therefore, that the fleet that followed the two racers was a mere ghost of that which saw the yachts in the previous contest. New York, August 31.--The contest for position at the start began before the warning signal was fired, each captain making a desperate effort to get the better place. Today the Shamrock seemed to have a little more life and Captain Wringe was able to get her out from the great blanketing sails of the Reliance. The wind at the start was blowing about five miles an hour. Each carried the same sails during the first half hour the wind blowing light and the yachts scarcely moving more than two miles an hour. The Reliance as usual seemed to gain steadily. New Yorg, August 31.--11:40 a. m.,--The preparatory gun for the yacht race has been fired. The course is fifteen miles to windward and return. oni).--The official time of starting. Both boats crossed the line at 11:45-26. New York, August 31.--The Reliance is pointing considerably higher and is a quarter of a mile to the windward of Shamrock. New York, August 31.--11:55 p. m.--The Reliance is well to the windward and is a sixteenth of a mile in the lead. New York, August 31.--1:30 p. m. Half way to the outer mark, the Reliance was leading by a quarter of a mile; both boats are pounding badly. New York, August 31.--Four miles from the turn the Reliance is leading by about two miles. New York, August 31.--On Marconi's time--The Reliance beats the Shamrock to the outer mark by twenty minutes and 23 seconds. New York, August 31.--4:05 p. m. The wind has freshened somewhat and there is a chance that the Reliance will finish in the time limit. New York, August 31,--4:24 p. m. The Reliance is six miles from the finish line. The Shamrock has gained some but the Reliance is a mile and a half ahead. New York, August 31.--5:05 p. m. The race between the Reliance and time is excedingly clos. New York, August 31.--The race had been declared off as both the boats are unable to finish in the time limit. The Reliance is half mile from the nfiish line. New York, August 31.--The Shamrock was over a mile and a half astern of the Reliance when the race was declared off. SNAP SHOTS OF HAPPENINGS FROM OVER STATE A large and ferocious mountain lion was killed by fifteen-year-old Edwin Mayne on Clear Creek mountain in Cassia county a few days ago. Litigation to adjudicate the rights to water in the Snake river is begn and promises to be interesting as well as protracted before it ends. The Caldwell Tribune says Mr. Dils of that place, a government hydrographer who recently returned from the Snake river country, the upper end of it, reports that he never befoe saw the river so low. The Rigby Star ways that the storm that struck that part of the country a few days ago for suddenness and for wind, hail, thunder, lightening and rain, beat all previous records of that country. The wind reached the velocity of fifty miles an hour, and lasted for about fifteen minutes, destroyed thousands of acres of grain and other property throughout the the farmers of that section. The country, which means a great loss to storm took in the most prosperous farming community of the great Snake River valley and reached as far east as the southern part of the Teton basin. The Montpelier Examiner is happy over a recent promise made by Superintendent Dunn of the Short Line motive power department that a round house will be built there this fall. The Short Line has long needed a new round house at Montpelier and the Examiner says it will be a gala day for that city when work is actualy commenced. As a result of the rain that fell Saturday and Sunday, says the Kootenai Republican, the numerous forest fires which were reported in this vicinity last week, are practically a thing of the past, and timber men generally are more jubilant than they were. Until the elements come to their assistance it was rather an unequal battle between the timber men and the fires and the prediction was made that the damage would be great. The Masons of Laclede have recently completed a hall that is said to be one of the finest in north Idaho. The upper floor is fitted up for lodge rooms while the lower floor will be used for entertainments and other amusements. At Gray's book store can always be found office supplies, tracing paper, matte board, latest novels, new songs, kodak supplies. Finest line of pipes ever brought to the city at Gray's. Moving Pictures. In hall over Office Saloon, outside entrance. No connection with saloon. An entertainment for ladies and children. Every evening from 6 to 10. DAILY TRIBUNE, 75c. Per. Month. ACCIDENTALLY STEPPD ON SOMETHING. (The Wooley appointment and the Statesman.) [illustration of G.O.P. elephant stepping on tail of statesman cat] DIRECTORS ON TRIAL Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Being Tried For Manslaughter. Indictments Against Seven Members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Director--Killed Nine High School Students in a Collision at Newark, New Newark, N. J., August 31.--The seven members of the executive committee of the board of directors of the North Jersey Street Railway, appeared today in the Essex county court for trial on an indictment charging them with manslaughter. On February 19th last, nine Newark High School students were killed in a collision between a Clifton Avenue trolley car and a Lakawanna express train. Indictments were returned against Alexander J. Cassett, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and a number of others. GOT RID OF THE PENNY Little Son of H. E. Hersham Relieved of he One Cent Piece He Swallowed Over Six Weeks Ago--Doing Well and Parents Are Happy. Little Eugene Hersam was relieved of the penny he swallowed over six weeks ago. Eugene is the two-year old son of Mr. and Mr. Hersaham, who reside at 629 South Harrison Avenue. ON the 12th day of July last he accidentally swallowed a one cent piece and ever since that time he has carried it around in his stomach, being unable to get rid of it although the parents sought the advice of eeveral physicians and all kinds of means were employed. The boy was to daho Falls and was placed under the X- ray machine by Dr. Canard and the penny was located. The physicians hoped that nature would take care of it, and nature did.. The boy naturally has not been well while the penny bothered him and the parents have been extremely careful about what to give him to eat. Yesterday, however, the little fellow waned some pears and his father thought he would risk it. He filled up plenty on pears and then at dinner he ate some green corn. Today he was rid of the penny after having had it in his stomach for six weeks and ne day and the parents are happy at the fortunate outcome. Shake the Old Habit and try the White House Cafe. A FRATERNITY GRAFT. Two Men to Be Brought Back to Bingham County On a Charge of Burglary. Two men, father and son, parading under the name of Napper, were arrested at Butte Tuesday, upon requisitions to the governor of Montana for their return to Idaho. Both men ae wanted at Blackfoot for burglary, the complaint being filed by Isaac E. Smith. Deputy Sheriff Sweet made the application to Governor Morrison for the requisition, he having been authorized to bring the prisoners back to Blackfoot. The Nappers have been successfully working a fraternity "graft," both the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R. being imposed upon. They left Blackfoot some time ago, about forty dollars to the good. . . Idaho Falls Times. Work Commenced Friday. The work of blasting out a deeper chanel in the bay between the two wing dams on Beady island began Friday. The company will try to secure a large supply of water by having a deep channel run from the head of the rapids to the headgates. This scheme will draw a great part of the water now going over the falls, into the forebay. A crew of six men are doing the work.--American Falls Advertiser. NO CHANGE TO BE MADE The American Warships Will Continue On Their Way to Beirut. Secretary Hay and Turkish Minister at Washington Have a Long Interview --A General Insurrection May Be Proclaimed in Bulgaria. Washington, August 31.--Chekib Bey, the Turkish Minister, had a long interview today with Secretary Hay. He refused to discuss the interview. There is no intention of changing any orders of the Mediterreanean squadron at present as the ships cannot be reached until they arrive at Bierut. Sofia, August 31.--It is expected a general insurrection will be proclaimed this week. The Insurgent forces number about 15,000 men. CHICAGO WHEAT. Chicago, Aug. 29.--Dec. wheat 81 5/8 @ 1/2. POCATELLO MINES ARE COMING TO THE FRONT To those who remember the extravagant claims made for the mineral resources of the Fort Hall reservation before the opening of the territory to settlement, it has always been rather surprising that so little has been said about the self-same resources since the ground has been opened to every prospector,: says the Salt Lake Tribune. There is no occasion for surprise, however. That is always the way with reservations. The glamor always attaches to the forbidden. When the Uintah reserve in Utah is public property the mysterious mountains of gold and other metals which may be had for the taking will fade like the morning mists and the miner will learn that it takes work, some money and a great deal of patience to develop mines on reservations, as everywhere else save in some of the bonanza placer digging which have long since been worked out. Such has been the experience of the prospectors who made the rush from Pocatello over a year ago. The driving of stakes and the posting of location notices was the beginning, and not the end, of their fortunes. It is said that about 600 claims were located during the rush. Now barely 300 are being developed. The rest have either been abandoned or the ownrs are too busy looking for capital to work with to keep at work. Still, a year of persistent effort on the part of some of the more enterprising has not been without its results, and Pocatello can foresee the day when it will be a mining as well as a railroad center. W. B. Eldridge of that nity was in Salt Lake yesterday and communicated some facts regarding a portion of the Fort Hall mining field. There are, he says, no regular shoppers on what was the reservation. The first collection of ore of any magnitude has just been made on the Moonlight, a few miles east of Pocatello. Several tons f copper rock, asaying $175 per ton, has been saved and will be sent to the smelter at Mackay. A ten-mile wagon haul will add to the cost of production, and the owners will be satisfied if they realize a profit of $100 on the lot. The Moonlight has entered a copper deposit five feet in thickness, with a tunnel into an extension of Mt. Putnam. The dip of the vein is very great and the tunnel, therefore, furnishes an advantageous mode of development. The best developed property in the region, said the speaker, is that of the Fort Hall Mining company, 12 miles east of Pocatello, where a tunnel has been driven 1200 feet. At the West mine, five miles to the north, good silver values are being obtained and the assayer's figures run up to 1100 ounces per ton. Rodgers, Leaf and McLeod have put down a 125-foot shaft on the Lost Horse claim. Water interfered with further progress and the property was not working when Mr. Eldridge last visited it. On the whole, it appears that good, honest mining will not be prosecuted in vain on the Fort Hall reservation, though it may take a considerable time to develop the possibilities of the country. WILL HOLD AN EXAMINATON The Government Wants Men Stenographers and Typewriters for the Service. A Civil Service Examination Will Be Held Here on October 16yh--Positions are Numerous both in Washington and the Philippine Islands--Salary from $1,200 to $1,400 Per Year. The United States Civil Service Commission will hold a stenography and typewriting examination in this city on October 16th, 1903. The commission reports a continual demand for competent men stenographers and typewriters for the Government service, and the examination will be held to fill vacancies as they occur in the Federal service in this city and Washington, D. C., as well as in the Philipine Service. Most of those appointed will be assigned to Washington, where the service is considered very attractive, that city now being a litrery, art, and scientific center, and, with its libraries and educational institutions giving evening instruction, offering young men splendid opportunities for study and development. The entire salary there will range from $840 to $1,200 a year. A large number of stenographers and typewriters are, however, required for the Philippine Service, where the entrance salary is $1,200 to . .1,400 a year, and a career is open to bright and energetic young men. Accurate tenograph and typewriters are required at least 35 words a minute in typewriting and 80 words a minute in stenography. Certifications are made in regular order according to relative standing, those with the highest ratings being the first apointed. Persons who have had but limited instruction in stenography and typewriting and but little practical experience generally fail in the examinations, and the Commission considers it useless for them to compete. Stenographers over 20 years of age may be examined for the United States service, whil the age limits for the Philippine Service are 1 to 40. Those who are between 20 and 40 years of age may file applications for both services. Seperate forms are required for each service, but only one examination is necessary. Applicants should apply to the secretary of the local board of examiners at the postoffice in this city or to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., for application forms and a copy of the Manual of Examination containing information relative to the character of the examination. Bryan Says He Is Too Busy to Talk Lincoln, Neb., August 31.-- William J. Bryan stated today that it was the press of business that led to the postponement of his speaking tour in Ohio with Mayor Tom L. Johnson. Endorse Campbell Bros. North Platte, Neb., May 5, 1903. To Whom It May Concern: It may be somewhat unusual for the officials of a town to take the trouble to give a letter of recommendation to a traveling show or circus passing over the country, but in this instance, in which the proprietors and the managers are perfect gentlemen, and everything in connection with the aggregation of a very high order, we take pleasure in recommending to the public Campbell Bros.' show. They gave two exhibitions here yesterday, and a more orderly, better conducted and pleasant entertainment could not be afforded. If the Campbell Bros. know it no skin games of any kind are permitted. In Pocatello Sept. 5th. Sheet music ordered daily at Grays [*[enc. in Heyburn 1-3-05]*] The Pocatello Tribune Published Every Evening. Except Sunday, at Pocatello, Idaho. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated) 240 West Center St. Phone 3-K GEORGE N. IFFT, President WILLIAM WALLIN, Secretary Member Associated Press SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, one year $9.00 Daily, six months 4.50 Daily, three months 2.25 Daily, one month 75 Weekly, one year 1.50 The Daily Tribune is delivered every evening by carrier in Pocatello. All complaints of whatsoever nature should be made at the office at once. Entered at the postoffice at Pocatello, Idaho for transmission through the mails as second class matter. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION LABEL POCATELLO WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES. The Tribune and the Republicans of this end of the state are not in sympathy with the tempest raised by the statesman and a few politicians in Boise against the appointment of H.S. Wooley to be assayer of Boise assay office; neither can we believe that any considerable proportion of the Republicans of the state anywhere are inclined to follow the Statesman to any great lengths in its unwarranted charges and unjust attacks upon Senator Heyburn, Congressman French and other prominent Republicans in the state who recommended his appointment. The fact that he has been a good official is no reason why Mr. Cunningham should consider himself wedded for time and eternity to one of the best jobs within the disposal of the party. We can assure the Republican party of the state that Mr. Wooley will make as competent and faithful an official as Mr.Cunningham is reported to have been. He is a citizen of the highest standing in this community and his honesty and integrity can be questioned by neither the Statesman nor anyone else, He is an American citizen of the highest type and as such he has taken an active interest in politics and has labored to further the interests of the party of which he has been a lifelong member. The only charge that his jealous antagonists right now can find against him is that he is a Mormon, and this fact under our form of government and the rights recorded every individual regardless of religious belief, cannot be made to ct any more figure than if he was a member of any other religious denomination existing in this broad land of ours. Everyone who knows Mr. Wooley knows that he will fill the office with credit and ability, honestly and conscientiously and that the party will have no cause for regret over his appointment. We are inclined to the belief that the grief displayed by the Statesman over Mr. Cunningham's "resignation" and the appointment of a Mormon to the position of assayer is not touching the quick of our venerable contemporary near so keenly as the fact that the particular party of its own choice failed to land the plum. It is whispered that someone very close to the Statesman had his lightning rod in the air, and the fact that the lightning refuesd to be attracted in its direction is the cause for its "flying the track" and this insatiable thirst for revenge. The talk of secret compacts and promises of political appointment supposed to have been given in consideration of the carrying out of these compacts is senseless. Such promises were never made. A horrible state of affairs it would be if such conditions should be allowed to corrupt an Idaho or any other legislature at the time of electing a United States Senator. With the same breath that the Statesman charges the election of Mr. Wooley to been a church deal it is doing its utmost to induce another church organization to intercede and help it turn a political trick in its favor, by remonstrating against Mr. Wooley and it is not caring whether the whole Republican party of the state is involved and suffers. The charge that the reason Mr. Wooley and the church wants the appointment is to enable Mr. Wooley to proselyte in and around Boise is equally foolish. Such thought has never entered the mind of Mr. Wooley or anyone else. It is a statement made for the purpose of ribbing up sentiment for its cause. The venerable Statesman seems to have undertaken the task of bringing the Republican party of the state to its knees. It is undertaking a mighty task. The Republican party of the state is not with it. No number of remonstrances that it may be able to cause to be formed and sent to Washington can have the slightest effect on this appointment. The people at Washington will read between the lines as clearly as the majority of Republicans of the state are reading between the lines today. The Republican party of the state is not injured by the appointment of Mr. Wooley, it is the Statesman. A CASE FOR ANOTHER STEVENSON. If Robert Louis Stevenson were alive today no boubt he would watch with interest the case of Stephen B. Roath, of Chicago, who has just given his poor relations his fortune of a million dolars, "just to see what they will do with it." The idea of a millionaire given away his fortune, just for the enjoyment of siting back and watching the action of various relatives under the sudden accession of wealth, is something that would have appealed irresistibly to the creator of "The New Arabian Nights." Mr. Roath, who is described as old and eccentric, evidently has a strong sense of humor. No doubt h has reached the sensible conclusion that there is little fun in leaving a fortune to the tender mercies of greedy lawyers and squabbling heirs, so he has concluded to get the enjoyment of spending the fortune which he declares gave him so much pleasure in making. The idea is not a new one in the main, though it is distinctly novel in its application. Just what a poor person will do with a large fortune, suddenly sequined, is always a fruitful source of speeculation. Most persons think they know just how they would act under the circumstances, but it is not believed that many of the programmes would be carried out. Those who think they would become "Coal Oil Johnnies," spending money right and left, would be apt to be the most conservative, and vice versa. Mr. Roath may not be accomplishing as much general good as if he ndowed a hospital or some other form of beenevolent enterprise, but at any rate he has given himself something to keep his thoughts busy and drive away ennui in the closing years of his life. And that along will doubtless be worth more than a paltry million dolars. . .Denver Republican. TREACHERY WILL END IN DEFEAT. No doubt a covert attempt is on foot to undermine President Roosevelt in several states, with a view to sending to the next Republican convention delegates that will be hostile to him, says the Spokane Review. This hostility has been manifested by the trust and railroad interests, but, unless a serious mistake has been made in judging public sentiment, it will amount to nothing when the time comes for the people to express themselves. Already the Republicans of 32 states have declared in favor of the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt next year, and in every instance the indorsement has been unanimous and enthusiastic. This approval has fairly reflected the president's popularity, and shows what a hold he has upon the esteem and well wishes of the rank and file of the Republican party. The reason for this confidence in Roosevelt was well expressed in the platform recently adopted by the Republican state convention of Nebraska, which declared that "the administration of our national affairs and our negotiations with foreign nations are being conducted by a courageous Republican president, who knows no fear, who courts no favor, but who loves peace crowned with honor, and in whose charge we have a feeling of perfect safety and security." This is a sentiment of a majority of Republicans everywhere, and it will find expression in the next Republican national convention despite any and all efforts of trust or railroad agents to suppress it. The last thirty years has seen the greatest growth in the accomplishment Rheumatism "THE PAIN KING." Those who have ever felt its keen, [?cu]tting pains, or witnessed the intense suffering of others, know that Rheumatism is torture, and that it is rightly called "The King of Pain." All do not suffer alike. Some are suddenly seized with the most excruciating pains, and it seems every muscle and joint in the body was being torn asunder. Others feel only occasional slight pains for weeks or months, when a sudden change in the weather or exposure to damp, chilly winds or night air brings on a fierce attack, lasting for days perhaps, and leaving the patient with a weakened constitution or crippled and deformed for all time. An acid, polluted condition of the blood is the cause of every form and variety of Rheumatism, Muscular, Articular, Acute, Chronic, Inflammatory and Sciatic, and the blood must be purged and purified before there is an end to your aches and pains. External applications, the use of liniments and plasters, do much toward temporary relief, but such treatment does not reach the real cause or cleanse the diseased blood; but S. S. S., the greatest of all blood purifiers and tonics, does cure Rheumatism by antidoting and neutralizing the poisonous acids and building up the weak and sluggish blood. It is safe and reliable in all forms of Rheumatism. It makes the old acid blood rich, and the pain-tortured muscles and joints are relieved, the shattered nerves are made strong, and the entire system is invigorated and toned up by the use of this great vegetable remedy. SSS If you have Rheumatism, write us, and our physicians will furnish without charge any information desired, and we will mail free our book on Rheumatism. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. of many necessary objects, often acompanied by suffering, by means of more humane and painless methods, says the Globe Democrat. Anaesthetics have done a great work for the world, but their work is not done yet. We see in thee use of a syringe containing an anaesthetic by a St. Louis footpad that kinder and less brutal ways are finding a new and wide field of usefulness. The sandbag, the brass "knucks" and the club of savagery are giving way to a larger feeling of humanity. The highwayman draws his syringe on you and fills your face full of chloroform or cocaine, or some other useful drug and works his will with your pockets but you are in no danger of having your skull fractured, or of being shot or stabbed. This movement toward a better mode of procedure among the brigands shows that this world is always growing better, no matter what the pessimists say. In addition to merely stupefying their victim, the highwayman will one of these days leave a little red lantern on his prostrate form as they leave him, so that he can be seen, rescued and resuscitated by the night patrol. It will not be so bad. The future is full of cheer for al of us, even for those who are from time to time also involuntarily full of chloroform. We are indebted to Oklahoma for many good newspaper stories, and if we were not unreasonable sticklers for facts, we might have the pleasure of reading a great many more. But we ae now to look to that enterprising and dauntless community of earnest spirit for the greatest railroad of modern times. It originates at Guthrie, but it is really to run from Port Nelson, on Hudson bay, to Buenos Ayres. Its main object will be to ship whales from Hudson bay to Buenos Ayres, where they have no whales, and to bring back pampas grass, which grows luxuriantly wild all over the Argentine pampas. Guthrie will be the grand central relay point for all this intercontinental traffic; at Guthrie there will be large yards for feeding and watering the whales in transit, and the pampas grass will be prepared for the use of the Eskimos in the vicinity of Hudson bay. It will in a very short time supplant flock ice for roofing material there, as it makes an excellent thatch; besides, plumes of it may be used to keep away the mosquitoes in the short Arctic summer, and it will be a valued addition to Arctic millinery. The road is to cost $250,000,000, and Mr. Pierpont Morgan, we are told, is to take all his capital out of the shipping trust and invest it in this railroad venture. --Globe Democrat. As a matter of fact, Tillman is becoming someting of a nuisance, though a picturesque one. He has found notoriety profitable, and for this the press of the country is chiefly responsible. It is now his only stock in trade, and it must be confesed is somewhat shopworn. Is it too much to expect that Tillman will ever cease to be exploited in the press, at least until he says something new, or says an old think in a new way?--Cleveland Plain Dealer. YOUR HAT May Be a Stylish One, But It Makes Trouble. A man usually buys a hat that's "in style," but the modern hat for men has lots to answer for. Baldheads are growing more numerous every day. Hats make excellent breeding places for the parasite germs which say the life from the roots of the hair. When your hair begins to fall out and your scalp is full of dandruff it is a sure sign that these countless germs are busily at work. There is but one way to overcome the trouble and kill the germs--that way is to apply Newbro's Herpicide to the scalp--it will kill the germs and healthy hair is sure to result. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detro't, MIch. Mrs. A. L. Cook, Special Agent. CAMPING OUT Has Double Pleasure When Your Lunch Box is Lined Right We Have a Line of Meats, Fish, Pickles, Etc., to the Queen's Taste--Here's a Few of Them: Ham and Chicken, imported. Potted Chicken, imported. Potted Ham and Tongue, imported. Deviled Ham. Vienna Sausage. Lunch Tongue. Veal Loaf. Ham Loaf. Corned Beef. Chipped Beef. Corned Beef Hash. Roast Beef. Sardines, foreign and domestic. Mackerel, Herring, Speckled Trout, Etc, Sweet and Sour Pickles, in bulk and bottle. Olives, Jams, Jellies, in fact every thing to make life happy. Load up with us before going out. Pocatello Cash Grocery Partake of Ice Cream or Ice Cream Soda at Mrs. A. L. Cook's Drug Store and see the difference. Salt Lake Collegiate Institute ACADEMY AND BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOTH SEXES Course corresponds to eighth grade and High School. Good music department. Expenses modera'e. The 29th year opens Sept 9th. Catalogue and particulars on application. ROBERT J. CASKEY, PRINCIPAL Social Dances. The dancing public is cordially invited to attend the socials given in the L. D. S. hall every Wednesday night. Good floors and excellent music by Union orchestra. Dancing school every Saturday evening, 8 to 9:30. Classified Advertisements FOUND. FOUND--A bunch of six keys. Call at this office, identify the same and get them WANTED. WANTED: A good road wagon. Write giving description and price, E. A. J., Tribune office. 538 WANTED--Good girl for general housework. Good wages to right party. Apply Mrs. O. B. Steely. WANTED -- A good, reliable woman wants work by the day. Inquire at 258 South Cleveland. WANTED--A good girl for general house work in small family. Call at A. T. Marshall's, 549 South Cleveland. 581 WANTED--To rent a Smith Premier or Remington typewriter. K Tribune. 529 WANTED:--Experienced Japanese cook with second cook and dish washer wants position to cook for some hotel. Address box 571, Pocatello, Idaho. 536 FOR RENT. FOR RENT--Nicely furnished rooms, 506 N. Garfield avenue. 2t FOR RENT.--House for rent and furniture for sale. 202 So. Cleveland. 3t FOR RENT;--House for rent and furniture for sale. Corner Grant and Bridger. 609 FOR RENT--Store room first door east of Post Office. Inquire of Mrs. A. L. Cook. 527 FOR SALE. FOR SALE--Household goods upstairs of C. O. D. Bakery. FOR SALE--New furniture and household goods complete for five room house. Call at this house. 525 COAL. Order Ruebelman's Rock Spring coal at L. M. Hopson and company, E. E. Enos Fruit Store and Jobson's Grocery. 379 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. B. STEELY, M. D. OFFICE IN PIONEER BLOCK. Telephone 18-Y. POCATELLO IDAHO DR. J. B. MASTERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Diseases of women and private diseases Office rooms in Temple Blk. Phone 17-V SCAR SONNENKALB, U. W. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR. County Surveyor for Bannock Co. POCATELLO IDAHO J. P. CUMMINGS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW. Office, over People's Store. POCATELLO IDAHO ROBERT HAYES ATTORNEY AT LAW. Collections made Promptly Special Attention to Land Matters. Columbia Block. POCATELLO IDAHO MADAME SYLVIA. Madame Sylvia, the great lady palmist and life reader will leave the city in a few days and all wishing a reading should take advantage of the short time she will remain and consult her at once. Madame Sylvia combines in her readings the sciences of palmistry and phrenology, sciences which have proven themselves accurate in thir predictions beyond a doubt and which ar mentioned in the Holy Scriptures themselves. In the book of Job Chapter XXXVII, 7th verse we read: He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his work. In Revelations Chap ter XIV, 9th verse . . . . And recive the mark on his forehead or in his hand. In Samuel, Chapter XXVI 18th verse, What evil is in my hand, etc., etc. Madame Sylvia tells past, present and future, gives advice on marriage divorce, love affairs, and business. Room 6, Masonic Temple. POPULAR ADVERTISING. FRANK GIBBON Carpenter and Builder Estimates furnished on all kinds of mill work. Shop No. 230 N. Cleve Av. Phone 33-Y. C. E. STEVENS PRACTICAL PLUMBER AND STEAM FITTER Estimates Furnished on Application JOB WORK Promptly Attended to Shop and Show Room With Marshall & Belcher Shop Phone 43-Z Residence Phone 35- z Pocatello Commission Co. M. O. Inglestrom, Mgr. Meats Groceries Fresh Fish Ranch Eggs and Butter Hay and Grain Corner Cleveland and Fremont. J. B. HAWKLEY & SONS Dealers in Staple and Faney Groceries Prompt Delivery DAILY TRIBUNE 75C. PER MONTH If it's a Big Job of printing or a small job, we have the facilities for doing it, and guarantee it to be of the best quality at a reasonable price The Tribune Job Print For Second Hand Goods of All Kinds go to IRA SMITH'S SECOND HAND STORE. 334 N. Cleveland av. M. GRUNDFOR ARCHITECT. and Contractor Builder. Office Clev. Ave. and Connor St. P. O. Box 97 ICE CREAM in small or large quanities at WIRTZ KANDY KITCHEN A specialty of filling orders for parties, socials, weddings, etc. Ice cream sodas and all cool drinks served at the fountain. Call and see us. 221 N. Cleve. av. Fine Assortment of Cigars Tobacco and Pipes at P. Hansen's in the Tupper Block East Side Pocatello Cycle Co. Manassa Bldg. W. Clark St. Bicycles Sundries General Repairing ENAMELING A SPECIALTY Cash Registers. CHAS. H. SELL Contractor | and Builder. Estimates Furnished on Application. Res. 140 N. 12th St. P. O. Box 311. BANNOCK ABSTRACT COMPANY 321 WEST CENTRE ST. Bonded Abstractors, Conveyancers, Insurance We are prepared to attend to all business before the U. S. Land Office, such as entries, final proofs etc. EAGLE CLUB E. W. MOONEY, Prop. Finest Line of WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS The Swellest equipped place in the City. Opposite Depot on First Ave Pocatello, Idaho. If you are interested in your personal-appearance why not go to C. J. CANNON THE TAILOR and select a pattern for a suit from his excellent line of samples. UNDER FIRST NAT'L BANK CALL ON BILL HOPSON WHO KEEPS THE SILVER CLUB SALOON 246 West Center Street FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia [*[enc. in Heyburn 1-3-05]*] LOCAL BREVITIES H.O. Harkness of McCammon, is in the city on business today. The weather man promises fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday. The directors of the Fair Association will meet at J.H. Brady's office tonight. Several initiations are scheduled for the meeting of the W.O.W. on Wednesday evening. Ed. Poppleton's little girl is ill with pluerisy at her parent's home on East Center Street. The Alta Club will give another grand ball at the Columbia pavilion next Wednesday evening. Mrs. Wm. Bellmain, of North Sixth Street has gone for a thirty day's visit to Denver and New Mexico. Mr. W. R. Karr of the Tribune is confined to his room in the Temple block with a severe case of stomach troubles. Dr. N. Newman, the European eye specialist, will be at his office in the Pocatello House, Sept. 1, 2, 3 and 4th only. Examination free. G. W. Clark, who was so badly hurt by falling from a Brady light pole last week, is reported by Dr. Bean as progressing very nicely. Geo. Dash who has been renovating the auditorium reports his labors completed and our pretty little opera house is resplendent in white and gold interior trimmings. The last carload of wire for the Blackfoot transmission line was received by the Brady Company this morning and work stringing the wire will commence tomorrow morning. The County Teachers Institute closed Saturday and the teachers have nearly all departed. It was a very successful Institute. "Si" Taylor, the popular O. S. L. engineer, spent yesterday in the city but left on No. 2 today for Montpelier. Harry Jones, for a long time with the Pocatello Cash Grocery, has accepted a position with C. W. Gray in his store in the old Postoffice building. Edwin J. Fredell left for Portland Oregon, Sunday evening, where he will enter Columbia college, a branch of Notre Dame University, to continue his studies. Mr. S. J. Berg, representing Schilling & Co., of San Francisco, is quite ill at the Bannock hotel with inflamation of the bowels. The Elks are rendering him every assistance. Chas. Burch complains that Richard Condon cruelly beat him and a warrant charging Condon with assault was today issued i n Judge White's court. Judge White has issued today a warrant for Knudd Kinney charging him with stealing on July 3rd, last, one horse from Richard Condon, of the value of ten dollars. John M. Emerson, of Pocatello, and Myrtle R. Morgan of Pine Grove Colorado, were this morning married in the County Clerk Gallett's office. Judge White solemnized the ceremony. Policeman Van Orman yesterday picked up a suspicious looking case in the person of one Frank Stone and at once took him before city physician Bean who pronounced his case smallpox. There will be a Carnival and Street Fair committee organized in a few days to direct in matters of construction. Mr. Knapp goes to St. Louis next week for attractions and must have help. There will be a meeting of all the Labor day committees this evening at 8 o'clock sharp, in Trinity hall. As this will probably be the last meeting before Labor day, all members of the committees are urgently requested to be present. It is stated in Blackfoot that our friend on the north by that name will furnish one-half the total number of visitors to the street fair and races in Pocatello in October.--Good, that will bring the entire population and will draw largely on Idaho Falls and St. Anthony. A warrant was issued out of Judge White's court Saturday by Thos. Lavatta charging Andrew Cibulka of Inkom of using a deadly weapon, a rifle, with intent to commit murder. Rose Cibulka has also to answer to a similar complaint. It is charged the latter incited Cibulka and urged him to fire at Lavatta. Numerous changes have been made in the Brady electric light office at the corner of Center street and Arthur avenue. A counter has been put in and the desk of Superintendent Skidmore has been moved into rear has been turned into a store rooom to store and display material and fixtures. A.R. McPhereson, an old time employee of the Pacific Express Co., at Rawlings and Green River, Wyo., and woh was also at one time for the Wells Fargo Express Co., at Grand Junction, Colo., has accepted a position with Express Agent Geo. E. Smith, here. The case of the settlers on Rabbit Creeek against the Flack Sheeep outfit for maintaining a nuisance by poluting the waters of the creek is on in Probate Judge Johnston's court this afternoon. Testimony is being taken and no decision will probably be arrived at this afternoon. On Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock John A.B. Hayden and Miss Dora E. Torgeson were united in marriage at the home of the officiating clergyman Rev. Henry Van Engelen. Miss Ella Wilson and Wm. L. Green, friends of the bride and groom were present to witness the ceremony. Mr. Hayden is employed by the O.S.L.R.R.R Company as a carpenter. The meet of the South Idaho Fair and Racing Association to be held here October 5th to 10th promises to be the greatest event of the kind ever held in the state. Numerous inquiries regarding the Exposition are being received by the Secretary and great interest is shown with respect to the speed program. It is an appreciated fact that larger purses are being offered for the Pocatello event than is customary for occasions of this kind and this, the first Exposition, promises to be a decided success. F.C. Standford, of the local telephone exchange reports the placing of another section in the office here. This will necessitate two operators for the local service as well as the toll operator during the day and there will be one local operator besides the toll part of the night, and if it should be necessary both will be kept all night.. Some idea of the magnitude of the work in the exchange may be gained when we inform you that nearly 2,000 local calls are made each day. On July 23rd last there were 2,410 calls and on the 12th of the present month there were 1893. Mr. Stanford says he is playing an average of 15 phones per month. MR. KNAPP GIVES SOME PARTICULARS IN RELATION TO THE STREET FAIR Pocatello, Ida., Aug. 31, 1903. Editor Tribune: - In order that there may be a clearer understanding among the merchants as to the scope and lines upon which the street fair is being promoted, I would be pleased to represent through your columns that the good results derived to the material and commercial interests of other cities having held such fairs is generally acknowledged and the magnitude and success of the occasion is measured by the patronage it may receive at the hands of those who will more largely reap the benefits in after years. Street Fairs are the creatures of ambitious minds of business men in smaller localities to advertise and advance the interests of their towns and attract the atention of the outside world by the same methods employed by larger cities and nations in promoting and holding great expositions for the display of their wares, products, ingenuity and skill. So the Pocatello Street Fair will be successful in keeping with the encouragement it may receive at the hands of the property owners, merchants and patriotic citizens in promoting it. The live, public- spirited, aggressive merchant and business man grasps the situation for the prospective immediate returns attending large numbers of visitors to the races and the property owner realizes future benefits to the comercial and material interests of Pocatello. The scope of the Exposition and Street Fair is at once indicated in its name "South Idaho Exposition" yet it will in my opinion exceed that and become "Interstate" as the large list of purses, premiums and the "Street Fair" will draw largely from Utah, Montana and Oregon. As to the lines upon which the structural part of the Fair will be built I have had prepared a prospective view of the booths, electrical arch, music stand, a contemplated ferris wheel-electricized at the junction of Arthur and Center Streets. The booths to be let to those wishing same for a percentage of the sales made by them or for a rental per square foot as preferred, so that churches and societies can all take part without taxing their treasury. The affairs of the "Street Fair" will be conducted by a committee of merchants upon a strictly business basis deprived of any and all patent medicine fakirs, fake shows and schemes for speculation. No structural work will be made except between curbs and no booths placed in front of any store not wanting the same. The entrances for teams or pedestrians will not be obstructed, and teams can be driven in the center of the street whenever they wish by day or by night. Trusting that those who do not fully understand the 'Street Fair proposition will take a little pains to inform themselves before jumping at conclusions and they will be fully satisfied and very well pleased with the results at the end. Very Respectfully Yours, JOHN F. KNAPP.[*[Enc in Heyburn 1-3-05]*] LATE CITY NEWS John W. Mullen is reported as being threatened with an attack of typhoid fever. C.J. Johnson is in bed suffering with inflammatory rheumatism. John Huegier is ill with typhoid fever. Dr. Rooker reports Mrs. Ed. Addison of North Arthur avenue suffering from sciatic rheumatism. Miss Inez Wheeler of Shoshone, Idaho, will enter the High School to take twelfth grade work. The new work added by the Board of Education will afford a fine opportunity to secure advanced educational work. Manager Hannaford of the Auditorium has secured a good attraction for Labor day for his play house. Mose Lafontise, the Butte invincible, and Jerry McCarthy of Salt Lake City will box twenty rounds and there will be some good preliminaries. It will add materially as an attractive drawing card in the shape of amusements for this big day of festivity. Mrs. James A. Weed left yesterday morning for a visit with her parents at Clark, Neb. Mr. Weed accompanied her as far as Granger on the journey. "Doc" West, the chief "fanner" of American Falls, was up yesterday talking baseball with the boys. Hy. Spencer, a prominent Utah man, who is now connected with the Utah Construction company, spent yesterday in the city, going north this morning Fire Chief Joseph is getting his fire team nicely drilled. They are given daily practices and are getting so they are making a leap for the hafness as soon as the bell sounds. The fire team and hose wagon have increased the efficiency of the fire department wonderfully. A couple of pet monkeys belonging to Sherman, the undertaker, got out of captivity Saturday. One of them was recaptured but the other is still outfooting his pursuers and was disporting himself in the top branches of one of the trees in front of the Bannock hotel to the amusement of a crowd of boys this morning. BUSINESS LOCALS Just received—a full line of up-to-date hand bags at Harrison's, the jeweler. Goods first class and prices right. We do rough dry washing at 6 cents per pound at Troy Laundry. For first-class work send your laundry to the Troy. Tel. 15-K. Eighteen wooden tanks, holding about 1000 gallons each for sale. Can be used for irrigating and water purposes. Inquire Pocatello Mercantile Co. Dr. N. Newman, the European eye specialist, will be at his office in the Pocatello House, Sept. 1, 2, 3 and 4th only. Examination free. Don't fail to see the beautiful shell novelties and souvenirs at Gray's. Cut in Two. We have one half car load of pianos which must be sold by Tuesday, September 1st, at Gray's Book Store. Prices cut in two. The McKannon Bros. Music Co. Foley's Kidney Cure Will cure Bright's Disease. Will cure Diabetes. Will cure Stone in Bladder. Will cure Kidney and Bladder Diseases. For sale at Bean's Drug Store. Foley's Kidney Cure will cure all diseases arising from disordered kidneys or bladder. For sale at Bean's Drug Store. DAILY TRIBUNE, 75c. Per. Month. The Tribune delivered for 75c. per Mo.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. 15, N.Y. TELEGRAM THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM REGISTERED TRADE MARK. [*96*] [*11 54 a*] The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. NUMBER 10 NK SENT BY C REC'D BY Ck CHECK Collect Received at 94 Leonard Street, (S.W. Cor. Broadway), (TELEPHONE: 1568 FRANKLIN.) DATE RECEIVED 1/4/5 Dated New Orleans La 4 To Gus Lehman Jr. 57 Leonard Have Mr "Bliss" present your name right away Letter follows. W. L. Cohen CABLES. MONEY TRANSFERS. DIRECT WIRES. DISTRICT MESSENGERS. 8 A.M. to 7 P.M.[*[Enclosed in Lehmann 1-4-05]*] Form 15. POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY This Company transmits and delivers within message subject to the following TERMS AND CONDITIONS. To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it REPEATED; that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this, one-half the regular rate is charged in addition. 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This Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties 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. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison. No employee of this Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. WILLIAM H. BAKER, V.P. and Gen'l Manager. JOHN O. STEVENS, Secretary CLARENCE H. MACKAY, President [*5633 Gramercy*]WM. DUDLEY FOULKE RICHMOND, INDIANA [*I clip this from the Indianapolis Star of this morning -- WDF*] [*Ackd 1/6/05*] To the President White House Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:-- I cannot imagine how the matter concerning John L. Griffiths in connection with the Consul-Generalship at Paris and Berlin ever got into the press, but as it is, my "butting in" has caused the poor man, who was himself entirely guiltless, infinite embarrassment. First, he was flooded with a tremendous mass of letters congratulating him on going to Paris; then another innumerable phalanx of epistles congratulating him on going to Berlin. The papers all over the state have been "ratifying" enthusiastically and now he is greatly puzzled to know "where he is at": As I had not said a word to him upon the subject, nor to anybody else, I have not heard from him until to-day, when he writes me his tribulations. Mrs. Griffiths who saw my daughter yesterday told her that although he had not yet asked anything of the Government, he felt constrained to solicit a franking privilege lest the postage upon the answers to all these letters should reduce them to bankruptcy Both the proposed appointments were received with very general commendation. Of course, you know the field and I do not, but I thought I should tell you of the merriment hereabouts at poor Griffiths' expense when Persia and even remoter regions are hinted, in which merriment he is said to join with great cheerfulness, though I think his joy on the subject in not wholly without alloy. I have just [told] written him for the first time that I am one of those responsible for his predicament. As ever, Your friend, Wm D Foulke[For enclosure see ca. 1 - 4 - 05]B/H Department of State, Washington January 4. 1905 William Loeb Jr., Esquire, Secretary to the President, White House. Sir: I have he honor to enclose for the President's information, copy of a dispatch from the American Ambas- sador at Berlin relative to the photo-lithographic copy of Carl Rochling's painting of Frederick the Great, which was handed to the Ambassador by the German Emperor to be presented to the President. The package containing the picture was delivered at the White House last Saturday morning. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, John Hay Enclosure: From Germany, No.561, December 15, 1904. A. Lehmann & Co. New Orleans, La. [*p.F*] A. LEHMANN & CO. Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods, Notions and Furnishing Goods, 57 LEONARD STREET. Telephone: 1490 FRANKLIN. New York, January 4th, 1905. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, U. S. A. Honorable Sir: At the earnest solicitation of the COHN-KUNTZ faction I have been persuaded to tender you my name for Postmaster of the City of New Orleans. My name is not new to you as this same position was tendered me by the LILY-WHITE faction of which Mr. Williams and Mr. Clark are at the head. I can say without any hesitation on my part, that I did not seek the position from either faction, therefore, you will see that I am perfectly neutral. If you deem it advisable to find out further who I am, you can telegraph to Mr. Cornelius Bliss or to say of the Senators or Representatives from my State. Before going any further I want you to feel that I am only doing this to try to help straighten matters between the two factions in my state and simply for this reason I am writing you this letter. I enclose you a telegram from Mr. Cohn of COHN-KUNTZ faction and I believe Mr. Williams is now in Washington and you can have him called up. If you deem it advisable to see me in person I can come to Washington at a moment's notice. Respectfully yours, Gus Lehmann Jr. 57 Leonard St. New York P. S. ..... As stated above I am not seeking the position, but think I may be the cause of bringing the two factions to-gether in my State.[*[For 1. enclosure see Cohn 1-4-05]*] [*Ackd 1/7/05*] Jan 4th 1905 681 WEST END AVENUE. N.W. CORNER 93RD ST. NEW YORK. Dear Mr President: I am posting to you (with this) the December Political Science Quarterly — in which I have marked the two articles.The Brunetière book is lent now; but you shall have it when I can lay hands on a copy. Did you ever receive my little 'Recreations of an Anthologist'? I thought that the paper on American epigrams might amuse you -- and also the collection of Bruner's verses. Yours Ever Brander Matthews & done' ! A happy, blessed year to you. Ever faithfully yours, Endicott Peabody Jan. 4. 1905. [*F*] Jan 4, 1905 GROTON SCHOOL GROTON MASSACHUSETTS My dear Theodore, Thank you so much for your letter of the 27th of December. If you can see your way to appointing Moore Secretary of Legation for Roumania it will be a great boon to him. It must be a dreadful thing to stay fifteen years in Weimar when you want to be 'up[*PF*] 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. January 4, 1905 President Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir;- We are sending, in accordance with instructions received from the Rt. Hon. Sir O. Trevelyan, a copy of a volume on "England Under the Stuarts", by his son George M. Trevelyan, which we are to publish in the course of the present month. Such acknowledgement as may be made for this volume can be made to Rt. Hon. Sir O Trevelyan, to the care of out London House, 34 Bedford Street, Strand, London. We are, with much respect, Your Obedient servants, G. P. Putman's sons[*PF*] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON January 4, 1905. My dear Mr. President I return you the accompanying letter from Speaker Cannon, which I have read with interest and pleasure. Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President: Enclosure.[*Ackd 1/5/05 Abp. Ireland's letter retd*] [*Ph Is 1/2/05*] WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON. January 4, 1905. My dear Mr. President, I enclose a letter from Archbishop Ireland, and also a confidential telegram from Wright. It will be of course wise for us to await Wright's letter. Will you please return Archbishop Ireland's letter when you read it? Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President, Enclosures. [*1905*][*P.F. Wrote Ray Stannard Baker 1/5/05 Dist Com*] OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, D.C. January 4, 1905 Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Washington, D.C. Sir: Replying to your inquiry of the 2nd inst. with reference to homicides in the District of Columbia for the past ten years I herewith submit the following statement: Total number of homicides 97 " " " acquittals ___17___ " " " convictions 80 Statement of cases in which conviction was obtained: Total number of murders 42 Executed 16 Awaiting execution 2 Commutations from death 5 Life sentences or less 15 Adjudged insane 3 Died before trial 1 Total number of manslaughters 38 Convictions 36 Awaiting trial 2 Sentences of from three hours to fifteen years have been imposed in the thirty-six cases of convictions for manslaughter. Respectfully, Morgan H. Beach U.S. District Attorney.[ Enclosed in Jenkins, 1-5-05] [1-4-05]58TH CONGRESS 3D SESSION } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { RESOLUTION No. 407. _____ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES _____ JANUARY 4, 1905 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. _____ Mr. BAKER submitted the following RESOLUTION: Whereas the Secretary to the President, in a letter to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, states "the President has again taken up with his cabinet the smoke nuisance," and inquires "if it is not possible to proceed criminally against the managers of this company"—the Washington Electric Company—and says: "It would seem to be wise to go to the very limit of the law and arrest the head of the company, again and again, at the shortest possible intervals;" and Whereas the stoppage of the present robbery of the people by the beef, coal, and steel trusts, the Standard Oil Company, and similar conspiracies in restraint of trade is a matter of transcendent importance compared with the abatement of a smoke nuisance, even if adjacent to the White House: Therefore be it 1 Resolved, That this House respectfully asks the President 2 whether he has taken up with his Cabinet the criminal 3 nature of the aforesaid combinations, and also whether he has 4 instructed his Attorney-General "to go to the very limit of[Enclosed in Faulke, 1-4-05] -It is evident that some one has blundered in the matter of Mr. Griffiths’s selection for the consul generalship at Berlin, although some amusing blunders are being made with a reference to the supposed “appointments” having been made, when the press reports specifically stated the announced changes would not be made until March. Inasmuch as the announcement was made by all the Associated Press papers of the country, each in its own way, the mistake was evidently made higher up than by the correspondents. At this juncture it certainly looks very doubtful if the President will be able to find a position in the consular service which Mr. Griffiths could afford to accept. The episode has served the useful purpose of bringing out the high popular esteem in which Mr. Griffiths is held. They may take his consulship away, but they can not take away the pleasure he must feel at the tributes of universal gratification at the prospect of his preferment.