W.H. ANDREWS, DELEGATE, NEW MEXICO. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON. Acssd Enc retd 7-11-06 July 9th, 1906 Hon W. J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. Loeb:- I inclose you a letter received this day from Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona. You will remember that I told you I had sent out to each postmaster im Arizona, four copies of the statehood bill bills. This is the first letter I have gotten back on the subject. You see the postmasters will soon catch on and particularly so when they get hold of the President's letter. You will please return this letter to me at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hoping you are well and enjoying yourself, I am. Yours very truly, W.H. Andrews Delegate from New Mexico [[shorthand notation]][*Ackd 7/10/06*] FRANK B. NOYES, CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD, PRESIDENT MELVILLE E. STONE GENERAL MANAGER. CHARLES H. TAYLOR, BOSTON GLOBE, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. RUFUS N. RHODES, BIRMINGHAM (ALA.) NEWS, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. VALENTINE P. SNYDER TREASURER. DIRECTORS HARVEY W. SCOTT THOMAS G. RAPIER HERMAN RIDDER VICTOR F. LAWSON A. P. LANGTRY ALBERT J. BARR CLARK HOWELL CHARLES W. KNAPP FRANK B. NOTES M. H. DE YOUNG ADOLPH S. OCHS W. L. MC LEAN GEORGE THOMPSON W. R. NELSON CHARLES H. GRASTY The Associated Press. SOUTHERN DIVISION, CHARLES A. BOYNTON, SUPERINTENDENT, EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. July 9 / 06 Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay N.Y. My dear Mr. Secretary, I enclose part of a letter just received from Rev Geo Willis Patterson of Randolph Centre Vt. Please hand it to the President with my best regards. How is Bailey doing; Well; I hope and believe. Sincerely yours, Chas A. Boynton,[For 1. attachment see ca. 7-9-1906]TELEGRAM. Cipher. The White House, Washington. GUATEMALA, (Rec'd, July 9, 1906, 1 p.m.) Secretary of State, Washington. July 9, 9 a.m. Merry informed me has already commenced negotiations for permanent peace. Think government of Guatemala entitled to categorical answer to question presented for present disarmament. I have to suggest you ask Merry to obtain immediate definite answer. Leave this afternoon for Washington via Mexico. Combs. --RAJM--POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Acc'd 7/11/06 Office of the Postmaster General Washington, D.C. Personal. July 9, 1906. My dear Mr. Loeb: I am sorry to see that you already show the influence of your colonial surroundings. O'Leary, whose appointment you announced the other day as postmaster at Dallas is what we New Yorkers understand when we speak of a "dead 'un"; in other words, he demised about two years ago. Of course, I know it is dangerous to tax you with a little thing of this sort, but I feel that in any event when you get one on us you cannot charge it up to anything colonial. Postmaster Barnes called on me to-day and opened the conversation with the remark that he had nothing of importance but just called to pay his respects. I promptly informed him that he should bear in mind that it was always a matter of importance when he called to pay his respects to the Postmaster-General. He thereupon informed me confidentially, with an air of mystery that he has no doubt brought with him from the White House office, that the Department had a lot of "truck" in the basemen of his post office which he would be glad to have promptly removed. I told him to put his request in writing and it would be given-2- due consideration. Across the street from his office the Evening Star still twinkles, though feebly. The weather has been delightful here for the past two or three days. I hope you have been as fortunate at Oyster Bay. Please give our best regards to your good wife - who I presume is gradually becoming a colonial dame - and to William, junior, and believe me, Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou [Cortelyou] Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President.[*7*] POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Office of the Postmaster General Washington D.C July 9, 1906. Dear Mr. President: I have your letter of July 7th, concerning your talk with Sir Joseph George Ward. I also had a very interesting talk with him here and took good care of his party during the short time they were in the city. They were here but a few hours, leaving early in the afternoon of the day he called on me. He was accompanied by Mr. Gray, the permanent head of the New Zealand postal establishment, and by Mr. Wilson, who is connected with the same service. Very soon after I assumed charge of this department I took up some phases of the international postage scheme but found that Great Britain was not then ready to consider it favorably. When I see you in Oyster Bay I shall bring some of the correspondence with me and tell you what progress we have made. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou [Cortelyou] The President, Oyster Bay, N.YTHE POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON July 9, 1906. Dear Mr. President: I am particularly pleased with your appointment of Charles Earl as Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor. He was one of the brightest young lawyers we had in the Bureau of Corporations, and probably both Secretary Metcalf and Attorney-General Moody have given you detailed information about him. He will be of great assistance to Mr. Metcalf. Yours sincerely yours, George M. Cortelyou [Cortelyou] The President, Oyster Bay, N.Y.July 9th, 1906 TELEPHONE NUMBER 80 FARMINGTON OLDGATE FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT Dear Mr. President I have always said to everyone seeking what they suppose to be my influence that I can only attend to my own business & I have said as muchto the writer of the enclosed note. To prove the rule however & to take interest in a most worthy man & one among the number I feel sure Mr. Bonaparte will present to you for a choice I take the liberty of enclosing this note - as I write very indistinctly & dont wish to give you the trouble of deciphering this scrawl I send it to Edith & will ask her to read it to you Yours very sincerely W. S. Cowles[*1906*] TELEPHONE NUMBER 80 FARMINGTON OLDGATE FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT July 9 - Dear Edith I did not suppose I would be writing you again today but a letter has come [t] that I feel the Presidentshould see - Will you hand it to him & read my note to him as well — Hoping he wont mind my interference I am hurriedly, Will [*[Cowles]*]SECRETARY'S OFFICE The Mutual Life Insurance Company OF New York, Nassau Cedar, Liberty and William Streets, New York, July 9th, 1906. Douglas Robinson, Esq., 160 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Robinson:- With reference to our conversation the other day regarding the reissuance of President Roosevelt's Policy No. 1,185,054 on the annual dividend plan, without change of date, I have looked into the matter rather carefully and believe that the following information will enable you to decide intelligently what course to pursue. Until we hear, therefore, from you one way or the other, we will hold Declaration No. 6 B, signed by the President, in abeyance. As compared with an annual dividend policy, a 20 year distribution contract runs the risk of losing dividends by discontinuance and death during the distribution period, but if it is in force at the end of the 20 year distribution period it is recompensed for these risks. The 20 year distribution dividend is based on the annual dividends declared during the same period to otherwise similar policies, which are entitled, however, by contract to receive dividends annually, and is calculated in the following manner. First of all the dividends are taken, and then these annual dividends are2 accumulated at compound interest, at the effective rates, up to the end of the distribution period. Then a percentage is added to the amount of these accumulated annual dividends as recompense for the above mentioned risks. It is thus seen that it is much better for those policyholders, who survive 20 years, to have 20 year distribution contracts, than to have annual dividend policies. On the other hand, for those who die before the end of the 20 years it is better to have a policy with annual dividends, because annual dividends are credited in the form of additional insurance, and the holder of an annual dividend policy who dies during the first twenty years of its existence gets more insurance for the same amount of cash paid as premium. The 20 year policy has other advantages not attaching to annual dividend contracts. I refer to the cash and paid-up values. This policy, as at present written, provides for cash values of $75, $194, $326 and $482 per thousand dollars insured, at the end of 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. If the policy is re-issued on the annual dividend plan the new contract will contain cash values of $67, $160, $265 and $363, per thousand dollars insured, respectively, at the end of the same periods. The values at the end of these particular years are taken simply for sake of illustration. The values at other years are correspondingly greater in the present policy, than they would be in the annual dividend contract. In the same way, paid-up values at the end of the 11th year, and each subsequent year, would be smaller in the annual dividend policy3 than in the 20 year distribution policy. These various advantages and disadvantages, of the present and of the annual dividend policy, should be duly considered before any change is made. I stated above that 20 year distribution dividends were based on the annual dividends, accumulated at interest, and increased by a percentage as recompense for the risks run of losing surplus by death or discontinuance during the distribution period. This compensation for risks run is based on the actual experience of the Company -- the greater the number of deaths the greater the compensation for those who survive. This being so, we must be satisfied that any policy-holder who wishes to make the change is insurable, and this requires a medical examination by one of our physicians, at the insured's expense. If it is decided to have this policy re-issued on the annual dividend plan, I shall be glad to arrange for the President's examination by one of our physicians. We should also have a statement from him that he understands that the annual dividend policy will contain smaller cash, loan and paid-up values than those contained in his present contract. I am sorry to trouble you with these various requirements, but as this is a mutual company, one policyholder can not be treated exceptionally, and the above are our usualrequirements in such cases. Very truly yours, William Frederick Dix, Secretary.[Enc. in Robinson 1-9-06]EDITORIAL ROOMS THE TOLEDO BLADE TOLEDO, OHIO. [*Ackd 7-11-06 7-16-06*] TOLEDO, OHIO. July 9, '06 To the President, Dear Sir: I am managing editor of The Toledo Blade and because I espouse to principles which you so fearlessly advocate I feel at liberty to write you in a frank and confidential way concerning the revenue collectorship in this district, the position now held by Geo. P. Waldorf whose term has expired. Long ago I wrote a letter endorsing Geo. Quale, of Lima, for the place, Senator Foraker's choice. I understand Mr. Quale's Candidacy is not being pushed and that he will not be appointed. I also understand Senator Dick desires the appointment of Gen. McMaken, of this city. It seems to me now is the time to place some of your own strong friends on the picket line. If your policies are to be carried out under your own and succeeding administrations it is noneEDITORIAL ROOMS THE TOLEDO BLADE TOLEDO, OHIO. TOLEDO, OHIO. too early to begin the work of placing men in positions who will labor to that end, never overlooking the fact that such men must also be first-class public servants of established character. Why should you not, Mr. President, make a personal selection for the Toledo collectorship, and why not give the place to Mr. Howard Mannington, of Urbana? I believe you know Mr. Mannington. I have known him for years. He is capable and loyal. He believes in you and in your policies. He knows men and how to handle them. He is a good Republican, of the advanced type, and not a mere politician. He would be a credit to the district and to your administration and would further your plans because he believes in you and in them. So far as I know his appointment would be acceptable to the district and especially pleasing to your friends. I have the honor to be, Very truly yours F.L. Dustman.[*Ackd 7-11-06*] HIGHCOURT, WINDSOR, VERMONT. July 9/06 My dear Sir: Illness has prevented my replying sooner to your letter of June 29th, in which you accuse me of falsehood and disapprove generally of my character and of my letter to your Secretary. The following is mainlyan expansion of that letter: 1. You pick out of an editorial in Leslie's Weekly a phrase which I believe I never used. The editorial in other respects contained the grossest inaccuracies. In repudiating that sentence, however, I wish to be understood as objecting to its form alone. I have, on several occasions, in Colliers, and once I believe as a passing incident in an unwritten speech, indicated a belief that both to public men and to journalists you express opinions, and, when they prove uncomfortable, refuse to stand by them. 2. Several newspaper men, whom I trust, have told, me of similar experiences with you. You will understand my reasons for not violating confidence. However, the principle is sufficiently coveredby a personal experience of which I can remind you without betraying anyone. A newspaper friend told me he had seen a letter from you bearing on the Folk - Walbridge campaign. Mr. Robert Collier wrote to you about it and you put in writing an emphatic denial that you had written or authorized any letter bearing on that contest. By prompt communication with Mr. Albert[*[Hapgood]*] HIGHCOURT, WINDSOR, VERMONT Shaw I received such confirmation that you were compelled to admit (by letter) the truth of the story which two days before you had denied. 3. We have never printed the facts which I have just narrated. Moreover, wide, almost normal, as is this belief of newspaper men that you make denials when theyare convenient, that belief is seldom expressed: The press in general, like Colliers, shows real conscience, I believe, and also a true sympathy with your good work, in suppressing with great frequency information which might injure you by bringing certain faults into disproportionate distinctness. In conclusion, may I add that I treat of this subject with regret, and that none of your numerous harsh comments on me has tempted me to waiver in the faith that you are of larger worth to the country than any President since the death of Lincoln. Yours very truly Norman Hapgood [*[Hapgood]*] To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt.[For 1. enclosure see 6-21-06]Personal [*PF*] July 9th 1906. Tuckanuck, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Dear Theodore - Thanks for both your letters which came today in the first mail we have had since the 4th. - I am very glad that you feel about Reynolds just as I do - He appeared extremely well very manly & straight-forward anxious only to do just what you wanted - The whole thing has gone overabsolutely did not receive it - It is a monstrous business but as an Irish Democratic judge & an Irish Democratic jury convicted Proctor without Evidence a Boston grand jury is liable to find an indictment on nothing at all. Moran is cheaper than Jerome & much worse - His backer is Lawson - He is utterly unscrupulous - He is going to run for Governor anyhow - I have scoffed at his getting the Democratic nomination but he has said he could compel Fitzgerald the Mayor to support him until July 24th. I fancy Mr Moran is not getting much & all he wants is to keep the matter open for the campaign. I am now inclined to think on reflection that what he is really after is to get Reynolds & Talbot indicted for perjury because they testified in the Proctor case that they did not remember receiving the money from him instead of saying flatly that they did not. As they received several hundred subscriptions varying from $5000 to $5 it would have been perjury to have said that theyby threats of indictments & the Mayor's newspaper seems to indicate that as it will so happen - Dewey who ran as a bolting candidate (Republican) & beat Frothingham thereby is out for Moran on the grounds that Guild refused to pardon Tucker! You can see what the Moran Movement is from this - Moran is already nominated by the Prohibitionists! When the Campaign comes we will skin him to put it plainly but we cannot get at him until then - & It is a pretty situation[*[7-9-06]*] Tuckanuck, Nantucket, Massachuseetts. 2 but I believe we shall do well with our Congressman unless Labor is more powerful than I think and elect our governor - It will be a hard fight. The Herald announces that you are out for a Third Term & are pushing forward Taft with that end in view - whether to kill him off I cannot make out - and Henry Watterson announces that you will not be able to carry Mass! For your intelligence I haveYour confidence will please him beyond words - It is a moment when a man appreciates such things - I forget whether you are a lover of the "Golden Bough" as I am, but whether you are or not get Frazer's "Lectures on the Early Kingship" - It is a delightful brilliant & to me charming book - I am reading in stumbling fashion Cicero's letters - Most instruction - He was a great man but an egotist & vain to a degree I never realized until I read these familiar epistles. I am reading all kinds of things worthy rarely seen anything better! I knew you would appoint from Delaware or Maryland but Lane is a good man & I wanted to tell him so on authority - We lead a peaceful life here - Bathing - sailing. I like to knock round in a racing dory - mild fishing &c. &c. After a long session it is comforting to an elderly man. I am very glad that you write as you did about Reynolds. He is a game fellow but I know& worthless & it is very resting opleasant. Love to Edith very best love always . I hope Tex & Kermit & all the boys & girls are thriving . Recall to Archie his venerable godfather. Ever Yrs H.C. Lodge[*War*] WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ARTILLERY WASHINGTON [*Ackd 7-11-06*] Fort Myer Va July 9 1906 Dear Cousin Theodore, I was down at th War Department this morning, and while there heard a rhumer to the effect that two Colonels of Artillery were to be retired with a view of promoting Colonel Arthur Murray from Lt. Colonel to Colonel, [and] thus making him available for appointment as Chief of Art. when the present incumbent retires. Well as I do not believe that Colonel Murray would be agood man for Chief of Art, I thought that I would write & tell you so and also give you my reasons, which are as follows. 1st He has approximately 10 years to serve as he does not retire until April 29th 1915, and that is much too long a term for any one man to hold down the job, unless we want to make the chiefs office a war dept. "bureau", which I hope it will never become, and the only means of preventing this, is to change chiefs pretty often. This principle was advocated by Sec. Root, in consequence of which all the bureau chiefs are now only appointed for 4 years, and the artillery bill now before Congress puts the Chief of Arty. in the same box. It is most important that the Chief of Arty himself be familiar & in touch with the work going on in the artillery garrisons, and as it is impossible for him to do that and [consequently], his work besides, the only way to do it is to change chiefs often - bring new blood in from the field & thus prevent the office from getting "deskitus". 2nd If Murray is appointed it would be an injustice to Colonel J. M. K. Davis, who although not a star, still is an excellent man, and would make a goodChief. and deserves the appointment. 3rd Although Colonel Murray is a most excellent officer in many respects, infact one of the best we have got still he has two defects which should prevent him from being appointed 1st He never does any thing unless it is for the good & personal gain of Arthur Murray. The Army, Artillery & every thing else comes way after Murray, infact they are only side issues. 2nd He is most vindictive and would raise cain with all the officers he did not like personally, no matter how efficient they might be as officers which would be a mighty bad thing for the Artillery as nothing causes moreWAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ARTILLERY WASHINGTON dissatisfaction in the army than to have some man run it on personal likes & dislikes. 4th As he has still about 10 years to serve there will be lots of chances for him to be appointed chief without cutting out other good men who deserve promotion just as much as he does. Now that I have said so many things against him, I am also going to give you his good points so that you can judge: 1st He is very energetic a quality which as you know is sadly lacking among our superior officers, as a rule 2nd He is a hard worker and also an intelligent one 3rd He would get along well with Sec Taft, or for that matterwith any other Secy for he would make it his business to - would just sit right down & make a study of it. 4th He would be an excellent man to go before the congressional committees, as he is a fluent talker - can just make tears come to your eyes - Personally I like him very much, and we have always been good friends, but as I know him like a book, all my work which in the Chiefs office was to look after him. I cannot recommend him for Chief as I do not believe that he would make a good one on account of the strong personal likes & dislikes that he takes. It might interest you to know that in a round about way, such as getting his friends to come and talk with me (naturally without his knowledge) he has been trying to get me to go to you & advocate his appointment as chief - but there was nothing doing as you noticed. I cant prove this for although I accused several of the men that came they all denied that Murray knew anything about it, but I am morally certain that he did. We leave to-morrow morning for Chickamauga, march from here to Salem Va, and the rest of the way in train. Please give my best love to Cousin Edith and the boys. and Ethel.Your cousin, Dan T. Moore P.S.' Have you received the report of the General staff, on my Brig. General from Arty proposition and if so can't I have a copy of it. Don't forget the Artillery when you mark the next general officer DTM[ca. 7-9-1906] My wife has just now taken from the library "The Winning of the West." I have been looking into the book, and find "our strong man" in every line! What a grip heh as on men and things in what he calls "the great epic wilderness conquest." I am no critic, but it seems to me that the book is one of the masterpieces of epic narrative, strong, simple, swift in movement. Every page is a living page. It takes a hero to worship a hero, and a hero to depict, or reword, the heroic. The action lives before us because the writer might himself, and fate allowed it, have been a worthy actor in the scenes painted with a pencil so sympathetic. His pulse must have quickened as he wrote, and the fit forceful words came. It is to be hoped that the great history he is making will find as great a historian! Such will be the case, if our Caesar shall write his own annals! I hope that he will do it. [George W. Patterson][*[attached to Boynton, 7-9-06]*]American Embassy, London July 9, 1906. Sir, Referring to the Resolution by the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom and to your letter to myself of 3rd July, I have the honor to trans- mit herewith a copy of a cable despatch which I have received from the President of the United States. I have the honour, etc., Whitelaw Reid. Arther J. Giles, Esq. Secretary, etc., 49, Eastcheap, E.C.[Eve in Bacon 7-31-06]Douglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown & Co. Real Estate. 160 Broadway, New York, DOUGLAS ROBINSON. PRESIDENT. CHARLES S BROWN. 1ST VICE PRESIDENT. FREDRICK WINANT, 2ND VICE PRESIDENT. W.R. BUCHANAN. TREASURER. ARTHUR W. WEED. SECY. & ASST. TREAS. Uptown Office, 570 Fifth Avenue. Cable Address, "Robur," New York. [*Ackd & wrote Mr. Dix 7/10/06*] July 9, 1906, My dear Mr. Loeb: I received the other day the President's declaration, signed by him, requesting the Mutual Life Insurance Company to change his policy to the annual dividend plan. When I delivered it to Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Company, I told him that I felt considerable responsibility in changing the policy, as I know very little about the life insurance, and he kindly offered to put both sides of the matter before me in a letter, which I now enclose. I have changed my policies, or at least $75,000, of them, in the Mutual Life from the twenty year plan to the annual dividend plan. I have always preferred this latter plan. This is a matter, however, of individual preference, and there are, of course, advantages in the other plan, especially if a man lives twenty years from the date of his policy. The President's policy has, I think, about 15 1/2 years more to run, and I think it would be well if you would lay before him the two sides of the question as expressed in the letter received from Mr. Dix. If the President still wished to change his policy, as I have done, you can notify the Mutual Life Insurance Co. direct, naming a time that would be convenient for one of their medical examiners to see the President. I tried to get them to eliminate this feature, but I find that will be impossible to do so. With kind regards, I remain, Yours very truly, Douglas Robinson William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L. I.[For enc. see Dix to Robinson 7-9-06]Confidential. The White House Washington Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 9, 1906. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: By direction of the President I send you herewith letters from Count Apponyi and Commander Sims, which, when you have read, will you please return to me for our confidential files? Sincerely yours, Wm Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President. Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr Loeb Please thank the President. I will talk to him about the letters Sincerely yours W. Emlen RooseveltWILLIAM A. OTIS & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO. WILLIAM A. OTIS. PHILLIP S. STEWART. 9'July, 1906 The President, Oyster Bay, N. H. Dear Mr President: I find on my return to town this morning, that the "Outlook" of last week published this article on the Western Federation with considerable pruning which did not weaken it materially , except to leave the points made a little order and less distinct than in the longer article. In their introductory note they overstate the reason for not signing the article, which was not by reason of any personal risk, but wholly for business reasons. The confessions which Orchard made include the list of those who had been marked for killing, - those who had been active against the Federation during the troubles in this state. But the strength and courage of these men has been absolutely broken in Colorado. The desperate and criminal characters are all drifting into the new Nevada Camps, and unless public sentiment forces a change in their policy, those camps will go through the regular history of every camp where these people have been located. They have already shot at and riven out of those camps, individuals from this state now interested there, who took part in the Colorado troubles. A line from Bishop Olmstead of this state, asks me to speak a word to you, supplementing some request on behalf of his boy. I do not know the boy and have no idea whether the Bishop'sThe President, -2- request is a proper one or not. He himself is a scholarly, unworldly, useful officer of the Church. I congratulate you on a year of splendid achievement at Washington. In things accomplished, it is a great record. Always cordially yours, Philip B. Stewart P B S .[?] Minneapolis, Minn., July 9th, 1906. My Dear President Roosevelt: I had intended going from New York to Washington on my arrival in the country some ten days ago, but the weather in New York was so extremely hot and in the closing hour of the Session of Congress, I felt everybody would be so busy that I concluded that I would not do so. I was especially anxious to see you and shake you by the hand and give by word of mouth the kindly message which the Czar of Russia wished me to convey. Should I be in New York during the next few weeks, I think I may drop down to Oyster Bay and still do this. -2- Perhaps it may interest you to glance at the interview had with me on my return home a few days ago and which I enclose. [*not enclosed*] While this interview is not exactly in the language used by me, yet in a general way it expresses my views on different matters alluded to. I think I must say right now, that the Czar expressed himself most warmly with reference to yourself and the part you took in treaty of negotiations at Portsmouth. When I see you, I will speak more fully. Sincerely yours, W. D. Washburn To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington, D.C.HARVARD COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE July 9, 1906. Dear Mr. President.- Many thanks for your letter of July sixth. The F in Mathematics D means that Ted has failed the course; but it does not mean that he will have to take the same course over again. The Freshman year is, as you know, oftentimes a trying one. Now that Ted has gone through it not unsuccessfully, I hope that he will settle down and have a good record for the remainder of his course. He passes now out of my hands until the jurisdiction of Professor Hurlbut, the Dean of Harvard College. It is unnecessary for me to say, however, that I shall be delighted to do anything that I can for you or for him. Sincerely yours, E.H. Wells. President RooseveltFIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM. KNUTE NELSON. THOMAS R. BARD. WILLIAM B. BATE. THOMAS M. PATTERSON. JAMES P. CLARKE. FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS. HENRY E. BURNHAM. JOHN KEAN. THOMAS R. SHIPP, CLERK. UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES, WASHINGTON. [*Jos. Camp. P.O. Woodruff Wis. July 10th 1906 [*F*] Dear Mr. President: I have just learned of your appointment of Mr. Root. It is a perfect addition & will be applauded by the whole country whose confidence Mr. Root has. I had no idea he could be induced to again enter the cabinet from which he so recently retired. And you struck Twelve once more when you persuaded him to do so. In nothing have you won the confidence of the Nation more than in your choice of men for important - & delicate - service , where strength & skill are equally required. The highest quality & test of leadership is the gift of selection. Again congratulating you I am Sincerely Albert J. Beveridge. You will be interested in hearing what the guides up here say about you - [Bingo?] in general.CIPHER CABLE. RECEIVED AND TRANSLATED 9:40 p.m., July 10, 1906. The White House, Washington. Guatamala, (Received 9:40 p.m., July 10, 1906). The Secretary of State, Washington. July 10, 6 p.m. Officially informed by Guatamalan minister for foreign affairs considerable force from Salvador invaded Guatamala yesterday, obliging latter to defend honor and territory. Brown. -KQ-The Postmaster General Washington July 10, 1906. [*S-N.Y. ongc*] [*rescd and retd 7-12-06*] My dear Mr. Loeb: Will you please show the President the enclosed letter from National Committeeman Cade, returning it to me after he has noted it? Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou (Cortelyou) Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Enclosure,The Postmaster General Washington Personal. July 10, 1906. Dear Mr. Loeb: I have directed that there be sent to Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay the musical machine about which I talked with you some days ago. I am told that any 10-year-old boy can put it together, so that you will probably be able to adjust it! There will be no publicity to the matter in the way of advertising or anything else. I hope that it may be a pleasant feature of the household at Sagamore Hill. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou (Cortelyou) Hon. Wm. Loeb. Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*Ackd*] [*7/14/06*] July 10th [*[06]*] DARK HARBOUR, MAINE. Dear Brother Roosevelt The Harvard Crew is very anxious to go to England this September to row a race with the Cambridge University Crew which won from Oxford last April The Harvard Crew are all ready to go; the only question would be bringing enough influence to bear in England to gather the Cambridge crew to-gether &arrainge the match. The difficulty of this is apparent as the Cambridge Crew are at present scattered and out of training; and the match could only be arrainged by bringing the influence of the most prominent men in England to bear. The advantages of such a race are obvious both to us & to the furtherance of the best sporting relations between the two countries Knowing your keen interest in athletics & especially in Harvard atheletics I have taken the liberty of writing to you about it, & hope you will use your influence with the Englishmen. Yours in P.C. O.D Filley Present Address Porcellian Club. CambridgeCopy. American Embassy. Vienna, July 10th, 1906. His Excellency Count Goluchowski, I. and R. Minister for Foreign Affairs. Your Excellency:-- Under date of May 10th, 1906, this Embassy, acting under instructions from the American Government, had the honor to bring to the attention of Your Excellency the case of Joseph Zameska, who, it was alleged, was illegally detained at Sztropkó, Zemplin County, Hungary, by the Royal Hungarian authorities. I have the honor to respectfully request Your Excellency to kindly give this case prompt attention, and if the facts as stated are sustained by investigation, that Mr. Zameska, an American citizen by birth, may be permitted without further delay to return to his native land. Also, I respectfully ask for the prompt return to this Embassy of Joseph Zameska's birth and baptism certificates and the naturalization certificate of Mr. Andreas Zameska, father of Joseph Zameska, all of which were submitted to Your Excellency May 10th, 1906. I take this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. Charles S. Francis. American Ambassador.[Enclosed in Francis, 7-11-06]Royal Victoria Hotel, July 10, 1906. Sir, I have to thank you for your letter and copy of President Roosevelt's cable and I have the honour respectfully to ask you to forward the President the copy of the resolution as given on the other side. I have, etc., Arthur J. Giles, Secretary, Grocers' Federation. Hon. Whitelaw Reid. --------- RESOLUTION. Grocers' Federation Resolution July 10, 1906. That this Conference of the Federation of Grocers' Associations has received with great staisfaction the cablegram from President Roosevelt assuring us as retail distributors of food that his Government guarantees the soundness and wholesomeness of American packed meats; that this Conference desire to tender their most sincere and respectful thanks to President Roosevelt for his courtesy in the matter and also sincerely thanks the American Ambassador the Hon. Whitelaw Reid for his prompt action and his courtesy. Signed on behalf of the Grocers' Federation, Arthur J. Giles, Secretary.[Enc. in Bacon, 7-31-06] Federation of Grocers' Association of the United Kingdom. 16th Annual Conference Sheffield, 1906. Royal Victoria Hotel, July 10, 1906. Sir, I have to thank you for your letter and copy of President Roosevelt's cable and I have the honour respectfully to ask you to forward the President the copy of the resolution as given on the other side. I have the honour to remain, Your Excellency's most obedient Servant, Arthur J.Giles Secretary, Grocers' Federation. The Hon. Whitelaw Reid. Resoluttion Grocers' Federation Resolution July 10, 1906. That this Conference of the Federation of Grocers' Associaitons has received with great satisfaction the cablegram from President Roosevelt assuring us as retail distributors of food that his Government guarantee the soundness and wholesomeness of American packed meats; that this Conference desire to tender their most sincere and respectful thanks to President Roosevelt for his courtesy in the matter and also sincerely thanks the American Ambassador the Hon.Whitelaw Reid for his prompt action and his couretsty. Signed on behalf of the Grocers' Federation; Arthur J.Giles, Secretary.CIPHER CABLE. RECEIVED AND TRANSLATED 9:45 p.m., July 10, 1906. The White House, Washington. San Salvador, (Received 9:47 p.m., July 10, 1906). The Secretary of State, Washington. All effort for peace useless; Salvadorian general commanding forced fight on Guatemalan territory; civil authorities here favored peace. I have to suggest war vessel on the coast. Declaration of war is not yet made. Merry. -KQ-10th July 1906. 133 East Sixty-Fourth Street President Roosevelt Dear Sir: I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed document which has recently come into my posession among some other old papers, thinking that probablythe signature of Isaac Roosevelt, is that of one of your ancestors. The old papers in question, were taken from Albany, N.Y. to the village of Cazenovia, N.Y., by Henry Ten Eyck, then High Sheriff of Albany, under George the Third. For two generations the paperslay in an unopened trunk _ My aunt, Mrs Henry Ten Eyck, who now lives in the old house, discovered them and very generously divided them among those of us who were interested in such matters _ Trusting that the enclosure may be of sufficient interest to you that you may care to accept the same, Iremain Very truly yours Gertrude VanderPoelMoran. (Mrs Anson Blake Moran) Southampton L.I.G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS 27 & 29 WEST 23RD STREET NEW YORK 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, LONDON. [*F*] July 10. 1906 Dear Mr. President, Many thanks for your kindness. You are a jewel of a friend and (as our English friends would say) "not half bad" as a ruler. The new "Putnams" will really be a dignified and appropriate place in which to preserve the final text of this speech for use later in a second volume of "Addresses". Affectionately G. H. Putnam Prest. Roosevelt. overyou should read, if you have not yet, Wise's "Thirteen Presidents"[*PF*] [*Personal*] WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON July 10, 1906. My dear My. President: I return you Justice Harlan's letter. I shall be with you on Monday next, and shall be glad to talk this matter over. Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft [*P.S. I had a very pleasant experience in North Carolina.*] The President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Enclosure.[ca 7-10-06] Released for Tuesday Morning, July 10, 1906. Address of Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War, delivered at Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday, July 9, 1906. Republicans of North Carolina: When your committee did me the honor to ask me to address the Republican Convention of North Carolina, they advised me that the political situation was such that if a proper effort were made at the coming election, it would be possible to carry the State for the Republican party, and that in that effort they felt they were entitled to the sympathy and assistance of Republicans throughout the country. The appeal had convincing weight with me, for I believe that nothing that could happen in the politics of this country, would work greater advantage to the country at large, and to the South in particular, than the breaking up of what has been properly known as the "Solid South." I say this in no partisan spirit, for I am not one of those who think that this result would necessarily increase the probability of the continuance in power of the Republican party. The solidity of the South, while it has assured to the Democratic party a certain number of Congressmen and a certain number of electoral votes, has in a measure furnished its own antidote by restraining many voters in the North who might have left the Republican party but for what they regard as the injustice and danger of Southern political conditions. The South has been kept solid by the spectre of negro domination, and by stirring up racial prejudices and arousing unfounded alarm over an impossible return of reconstruction days. After a long struggle, the history of which I shall not repeat, the negro's vote was made to count for nothing in the Southern States. Then the political leaders of the dominant party came to realize the dreadful demoralization of all society that followed in a government if law was flouted, and2 fraud was to constitute its basis. They cast about to make the law square with the existing condition by property and educational qualifications which should exclude the negro. They adopted amendments to State constitutions, with the so-called "grandfather clauses," intended to apply the new qualifications to the negro, and not to apply them to the whites. It is impossible to frame a law establishing an educational qualification for suffrage which will stand the test of the Fifteenth Amendment, and which will not ultimately operate, no matter what the qualification or present effect, to exclude impartially the negroes and whites from the ballot who lack education acquirement. Government is established to secure the greatest good for the greatest number. A popular government attains this end, because it is undoubtedly true that in the long run the rights and happiness of every person and every class are much more likely to be secured and safely guarded by the laws of the country and enforced by the Executive, if the voice of every person or class is given an opportunity to be heard in the adoption of the laws or the selection of the Executive. This view, however, is predicated on the premise that the person or class of persons whose rights are to be protected by their own vote have sufficient information and power of intellectual decision to enable them to learn and decide what their rights and real interest are, and how they ought to be protected. When a class of persons is so ignorant and so subject to oppression and misleading that they are merely political children, not having the mental stature of manhood, then their voice in the government secures no benefit to them. A policy, therefore, in the South, which excluded from the ballot impartially both the black and white, when ignorant and irresponsible, cannot be criticised. Conceding that the laws now in force in this State and other parts of the South were intended, either by their terms or by their mode of execution, to exclude the ignorant colored voter from the franchises with rigor, and to allow the ignorant white voter, though equally unfitted for the franchise, to exercise it, I do not think that this makes a hopeless situation for the colored man or the political power that he may, in the future, exercise. If he continues to increase in intelligence, as under the public educational institutions he is likely to do, and if industrially he becomes a power, as his progress thus far justifies 3 us in believing that he will, the men of the race who are eligible to vote in accordance with law will increase, and their common sense and judgment and position in the community will add weight to the vote they cast, and will secure more real influence for the benefit of their race than when the right of suffrage of the negroes was wholly unrestricted. The white people of the South are a homogeneous people, much more likely to cherish traditions and retain customs and opinions of the past than the people of the North of more mixed descent. Hence it takes a long time to convince the white people of the South, intelligent, clear-headed and energetic as they are, that the cry of negro domination, so often raised by politicians among them, is merely for the purpose of solidifying their vote on the Democratic side and has no real justification in fact. As long, as in the years immediately following the war, their agriculture languished, their mines remained unopened, their factories were few in number, and the prosperity of the country seemed confined to that part of it lying north of Mason's and Dixon's Line, it was easy, by appeals to recollections of the Civil War and the unfortunate sequence of reconstruction, to fill the ranks of the Democratic army and maintain the solidity of the South. But now, during the last decade, an unprecedented period of prosperity has come for the fair Southern States. Their great cotton crop has vastly increased and the prices at which it has been sold have been high enough to fill the pockets of the farmer with well-earned gold. The iron and the coal mines have been opened and have brought forth a wealth hardly dreamed of a quarter of a century ago. Manufactures have sprung up in every State, and the primacy of New England as the headquarters for making cotton goods has been threatened. In the prosperity which has deservedly attended the enterprise, industry and energy of the South, the bitterness of old recollections has passed into oblivion and with the patriotic feeling inspired by the sentiments evoked during the Spanish War, we have become again a thoroughly united country. Under these circumstances, it is not to be expected that the sensible, clear- headed business men of the South do not perceive the tremendous disadvantage under which the Southern States labor in having only one party with any voice in their State governments4 and in being herded together always as the hidebound support of the Democratic party of the country, no matter what wild fallacies it may adopt in its platform nor what candidate it may put before the country to invite the suffrages of the people. Time was when the sole source of wealth in the South was the cultivation of cotton, and when the argument that the system of protection was one from which the North only derived a benefit, could be made with much apparent force and eloquence, but now that Southern mining and Southern manufacturing interests have increased as they have, the Democratic cry that the tariff is a robbery merely evokes a smile from the thousands, laborers, skilled and unskilled, and employers, great and small, whose welfare is bound up in the success of Southern manufactures. The effect of the change of industrial conditions in eliminating the cry of negro domination from the politics of the former slave-owning States has manifested itself first in the border States. West Virginia has become permanently Republican, and Maryland and Missouri put themselves in the Republican column in the last Presidential election, while Kentucky nearly brought forth works meet for repentance in the first McKinley campaign. The Democracy of the States further South, however, continues unbroken in national elections. The question which should address itself to the great business interests of the South is how much longer the spectre of things past is to hold them to a political allegiance that does them no good in national politics and deprives their communities of the inestimable benefit of the presence in local politics of two parties, each of which if it does wrong has a real chance of being punished for its misconduct. The possibility of a change of party control for such a cause is the best security of good government. Distinguished Southern Senators, refer- ring to the States of this section, have deplored in Congress that "there are some ten or twelve or more States in the American Union which have not a proper representative relation to this Government through official representatives in the higher spheres of political life." If this is true, it is undoubtedly due to the fact that the Southern people have not manifested politically the same enterprise, the same independence of action, the same progressive spirit and the same regard 3 for future development as they have in agriculture and in business. Had they kept up with the times, had they at the ballot-box expressed their real sentiments on the living issues of the day instead of allowing themselves to be frightened by a spectre and a shadow of the past, their political importance as communities and the significance of their views upon measures and men would have been vastly enhanced. Carried in the pocket of the Democratic party for reasons which long ago lost their force, why should any attention be paid by either party to their views in national matters as compared with the views of the voters in the North, whom each party hopes to attract to its support on living modern issues in the great national elections? Although much of the present wealth of the South is dependent upon a protective tariff, its representatives in a national convention vote unhesitatingly for the proposition that a protective tariff is a robbery of the many for the benefit of the few. Although a great majority of the Southern people are strongly in favor of maintaining the flag of the United States in the Philippines until the sacred trust imposed upon this Government by circumstances shall have been highly and fully discharged, and our wards of those islands of the sea aided and builded up into a self-governing people, they nevertheless permit the Democratic party, in the chase after Northern votes, to formulate the false issue of "Anti-Imperialism" in which they have no sympathy whatever and on which they are twice led to humiliating national defeat. Again, no part of this country is so vitally interested in the construction of a great waterway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama, than the South. It was indispensable to this enterprise that the treaty made with the Republic of Panama by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay should be promptly confirmed, and yet the majority of the representatives of the South in the Senate attempted to defeat that treaty. There was enough of independence even among those representatives to give the vote which made the canal possible, but the very fact that merely to accomplish some supposed advantage to the Democratic party, a majority of the Senators from the South were willing to sacrifice her material interests and delay the great project of such capital importance to her, indicates the disadvantage that she labors under in having it6 thought that she is tied irretrievably to the Democratic party. At this session of the Senate just ended, the Democratic Senators insisted on a caucus rule to prevent the ratification of the Santo Domingo treaty. This is another and striking in- stance of the manner in which the unvarying allegiance of the South to the Democratic Party works to her disadvantage. The peace, prosperity and development of the island of the Carib- bean Sea and the countries of Central and South America are of the utmost importance to the South, more so than any other part of the country. Santo Domingo, a republic in name, has been subject to revolution and internecine warfare and vio- lence as almost to dissolve the entire social order. For the purpose of avoiding European intervention, for the purpose of bringing about peace and making agriculture and business and general prosperity possible in this island, richer than any other of the whole Caribbean group, the government of that republic appealed to the United States to help her maintain order while she collected revenue enough to pay off her debts and begin business and the arts of peace again. Standing as we do (and the South especially is emphatic in this) for the Monroe Doc- trine, how can we logically or consistently refuse to aid these weak governments when properly called upon by them to adjust their differences with European governments, and remove the temptation from the latter to intervene and violate the policy which we are anxious to preserve and maintain? And yet, merely for the purpose of making a partisan point, merely for the purpose of embarrassing the administration, a party caucus of Senators of the United States is called to bind every member of the party to vote against the ratification of the treaty. In other words, twenty Senators by this caucus method are to be made able to defeat the will of the President of the United States and of the remaining seventy Senators. Is it any wonder that under these circumstances of the South does not enjoy that prominence in high official circles that it is entitled to by its intelligence, population and importance in the country? Its people, by reason of their political course and their defer- ence to the Democratic party under all circumstances, are them- selves responsible for this condition. For these reasons it is of vital importance both to the country at large and to the South, if a political break can be made in the 7 still solid Democratic South, to bring it about. When it is pro- posed, however, we are met with the argument by many who would welcome a change, "If we turn from the Democratic party what is there to turn to? There is no Republican party of the South. There is a little coterie of politicians who devote themselves solely to the selection of delegates to national con- ventions, who devote no time and energy whatever to elections, and whose whole object is the securing of the federal patron- age. The candidates named, if they be named, are not worthy of our suffrages. The truth is the election is a mere formality. The only real contest is at the Democratic primaries. . How, then, can we declare our independence of the Democratic par- ty"? This answer in several States has undoubtedly much force and truth. Of course the difficulty might be obviated if some Moses were to arise in each State and create a new Re- publican party; but this end is difficult to achieve. In North Carolina and Tennessee, however, there is a full party organi- zation, and the Republicans of those States have in times past shown that their numbers are formidable enough to create hope of success in elections. How, then, can success be achieved? I submit to you, Republicans of North Carolina, that you can have no prospect of success and do not deserve success unless you show in the nominees of your conventions and in the men whom you put forward to lead you, that you fully recognize the obligation that you are under as a party to give to the people of North Carolina an opportunity to choose able, honest and worthy men for public offices. You must convince the voters at the polls that you are not merely an office-seeking party, but that you are laboring with all the energy that in you lies to elevate the politics of the State and to furnish a proper and safe refuge for the Democratic voter who has be- come tired of the incompetency and the abuses arising from the permanent control for many decades of one political party. I do not wish to seem ungracious but I must be candid. In my judgment, the Republican party of North Carolina would be much stronger as a voting party if all the Federal offices were filled by Democrats. Of course I cannot deny that a wish to fill public office is an honorable aspiration, whether by ap- pointment or election, but when all hope of choice by the people is abandoned, and everything is given over to influencing8 a distant appointing power to choose particular men to perform official functions in a community politically hostile to those men, the result is not food for the men or the community. The struggle for Federal political office producing, as it does, jealousies and strifes and disappointments, paralyzes united effort to make the party strong at the polls and worthy of success. The men upon whose change of vote success in the election depends are not particularly interested in the success of one faction or another, but they are interested that their votes shall be cast for those candidates for local and State offices whose character, devotion to duty, intelligence and ability will assure good local and State government, and for those representatives in the National Congress who will faithfully and courageously carry out the high principles of the National Republican party with a due regard to the particular interests of the district and State they represent. As long, however, as the Republican party in the Southern States shall represent little save a factional chase for Federal offices in which business men and men of substance in the community have no interest, we may expect the present political conditions of the South to continue. I accept with confidence the assurances of your representatives that you expect to appeal to the business interests of your community, to the men who read aright the signs of the times and who understand that the real hope of the South is in having a number of her States break from the Democratic column and assert their independence of past political traditions in order that this section may be accorded that importance in national matters to which her population, her wealth and her intelligence entitle her. Republicans of North Carolina, in this great work of redeeming your State and your section from the present incubus of iron Democratic rule, your fellow Republicans of the entire country bid you Godspeed. And now, leaving the subject of politics viewed purely from the Southern standpoint, I invite your attention for a short time to the national issues involved in the coming Congressional elections. In November, 1904, the American people, by an overwhelming vote, both in the electoral college and at the polls, continued the Republican party in power under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. For eight years previous we 9 had enjoyed unexampled prosperity and the wealth of the country had increased in colossal proportions. For more than three years and a half, Mr. Roosevelt had discharged the duties of the high office of President and now submitted to the decision of his countrymen whether he and the party which supported him were entitled to their continued confidence. During that three years and a half he had again and again by word and act manifested to the people his determination to pursue the middle, just and impartial course by which the rich and the poor should enjoy the equal protection and suffer the equal and just enforcement of the laws. He recognized this as the platform of the Republican party. He incurred the hostility of important financial interests by his action in directing the prosecution to a successful issue of the so-called Northern Securities suit, which prevented a merger for the purpose of suppressing competition of two great lines of railway in violation of the so-called anti-trust law. Both the Republican platform and Mr. Roosevelt pledged the further enforcement of the anti-trust law and the interstate commerce law to prevent discrimination against the shipping public and to prevent oppressive combination and monopolies in business pursuits, and promised additional legislation, if found to be necessary, in order to accomplish the objects of these statutes. Only a year and four months have elapsed since Mr. Roosevelt took the oath of office under the electoral vote cast for him by reason of the election of 1904, and yet in that short part of his term of office the Republican party in Congress of the United States, inspired by Mr. Roosevelt's recommendations, has adopted a railway rate bill, which greatly increases the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and which, taken together with the rebate legislation enacted by the Republican Congress before his election, will certainly have much to do in the abolition of the violations of the unjust discriminations and abuses in fixing of railway rates by the railroad companies in this country. During the same period prosecutions under the anti-trust law and under the rebate law have been numerous and have been conducted with energy, and with a success unprecedented in previous administrations. The investigations of the Department of Commerce and Labor have shown the method by which the Standard Oil Company has10 maintained its monopoly of the oil business, and prosecutions have been ordered in many of the Federal courts of the country in order not only to vindicate the law for past violations, but to bring about a condition of things in which the managers of prosperous and successful corporations of the country shall pay heed to injunctions of the statutes and not allow the temptations of immense profit to blind them to the necessity for obedience to law. Organization has become a feature of modern life. The organization of capital has reduced the cost of production and has therefore contributed greatly to the material prosperity of the world. Organization of labor has undoubtedly bettered the condition and raised the wages of labor. But in the power which organization has placed in the hands of particular individuals, it would be unreasonable to expect that there should not be temptations to abuse and oppression. When these are yielded to by the few as compared with the many exposed to them, and the law is violated, it is no reason for hysteria or a destruction of the whole social order. It is no reason for giving up the system of private property, or forbidding the formation of corporations or preventing the organization of trades unions. It is no ground for the advocacy of socialism. We must take up the abuses in the good old Anglo-Saxon way, adjust our statutory remedies to the fitness of the thing, place our confidence in the public servants who show themselves alive to public needs, and courageous and energetic enough to prosecute the offenders to conviction. We must not paralyze their efforts by loudly suggested suspicion of their good faith until there is some just foundation for such suspicion. It is too often the custom to characterize a man as a a corporation man or an anti-corporation man, or a labor man or anti-labor man. This is unjust, for most men in American public life are neither, and wear no livery. It will indeed be an evil day in this country when the servants of the people are not generally admitted to be impartial between rich and poor, recognizing the value of organization of labor and capital but favoring a policy which shall banish the abuses and oppression of organization in whatever interest. The truth is that nine-tenths of the people of this country are neither in favor of a poor man because he is poor or a rich man because he is rich. They are in favor 11 of all the people and the extending of an equal protection of the law to all people. They are in favor of protecting the rights of the corporation or labor organization as representing only a number of people united together for a common and lawful object exactly as they would protect the rights of the individual, and on the other hand they are in favor of protecting the rights of the individual against the organization whether of capital or labor whenever it uses its aggregation of power for unjust competition or unjust interference with the rights of the less powerful individual. The Republican party and Theodore Roosevelt are in favor of the just and equal operation of the law, whether it be by civil suit, by the process of injunction in equity or by indictment at the bar of the criminal court against the man who violates the law and another's right whether he be rich or poor, a corporation president of a wage-earner. They are against immunity form prosecution for violation of law either on the ground that a man has money or industrial or political power, or on the ground that he hasn't either. It has been the habit of the Democratic party to attack the Republican party as favoring trusts and corporations, and opposed to the laboring man. Nothing could be farther from the fact. The record of that party shows that the only substantial steps which have been really taken to stop the abuses and oppression attempted by the irresponsible holders of great wealth and corporate power, have been by the Republican party, and there is no more brilliant and successful exponent of this policy than Theodore Roosevelt. His declarations made before the election are being enforced and put into practice after the election. The Democratic leaders have been for years making loud declarations against corporations and trusts and railroads and have, nevertheless, instituted no legislative steps in all this time for the purpose of restraining abuses. They are now indignant that the Republican party, in carrying out the promises of its own platform, is putting into practice the principles which they, with a superb self-complacency, claim are really covered by a Democratic patent. The worth of a promise is properly judged only by performance. I ask you to compare Democratic promises with Republican performance. Incidentally, ponder how much would have been done if Mr. Parker had been elected and had acted 12 on his theory that common law supplied all that was necessary for the suppression of trusts and the abolition of rebates. It may be noted also that while Mr. Bryan has been most emphatic and eloquent in his description and denunciation of trusts and abuses of cooperate organization and wealth, his suggested remedies for their prompt suppression have been very vague unless indeed his proposal that the Government buy or condemn all interstate railways with their immense mileage and maintain and operate them is to be regarded as an immediate, ready, practical, and feasible remedy. In view of this, it is not a matter for any surprise that the great combinations and organizations that have increased their profits and power by evil and oppressive methods should fear and dislike Mr. Roosevelt and his acts in the present much more than they do Mr. Bryan and the indefinite dangers with which he threatens them in the future. Evils are not suppressed by definite and practical measures — not by oratory or denunciation. The record of the present Republican Congress in the enactment of rate legislation; in the enactment of a pure food bill for the purpose of preventing interstate traffic in injurious food, beverages and medicines; the naturalization law, which places proper restrictions and safeguards about the naturalization of aliens coming to this country; the provision for the proper inspection of meats and their preparation for use when transported in interstate or foreign commerce; the fixing of the type of the Panama Canal and that appropriation for the speedy carrying on and completion of the great enterprise; and many other measures too numerous to be mentioned in an address of this character, confirm in the most convincing way the claim always justly made for the Republican Party that it is an efficient party for the accomplishment of good, that it does things, and that it carries out its promises. I should like to take up and discuss to-night our work in the Philippines and consider in detail the necessity for the passage of the Philippine Tariff bill, a measure intended to deal justly and generously with our wards of the Pacific. It passed the House by a vote of 250 to 71, and is pending in the Senate. I am very hopeful that it will pass at the next session in spite of the opposition of certain industrial interests, based on anticipations of injury having no foundation. But this occasion does not permit the details, needed to explain the measure, and why it should pass. 13 For want of other material, we shall hear a great deal in this campaign of the extravagance of the present Republican Congress. As a matter of fact, the increases in appropriations have been largely. due to greater facilities in the distribution of mail matter by the extension of the rural delivery, and are met, with the exception of about $10,000,000, by greater receipts in the Post Office Department, so that while the expenditures are likely to be $191,000,000, the receipts will amount to $181,000,000. I do not suppose that any Democratic statesman will rise and denounce this specific increase. Then there was an appropriation of $36,000,000 for the Panama Canal, which is to be paid for by the proceeds of the government bonds drawing 2 per cent interest, on the theory that a as this canal is to be permanent in its construction, and to bring permanent benefit to the country, our posterity may well be called upon to pay part of its cost, Then there was the extraordinary expense of $10,000,000 made necessary in the proper appropriations to set the new States Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and possibly of Arizona and New Mexico, on their way rejoicing. I do not know why this should be criticised. Then there was an expenditure of $5,000,000 made necessary by the San Francisco disaster. We heard no objection from Democrats on this score at the time the appropriation was made. Twenty million dollars were appropriated for public buildings through the country. These are badly needed, and we heard no Democratic objections to the bill when it went through, and no complaint that Democratic districts were not visited with the same degree of liberality as the Republican districts. I shall not go on with the other items, the mere statement of which justify them, In spite of the increase, there will be a surplus of $40,000,000 in the Treasury after all the expenditures have been made. The have the money with which to pay for the government which the people are enjoying; the country is growing rapidly, and the expenses of its government naturally expand. The truth is, that the greatest rigor was exercised by the appropriation committees, especially of the House of Representatives, to prevent undue and extravagant expenditure, and comparisons with previous administrations are wholly unjust unless the critics take up item by item the increases and consider the reasons for the additional appropriations made necessary either by peculiar emergencies or by the 14 general expansion of the country, presenting a reasonable ground for greater governmental expenditure. Another criticism that has been made is that the laws passed have greatly extended the national power as compared with the State power, and have promoted the centralization of government at Washington. In a sense this is true. It is not true that the expansion of power is unconstitutional, but it is only true that the National Government has taken upon itself the exercise of greater powers, heretofore unused but all within the constitutional grant, in order to curb certain evils which were so widely extended across State lines as to make it impossible for the States to suppress them. This has been done through the instrumentality of regulations of interstate commerce. It is merely the adaptation of proper constitutional means to the necessities and evils presented by the immense development of interstate commerce, and the organization of great corporations to carry it on. It is evidence of the wonderful adaptability to new conditions, not at all to be foreseen when the Constitution was adopted, of the provisions of that instrument to meet the enormous changes in business and material development that have taken place in the now nearly 120 years since its adoption. The expansion of this power within legitimate and constitutional lines can not and ought not to be avoided any more than we should restrain or prevent the growth of business enterprises beyond State lines or the greater ease, rapidity and cheapness of communication between the different States and between this country and foreign countries which have done so much to add to the comfort, well-being and intelligence of the American people. The difficulty with the Democratic party and the reason why the American people thus far have manifested their distrust of it, is because it has no policy which the country can depend upon. Its whole stock in trade is that of irresponsible criticism and obstruction, but when charged with the responsibility for doing anything, it utterly fails. It is made up of elements so incongruous that when called upon to take affirmative action, it lacks the cohesiveness necessary for the purpose. It is a party of negation and inefficiency. In the last forty years, it has made but one effort at constructive statesmanship. It attempted the passage of a bill to show the benefit of the principle, "A 15 tariff for revenue only." The result was a botch conforming neither to free trade nor protective principles, repudiated and spat upon by its own party head and destructive to the business interests of the country. But it is said that there is a spirit of unrest abroad, that the revelations concerning certain great corporations and the failure on the part of some of their managers to recognize their just obligations, the mismanagement of certain railroads, the discrimination in shipping rates which have been made public, and the existence of monopolies which are being prosecuted, have raised the people to a sensitiveness that is to bring about a change in the political control and secure a Democratic majority in the next House of Representatives. This may be true, but if so, then political revulsions have no logical basis and no reasonable predicate, and the American people will not be governed in their political action by the common sense that has heretofore controlled them. I sincerely hope it is true that the public conscience has been quickened and that great care is to be taken in scrutinizing the work of public and private servants of the many and in taking away the power of unjust combinations, whether political or business, but why this should return a Democratic majority to the House of Representatives is beyond me. Under the Republican government, the country has been able to enjoy a prosperity unexampled in the history of the world. Wages were never steadier or higher. Profits of legitimate business were never better or more uniform. We are at peace with the world and our national prestige was never more useful in securing peace among the nations. Why, then, should the Republican party be deposed and the organized incapacity of the Democratic party be substituted? In what way are the Republican party and Mr. Roosevelt or the Republican members of Congress responsible for the abuses of trust which have been shown in corporate management? In what way can the discriminations by railway companies against independent shippers and in favor of large trust combinations be traced to them? The truth is that in the enormous production of wealth, in the heretofore unheard of prosperity, it was inevitable that abuses should creep in and that in the absence of publicity some of the men enjoying irresponsible[?. in Taft 7-8-06] 16 power should yield to the temptations of cupidity and ignore the sacred character of the trust relation. But there has been a house-cleaning and the Republican party has exerted every effort to destroy any further opportunity for such abuses and to prevent any recurrence of them. No party in the whole history of the country has ever taken more decided steps to restrain the abuses of irresponsible corporate wealth and power than has the Republican party, both in the executive and in the legislative branches of Government during the last eight years. No party has ever shown greater independence of corporate control and corporate influence than the Republican majority in the House and Senate and theExecutive at the last session. And now, while this work is on, while the administration is straining every nerve to secure compliance with the laws on the statute books, to regulate interstate commerce and suppress monopolies and unlawful restraints upon interstate trade, it is prophesied that the champion of this reform, the man who, not by words but by deeds, as President of the United States, has shown his adherence to the principles of equal protection of the laws to all and his courage in resisting all claims of special immunity, whether for organized labor or organized capital, is to be rebuked and thwarted in his high purposes by the return to Congress of a majority of the Opposition. Not while the American people admire courage, consistency, high ideals and practical common sense, not while they believe in energy, honesty and Americanism, not while they take a man for what he is and does, rather than for what he says, will this prophesy by justified. The Republican members of Congress have shown by their votes their adherence to the principles announced in the Republican platform and evidenced in the declarations and acts of the leader of their party. After they shall have rendered the account of their stewardship to their constituents whom they have so well and conscientiously represented, they will certainly receive the reward of a triumphant return. Secretary's Office The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York Nassau, Cedar, Liberty and William Streets, New York July 11th, 1906. Wm. Loeb, Jr.,Esq., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Mr. Loeb:- In reply to your note of July 10th, I beg to enclose the President's Declaration No.6 B and note the fact that he has decided not to change his form of policy Very truly yours, William Frederick Dix Secretary.[For enclosure see 4-7-06]American Embassy Vienna. July 11th. 1906. My dear Mr. Loeb: Will you kindly seal the enclosed letter, after reading it, and place it in the hands of the President. I hope you and Mrs. Loeb, and the baby, will enjoy a long summers' vacation. Best wishes always. Faithfully yours, Charles S. Francis[For 2 encs. see 7-11-06 7-10-06]American Embassy Vienna. [*Confidential.*] [*Ackd*] [*7-21-06*] July 11th, 1906. My dear Mr. President: Your confidential letter of June 25th was received by me yesterday, and its contents have been carefully noted. Your instructions will be carried out to the best of my ability. In view of the jealousies existing at present between Hungarians and Austrians it will be an extremely delicate undertaking to get into touch with the former without creating considerable feeling against your representative among the latter; but, I will exercise the greatest possible caution in whatever I may say or do at Budapest, fully aware that suspicious eyes areclosely watching me. Unless for any reason you desire immediate action on my part, I believe it would be wise for me to defer visiting Hungary until later, and will act accordingly. Of course, it would be remarked if I should go to Budapest for the first time and not have an audience with Archduke Joseph, who resides there. He is now out of the city and not likely to return before the end of the summer season. Then, too, some of the leading Hungarian official advisors of the Emperor, the ones perhaps I ought to meet, are apt to be scattered around Europe until Fall. I thoroughly understand your wishes concerning Count Apponyi, and will write to him at once in the discreet way suggested by you; and, Mr. President, whatever my predecessor's course may have been, you may rest assured that I shall never lose sight of the fact that I am accredited to the King of Hungary as well as to the Emperor of Austria. Your conclusions relative to the Storers are absolutely just, so far as I can judge. You sent me here to look after American interests and expect me to always keep in mind the principles for which the American Government stands. When I find that I cannot do this and maintain required social relations at the Austrian capital - in fact, become persona non grata - I will frankly tell you so and ask youto relieve me of honor I would not care to enjoy at such a cost. We have been cordially received by those we have met here - by the Emperor, by his representatives and by my colleagues in the diplomatic corps - and we anticipate no serious disagreeable experiences of a social character, notwithstanding the popularity of the Storers in certain exclusive circles. I might say to you, in confidence, that some decided changes have recently been made in the administration of affairs concerning this Embassy. Americans, rich and poor alike, are made welcome; and I trust when I surrender this post the archives will be left in proper condition.American Embassy Vienna. Regarding your injunction to me to watch the authorities in their treatment of prospective immigrants to the United States, I would say that no case has been reported to this Embassy since my arrival in Vienna - May 15th - wherein any American citizen has either been detained by the police and prevented from going to our country, or robbed of steamship passage ticket to an American port. Upon investigation, I find that during the last three years many such cases have been reported by this Embassy to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, nearly all of them by direction of the State Department, and that the Imperial Government in a large majority of instances has never paid any attention to the communications. I am informed that three and four months generally elapse before a reply, if any, is sent. In one instance, coming under my observation to-day, a complaint was made eighteen months ago and no reply has yet been received by this Embassy! And I regret to report that the Embassy did not follow up that case, or in one single instance of the many complaints made send a personal communication to the Imperial Government requesting prompt action. I learned yesterday that five days before my arrival at Vienna this Embassy addressed Count Goluchowski relative to a native born American, a minor son of a naturalized American citizen (who resides now, and has resided for many years, in the United States), who, it was claimed, was detained by the Royal Hungarian authorities and not permitted to return to America. No acknowledgement of the receipt of this note was made by the Foreign Office. Believing it to be my duty to move in the premises, I immediately sent a note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, copy of which I beg to enclose. I do not propose to allow communications of such a character to remain [,at least,] unanswered,[Enc. in Francis, 7-11-06] or, at least, receipt of which unacknowledged, by the authorities - if I can help it. I trust my determination and the pacific, though plain, language of my note will meet with your approval. If you had not written me in a general way on this subject I would not have introduced it in this letter. Please convey my most respectful regards to Mrs. Roosevelt and accept for yourself, my dear Mr. President, my best wishes for an enjoyable summer's rest. Faithfully yours, Charles S. Francis [S][*Personal & Confidential*] Springfield Ohio July 11th,. 1906. Dear Mr. President: When I was in Europe for a short time last year in connection with the Paul Jones ceremonies I had some uncommon opportunities for meeting and talking at length with a number of the men who were making the current history of the old world. The friendliness and freedom with which they discussed large affairs of an international character soon caused me to feel that nothing would so immediately and impressively make for the real peace of the world and the good of mankind as an informal conference of the rulers of the Great Powers. What I venture to suggest is, a conference or meeting at the Azores in November, or April, next, to be participated in by yourself, the King of England the German Emperor and such other rulers as the three of you may desire to have present. This is not a suggestion which I submit for your consideration lightly or hastily. I have pondered the matter for almost a year, and looked at it from many points of view. I see no valid objection which may not be met and overcome. For European monarchs it is a common thing to go a-visiting. Ancient and modern history is filled with the records of their comings and goings. Recent cable dispatches report that the Czar expects to visit Germany next autumn. The King of England and the German Emperor are frequent travellers outside of their own domain. The Prince of Wales has recently made a tour of the world. When the German Emperor, the Czar of Russia or the King of England or the President(2) of France goes afield to meet a brother ruler he goes not merely for the pleasure of a social visit but for the solid reason that he knows that intimate personal contact with the head of another nation will enable him to gain some advantage, direct or indirect, that could not be obtained through the ordinary channels of diplomatic intercourse. In every such meeting some misunderstanding is removed; fresh light is cast upon obscure points under negotiation; good feeling is engendered, and the mistakes and limitations of the professional diplomats thrust aside. No matter how clever a diplomatic representative may be he cannot always convey just the shade of meaning and emphasis which his chief may desire to impart. I think that you Mr. President could accomplish twenty times as much in the field of foreign intercourse in the course of a few day's talk with three four of the lmportant European sovereigns for the advantage of your country and the credit of your administration as can be accomplished through the customary channels and by the formal methods. You would in a series of informal talks establish a solid basis for future diplomatic discussions concerning international affairs and you would brush away a mass of diplomatic cobwebs. There are many compelling reasons why at an early date, there should be a conference participated in by yourself and some of the heads of the more potent European Governments. These reasons are world wide in their sweep. The whole subject of the Hague Conference ought to be freely and frankly discussed and some informal agreement reached respecting a practical programme looking to the gradual reduction of armaments. The subject of anarchists should be threshed out, and there ought to be some unreserved interchange of view on many phases of the oriental question and the future of China. The Second Hague Conference seems not to be blessed with bright prospects for a(3) brilliant and useful future. A conference of the heads of great nations, such as I am now discussing, could save the Hague Conference and give vitality to all that it stands for, and add enormously to the effectiveness and prestige of the Arbitration idea and cause. In addition to the measures of a vast but general nature to be considered, there are a dozen specific questions which affect this country that may be disposed of. It is quite possible that you could arrive at some understanding in respect to the treatment of American products by the European Governments that would ultimately result in vastly improving the conditions under which our foreign trade is conducted with these countries, and so, greatly incresing it. I believe you would come back with arguments and facts of such power that the way would be paved for a satisfactory re-opening of the tariff question and the lodging by Congress in the hands of the President broad powers for the making of reciprocal tariff agreements based upon the trading feature enfolded in the princilpe of a maximum and min-mum tariff schedule. You would have the good will of all the people who want peace, and all the business men who want more trade abroad. There is every reason to believe you could do a great deal to remove the unfriendly feeling which prevails in Russia respecting the Americans and which was caused by the attitude of our press during the recent war. If this Russian hostility continues it will become a source of costly embarrassment to the shippers and manufactjurere of the United States when Russia settles down in peaceful ways once more. It is a self evident proposition that Russia, within the next decade, is likely to become the most important buyer in the world for manufactures of all [kik] kinds. The King of England who is astute and alert in these matters sees this and deliberatekly has set to work to throw out4 feelers and to educate public sentiment into a demand that he shall enter into some sort of an alliance with Russia for the purpose of preventing Germany and France from getting the lion's share of Russian trade. It is the purpose of the King of England to remove the ancient [?] feelings of bitterness and suspicion which exists between the English and Russian people and to bring about an era of good will that shall, in the end, be a prodigious asset for England in a commercial sense. We have in this country been recognized for eight years as a world power of the first magnitude. During this period and for more than a century precedeing it we transacted our international business at long range and often through the medium of ill equipped and inexperienced representatives. We have done well but we might have done much better in some ways. It is now quite time that we drew close to the small coterie of men who rule the world. If frequent conferences among the European rulers serve useful ends then we ought not to remain aloof and isolated so far as the participation in such conferences is concerned, by our President. We ought not to be deprived of the many advantages which his commanding personality would be likely to obtain for us if he were given an opportunity to come into contact with his fellow rulers. Until this personal relation be established we shall, always be on the outside, to some ex tent. I do not think any fairly intelligent person will deny that much good and very little if any harm could flow from a meeting of the men at the head of the principal governments of the world. So far as we are concerned there could be no formal alliance sought or made but something i of equal value if less tangible could be achieved -namely a closer, clearer understanding from the outside view-point of all debatable questions. Many prejudices would disappear during a five day's discussion and personal contact, and many mutually helpful suggestions would be developed.5 At the same time anything that savored, even in the lightest degree, of an alliance or combination against our interests would be forseen and forestalled. At least one [splendid] satisfactory and solid result of the suggested conference would be assured. We should, through the manifestation of your uncommon ability in handling men and through the force of your personality, apparently, without [sff] effort, be accepted and established in our position of "Arbiter of the World." A satisfactory reason would have to be given the American people for what obviously, at first glance, would seem to be to them a disturbing and unfamiliar departure on your part. These reasons I have discussed briefly. Our people have accepted with cordiality your proposed visit to Panama, and they have acquised in our retention of the Phillipines. They have grown wondrefully in their power to grasp the "world power " idea and all that it carries with it. It is wholly probable that as soon as the deep significance of your attendance at a meeting of the world's great rulers was was explained to the American peolpe and understood by them, they would heartily and promptly approve of the plan and welcome it with feelings of genuine patriotic pride. To be sure, much depends upon the manner in which the matter is presented to this nation and to the world. A conference of the heads of the greatest civilized governments at the Azores would become one of the luminous and splendid landmarks of universal history. The ebb and flow of great events and of great lives would be recalled and studided in relation to it, as a matter of time and as a matter of historic achievement. In [all] the august attributes of impressiveness, importance and vital interest it would surpass all the foregatherings of Emperors and Kings that have gone before it. In the history of the 20th century it would be the6 most dignified happening, and in the history of all time it would be a memorable and vital event. A word now about details - fast cruisers could take you to the Azores in six and a half days, or less, from New York, or Hampton, Roads. Six days could be spent at the Conference and the return trip to the United States made in six days, so, an absence of less than twenty days would suffice. If you go to the Isthmus of Panama and remain one week there, you will be absent from this country nearly twenty days. By sending a number of vessels along the course to be taken by you, and establishing a wireless station at the Azores, you could keep in communication with this country. At the Azores there is a cable station serving one of the New York cables. I suggest the Azores, too, because these islands are in the domain of one of the smaller European countries and for the reason that the European rulers would be compelled to come part of the way to meet you, as it were. If you look upon this matter with favor I think you will agree that the ultimate success of the plan depends upon discretion and secrecy with which the early arrangements can be carried out. One person ought to go to the King of England and then to the German Emperor and get their views on the subject and talk over the general plan with them and get their ideas about and the manner of carrying it out. I earnestly hope you will give the suggested conference long consideration. I believe the wisdom and importance of it will grow upon anyone who ponders the matter. I have been thinking about it for nearly a year and I am more deeply convinced than ever that it is the right thing to do. I will be glad to discuss it with you at any time, should you so desire. I have only set out the general7 idea in this letter in a sketchy and discursive way and have scarcely touched upon some phases of the subject of more than common importance. I expect to be in New York very early in August. I trust that you are having a restful and agreeable summer. This part of the United States never wished you will more heartily than it does at this moment. Very respectfully, Francis B. Loomis. [*P.F*] YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, July 11. 1906 Dear President Roosevelt: Impressed as I have long been with the ability of the individual man to show himself an unmitigated ass both in conduct or belief, it never came over me that any one, however much he might oppose your policy would ever think of questioning your absolute sincerity. In that event the comment made by the man who in the ancient story of Artemis Ward comes home to find his house burned down & his wife, children burned to death —"well, this is too ridiculous" — strikesme as the only one applicable to the situation. I take no credit to myself that never once has there crossed my mind a shadow of a doubt as to the integrity of your motives, the unselfishness of your patriotism, the purity of the zeal you display for the honor of the country, or the loftiness of your personal aspirations. I still retain, I trust, a modicum of intelligence, in spite of the wearing effect of long years spent in endeavoring, in my feeble way, to over come, as far as possible, the violent prejudice which the average American Youth entertains against knowing anything. The book of which you kindly ask is entitled The Text of Shakespeare - that is the history of the controversy about it - & will be brought out by the Scribners some time this fall, when it pleases them to do so. The subject lends itself with incalculable ease to tediousness, & one can easily "sample" it, if he cares to do, as part of one chapter is to be printed in Scribners Magazine before the volume appears. I won't say anything about that for I have had the whole work in my mind too much of late to be pleased with any part of it; but I expect to have an article in Harpers Magazine for August, principally on the word "female," which I hope might bring you a little entertainmentif you care at all for linguistics discussions. However as I feel it is a sort of imposition upon you, busied as you are, to read even my letters, I shall not suggest any thing more in the way of perusal & I really have availed myself of the pretext you furnished by your inquiry, mainly for the purpose of reviewing, even tho I am to be away from the Country for some time, the assurance of an admiration or personal regard which began long before you were president. - which I should express more firmly or strongly were you not president Sincerely Yours T. R. Lounsbury[*PF*] AMERICAN EMBASSY, ST. PETERSBURG. July 11, 1906. [*Ackd 7-28-06*] My dear Mr. President:- The Duma has now been in session for two months, with little accomplished beyond passing lately a bill for the abolition of the death penalty, thus reversing the order of things from the time of the French Revolution. I have just been on a trip of a few days into Volhynia - part of the Russian Poland on the route to Odessa. I also passed through the districts close to Bielostok and Kieff. I wanted to see personally the condition of the interior. The country of Volhynia is wondrously fertile and well cultivated. On the Potocki Estate, where I passed two nights, there are five beet sugar factories and one refinery, the latter absolutely modern and up to date. The peasants, without exception, throughout the country, are bare-footed, men, women and children, and live in what we would call squalor, cabins, and are something like the "poor white trash", only more vigorous. They were very respectful and humble to a degree that Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I., N. Y., U.S.A.-2- was sickening, kissing the sleeve or hand on every opportunity. There is not, however, the sad, unhappy or sullen look which one finds in the peasants of Russia proper. I attribute this partly to the fact that the communal land system does not exist in Poland, but the peasant owns his field. This was forced upon the Polish land owners by the Russian Government in 1861 and was done in such a way as was meant to estrange the Polish land owner and peasant as much as possible. The fact that they forced the Polish proprietor to be more generous than the Russian, has turned out to be a benefit to the Poles, as the peasants are much more contented than in Russia itself and cause less trouble. The great problem in Poland is the Jewish question. The Jews are not allowed to own land. Sometimes Russian terrorists and at other times Russian-Jewish anarchists come into the cities creating and manufacturing disturbances. In addition to this all reforms and improvements are impeded by the local officers of the bureaucracy until they have been taken care of by what is known now in America as graft. The great hindrance to reform throughtthe Empire is the bureaucracy. Its officials are utterly devoid of patriotism and are evidently willing to carry this opposition to the extent of even ruining the country. They realize that if the reform element succeeds they will be ruined and swept away. -3- The revolutionists have for a long time been carrying on an extended propaganda among the troops. The effect has shown itself lately at Odessa, Sebastopol, Kursk and even near St. Petersburg (Krassnoe Selo). One battalion of the famous Preobrajensky Regiment had to be sent away and is now stationed at Medvied, where the Japanese prisoners were formerly confined. The trouble has been in some instances that the officers have neglected their duty, leaving the entire care of the men to the non-commissioned officers, thoroughly incompetent and unnecessarily severe. In order, however, to make a successful revolution, the loyalty of the troops will have to be undermined to a much greater extent. Last Sunday I sailed over to Kronstadt to inspect the port and found that everything had been grossly exaggerated. Conditions at present were apparently quiet and normal. The existing Cabinet is utterly incapable of comprehending or handling the present situation and the impossibility of its continuing to hold office causes constant rumors of its resignation. Kokovtzoff, the Minister of Finance, is reported to have said that they had offered their resignations to the Emperor. They were not accepted, as the Kadets were unwilling to make a coalition cabinet. The Government lately made a definite proposition to the Duma of dividing among the peasants all the arable crown lands-4- in European Russia and facilitating through the peasants bank the sale of such private lands were offered and which lately have greatly increased. The scheme was practically hooted down by the Duma. The Government has now printed its proposition and had it widely distributed among the peasants by the local officials. It is said that the impression has been started that the Tsar alone is desirous of doing this for his people but is prevented by the Duma, which is accomplishing nothing beyond making extensive promises. This has caused some anxiety among the members of the assembly and a statement is being prepared by the Duma to counteract the Government's communication. The great opportunity to have announced this division of crown lands, with a liberal amnesty, was on the occasion of the reception of the Duma members in the Winter Palace. Then the Emperor could have won over the great mass of the peasants, who are naturally inclined to look to him as their benefactor and Little Father. The great difficulty and misfortune is that there are no leaders on either side, and as Cabot Lodge wrote me, neither side seems to have the brains or temper tot pull the thing through. Consequently, unless something unforseen happens, it can drag along as it has been doing for months. This is the judgment of experienced and unbiased observers here.-5- The Minister of Foreign Affairs refuses definitely to discuss, even informally, the Bielostok massacre, and claims that we have no more right to meddle in the matter than they would have to take up the lynching of negroes with us. The English Ambassador told me that he had the same experience, and that Izwolsky, besides refusing to discuss the Jewish question, appeared very much put out. The climate and water here have given me catarrh of the stomach and the doctor ordered me to take a cure at Kissingen in June, in order that it should not become a chronic trouble. This I was unable to do on account of Eddy's absence, but I must in August, as it troubles me considerably and will be too late for Kissingen in September. After my cure, if conditions in Russia will permit, and you do not object, I desire to go to America for a short time to arrange some private matters of importance, which require my personal attention. Congratulating you on the valuable legislation as to meat inspection which you were able to force, and also on the Canal Bill, believe me, my dear Mr. President, Respectfully yours, GvL Meyer [*[Meyer]*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 NY VV GI 26 Paid--night--9:20a New Orleans, La., July 11/12. [1906?] Hon. Theo. Roosevelt: Socialist Party New Orleans in mass meeting demand that you use the power vested in you by constitution to ensure our comrades Moyer Haywood Pettibone immediate fair trial. Robert Patterson, Secretary. [*Ackd 7/11/06*] 49 Sylvester Ave. Webster Groves, Mo My dear Cousin Theodore I am glad to be able to give you the good news of the birth of our little Leila born on Sunday July 8th -- Both Adelheid & the baby are in the best of health. Please remember me to all yours & hoping that you will have a bully rest at Oyster Bay the only place in the world after Webster I remain yours very sincerely, André Roosevelt[*Ackd 7-12-06 Proof ret'd*] Judge Company JUDGE LESLIE'S WEEKLY 225 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK JOHN A. SLEICHER PRESIDENT July 11th, 1906. PERSONAL Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The President, Pyster Bay, N.Y. My dear President: I congratulate you on the fulfilment of the pledges of the party, and of your own pledges, and the good work that you have been enabled to do and to have Congress do. I think the enclosed advance proof in Judge best typifies the present condition of affairs. I did not think that the packing house investigators should have given such publicity to the damaging features of their report, and I did believe that they should have give the packers a chance to make things right, as I am told the[y] latter offered to do. I had the pleasure of going through the entire Armour plant, by invitation of the late Philip D. Armour, and I certainly saw nothing that justified "The Jungle". Moreover, Sinclair had, in his interview in the New York Herald three years ago, himself acknowledged that he was in the business of writing sensations, and did not care for the approval of decent men. I suppose you saw just what he said. It was a surprising declaration, confession, or whatever you might choose to call it, and something I know which would not agree with your views of justice and fair play. The most remarkable movement in politics that I have seen, in [the] an observation of twenty-five years, is that of the Democracy once more toward a twice-defeated candidate. His nomination would upset all precedents, and, in spite of what you and your best friends might do,Judge Company JUDGE LESLIE'S WEEKLY 225 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK JOHN A. SLEICHER PRESIDENT #2.T.R. July 11, 1906. would also upset the third term precedent, if one really exists in your case. I know exactly how you feel regarding this matter, but no man can interrupt the movement of the spheres, in or out of politics. Sincerely yours, John A. Sleicher. Encl.[For enc. see 7-12-06][*F*] Editorial Rooms The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Cable Address THOUTLOOK NEWYORK July 12, 1906. Dear Mr. President: Your letter to my father enclosing a socialist protest, a copy of your letter to Mr. Cobb and a copy of Governor Gooding's letter to you has come during my father's absence on a brief vacation. If I can do so without any risk of sending your letter astray, I shall forward it to him, otherwise I shall hold it until his return. You certainly have been dealing with questions concerning the foundations of Government. Nothing could be more elemental in character than the question whether a popular Government shall remain master of the organization within it. May I take this opportunity to send a word of congratulation on the success with which that problem in various forms has been managed. I hope most earnestly, now that the problem has become for the time being less intense, that you will find that the coming weeks will bring you relaxation and rest, which all your friends wish you. Respectfully yours, Ernest Hamlin Abbott Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President the United States, Oyster Bay, N. Y.[*Ackd 7/14/06*] S. B. ADAMS ... CHAIRMAN FRED A. HULL ... SECRETARY C. G. BAILEY ... TREASURER E. C. DUNCAN ... NATIONAL COM. MEMBERS AT LARGE E. V. WALKER ... Lexington B. F. MEBANE ... Spray E. W. TIMBERLAKE ... Lewisburg W. S. PEARSON ... Morganton H. S. HARKINS ... Asheville J. C. MEEKINS, SR ... Columbia HEADQUARTERS Republican State Executive Committee CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 1st—A. BERRY ... Swan Quarter 2d—D. W. PATRICK ... Snow Hill 3d—JOHN E. FOWLER ... Clinton 4th—CLAUDIUS DOCKERY ... Raleigh 5th—J. E. ALEXANDER ... Winston-Salem 6th—W. J. SUTTON ... Elizabethtown 7th—W. A. BAILLY ... Advance 8th—E. SPENCER BLACKBURN ... Wilkesboro 9th—JAKE F. NEWELL ... Charlotte 10th—J. L. MORGAN ... Marion Greensboro, N. C., July 12th, 1906 My dear Mr. President:- Our State Convention met in this city on the 10th inst, and we had the greatest convention within the history of the party in North Carolina. There were over 1600 delegates and alternates, and in addition to this many members of the party who were not delegates were in attendance. The vote in the State Convention for State Chairman was as follows: Mr. Blackburn, 297; Mr. Harris, 84; and for myself, 476. After the ballot was taken, Mr. Blackburn moved my election by acclamation. This motion was carried unanimously by a rising vote of the convention. I am satisfied we will now have absolute harmony in the party. We will certainly have it if my efforts can accomplish it, and I must assume the sincerity of Mr. Blackburn until the contrary is shown. Secretary Taft made us an address on the night of the 9th, and did much for Republicanism in North Carolina. He is a great and good man, and we very much appreciate his coming among us. I do hope that you will not be troubled in the future, as you have been in the past, with reference to the patronage in this State. I know it has been annoying to you. It is reported that Mr. Blackburn made certain promises with reference to certain positions in the State outside of his district, in case he was elected Chairman. I made no promise to any one, hence I am under absolutely no obligation to any man for office, except the obligation I owe to the [*(Adams S. B.)*]S. B. ADAMS ... CHAIRMAN FRED A. HULL ... SECRETARY C. G. BAILEY ... TREASURER E. C. DUNCAN ... NATIONAL COM. MEMBERS AT LARGE E. V. WALSES ... Lexington B. F. MEBANE ... Spray E. W. TIMBERLAKE ... Lewisburg W. S. PEARSON ... Morganton H. S. HARKINS ... Asheville J. C. MEEKINS, SR ... Columbia HEADQUARTERS Republican State Executive Committee CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 1st—A. BERRY ... Swan Quarter 2d—D. W. PATRICK ... Snow Hill 3d—JOHN E. FOWLER ... Clinton 4th—CLAUDIUS DOCKERY ... Raleigh 5th—J. E. ALEXANDER ... Winston-Salem 6th—W. J. SUTTON ... Elizabethtown 7th—W. A. BAILLY ... Advance 8th—E. SPENCER BLACKBURN ... Wilkesboro 9th—JAKE F. NEWELL ... Charlotte 10th—J. L. MORGAN ... Marion #2. Greensboro, N. C., 1906. party to select good Republicans, and the obligation I owe you and the service to select good men. I shall not In the least attempt to interfere with the patronage In Mr. Blackburn's district, but will expect to be consulted with reference to all appointments outside of his district. I am exceedingly anxious to have Mr. Blackburn returned to Congress, and have notified him that I would willingly make several speeches in his district for him when his campaign opens, if he will have his committee to make the appointments. We have a most excellent opportunity to carry at least two Congressional districts in this State, and I sincerely believe we will succeed in this. Your administration was heartily approved by the convention, and every mention of your name was loudly applauded. The people of North Carolina love you, Mr. President, regardless of party. In opening the convention, in enumerating the different features of your administration, when I mentioned the fact that you had ordered the return of the flags captured during the war from Confederate soldiers, to the South, the convention simply went wild with enthusiasm, bringing tears to the eyes of many who were In attendance. We had more young men of education and standing In the convention than ever before. We had fewer officeholders as delegates. It was a convention of the people. If harmony exists, as now seems certain, it will not be many years before North Carolina is placed in the Republican column. The Southern States, as far as the RepublicanS. B. ADAMS ... CHAIRMAN FRED A. HULL ... SECRETARY C. G. BAILEY ... TREASURER E. C. DUNCAN ... NATIONAL COM. MEMBERS AT LARGE E. V. WALSER ... Lexington B. F. MEBANE ... Spray E. W. TIMBERLAKE ... Lewisburg W. S. PEARSON ... Morganton H. S. HARKINS ... Asheville J. C. MEEKINS, SR ... Columbia HEADQUARTERS Republican State Executive Committee CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 1st—A. BERRY ... Swan Quarter 2d—D. W. PATRICK ... Snow Hill 3d—JOHN E. FOWLER ... Clinton 4th—CLAUDIUS DOCKERY ... Raleigh 5th—J. E. ALEXANDER ... Winston-Salem 6th—W. J. SUTTON ... Elizabethtown 7th—W. A. BAILLY ... Advance 8th—E. SPENCER BLACKBURN ... Wilkesboro 9th—JAKE F. NEWELL ... Charlotte 10th—J. L. MORGAN ... Marion #3. Greensboro, N. C., 1906. party is concerned, would be better off if there were no offices to hand out. This is what causes so much friction. I feel very much encouraged over the prospects of success, I am perfectly willing to give such of my time as is necessary in trying to build up a party, if we can in harmony, but I will not be chairman of a faction, because my efforts would be in vain, I hope you will pardon me for taking up your time with this letter, but I felt you would appreciate my apprising you of the conditions, and know it will be a relief to you when you realize that you will not be troubled so much in the future as you have in the past by reason of the factions heretofore existing in this State. I am sending you under separate cover newspaper giving a synopsis of the doings at the convention. I am, with great respect, Sincerely yours, Spencer B. AdamsTelegram. The White House, Washington. State Department, Washington July 12, 1906. 5:30 p.m. Thompson, Mexico. Following just from our legation, Guatemala, forwarded your information: "Concur with Merry's suggestion presence war vessels advisable on the coast as safeguard our interests and moral effect Corinto and Amapala; suggested attitude of Nicaragua and Honduras very doubtful; impartial neutrality should be assured. Telegraph Alger as follows: 'Indications act of Salvador wanton aggression. I believe peace can only be secured through moral pressure United States and Mexico; attitude of latter to Guatemala apparently unfriendly, but Mexico, because of influence on Salvador, should be able to restrain latter; martial law imminent here.'" Bacon.CIPHER CABLE. RECEIVED AND TRANSLATED 6 P.M., July 12, 1906. The White House, Washington. Guatemala, lcobkq The Secretary of State, Washington. July 12, 8 a.m. Guatemalan forces have defeated Salvadorian, after three days'fight near Contepeque. General Regolado [x], commander of Salvadorian forces, killed; present aggression of Salvador really personal act of Regolado. His death removes principal obstacle to peace. Situation here is very satisfactory. Martial law declared yesterday. Perfect order and security exists. Brown. -KQ- Cipher Cable Received and Translated 6:03 p.m., July 12, 1906. The White House, Washington. 2cobkq Guatemala, The Secretary of State, Washington. July 12, 10 a.m. Minister Combs was unable to disembark Champerico; telegraphs, in view of latest information about situation, thinks he had better proceed, but awaits Department's decision at Salina Cruz, where he is expected to arrive early Friday. I am endeavoring to faithfully carry out Department's instructions: continuing Minister Combs' policy. Brown -KQ-[*P.F.*] WING PUTNAM & BURLINGHAM Counsellors at Law 27 William Street New York July 12th 1906 HENRY T. WING HARRINGTON PUTNAM CHARLES C. BURLINGHAM EVERETT MASTEN JAMES FORRESTER CABLEGRAMS POLYCARPON NEWYORK To the President, My dear Mr. President:-- Hough showed me the other day the correspondence which passed between you and our senior Senator. I am very sorry it cannot be published as corroborative evidence of his unfitness. Thank you for letting may look behind the veil. As a Democrat, I have a pretty good ticket for the Republicans of New York - Taft for President and you and Mr. Root for Senators! Both parties in New York need to be put to their purgation, but the difference is that the Republicans reckon decency as an asset, while the Democrats have no sense of shame. I hope you like our judiciary ticket. It seems to be well received and ought to be taken up by the Republicans at least. With great respect, Sincerely yours, Charles C. BurlinghamCalle Brecha 6, Montevideo, Uruguay, July 12, 1906. Dear father: As the papers here take every opportunity to print cables and articles detrimental to the United States, copying them from both Democratic and anti-Roosevelt papers, it is possible that the enclosed article may have found its way into the home papers, making it appear that General O'Brien has not done his full duty here. I am writing to offset that. I think it is only fair to the Minister that you, and other friends, should know a little something of the conditions that confronted him on arrival here, and how he has dealt with them. As you know, Finch never entertained during his seven years in Montevideo, and, worse still, by his constant fighting and bickering with Consuls Swalm and Hopley and Vice-Consul Howard, made our representation here the common butt of all. To add to this, there was still much bitterness due to the Spanish War which caused a dislike to Americans and all things American. So, with promise of relief from such a state of affairs, it was the greatest possible pleasure to me to be able to tell all friends and the papers that we were at last to have as Minister a man who knew how to and would "hold up his end" in all ways. The General immediately started in to bring about an improvement. The day following his official reception, he gave his official reception in the Legation, for which we had to make a hurried round of the stores and lay in the things necessary,-2- insasmuch as Finch had not left even a dish cloth in the house. By giving this reception in the Legation, the Minister at once gave proof that his house was to be an open one. After some private and semi-official dinners, the entire city was astounded to hear that the President had accepted an invitation to dine in the Legation with his Ministers, for never before had a President of Uruguay dined with a foreign Minister. Dinner followed dinner, formal and informal, for both natives and English-speaking people. His entertaining and good-fellowship became a by-word. Further, he has entertained the Diplomatic Corps several times, the Judiciary, leading Senators and Deputies, Municipal Officials, Government Officials; in fact, at one time or another, all the prominent private and governmental people. To do this, of course, he has had to open his purse strings, for the property of the Legation consists of a few pieces of dilapidated office furniture and a drawing-room set of six pieces. Since it has been known that Mr. Root was to come to South America, General O'Brien has been on the move constantly, giving at least one dinner each week to those having to do with the official programme, to the end of fomenting kindly feeling toward Mr. Root. And now, he has crowned it all by the magnificent reception given on the Fourth of July, at which more than seven hundred people were present, beyond comparison with anything ever before seen in Montevideo. One-3- and all give him the greatest praise for the brilliancy of it. This event, alone, cost over $800, but he is as pleased as possible over the success, if only because it has paved the way for a most cordial reception of Mr. Root. With regard to Mr. Root's coming, you know, of course, that Uruguay was the first Republic to invite him to visit their country, and also to be the guest of the Republic, it being proposed to furnish a house for this purpose. Through several sources it became evident that the Government was having a hard time to find a suitable house, the Foreign Minister of the Government, himself, telling the General so, and, in fact, practically suggesting that he take over the entertaining of Mr. Root - at least, so far as the housing. This was a most peculiar proceeding, for we knew of at least four houses that they could have gotten for him - houses that the Government, also, must have known of. But this information we are doing our best to keep from becoming public, as nothing must appear that will give the opposition papers a chance to enlarge upon. The explanation, I think, lies in a desire to save money, for the Government is preparing to spend a large sum on the public entertaining of the Secretary - electric illuminations, balls, banquets, etc., being on the programme. On the other hand, it may be that they preferred to have him be the General's guest for causes of personal safety, as the taint of anarchy here is rather strong. Immediately upon this information coming to us, the General - 4 - started on the search for a house. Fortunately, I was able to tell him of a house belonging to a Mr. Taranco - one of the largest Spanish merchants here - said to be the finest home in Uruguay. I knew that Mr. Taranco was living at his country place, and also knew intimately the two men who would have the most influence in persuading him to turn his house over to us. This has come to pass, so we now have the best house in the city, fully and magnificently furnished, in which to house Mr. Root, it costing the Minister a very pretty penny to bring it about. Not in rent, however, for Mr. Taranco has very gallantly refused any rental. But some of the walls need re-papering, beds and their fittings must be bought, table linen, and a thousand and one things to make it what it should and will be. At the lowest calculation, the cost to the General of Mr. Root’s coming will be in excess of $2500. The finest part of it is that he is immensely pleased over it, and not one word of complaint has been heard, but many to the contrary. All these things I know of my own knowledge, for the General and I are together practically all the time, and for the past month and a half I have been doing all the work of the Legation for him, due to the fact that his former clerk has left and there was no one in sight that he could trust to put in charge of books and papers. I have been glad to do it, even though the work is rather arduous, because I admire him immensely for the way he is fighting to wear down the prejudice-5- here against the American Minister and Americans. I say fighting, but that is not correct, for the fight is won, everybody agreeing that "at last the United States have a Minister here." Just what that quotation means cannot be appreciated by any but those who have lived here under former conditions. Between now and the time of arrival of our distinguished guest, the General has planned to give several dinners, all in the direction of fomenting further good feeling for him. The net result of this well-fought-and-gallantly-won political and social campaign is that Mr. Root will find in Uruguay a more sincere welcome than in any other place in which he is to stop. I know it is not necessary to say that the information as to the peculiar action of the Government is confidential. Had it come to me in the course of my work here in the Legation I would not be writing of it now. I am enclosing an article in the B.A. "Standard" about the reception, which will give you some idea of the friendly feeling toward the General. Love to all the family, As ever, H.R.C. [*[Harold Clarkson]*][ENC . IN. CLARKSON TO LOEB 8-6-06[*F*] THE POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON July 12, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. Loeb: Your letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a communication from the Civil Service Commission regarding the membership of the Republican State Committee of Alabama, has been received, and I shall be obliged if you will kindly say to the President, who wishes a report on this subject, that I shall be pleased to discuss the matter with him in person as soon as I am able to visit Oyster Bay, which will be in the course of two or three weeks. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou [*[Cortelyou]*]DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT WASHINGTON, D. C. July 12, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb:- The enclosed telegram has been dispatched in accordance with your letter of July 11th. Will you kindly send it back to the Navy Department, (or a copy of it), informing the Secretary that it has been sent. That will make the papers all straight in the matter, as I [personally] officially have nothing to do with such a telegram, except to obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief in the way I have indicated. I had a very pleasant visit home on the 4th of July and found all well there, and I imagine from your letter that all are well with you. With kind messages to your wife and the baby, I am Very sincerely yours, Wm. S. Cowles Hon. William Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L.I.N.Y.[*F*] Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS Washington July 12, 1906. My dear Mr. President: I have your letter regarding young Sebree, and thoroughly appreciate the reason for not reappointing him. I had a very interesting and satisfactory interview with Mr. Mellen, president of the New Haven road, last Monday. He explained in detail his action relative to the oil rates, and gave as his reason for having directed one of his subordinate officers to confer with Standard officials about the contemplated change in the policy of the New Haven road, that he always conferred with the large shippers of any commodity when a change in the rate or method of handling that commodity was contemplated. From Mr. Mellen's statement of what he has been and is now doing, I am very confident that he will cooperate most heartily with the Government in doing away with railway abuses. Mr. Cole, a Member of Congress from Ohio, writes me about Manington. He says that the two Senators are still divided in their endorsement for the Collector of Internal Revenue at Toledo, and suggests that it might now be possible for you to appoint Manington. If they persist in their refusal to agree, why would it not be well for you to select Manington? Colonel Hopkins suggested for your consideration the appointment of his brother, Lawrence Hopkins, on the Interstate Commerce Commission. I enclose a memorandum which he left with me, showing his qualifications. Gifford sails for Europe on Saturday, to be gone a month. I trust that your ankle is giving you no further trouble. Very sincerely yours, James Rudolph Garfield The President, Oyster Bay, N. Y.[For enc see Hopkins 7-12-06][ca 7-12-06] Graduated Williams '63, is about 60 years old. When 19 commanded independent battalion of 1st Mass. Cavalry, and was wounded in the Wilderness. Was almost immediately after the war made Superintendent of the Housatonic R. R., then of K. C., St. Jo. C. B. which he consolidated with the C. B. & O. Was then Vice President of the Illinois Central; Receiver of the Wabash, V. P. Mo. Pac. and Tex. P. and later Pres. of the N. Y. Sus. & W. Had the very highest reputation among railroad and business men in the active operations of roads and is well acquainted with conditions east and west. Has now no connection with any line. [ Hopkins][Enc in Garfield 7-12-06][*Ackd 7/14/06*] DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY. GENERAL BOARD, WASHINGTON. July 12, 06 My dear Mr President: The Secretary of the Navy has just shown me a letter he has received from Senator Hale in reply to a letter the Secretary sent to him submitting, for comment the names of twelve naval officers, six of whom the Secretary proposed to select as members of a Personnel Board, with Mt. Newberry as Chairman. The Senator, without actually opposing the appointment of such a board, intimates that he thinks it would be better for the Secretary to talk the question over with one or two of his Bureau Chiefs and two or three Senators and Congressmen and prepare a bill based ontheir views. This really means that the Senator would like to dictate the plan himself. Unfortunately he cares very little about the Navy and has usually opposed its progress and development. As Chairman of the Senate Naval Committee his principal efforts have been directed toward taking care of his personal friends and the interests of his ship-building friends in Maine. As they are not sharing in building battle ships he has always opposed the building of battle ships. Any plan for the personnel that he dictates will probably be justly opposed by the majority of the service and would come to naught. The Senator, in his letter, concedes that my question of the personnel is of more importance than that of ships. I am confident that any good measure prepared by a board of good officers, approved by the Secretary, yourself and the House, is bound to have his support. Mr. Foss and General Meyer have both said they anticipated no difficulty in obtaining his support. Mr. Foss counts particularly on gaining his approval when he visits him in Maine next September for the purpose of making some campaign speeches. I know from my experience with the former Personnel Bill and talks I have had with various Congressmen and Senators that they are much more ready to act on a bill that has been thoroughly considered by experts and and has the approval and careful revising of the Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary is ready with his list of officers tend, I think, is inclined to go ahead and appoint the board but is now undecided because of this rather petulant letter from Senator Hale. There is no doubt that the Secretary wants to do whatever is best calculated to accomplish results and he will probably refer the matter to you for final decision. Personally I think it would be a great mistake to allow this somewhat scalding letter from a petulant, undependable old man - who is said to have been favorable to such a board a few weeks ago - to deter him from the immediate appointment of the board which, I am confident,5) Department of the Navy General Board. Washington. Will result, at the next session of Congress in a personnel law (for which Senator Hale would rate) that will add tremendously to the efficiency of the Navy without increasing its cost. The Secretary is to leave here on the 14th (Saturday) for two weeks, so that if you wish him to act before his departure it will be necessary to telegraph. I have taken the liberty to write you thus fully because I believe it is a matter in which you are much interested and in which Admiral Deweyis very greatly concerned. Nothing is nearer his heart than getting younger Captains and younger admirals for the Navy. He is now in Richfield Springs. I hope that you and Mrs Roosevelt are enjoying your vacation and are having the thorough rest you so richly deserve. Faithfully Yours, A. L. Key.[*Ackd 7/14/06*] [*Personal & Confidential*] Springfield Ohio, July 12th, 1906. Dear Mr. Loeb: I am sending in this mail a very important letter to the President which I hope you will read. What I suggest, if it can be carried out, will become one of the important and decisive historical events of the world. I have been turning it over in my mind for months and looking for a time when I could get an opportunity to speak about it when the President was not under pressure from the day's work. That opportunity bever came during the strenuous period just closed, so, I feel that I ought to broach the matter now, even if I have to do it through the unsatisfactory way of the mails. I have not gone into a dozen interesting and important phases of the subject but will be glad to take them up if the President seems interested in the matter and wants seriously to consider it. I can leave here any afternoon at five o'clock and be in New York about nine the following morning. I hope the President will consider the matter with favor for I think it will turn out to be one of the enduring and glorious achievements of his career. Very & sincderely yours, F. B. Loomis Hon. William Loeb Jr, Secretary to the President.CECIL A. LYON Member Republican National Committee and Chairman Republican State Executive Committee Sherman, Texas Personal§ July 12, 1906 My Dear Mr. Secretary;- The Republican State Convention of Texas meets in El Paso on August 14th, and we will appreciate it very much if you will do us the honor to attend that convention and make us a talk on August 14th; speech and time to be chosen by yourself. On receipt of this I will appreciate it if you will telegraph me whether or not you can accept, because if you do not we wish to get some other gentleman of national repute. In the event that you decline I trust that you will consider this letter as confidential because if we ask you first, others, as you understand, might feel reluctant to accept an invitation to address this convention. With the hope that your engagements will permit you to accept our invitation, I am, Most respectfully, [*Cecil A. Lyon*] National Committeeman & States Chairman. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Washington, D. C.[Eve. in Lyon 1-12-06]TELEGRAM. Cipher. The White House, Washington. SAN SALVADOR, July 12, 1906. (Rec'd. 2:07p.m.) The Secretary of State, Washington. Former president of Salvador Regalado commanding Salvadorian army in Guatemala killed fighting to-day. The result is undertain here and in Guatemala but tending toward peace. Your cable eleventh has been received. Merry. --JM--The National Association of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers President C. F. Huhlein, Louisville, Ky. Treasurer Joseph Dain, Ottumwa, Ia. Secretary J. A. Sanford 422 Home Insurance Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Vice-Presidents C. S. Brantingham, Rockford, Ill. F. W. Blees, Macon, Mo. D. M. Parry, Indianapolis, Ind. C. E. Sheldon Akron, O. Frank Slosson, Kenosha, Wisc. E. R. Berman, Minneapolis, Minn. Wm. W. Wiard, Syracuse, N. Y. A. B. Farquhar, York, Pa. W. R. Wooden, Battle Creek, Mich. C. B. Dempster, Beatrice, Neb. Executive Committee Chairman, H. E. Miles, Racine, Wis. S. E. Swayne, Richmond, Ind. O. V. Dodge, Kansas City, Mo. H. M. Kinney, Winona, Minn. J. W. Good, Moline, Ill. C. G. Rowley, Jackson, Mich. W. B. Brinton, Dixon, Ill. E. D. Metcalf, Auburn, N. Y. Newell Sanders, Chattanooga, Tenn. Wm. H. Taylor, Peoria, Ill. Attorneys Bulkley, Gray & More, 518 Home Insurance Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Regular Membership Represents: Capital Engaged $300,000,000 Annual Product $400,000,000 Employees 150,000 Tons of Freight Received and Shipped Annually 8,000,000 Office of Secretary, Chicago, July 12, 1906 To the Executive Committee, National Association of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers. Gentlemen:- On April 10, 1906, by vote of your Committee, it was ordered that a special Committee "be authorized and directed to investigate the entire question of the Tariff and Reciprocity in their bearing upon the industries represented in this Association; such Committee to report the results of its work to the Executive Committee." As Such Committee, we submit this, our report. That you may know our general attitude we state that each of us is a Republican and a Protectionist, as the latter term used to be defined. We believe implicitly in protection to American labor in its enjoyment of a high wage scale, and in President Roosevelt's measure of Protection as "The difference between the scale of wages here and the scale of wages abroad"---this difference to be measured not by the daily rate, but by the wage cost per unit of production. This belief with us is unqualified and militant. Our members are interested chiefly in hides, which are used by our carriage builders only; in steel, used by us all; and in lumber, used by us all, but in particular measure by the farm wagon builders.2. LEATHER. We find no need or justice in the present tariff on leather and hides. The President's definition permits of none. It is not a matter of wage adjustment, as there is practically no labor in the making of the fresh hide, and the wage cost of converting into sole leather is estimated at 6% or less of the sales price. For twenty-five years prior to 1897, there was no such tariff. At this time, there is no tariff except upon cattle hides weighting more than twenty-five pounds each, consequently a great many cattle hides are trimmed down to a less weight than twenty- five pounds, and imported free. Almost all heavier hides imported are imported in bond and exported in finished products, so that the Government derives almost no revenue from this tariff. It is a matter of common belief, if not of knowledge, that the so-called Beef Trust and the Leather Trust owned by the Beef Trust, virtually add the tariff to the price and that consequently a few individuals enjoy an excess profit of far more than $50,000,000 per year to the needless expense of the consumer. The price of cattle to-day is very low; so low that to our knowledge owners of large herds have ordered them killed off as fast as may be done consistently. On the other hand the price of meat and of hides is very high. This is an unnatural and Trust-made condition. The hide is a by-product. Naturally when people are prosperous, much meat is consumed, and the steer is high in price. When little meat is consumed, the steer is low in price, and so few are slaughtered that the hide is then highest in price because of the scarcity of supply. In other words, the price of the hide does not add to the price of the steer, but naturally is inversely as the price of the steer. Some 300,000 pairs of shoes are consumed in the United States annually, and the extra cost of the same, consequent upon the tariff, has been estimated by experts at $30,000,000 per year. The loss to the carriage industry has not been figured, but is in proportion. The prices of carriage leathers have advanced from 25% to 45% under this tariff. The present leather schedules have few or no supporters among the producers or manufacturers, so far as we can learn, except some of the large stock raisers in the far West. The packers, themselves, have declared very positively that they are entirely willing, if not desirous, for the removal of the tariff as a factor in general Revision and Reciprocity; the tanners likewise, while those who make leather into finished products are unanimously and aggressively desirous of its removal. The cost of leather has come to be so high to the carriage builder that he is greatly tempted to use cheaper and cheaper grades to the detriment of the wearing quality and service of the vehicle in respect to its leather. The leather bill of the carriage maker is greater than his bills for any other two materials. Greater for instance, than the charge for the steel and the lumber combined. It is a very great item with him, and we can but believe that an active declaration and effort toward the removal of this tariff would be for the great benefit of our carriage making members and the consumers of their product. As stated, we have found no one dealing in either hides or leather who expresses other than an affirmative opinion on this subject.3. STEEL. Every member is a large user of steel, our implement makers depending upon it as practically their sole material. Accepting again of President Roosevelt's measure of the degree of Protection needed, being such an amount as perfectly protects the American laborer in the enjoyment of his present wages, we find them as follow: ORE. Our ore beds have now in great measure come under monopolistic control. Ore within our borders is now a scarcity commodity. There is, however, practically an unlimited supply on this continent, and with free ore under a reciprocal or other agreement with Canada and other countries, ore would again be as easily obtainable as in years back when the price of steel to our members was little more than half the present price. The labor cost in mining ore is often-times cheaper per ton in this country than anywhere else. The costs is in places found as low as five cents per ton for loading upon the cars out of the native beds. While it runs much higher as the mines are deepened or less favorably located, we can find no reason to question the statement that this cost of ore in this country and transportation to the furnace is as low as anywhere in the world, and in Alabama lower than anywhere else in the world, and, therefore, no right or reason in a protecting tariff, much less in what may now be called a prohibitive tariff. PIG IRON. The wage cost at the furnace of converting raw material into a ton of molten pig averages throughout this country about 90 cents per ton produced. It is as low at one furnace as 70 cents. The tariff on pig is $4.00. We can see neither right nor reason in anything like so high a tariff as this. The tariff should be removed, or made little more than nominal on pig iron. The cost of producing at the furnace a ton of pig iron, including incidentals, maintenance and repairs, averages throughout the United States about $1.65 per ton of pig produced. The present unreasonable tariff is, therefore, more than twice the absolute total cost of production, including maintenance and repairs, exclusive of raw material. We pronounce this wholly unreasonable and unjust. STEEL BARS. We have found no expert who places the cost of steel bars made by the continuous process at more than 90 cents per hundred pounds, or $18.00 per ton. You will remember we used to buy it for $16.00 per ton at mill a few years ago, believing then that there was at least no loss to the producers at this price. The Iron Age declares that it is produced now by the continuous process for $2.00 per ton less than in those days when we bought it for $16.00. Some of our evidence is to the effect that steel can be produced for not to exceed $16.00 per ton, or slightly more than one-half of the present market price. Steel is made cheaper in Alabama than anywhere else on earth, and about as cheaply elsewhere in the United States as abroad; yet the tariff is $10.00 a ton and in excess of the total wage cost. We know of independent mills who make 80% profit on their capital per annum at the present prices. We cannot question the mass of evidence before us to the effect that steel has for years been sold to foreign users at 25% to 30% below the market price to American purchasers, and as one concern4. shipped abroad over 950,000 tons last year, we must believe that there is a satisfactory profit to the producer at the foreign price. We have evidence also that steel products, including bolts, saws, etc., are oft-times sold abroad in large quantities at 30% to 40% below the prices charged us. Even some of the steel producers are willing, if not desirous that the tariff be either abolished or greatly reduced. It is unnecessary for us to state the situation as regards the mutual understanding of the steel makers, and the great measure of our helplessness in the way of securing a price based on any degree upon competition and the cost of production. We can countenance only thorough and manly consideration of the steel producers in that they believe and say that they are doing only what others would do if in their places; a prominent officer saying that they are getting and will continue to get for their goods, all that they can without reference to cost. He authorized a member of our Committee to repeat this statement. We believe that if they were in our place, good fellows as they are, they would not respect our present almost complete inactivity and submission to the present situation. Your Committee on the price of steel was mostly courteously and considerately received by the Companies forming the so-called steel pool, and the concession given is appreciated by this Committee. Our members, however, should determine whether to rest upon that concession, which may have been the most we could reasonably expect under a practical prohibition of imports and a supposed pool agreement on price; or whether we should take broader measures for relief. We recommend the latter course. It is our duty in this connection to inform you that a Chairman of a Committee on pig iron, representing a kindred Association, was met by a representative of one of the greatest producers with the words: "The best thing you can do is to dissolve and go home." The price of pig, however, dropped one dollar per ton within forty-five days. The Effect of the present prices on steel is seen in our diminished profits. Costs have greatly advanced, while competition has prevented an increase in sales price. Also foreign trade is imperilled and coming to be unprofitable. One of our largest implement exporters declares that he sees the speedy loss of all his foreign business, due principally to the increased cost of his material. A far greater part of the 950,000 tons of steel exported by one producer at low prices should have gone abroad in plows, and other finished shapes, to the various countries, rather than direct from the rolls in relatively crude form. The tariff adds millions of dollars to the cost of our products annually. LUMBER. The lumber situation is acute. It is a matter of common belief, if not of knowledge, that there are lumber trusts and associations, which are mainly responsible for the exceeding advance in lumber in the past few years, the price having gone up 100% in a short period. Further advances are to be expected immediately. We are creditably informed that the members of a lumber association or pool, issued six price-lists in twelve months, each, of course, an advance. We seem entirely helpless under the present conditions5. and obliged to pay whatever price is quoted us. We find some reason to believe that the understanding among the producers is so complete that the number of firms who will quote any one buyer is restricted by agreement. Add to this situation the rapid destruction of our forests, and the fact that in all probability arrangements could be made by reciprocal agreements to draw very largely upon the Canadian and other foreign reserves, and we find reason in the fact that a special convention of manufacturers of vehicle wheels and other hard-wood stock, is to assemble this month to seek relief on the timber proposition; and without mutual knowledge, another meeting of farm wagon builders is to assemble in Chicago on the same date, and for the same purpose. We cannot too strongly recommend action on the part of our Association in harmony with these interests, which are directly in line with the best interests of our membership. Other Commodities are in principal measure in much the same situation as these above No reasonable definition of Protection justifies the Coal Schedule. Coal is a prime necessity. Trusts control it, and at times fight with one another over it. Their chief weapon in this warfare is famine and the fear of famine. We helplessly and submissively pay any priced asked for it; often hoard it, and at times, in pinching alarm, would steal it as the Railroads do. Sane and adequate Revision will again make it and its consumption subject to the simple and old-time laws of trade. If, at any time, domestic interests will not supply it fairly, it will come as ship's ballast, or over foreign rails, and we will live in reason and comfort by grace of foreign supply. In Wool, under present stress, and price advances, of 33-1/3%, genius, possibly perverted, has worked out processes till now impossible, whereby fabrics apparently all wool are made wholly without wool. Cotton is carded into wool threads indistinguishably; and carriage makers and others are making of necessity more and more use of inferior goods. The tariff on this and other products is understood to be decidedly in excess of the total American wage cost. It was recently made clear in a session of the Congress of the United States that hundreds of thousands of American watches are sold abroad annually, and doubtless at satisfactory profit, at prices about 40% less than the prices charged the American consumers. Comparatively no watches are imported. It is common knowledge that the tariff charge is collected by the American Watch Trust, and is wholly an unnecessary burden upon the American consumer. The scientifically constructed tables of Dun and Bradstreet declare that prices of commodities as a whole have advanced since the enactment of the present tariff from 48% to 46%. The prices of our own products, which are made and sold by the old-time free and competitive methods have advanced less than a third of this per cent. Some of our members have added so little of the increased cost to their prices that they are in serious danger from decreased margins. Others have so increased their prices that any reduction in cost will flow directly to the consumer either in immediate price reduction or partly in better quality.6. PUBLIC SENTIMENT. We find a tremendous public sentiment favoring strenuous and concerted action along the lines here indicated. Presidents MicKinley and Roosevelt long since asked for it. The National Association of Manufacturers has ordered a poll of its membership with a view to ascertaining its interests. Your Committee has interviewed very many of the leading members of our Association, and has failed to find one but is for taking up this subject, and most of them are very positive in this. At a recent Convention of American Manufacturers, representing the most diverse interests, nothing was more vigorously applauded than the statement that 80% of the American people are for Revision, with the two extremes representing 10% Stand-Pat, and 10% Free Trade; this 20% being in opposition to the interests of the entire country. RECIPROCITY. In the foregoing, we have shown that there is ampler reason for public belief in the way of tariff adjustment. That fact is itself evidence that there is very ample margin for adjustment of schedules with foreign nations in the interest of mutual and increased trade. Our membership is extremely interested in this subject; in prime measure with Canada, whose wheat field in the North-West is 900 miles long, and from 300 to 600 miles wide, and whose people want our goods. We hear from politicians, that it is too late for Reciprocity with Canada. This statement implies that it would be a very good thing were it possible. It is not so impossible that we as business men should do otherwise than most vigorously and earnestly seek its accomplishment. At no distant date, the preponderance in Canada of political influence, if not of population, will rest in its North-West territory. Our own countrymen are flocking thither and the extent to which our interests may be furthered by immediate, active effort for broad-minded reciprocal trade relations is beyond estimate. Likewise, though in lesser measure, our interests can be furthered in other foreign countries. Germany for instance, imports $250,000,000 worth of foodstuffs annually; only one-fifth of this comes from us. She is insisting upon fairer trade with us, and is prepared to double or treble her orders for the products of our farms. Much is said of the large amount of our manufactured goods exported. Not enough is made of the fact that these exports consist principally of materials like copper, petroleum and steel bars-- products which are advanced little beyond the crude state. America is still a large stevedore bearing down to the ships of the sea crude and semi-crude materials. Reciprocity and Revision with the present large trading margins will further increase the exportation of these materials, and add thereto countless millions' worth of those highly finished products which along will disclose to the world the degree of our efficiency as a manufacturing people. Our workmen then will rejoice in this proof that "the men behind the guns: have in our shops millions of brothers as great in strength, in intelligence, and in skill. Last year's crop in this country was raised, as estimated by our Agricultural Department, at a saving of $685,000,000 over the cost of raising an equal crop fifty years ago. Every machine used in raising last year's crop was made by our members. We made every wagon that helped to bear that crop to market. It was the ability of our predecessors, ourselves and our employes that effected this7. saving upon a single crop--- a saving almost equal to the National debt. The merit of our goods is recognized alike at home and abroad. Why are we unsuccessful in foreign trade? We hear that the exportation of agricultural implements is increasing. It may be. Twice five cents is a dime. We do not want a mere increase. We want to buy our materials as we sell our products, on a competitive basis, fair profits, fair price, and a fair chance under Reciprocity, not merely to sample a few countries, with a wholly insignificant total, but to supply foreign users in great measure. We only, among the great agricultural nations of the world, are great as manufacturers. Our combined manufacturing and agricultural experience should make us far and away the greatest providers of agricultural implements in other countries. As it is, members of this Committee, while tenaciously struggling to retain foreign trade, are expecting to lose it, and find it more and more difficult to retain because alike of the excessive cost of their materials and of hostile tariff legislation in foreign countries. Notwithstanding an occasional assertion to the contrary from those evidently unfamiliar with the situation, our goods are made upon a closely competitive basis and a small margin of profit, and are sold at the same price at home and abroad. No further concessions are possible for the holding of foreign trade. Our carriage and wagon builders have wholly given up efforts to sell in Canada and some other countries; our plow members are losing out. Our membership may properly require of our Association any reasonable efforts possible for the betterment of this situation. Before this, by fairer tariffs and fairer costs of materials, we should have strengthened our positions abroad as against the lessened home demand we must expect with the first short crops or financial pinch. Even members who have factories already established in Canada are earnestly favorable to Revision and Reciprocity, so broadly do our members view the general good, and accept the general good as ultimately their personal good. BAD CORPORATIONS AND GOOD. In the rising tide of public sentiment, we find further reason for official action on our part. Our membership must not suffer from overgrowing feelings of distrust and animosity toward corporations and large undertakings. When a man so conservative as Senator Lodge declares that the greed of some of these corporations is doing more to increase Socialism and anarchy in this country than all the propaganda of their votaries; and, as recently in Congress, the plow and wagon manufacturers are held up to the Nation as among those who sell abroad at far less prices than to domestic users; and the President declares it to be the policy of the Government to exercise an increased control and restraint over corporations, it is to our interest, without in the least affirming or denying statements regarding others, to clearly state our position as old fashioned and competitive. TIME FOR ACTION. It is always said that this question cannot be considered without commercial upheaval and distress, and will not be considered except in time of panic or crop failure. This, however, was said of the Railroad Rate, and other questions. We believe the time to consider such questions is when the Nation financially is as now in good health and high spirits. 8. The protected interests make it strictly a matter of business to maintain high rates. They are always earnestly watchful and active. We must not fear beginning too soon. Statements are known to all our members to be untrue and misleading are made in high places to influence public sentiment. The concensus of the opinion of all our members should be ascertained now so that action if any, at our next Convention will be in accord with the belief of those absent as well as those in attendance. We anticipate that the membership will be found almost unanimously favorable to earnest, high-minded, conservative procedure in behalf of Revision and Reciprocity, for the good alike of ourselves, our 150,000 employes, the 8,000,000 farmers whose implements and vehicles we make, and the general public. We recommend such action and believe that if taken, it will be looked back upon by a greatly increased membership in years to come as a wise and helpful achievement. IN CONCLUSION, we re-affirm our implicit belief in the fundamental principles of Protection, and their application to the conservation of American manufacturing interests, including the maintenance of a high wage scale as necessary alike to the employer and the wage earner, and a proper standard of citizenship. Equally strong and determined is our disbelief in tariff schedules which now convert Protection into Prohibition, and foster monoply. Protection largely has made us what we are. It has proven itself out. Rather than denounce, let us rejoice that the time for change has come, when continuance of present schedules would be rank robbery, when material reductions must be made, and the advantage of lessened cost come as a reward for past wisdom and expenditure. When Revision comes, as all expect it speedily will, let it not be Revision only, but adequate Revision. After the last tariff was enacted, very important steel producers went to Washington and complained that the present schedules were too high. Let the buyers' side be heard next time. This with determination but without animosity. The protected interests are large-minded and, we believe, disposed to fair dealing. They are expecting Revision soon and ready, as always, to bargain for it. Congress has at times been very one-sided, but usually only when the interests of the other side have been conspicuously unrepresented. The Revision sentiment in Congress now is strong. Our interests and our information should be made known to the public, and to those who, in principal measure, will determine the next schedules. All of which is respectfully submitted. H. E. Miles, G. A. Stephens, Wm. Butterworth, W. H. Parlin, C. A Carlisle, J. B. Bartholomew, TARIFF COMMITTEE.[Enc. in 8-8-06]Archbishop's House Manila, P.I. July 12 1906. [*Return to Father AP Doyle*] My Dear Father Doyle;- [*[AP]*] As no doubt you have already read that Mon. Balin the Filipino has been consecrated a Bishop for one of the Diocese of those Islands. His Grace the Archbishop suggested to me that I write you and tell you that he gave a dinner in honor of the occasion and to place before you [and] in order that you might bring it to the attention of the President. The feature that pleased his Grace was the splendid assembly, [that was] select and representative. He looks upon it as an expression of union and feels sure that the President will be plesed to have this particular feature brought before his mind. Those present were His Grace the Archbishop as the Host. BishopBarlin as the Chief Guest, His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, representing the Holy See. Bishop Rooker, Bishop Dougherty, and Bishop Hendrick thus including the entire Hierarchy of the Philippines. Governor General Ide representing the Civil Government. General Wood and General Weston representing the Military Government. Mr. Fergusson, the Executive Secretary, Mr. McDonnell of the Municipal Board, Mr. Worchester and Mr. Forbes, Commissioners. The Private Secretaries and Vicars General of all the Bishops. Dr. McDill and Dr. Musgrave who are doing such noble work in the new Hospital of St. Paul. Permit me to take this opportunity, Dear Father, to wish you good health and to say also that I think I have reason to complain that you have not at least dropped me one little line. Yours sincerely in Christ. Andrew C. Murphy[*F*] AMERICAN EMBASSY. LONDON. July 12th, 1906. Sir, With reference to your telegram of the 7th instant, a copy of which I beg herewith to enclose, in reply to mine to you of the 6th instant, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of a letter and Resolution which I have received from Mr. Arther J. Giles, the Secretary of the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Whitelaw Reid The President of the United States, Oyster Bay, N.Y., U.S.A. Enclosures. 1. Cable, Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Reid, July 7th, 1906. 2. Mr. Giles to Mr. Reid, July 11th, 1906, with Resolution. [*see State 1906*]DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Washington. July 12, 1906 The Secretary of War. Sir:- I have received your communication of the 8th instant reading as follows: I forward to you herewith the draft of an agreement prepared by Mr. Charlton and approved by Messrs. Stevens and Shonts, and request your opinion as to whether the agreement is within the authority of the Commission and according to law. The draft of agreement is one providing for the furnishing of a number of Chinese laborers to be brought from China and employed upon the work of the Panama Canal. It is a proposed agreement between the Canal Commission and the International Contracting Company, organized under the laws of Maine. By it the Company will agree to supply male Chinamen, to defray the expenses of feeding and clothing them, and transport them back to China at the expiration of their respective contracts of employment; to take measures to identify each individual Chinaman; to file with the American Consul and in the office of the Company in the Canal Zone, where it will be open to inspection, a copy of the contract with each individual Chinaman, the form of which is to be approved by the Secretary of War before being signed, no different contract to be made; to provide foremen for gangs of the Chinese, through whom orders are to be given them, and physicians to attend them, and to deport to the original ports of embarkation in China, all Chinese who shall for any cause cease workingfor the company, with the proviso that the Commission will furnish the company quarters in which such Chinese shall be detained until the total number shall have reached 250, or until one of the company's steamships shall be departing for China, or the company is able, in the opinion of the Commission, to arrange with any steamship line for the transportation. The draft of agreement contains the following: It is agreed that ten hours, at any time during the day or night, shall constitute a day's labor, and all work in excess of ten hours in any twenty-four hour period, and all work on holidays, shall be considered as emergency work or overtime, and paid for as such. On the 30th ultimo, Congress passed an Act declaring that the Act of Congress relating to "limitations of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States" shall not apply to unskilled alien laborers and to the foremen and superintendents of such laborers employed in the construction of the isthmian canal within the Canal Zone. The contract labor laws do not extend to the Canal Zone. Congress extended them on March 3, 1903, to "any waters, territory or other place now subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. The Treaty with the Republic of Panama giving us jurisdiction is of a later date than March 3, 1903. There is, accordingly, no objection to the proposed agreement arising out of the fact that the hours of the labor will be more than eight,or the fact of contracting to import laborers. Every country has a right, in the absence of a treaty provision to the contrary, to exclude and to deport aliens, and therefore, there being no such treaty provision, there is no objection to the proposed agreement on account of the bond to be given to the Republic of Panama, conditioned upon the deportation of the Chinese at the end of their service and further conditioned not to permit any of them to inter into or remain within the Republic of Panama, except during transit; nor, (in view of the President's governing authority as to the Canal Zone), on account of the agreement of the company to deport them from it at the conclusion of their service. I have carefully examined each and every part of the proposed agreement, particularly with reference to Art. 18 of the Constitution, as construed and explained in the Attorney General's opinion of June 5, 1905, and in my opinion it is within the "authority of the Commission and according to law." I return it herewith. Respectfully, Charles W. Russell, Acting Attorney General. I have examined the proposed agreement and agree with Mr. Russell's opinion. W. H. Moody, Atty Gen'l.[Enc. in Hoyt 7-23-06]Enc. in. Clarkson to Loeb 8-6-06 CA 7-12-06The magnificent reception given by the American Minister, General O'Brien, at the Legation, on the 4th of July last, was an affair about which there will be much more than the classical nine days' wonder and talk. I wired you a pretty full account of this brilliant social event the same evening, and need now only fill in the picture with a few more details. For us, the most important feature was the complete way in which the English community was represented there. The subjects of King Edward, both ladies and their lords and masters, brothers, sweethearts and friends, were all there. Certainly the American Legation in this city has never before welcomed such a number of Britishers. The amount of British capital invested in this country represented by those British business men present at the American Legation on the 4th July last week could be counted by many millions of pounds sterling. The attendance of these Britishers, their wives and daughters, on the anniversary of America's Independence Day is wonderfully significant of the great evolution that has been wrought between the two great nations, the leading d the leading republic in th evolutio st is a credit [???????????????????] forgiv [???????????????????????????????????????] [???????????????????????????????????????] The [rece??? ???????????????] immense success, and General O'Brien was heartily congratulated and thanked by all. The numerous saloons and the extensive patios were beautifully decorated. The front patio was especially well adorned, one of the chief decorations being an enormous Japanese or Chinese umbrella open and suspended from the roof. From each rib and from the centre of this Asiatic covering suspended Chinese lanterns, which were, of course, lit up. The effect above the heads of the crowds of gaily dressed men and women was very fine. Flags and flowers formed notable items in the arrangements and in the artistic way in which they were set up it was easy to guess that the directing eye had been that of Mr. H. R. Clarkson. Amongst the various baskets of flowers sent by friends was a most charming one in the suggestive form of the Star-Spangled Banner from Mr. and Mrs. George MacLean. The orchestra, under the firm baton of Prof. de Mitu, played lively music all the time, while the guests promenaded the various handsome saloons, attended the buffet, or went in for conversation and flirtation in the patios. The flashlight photographer was present, and many pretty pictures were taken. * * * I understand that General O'Brien has taken Sr. Taranco's fine house in Calle 25 de Mayo over the Spanish Bank, for Mr. Secretary Root, family and suite, who are expected here early in August, and will remain three days. They are to be feted by the Government and treated [??????????????????????] [????guay] Club and other delegates. Gen. O'Brien is having the house well done up and furnished in sumptuous style for the distinguished guests. [??????????] made [????????????????????] the had been given carte [b?????] in the affair, with orders to supply the finest buffet he had ever served and as though for a thousand guests! But he added, in a slightly alarmed tone, "El senor Ministro put me upon my reputation, and declareed that if I came up to my reputation or surpassed myself my account would be paid without a question; but if I made a failure of it in any way, my bill would suffer a big discount." When I noticed how well he kept the tables supplied with the choicest dainties and how freely the finest dry champagne was opened I assured him he need not be alarmed. His catering could not be beaten. He need expect no request for discount. Outside, carriages were rolling up to the front door of the Legation continually for two solid hours or more. It looked like the entrance to the Grand Opera on the evening of the benefit of a favourite prima donna. [?????????empire [an??????????????????] [???????????ne] world--an [????????] that [???????] to them both ancient errors [?????en,] old feuds forgotten, enmities and jealousies done away with, surely in this respect Great Britain and America are an example to world thanks in a great measure to the personal influences of the sovereigns and their representatives during the last decade especially. While the mutual esteem and affection of these two great nations have been augmented all over the world by the pronounced tendencies and clearly expressed desires of President Roosevelt and King Edward, in Uruguay the "rapprochement" so much to be desired has been largely brought about by the representatives (or rather some of them) of the two countries here--Mr. Walter Baring and Mr. Arthur Peel on the side of the Old World, Consuls Albert W. Swalm and John Hopley and the Plenipotentiary Minister General Edward C. O'Brien, for the New World. Of these General O'Brien, from the moment he reached Montevideo, reachead the hearts of the British residents here. His first public appearance, only a few days after his arrival, was at the banquet given at the Pyramids Hotel to Mr. Baring just before that deeply respected Minister was leaving for Europe to attend the wedding of one of his children last year. Here General O'Brien's genial, kindly, straightforward invitation to all present to call upon him at the Legation on the 4th July (last year), when they would meet with a hearty welcome, established the newly-arrived representative of the United States as a general favourite. This favourable reputation has been growing day by day and every day, with the result as seen at the reception this 4th July, when not an English family of consideration was unrepresented there. At that same reception I overheard a little characteristic conversation between an American and an Englishman. The latter asked, as he noted the way General O'Brien was surrounded by all the most charming ladies in the rooms, who vied with each other in their successful endeavours to attract his attention and awaken his pleasant smile, "What is the difference between a general favourite and a favourite general?" "Guess I'll give it up," replied the New Yorker, "for as regards our General, it's a difference without distinction, I rather imagine!" "Right you are," said the Britisher, "for it is well seen that General O'Brien is both a favourite general and a general favourite." From 3 to 7 p.m. on the 4th July all Montevidean "high life" made the American Legation their rendezvous. The President of the Republic was represented by a special delegate, and all his Ministers with their wives and daughters were there. Deputies, Senators, Judges, commercial men, estancieros, professional men of all branches to the number of some 700 or more. The Jockey Club Confiteria was in charge of the buffet, and the "boss" of that "high life" establishment was there in person, to oversee and order around [hi? ?rmy from ????] to fifteen {wa???????????????????????]Enc. in Sleicher 7-11-06 7-12-0626 LESLIE'S WEEKLY July 12, 1906 THE OLDEST ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY IN THE UNITED STATES Vol. CIII No. 2653 PUBLISHED BY THE JUDGE COMPANY, 225 FOURTH AVE. CABLE ADDRESS, "JUDGARK." TEL. 2214 GRAMERCY. Copyright, 1906, by Judge Company, Publishers. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 1136-7 MARQUETTE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. European Sales-agents: The International News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, E. C., London, England; Saarbach's News Exchange, Mainz, Germany; Brentano's, Paris, France. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ten Cents per Copy. 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Thursday, July 12, 1906 “Four Years More for Theodore.” IT HAS not escaped observation that the Republican national committeeman from President Roosevelt’s own State, New York, the Hon. William L. Ward, of Westchester County, has just declared in favor of the renomination of the President in 1908, whether he wants the office or not." Mr. Ward, who is an ex-member of Congress, says that “the President is endeavoring to accomplish by the peaceable means of the ballot-box and courts what the people might attempt to accomplish in a few years more by a revolution—the overthrow of powerful law-breaking combinations of capital. I believe the people will give him an extension of time." As Mr. Ward is a prosperous, successful manufacturer, and as he is one of the political leaders of the State of New York, his views are entitled to consideration. It is well known that Mr. Ward and the President have enjoyed intimate social and political relations, and that the President has promptly acceded to Mr. Ward’s requests for political favors and patronage, including the postmastership at Yonkers and other places of equal importance. Those who know Mr. Ward appreciate that these trifling matters have little weight with him in the consideration of a question of such vital importance to the parly as its candidate for the presidency two years hence. His sincerity as Roosevelt’s spokesman is beyond question. A significant indication of the great strength of President Roosevelt with voters of all parties is the fact that recently, in a caucus of the Democratic members of the House at Washington, a Virginia Congressman dared to introduce a resolution urging the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for President by the Democracy in 1908. The Virginian’s proposition created a scene, and of course, as a matter of party policy, it was suppressed. But there can be no doubt that the member from the Old Dominion State voiced the sentiment of a large number of people in the South who desire to have Mr. Roosevelt retained in office after his present term. It is another important sign of the times that newspapers all over the country have been coupling the President’s name with the election two years hence. Said the Democratic Troy Press: "Leslie’s Weekly thinks Roosevelt might run again if nominated by both parties. But with Folk and Jerome, Douglas and Pattison to draw from, Democracy at least is reduced to no such strait. It has plenty of sound, strong, young presidential timber of its own." From the central West we have this expression from that stalwart Republican journal, the St Paul Pioneer Press: "Leslie’s Weekly editorially declares that the only condition under which Mr. Roosevelt will accept a nomination for another term, in 1908, is that such nomination shall be tendered by both parties. That is equivalent to saying that if Democrats and Republicans join in nominating him he will reconsider his expressed determination and accept. He could hardly do otherwise. No such honor ever came to any other American. Monroe was unopposed for a second term because there was only one party LESLIE’S WEEKLY Out on the Pacific slope the independent Seattle Times calls Roosevelt the most remarkable American since Washington, speaks of reports of his probable nomination in 1908 by Democrats, Republicans, and Populists, and asks : "Is it not apparent, therefore, that in this new light that has come over the people of the different parties, taken in connection with the new questions that have been brought to the fore by Mr. Roosevelt in national affairs, there is a gradual alignment toward the formation of a new party that, coming together from a majority of the Republican, Democratic, and Populist parties, would make a new party that would be unbreakable, and at the same time conservative, working on lines already established by the natural leader of such a party—Theodore Roosevelt, its first President of the United States?" These expressions from three representative papers of the various localities—one Democratic, the other Republican, and the other independent with Democratic leanings—show the national interest which is taken in the possibility that Mr. Roosevelt may be compelled by his fellow-countrymen of all shades of political opinion to accept the presidency again three years hence, reluctant as he may be to do this. Incidentally it will do no harm to say that with Mr. Roosevelt out of the field the Republicans would make a widely different sort of a campaign in 1908 from that which they made under his lead in 1904. The drift of politics in the recent elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in municipal canvasses in New York and other States, makes this fact plain. Some politics is likely to be just ahead of us which will be not only different from any which the country has seen until this time, but which could not have been dreamed of a year or two ago. The campaign cry in 1908, in spite of the President’s desire to the contrary—so often and so sincerely expressed—is likely to be, "Four years more For Theodore." Senator Lodge and a Streak of Yellow. IT IS A NEW experience for a Senator from the conservative State of Massachusetts to join in the outcry of the yellow journals against the meat-packers and the Standard Oil, as the advance agents of socialism and anarchy. Better things might justly have been expected from Mr. Lodge, but evidently he has been caught in the same "jungle” in which so many others have lost their way as well as their heads. Mr. Lodge criticised Mr. Nelson Morris for showing contempt for writers of books, and declared that the writing of a book had brought about the condemnation of the packing-house industry. We greatly fear that Senator Lodge has never seen the painful confession of the writer of “The Jungle,” made three years ago in the New York Herald in connection with a hoax which he had perpetrated upon the public. The novelist said: "I knew that the hoax would cost me my reputation and the respect of all decent people, but that did not matter, for I have not been favored with the acquaintance of many decent people, and am obliged to hear what the world thinks of me. Besides, I would cheerfully have robbed a hank, or sand-bagged a millionaire, had my task been possible in no other way. My one desire was to raise a sensation, first to sell the book, of course, and. second, to give me a standing ground from which to begin the agitation of My Cause." Decent men everywhere throughout the country unite in condemning yellow journalism ; but has journalism ever produced anything quite as yellow as this? It is amazing that the authorities at Washington have allowed themselves to be swept away by such trash, such fabrications, inventions, and horrible hoaxes as the writer of the yellow novel to which Senator Lodge refers has indulged in. It is not surprising that the yellow novelist has no desire to cultivate the acquaintance of decent men. It is surprising, however, that decent men seem to wish to cultivate his favor. Common Error about Lincoln’s Election. I ESLIE’S WEEKLY, which issued a golden-jubilee edition for the semi-centennial of the Republican party, recently celebrated in Philadelphia, will take this opportunity to correct a common error about one of that party’s early elections. The New York Times, in a long and interesting editorial about Republican history, said: "Had that section (meaning the South) stood by the Northern Democracy, led by Douglas, he would have been elected in 1860, and the conflict in which slavery was wiped out would at least have been deferred." Our able contemporary is mistaken. Probably its mistake came in this way. By combining the total popular poll of Breckinridge (the South's presidential candidate) with that of Douglas (the Northern section’s nominee), it doubtless found that the Democrats in the aggregate had over 350,000 more votes than the Republicans. Then it fell into a trap. It imagined July 12, 1906 Breckinridge, Douglas, and Bell combined, thus leaving Lincoln with a large majority. Leslie’s Weekly makes this correction of a common error, not for the purpose of reviving sectional prejudices, but in the interest of the truth of history. The Plain Truth. IT IS AMUSING to find Kansas supplicating the railroads for help—Kansas, which has struck more blows at the terrible railroad octopus than perhaps any one of her sisters in the Union, and is, perhaps, under greater obligations to the railroads than any other State. Now that the scarcity of farm-laborers threatens the grain crop, the Governor telegraphs an urgent appeal to the railroads for cheap rates to bring in harvesters. In view of the attitude of Kansas Legislatures, which have pretty consistently held up the railroads at every opportunity, it would not be strange if this appeal should go unheeded. While the railroads of the country are not entirely blameless, so far as their treatment of the public is concerned, it should be said in simple justice that in any great crisis, such as the San Francisco disaster, they rise to the occasion, and are usually the first to volunteer the most generous aid. THAT FROTHY wind-bag of superficialities from the Emerald Isle, Congressman Bourke Cockran, says that the State of New York, in its dealings with the insurance frauds, “has confirmed the hold of the thieves on the funds that they have been plundering,” and that “the inefficient heads who were dismissed have been replaced by subtler tools of the prime gang that worked all the infamy.” Mr. Cockran must be equipped with the ”double million magnifyin' glasses” referred to by the late Mr. Weller. To the unaided vision of the normal citizen it is only apparent that the last Legislature remedied by the laws which it enacted all the abuses of the old life-insurance regime; that the great companies are now in better condition than they were before the disclosures; and that their rapid progress on conservative lines is well assured. In the face of the facts, it ill becomes Mr. Cockran, with his own smudgy record, to make such wild and unsupported accusations. THE EAGERNESS with which our great and good friend, Mr. Hearst, and all his innumerable and well-paid counselors and advisers, are springing to the front to aid in the revival of the Bryan boom, is not attracting general attention, possibly because it does not exist in the measure in which the Bryan men think it should. The spectre of Hearst, which has loomed up in such large proportions on the political horizon, has so scared the Democratic leaders in New York State that Tammany Hall is ready to accept even the much and justly-feared Jerome as its candidate for the governorship, while up-State Democrats are marshaling all their candidates, great and small, and telling how each one, and all put together, stands head and shoulders above Hearst All these leaders are also putting up Bryan banners in every corner of their respective camps. The purpose is manifest. It is not pr,posed that Mr. Hearst shall again assert himself as a candidate for the presidency. However much the Gold and Conservative Democrats may object to Bryan, their gall rises still faster when they think of Hearst The first thing to do is to bury Hearst and if they can make Bryan his undertaker the latter’s turn will come next So much for the Bryan boom as it appears in the State of New York up to date. THE SENSELESS panic over the condition of the meat-packing industries in Chicago is subsiding. Stirred up, as it was, by a sensational novelist, eager to sell a cheap book of fiction, it wrought great injury to one of our most prosperous industries, and did incalculable mischief by awakening distrust of all American meat products. A committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, appointed to make an examination of the Chicago packing establishments, has just submitted its report. The high standing of the association, and its independent character, give great weight to its utterances. The committee reports that ninety-three per cent of the business of the Chicago stock yards is in fresh meats, against which little or no complaint has been entered, the principal charges being against the curing and canning departments, involving not more than seven per cent of the entire business of the stock-yards. The committee found much to criticise in the way of sanitary conditions, but states that the packers unanimously agreed to remedy all these evils and to follow the suggestions of the committee in every detail. The abuses complained of could not have been serious, for the committee reports, in summing up, that “ while many details of a trivial nature might be improved upon, the general conditions, involving sanitation, cleanliness, and the production of wholesome food, were far betterCopyright, 1906, by Judge Company, Publishers. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 1126-7 MARQUETTE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 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If LESLIE'S WEEKLY cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers would be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal card, or by letter. Leslie's Weekly has no connection with "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly." Thursday, July 12, 1906 "Four Years More for Theodore." It has not escaped observation that the Republican national committeeman from President Roosevelt's own State, New York, the Hon. William L. Ward, of Westchester County, has just declared in favor of the renomination of the President in 1908, "whether he wants the office or not." Mr. Ward, who is an ex-member of Congress, says that "the President is endeavoring to accomplish by the peaceable means of the ballot-box and courts what the people might attempt to accomplish in a few years more by a revolution--the overthrow of powerful law-breaking combinations of capital. I believe the people will give him an extension of time." As Mr. Ward is a prosperous, successful manufacturer, and as he is one of the political leaders of the State of New York, his views are entitled to consideration. It is well known that Mr. Ward and the President have enjoyed intimate social and political relations, and that the President has promptly acceded to Mr. Ward's requests for political favors and patronage, including the postmastership at Yonkers and other places of equal importance. Those who know Mr. Ward appreciate that these trifling matters have little weight with him in consideration of a question of such vital importance to the party as its candidate for the presidency in two years hence. His sincerity as Roosevelt's spokesman is beyond question. A significant of the great strength of President Roosevelt with voters of all parties is the fact that recently, in a caucus of the Democratic members of the House at Washington, a Virginia Congressman dared to introduce a resolution urging the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for President by the Democracy in 1908. The Virginian's proposition created a scene, and of course, as a matter of party policy, it was suppressed. But there can be no doubt that the member from the Old Dominion State voiced the sentiment of a large number of people in the South who desire to have Mr. Roosevelt retained in office after his present term. It is another important sign of the times that newspapers all over the country have been coupling the President's name with the election two years hence. Said the Democratic Troy Press: "LESLIE'S WEEKLY thinks Roosevelt might run again if nominated by both parties. But with Folk and Jerome, Douglas and Pattison to draw from, Democracy at least is reduced to no such strait. It has plenty of sound, strong, young presidential timber of its own." From the central West we have this expression from that stalwart Republican journal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "LESLIE'S WEEKLY editorially declares that the only condition under which Mr. Roosevelt will accept a nomination for another term, in 1908, is that such nomination shall be tendered by both parties. That is equivalent to saying that if Democrats and Republicans join in nominating him he will reconsider his expressed determination and accept. He could hardly do otherwise. No such honor ever came to any other American. Monroe was unopposed for a second term because there was only one party, the Monroe party. Monroe's popularity was a calm; Roosevelt's is a cyclone." That paper calls attention to the fact that "Bryan, Watterson, Governor Hogg, of Texas, the New York World, and scores of other Democratic leaders and journals have already, either formally or by implication, announced that they would support Roosevelt for another term." It adds that the obliteration of party lines in this instance would be a "glorious spectacle"; but it is "not yet sure that the eighty millions of Americans will be permitted to so exalt virtue above partisanship as to unite in choosing Theodore Roosevelt President for another term." [?] Mr. Roosevelt in national affairs, there is a gradual alignment toward the formation of a new party that, coming together from a majority of the Republican, Democratic, and Populist parties, would make a new party that would be unbreakable, and at the same time conservative, working on lines already established by the natural leader of such a party--Theodore Roosevelt, its first President of the United States?" These expressions from three representative papers of the various localities--one Democratic, the other Republican, and the other independent with Democratic leanings--show the national interest which is taken in the possibility that Mr. Roosevelt may be compelled by his fellow-countrymen of all shades of political opinion to accept the presidency again three years hence, reluctant as he may be to do this. Incidentally it will do no harm to say that with Mr. Roosevelt out of the field the Republicans would make a widely different sort of a campaign in 1908 from that which they made under his lead in 1904. The drift of politics in the recent elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in municipal canvasses in New York and other States, makes this fact plain. Some politics is likely to be just ahead of us which will be not only different from any which the country has seen until this time, but which could not have been dreamed of a year or two ago. The campaign cry in 1908, in spite of the President's desire to the contrary--so often and so sincerely expressed--is likely to be, "Four years more For Theodore." Senator Lodge and a Streak of Yellow. IT IS A NEW experience for a Senator from the conservative State of Massachusetts to join in the outcry of the yellow journals against the meat-packers and the Standard Oil, as the advance agents of socialism and anarchy. Better things might justly have been expected from Mr. Lodge, but evidently he has been caught in the same "jungle" in which so many others have lost their way as well as their heads. Mr. Lodge criticised Mr. Nelson Morris for showing contempt for writers of books, and declared that the writing of a book had brought about the condemnation of the packing-house industry. We greatly fear that Senator Lodge has never seen the painful confession of the writer of "The Jungle," made three years ago in the New York Herald in connection with a hoax which he had perpetrated upon the public. The novelist said: "I knew that the hoax would cost me my reputation and the respect of all decent people, but that did not matter, for I have not been favored with the acquaintance of many decent people, and am obliged to hear what the world thinks of me. Besides, I would cheerfully have robbed a bank, or sand-bagged a millionaire, had my task been possible in no other way. My one desire was to raise a sensation, first to sell the book, of course, and, second, to give me a standing ground from which to begin the agitation of My Cause." Decent men everywhere throughout the country unite in condemning yellow journalism; but has journalism ever produced anything quite as yellow as this? It is amazing that the authorities at Washington have allowed themselves to be swept away by such trash, such fabrications, inventions, and horrible hoaxes as the writer of the yellow novel to which Senator Lodge refers has indulged in. It is not surprising that the yellow novelist has no desire to cultivate the acquaintance of decent men. It is surprising, however, that decent men seem to wish to cultivate his favor. Common Error about Lincoln's Election. LESLIE'S WEEKLY, which issued a golden-jubilee edition for the semi-centennial of the Republican party, recently celebrated in Philadelphia, will take this opportunity to correct a common error about one of that party's early elections. The New York Times, in a long and interesting editorial about Republican history, said: "Had that section (meaning the South) stood by the Northern Democracy, led by Douglas, he would have been elected in 1860, and the conflict in which slavery was wiped out would at least have been deferred." Our able contemporary is mistaken. Probably its mistake came in this way. By combining the total popular poll of Breckinridge (the South's presidential candidate) with that of Douglas (the Northern section's nominee), it doubtless found that the Democrats in the aggregate had over 350,000 more votes than the Republicans. Then it fell into a trap. It imagined that if all these votes had been cast for Douglas they would have been distributed in such a way that he would have had a majority in the electoral college. This is where the Times was astray. A fusion between Breckinridge, Douglas, and Bell (candidate of the Constitutional Unionists) took place in several of the free States, and in that way Douglas got three of New Jersey's seven electoral votes, the other four going to Lincoln. But a coalition in all the free States would not have turned the scale against Lincoln in any State which he carried, except in California and Oregon. By deducting the seven electoral votes of those two States from Lincoln's total of 180, he would have had 173 electoral votes, as compared with 130 for [?] IT IS AMUSING to find Kansas supplicating the railroads for help--Kansas, which has struck more blows at the terrible railroad octopus than perhaps any one of her sisters in the Union, and is, perhaps, under greater obligations to the railroads than any other State. Now that the scarcity of farm-laborers threatens the grain crop, the Governor telegraphs an urgent appeal to the railroads for cheap rates to bring in harvesters. In view of the attitude of Kansas Legislatures, which have pretty consistently held up the railroads at every opportunity, it would not be strange if this appeal should go unheeded. While the railroads of the country are not entirely blameless, so far as their treatment of the public is concerned, it should be said in simple justice that in any great crisis, such as the San Francisco disaster, they rise to the occasion, and are usually the first to volunteer the most generous aid. THAT FROTHY wind-bag of superficialities from the Emerald Isle, Congressman Bourke Cockran, says that the State of New York, in its dealings with the insurance frauds, "has confirmed the hold of the thieves on the funds that they have been plundering," and that "the inefficient heads who were dismissed *** have been replaced by subtler tools of the same gang that worked all the infamy." Mr. Cockran must be equipped with the "double million magnifyin' glasses" referred to by the late Mr. Weller. To the unaided vision of the normal citizen it is only apparent that the last Legislature remedied by the laws which it enacted all the abuses of the old life-insurance regime; that the great companies are now in better condition than they were before the disclosures; and that their rapid progress on conservative lines is well assured. In the face of the facts, it ill becomes Mr. Cockran, with his own smudgy record, to make such wild and unsupported accusations. THE EAGERNESS with which our great and good friend, Mr. Hearst, and all his innumerable and well-paid counselors and advisers, are springing to the front to aid in the revival of the Bryan boom, is not attracting general attention, possibly because it does not exist in the measure in which the Bryan men think it should. The spectre of Hearst, which has loomed up in such large proportions on the political horizon, has so scared the Democratic leaders in New York State that Tammany Hall is ready to accept even the much and justly-feared Jerome as its candidate for the governorship, while up-State Democrats are marshaling all their candidates, great and small, and telling how each one, and all put together, stands head and shoulders above Hearst. All these leaders are also putting up Bryan banners in every corner of their respective camps. The purpose is manifest. It is not proposed that Mr. Hearst shall again assert himself as candidate for the presidency. However much the Gold and Conservative Democrats may object to Bryan, their gall rises still faster when they think of Hearst. The first thing to do is to bury Hearst, and if they can make Bryan his undertaker the latter's turn will come next. So much for the Bryan boom as it appears in the State of New York up to date. THE SENSELESS panic over the condition of the meat-packing industries in Chicago is subsiding. Stirred up, as it was, by a sensational novelist, eager to sell a cheap book of fiction, it wrought great injury to one of our most prosperous industries, and did incalculable mischief by awakening distrust of all American meat products. A committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, appointed to make an examination of the Chicago packing establishments, has just submitted its report. The high standing of the association, and its independent character, give great weight to its utterances. The committee reports that ninety-three per cent. of the business of the Chicago stock-yards is in fresh meats, against which little or no complaint has been entered, the principal charges being against the curing and canning departments, involving not more than seven per cent. of the entire business of the stock-yards. The committee found much to criticise in the way of sanitary conditions, but states that the packers unanimously agreed to remedy all these evils and to follow the suggestions of the committee in every detail. The abuses complained of could not have been serious, for the committee reports, in summing up, that "while many details of a trivial nature might be improved upon, the general conditions, involving sanitation, cleanliness, and the production of wholesome food, were far better than the average hotel kitchen, or even the kitchen of a large percentage of private residences, and largely superior to conditions found in a percentage of the markets of the country." The committee also reports that the statements regarding the packing establishments have been exaggerated, and that great injustice has been done to, and irreparable damage inflicted on one of the greatest industries of the country. It is sincerely hoped that this report from high-minded and independent representatives of the manufacturing industries of the country will put a quietus on the reckless and revolting stories printed by yellow-magazine writers and the yellow press. Some of their stories were simply impossible of belief. NEW YORK'S LATEST MILLIONAIRE TRAGEDY NO. 2653 JULY 12, 1906 PRICE 10 CENTS LESLIE'S WEEKLYLESLIE'S WEEKLY FORMIDABLE NEW WAR-SHIP IDLE AND USELESS. NEARLY FINISHED BATTLE-SHIP "CONNECTICUT," AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, KEPT OUT OF COMMISSION BECAUSE CONGRESS DELAYED APPROPRIATING THE MONEY NEEDED TO COMPLETE HER.—Photographed by A. E. Dunn.Telegram. The White House, Washington. 1W VA GI 81 Paid Govt---3:18p Washington, D. C. July 13. [*06*] The Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay. Many thanks for telegram. Please say to the President that in view of yesterday's renewal of hostilities and the apparent need for haste I have sent messages in his name to both Guatemala and Salvador copying to Mexico duplicates of which I am sending to you by the White House pouch this afternoon. Please also say that I will come to Oyster Bay with pleasure on Monday as directed. Robert Bacon.Telegram. Cipher. The White House, Washington. State Department, Washington, July 13, 1906. Thompson, Mexico July 13, 4 p.m. The President is gratified at the cordial assurance of the cooperation of the President of Mexico toward the maintenance of peace in Central America, and for his own part is desirous to back the President of Mexico in what he may do to that end. Accepting the suggestion in your telegram of the 12th, President Roosevelt has to-day telegraphed to the President of Salvador, and MUTATIS MUTANDIS, to the President of Guatemala as follows: "President Escalon, San Salvador. "I earnestly appeal to Salvador to take immediate steps toward settling questions pending with Guatemala, either by agreement to arbitrate or by direct negotiation, for a definite agreement between the two countries. Disturbance of the peace of Central America inflicts grievous injury upon the affected States and causes the gravest concern to the United States, whose sole desire is to see its neighbors at peace. The recent deplorable renewal of hostilities should not be allowed to be the precursor of a protracted and disastrous struggle, perhaps involving other States, and leading to results of which the scope cannot be foreseen. In the interest of humanity and the indispensable peace of Central America it becomes my duty to urge a settlement before it may be too late. I offer the deck of the American ship of war MARBLEHEAD, now on the way to the coast of Salvador, as a neutral place where representatives of Salvador and Guatemala may meet to consider terms of agreement, an armistice between the contestants being meanwhile effected. I am telegraphing in the same sense to the president of Guatemala. My action has the full concurrence of the President of Mexico......THEODORE ROOSEVELT". Bacon. --JMKO--[*Ackd 7-14-06*] REV. A. R. BUNNING, D.D., Editor REV. H. A. BRIDGMAN, Managing Editor MR. GEORGE P. MORRIS, } Associate Editors REV. I. O. RANKIN, } MISS ANNIE L. BUCKLEY, } MISS IDA E. KITTREDGE, } MISS FLORENCE S. FULLER, } THE CONGREGATIONALIST AND CHRISTIAN WORLD Published every Saturday by The Pilgrim Press at the Congregational House Number 14 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts July 13, 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Mr. President: Our mutual friend James Reynolds called on me last week, and something he said made me write the enclosed editorial, which appears in The Congregationalist this week. With delightful recollections of my little interview with you at the White House in March, and with sincere respect, Yours very truly, H. A. Bridgman[For 1. enclosure see ca. 7-13-06]Cipher Cable. Received and Translated The White House, Washington. July 13, 1906, 5:15 p.m. Guatemala The Secretary of State, Washington Noon, July 13. I have just conferred with President Estrada. He accepts in principle the proposals for peace but doubt good faith of Salvador. Insists agreement to disarm and negotiate must be pledged satisfactorily to the United-States government. I await instructions. Brown. --KQJM--Geo. B. Cortelyou Washington, D. C. [*Ackd tene retd 7/16/06*] July 13, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb: Will you be good enough to show to the President the enclosed letter from Hon. Spencer B. Adams? Please return it to me after the President has noted it. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou [*Cortelyou*] Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Enclosure.[[shorthand]] [*Wired 7/14/06*] [*ackd & enc retd 7/14/06*] OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TREASURER U.S., NEW YORK CITY. Confidential July 13 My dear Mr President, I have the honor to enclose a letter received this morning from Senator Platt — My relations with him for a number of years have been of so cordial a character that I should be inclined to comply with his request to call upon him unless you shouldprefer that I should not do so - May I ask that you will return me the senator's letter & also telegraph me what you prefer that I should do in the premises. I have the honor to be Very respectfully yrs Hamilton Fish[*Ackd 7-18-06*] WILLIAM H. FLEMING, LAWYER, 215-216 LEONARD BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. July 13, 1906 To the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My Dear Sir:- Your letter dated July 9th. has just been read by me on my return to office from an absence in Richmond, Va. in attendance on a law suit. I beg to say that I knew in advance that you would be interested in the subject which I had discussed, and I believed you would endorse in large part the views which I had expressed, and I had already sent you two copies of my address, one to the White House in Washington, and one to your address at Oyster Bay. I now take great pleasure in sending you a copy in this envelope, and I shall mark the same personal. As one who is so deeply interested in the welfare of all of our people without regard to section or race, you will be greatly pleased when I inform you that every day since the delivery of that address at Athens, I have been in receipt of letters from prominent men in the South and also in the North, endorsing the views which I announced in my address. The great encouragement to me in the matter is the wide spread response which I have received to this speech. I beg to assure you that your interest in my address is fully appreciated by me as a personal compliment. I had two thousand copies of it printed myself and have distributed it chiefly in this state. The bulletin of the University of Georgia will be printed in a fewWILLIAM H. FLEMING, LAWYER, 215-216 LEONARD BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. days, and that will also contain the address, and will go to all the leading colleges of the country. Mr. George Foster Peabody has also stated that he desired to publish some fifty thousand copies, and to distribute them at his own expense. The same suggestion has also been made by Mr. Dana Estes of Boston, but none of these communications have been more highly appreciated by me personally than the one I received from you. Most respectfully, Wm. H. Fleming President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.Telegram. The White House, Washington. Cipher. Puerto Cortez, Honduras, (Received July 13, 1906, 8:11 p.m.) Department of State, Washington. Owing to the revolution cannot too strongly recommend for the protection of all concerned. Send as soon as possible vessel. Consul Johnson. --JM--[*Ackd 7-16-06*] HARRY B. KIRTLAND ATTORNEY AT LAW 704-707 NATIONAL UNION BUILDING HOME TELEPHONE 2086 Toledo, Ohio. July 13, 1906. Personal in reply to personal letter of July 7th. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.. My dear Mr. President:- I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the seventh instant, which was delivered here in my absence at Put-in-Bay. It is true that I may not realize fully the difficulty of placing in office men not wanted by the Senators. I have never been close enough to a contest between the Executive and the Senate to observe accurately to what extent, in actual practice as distinguished from theory, the Senate is able to thwart the wishes of the President. In regard to Mannington's backers, I have just learned that I have been, apparently, under misapprehension. No reliance can be placed on the informant who told me that Mannington was backed by an organized and interested clique in the country counties. What the fact is, I cannot, at this writing, ascertain. James R. Garfield I do not know. I have never seen him. When he first came into more than local prominence, I was East in school, and he had left Ohio for Washington before my return. His reputation, of course, I know, and no words of mine can add to the clean, fair record he has made for himself. He, if anyone, could uncover the facts as to the railroad interest in these ice cases. I have learned, since writing "Exhibit B" enclosed in my letter of the third instant, thatT. R. 2. Norvelle, a member of the Cleveland ice combine, is interested also in the Sandusky concerns, and is a large stockholder in at least one of the Toledo companies. I have also learned that the largest Toledo company is controlled almost absolutely by officers and ex-officers of the Ann Arbor Railroad. One Beach, of Hamburg, Michigan, a man said to be discriminated against by the railroads for testifying against the local ice men before the grand jury, apparently knows the entire railroad and ice situation. He is inspired by motives of revenge, but the things he tells and has told can doubtless, if true, be corroborated. It is certain that defendant Watters, of the local combine, was absolutely at the mercy of the Pere Marquette Railroad, in conducting his business, and he has complained bitterly of having been "sold out" in his consent to plead guilty, though by whom he does not say. I have every reason to believe that an investigation will reveal facts of interest to the Department of Commerce and Labor. I have given you all the information that in a private capacity I can obtain. The Department, taking up the subject from this point, may be able to discover an unlawful connection of railways and ice dealers throughout northern Ohio which is commonly believed to exist. In regard to upholding Judge Kinkade's hands, I am willing, as you suggest, to talk with him. I doubt, however, if he will consent to receiving your support until the Circuit Court, next Thursday, in connection with the contempt proceedings against the railroad attorneys, passes upon the false charges brought by them against the judge inT. R. 3. regard to an alleged promise to be lenient with the ice-men. He would not want to embarrass you by having the attorneys sustained after you had come out in his behalf. Yet this is the very time when he most needs support. The unseen pressure that will be brought to bear upon the Circuit Judges is enormous, as the contempt proceedings, if Kinkade be sustained, crush personally the general counsel of three great railroad companies, and render it certain that the other judges will be safe in following Kinkade's example in imposing imprisonment sentences. Personally, I do not see how the Circuit Court, assuming that no perjury is committed before it, can do other than sustain Kinkade, but every disinterested man in the community, knowing the influences against Kinkade, awaits the hearing in great suspense. Perhaps an announcement, on the sixteenth or seventeenth instant, that you intend making a federal investigation of the ice and railroad question, would, without embarrassing you by an open indorsement at this time of the judge involved, open the eyes of the public in general and the Circuit Judges in particular, to the fact that even a county judge, if honest and fearless in his office, will not be suffered to stand unbefriended against powerful law-breakers. Judge Kinkade does not even suspect the possibility of such support, but is standing bravely by his guns. I will await your reply before taking the matter up with him. Yours respectfully, Harry B. Kirtland,[fan 1 attachment see White House Memo 7-16-06] enclosure see ca 7-16-06] [*[ca7-13-06]*] EXHIBIT A. OBSERVATION, FOR THE PRESIDENT, ON COMING FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS IN OHIO. [*Confidential*] SYNOPSIS. The only federal appointment upon which, so far as I know, you are about to take action in Ohio, is the Internal Revenue Collectorship, at Toledo, now held by the Hon. George P. Waldorf. The case presents features typical of all federal appointments in Ohio and is here dwelt upon as such. Federal appointments in Ohio are the subject of especial concern to persons having private interests to serve. In general, no complaint can be made of the personal character of appointees or their ability to fulfill the strictly technical duties of their several offices, but every man urged upon you for appointment is supported only secondarily for his fitness for his public duties, and primarily for his ability to serve the private business and political interests of his backers, whether these interests conflict with his public duties or not. Every candidate, and consequently every appointee, is expected to throw his whole influence, and whatever time is necessary, to the support of the private interests behind him, in disregard of his public duties and to the perpetuation of the undue influence and unlawful power of vast corporate interests and their creatures who control our public organizations. Such is the case with the three men now striving to succeed Mr. Waldorf as Internal Revenue Collector. Mr. Waldorf has filled this place capably, but he has devoted his great influence to strengthening the hold of a greedy and corrupt machine on the Republican party and the people of Northwestern Ohio, and the three men now candidates to succeed him are backed by as many factions, each trying to gain thereby for private interests the political influence now exerted by him. Not one of these men, though their fitness for the public dutiesEx. A. 2. of the place is admitted, should be appointed. This, and every other Ohio office, should be the subject of, and the public interest demands, the appointment of strong, intelligent, vigorous and fearless men who will not only fulfill their public duties properly, but will throw their influence, regardless of private interests, in support of clean work and honest administration of affairs by the Republican party. THE TOLEDO INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTORSHIP-- A TYPICAL CASE. The Situation. This office carries with it great influence in the party in northern Ohio. It is now held by the Honorable George P. Waldorf, whose third term has expired, and who is a candidate to succeed himself. Three other men, Gen. W. V. McMaken, supported by Senator Dick, another candidate whose name I do not recall, supported by Senator Foraker, and Mannington, supported by Cole and others down through the country counties of north-west Ohio, are also candidates for the place. The Candidates. No reflection, so far as I know, can be made on the moral character of any of these candidates, or their fitness for the duties of the office. But this fitness, common to all, is immaterial here. The duties of the office require little time, and we are concerned only with what the incumbent will do outside of his public duties. Of Mr. Waldorf it is scarcely necessary to speak. He has been a power in the county and state machine, and his record is known. The party in Lucas County has been controlled by five men, known as the "Cabinet," whose power has been misused throughout, and whose efforts to throw the influence of the party to the support of the local traction company, Ex. A. 3. the brewery combine, and other powerful corporate interests, including every public service corporation here, have demoralized the party, provoked deep-seated and just public resentment, and turned the city government into the hands of a so-called "Independent" party. Of this "cabinet", composed of a corporation lawyer, an ex-pawn-broker, an ex-plumber, and two professional office-holders, Mr. Waldorf has been and is still a leading member, and has done much to disorganize and ruin the party. This fact alone calls for his retirement. Mr. McMaken is a clean, upright man. But he is closely allied with the "cabinet" ring, and owes much to Senator Dick, who I understand, is his backer for the place. Mr. McMaken's environment and record make it certain that his whole influence will be thrown in support of whatever Senator Dick desires at any time. The man pushed by Senator Foraker will be amenable in like manner to the wishes of that gentleman, and it is certain that those wishes will not be conducive to the welfare of the people of Ohio, when private interests conflict therewith. Of Mr. Mannington, I am not so well qualified to speak. But it is certain that the men supporting him have their own interests to serve, just as have the backers of the other candidates. In short, powerful interests, deeply concerned in the administration of public affairs, hostile to every effort to remove suppliant office-holders and professional ringsters, who cling like barnacles to clean administration of public affairs, resentful of every effort to control the railways and other public service corporations of our State, enemies of your own effort to make the party again the champion of the public welfare, are behind all these candidates, as they are behind all the men urged upon you for appointment to Federal office in Ohio. Details it is hard to give. You understand far better than I the difficulty of giving tangible form to the influencesEx. A. 4. that oppose your efforts to clean house. But you may be very sure that no man is recommended to you by present Republican leaders for appointment but is certain to follow abjectly their desires and to raise no obstacle to the private aims of the corporate influences that control the leaders. If you would clean house, Mr. President, if you would have the party clean and honest, incorruptible and pure, go outside of all these candidates and select not only for this place, but for all Ohio offices, men who you personally know will reflect in their conduct your own personal rules of life and your own high ideals in public administration and citizenship. I know the difficulties that confront you. I realize fully, as you told me at Washington four years ago, that this cleaning house is "an up-hill fight", and I have had bitter personal experience with the willingness of men high in power in Washington, posing as your friends, to keep from you, at the behest of strong local influences, the facts which your friends have tried to bring to your personal attention, and on which, could you have seen the facts as they existed at the time, you would have acted. This experience, four years ago, was the most discouraging of all, as it presented an obstacle at the time insuperable, and revealed clearly the power and the willingness of men hostile to the public, and to you, to attain their ends even by striving to keep from you a full view of the matter in hand. I faced, on beginning my life out of college, and as a result of my first attempt to combat the efforts of a party organization to accomplish purposes which you would never have sanctioned, weeks of inspired newspaper abuse contained in articles based on garbled letters written to you. That experience was valuable. It taught me to work in the ranks of the organization, without opposing it, in the hope that sooner or later the organization itself would lift me to a place where I could combat effectively the devotion of party meansEx. A. 5. to private ends. That hope seems vain. The leaders are not fools, and they will not elevate men whom they know to be dangerous to them. Powerless to accomplish anything against them, I have devoted myself to the building up of my law practice, now fairly remunerative, and I should regret entering again the turmoil of politics. But if you need me, if you can make any efforts effective, and give me a chance to apply in your house-cleaning work the principles hammered into us at Cambridge, or if, in any capacity, in or out of office, either as as active participant in the fight, or merely as an observer and reporter of conditions, in Ohio, you can use me, you have but to call, and I will come. And there are dozens of clean, young, strong, fearless men in Ohio, who are in the same situation, and ask but opportunity to do their best. Kinkade is one of them. Respectfully submitted, Harry B. Kirtland.Exhibit A Observations, for the President, on coming federal appointments in Ohio Confidential. Harry B. Kirtland Attorney & Counsellor at Law Toledo, Ohio [*Enc in Kirtland 7-13-06*][*Ackd 7-16-06*] [*Personal*] FIFTY-[EIGHTH] 9th CONGRESS. John F. Lacey, Iowa, Chairman F. W. Mondall, Wyo. J. M. Miller, Kans. J. C. Needham, Cal. E. W. Martin, S. Dak. J. W. Fordney, Mich. A. J. Volstead, Minn. J. M. Dixon, Mont. Philip Knopf, Ill. Geo. Shiras 3d, Pa. J. J. McCarthy, Nebr. F. M. Griffith, Ind. J. L. Burnett, Ala. G. F. Foster, Ill. W.W. Rucker, Mo. Ezekiel S. Candler, Miss. John Lind, Minn. R. S. Roday, N. Mex. Wm. M. Reese, Iowa, Clerk Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives U. S., Washington, D. C., Oskaloosa, Iowa, July 13, 1906. Hon. Wm Loeb, Jr., My dear Mr. Loeb: In my last interview with the President I explained to him the dangerous situation in the Iowa campaign growing out of the unexampled bitterness of the factional strife for the nomination for Governor. My district, the 9th, has long been a battle ground and though I have been nominated ten times successively by acclamation I have had a hard fight for election, excepting only in the campaign of 1904. It now looks as if the bitterness of the factional contest might be followed by much scratching of the ticket. The President was good enough to suggest to me that he would like to write a letter for publication addressed to me giving his views as to my service in the House and of the lines of work followed by me and in which he has always manifested a deep interest. He told me to call to his attention to it directly or through you. The people believe in the President and the effort will probably be made to make them think that those who may fight the Iowa Congressional delegation are especially the supporters of the President. I sincerely hope that we may be able to elect a Republican House to sustain the President in the last half of his full term.FIFTY-[EIGHTH] 9th CONGRESS. John F. Lacey, Iowa, Chairman F. W. Mondall, Wyo. J. M. Miller, Kans. J. C. Needham, Cal. E. W. Martin, S. Dak. J. W. Fordney, Mich. A. J. Volstead, Minn. J. M. Dixon, Mont. Philip Knopf, Ill. Geo. Shiras 3d, Pa. J. J. McCarthy, Nebr. F. M. Griffith, Ind. J. L. Burnett, Ala. G. F. Foster, Ill. W.W. Rucker, Mo. Ezekiel S. Candler, Miss. John Lind, Minn. R. S. Roday, N. Mex. Wm. M. Reese, Iowa, Clerk Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives U. S., Washington, D. C., -2- I shall leave no stone unturned in the effort to keep this district in line. Yours truly, John F. LaceyTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 CO P JM Govt. Panama 91 SecState, Washington Private wire received here states Minister Combs thinking peace assured sailed for States yesterday but Merry's special mission peace mediator has failed Salvador troops invaded Guatemala 9th under General Regalada war minister. Fighting commenced at Coatepeque President Cabrira has declared state of war exists with Salvador declared martial law calling all citizens between eighteen and fifty years join ranks When writing this news received that Regalado killed in skirmish at Coatepeque body being brought into Guatemala capital Shall I continue to forward such information as is received here. Magoon. Rec'd, July 13, 1906, 8:09 p.m.[*Ackd 7/14/06*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 1 MD HS GI 852 Paid--10:01a MD--Philadelphia, Pa., July 13. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. The Midvale Steel Company has been credibly informed this morning that the matter of the award of armor plate for the two new battleships has been submitted by the Honorable Secretary of the Navy to your decision. If you will permit us we would beg to call your attention to some points which in our opinion merit your consideration. This company put in its first bid on armor plate in 1900 for thirty thousand tons and was defeated in securing the contract by the united efforts of the Carnegie Steel Company and the Bethlehem Company, the two corporations which form part of the international armor plate trust and which have always and are today acting in unison to prevent independent competition in the armor plate business in this country. Again in 1903 this Company put in a bid for sixteen thousand tons of armor plate and under your instructions the Honorable W. H. Moody, now Attorney General of the United States, but who at that time was your secretary of the navy awarded us a contract for some six thousand tons, all of which has been either manufactured or is in process of manufacture, and the greater part of which has been accepted by the Navy Department. Again in 1905 this company bid on eight thousand tons of armor plate, and although it was the lowest bidder, Hon. Paul Morton at that time secretary of the navy for reasons best known to himself rejected this Company's bid. When the matter was submitted to you, you reversed the decision of Mr. Morton and the Navy Department awarded to Midvale a portion of that contract. On Tuesday 11thTelegram. White House, Washington. -2- instant, this Company submitted the bid on 7400 tons of armor plate and upon the opening of the bids it was found that this Company's bid was very much lower than that of its competitors, and now come these compititors, the Bethlehem Steel Company, and the United States Steel Corporation, members of the international armor plate trust and endeavor to persuade the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance to give them part of this contract under the plea that if they do not get the contract their works will have to shut down. We therefore respectfully bring to your attention three facts. First--that the Midvale Steel Company has bid honestly and fairly upon 67000 tons of armor plate, and in every case its bid was lower that that of its competitors. Out of this tonnage only seven thousand tons have been heretofore awarded to it and 60,000 tons have been given to the members of the armor plate trust at a much higher figure than that submitted by Midvale. The action of Midvale in bidding has caused an enormous saving to the country. The amount of armor plate awarded to the Trust in 1900 was given it at $530 per ton. We respectfully submit that they should not be permitted to come in and revise their bids. If the Navy Department permit them to do so, it will establish a dangerous precedent for further transactions and will impair the confidence of competitors in the justice and honesty of the Navy Department. Secondly--the Midvale Steel Company is absolutely independent and is not tied down to any trust, combination or conspiracy and the other two companies in spite of the fact that there is a slight difference in the figures at which they submitted their bids are acting in harmony and are both members of the internationalTELEGRAM. White House, Washington. -3- armor plate trust. Thirdly--This company has made all its deliveries on time. It has invested a large sum of money in its plant and is able to make the deliveries of armor even more rapidly than the requirements of the shipbuilders may call upon it to make. The first lot of armor for the new ships will not be needed by the shipbuilders for almost a year and this Company is in position to begin delivery of this armor before the end of the present year, in fact if necessary within five months from date. The Company has a honorable record for never having failed in any contract with anybody, whether it be the Government or a private individual. The Company is under heavy bonds to fulfill its obligations, and furthermore, whereas the two competing companies have received such large amount of patronage from the Government, over one hundred thousand tons of armor plate, at high prices, which has enabled them to pay for their plant many times over, this company has only received seven thousand tons of armor upon which the profit cannot be possibly sufficient to pay for any but a very small portion of the millions of dollars of outlay that the plant has cost. We respectfully submit the above for your consideration. The Midvale Steel Company, By Charles J. Harrah, President.No. 225 American Embassy London, July 13, 1906 Sir, I have the honor to report the receipt of a letter from the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom, enclosing me a copy of a letter and resolution which they had sent in full to the President and the substance of which they had previously cabled him. They intimated to me a hope that they might receive from the President through me something on the subject which would be of a reassuring character for the trade and might promote the interests of packers of American canned meats. As the President was known to be at Oyster Bay and the time was short, I finally concluded, after some hesitation, to send a careful despatch direct to him on the subject without making any immediate response to the Grocers' Associations or committing the President in any way. On receipt of his cabled reply, however, I hastened to forward it to the meeting of these Associations at Sheffield. It was immediately read in their convention, a resolution concerning it was passed, it was published broadcast, The Hon. Elihu Root, etc., etc., etc. 2 broadcast, and at the request of the Associations I have consented to let them make a photo-lithographic copy of the original despatch for wide distribution. It is already evident that the impression produced has been most favorable, and it is hoped that it may have some effect in reviving the trade which has been so materially checked. I beg to enclose herewith copies of the letter from the Grocers' Associations, my despatch to the President*, his reply, and my letter to the Secretary of the Grocers' Federation transmitting it, together with the response from the Grocers' Associations. I have the honor to be, Sir Your obedient servant, Whitelaw Reid. Enclosures: Mr. A. J. Giles to Mr. Reid, July 3, 1906 Mr. A. J. Giles to the President, July 3, 1906 Programme of the Conference of the Grocers' Associations. Cable, the President to Mr. Reid, July 7, 1906 Mr. Giles to Mr. Reid, July 10, 1906 Mr. Reid to Mr. Giles, July 9, 1906 (*Not enclosed)[Enc. in Bacon 7-31-06][ca. 7-13-06]moving toward a modified system of independency. The President's Aim and the Future of the Country Said one who stands in confidential relations to President Roosevelt last week, "The President's public policies are based on a very simple, economic principle, namely, equal justice to high and low, rich and poor and obedience to law on the part of both individuals and corporations." This succinct characterization of the President's central purpose would be confirmed by all who have been privileged to come into close contact with him, to whom he has spoken freely with regard to his desires and intentions. This principle is the underlying refrain of all his public addresses and has perhaps at no time been more clearly stated or cogently argued than in his speech to his own townsmen at Oyster Bay last week. The country ought by this time to understand precisely what the President is eager to see accomplished. He does not aim at impossibilities, indeed, as the gentleman just quoted intimated, there is nothing extremely novel, radical or portentous in the idea of meting out justice to all citizens impartially. Doubtless Mr. Roosevelt is at heart more sympathetic with workers in the field of social reform than any of his predecessors in the White House. He knows [intimately] [???]most prominent men and [???] with social settlements of their own national life purified, defiant corporations curbed, defiant [???] taught the better way, [???] institutions managed for the benefit of these who intrust their savings to them, laws made that will, if properly administered, secure to every man his rights and external conditions that will make like as happy as the State can make it for the masses of the people.ARMOR TRUST DEFEATS RIVALS LOWEST INDEPENDENT BIDDERS GET ONLY HALF. BONAPARTE’S EXPLANATION Secretary Bonaparte Announces That It Is Not Good Policy to Depend on One Steel Plant, and, on the Carnegie and Bethlehem Companies Dropping Bids to That of the Midvale Company, the Work Is Apportioned Among the Three Plants--Alloting the Work to One Plant Would Close Down the Others. Bureau of The Baltimore American, 1410 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, July 11. Secretary Bonaparte, before leaving for his vacation at Lennox, today decided the award of the armor plate contract for the battleships South Carolina and Michigan. After listening to the arguments presented by the two companies bidding for the contract, and after consulting with Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the Ordnance Bureau, the Secretary divided the contract and gave one-half to the Midvale Company, and the other half he divided between the so-called trust companies, namely, the Carnegie and the Bethlehem Companies, each of the two getting one-fourth of the contract. It Is understood that the department will let the Midvale Company make the armor plate for one battleship, and the plate for the other will be produced by the other two companies. Secretary Bonaparte made the following statement concerning the award: ‘The act under which the award Is made contains the following provision: " 'Armor and Armament—Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, $15,145,000, provlded that no part of this appropriatlon shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.’ Lowest Bid on Record. "This provision makes it Illegal for the government to use the appropriation in manufacturing armor itself, and likewise forbids the purchase of armor abroad. American armor plants must, therefore, furnish all the armor to be paid for out of the appropriation In questlon. Of these plants there are but three, known as those of the Carnegie Steel Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Midvale Steel Company, respectively. All three of these companies submitted bids for the armor needed in the case of the above-mentioned two battleships. The bid of the Carnegie Company amounted, in the aggregate, to $2,732,560; that of the Bethlehem Company to $2,813,568, and that of the Midvale Company to $2,555,470. The aggregate quantity of armor to be delivered is 7,388 tons, divided among four classes. "The bid of the Midvale Company la the lowest, not only in the aggregate, but for each one of the four classes. All of the bids, however, are lower than any price heretofore paid by the government for the like armor and lower, so far as the department is informed, than is paid by any foreign government. “The department is advised that both the Carnegie and the Bethlehem Companies will be completely out of work for their respective armor plants within a short time unless they obtain some portion of this contract and that the plants In question will be unavoidably shut down, and the force therein employed discharged and scattered in the contingency mentioned. This statement seems to be admitted as true by all parties interested. The contractual relatlons of the government with the Midvale Company have been hitherto satisfactory, but some doubt has been entertained as to Its ability to comply with Its existing contracts, and it is, in fact, slightly behind the time originally fixed in its deliveries, although the evidence before the department does not Justify the statement that It cannot comply with the terms of a contract to manufacture and take action which might be construed aa amounting to a finding on its part that the Midvale Company is not a 'responsible' bidder; but It thinks the qualificatlon as to responsibility must be read In connection with the further language of the provision ‘having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.’ It holds the Midvale Company to be the lowest responsible bidder, having in view the above-mentioned ends prescribed by Congress, to the extent of one-half of the present contract, and it awards one-fourth thereof to each of the two competing companies, their bids having been reduced to the figures of the Midvale Company, as next entitled and equally entitled relatively to each other under the terms of the law, with a view to the best results and the most expeditious delivery. ‘It is therefore ordered that the contracts be awarded as nearly as possible in accordance with the terms of this memorandum. “CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, "Secretary." Declines to Discuss Award. [Special to The American.l Philadelphia, July 13.—President Sullivan, of the Midvale Company, refused to make any comment on the action taken by Secretary Bonaparte in dividing the armor-plate contract. When asked if a protest would be made in the premises, he replied: "Our relations with the government are of a confidential nature, and I cannot say anything at this time.” "Bella Vista" Navy Department Washington July 14th, 1906 12 M. [*F*] Dear Mr. President, I start from here in about two hours to take the Dolphin on my somewhat circuitous way to Lenox. I told Paymaster General Harris yesterday that we should not disturb him before Oct'r. 1st: I am taking the papers as to the various candidates with me, but I do not think it will be practicable for me to make a recommendation before August 15th, and it seems wise to me to allow ample time for you to consider the question in all its aspects. If we do not replace Harris in October, I think it will be decidedly wise to let him hold over until March, as one consideration in favor of keeping the place, or rather the succession, open is that itments printed by the two companies bidding for the contract, and after consulting with Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the Ordnance Bureau, the Secretary divided the contract and gave one-half to the Mldvale Company, and the other half he divided between the so-called truUnited States companies, namely, the Carnegie and the Bethlehem Companies, each of the two getting one-fourth of the contract. It is understood that the department will let the Midvale Company make the armor plate for one battleship, and the plate for the other will be produced by the other two companies. Secretary Bonaparte made the following statement concerning the award: "The act under which the award is made contains the following provision: " 'Armor and Armament—Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, $I5,145,000, provided that no part of this approprlatlon shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.’ Lowest Bid on Record. "This provision makes it illegal for the government to use the appropriation in manufacturing armor Itself, and likewise forbids the purchase of armor abroad. American armor plants must, therefore, furnish all the armor to be paid for out of the appropriation in question. Of these plants there are but three, known as those of the Carnegie Steel Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Midvale Steel Company, respectively. All three of these companies submltted bids for the armor needed in the case of the above-mentioned two battleships. The bid of the Carnegie Companv amounted, In the aggregate, to $2,782,560; that of the Bethlehem Company to $2,813,568, and that of the Midvale Company to $2,555,470. The aggregate quantity of armor to be delivered is 7,388 tons, divided among four classes. "The bid of the Midvale Company la the lowest, not only in the aggregate, but for each one of the four classes. All of the bids, however, are lower than any price heretofore paid by the government for the like armor and lower, so far as the department is informed, than is paid by any foreign government. “The department is advised that both the Carnegie and the Bethlehem Companies will be completely out of work for their respective armor plants within a short time unless they obtain some portion of this contract and that the plants In question will be unavoidably shut down, and the force therein employed discharged and scattered in the contingency mentioned. This statement seems to be admitted as true by all parties interested. The contractual relatlons of the government with the Midvale Company have been hitherto satisfactory, but some doubt has been entertained as to Its ability to comply with Its existing contracts, and it is, in fact, slightly behind the time originally fixed in its deliveries, although the evidence before the department does not Justify the statement that It cannot comply with the terms of a contract to manufacture and deliver the whole of the armor in question, and it avers and offers to guarantee its ability so to do. "The Secretary of the Navy Is convinced that the best results would be attained in this case and the most expeditious delivery of the armor in questlon would be secured if the contract were divided between the three bidders. It seems to him clear that it would be against public policy and the best interests of the naval service, and more especially would seriously affect the assurance of good results and expeditious delivery of materials under this particular contract if the government were to find itself obliged to trust to a single armor plant to supply Its needs, all American competitors having retired, at least temporarily, from the business, and the purchase of armor abroad or its manufacture by the government Itself being at present forbidden by law. Would Close Plants. "The Carnegie and Bethlehem Companies are willing, and have offered, to reduce their blds to that of the Midvale Company and to take at the prlces there fixed by their competitor any portion of the contract which may be assigned to them, and It seems clear to the Secretary of the Navy that, in the exercise of the discretion reposed In him by the act, it will be advisable to divide tbe said contract, assigning one-half thereof to the Midvale Company, at its prices, and one fourth thereof, at the same prices, to each of the two other companies; it being his judgment and belief that to attain with certainty the best results and most expeditious delivery, the Midvale Company should be properly assigned one-half of the contract, but no more; and, If practicable, at the same prices, the other half should be assigned to Its two competitors. “The department has felt In this case very serious concern by reason of the language of the provision requiring all contracts to be awarded 'to the lowest responsible bidder.’ If these words stood alone the department would hesitate to “The department has felt In this case very serious concern by reason of the language of the provision requiring all contracts to be awarded *to the lowest responsible bidder.’ If these words stood alone the department would hesitate to "Bella Vista" Navy Department Washington July 14th, 1906 12 M. [*F*] Dear Mr. President, I start from here in about two hours to take the Dolphin on my somewhat circuitous way to Lenox. I told Paymaster General Harris yesterday that we should not disturb him before Oct'r. 1st: I am taking the papers as to the various candidates with me, but I do not think it will be practicable for me to make a recommendation before August 15th, and it seems wise to me to allow ample time for you to consider the question in all its aspects. If we do not replace Harris in October, I think it will be decidedly wise to let him hold over until March, as one consideration in favor of keeping the place, or rather the succession, open is that it"Bella Vista" Navy Department Washington July 14th, 1906 12 M. [*F*] Dear Mr. President, I start from here in about two hours to take the Dolphin on my somewhat circuitous way to Lenox. I told Paymaster General Harris yesterday that we should not disturb him before Oct'r. 1st: I am taking the papers as to the various candidates with me, but I do not think it will be practicable for me to make a recommendation before August 15th, and it seems wise to me to allow ample time for you to consider the question in all its aspects. If we do not replace Harris in October, I think it will be decidedly wise to let him hold over until March, as one consideration in favor of keeping the place, or rather the succession, open is that itmay have some little salutary effect upon Senator Hale to do so. My own opinion is that we should not hesitate to select an Inspector if we can find one whom you think clearly the right man. It is by no means easy to find such a person in either rank, and the personal equation seems to me very much the most material feature in the problem. If I could say I felt enthusiastic over any one of the candidates, or even of the eligibles, I would advise the change on Oct'r. 1st, for I am not enthusiastic over Harris; but, as yet, I have not found much cause for enthusiasm: the traditions of the corps are, on the whole poor, and it contains some worse than indifferent material, - indeed a good deal of such material. However it is fair to say my investigation has been, as yet, only superficial. You may have seen from the papers that I decided to divide the armor contract, giving 50% to the lowest bidder (the Midvale) and 25% to each of the others at the same price. Knowing that some newspaper clamor would be raised by this, as a concession to the "Trust," I prepared with some care a memorandum of my reasons for the decision: of this I annex a newspaper copy. I thought it would be wiser in this instance not to submit the matter to you in advance, since there can be no room for doubt (to my mind at least) as to what course the interest of the Government prescribed. I do not think the Midvale will make any protest; indeed its President, in an interview with me, intimated very clearly that it would not object to a division, although it could not afford to say it wouldn't: the entire contract would be rather a biggermorsel than it could comfortably masticate. I have sent the letter for old Pappa to be forwarded by navigation. I think I have already given you my address for probably the next two weeks as Hotel Aspinwall, Lenox. Pray believe I'm as ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte The President, Oyster Bay, L.I. N.Y.The Great Ohio Dailies The Toledo News-Bee The Toledo Times (Only Morning Newspaper) The Toledo Times-Bee: (Sunday) The Cleveland Press The Cincinnati Post The Columbus Citizen The Akron Press with St. Louis Star Chronicle and The Kentucky Post comprising Scripps-McRae League The Toledo News-Bee Office of Negley D. Cochran Editor Toledo, Ohio July 14, 1906 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Harry B. Kirtland, attorney-at-law, called on me, said he had made certain reports to you concerning the prosecution of the local ice trust and asked for information. He asked me to regard as confidential anything he said to me, I gave him some information, and very likely can give him more as the case progresses, as I helped start this investigation and have conducted the newspaper end of the fight through the News-Bee and Times. I would like to know if he is what he represents himself to be. There is no apparent reason for doubting his word, but the forces arrayed against Prosecutor Wachenheimer and Judge Kinkade are powerful, resourceful and unscrupulous. I want to back them (Wachenheimer & Kinkade) to a finish, but must necessarily be somewhat cautious when it comes to giving out information which has not yet been made public. If Mr. Kirtland is acting in any capacity for you I will gladly give him any information I have. Yours truly, N. D. Cochran Ed. News-Bee and Times [*Ackd Encl retd 7-16-06*] L. A. COOLIDGE HOME LIFE BUILDING Personal. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 14, 1906 Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. My dear Loeb:- I am enclosing you a confidential letter which I have just received from Frank Lowden. It strikes me as a very good letter and I think the President ought to see it, although I suppose he would not think it wise to interfere in behalf of any local candidate for Congress. The quotation to which Mr. Lowden refers is, I suppose, a pure fake. It certainly does not sound like the President. I am reasonably familiar with the President's utterances and I can recall nothing even remotely resemblant. It is possible it may be a twisted quotation from a real sentence. If so, I wish you would let me know. Lowden is a splendid fellow and ought to come to Congress, and I should hate to see him done out of it by cheap business of this kind. Sincerely yours, L. A. CoolidgeTELEGRAM. [*Wired State 7/14/06*] The White House, Washington. Salvador, July 14, 1906------2:45p President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's message inviting Salvador to settle her difficulties with Guatemala. Taking into consideration the grave disturbanes of the peace of Central America and the interests of humanity, I accept with pleasure Your Excellency's proposition of direct negotiations as the most expeditious means of accomplishing the desired end. Salvador has ever been ready to conclude an honorable and durable peace with Guatemala and accept the offer of the "Marblehead" for the conclusion of the treaty by our commissioners and those of Guatemala. Better success would attend the negotiations if the ministers of the United States to Guatemala and Salvador and the Mexican minister to Central America would take part in the conference in neutral waters and if the President of Mexico lends it his cooperation I further accept the suspension of hostilities and as a measure of greater effectiveness the concentration and disbandment of troops during the course of negotiations. Reiterating my thanks for your friendly intervention, I am, Your Excellency's obedient servant, Pedro Jose Escalon.[*F*] July 14 /06 CENTURY CLUB NEW YORK Dear Mr. Roosevelt Thank you very much for your photo, which delighted the soul of out artist, as it fell in so exactly with the pose of the head of S Theodore in Burne-Jones' cartoon. only we must take off the glasses, whichwould be too conspicuous an anachronism. I want to find now a good profile head of Mr. Lincoln, to head our procession of champions — I am on my way to Mexico, to see the ancient Inca ruins lately made accessible in the province of Guerrero, and to give my two nephews some further lessons in big game shooting. The Pumas, peccary and [cougar] jaguar abound there. Alas! I cannot shoot myself unless at very close quarters. With sincere congratulations on the work you have accomplished this winter. believe meSincerely yours R. J. Nevin - Your letter enclosing photo. - left with other correspondence on my writing table in the club, while I went in for a hurried lunch - had disappeared when I came back, and I suppose enriched the collection of some hungry [Athonian?] autograph lover -JOSEPH H. KIBBEY, Chairman. SIMS ELY, Secretary. Republican Territorial Central Committee PHOENIX, ARIZONA, Jul 14 1906 June 14th, 1906. Dear Sir: The time for taking the preliminary steps for the organization of the republican party for the ensuing November election, and the nomination of candidates for Delegate to Congress, and for the various county and precinct officers is approaching. In addition to the election of these officers will be at the same time the election of delegates to a Convention to be held hereafter at Santa Fe to formulate a Constitution for the proposed state of Arizona, made of the two territories of Arizona and New Mexico. There will also be submitted to the electors at that election the question whether they are in favor of or are against the proposed jointure and the formation of the new state. All these matters combine to make our next election the most important that ever occurred in the territory, and one in which we as republicans have a peculiarly great interest. Our conventions both territorial and county, are consequently of more than ordinary importance. There is a greater reason than ever before that the republicans should be prompt, aggressive and earnest. The situation is full of encouragement. That for many successive campaigns the republicans of this territory have after a gallant fight, met defeat, should not, and I think has not in any degree dampened the ardor or weakened the allegiance of the republicans of the territory. It should serve, as it doubtless has served, to stimulate them to even greater efforts. It has been my observation that we get into the field too late. It has been our experience that the time heretofore elapsing between selection of our new committees and the election is too short within which to form an effective organization. This fact is patent to you all. It has been objected, and I think the objection has been influential, that a long campaign is expensive and fatiguing. I am quite confident that our short unorganized campaigns have resulted in an extravagant and wasteful use of money because of the want of time to complete an efficient organization. In hastily and consequently imperfectly organized campaigns there is inevitably a waste of money; I feel quite sure that with more time for thorough organization of the committees that the money heretofore spent in campaigns can be more economically and much more effectively used, and that in the aggregate there need be no more spent. I think that it needs no elaboration to say that $1.00 expended after proper organization can be made more efficient than $2.00 spent in the usual haphazard manner heretofore prevalent. The republican party has no reason to hesitate in going to the people this year; there is no excuse for timidity or want of confidence. There should, I think, be a meeting of the committee to discuss these preliminaries. As chairman of the Territorial Republican Central Committee, therefore, I hereby call a meeting of the committee to meet at Phoenix on the 4th day of August, 1906, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the Capitol building. I should be greatly pleased to have any suggestions from members of the committee in the meantime. With enthusiastic, courageous and completely harmonious work we can win. If you cannot attend, although it is urgently desired that you do so, please give your proxy to some one; if you do not care to name a proxy I enclose you a blank which you can sign and send to Mr. Sims Ely, secretary of the committee, giving him power to designate your proxy. Very truly, Jos. H. Kibbey[for 2 enclosures see printed form 8-04-06] news clipping 8-10-06]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2WH RA GI 59 Govt---11:52a The White House, Washington, D. C. July 15. [*[06]*] The President: Telegram received this morning from President of Guatemala just as I was sending off the message to him enclosing Salvador's acceptance in accordance with your directions of yesterday, make it advisable to change the form somewhat, and if you approve I will now send it over your signature, expressing great gratification, etc. etc. Robert Bacon.TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 1 WH RA NE 421 Paid Govt---11:34a The White House, Washington, D.C., July 15, 1906 Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary, Oyster Bay. Following received last night: "Guatemala July 14. Secretary State. July 14, 11 A.M. President Estrada states has received telegram from President of Honduras announcing alliance with Salvador against Guatemala. (Brown)" "Guatemala, July 14. 5 P.M. Secretary State. Cable instructions received and executed. President Estrada earnestly for peace. He asserts that military measures against Honduras and Salvador have been in self-defense. He awaits only notification from President Roosevelt that Salvador pledges to disarm and negotiate in order to arrange armistice immediately. (Brown)" "Guatemala, July 14. Most excellent Mr. President: I highly appreciate with sincere thanks and accept without hesitation in the most cordial manner the proposition of peace between Guatemala and Salvador that your excellency is pleased to address to me. The outcome of the war is already in favor of Guatemala, but in deference to a good friend of ours, as is your excellency, I see no objection to an armistice being agreed to and terms of peace being negotiated on board the Marblehead. I only take the liberty of saying to your excellency that the government of Salvador being in the habit of breaking its most solemn engagements, as it has just done, we hope with the interposition of the invaluable action of the American government that this time through your excellency, the arrangements that will be made will fulfill the lofty purposes of your excellency which always find with my government the most friendlyTELEGRAM. White House, Washington. and cordial reception. I rejoice that the President of Mexico is also interested in the cause of peace. I reiterate to your excellency my thanks and the perfect assurance of my highest consideration. (Signed) Manuel Estrada, Cabrera." "Mexico, July 14. Secretary State. Referring to your messages and quotations 13th, President Diaz at once send messages to Presidents of Guatemala and Salvador urging early adjustment of difficulties along lines suggested by our President. As yet no response to messages sent by President yesterday. Will send you translations later. President Diaz much pleased with messages of our President to Presidents of Guatemala and Salvador. (Signed) Thompson." "San Jose, Cr. July 14. to Secretary State. Costa Rican Minister for Foreign Affairs has requested me to inform you that his government desires to offer its good offices, conjointly with the government of the United States in favor of peace in Central America, by delegating authority to our minister in Salvador or sending representative to confer and act with him. (Signed) Bailey, Charge." R. Forster, Asst. Secy.TELEGRAM. Received in cipher and translated and telephoned to the Hill. The White House, Washington. 2 WH RA GI Paid Govt----11:45a The White House, Washington, July 16. [*06*] Hon. Robert Bacon, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay. Personal. Re Merry's telegram conveying desire of Honduras to join Salvador in negotiating identical terms with Guatemala, I think we should urge Honduras to remain neutral and bide her time. Guatemala will scarcely consent to enter a conference with two allied opponents. Let Honduras withdraw troops from the frontier in the same manner as the others do, and wait to get the benefit of whatever peace the principals may make. It may then be in order for Honduras to adhere. Adee.[*Ackd 7/20/06*] Deadwood, So. Dak., July 16, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mr. Loeb: At the request of our citizens, I wired the President today to withhold any action looking towards the abandonment of Fort Meade. They fear the proposed consolidation of western army posts will ultimately lead to the withdrawal of troops from South Dakota, this being the only post in the state. A great deal of money has been expended at Meade in recent years in building permanent stone quarters for men and horses, which, of course, will be lost if the post is abandoned. The Milwaukee and Northwestern railroads are now building their lines east and west of the Black Hills. These roads will be completed to the Missouri River by January. The Milwaukee is also building to the Seattle country via Miles City, and the Burlington will soon begin work from O'Neil, Nebraska, to connect with its Black Hills-Montana line. These roads will give us direct connections to the east via Pierre and Chamberlain, west and northwest via Ogden and Miles City, and south via Omaha and Denver, making Meade one of the most accessible posts on the old frontier. It is very finely located in regards to climate and water. The site was selected by General P. H. SheridanHon. William Loeb, Jr., #2. in 1878. It is unnecessary to state that our people do not need the protection of the army, but the incoming settlers whose wagons and tents are now covering the old Sioux Indian reservation between the Hills and the Missouri will be greatly benefitted by the market which the post has created for their farm products. I am very sorry "Skoot" turned out so badly. Tell Dr. Rixie to take care of him, and I will make a trade for him and bring him back to his native heath. I am going to try you with another one in the Fall, and will assure you of a more sedate and better behaved cayuse. Skoot must have contracted dementia[l] from Mrs. Morris, Senator Til[lman] or some other eastern crank. We are all very glad that Kermit is to pay us another visit. He is a great favorite with every one, and the trip will do the boy lots of good. Mrs. Bullock will insist on having Mrs. Loeb and the boy out here for next summer. The climate here at that time of the year can not be equalled. I think you may also be invited. Senator K has returned to South Dakota. He has very little to say; evidently feels his defeat at home and in Washington deeply. Gamble has a big fight on his hands to be re-elected. He is not strong with the people. Crawford or Martin may be chosen. Pettigrew is milling around, and has announced himself a candidate against Kittredge in 1908 on the Bryan ticket. K is down and out. Yours truly, Seth Bullock TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 3 WH KQ GI 256 Paid Govt---8:05p WH--Washington, D. C. July 16. [*[06]*] Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary, Oyster Bay. Following just received. "Guatemala. Secretary of State: Noon, July 16. President Estrada states has received, 9am, today telegram from President Diaz indicating dawn of today for commencement of armistice. This obviously impossible as well as most embarrassing to Guatemala. President Estrada is ready for immediate armistice, but at feasible hour mutually agreed upon. I will notify Merry at once President Estrada indicates hour for armistice to commence. He states more Salvadorian troops entered to-day. Brown." Also: "Guatemala. Most Excellent Mr. President Roosevelt, Washington. "Your Excellency's telegram in which you repeat that of the President of Salvador is at hand with renewed thanks for your excellency's noble interest in the cause of the restoration of lasting peace. I once more have the honor to say that I will be glad to send my delegation to the Marblehead. The President of Mexico obtained from me a promise of armistice yesterday and I received from him to-day a telegram setting the hour of five a.m. to-day for its beginning, but the said cablegram was delivered to me five hours later, and while the Salvadorian forces were engaged in an action against ours. Still ready to accept theTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. armistice, I hope that Your Excellency will call attention of the Salvadorian Government so that the day and hour on which it is to begin may be fixed sufficiently in advance. I renew to Your Excellency my thanks and the assurance of my highest consideration. Manuel Estrada Cabrera." Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 3 WH RA GI 116 Paid Govt---12:53p WH-- Washington, D. C. July 16. [*06*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Following just received: "Guatemala July 15, 6p. At the request of President Estrada have telegraphed consul at Teguicigalpa to inform Government of Honduras that Guatemala will not force trouble if Honduras will not molest Guatemala. Attitude of Honduras may impede negotiations for peace. Suggest direct representations to Honduras from Washington.----Brown." Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.[[shorthand]] Birmingham Ala. July 16, 1906 [*Ackd 7/20/06*] Mr. William Loeb Jr. Oyster Bay Long Island N.Y. My dear Mr. Loeb; It would give me a great deal of pleasure to pay my respects to the President before leaving this country again for Mrs Johnston & I sail from New York on the 28th instant. My time has been so thoroughly occupied sincemy recent arrival from San Francisco that I am unable to reach New York before the 27th or at earliest on the 26th. I did not like to write the President when my time would be so limited that if he should be pleased to grant my request and this time should not be convenient for him. I have been lugging the Ali spear (which I promised to bring to him) for some time and would like to deliver it. Will you please write me in care of J. M. Rhodes Jr. Villa Nova, Pennsylvania. Thanking you in advance and hoping that you are enjoying some vacation. I am Yours very truly Gordon JohnstonThe New Hoffman House. Madison Square. J. P. Cardagan, Manager. New York July 16 1906 Absolutely Fire Proof. Dear Mr Loeb- Wont you permit me to impose upon you a personal and confidential errand.-? I am here on a day's appointment (-acting for the mayor-as he is away on holiday and the conference on the Elevated The New Hoffman House. Madison Square. J. P. Cardagan, Manager. New York 190 Absolutely Fire Proof. railroad consolidations (of Chicago) are now engaging us-) otherwise would run down and see you personally instead of troubling you thus-- My attention has been called to the convention of parliamentarians Etc to assemble in London in August. THE NEW HOFFMAN HOUSE. MADISON SQUARE. J. P. CADDAGAN, MANAGER. 3 NEW YORK 190 ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. I assume these representatives- from our Country-are named by the President- I am worn out-would be enchanted for an opportunity to go abroad for a month-particularly under similar auspices as when Secretary Hay (at direction ofTHE NEW HOFFMAN HOUSE. MADISON SQUARE. J. P. CADDAGAN, MANAGER. 4 NEW YORK 190 ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. Presd't McKinley attached me to the boundary and tariff Commission which met in London 1899. If the President can find it agreeable to name me as one of the delegates to join with Williams Burton Etc IThe New Hoffman House. Madison Square. J. P. Cardagan, Manager. 5 New York 190 Absolutely Fire Proof. will be very appreciative-- of course I assume that I pay my own expenses--I hope that the fact of no appropriation will not stand in the way--It is the prestige of the opportunity I seek--Of course the The New Hoffman House. Madison Square. J. P. Cardagan, Manager. 6 New York 190 Absolutely Fire Proof. President knows me--and enough of my activities to know of my fitness --He also knows enough of the stuff I am to know that I cannot be ungrateful--nor my personal following unappreciative-- Wont you dear MrTHE NEW HOFFMAN HOUSE. MADISON SQUARE. J. P. CADDAGAN, MANAGER. 7 NEW YORK 190 ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. Loeb present this to him in such informal manner as can obtain consideration. I will depart at once if named — and the law dept of the city as well as the mayor will have a great compliment in form of an excuse to giveTHE NEW HOFFMAN HOUSE. MADISON SQUARE. J. P. CADDAGAN, MANAGER. 8 NEW YORK 190 ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. me a month's holiday which I need so very badly--If there be suggestions or directions as a desire of the President — don't hesitate to Communicate them to me — I'll follow his policy at the gathering. Please let me hear fromTHE NEW HOFFMAN HOUSE. MADISON SQUARE. J. P. CADDAGAN, MANAGER. 9 NEW YORK 190 ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. so soon as possibly convenient for our purposes we will close matters here (Mr W. D. Guthrie thinks- on Wednesday night — With my affectionate regard— Yours gratefully Jas Hamilton Lewis Hon Wm Loeb Jr.[*Ackd 7/17/06*] TELEGRAM. White House, Washington. 3 NY VV GI 112 DH----12:06p Atlantic City, N. J. July 16. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: I would like to confer with you about some political matters which have been brought to my attention since the adjournment of Congress, concerning which I think I should advise with you at an early date. I do not want to infringe on your vacation, and will not press for an immediate interview unless entirely convenient and agreeable. If it would suit you to see me any day next week except Tuesday I will call on you at Oyster Bay, Monday for certain reasons would suit me best. I am going away for a trip of several days and would be glad if you would have me advised to Young's Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J. Boies Penrose. [[shorthand]]THE CENTURY CO. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK [*Ackd 7/17/06*] July 16th, 1906 William Loeb, Jr., Sect'y. to the President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mr. Loeb, We have received your letter of the 12th, referring to us for reply the application of the Daily Svornost of Chicago to reprint "The Strenuous Life" as a serial in the Bohemian language. On general principles we usually decline requests of this sort to reprint our books in newspapers published in the United States in foreign languages, on the ground that such publications are not likely to help the sale of the book, and it does not seem to us good business policy to furnish valuable material to newspapers without some proper compensation. In the present case, however, we should be very glad to do exactly as the President desires if he has any decided preference in the matter. I do not see how it could hurt the sale of the book, and if for any reason the President would like to have the articles so appear, we should be very glad to assent. If, on the other hand, he has no such desire, we will, of course, assume all responsibilityfor declining. Kindly let me hear from you, and oblige, Very sincerely yours, Frank H. Scott PresidentHeadquarters Philippines Division Manila Personal. July 16th, 1906 Dear Mr. President: Your letter of June 5th received today. I am very confident that Mr. Cleveland expressed himself on the question of immigration as I stated to you, but, of course, this is a matter in which Mr. Cleveland's statement must be final. The incident occurred while we were off on a hunting trip; the party consisted of Mr. Cleveland, Admiral Evans, Admiral Lamberton, and myself. We left Washington after Mr. McKinley's inauguration; in fact, we left the day Mr. Cleveland went out of office, and were gone something over two weeks. The conversation referred to was one of those informal ones which take place after a hard day's shooting, when practically everyone indulges in reminiscences. It was generally understood that anything Mr. Cleveland said was not a subject of subsequent discussion, and to the best of my knowledge I have never spoken of it, except to you. Major Scott arrived today, en route for the United States. I am very much pleased with his detail, and am sure-2- that he appreciates it thoroughly. With kindest regards, as ever, Sincerely yours, Leonard Wood [*[Leonard Wood]*] The President, White House, Washington, D. C. hfsWhite House, Washington. Kirtland Harry B.- Toledo, Ohio. Ice Trust prosecutions in Toledo. Referred to Interstate Commerce Commission- July 16, 1906[attached to Kirtland 7-13-06][*Ackd 7/20/06*] LENOX, MASS. HOTEL ASPINWALL O.D. SEAVEY. July 17th, 1906 Dear Mr. President, I found your letter enclosing Senator Hale's, on my arrival here today. I have written Mr. Newberry to send me another list of the names he suggested, since I found I had brought home with me, andwith the award making the outcry seem a trifle farfetched and factitious, even for the least fairminded of our habitual critics. The enclosed clipping shows what this class of critics wish to have believed about it: your connection with the supposed iniquity has to be suggested by a picture, as it was too authoritatively denied to be asserted in writing. I shall try to have the Board appointed by August 1st.. There has been more or less newspaper and partisan clamor about the Armor-plate contract. Mr. John Sharp Williams, among others, delivering himself of a diatribe on the subject, but it seems to have pretty well subsided, the announcement of the Midvale Co. that it is satisfied I shall be in Washington again on the 30th or 31st, and if no reason to the contrary is then apparent, will take another fortnight off beginning about August 15th. Pray believe me, as ever, Your most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. The President, Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y. [*[For 1 enc. see cartoon, ca-7-17-06 & notes ca. 7-17-06]*][*Ackd 7-18-06*] THE NEW WILLARD, WASHINGTON, D.C. To President Roosevelt, July 17/06 My Dear Mr President:- Your letter of July 10th came to me here. I thank you for the spirit of it and for the assurances on the line of my suggestions. No appointment had been made when I wrote to you, and I assure you that my letter was not a criticism of the appointment of Mr Clark. He is no doubt a capable and worthy man, as no doubt your reasons for appointing him were good. What position hehe may take as a Commissioner in the administration of this law can be known from the future only. So of any other untried man. The inference from your letter is that Mr Clements may be retired, or not reappointed. I trust he may be retained, for his sterling honesty and his capability. The criticisms of Mr Clements have their foundation with the Railroads, and are directed at him because of his efficiency. No man can long perform his duty there and be treated as their friend. It will be a chance if as good a man can be appointed in his place. With great respect I am sincerely Yours S H CowanTelegram. The White House, Washington. 1 WH RA GI 134 Paid Govt----cipher. The White House Washington, D. C. July 17 [*06*]---2:20p Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Following just received: "Guatemala July 16. Have telegraphed Merry as follows: 'Am authorized to propose to Salvador that hostilities cease next Wednesday, July eighteenth, six o'clock P.M., pending peace negotiations. Reply at once. Make arrangements for conference on Marblehead.' In the absence of special instructions it is understood minister from Mexico to Guatemala not included in conference. His attitude towards President Estrada openly hostile----Brown." Rudolf Forster, Assistant Secretary.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2 WH FD GI GI 81 Paid Govt--4:10p The White House Washington, D. C, July 17. [*[06]*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay. Following just received: "San Salvador. Armistice arranged for Wednesday, tomorrow morning. Marblehead is expected to arrive at 8pm San Jose de Guatemala from Acajulta Thursday morning to receive all commissioners. Shall I represent Costa Rica and Nicaragua as requested, Cuba being absent, Brown to substitute.---Merry." Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.(Confidential) Copy. William and Pine Streets, Kuhn, Loeb and Co. New York, July 17 1906. Prof. J. H. Hollander, Care John Hopkins University Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir: We beg to refer to the various conferences and discussions we have had with you and acting upon your request, that we make a definite proposition for the purchase by us of a funding loan intended to be issued by the Republic of San Domingo, we submit the following: We are prepared to enter into an agreement with the properly accredited representatives of the Government and San Domingo to purchase $20,000,000. 5 per cent Sinking Fund Bonds, having fifty years to run and redeemable at the option of the Government upon ninety days notice after ten years, as hereunder, the bonds meantime to be retired through a cumulative annual Sinking Fund of one per cent. The Bonds are to be secured by a first lien upon the entire customs- revenue of San Domingo, the amount of $100,000 from the customs to be first paid in each and every month into a New York Depository for the proper payment of the interest and Sinking-Fund, before any disposition can be made as to the customs revenue for any other purpose whatsoever. The proper administration of the customs and the collection of the revenue therefrom to be assured by treaty with the United States, in such manner that the customs-revenue shall, during the life of the funding-bonds, be absolutely under the control of the United States Government and that no reduction shall be made by law in the import or export duties.-2- We offer to purchase the Bonds at 96 1/2 per cent and any interest which may have accrued at the time of payment, with the understanding that the Bonds may be called for redemption at 105 per cent and accrued interest, after ten years, or We will pay 96 per cent and accrued interest, with the redemption price to be 102 1/2 and accrued interest, or will pay 95% and accrued interest, with the redemption price to be par and accrued interest, it being understood that the agreement for the purchase of the Bonds on our part is to lapse if a treaty between San Domingo and the United States shall not have received the sanction of the United States Senate during its next session, and it being further agreed that such treaty, as far as it affects the issue of the new funding bonds and the administration and collection of the customs-revenue, shall be satisfactory to us. Should, upon ratification of the treaty by the United States Senate, any differences arise between the San Domingo Government and ourselves as to its sufficiency, such question to be submitted to arbitration. We suggest, that a responsible Trust Company in New York be appointed by the San Domingo Government as it fiscal agent and depository and that such fiscal agent be at once authorized by the San Domingo Government to promulgate and publish a plan of settlement of all of the outstanding claims against the San Domingo Government, payable from the proceeds of the funding-loan and the moneys already realized from the customs-revenue and now on deposit in New York, as well as the additions thereto, which will accrue until the new funding-bonds can be issued. The newly appointed fiscal agent upon the publication of the plan of settlement is to require the creditors of the San Domingo Government to deposit with it-3- their evidences of debt etc. to be returned to them free of expense, if the United States Senate should fail to ratify a treaty [en]abling the sale of the funding-bonds, at its forthcoming session. Prompt action upon this proposition is respectfully requested. Very truly yours, Kuhn, Loeb and Co.[*[Enc in Bacon, 7-19-06]*][*Ackd 7/18/06*] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 4NY Z3 GI 52 Paid Govt----11:45p Boston, Mass., July 17. [*[06]*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay. Republican State Committee strongly desire me to serve as chairman of the Committee on Resolutions on October fifth next at the Republican State convention. Will you kindly advise me if the President sees any objection to my doing so? W. H. Moody [[shorthand]][*Ackd 7-30-06*] [*[ca 7-17-06]*] GRAND HOTEL DE L'UNIVERS TOURS July 17 My Dear Mr President— The last time I was in Europe I wrote you about good roads and I believe it would be a good thing for you to recommend that the Penitentiary labor of the country we live in should be employed exclusively on improving theworry was she had not written you more frequently. She has been very much occupied. If Taft does not go on the Supreme Bench why do you not take Moody. He has the right conscience and material for a great judge and you know he will never disappoint you or the people. Always Yours Paul Morton highways and taken out of competition with honest labor in the industries. I saw your daughter Alice in London and again at dinner & other places in Paris--She is having a good time and reflecting great credit on her father — She looks happy and when she has a rest of a day she looks very well indeed — When I saw her last her only[*Ackd 7-18-06*] HERBERT PARSONS 13TH DISTRICT NEW YORK. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. 52 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. July 17, 1906. The President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. President:- Odell stated to the newspaper men yesterday, but not for publication, that he now had everybody licked and would be re-elected State Chairman. Unless you, directly or indirectly, take an active hand in the situation there is grave danger that the organization of the party may revert to the custody of Odell, Platt and Quigg. I am speaking of the State generally, not of New York County. It seems to me that there must be done one at least of the following things: (1) If it is your judgment (as it was when we last discussed the matter in Washington) that Higgins should be re-nominated, that should be decided and said by all his friends and it should be known that such is your view and desire. So far as I can see, decision and statement along those lines would wreck the Odell-Platt-Quigg omnibus. (2) If Higgins is not be be re-nominated, then the only way to save the situation is to force the selection of a new State Chairman at the coming meeting of the State Committee, and you will have to select the man and force his choosing. I saw Governor Higgins when he was here yesterday. I do not think he has made up his mind whether he wants a re-nomination. To say that he does not would place his friends in chaos. He is hardly in sufficiently robust health to justify his fighting for the nomination, that to be followed by the wear and tear of the campaign. It seems to me, however, that if you and his friends determined that he was to be re-nominated and let that determination be known, the knock-out of the Odell-Platt-Quigg combination would be the most effective. Hughes might get more votes in New York and Kings Counties than Higgins. The difficulty is that to take him up as a candidate means to play into the hands of Odell, Platt and Quigg.2 I am very sorry to bother you with the matter during your holiday, but the situation is so fraught with ill-boding to the party as a force for decency and progress that I have felt it my duty to write you. Faithfully yours, Herbert Parsons[*PF*] [*Ackd 7-27-06*] AMERICAN EMBASSY. LONDON. 17th July 1906. PRIVATE Dear Mr. President: When Alice was leaving the other day she deplored the fact that she had been kept in such a whirl that she had been unable to write home about her experiences; and I rather rashly volunteered to say that I would try myself to write either to you or to Mrs. Roosevelt some little statements of her entertainments [xxx xxxx]. The season has been so busy that I have not yet been able to reach it, but I hope to do so soon-- though the spectre of an address (which I promised months ago to deliver at Cambridge on the 2d of August) keeps rising before me--since not a word of it is yet written! To-day, however, I merely want to send you some little details about recent matters of business which you ought to know of at once. A note, which is going in the Embassy pouch on the afternoon on which I begin the dictation of this, will reach the State Department probably three days before this can get to you. It contains the entire correspondence about the canned meats. I hesitated at first as to whether to call your attention at all to the resolution and request of the Grocers' Federation. Naturally if I did anything about it, it should have gone to the State Department. Knowing, however, that you were at Oyster Bay, and that Mr. Root was on the ocean, I thought the irregularity of an immediate2. dispatch to you might be forgiven; and I finally concluded that the opportunity to render a real service to the trade which your enemies were saying you had injured was too good to be overlooked. At the same time, I was most anxious not to force your hand by putting you in a position where you might feel that I had encouraged the Grocers to expect something from you. Accordingly, I made no reply whatever to their communication, but sent the dispatch to you, suggesting that if you felt at liberty to send me anything reassuring it would doubtless help trade. As you probably know from the cables, I forwarded your dispatch promptly to them at the time of their convention at Sheffield. They immediately passed a resolution of thanks, which has been duly forwarded to the State Department. They have also got leave from us to photograph the original of your dispatch to me, and are preparing to circulate photolithographic reproductions of it by the thousand or million. There is no doubt that it will greatly help the dealers in tinned meats and tend to revive the orders to Chicago. It has elicited many expressions of good will here, though naturally the British sources of supply, who were so eager to profit by the distrust of Chicago, are not particularly pleased at finding this distrust removed. The Chicago people ought to feel very grateful;--but you will probably not learn in this for the first time that gratitude is chiefly a lively expectation of favors to come. Mr. Bryan's visit has been one of the most interesting and curious experiences of the past week or two. He wrote to me from Egypt that he proposed to reach here about the first week in July. In reply to this I could not well help saying that in this case I hope he would be here for the Fourth, and that, if so, the American Society would undoubtedly expect to3. hear from him at their dinner. Naturally, he jumped at the opportunity, and Mr. Longworth when here told me that he had heard from the Associated Press agency in Berlin that Bryan was contemplating a "keynote" speech, which would put him in line for the next nomination. He had even heard the outlines of the speech, which were intended to put him before the public as quite as conservative as yourself, and, at the same time, a more earnest champion of warfare on corporations and protection for trades unions. Under the circumstances, I thought it as well to say something on those lines very briefly myself, which might put him in a position of either assenting to or repudiating the view I expressed. This was what I really had in mind in the closing sentences which I have marked in the enclosed report of my little speech from the "Daily Telegraph" of the next morning. Bryan met the issue characteristically by saying nothing about it! He made a rather neat little reply to my other references, saying that if we had advanced to so much prosperity on one leg, he could not help wondering how much greater would have been our prosperity if we had been able to walk on two--an illustration, as you know, borrowed from his old campaign speeches;--and then turning to my remarks about having always opposed him at home, he said very neatly that he was bound to admit I had done it well, and that he took pleasure in saying how much more he thought of me abroad and how long he hoped I might be kept here out of the way. It was all very good humored and clever, but he took precious good care neither to accept nor dispute the views I expressed, and instead of making a "keynote" speech, he amazed us all by pulling out a manuscript and reading (not too effectively) an essay on "The White Man's Burden in the East"! I think perhaps this essay accomplished his purpose in leading English people to look upon him a little4. more seriously as a thinker, but it certainly fell extremely flat upon that audience, and most of the people who listened to him were going about the next day saying his speech was a failure. He himself said to his friends that he did not need to prove to such a representative audience that he could make a effective after dinner speech;--what he did need to prove to them was that he was more than a speaker, that he was a thinker along statesmanlike lines! So far as London is concerned, I think he did in some small degree produce that effect. At any rate, English public men are now talking about him as having grown more conservative and as having spoken in a temperate and moderate way. There has been a rather curious desire on the part of most members of the Government here to make his acquaintance. He met Campbell-Bannerman and Haldane through some agencies of his own, and both entertained him at dinner. Then I got an indirect and private intimation from the Foreign Office that Sir Edward Grey, who is not going out at all on account of the tragic death of his wife, felt that he ought in some way to meet Mr. Bryan. So I sent word that Bryan was coming to a small luncheon chiefly of Americans, at Dorchester House, and that if Sir Edward liked to come I would see that nobody more was invited, and that it was kept out of the newspapers. He came accordingly, and had half an hour's talk with Bryan. The impression it made on him was, I suppose, pretty fully expressed in his words to me as he was hurrying off to meet the daily fire of questions at the opening of the House in the afternoon: "Mr. Bryan seems to have travelled a great deal, and to have a good deal to say about his travels." The truth is he does talk interminably about every country he has visited, and expounds the policy of each as if he had spent months in studying it. The accuracy of his knowledge5. of personalities, even in the countries which he is expected to know the most about, may be judged from his asking me, after Sir Edward Grey had gone, what office he filled, if any, in the present Government! This, too, in spite of the fact that I had carefully introduced Sir Edward as the Minister for Foreign Affairs! It is only just to Bryan to say, on the other hand, that he sometimes makes a frank admission of his ignorance of foreign matters and that he shows a real desire to learn. He is quite anxious to do the correct thing, asked many hints from me about the etiquette in meeting these prominent personages, and even about the little details of precedence in going into and out of a dining room, matters of dress for himself and his wife, etc. He impresses every one with the simplicity and good nature of his character; but, like all half educated people, he dogmatizes dangerously on a multitude of topics. I believe his plan is to cut under you in the line of attacks on corporations and to go about as far as you have done in encouraging labor organizations, but to insist that they must not interfere with freedom of individual initiative. He talks rather wildly, as I think, about getting the Filipinos ready for self-government and turning the country over to them in a short time. He has asked me to arrange for his meeting pretty much everybody of prominence on both sides in the House, and on the whole I have concluded that it is best to have a men's dinner in a week or so and invite a good many members of the Government and of the Opposition. I shall not make it a dinner for Mr. Bryan at all, but shall simply have him present and introduce him to those who wish to meet him--as they all probably will. They are full of the idea here that he is the coming man on the Democratic side.6. In the same way, when I found him in the House of Commons the other day when Mr. Haldane was making the opening speech on his Army bill, I thought it better not to leave him in the crowded gallery, where I had passed him, but to invite him to a seat beside myself in the roomy bench reserved for the diplomatic corps. The cost of this of course was that the London papers spoke of him as being there under my care; but I feel sure that it will better represent your wishes as well as the duty of an Ambassador, who can have no politics over here, if he is treated with enough attention to show that we recognize the position to which the votes of nearly one half the American people, twice given, have lifted him. Immediately on the receipt of your letter of June 27th, I took the opportunity to let Sir Edward Grey know at once confidentially your view as to Durand. Substantially, he already knew it from previous hints of mine as well as from information I had taken pains to have reach him through others; but of course the effect of the direct statement was considerable. He at once said that he was conscious of their disadvantage, but that he had inherited Durand and that the difficulty of the present situation was that if removed now he would lose the pension to which in two years more he would be entitled; while if a transfer is considered, the difficulty would be to find another place for him and a man in that place who would be suitable for Washington. As to Spring Rice, he said he was no doubt capable and useful, but he added: "He is young, and has not yet been even a Minister." I could see that the whole tendency of the Foreign Office and of the diplomatic service would be against any such rapid promotion as occurred in the case of Speck von Sternburg. Of course you know that promotion also caused7. great heart-burnings in the diplomatic service of his country. I think the situation about Durand is substantially this: They know they are a disadvantage and would like to make a change. Sir Edward Grey, however, is new in the office, hates to hurt his predecessor's feelings, and would think it rather a cruelty to drop Durand in such a way as to deprive him of his pension. Sir Edward is also under the influence of the permanent force, who are shocked at the idea of too rapid promotion for a young man who a few weeks ago was only a Secretary of Embassy; while among his Ambassadors he doesn't see a transfer which would be easy, and perhaps doesn't see one that would in his judgment promise any extraordinary improvement. The King has been unusually busy of late with functions out of town, but at the first opportunity I shall avail myself of your permission and give him your views on this point as well as something of the story of Algeciras. I am sure it is to our interest here that both he and Sir Edward should know how far the Emperor was from getting from you all he tried. I took the opportunity of this intimate conversation with Sir Edward to drop a hint also as to your feeling that they were drifting in the Newfoundland business. This came in very apropos in connection with my presentation to Sir Edward of a remonstrance which the State Department had forwarded me against some complaints the Newfoundland people made of one of Mr. Metcalf's subordinates. I am a little puzzled about your letter of introduction to McBee, the Editor of "The Churchman" in New York, instructing me to present him to the King in case anybody is presented hereafter this season.8. I know nothing of any presentations that are at all likely, unless the English people connected with the Iron and Steel Institute should succeed in their scheme. They want to get six or seven of their own men presented, and a similar number of the American delegates who are to attend their convention here this week. They are working it themselves (I have not stirred in the matter), but in case they succeed, the King will undoubtedly expect me to accompany and name to him the American delegates. I have presented nobody this year, excepting your Special Ambassador to the wedding in Spain, who particularly asked for it. I already knew McBee well enough--having met him in New York. When he was over here last year he wanted to be presented, but the King was absent. He disclosed then a fancy for being presented to the sovereigns in every country he visited, such as we find in a good way many travelling Americans, who like to go home and talk about it. Mr. Bryan is apparently developing something of the same feeling, and has already intimated to Harry White that he desires to be presented to the King of Italy. He hasn't expressed any desire of that sort here, and I am hoping he will think it politically advantageous at home not to have been presented. In any case, I'll probably be unable to do it! When McBee came to see me the other day with your letters, I explained to him that the King was to be in town only a few days longer this season, and was seeing fewer people than usual, not only on account of the Court mourning, but also by reason of his lameness from which (in spite of what those about him claim) he has by no means yet made a good recovery. I then said that the moment I approached the Secretary with the request to make such a presentation I would be asked on what ground. McBee at once said that9. what he really wanted was to get the prestige of a presentation in order to enable him to command more attention with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other dignitaries of his Church. He said he was going "to see these people to talk to them about their Education Bill;" that he meant "to talk to them straight" and tell them exactly what he thought;--that you had told him you wished he would, etc., etc. Now if there is anything that would drive Englishman crazy, it would be an attempt by an American, apparently backed by the President, to meddle in absolutely the most contentious question in their politics. So I had to explain to Mr. McBee that such a reason for his desire for an interview with the King would be the very thing which every adviser of the King would tell him made it impossible. He then wanted to know if I couldn't simply tell the King that you desired it. I asked him if he thought I would be warranted in thus putting you in the position of soliciting an interview for him with the King of England, and he finally agreed with me that his would not be just to you, or in accordance with my duty to you. But he hung on, and seemed to think I ought to regard your letter as a command and find some way for him. He certainly never could hope, he said, for a stronger letter; and on letters far less positive he had been received by the Emperor of Germany and the King of Italy. I assured him of my entire willingness to apply for the audience, if he would give me any reason I could name for it, and asked him if he couldn't devise something. I'm afraid he away discontented, though I repeated over and over my readiness to make the application the moment he could help me in the matter, without dragging in your name, which he agreed with me in saying that we ought not to do. He drew in his horns greatly too about the Education bill, and said he had no purpose to attempt to advise them, excepting as they asked him.10. I am writing to you quite confidentially and in the utmost frankness to take your further instructions. If, after reading this, you still think I ought to seek McBee's presentation, I will try it, on the receipt from you of the briefest cable, simply saying "Present him." If I get no cable from you, I shall venture to think that, under the circumstances I have detailed, you consider it just as well for me to let the matter drift. In that case, I shall try to satisfy McBee in some other way. I have already had him and his wife at luncheon here to-day with Congressman Hoar, of Worcester, Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago, General James Grant Wilson of New York, some friends that Secretary Taft sent, and a number of other people who had brought letters of introduction, and I took pains in seating him and his wife and otherwise to make them feel that they were treated with proper distinction. But I'm sure he considers me a very unfit man for your representative here; and I'd certainly like to change his opinion if I saw how to gratify his desire for royalty without putting you in a position I feel that you don't want to occupy. Harry White confides to me that they found him trying, even in the less exacting conditions of Rome. I fancy you found him an influential and useful man in political and reformatory movements in New York, and that you may think it important to try to get him the little distinction he is so keen for, even at the cost of straining a point with the Court. While I have been dictating this, a letter comes form a lady introduced by Mr. Gaines of Tennessee, who wished me "to arrange for an audience with His Majesty King Edward," for the reason that she is a member of the "Order of the Crown," tracing her ancestry back to Alfred the Great, and that she has her insignia with her!11. I cannot tell you how much I am gratified to learn your feeling that the visit of the Longworths here has gone off satisfactorily. I was most anxious that she should be received with proper dignity and courtesy, and that, on the other hand, there should be nothing resembling "pushing" in the remotest degree. The absence of this was much noted, and a very common remark was that Mrs. Longworth was not in the least what the yellow newspapers had led them to expect. In fact something like this was said to her herself in Buckingham Palace, when Mrs. Reid took her down for a private audience at the Queen's request, and I am sure that she was made to feel at every turn that the English took to her, liked her and wanted, without burdening her with unwelcome attentions, to make her feel thoroughly at home and to realize how highly they appreciated her for her father's sake. All this, however, will be made clear, if, in the midst of the flood of Americans now overflowing London, I can get time within the next few days to dictate the little account of her doings which I have promised. Meantime, pray forgive the very undiplomatic candor and hesitation in the McBee business; cable me about it or not as you think best; and believe me always anxious to protect your interests and Very sincerely yours, Whitelaw Reid P.S.--You will notice of course the extreme uneasiness about Mohammedan population revealed in Lord Cromer's dispatches from Egypt and the recent White Book; also that similar uneasiness is manifested in France. You know of course that in both countries this revival of dangerous Mohammedan fanaticism is attributed to the intrigues of the Emperor at Constantinople as well as to his action in Morocco. I suppose it can hardly reach far enough East to affect our Mohammedans in Mindanao. W.R. To the President, &c. &c. &c.TELEGRAM. SENT TO DEPARTMENT BY MESSENGER FROM TELEGRAPH OFFICE. COPY SENT WS BY STATE DEPARTMENT ON 19TH. The White House, Washington. Mexico, July 17, 1906. Secretary of State, Your telegram fifteenth and quotations. I herewith give translations of late telegrams taken from originals given me by President Diaz: "San-Salvador, July 12. President Diaz, Mexico. General Regalado killed in battle. As a friend of Salvador I pray for your efficient interference in order to arrive at an honorable and worthy peace needed by both countries. Your[s] affectionate friend, Escalon." Mexico, Jly 13. His Excellency, President Escalon, San-Salvador, Please accept my sincere condolence for the lamentable death of the illustrious general Regalado, and tell me on what basis would you authorize me to talk about peace with the Guatemalan government. (signed, Porfirio Diaz)". "San-Salvador, July 14, President Diaz, Mexico. In spite of my desire for peace Cabrera is attacking our military positions since the twelfth and all of his attempts have been repelled. It is stated that he has declared war against Salvador by means of two decrees of which he withdrew the first after the death of General Regalado, and substituted the same by the second. He also attached Honduras and was defeated after the American Legation in Guatemala had instructed the United States consul at Teguicigalpa to use his efforts towards the neutrality of Honduras. I am always for peace. President Roosevelt has invited me in the same sense and informs me that he has your cooperation. I will accept honorable peace on board the Marblehead through commissioner from Salvador and Guatemala with the attendance of Minister GamboaTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington, (2, Mexico) and the representatives of the United States, in Salvador and Guatemala. Thus I answered Mr. Roosevelt. I believe peace possible on account of Cabrera's defeat. I reiterate to you my appreciation. ESCALON." "Mexico, July 14. His Excellency The President of the Republic of Salvador. I am now addressing President Estrada Cabrera in unison with President Roosevelt. (Signed) Porfirio Diaz." "Mexico, July 14. His Excellency, The President of the of the Republic o Guatemala. The governments of Washington and Mexico are agreeable to cooperate in favor of peace, but the matter must commence by an armistice. With your acquiescence I can obtain the same from Salvador. I await your answer. (Signed) Porfirio Diaz." "Guatemala, July 15, His Excellency, Porfirio Diaz, President of the United Mexican States. Yesterday I had the pleasure to answer to the initiative of peace which His Excellency, the President of the United States of America, was pleased to address to me informing His Excellency that I accept the same cordially. Having today take cognizance of Your Excellency's cablegram I sincerely than you for your good offices and I accept with pleasure to obtain the armistice on the part of Salvador to which armistice Your Excellency may feel confident that Guatemala shall duly correspond. Therefore Your Excellency will please tell me when the same shall begin by both parties. I renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. (Signed) MANUEL ESTRADA CABRERA." TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. (3, Mexico) "Mexico, July 15. His Excellency, The President of the Republic of Salvador. On account of your last telegram I appealed to President Estrada Cabrera inviting him to an armistice which may permit the adjustment of an honorable peace for both, and in reply he has authorized me to fix the date and hour in which said armistice should begin. In reply I named the dawn of tomorrow, July 16th, and I inform you of the above in order that you instruct your subordinates to abstain from any sort of hostilities. (Porfirio Diaz)" "Mexico, July 15. His Excellency, The President of Guatemala. I have today informed the President of Salvador of the following: "On account of your last telegram I appealed to President Estrada Cabrera inviting him to an armistice which may permit the adjustment of an honorable peace for both, and in reply he has authorized me to fix the date and hour in which said armistice should begin. In reply I named the dawn of tomorrow, July sixteenth, and I inform you of the above in order that you instruct your subordinates to abstain from any sort of hostilities." and which I transmit to Your Excellency to the end that identical orders be given on your part. (Porfirio Diaz)." "Guatemala, July 15. The President of the Republic of Mexico. I notified President Cabrera of your offer in favor peace, and he begged me to express to you his deep appreciation and his acceptance in the terms you may select. (Gamboa)."TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. (4, Mexico) President Diaz is willing his minister to Central-America join with American ministers before peace commission if requested by Guatemalan President. It is noted no such request is made as to American or Mexican ministers in telegram quoted from Guatemalan President. My suggestion is that all our President does in this matter should be joined in by President Diaz. If Guatemalan President really has fear as to the attitude now, and good intentions for the future of President Diaz, he does him a very great injustice and President Roosevelt may in any terms pleasing to him, by permission of President Diaz, assure President Cabrera of this fact. The attitude of President Diaz in this Guatemalan-Salvadorian affair is precisely the same as that of President Roosevelt, and his desires for the future peace, good government and happiness of the Central American States are the same. Very Confidential. President Diaz says he early was appealed to by cabinet of Salvador for moral support in the war then contemplated against Guatemala in which it seemed other States were likely to become interested. He was asked to sell several thousand guns, all of which he refused, and advised the agents of Salvador at the time that he did not approve of their intention against Guatemala. He has hold Barillas, the chief rebel in Guatemala's internal strife from returning to Guatemala and now he is so doing. Personally I want to say that no man could be nearer right in any matter than President Diaz has been through this whole thing, and to me it has been very plain from the beginning that at heart he has been just as sincere as his every act would make him appear to be. The suspicions of Guatemala would seem to come from their own acts and aggressions, as explained by President Diaz, advantage of which might have been but was not taken. Thompson.SUBJECT: A. L. LANGDON, TRAFFIC MANAGER. DONALD WILSON, SUPERINTENDENT. [*F*] [*L*] THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. July 17, 1906. Mr. William Loeb, Secretary to the President, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 16th, enclosing the wrapper on a package containing maple sugar which was received with the corners of contents broken off. This package was shipped from Island Falls, Maine, and was transferred to this Company on July 12th by the American Express Company in the same condition as when you received it. The paper enclosing this package was a very light quality, and owing to atmospheric conditions the contents became more or less moist. Ordinarily we would refuse to accept a package from a connecting Company in the same condition that this package was received, but as this would undoubtedly have resulted less satisfactorily we concluded it was better to accept it and forward to destination. I think you will agree with me that the package in question was not sufficiently well packed to withstand even ordinary handling from a point as distant as Island Falls, Maine, to Oyster Bay. I have issued instructions that the condition of all packages addressed to the President must be carefully noted when received from connecting Companies, and a record kept so that we will be able at all times to furnish you a full explanation if desired. I regret exceedingly that any annoyance was caused, but assure you that there was no additional damage caused between Long Island City and Oyster Bay which could have been avoided. Yours respectfully, Donald Wilson Superintendent-RFolha do Norte, Pará, July 17, 1906. Secretary Elihu Root. On board the protected cruiser Charleston of the American Navy, Mr. Root, an eminent lawyer, who actually discharges the high duties of Secretary of State of the glorious American Republic, is expected in our Port today. As soon as the ship arrives, the Governor of the State, the American Consul, and the representatives of the Press of Belem (Pará), will go to greet our illustrious guest of a few hours. Mr. Root will be received with the military honors to which he is entitled. His Excellency will be invited to visit the Gentil Bettancourt Institute, the Goeldi Museum, the Theater of Peace, and the Lauro Sodré Institute, where he will be offered lunch. Later in the afternoon the Charleston will leave this Port destined for Recife (Pernambuco). The Folha do Norte presents its greetings of welcome to the eminent visitor, and invokes his personal well being. The Entry of the Charleston At Salinas. At eight o'clock we received word from Salinas, notifying us that the cruiser Charleston passed there at 6.30 o'clock on the way to our Port. The Visit. The visit which the Secretary of State of the United States makes to Brazil is full of political significance, considering that it is equivalent to that of the President of that Republic, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. -2- And Mr. Elihu Root is in this official representation, since it is forbidden the Presidents of North America to go outside their country during their administrations, even for a single moment. The people being educated in respect to their laws and traditions, none of the predecessors of Col. Theodore Roosevelt has yet attempted to violate this rule. It is natural, therefore, that the present statesman, an honest, upright and just man, does not violate the precedent which would wound this idea, that they saw was fixed in the hearts and will of their countrymen by the superior will and mind of George Washington, the Father of his country, as the Americans in the fervent respect they show his glorious memory, have christened him. In accordance with this principle the Chief of State of that country cannot accept invitations to banquets in any of the Embassies in Washington, nor visit foreign warships coming into American ports, becuase the former like the latter are considered as territory of the nation to which they belong. And the rigorous adherence to this precept, some years ago, gave rise to a sufficiently disagreeable incident. Austria having named a new Ambassador and he not being cognizant of the old prejudice, invited the President to a banquet in the Embassy. It was natural that the President should excuse himself, but the Ambassador, taking the refusal as an insult, asked for his passports. And only after clear and precise explanations, furnished by the Secretary of State, the diplomat consented to withdraw his request for passports. Again this visit has an exceptional value, over and above what has already been set forth. It is the first that an American Secretary of State has made to a foreign country. But it is easily explained why Brazil is-3- the first object of this high proof of friendship, because it is the best consuming market of the products of the great North American Nation, and again because, even if the delegates are not merchants, the principal if not the only object of the Pan-American Congress, is to better the conditions of commerce between the United States and the South American Republics. Under these conditions, the presence of General Root, although he is not invested with the character of a delegate, will have great influence over the deliberations of the Congress. He will do everything possible to stimulate the development of commercial relations between the North and South of this continent, and as he is a stateman of profound knowledge, his suggestions, without the least doubt, will be of great value and influence. OTHER RULING DISPOSITIONS. Once we explain why President Roosevelt does not make this visit in person, we are going to tell our readers some interesting things concerning the private laws, which the Presidents of North America have to obey and do obey, not because they are described in books, but because they live in the memory of everybody. In some respects they enjoy much greater privileges than the European Monarchs, but the social customs are very strict. Above all for his election it is necessary that he belong to a branch of Protestantism, since it seems to them that a Roman Catholic could not act with equanimity towards other religions. The President cannot call unless called upon, nor entertain any one except a crowned head of Europe. The wife of the President cannot make visits, but she can receive in her at homes, the invitations to which are issued on cards, with the White House in the left hand corner, in silver,-4- and announcing the date and the hour. The President cannot play any game of chance on Sundays, nor can he amuse himself with sport on that day. The President never seats himself on the left in a carriage. This rule can be violated only if he takes the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps with him in the carriage. On the other hand the Presidents have privileges which crowned heads do not have. If the country is at war, it is the President of the White House, and not the Minister of War of his administration, who commands. He can interfer in matters of regulation, and can appoint the most humble citizen to the most exalted position without the sanction of Congress. As Captain of all the ports of the United States, he can, under any pretext, prevent the entry of a ship into any of them, and Congress cannot revoke that decision, even though such an act on the part of the President should jeopardize the peace of the country. And what is even more important, he can make a commercial or other sort of treaty with any country without having to consult with his Senators. But even though the President can, by his own act, make peace with a country, with which he is at war, he cannot declare war; a prerogative which most Kings hold. If the President gets himself into financial difficulties, the laws of the country to not give him immunity from imprisonment for debt.[*[For attachment see 7-17-06]*][*attached to Root 7-17-06*] For Mrs. Roosevelt.[*Enc in Bonaparte 7-17-06*] [*[ca. 7-17-06]*]THE SQUARE DEAL ARMOR PLATE CONTRACT OYSTER BAY EXIT, THE SQUARE DEAL —BY [DeMa?]U.S.S. Villalobos, Chefoo, China, July 18, 1906. [*Ackd 8-23-06*] My dear Mr. President, After a very pleasant cruise to Asiatic waters via the Suez Canal I arrived at Shanghai last month and after passing my examinations for Senior Lieutenant, took command of the Villalobos which is a fine little gun boat of four hundred ton's displacement and eight guns. I've just finished a cruise down the Yang tse kiangstopping at different ports and visiting the different officials and missionaries. At present everything in China is quiet but there is, among the Chinese, a certain underground current of trouble which is growing stronger each day and which may break out at any time. If trouble does come I sincerely hope my ship will be on hand and have an opportunity to take an active part. I want to thank you, sir, for your great kindness to me and especially for sending me, before my departure from Washington; your photograph which I will always treasure most highly. With kindest regards for Mrs Roosevelt and Ted and with profound respect I am, sir, Your obedient servant, Adolphus Andrews. [*Ackd 7-20-06*] July 18th 1906 135 EAST SIXTY-NINTH STREET My dear Mr. President Having that good wish from all the family made a great deal of difference in the anniversary for us both- It made the Locust tree, and all the family that drove over to help us marry under it, seem very near-On account of our being in Farmington, we missed the telegram, on the day, and it was delayed by following us back to New York but was very good to get in the end and we want to thank you all for thinking of us- We hate to wish for many more dentist appointments for Ethel and Kermit but it has been nice having them brought to town and "band box" so often and has made summer in town not nearly so lonely for Bob and me. Our love and thanks to Mrs Roosevelt for her share in the telegram- Affectionately, Isabella Munro-Ferguson July 17th 1906— [*Mrs. R.H.M. Ferguson*][*Ackd 7-20-06*] July 18. [*[06]*] TELEPHONE NATICK 127-4 WINYATES, SHERBORNE, MASS. Dear Bro. Roosevelt, Thanks ever so much for your bully letter. Bro Roger Derby & I were on the point of coming to see you when I got it but we decided not to do so unless absolutely necessary. The situation as regards the race with theEnglishmen is as follows: We have called Peter Higginson who you may remember was captain in '99 & '00 who is now in London & also we got word to Lehmann, to do their best to get the Cambridge Crew to-gether. This of course is the difficulty as they are at present scattered about. Yesterday we had a cable from Higginson to say that Lehmann had written all the Cambridge crew & that he would wire results. He also added that he was very hopeful. We realized that it would be almost impossible for you to act in any way that would be unofficial. We did not want to put the Englishmen in a positionwhere they could not with grace refuse if they found it impossible to arrange the match. We feared that a message from you might be misunderstood & would put them in such a position. Your moral support of the scheme as expressed in your letter helped a whole lot however, and made us realize your keenness for such a match, and I want to thank you again. Yours in P.C. O.D. FilleyTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 WH RA GI 83 Paid Govt---9:55a The White House, Washington, D. C. July 18. [*[06]*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Following received last evening: "Guatemala The President: I have the honor to advise Your Excellency that I have issued orders to the Army for the beginning of the armistice tomorrow, the eighteenth of July, at 5 A.M., the President of Mexico having assured me that the President of Salvador has been notified, likewise to suspend all operations from that time if not sooner. I reiterate to Your Excellency my highest consideration. Manuel Estrada Cabrera." Rudolph Forster, Asst. Secy.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 4 WH KQ GI Paid Govt---8:45p The White House Washington, D. C. July 18. [*[06]*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary. The following cablegrams, sent this afternoon, are sent you by direction of Secretary Bacon: "Thompson, American Embassy, Mexico: "We have cabled following to Brown, Guatemala: "'Deliver following to Combs as soon as he arrives and give copy to Merry: "The President deems it of vital importance that no mistrust should be suffered to exist in the Conference as to the policy of Mexico and its representatives. You may, in case of manifest doubt, make discreet use of the of the following authorized statement cabled by Ambassador Thompson, seventeenth instant: "'If Guatemalan President really has fears as to the attitude now and good intentions for the future of President Diaz he does him a very great injury and President Roosevelt may in any terms pleasing to him by permission of President Diaz assure President Cabrera of this fact. The attitude of President Diaz in this Guatemalan-Salvadoran affair is precisely the same as that of President Roosevelt and his desires for the future peace, good government and happiness of the Central American States are the same.' "Brown cables three representatives from Guatemala will attend conference on Marblehead which is expected to arrive San Jose tomorrow. We have authorized Merry and Combs or Brown to attend purely in a friendly, advisoryTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2. capacity, the negotiations being directly between the representatives of belligerents. We assume that President Diaz has similarly authorized his representative, who, we understand, will be Gamboa." Bacon, Acting. Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 3 H FD GI 107 Paid Govt---3:09p The White House, Washington, D. C. July 18. [*[06]*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay. Following just received: San Salvador July 18th. Your cipher telegram dated yesterday has been received. Your instructions carefully noted. Government of Nicaragua appointed native representative, my representation of Costa Rica pro forma; will telegraph from San Jose, Guatemala, on conclusion. Disbanding Salvadorian army possibly troublesome. Can I delay Marblehead Acajutla few days after conclusion of treaty?---Merry. Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2. Mexico, July 18 [*[06]*]--4 P.M. President Diaz is much gratified by the sentiments expressed as from President Roosevelt in your telegram seventeenth. Will at once telegraph Minister Gamboa, in Guatemala.----Thompson." Rudolph Forster, Assistant secretary.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2 WH RA GI 82 Paid Govt----[1?????] The White House, Washington, D. C. July 18. [*06*] Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay. Following just received: "Guatemala July 17, 4 P.M. Armistice arranged for tomorrow, Wednesday, six o'clock A.M. Government of Guatemala already ordered cessation of hostilities. Marblehead arrives San Jose Thursday morning for peace conference, three delegates from Guatemala and myself will attend---Brown." Rudolph Forster, Assistant Secretary.[*Ackd 7-21-06*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON. (CONFIDENTIAL) July 19, 1906 My Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to enclose herewith copies of a letter from Kuhn, Loeb & Company to Professor Hollander and the reply of Senor Velazquez accepting Kuhn, Loeb & Company's proposal. This contract, which will be put into more formal shape, I consider of the greatest importance to Santo Domingo and to the prospects of treaty ratification. This transaction will supply Santo Domingo with the means to refund their entire debt, and upon most advantageous terms as compared with similar transactions with Mexico and Cuba in recent years. This should be a very strong argument in favor of ratification at the next session and of the maintenance of the modus vivendi in the meantime. I heartily congratulated Senor Velazquez, and I think it will be very gratifying to him if you allow me to express your own satisfaction and congratulations, should you so desire. Very respectfully yours Robert Bacon The President Oyster Bay, Long Island.[For 3 enc see 7-19-06 Memo 7-19-06 Velazquez 7-17-06 Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. (CONFIDENTIAL) July 19, 1906 Memorandum I have called the attention of Senor Velazquez and Doctor Hollander to certain apparent inconsistencies in this letter of Kuhn, Loeb & Company such as that "the bonds to be secured by a first lien upon the entire customs revenue of Santo Domingo", and to the provision that "the proper administration of the customs and the collection of the revenue * * * be absolutely under the control of the United States Government." Doctor Hollander assures me that both these paragraphs are understood by the purchasers to be not strictly accurate but that in these provisions, as well as others, the terms of the present treaty with Santo Domingo are perfectly satisfactory to them. ---o0o---[Enc. in Bacon, 7-19-06][*Ackd 7-20-06*] 23 WEST TWENTY-SIXTH STREET. July 19 / 06. My dear Theodore - It was awfully good of you & yours to send that message to Isabella, and I don't have to tell you how we both felt about it - We heard of it by telephone (vaguely, in Sunday Farmington.) & received it here in N.Y forwarded, after we left Anna's. It did much good - at the scene of the honeymoon - and helped us still more vividly to remember the little ceremony under the old Locust Tree - with all those present. Confidentially would you mind if I got Ronald to ask Reid for some information as to how you are hampered at times in Wash'n? It's all very well to wish not to hurt a predecessor's feelings. (apart from having plans all crammed full by the late lamented Gov't.) but the nation or nation's welfare seems of more importance than these. Ronald realizes it fully, but the others? R. wd be as you know perfectly discreet. It will go no farther than E. G. Yours R H Ferguson [*[Ferguson]*] [*This as a last attempt!*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. RECEIVED IN CIPHER. 3 WH RA NE 308 Paid Govt 12:05 P.M. The Wjite House, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1906. Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Following is portion of long cablegram from Ambassador Thompson, Mexico: "Very confidential. President Diaz says he early was appealed to by cabinet of Salvador for moral support in the war then contemplated against Guatemala, in which it seemed likely other States were likely to become interested. He was asked to sell several thousand guns, all of which he refused and advised the agents of Salvador at the time that he did not approve of their intention against Guatemala. He has held Barillas, the chief rebel in Guatemala's internal strife from returning to Guatemala and now he is so doing. Personally, I want to say that no man could be nearer right in any matter than President Diaz has been through this whole thing, and to me it has been very plain from the beginning that at heart he has been just as sincere as his every act would make him appear to be. The suspicions of Guatemala would seem to come from their own acts and aggressions as explained by President Diaz, advantage of which might have been but was not taken." R. Forster, Asst. Secretary. [*Remainder coming by mail in pouch*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2 WH RA GI 209 Paid Govt--10a The White House, Washington, D. C. July 19, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Following cablegrams received last evening: "Guatemala, July 18, 1906, 12 Noon. I fully recognize the powerful cooperation of President Diaz, and I have constantly emphasized to to President Estrada the necessity of said cooperation. Concerning the presence of Mexican Minister at the Peach Conference, in the absence of instructions on this point and the fact neither Guatemala nor Salvador requested his presence, and that Mexican Minister had no instructions, I requested definite instructions. I believe cooperation of Mexico in Peace Conference most desirable. (Brown). Guatemala, July 18, 4 P.M. Guatemalan Government states that Mexican Minister will attend Conference tomorrow and that Mexico advised Guatemala to invite Honduras to participate in the Conference, stating that this has been done. Minister Combs arrives in time for the Conference. (Brown.). Guatemala, July 18, 3 P.M. Consul at Teguicigalpa telegraphs Honduras desires peach and will not trouble Guatemala. Have telegraphed Alger in harmony with your instructions.-(Brown.) Champerico 3 P.M. Arrived Champerico; reach City tonight----Combs. [*[Forster ?]*][*F*] MICAH J. JENKINS Collector. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, COLUMBIA S. C. July 19th, 1906 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Dear Mr. President: Your recent letter to me was duly received, and, of course, your wishes will be scrupulously carried out. I am sending you by mail a copy of this week's Saturday Evening Post -- the first article in which by Alfred Henry Lewis,2 is to my mind so timely and logical and true, that I wish to make sure that it does not escape you. I view this matter, as Mr. Lewis evidently does, from the standpoint of an American to whom his country is infinitely dearer than any one section thereof. I wish for you, sir, complete rest and a happy vacation. I am, Very sincerely yours, Micah J. Jenkins.[*F*] THE CENTURY CO. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK July 19th, 1906 My dear Mr. President: I have received Mr. Loeb's letter and have written to The Svornost giving permission to republish "The Strenuous Life" as a serial in that paper. I hope we may one day have another serial from you for The Century. Every now and then we hear rumors of possible future work by you which would fit into our pages most admirably. I hope we may be considered whenever anything of the kind is contemplated, as, for instance, the account of your travels around the world or elsewhere, whenever they may be undertaken. Believe me, Very sincerely yours, Frank H. Scott To the President Oyster Bay, New York.[*Ackd 7-23-06*] Central Christian Advocate KANSAS CITY, MO. CLAUDIUS B. SPENCER, EDITOR July 19th, 1906. Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Dear Sir:- The address of Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse University, in which he made strictures on the President of the United States, aroused wide spread attention. Commenting on the same in an editorial of some length, and appreciative of the President, the Central Christian Advocate made this statement, among others: [*We are quite sure that Chancellor Day's reflections on the President strike no sympathetic chord in the Methodist Church. Not since Lincoln has a President been more the tribune of a people-- the real high priest of the people--than Theodore Roosevelt, gathering into his hands the health, the well-being, the aspirations of the common people. His mistakes of judgment, where there are any, must not be interpreted as a mistaken policy. The people judge their President by his motive. We regret Dr. Day's references to the President and eliminate them from our appraisal of his own motives and vigorous language.*] Chancellor Day replied to that editorial. In enclose you herewith a proof ofhis article. I do this with the sincere request that you make or have made any comments on the article, which I can utilize in analysing his points. I beg to assure you that I write this with the sincerest motives and on the honor of a gentleman. I shall not quote the authenticity of any reply you may send me or have sent me, but Chancellor Day's article is of such importance and the Central Christian Advocate has such standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church and about that that I do not like to print his article by itself. I beg to send you under another cover a copy of our paper. Thanking you for any interest you may take in this matter and assuring you that I shall regard any reply as a personal confidence. I am, Most Respectfully Yours, C.B. Spencer[*[For 1 enc. see Day, 7-2-06]*]GERMAN EMBASSY [Washington] Beverly Farms, Mass. July 19, 1906. Dear Mr. Loeb Could I ask you to be kind enough to hand enclosure to the President? Yours sincerely H. Sternburg. c/o William Loeb Esq. Oyster Bay.[For enc see Sternberg 7-19-06][*Ackd 7-21-06*] IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY [Washington, D.C.} Beverly Farms, Mass. July 19. 1906 Dear Mr. President The Emperor and the Empress & the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess have requested me to express to you their sincerest thanks for the messages To The President Sagamore Hillof congratulation which you have been so kind to convey to them through Ambassador Tower on the occasion of the birth of the little prince. Believe me, Mr. President, yours most sincerely Sternburg[Enc. in Sternberg 7-19-06][*Ackd 7-21-06*] P.O. address Pointe au Pic Province of Quebec Canada [*Personal & Confidential*] Thursday July 19 1906. My dear Mr. President, I arrived here on time played 18 holes of golf yesterday and expect to do the same today. It is delightful. I have seen Judge Harlan. He has said nothing to me yet but I play golf with him Saturday morning when I shall have the whole story. I write to suggest two other reasons which movedSpooner and others who have spoken to you against the proposal to appoint James Harlan to the Interstate Commerce Commission in addition to that which you gave to the Justice and which he answered with some elaboration. One is that it would doubtless be suggested when the question of the Constitutional validity of the Railroad Rate bill comes on for decision, that the appointment of James Harlan had been well timed to secure his father's opinion in favor of a law under which his son held an office [and] the continuance of which would [become seriously] become very doubtful, if the delegation of new powers were held invalid. It could hardly be assumed that Congress would have added to the Commission, if it could not have lawfully given the additional powers conferred in the new act. Again Judge Harlan has now been on the Bench for twenty nine years at the appointment of a Republican President. He is now past seventy three and at the close of this administration,he will be nearly seventy six - It is quite probable that the next Administration will be Democratic - Does he not owe it to the party if his son is to be given what is practically a life office by another Republican president, to retire so that the present Republican administration may appoint his successor and secure the Bench against the appointment by Mr. Bryan of his successor? Especially when he can do this after twenty years service and at the age of 74? Would it not be well[*[7-19-06]*] for you to answer the Judge's letter saying that the question of appointing the remaining commissioner is so important that you must delay till you can have further conference with Senators and members of the Cabinet, whom you are accustomed to consult in such matters, and then suggest the first of the two objections to James' appointment I have given above. When the Judge talks to me about it, I can put the secondto him - It is a little hard for me to accustom myself at once to having nothing to do but I shall readily acquire the habit - My compliments to Mrs Roosevelt - Sincerely yours Wm H Taft The President.FORM NO. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. 1 NY.KQ. 761 Collect via Gal. From Mexico, July 19, 1906. SECSTATE, Washington. President Diaz has given me further the following telegrams, all of which I repeat, thinking it best that President Roosevelt should know in detail all that has passed between here: Guatemala and Salvador: "Guatemala July 17. "President of the Republic of Mexico. "Having taken note of Your Excellency's telegram of this date, I have ordered that at the hour of dawn of to-morrow, the eighteenth, all movement be stopped; the same were stopped this morning at Metapan, but these Salvadorians attacked us at Platanar. I hope to have reciprocity in armistice to-morrow. I renew to our Excellency my high consideration.....M.Estrada C. "Mexico, July 17. "His Excellency Manuel Estrada Cabrera, President of the Republic of Guatemala. "I am advised by President Escalon that armistice shall be observed from the hour of dawn to-morrow; that he has already given instructions in that sense and that if any fighting has been done by his troops the same has been defensive. (Signed) .. Porfirio Diaz." "San Salvador, July 18. "President Diaz. "Your message relating to armistice received. Topstoay at eight thirty a.m. Diciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. From I immediately ordered the suspension of all hostilities, but about nine o'clock yesterday the Salvadorian camp at Metapan was assaulted by the enemy, now within our territory and the fight continued with diverse results, until twelve forty of the same day, at which hour the Guatemalans raised a flag of truce and the armistice was agreed upon at night, covering all that section. To-day at seven o'clock a.m., the Salvadorian camp at Platanar was attacked, the same being on Guatemalan territory, the attack made with sufficient artillery and many reinforcements, and almost at the same time I received your excellency's message of yesterday, and was informed of another message from the American Legation at Guatemala to the American Legation at this place. In both cablegrams I am advised that all hostilities will be stopped from the hour of dawn of the eighteenth instant. The Salvadorian troops have not taken an offensive attitude, except out of strategic necessity, provoked by the enemy. Cabrera has tried, owing to the armistice agreed upon yesterday at Metapan, to take the camp at Platanar by surprise and rout the same. I have already dictated orders I am willing to accept the new armistice proposed for to-morrow, the eighteenth, and I have so instructed my subordinates. Your friend. (Signed) .. Escalon." Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. From (3) "Mexico, July 17, [06] "His Excellency Pedro Jose Escalon, President of the Republic of Salvador. "I am advised by President Cabrera that my telegram fixing the eighteenth shall be observed and I have promised him that the Salvadorian troops will do the same...(Signed)...Porfirio Diaz." Mexico, July 18. "His Excellency Pedro Jose Escalon, President of the Republic of Salvador. "Have just received Your Excellency's message, in which you have been pleased to inform me of the bases you will propose at the conference, or conferences, to be held at an early date on board the "Marblehead." I consider all of them equitable, and hope same view may be taken by the Presidents of Guatemala and Honduras I am at this moment instructing Minister Gamboa to attend said conference, if agreeable to the high-contracting parties...(Signed)...Porfirio Diaz." "Mexico, July 18. "His Excellency Manuel Estrada Cabrera, President of the Republic of Guatemala. "I sincerely appreciate Your Excellency's acceptance which has honored my friendly intervention, and I trust that the armistice initiated shall end with an honorable peace for the three Republics which had unfortunately merged into a State of war. I have on this date authorized Minister Gamboa to attend the conferences to be held on board the "Marblehead."...(Signed)..Porfirio Diaz." Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. From (4) "Mexico, July 18. "Minister F. Gamboa, Mexican Legation, Guatemala. "An armistice having been concerted between the armies of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras, said three governments will enter into peace negotiations through commissioners, who will convene on board the "Marblehead." I understand that the three desire that their conference be attended by the representatives of the United States at Guatemala and Salvador, and that of Mexico at Guatemala. If so, do as they desire with all the precaution that such exceptional case will require. The above authority will be confirmed to you through the Department of Foreign Affairs. . (Signed)...Porfirio Diaz." D.E. Thompson. Received 11:55 p.m. Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED [IN CIPHER] PLAIN LANGUAGE. via Galveston. 1 CO.VF.KQ. 236/237 Collect From Mexico, (Received 7:46 p.m., July 19, 1906). SECSTATE, Washington, The following messages I repeat, thinking they may be of interest in connection with previous ones: "GUATEMALA, July 17, 1906. "President Diaz, Mexico, "I have the pleasure to inform Your Excellency that the armistice agreed upon through your humane and estimable mediation has commenced since the hour of dawn to-day; and on behalf of the interests of Central America I will appreciate if Your Excellency will continue to lend your valuable assistance, authorizing your Minister to the end that with Your Excellency's representation he may attend the peace conference to commence to-morrow, on board the "Marblehead." Kindly give me an early reply....Estrada Cabrera." "SAN SALVADOR, July 18. 1906. "His Excellency Porfirio Diaz, President of the Republic of Mexico, Mexico. "Your message in which you inform me that Cabrera will honor your telegram fixing the hour of dawn of to-day, the 18th, has just been received, at nine o'clock a.m. I had beforehand given orders to comply with your wishes for my part the same as I did with the previous armistice of the 16th...P.Jose Escalon." I have a long message from Salvador to President Diaz setting forth basis of settlement to be exacted by Salvador, thinking that likely the same thing has been sent to Washington I will not code and repeat unless it is desired. THOMPSON. Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. 1 WU.BI.KQ. 12 Collect - From Mexico, (Received 6:54 p.m., July 19, 1906). SECSTATE, Washington. The assumptions in last paragraph of your telegram eighteenth are correct. Thompson. Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,Washington, D. C., July 19, 1906. Messrs. Kuhn, Loeb and Co., William and Pine Streets, New York city. Gentlemen: I have examined the proposition submitted by you for the purchase of a funding loan to be issued by the Dominican Republic, as embodied in your letter of July 17 to Prof. J. H. Hollander. I beg to advise you that the Dominican Republic will accept your proposition, subject to the modification as agreed to in our interview of July 18, that there be added to paragraph 1 of page 2 of your letter the following provision: "except that the right shall be reserved to the Dominican "Government to revise the customs tariff and port dues, provided "such revision shall net reduce the income from such "tariff and dues below $2,200,000 annually. If, however, "under such revision, it shall become established that the "revenue from imports and exports is likely to fall below "the total of $2,200,000, the old tariff is at once to be "restored." If the alternative terms offered, the Dominican Republic will elect elect the purchase of the loan at 96 and accrued interest, with the redemption price to be 102 1/2 and accrued interest. Very truly yours, (Signed) Velasquez[Enc in Bacon 7-19-06]Loomis [*[7-19-06]*][*F*] [*Confidential*] Springfield Ohio July 19th, 1906. Dear Mr. President: Reduced to its final concentrated essence the pith of the argument for the suggested meeting of rulers is this: Could not you accomplish infinitely more for this country and for the advantage of humanity as a whole in an important international crisis than could Mr. McCormick, Mr. Tower, Mr. White or any other American Ambassador? Your personality and individual power would hopelessly outweigh the combined influence of the whole diplomatic corps in a man to man discussion or negotion of a large sort. The time will come when our people will be grateful to the President who goes outside the beaten track and secures some desirable and uncommon consideration from them at the hands of European governments which will tend to augment their trade advantages. I believe a condition warranting such action will arise as soon as hard times come to this country and my only care and concern is that if such opportunity does seem to offer that you may be in a position to take advantage of it-- I earnestly desire this for your sake and for the sake of the country. Very respectfully yours, Francis B. Loomis P.S I enclose two clippings which seem pertinent, and support the argument in my first letter on this subject. [*DISARMAMENT Scheme is Broached to England and France By Italy. Rome, July 14.—Italy has proposed a vital reduction in the fighting strength of herself and her sister powers, Great Britain and France, and these nations have, it is said, entertained the project favorably. Signor Titton, the minister of foreign affairs of Italy, who has been in London and Paris holding conferences with Sir Edward Grey and M. Bourgeois, heads of the foreign offices of their respective countries, is momentarily expected to return here. Upon his arrival he will hold a council of the ministry, and then hasten to Racconigi to consult with King Victor Emmanuel. If a final agreement is reached Italy will immediately reduce her army by two corps, thus taking from her effective force 60,000 men.*][*F*] [*Confidential*] [*William and Edward May Meet. Cologne, July 14.—The Cologne Gazette published a despatch from Berlin saying the reports of a meeting between Emperor William and King Edward are premature. An exchange of views is proceeding between Berlin and London, the newspapers say, to determine the possibility of a meeting, but they have not yet reached a state where the time and place of the meeting can be definitely fixed.*] Springfield Ohio July 19th, 1906. Dear Mr. President: Reduced to its final concentrated essence the pith of the argument for the suggested meeting of rulers is this: Could not you accomplish infinitely more for this country and for the advantage of humanity as a whole in an important international crisis than could Mr. McCormick, Mr. Tower, Mr. White or any other American Ambassador? Your personality and individual power would hopelessly outweigh the combined influence of the whole diplomatic corps in a man to man discussion or negotion of a large sort. The time will come when our people will be grateful to the President who goes outside the beaten track and secures some desirable and uncommon consideration from them at the hands of European governments which will tend to augment their trade advantages. I believe a condition warranting such action will arise as soon as hard times come to this country and my only care and concern is that if such opportunity does seem to offer that you may be in a position to take advantage of it-- I earnestly desire this for your sake and for the sake of the country. Very respectfully yours, Francis B. Loomis P.S I enclose two clippings which seem pertinent, and support the argument in my first letter on this subject. [*DISARMAMENT Scheme is Broached to England and France By Italy. Rome, July 14.—Italy has proposed a vital reduction in the fighting strength of herself and her sister powers, Great Britain and France, and these nations have, it is said, entertained the project favorably. Signor Titton, the minister of foreign affairs of Italy, who has been in London and Paris holding conferences with Sir Edward Grey and M. Bourgeois, heads of the foreign offices of their respective countries, is momentarily expected to return here. Upon his arrival he will hold a council of the ministry, and then hasten to Racconigi to consult with King Victor Emmanuel. If a final agreement is reached Italy will immediately reduce her army by two corps, thus taking from her effective force 60,000 men.*][*Ackd 7-21-06*] SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK July 20, 1906. Dear Mr. President: We have sent you by express a complete set of the edition of your works. These are the thousand sets which we bought in sheets from Gebbie & Company. We have added "Outdoor Pastimes" to the set, as you will see, and put our own imprint on the title-page of each volume. We thought that you would like to have the complete edition containing the "Outdoor Pastimes." I am glad that at last you are having some opportunity for rest and recreation. With best wishes always Faithfully yours Robert Bridges The President.[*PF*] [*Ackd 7-23-06*] United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. File No. AWC-R July 20, 1906. The President, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. President: On January 12,1905, on the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission, you issued an order classifying laborers in the Executive Departments and Offices in Washington who had been illegally assigned to classified work. By the Agricultural Appropriation Act of the same year, approved March 3, 1905, it was provided that the laborers in the Department of Agriculture were placed in the classified service without further examination. The effect of this was to give them the status of clerks and to make it unnecessary for them to submit to examination before securing promotions to higher clerical grades. They were thus given an advantage over employees of other departments similarly situated. On March 11, 1905, you issued an order that laborers classified as clerks should not receive further increase of compensation without examination and certification under the regulations governing promotions from the subclerical to the clerical grade. The last Agricultural Appropriation Act, approved June 30, 1906, provides that the laborers classified by your order shall be eligible for promotion without further examination. Congress by this last act has attempted to specifically take away from you the right to prescribe regulations for the promotion of persons in the Executive-2- service. It is as flagrant an example of legislative interference in Executive affairs as could possibly be imagined. One hundred and twenty-seven persons in the Department of Agriculture are affected by this legislation. It is my understanding that practically without exception they were put in the Department and assigned to classified work not in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary, but because he was practically forced to do so by senators and members of Congress. It seems to me inevitable, therefore, that great pressure will be brought to bear on him to promote them now that there is no legal obstacle to such action. Their number is so large that if Senator Hale, who is responsible for this last legislation, has his way no appointments can be made to the lower clerical grades from the registers for some time to come. The examinations taken by these employees last year under your order of March 11, show that in the great majority of cases persons illegally assigned to classified work have had so little education as to make it extremely unlikely that they can ever develop into satisfactory clerks. I would suggest that it might be advisable to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promote none of these people during the current fiscal year. I appreciate that this is a somewhat radical suggestion, but I am at a loss to see how the situation can be otherwise met, in view of the fact that Congress seems to have specifically forbidden the applying of any test of fitness for promotion in the case of these classified laborers. Very sincerely yours, Alford W. Cooley Commissioner. [*F*] J. SLOAT FASSETT. ELMIRA, N.Y. PERSONAL. July 20th, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Loeb: When are going to take your vacation? I have just returned from my trip to Canada. I did not have a very good time, but a very interesting time nevertheless. I think it would interest you very much if you could look over our sawmill there. You can get some idea of the tremendous speed with which it works when I tell you that the other day it sawed 630 logs in 600 minutes, which is a little over a log a minute. These logs of course are not large ones but some of them run up to twenty inches in diameter, and are hard wood. It is a beautiful thing to see that mill work. It seems alive, and from the time a log is put into the conveyor to be taken up to the mill until it emerges as lumber, the human hand touches it only once. I hope you will have a good time down at Oyster Bay. This New York situation seems to me to be pretty complicated. I do not know but it is well enough to let Mr. Platt and Ben Odell and Black fuss around and advertise their hostility to Higgins if they want to, but I am afraid it will result in strengthening him all the while. There is a tremendous feeling up here in the country among the plain people against Ben Odell, and an increasing feeling against Uncle Tom. He seems to me discredited. I have been, as you know, very tender toward the old man, because I would like to see him permitted to retire, or die, without further unnecessaryHon. William Loeb, Jr., #2. humiliation. Of course any candidate that has Odell's stamp on him this fall is doomed to defeat. I want to thank you very much for your very valuable assistance with reference to these two young lady friends of mine. I am sure if you could see them personally you would acquit me of any improper interest in their case. With best greetings, I am, Very truly yours, J. S. Fassett [*Confidential*][*Ackd 7/24/06*] W. H. H. LLEWELLYN, U. S. ATTORNEY. LAS CRUCES, N. M. E. L. MEDLER, ASST. U. S. ATTORNEY. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. D. J. LEAHY, ASST. U. S. ATTORNEY. LAS VEGAS, N. M. Department of Justice. OFFICE OF THE United States Attorney FOR NEW MEXICO. Albuquerque, New Mexico., July 20, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y. My dear Mr. Loeb:- I am here at Albuquerque to confer with Senator Andrews on the Statehood situation in Arizona. You will remember the large number of letters he mailed to persons in Arizona just before Congress adjourned. We have gone carefully over the replies, which as he had requested, were sent to him here. The general tone of these letters is quite favorable, but of course you must remember they are all from persons who were in favor of jointure. Next week, we are to meet Mr. Hughes of the Tucson Star and ex-judge Wilson and one or two other gentlemen from Arizona, at Deming, N. M., for a conference. Last week I was with Mr. C. A. Spiees, an attorney of Las Vegas, New Mexico. He is the legal representative in New Mexico of the Phelps-Dodge people, whom you remember, are the big copper people of Arizona. Mr. Spiees informed me at that time, that he had just returned from El Paso, Texaco, to which place he was called by a telegram from Prof. Douglas, who is the manager of the Phelps-Dodge interests in New Mexico as well as in Arizona. Prof. Douglas informed Mr. Spiees that the interests he represents would not interfere with the statehood matter inW. H. H. LLEWELLYN, U. S. ATTORNEY. LAS CRUCES, N. M. E. L. MEDLER, ASST. U. S. ATTORNEY. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. D. J. LEAHY, ASST. U. S. ATTORNEY. LAS VEGAS, N. M. Department of Justice. OFFICE OF THE United States Attorney FOR NEW MEXICO. Wm. Loeb-2- New Mexico, but that they would defeat the measure in Arizona regardless of what it cost them; that, if necessary, they would spend a hundred thousand dollars or whatever sum was necessary to insure the defeat of the measure in Arizona. As Prof. Douglas is direct from New York, it is quite certain that his is the policy of the corporations he represents. One of the plans that is now being arranged here, to influence the Arizona people, is to have prepared a statement, showing the rate of taxation in New Mexico, as well as the total value of the taxable property, and a statement of the territorial indebtedness of New Mexico, and have said statement certified to by both the Democratic and the Republican organizations of New Mexico. This will be done to counteract the false statements persistently published in the papers of Arizona concerning the indebtedness of the Territory of New Mexico, which indebtedness in truth and in fact, is less than the indebtedness of the Territory of Arizona. Another plan which is being formulated, is to have a delegation representing the cattle, the sheep and the mining interests of New Mexico arrange to meet delegates from the same interests in Arizona. The delegations going from New Mexico to Arizona for the purposes of holding their meetings and conferences; and we are also trying to arrange to have delegationsDepartment of Justice. OFFICE OF THE United States Attorney FOR NEW MEXICO. Wm. Loeb-3- from a number of the labor organizations of New Mexico visit Arizona for the purpose of creating a sentiment in that territory amongst these different organizations, favorable to jointure. We are very much handicapped for funds to pay the expenses of these different organizations, or rather the men representing them, who will go on these different delegations, for the purposes as above indicated. So far as we know at present, these organizations want the expenses paid of the representatives they send to Arizona. It is impossible to raise sufficient money in New Mexico from amongst our people to do this work in Arizona, many of them thinking that the case is hopeless so far as Arizona is concerned, on account of the open hostility in that Territory, of the big railroad and mining corporations. We believe that with some outside financial assistance, we can carry on a campaign that will result favorably; and that without financial assistance, we are going to be very much handicapped, and the chances are, meet with defeat. If the National Committee would come to our aid, at this time, it certainly would be the thing to do and would almost insure success. After the election and if Arizona votes "yes", thereDepartment of Justice. OFFICE OF THE United States Attorney FOR NEW MEXICO. Wm. Loeb-4- will be no trouble to raise all the funds that are needed to carry on a campaign and pay the necessary and proper campaign expenses and insure Republican success in the new state of Arizona. I had been in hopes that some influence might have been brought on Mr. Cleveland Dodge to stop the fight of his corporation on joint statehood; but it now appears, from the statements made by Prof. Douglas, that they have determined on a vigorous campaign against the proposition, and there is therefore nothing left to expect from them, and nothing left for us to do, but to make the best campaign we can. Of course, it is not our intention to expend even a single dollar for anything in connection with this campaign except for legitimate expenses, such as mailing literature, sending delegations to Arizona and similar work, which is actually necessary and must be done if we expect success. We are having twenty thousand copies of the President's letter printed for circulation in Arizona. I mean by this, the letter in full, just as it was written, and not the letter in part as it was given out in Arizona. I presume you are aware of the part heretofore taken by Mr. Smith, Sec. Hitchcock k's private secretary, against joint statehood, and I am now advised that he is to spend part of the summer in Arizona, as he did last year; and it isDepartment of Justice. OFFICE OF THE United States Attorney FOR NEW MEXICO. Wm. Loeb-5- given out that by the enemies of statehood in Arizona, that he is to assist them in the fight against statehood. Last year, he wired Gov. Otero to have Mr. Bursum, Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of the Territory of New Mexico, wire certain parties of New Mexico, were opposed to joint statehood. Mr. Bursum, while at that time, personally was opposed to joint statehood, refused to comply with his request. Since the passage of the statehood bill, Mr. Bursum has come out squarely in line with the administration and the Republican party in favor of the bill. It does seem to me, that any one connected with the administration who is opposed to joint statehood, should either resign or have the decency to not openly fight the measure; but I really do not see why Mr. Smith should be interested in this measure one way or the other, as he is not a resident of either New Mexico or Arizona. Senator Andrews is devoting his entire time to the campaign for statehood and I will do all that I can to aid the measure as long as any work I do does not conflict with my official duties as United States Attorney. If the Committee could contribute even so small a sum of anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, I will receive same and undertake to see that it is expended for legitimate purposes, and proper vouchers taken for same. Very sincerely, yours, W. H. H. Llewellyn[*Ackd 7-20-06*] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 NY VV GI 17 Govt----9:19a London, July 20. [*[06]*] The President: Proposing on Monday to send wreath in your name for Lady Curzon's funeral. Reid. [[shorthand]][*P.F*] [*nA cal A*] [*[7-20-06]*] To the President of the United States for Theodore Rosevelt. Dear Sir, On my return to Austria at the end of last month, I found your very kind letter of the 25. of April and your beautiful present "The Wilderness Hunter" waiting for me. I would have liked to express you immediately my most sincere thanks but I wished to have finished to read your book to be able to say how much I have enjoyed it. Many recollections of my repeated voyages in the different parts of the United states were brought in the most lively way back to my memory. I turned the last page only sorry that I was at the[*[7-20-06]*] end of such an attractive work. I was lately at Tochl where the Emperor showed me a stuffed chamois that was his 2000, surely a fine record of Alpine shooting. I spended afterwards some days at Milan to see the exhibitions and I am now busy to put in order the material recollected for a study on Parga in Southern Albania that I hope to be able in a not very long time to offer you. Yesterday we had the opening of the new railway and the Archduke Francis Ferdinand was representing the Emperor. In the hope to be able to express you by voice my renewed thanks believe me your most sincere admirer. Archduke Ludwig Salvator Zindis/Trieste/20 of July 1906.[*Accd 7-21-06*] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 NY VV GI 95 Paid Govt ----10:10a Washington, D. C. July 20/21/[*06*] The President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. The Panama bonds are sold and very satisfactorily. When I advertised two per cent thirty year consuls were quoted at one hundred and three and three eights. The new issue payable optional after ten years and due in thirty years therefore not as desirable as consuls brought on an average about one hundred and three ninety five come as high as one hundred and four twenty-three successful bidders in several states including Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, and Wyoming. The issue was subscribed for several times over. L. M. Shaw.[*Ackd 7-20-06*] 4 Wall Street New York My Dear Mr. President: Perhaps it is not important but in this political chaos in this state I want you to know that I will have nothing to do with any Odell-Platt combination for leadership. I was invited to the party butregreted. It has been a little hard at times but I am just as loyal and outspoken in standing by you and what you are trying to accomplish as ever. If at any time I can be of assistance you will of course say so. I am going out of town for a week but after that I shall have my nose to the grindstone for the rest of the summer and if some day you have nothing better to do I should like to run over from Glen Cove and pay my respects. I hope you and yours are very well. Faithfully yours George R. Sheldon To / The President—[*Ackd 7-20-06 PPF*] TELEPHONE: 4919 CORTLANDT. CABLE ADDRESS, PAIN, NEW YORK. THE PAIN MANUFACTURING CO. MAKERS OF Pain's Manhattan Beach Fireworks AND AT CHICAGO, BOSTON, LONDON AND PARIS. New York, July 20, 1906 PRINCIPAL FIREWORKS DISPLAYS MANHATTAN BEACH 1879 TO DATE. WORLD'S FAIR, CHICAGO, 1893. PAIN'S ELECTRIC FIREWORKS. DEWEY CELEBRATION NEW YORK 1899. INAUGURATION OF THREE PRESIDENTS. AT WASHINGTON. G.A.R. ENCAMPMENTS. IN 15 CITIES. CONTRACTORS AT 10 EXPOSITIONS INCLUDING PARIS AND BUFFALO. ALL THE GREAT FIREWORKS DISPLAYS GIVEN IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1880. PAIN'S FAMOUS SPECTACLES. MARINE SIGNALS, DISTRESS ROCKETS, NAVAL & MILITARY, EQUIPMENTS. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS. The Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- In July 1904, we received in payment for fireworks, a check for $13.50 signed by the President, drawn on Oyster Bay Bank to the order of Mrs. J. West Roosevelt, and duly endorsed. This check was mislaid, and has just come to light. Kindly advise if we shall now deposit it, and oblige. Yours truly, M. A. Smith Treasurer. COLOSSAL FIREWORKS DISPLAYS. THE GREATEST FIREWORKS DISPLAY EVER GIVEN: The Inaugural of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition--the World's Fair at St. Louis, May 1st, 1903. Pan-American Exposition, 1901. Coronation of Edward VII, 1902. Inauguration of the Commonwealth, Sydney, Australia, 1901. Cuban Republic Festivities, Havana, 1902.Copy. Vallejo, Cal. July, 20, 1906 To the Naval Constructor in charge C. and R. Dept. Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal. Sir: We respectfully request that a ruling be made in regard to the Presidents executive order for Saturday half holidays as to whether or not it applies to the shipkeepers employed at this yard. We realize that it would be impossible for all our men to be allowed the Saturday half holiday at one time, but some arrangement can probably be made whereby we should benefit by it. If no other way should present itself we would be very willing to have it added to our fifteen days with pay or would be satisfied with over-time pay for the same. There are also seven(?) oter holidays during the year for which we receive no extra compensation. If we have the good fortune to be away on leave with pay and one of these days is included in our leave we receive pay for it but if we have to work on that day, we are only paid straight time. This does not seem consistent. Very Respectfully A. N. Williams Acting for Ship Keepers.[Enclosed in Williams 8-20-06][*Ackd 7/26/06*] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON. W. H. ANDREWS, DELEGATE, NEW MEXICO. Albuquerque, N. M. July 21st, 1906 Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York My dear Mr. Loeb:- Your letter of July 11th I found here when I reached Albuquerque the night of the 18th. It certainly was a great mistake that the Rodger's letter was printed in such a garbled form, but it is now straightened out and I will have it put into shape and have it circulated as a campaign document. Now I want to get up a button to be used in Arizona and New Mexico for the joint statehood campaign. My thought was to have a button similar to this design, but I wish you would consult with the President and see if he has any objection. I will not do anything until I hear from you. If the President consents to it, I wish you would send me a small picture, which I may send to the people who make these buttons. I have received a great many letters from Arizona, the majority of whom seem to be favorable to the President's policy regarding joint statehood. I heard to-day that Governor Kibbey, who is the Chairman of the Republican Territorial Committee of Arizona, has called the committee to meet early in August in Phoenix and I also understand the Democratic Central Committee is also to meet on the same day and they are both to declare against joint statehood. I don't quite see how the Republican Committee can be in any shape to declare against joint statehood, particularly so in view of the President's letter to Mr. Rodgers, in which is set forth so emphatically his attitude on the question. If the Committee does act in this manner it is simply an outrage. I am to meet two members of the Committee at Deming on Wednesday. I am going to take Major Llewellyn with me. He was here the other day, but has now gone home. I would like very much to get into communication with Mr. John Mitchell, the President of the Mine Workers of America. He is a great friend of the President and I believe if we could induce him to come out to Arizona we could swing that whole miners' vote. If we could induce him to come, I would like to have (Andrews W.H.)HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON. W. H. ANDREWS, DELEGATE, NEW MEXICO. W. J. L. No. 2, 7/21/06 him wire me and I could meet him on the road and have a little chat with him and outline what I want to do. I do not know that the President would want me to do this, but I thought I would suggest it. I do not know how else I can reach Mr. Mitchell. Senator Smoot of Utah has got his people going and I hear very excellent reports from them in Arizona. After Congress adjourned, I went over to New York with Senator Penrose and stayed a few days there endeavoring to reach the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, the Phelps, Dodge people and the Harriman interests, as they are the three great corporations in Arizona and New Mexico. We made some headway and Senator Penrose was to follow it up. So far I have not seen any results from our work, as they are still very bitter and threatening. Mr. Frank Murphy was here on his way home and wired Messrs. Bursum and Luna to meet him and offered to put up quite a sum of money for the papers here. Of course they declined and stated that New Mexico was for joint statehood. I am quite sure that both the Republican and Democratic Conventions will declare for joint statehood when they meet about the first of September - that would insure practically an unanimous vote in New Mexico. Now the rub in Arizona and if the corporations as I have outlined above, will lay down and leave it alone and allow the people to vote in their own way, we can carry the proposition. If they keep up their hostility and nothing can be done to shut them off, as a last resort I am going over to Arizona myself and help organize these counties and I believe I can lick them out. In writing, please address me at Albuquerque, as my mail will always reach me from there. With kind regards to the President and yourself, I remain, Sincerely, Wm. H. Andrews Delegate from New Mexico[*Ackd Encl retd 7-23-06*] B-E DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. July 21, 1906. The President: I have the honor to enclose a copy of a despatch from the Legation at Berne, together with its original enclosures, a letter addressed to the President by Mr. Robert Harvey, accompanied by a sketch of a monument which it is proposed to erect at Geneva in commemoration of the achievements of the Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of soldiers wounded in armies in the field. Respectfully submitted, Robert Bacon Acting Secretary. Enclosures: From Switzerland, unnumbered, July 30, 1906, with four enclosures.TELEGRAM. CIPHER. The White House, Washington. Guatemala, (Received 10:56 p.m., July 21, 1906). The Secretary of State, Washington. July 21, 5 p.m. I have the honor to suggest that Minister Merry remain in Salvador until troops are disbanded. Combs. -KQ-[*Ackd 7-23-06*] OFFICE OF SETH LOW 30 EAST 64TH STREET NEW YORK Northeast Harbor, Maine. July 21, 1906. My dear Theodore: I have received a letter from Henry Beach Needham of The Success Magazine, proposing the formation of what he calls "A People's Lobby", at Washington, for the purpose of keeping track of legislation in Congress, as The City Club, for instance, does of legislation at Albany. He wants me to interest myself in the undertaking, and says that he is at liberty to refer to you upon the subject. In a general way, I should think that such an organization, well managed, might be very useful, but I am not entirely clear that I care to give my own time and attention to it. I am not quite sure whether the results to be expected will justify the effort, neither am I wholly sure that such an enterprise, floated, as it were, by a magazine, could command the wide confidence that would be essential to its usefulness. I shall be very glad to know how the matter strikes you, with your very intimate knowledge of conditions at Washington. I wrote to Taft the other day, asking him what he would think of the formation of a Filipino Tariff League. It seems to me that it is always going to be difficult to secure really intelligent tariff legislation for the Filipinos, unless there is some agency prepared to contend for them and to do educational work in their interest. I have kept clear of all the Filipino Associations heretofore formed, because they seemed to me to have their [region] origin, substantially, in antipathy to our relations to the Islands; but a League organized toOFFICE OF SETH LOW 30 EAST 64TH STREET NEW YORK (The President) (2) deal simply with the economic relations between the Islands and the United States might, it seems to me, be very useful. Believe me Yours faithfully, Seth Low The President, Oyster Bay, New York.TELEGRAM. CIPHER. The White House, Washington. Panama, (Received 7:45 p.m., July 21, 1906). The Secretary of State, Washington. Secretary of state for foreign affairs requests authorization to communicate to governors in the provinces my dispatch embodying your cable concerning the reply of Colombian Government to representations relative to cruiser Cartagena incident, in order, as he says, to allay excitement. Magoon. -KQ-TELEGRAM. CIPHER CABLEGRAM. The White House, Washington. San Salvador, (Received 12:05 p.m., July 22, 1906.) Secretary of State, Washington. Telegram from President of Honduras: I am requested to present the President of the United States gratitude of the government and people of Honduras for his friendly and efficient mediation in obtaining peace between Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Merry. -Fd-TELEGRAM. CIPHER. The White House, Washington. STATE DEPARTMENT, July 22, 1906. 12:51 p.m. Merry, Salvador, The President greatly appreciates cordial message of President of Honduras. You will express thanks of the President in terms similar to his reply of yesterday to delegates. Bacon. -Fd-TELEGRAM. SENT IN CIPHER. The White House, Washington. STATE DEPARTMENT, July 22, 1906. Merry, San Salvador, Sal. Your presence in Salvador seems advisable at least until troops disbanded. You will therefore remain until further instructed. Bacon. -Fd-TELEGRAM. RECEIVED IN CIPHER. The White House, Washington. Guatemala, (Received July 23, 1906, 4:45 p.m.) Secretary of State, July 23, 10 a.m. Government of Guatemala has issued a decree making effective treaty of peace, which has been received with enthusiasm. Safe-guards for the future especially valued. Political prisoners released and retirement policy of this government has begun. Great obligations are expressed for personal interest and your controlling influence. Combs. --RA--[*Ackd & enc retd 7/27/06*] CUSHING'S ISLAND MAINE July 23, 1906- Dear Mr. Loeb;- I enclose a second letter from Col. Lowden- Can you not send me a letter on the line suggested? I haven't any of my papers here & have forgotten the exact words of the Rev. Landon — but I have written to my Secretary in Washington to forward them to you- possibly you have a memorandum there. I Have had the pleasureToday & entertaining the Cortelyous, here on the Island & on a trip down the Bay - They have had a delightful time at Halifax & St John, & are now on their way to the White Mts. Littlefield apparently is going to pull through all right in his district; but there is some prospect of a close haul on the Governorships - on account of the Pinkerton issue. Sincerely yours L. A. Coolidge[*Ackd 7-25-06*] Mackinac Island, Mich. July 23d, 1906. My Dear Mr. President: The fact that you did me the honor to mention the subject of Justice Brown's succession in the interview of last May, and the very deep interest I feel in the subject, will I trust, excuse a further communication upon the same matter. In the event of Judge Taft's declination of the place, I hope you can see your way to the appointment of Judge Lurton of Tennessee. I know him to be preeminently qualified for the duties of the place. He could take hold from the start of his full share of the work of the court and doThis appointment would, in my opinion, best fulfill the requirements of the situation from every point of view. It could not fail of accomplishing the purpose of giving to the country a wise, upright and faithful Judge on the court of last appeal. I know how near to your heart this duty lies, and actuated by my own interest in the work and influence of the Court I have said this word of perhaps unnecessary suggestion. Very Respectfully William R. Day Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y. his part with great credit and to the satisfaction of the country, bar and litigants. May I say that a man of experience and immediate capacity for usefulness is needed. Judge Lurton has wide Judicial experience, Federal and State, untiring industry and will continue to be a safe and sound Judge. I believe his appointment will reflect honor upon your administration and be to you a source of satisfaction. In thus addressing you I believe I am primarily influenced by the consideration of the usefulness and influence of the Court for the country's good. [*F*] WILLIAM H. FLEMING, LAWYER, 215-216 LEONARD BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA July 23, 1906. To the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My Dear Sir:- Please accept my sincere thanks for your letter of July 18th in reference to my address at Athens on the Race Question. The first time that I am in Washington, when you are not too busy with Congress "on your hands", I shall certainly take great pleasure in calling upon you and having further discussion on those points of the address which especially interest you. You will be pleased to know that a few days ago the Committee of the Georgia legislature reported against the passage of the Disenfranchisement Bill without a dissenting vote. If Georgia should show her ability to properly manage this question without violating the federal constitution, and without depriving qualified colored men of their rights as American citizens to deposit their ballots, a great deal will have been accomplished by way of a good example to our sister states of the South. When Mr. Dana Estes of Boston publishes my address as he intends to do at an early day, in better and more permanent form, I shall do myself the pleasure of sending you a copy. Assuring you again of my personal appreciation, I remain, Very sincerely and cordially yours, Wm. H. Fleming58215 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, July 23, 1906 The Secretary of War. Sir: I answer to your communication of the 17th instant, concerning an opinion of Mr. Russell as to a contract for Chinese laborers to work on the Panama Canal and saying that you had brought the matter to the attention of the President, and he thought it wise to get the Attorney General's judgment as well as that of Mr. Russell, I have the honor to send you herewith Mr. Russell's opinion with the Attorney General's endorsement upon it. I return herewith the papers accompanying your letter. Respectfully, H. M. Hoyt, Acting Attorney General.[For 4 encs see 5-15-05 7-12-06 6-29-06 6-29-06][*Ackd 7-26-06*] United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. HORACE H. LURTON, U. S. CIRCUIT JUDGE. NASHVILLE, TENN. July 23, 1906. My dear Mr. President: Many thanks for the fine address of Mr. Fleming. I do not personally know him, but shall write him a cheering word. The broad statesmanship and the high moral tone of the address are inspiring. From such men will come the salvation of the South. Nor are they rare. His sentiment, that, if we are to preserve the gap between the white and the negro race, we must "do it by lifting ourselves up, not by holding him down", is the prevailing view of the better class of our people. I am glad he spoke out so plainly in reference to the "Grandfather" clause in one or two of our state constitutions. As a lecturer upon constitutional law, I have been warning my law students of the "Vanderbilt" of the crookedness of that device, and the inevitable result when the question is made in such a way as to compel a decision by the Supreme Court. I am glad that in Tennessee, public opinion has never sanctioned any such device. The Australian ballot system prevails here. A party emblem is not allowed, and every voter must for himself, make a cross-mark opposite the name of each candidate he wishes to vote for. If he is so absolutely ignorant as not to be able to do this, he may lose his vote. But he does this of his ownUnited States Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. HORACE H. LURTON, U. S. CIRCUIT JUDGE. NASHVILLE, TENN. 2/ volition, for the very slight education he must have to mark his ballot inteligently, is something he can easily acquire, if he will. The law applies to all alike and tends to independent voting. The historical aspects of the subject of slavery touched upon Mr. Fleming reminded me of a very rare document in my library, being an address to the people of Tennessee by the delegates to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1834, explaining why the proposed constitution did not provide for emancipation. The attitude of the majority of the convention, you will see, was sympathetic, and the minority would have no excuse for delay about the matter. I am sending you a typewritten copy taken from the Journal of the Convention, knowing your taste for such forgotten pages of history. Your sincere friend, Horace H. Lurton To His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Oyster Bay, N. Y.[For enc. see ca 7-23-06][*Ackd 7-24-06*] LAW OFFICES OF DAVID B. OGDEN, 54 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. ROBERT H. HUTCHINS. 23rd July, 1906. To the President: I have learned from Mr. William D. Foulke that he has recently spoken with you about Mr. Francis A. MacNutt, and has shown to you a memorandum of certain statements made by Colonel A. L. Snowden, of Philadelphia, in relation to Mr. MacNutt, which statement Mr. Snowden promised to sign, if embodied in a letter addressed to Mr. John Hampton Barnes, of Philadelphia as counsel for myself. I have also seen a letter which Mr. Foulke wrote to you a short time ago, stating that Mr. Snowden had subsequently refused to sign this letter, and suggesting that you should appoint someone to see Mr. Snowden with Mr. Barnes, in order to obtain from him an exact statement in regard to his relations with Mr. MacNutt while the latter was Secretary of Legation at Madrid in the years 1892-3. Mr. MacNutt married my cousin, Miss Margaret Van Cortlandt Ogden, to whom I am deeply attached. In her behalf, but not professionally, I have given a great deal of time during the past winter to an investigation of Mr. MacNutt's career, with the sole and sincere purpose of ascertaining the exact truth, and I believe him to be innocent, not only of the charges made against him in Rome, in May, 1905, but also of all other charges of which I have2-- heard, including those made by Col. Snowden. In the course of these investigations, I saw Mr. Root and Mr. Taft in Washington, and learned from them that it would be impossible to procure any investigation to be made by the State Department into the matters connected with Mr. MacNutt's conduct in Spain in 1892 and 1893, when attached to our Legation there, although I pressured earnestly to have some such investigation made. Recently I learned from abroad that it was said there by persons who, I was informed, were in a position to know, that a communication had been received by someone in Rome, either directly from yourself or stated to be approved by you, containing, for the information of Ambassador White, statements very derogatory to Mr. MacNutt. What these statements were I do not know, but I assume they relate to the charges made by Mr. Snowden. This information disturbed me exceedingly, and I immediately resolved to make an application on behalf of Mrs. MacNutt to Mr. Snowden himself, to learn exactly what it was with which he had charged Mr. MacNutt, and what proofs he had. For that purpose I retained Mr. John Hampton Barnes, of Philadelphia, a lawyer of the highest standing and integrity. The result of Mr. Barnes' communications with Mr. Snowden have, I believe, already been shown you by Mr. Foulke. It may be that I am misinformed that you have ever sent or allowed to be sent any communication respecting Mr. MacNutt to Rome,3-- or to Ambassador White, but, if you have done so, then, Mr. President, I feel constrained on behalf of Mrs. MacNutt, most earnestly to ask that you should do that which Mr. Foulke has suggested, and send someone in whom you have confidence, to Mr. Snowden with Mr. Barnes, who shall ask Mr. Snowden in your name what is the truth about Mr. MacNutt and the sources of his knowledge of any facts which he may state. Mr. Snowden has obviously lied to someone, and is, therefore, unworthy of credit, but, it will conduce to the discovery of the truth if he were asked, face to face with Mr. Barnes, to tell his story for your information. You will appreciate, I am sure, that believing as I do that the stories told by Snowden are wholly false, (and I think I am the only person who has investigated them) and knowing as I do the awful misery in which the poor lady, Mrs. MacNutt, has been plunged, I feel it my duty to make this application to you, which I do with all respect and entire confidence that, in view of the statements made by Mr. Snowden to Mr. Barnes, you will not permit your name to be used to Mr. MacNutt's injury without ascertaining what the facts really are. [*I remain with the highest considerations of respect & esteem Your obd't svt, David B. Ogden*][*Reynolds, James B*] [*Ackd 7/25/06*] Chocorua, New Hampshire, July 23, 1906. William Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, Long Island. Dear Mr. Loeb:-- I have been informed that a Miss Winkler from Germany has secured as appointment for an interview with the President. She comes to this country, I believe, to secure the formation of a National Organization, to be in alliance with existing National and International Organizations of Europe, to protect girls and young women while traveling, and to check the so-called White Slave Traffic. The movement is a most praiseworthy one, and the International Conference in Paris in October ought to have delegates from this country. I made some investigation of the movement in Europe, and know that it has the support of the best people. The matter is, however, a delicate one, as you know, and it has been suggested to me that Miss Winkler is not the wisest person for the mission. May I suggest, if you think well of it, that you say to the President for me that I would advise having Miss Winkler put herself in communication with Miss Grace H. Dodge, daughter of William E. Dodge, 262 Madison Ave., New York, who will be the best advisor she could have in this country. I have discussed this work at some length with Miss Dodge, and am confident that the President will be more insympathy with her ideas than with those of some others who might be willing to agitate in the matter. I am taking some interest myself in the formation of a National Organization to undertake this work, but if I am to have anything to do with it I want to see it in the hands of people who will be sane and sensible, and will avoid unnecessary publicity. With such ideas I am sure that you will heartily accord. If anything results from the conference which you think you can properly tell me, I shall be very glad to know it. Very cordially yours, James B. Reynolds[*F*] Pointe au Pic July 23 1906. My dear Mr. President, I don't know why Harty should desire to spoil McDonnell's chances but this message came from the prelate on July 16th "Strongly endorse McDonnell Member Municipal Board Manila for Commission Secretary Public Instruction" Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft[*F*] Pointe au Pic July 23, 1906. P.O. Canada Dear Mr. President, I enclose Colton's last confidential letter concerning matters Dominican — He has collected enough revenue to deposit in round numbers $1,5000,000 in the City Bank in New York. After reading the letter I suggest it be sent to Bacon and then returned to my files in the War Department. Sincerely yours Wm H TaftForm No. 282. TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. 2 WU.BI.KQ. 49 Collect via Galv. From Mexico, July 23, 1906. President Diaz is much pleased with the kindly sentiments expressed by President Roosevelt on the present conclusion of Central American troubles, and hopes for the future; sentimental and most cordial telegrams were received by President Diaz on conclusion of Marblehead conference from Presidents of Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras. Thompson. Received 10:55 p.m. Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,FIFTH-NINTH CONGRESS SERENO E. PAYNE, CHAIRMAN. JOHN DALZELL, CHARLES H. GROSVENOR, JAMES T. MCCLEARY, SAMUEL W. MCCALL, JOSEPH W. BABCOCK EBENEZER J. HILL, HENRY S. BOUTELL, JAMES E. WATSON, CHARLES CURTIS, JAMES C. NEEDHAM, WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, JOHN S. WILLIAMS, SAMUEL M. ROBERTSON, CHAMP CLARK, WILLIAM BOURKE COCKRAN, OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, DANIEL L. D. GRANGER. WILLIAM K. PAYNE, CLERK COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [Washington, D.C.,] Rushville Ind., 7/23/06. My Dear Mr. Loeb: I am this day writing a letter to the President that is of importance. You will doubtless see it and become acquainted with its contents. I regard it as imperative in this campaign that we should have the hearty support of Theodore Roosevelt, and that he should not hesitate to let the country know his views with reference to the result this fall: I feel quite sure that you will agree with me in this contention, for, if his administration is to go out in a blaze of glory, as it ought to do, he must have a Republican House to succeed the one now in existence. Please bring this matter to his personal attention and confer a favor on me. With kind personal regards, I am very truly yours, James E. WatsonCommittee on The Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives U. S. CHAS. H. GROSVENOR, CHAIRMAN. Rushville, Ind. July 23, 1906. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Mr. President:- I desire to supplement what Speaker Cannon is doubtless saying to you about this time. I have been in Missouri making speeches at Congressional Conventions and find the same feeling existing there that exists here. I refer to the somewhat prevalent belief that it makes but little difference to you personally whether a Republican House is elected or not, and that you could get along quite as well with your legislative plans with a Democratic House as with one of your own party. Of course such a statement is so ridiculous that its mere announcement should destroy it, but, strange to say, a great many people believe it and a great many papers continue to state it. A Democratic House would prove disastrous to you and to your plans in every possible way, and it occurs to me that you ought to say so. At any rate, if you will permit me to give my opinion, you should make it clear to the country that you are anxious for a Republican House to be elected this fall in order that your legislative plans may be carried into execution. I suggest that it would be proper for you to write a letter to some member of Congress, and I am quite willing to be the individual, congratulating the House upon the work it accomplished duringCommittee on The Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives U. S. CHAS. H. GROSVENOR, CHAIRMAN. the last session and stating the importance of having a Republican House succeed the one that will go out of existence on the 4th of next March. You know so well how to do this that a few sentences will entirely satisfy the whole country on this question and leave no doubt in the mind of any person hereafter as to your position in this matter. I presume that you had no more faithful or loyal supporter in this last House than I was, representing as I was the House organization, and standing always by you in every contest; and yet, strange as it may seem, there are people in my district even, who are charging that I was not a loyal supporter of the President and was not faithful to the policies he represented. Now, I have made up my mind and have perfected my arrangements to make the campaign with Speaker Cannon from start to finish. This will necessitate my abandoning my district in this campaign. If I thus forsake my own interests and campaign the country, I think that it will be entirely proper for you to speak a word generally that would cover my case as well as other members of the House. A letter to me of a general nature would satisfy the people in my district as well as the people in all other districts and forever set at rest your position as to the importance of the results of the approaching campaign. I have talked the matter over with the Speaker, who will be at my house to visit me next Saturday and Sunday, and he entirely coincides with this view.Committee on The Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives U. S. CHAS. H. GROSVENOR, CHAIRMAN. If you can write such a letter you will confer a very great favor upon me and enable me to proceed in the campaign without fear of embarrassment in my own Congressional district because of supposed disloyalty to you, a thing that you know was as far from my thought as it was to support the Democratic policy in the House. Should such a letter be written to me I can send a copy of it to every member of the House at once and insure its speedy publication throughout the country. I am vain enough to believe that my untiring work in the House for the benefit of the principles for which we all stood, and the work that I have to do in this campaign is such as to entitle me to a statement of this character. Please give this matter your earnest and thoughtful consideration and let me know your conclusions. We are all interested in one work, anxious to achieve one great purpose, one great object, and want to do what is best for the common interest. With my very kindest personal regards, I am, Very sincerely yours, James E. Watson[*[ca 7-23-06]*] [*From Journal of Tenn Constitutional Convention of 1834--*] "Mr. John A. M'Kinney from the committee to whom was assigned the duty of stating the reasons that goverened the Convention, in declining to act upon the memorials presented to them on the subject of slavery, and to whom these memorials were referred, stated that said committee have had the subject under consideration, and respect fully submit the following" Report. "The committee are fully satisfied, that the reason that induced a great majority of the members of the Convention, to refuse to enter upon a lengthy discussion of the perplexing question, propounded by the memorialists, were the utter impracticability of the plan proposed in the memorials, the inexpediency of the measure if it could have been accomplished, both as it respected the dearest interests of the whole community, and particularly of the slave population of this State, and the absolute certainty that the discussion of that subject in the Convention, would produce no result but the waste of time, the expenditure of money, and the destruction of that harmony among the members, the preservation of which, was so necessary to the accomplishment of the great work the people of Tennessee sent the Convention her to perform. The committee do not understand the Convention as denying the truth of the proposition which asserts that slavery is an evil. To prove it to be a great evil is an easy task, but to tell how that evil can be removed, is a question that the wisest heads and the most benevolent hearts have not been able to answer in a satisfactory manner. If slaves in the United States were of the same color and cast of the other members of the community, there would be but little difficulty in the matter. Slavery once existed in the land of our ancestors, but there it has long ago been extinguished, because here the slave and his master were of the same race and wore the same complexion,and when the shackles of slavery fell from the hands of the slave, he mingled with the mass of the community, and there was no trace left to tell his descendents that their ancestors ever had been in a state of servitude. But the African slave stands in a different attitude-he bears upon his forehead a mark of separation which distinguishes him from the white man-as much after he is a free man while he was a slave. and although it may be true that "fleecy locks and black complexion do not forfeit nature's claims," still it is true that those locks and that complexion mark every one of the African race so long as he remains among white men, as a person doomed to dwell in the suburbs of society, after he is free as much as when he was a slave; the gates of society are just as effectually barred against him, and he is as truly denied the privileges of membership with the rest of the community after he becomes a nominal free man as while he was a real slave. But this is not all, the condition of a free man of color surrounded by persons of a different cast and complexion is the most forlorn and wretched that can be imagined. He is a stranger in the land of his nativity, he is an outcast in the place of his residence- he has scarcely a motive to prompt him to virtuous actions or to stimulate him to honorable exertions. At every turn and corner of the walks of life he is beset with temptations, strong, nay, almost irresistable, to the forces of which in most cases he may be expected to yield, the consequences of which must be that he will be degraded, despised and trampled upon by the rest of the community. When the free man of color is oppressed by the proud, or circumvented by the cunning, or is betrayed by those in whom he has reposed confidence, do the laws of the land afford him more than a nominal protection? Denied his oath in a court of justice, unable to call any of his own color to be witnesses if the injury he complains of has been committed by a white man, how many of his wrongs must remain unredressed- how many of his rights be violated with impunity- how poor a boon dors he receive when recieving freedom, if what he recieves can be called by that name. Unenviable as is the condition of the slave, unlovely as slavery is in all its respects, bitter as the draught may be that tya slave is doomed to drink, nevertheless, his condition is better than the condition of the free man of color in the midst of a community of white men, with whom he has no common interest, no fellow feeling, no equality. If the slave is sick he has a master or mistress whose own interest will prompt them to furnish him with food and medicine and attendance suited to his situation; but when a free man of color is laid upon a bed of sickness, who cares for him, what hand supplies his wants, who will step to his humble bed of straw and feel his pulse, or inquire into the symptoms of his disease, or even hand him a cup of cold water to allay his thirst? The slave is almost wholly exempt from care, when his day's work is done lies down and sleeps soundly; if the crops are destroyed by mildew or blasting, his peace of mind is not disturbed thereby, and when old age overtakes him and his limbs require rest and his hand can work no longer, in his master's house the law has provided him with a home and secured him a maintenance. He knows not at any time what it is to hear his children ask for bread when he has none to give them, they too are provided for. But who supplies the wants of the free man of color, when old age overtakes him and he is unable to provide for himself? He has to contend with all the ills of poverty, aggravated by a sense of his own degraded situation, compared with those around him. The cold hand of charity will indeed sometimes throw him the crust that has fallen from the rich man's table, but even these donations he will not at all times recieve, when they are greatly needed. The Convention do not impugn the motives of the memorialists, or in any manner question the benevolence of their hearts or the rectitude of their intentions; but they do believe that the memorialists have not sufficiently considered what would be the practical result of complying with the prayer of their petitions. They are persuaded that the memorialists have not calculated how the the adoption of the plan proposed by them would affect the hopes, the prospects, the dearest interests, of the very persons for whom they feel so much compassion; how it would affect the happiness, the prosperity, the future destinies of this State, the delegated sovereignty of which is now in the hands of the Convention; or in what manner it would operate upon the interest andhappiness of the great family of nations, of which the State of Tennessee is but a single member, and to all of whom she is under a solemn obligation to consult their welfare in common with her own. Suppose a provision inserted in the constitution, that the children of all slaves born after a certain future day, should be free after a certain age; say females at the age of twenty-one and males at the age of twenty-five; what would be the inevitable consequence? Not what the memorialists suppose, but a totally different state of things. Slaves might indeed be banished from this state, but they would not be made free; they would not indeed be slaves in the State of Tennessee but they would be slaves in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, or Arkansas: and would that better their condition? Who supposes that it would? Who does not know that it would not? The Convention could not overlook the certainty that a speedy removal of the slaves from this State, would be the inevitable consequence of any interference on their part with the subject of slavery. The know full well that to banish slavery from the State, is one thing, and to make the slaves free, is altogether a different matter. They believe that before any provision that might be inserted in the Constitution, could operate by the emancipation of a single slave, the greater part of these unfortunate beings would be carried beyond the limits of the State, and be placed forever out of reach of the operation of the Constitution or of any law that might be enacted under its provisions. And could this be prevented? Could the Convention, or the Legislature, or the courts of justice issue any mandate to prevent the owners of slaves from removing them beyond the limits of this State and selling them or settling them in other states, to the south and west of us? Surely this could not be done. No one will say it could! Nor need the fact be concealed; that after the meeting of the Convention, and before any order had been taken on the subject of emancipation, laying on their table news reached the members from various quarters, that owners of slaves were in readiness to remove them to other states, if the Convention took a single step in the matter to the prejudice of what they considered their vested rights. The Convention believed that a benevolent regard for the slave population of this State prohibited them from granting the prayer of the memorialists. The interference of the convention in this matter, would have thrown a fire brand into the community, and kindled strife that would not have been extinguished for years to come; and in doing so, they would have pulled down ruin on the head of the slave, instead of having ameliorated his condition. The Convention are persuaded that while slavery exists in the United States, it is expedient, both for the benefit of the slave and the free man, that the slaves should be distributed over as large a territory as possible; as thereby the slave recieves better treatment, and the free man is rendered more secure. They know full, that though slavery has been banished from some of the states of the Union, yet while these states are legislating on the subject, many of the unhappy slaves themselves were transported by land and by water to the southern States, where they were placed in a more hopeless state of bondage, and where many of those very slaves still remain. They were satisfied that any interference on their part, on this delicate subject, would not in any manner benefit the slave; while at the same time it would have a direct tendency to bring about a state of things, that might make the stoutest heart tremble. Let the slaves in the United States, by the operation of any cause whatever, be congregated together within the bounds of three or four states; so that they can ascertain their own numbers and strength, concert plans among themselves, and co-operate with each other; then what is to prevent a servile war? one of the greatest calamities with which a nation can possibly be afflicted. It cannot be denied, that in Tennessee, slaves are treated with as much humanity as in any part of the world, where slavery exists. Here they are well clothed and fed and the labor they have to perform is not grievous nor burdensome. They are not prohibited from attending public worship on Sundays, and frequently they are taught to read at Sunday schools; they have access to religious instruction and the means of grace in common with the rest of the community. To this, there may be some exceptions, but it is believed that they are "few and far between". How would a removal of the slave population,from this State to the States south and west of us, operate upon their condition? Would they not thereby be rendered much more uncomfortable? Would they not be more exposed to sickness and death by reason of the unhealthiness of the climate to which they would be removed? The ravages of the cholera among the slave population in Louisiana speak a volume on this subject. Would they enjoy the comforts of life in the same abundance they now do? Would not their future prospects for deliverance from bondage be hendered more distant and hopeless? Are they not in general attached to the homes they now have? And do they wish to change them? Who does not know that the slave population of this State are even now waiting with trembling anxiety the result of the deliberations of the Convention on this subject; fearing as they do that a removal from this state will be the consequence? If the prayer of the slave population could be heard on this subject, it would be that the prayer of the memorialists might not be granted. It is not intended to draw a comparison between the situation of the slave population in Tennessee and the situation of the laboring peasantry in European countries; but it is confidently believed, that if that comparison were made, the situation of the slave in Tennessee would be found vastly preferable. But suppose that a provision be inserted in the Constitution, that the children of all slaves in the State of Tennessee, to be born after a certain day should be free; and suppose (which cannot be done consistently with truth) that the slaves would not be removed but would be permitted to remain where they now are, what then would be the consequence? Would not a scene most appaling be exhibited in process of time? The slave population in Tennessee in 1830, amounted to 142,530, and it cannot be doubted that it now amounts to 150,000-what will probably be the number of slaves in this state, when the time arrives that any provision that the Convention would make for their emancipation would go into operation. That they would amount to 200,000, is a moderate calculation. What then would be the condition of the community, with such a multitude of human beings turned loose in society, with all the habits, morals, and manners of the slave, with only the name and nominal privileges, but without any of the real blessing of liberty, or the real privileges of the freeman? Would not two distinct classes of people, in the same community array themselves against each other, in perpetual hostility and distrust? Would not the constant collision that would take place between them, produce a feverish excitement, alike destructive to the happiness of both parties? Would not the condition of the free people of color, under the operation of the causes already enumerated, be more wretched than the condition of the slaves? Would not the white population of the community be more insecure with such a multitude among them, who had no common interest with, no bond of union to that part of the community, with whom they were mixed and yet from whom they were forever separated by a mark of distinction that time itself could not wear away? The people of color, numerous as they would be, with no kindred feeling to unite them to that part of the community, whom they would both envy and hate, would nevertheless have at their portion of physical strength that might and probably would be weilded to the worst of purposes. They would look across the southern boundry of the State and there they would see a state of servitude, a people of their own color and kindred, to whom they were bound by the strong bonds of consanguinity, and with whom they could make a common cause, and would they not be strongly tempted to concert plans with them, to exterminate the white man and take possession of the country. They would then possess the means of consulting together, of cooperating with each other, and let it not be forgotten, that they would be animated by every feeling of the human heart that impels them to action. Does it require the gift of prophecy to foretell that such a state of thing could not exist, without endangering the peace, prosperity, nay the very existence of society; with jeopardizing the dearest interests of our beloved State. Are the bloody scenes of St. Domingo forgotten; will not similar causes always produce similar effects; would not the same horrible tragedy be acted over again in our own country at our firesides, and in our bed chambers?Surely the Convention were duty bound not to meddle in a matter, their interference in which could have accomplished no possible good, and might have produced evils beyond the power of calculation. But some of the memorialists pray that when made free, the people of color be sent from among us and be colonized. Have they counted the cost of such an enterprise? Would a million of dollars be sufficient to send the free people of color to Africa? Where else could they be sent? Where could the money be procured? Could it be raised by taxation; and would the people pay it? But suppose the money could be procured, would the people of color consent to go to Africa? And being then free, they could not be compelled to go without their consent. These are grave questions and the committee think tha the memorialists did not attentively consider them before they signed their names to the memorials now on the table of the Convention. But the friends of humanity need not despair; the memorialists beed not dread that slavery will be perpetual in our highly favored country. Providence has already opened a door of hope, which is every day opening wider and wider. On the coast of Africa, the foundation of a mighty empire is already laid, and thither the sons and daughters of Africa, made free by the consent of their masters and transported by funds furnished by the benevolent, shall repair, and carrying with them the blessings of civilization, and truths and consolations of Christianity, they will in process of time banish idolatry, ignorance and superstition from that wretched land, which has so long been a habitation of horrid cruelty. This plan has one advantage over every other that has been proposed, that it requires the consent of the slave to be colonized as a condition precedent to his emancipation. It possesses another advantage, it will more effectively combine the energies or the wise, and the good, and the benevolent, in its execution, than any other plan that has been devised. The ministers of our holy religion will knock at he hears of the owners of slaves, telling every one of them to let his bondman and his bondwoman go free, and to send them back to the land of their forefathers, and the voice of these holy men will be heard and obeyed, and even those who lend a deaf ear to the admonitions in the hour of health, will, on a bed of sickness and at the approach of death, make provision for the emancipation of their slaves and for their transportation to their home on the coast of Africa. In this way, under the approving smile of Heaven and the fostering care of Providence, slavery will yet be extinguished, in a way that will work no evil to the white man, while it produces the happiest effects upon the whole African race. The last thirty years has produced a great change in public sentiment on this subject, and it cannot be doubted that the next thirty years will produce a still greater one. And if misguided fanatics in those parts of the United States where slavery does not now exist, will only refrain from intermeddling in [the] a matter, in which they have no concern and in which their interference can do no possible good and may do much positive evil, slavery, with all its ills, will be extinguished as certainly and as speedily as the friends of humanity have any reason to expect. For let it be remembered, that there is an appropriate time for every work beneath the sun; and a premature attempt to do any work, particularly a great work, seldom fails to prevent success. A premature attempt on the part of a sick man to leave his bed and chamber, would inevitably prolong his disease, or perhaps place it beyond the power of medicine. A similar attempt on the part of a poor man to place himself in a state of independence, by engaging in some plausable but im prudent speculation, would probably involve him in embarrasments, from which he could not extricate himself troughout the whole remaining portion of his life. So a premature attempt on the part of the benevolent to get rid of the evils of slavery, would certainly have the effect of postponing to a far distant day, the accomplishment of an event devoutly and ardently desired by the devout and good in every part of our beloved country. John A. M'Kinney, Chairman. "[*[Enc. in Lurton 7-23-06]*][Enc. in Bacon, 7-24-06] [7-23-06]HARVARD CREW TO ROW CAMBRIDGE IN ENGLAND PLANS PRACTICALLY CONCLUDED FOR A RACE ON THE THAMES RIVER IN SEPTEMBER 15. (By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Boston, July 23.- Arrangements have been practically concluded for a race on the Thames River, England, between the Harvard University crew, which defeated Yale at New London last month, and the Cambride University crew, which beat Oxford last April. The race will be rowed over the regular Oxford-Cambridge course, which extends from Putney to Mort Lake, a distance of four miles and three furlongs. The Cambridge men have suggested two dates, September 8 or 15, either of which will be satisfactory to them. Harvard will choose the latter. Several members of the Harvard eight are now in Europe, and the others will sail on the Cedric next Friday. The only member of the crew who cannot go at that time is Morgan, at No.3. He is attending the Harvard Summer School, the session of which will continue until August 15. He will sail for England the next day, and will arrive in time to have three weeks in the boat with his associates. In the mean time he will row every day on the Charles River here and keep in condition. Two men from the Harvard freshmen eight, Faulkner and Lunt, will go as substitutes. The party will also include Emerson, as manager, Whitney, assistant manager; Charlie Hart, the boatkeeper; Dr. Manahan, who has looked after the physical condition of the Harvard oarsmen for two years, and Wray, the Harvard coach. Negotiations looking toward a race have been under way for several weeks. The Harvard interests on the other side of the water have been looked after by F. L. Higginson, jr., who was captain of the Harvard crews of 1899 and 1900, and is now in business in London, and Rudolph C. Lehman, the well-known English coach and oarsman. Mr. Lehman, it will be remembered, came to this country and coached the Harvard University crews in 1897 and 1898. since then he has taken a lively interest in Harvard rowing. The race with Cambridge has been arranged chiefly through his efforts. The Harvard men want it distinctly understood that the race next September will not be for the international collegiate championship. They cheerfully acknowledge the pre-eeminence of Cornell, and the race in England will be purely for fun and for sport's sake. The Harvard men say that incidentally they hope to gain from their English opponents some additional knowledge about rowing. Little is known here about the arrangements which have been made on the other side for the quarters and training of the Harvard men, but these matters will be attended to by the Harvard representatives in London. The Harvard men expect to train on the Thames river at some place near London. As they will arrive in England on August 4, and the race will be rowed on Septembr 15, they hope to have time enough to become acclimated. In the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race on the Thames River this year Cambridge won by 3 1/2 lengths. The time was 19 minutes 24 seconds. Cambridge was favorite in the betting at 2 to 1. The race was rowed on April 7 over the regular Putney-Mortlake course. Cambridge took the lead at the start and was never hard pressed. Harvard defeated Yale on June 28 at New London by two full lengths, after a race that for three miles and a half was on of the closest and hardest fought in the history of eight-oared shell racing. Harvard's greater endurance told at the end, and the crew drew out and won in decisive manner. Harvard was beaten by Cornell earlier in the season in a two-mile race on the Charles River. The statistics of the Harvard and Cambridge crews as they rowed this year show that Harvard will have an advantage of eight pounds in the matter of weight. The make-up and weights of the two crews, as they were boated, follow: CAMBRIDGE. Position. Name. Wt. Bow - G. D. Cochrarie.148 1/2 2 - H. F. Benham......161 3- H. M. Goldsmith...175 4 - M. Donaldson......190 1/2 5 - H. C. Johnstone....175 6 - R. V. Powell........174 1/2 7 - E. W. Powell......160 1/2 Stroke - D. C. Stuart..155 Average............167 1/2 Cox. - A. G. L. Hunt...113 HARVARD. Position. Name. Wt. Bow - R. M. Tappan....168 2 - S. W. Fish..........167 3 - C. Morgan.........172 4 - G. Glaas............186 5 - J. Richardson........180 6 - R. L. Bacon........185 7 - D. A. Newhall......180 Stroke - O. D. Filley....167 Average.............175 1/2 Cox. - F. M. Blagden...102 [7-23-06]"STAND PAT" THE CRY Republican Plans for Congressional campaign. APPROVED BY PRESIDENT Party Will Stand on Its Record, Speaker Cannon Says. Conference at Sagamore Hill Attended by the Speaker, Representatives Sherman, Loudenslager, and McKinley, and Senator Penrose - Congressional Committee Will Open Headquarters Wednesday Cannon Going to Illinois, Oyster bay, L. I..July 23.- "Stand pat" will be the tariff slogan for the Republican party in the coming Congressional campaign. This was definitely disclosed at the conclusion of a conference held at Sagamore Hill today, at which President Roosevelt reviewed the campaign plans of the Republican Congressional Committee and pronounced them good and entirely to his liking. The President entertained at luncheon at his summer home Speaker Cannon, Chairman Sherman, of the Congressional committee, and Representatives Loudenslager, of New Jersey, and McKinley, of Illinois, secretary and treasurer, respectively of the committee. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, came on a later train and also was a guest. "Stand Pat" on the Tariff. While no one interviewed after the conference would speak under quotation regarding the tariff, it was learned that the Republican text book which is to be issued within two or three weeks will be a "stand-pat" document from beginning to end and that this will be the tenor of Republican speeches in Massachusetts, Iowa, Wisconsin, and other "idea" infected sections of the country as well as in all other places. The "stand-pat" announcement will, of course be accompanied by the statement that when the tariff is revised it should be handled by its friends Secretary Loeb was at the luncheon, and made this statement for the President: "The plans of the Congressional campaign were gone over generally, and the President expressed himself as being in entire accord with the ideas of the committee." Speaker Cannon's Comment. Speaker Cannon's comment was this: "I was a guest of the President, and as such it would hardly be seemly for me to discuss what took place. I should like to say that the conference was eminently satisfactory and the Congressional campaign not bad." The Speaker was asked what the Republican party expected to do this fall. "We'll stand on our record," he exclaimed. "What can the Republican party do but stand on its record?" "Will there be any tariff revision next session?" he was then asked. The Speaker made no reply to this question. Headquarters Open Wednesday. Chairman Sherman, after remarking that the President's keen interest was a valuable asset to the campaign, said that the headquarters of the committee would be opened in New York in the St. James Building, Wednesday, and that from that time on the campaign work would go on continuously. Mr. Sherman is to give his entire time to the direction of affairs from New York. Secretary H. C. Loudenslager also will devote his attention to the New York headquarters, as will Treasurer McKinley, or Illinois. Mr. Sherman added that the speakers so far selected for the heavy work included Secretary Taft. Oyster Bay, L. I.. July 22. - "Stand pat" will be the tariff slogan of the Republican party in the coming congressional campaign. this was definitely disclosed at the conclusion of a conference held at Sagamore Hill today, at which President Roosevelt reviewed the campaign plans of the Republican Congressional Committee and pronounced them good and entirely to his liking. The President entertained at luncheon at his summer home Speaker Cannon, Chairman Sherman, of the Congressional committee, and Representatives Loudenslager, of New Jersey, and McKinley, of Illinois, secretary and treasurer, respectively of the committee. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, came on a later train and also was a guest. "Stand Pat" on the Tariff. Wile no one interviewed after the conference would speak under quotations regarding the tariff, it was learned that the Republican text book which is to be issued within two or three weeks will be a "stand-pat" document from beginning to end, and that this will be the tenor of me to discuss what took place. I should like to say that the conference was eminently satisfactory and the Congressional campaign not bad.” The Speaker was asked what the Republican party expected to do this fall. "We'll stand on our record," he exclaimed. "What can the Republican party do but stand on its record?" "Will there be any tariff revision next session?" he was then asked. The Speaker made no reply to this question. Headquarters Open Wednesday. Chairman Sherman, after remarking that the President's keen interest was a valuable asset to the campaign, said that the headquarters of the committee would be opened in New York in the St. James Building, Wednesday, and that from that time on the campaign work would go on continuously. Mr. Sherman is to give his entire time to the direction of affairs from New York. Secretary H. C. Loudenslager also will devote his attention to the New York headquarters, as will Treasurer McKinley, of Illinois. Mr. Sherman added that the speakers so far selected for the heavy work included Secretary Taft. Oyster Bay, L. I.. July 23.--Stand pat" will be the tariff slogan of the Republican party in the coming Congressional campaign. This was definitely disclosed at the conclusion of a conference held at Sagamore Hill to-day, at which President Roosevelt reviewed the campaign plans of the Republican Congressional Committee and pronounced them good and entirely to his liking. The President entertained at luncheon at his summer home Speaker Cannon, Chairman Sherman, of the Congressional committee, and Representatives Loudenslager, of New Jersey, and McKinley, of Illinois, secretary and treasurer, respectively of the committee. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, came on a later train and also was a guest. "Stand Pat" on the Tariff. While no on interviewed after the conference would speak under quotation regarding the tariff, it was learned that the Republican text book which is to be issued within two or three weeks will be a "stand-pat" document from beginning to end, and that this will be the tenor of Republican speeches in Massachusetts, Iowa, Wisconsin, and other "idea" infected sections of the country as well as in all other places. The "stand-pat" announcement will, of course, be accompanied by the statement that when the tariff is revised it should be handled by its friends. Secretary Loeb as at the luncheon, and made this statement for the President: "The plans of the Congressional campaign were gone over generally, and the President expressed himself as being in entire accord with the ideas of the committee." Speaker Cannon's Comment. Speaker Cannon's comment was this: "I was a guest of the President, and as such it would hardly be seemly for me to discuss what took place. I should like to say that the conference was eminently satisfactory and the Congressional campaign not bad." The Speaker was asked what the Republican party expected to do this fall. "We'll stand on our record," he exclaimed. "What can the Republican party do but stand on its record?" "Will there be any tariff revision next session?" he was then asked. The Speaker made no reply to this question. Headquarters Open Wednesday. Chairman Sherman, after remarking that the President's keen interest was a valuable asset to the campaign, said that the headquarters of the committee would be opened in New York in the St. James Building, Wednesday, and that from that time on the campaign work would go on continuously. Mr. Sherman is to give his entire time to the direction of affairs from New York. Secretary H. C. Loudenslager also will devote his attention to the New York headquarters, as will Treasurer McKinley, of Illinois. Mr. Sherman added that the speakers so far selected for the heavy work included Secretary Taft, Secretary Shaw, Speaker Cannon, Senator Beveridge, and several other Senators, as well as practically the entire Republican membership of the House of Representatives. After leaving Sagamore Hill, the President's guests went to the home of Representative Cocks, of the First New York district, in Westbury, where they had dinner, and returned to New York in the evening. To Help Littlefield. Speaker Cannon is to go to Illinois at once. The new primary system is to be tried in his district, and as he has not attended one of his nominating conventions for twenty years, it is his intention to be present on the 19th of August, when he expects a renomination. He will go to Maine in September to lend his aid to the early campaign in that State, and especially in the Second district, where Representative Littlefield is having trouble. It was announced to-day that the President's enforcement of the eight-hour law in the army workshops had been extended to the navy and would be applied to all its contracts. First Wireless from Arctic. A dispatch was received by President Roosevelt to-day from Walter Wellman, who will attempt to reach the north pole by airship. The dispatch was dated at Hammerfest, July 21, and read as follows: "Roosevelt, Washington: "Greetings, Best wishes by first wireless message ever sent from arctic regions. WELLMAN."[*[Enclosed in 7-28-06]*][*Ackd 7/25/06*] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 4 NY NY GI 21 Paid Govt----5:30p SD-Washington, D. C. July 24. William Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, N.Y. Many thanks. I understand now that Filley expects to sail for Europe Friday morning. R. B. [*[Bacon?]*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2 W VA GI Paid---Govt--3:20p Washington, D. C. July 24. [*[06]*] The Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay. Your telegram received and I have cabled its contents to Ambassador Meyer. I have also received the kind personal note of the President for which I am most grateful. Will you be good enough to let me know as soon as you conveniently can on what day this week the President is likely to want to see me. I had thought of being in New York one day this week to see one of my boys off for Europe and it will be a great convenience to have this information. Robert Bacon.[*[For 1. enc. see 7-23-06, Tribune]*]TELEGRAM. CIPHER CABLEGRAM. The White House, Washington. Guatemala, (Received 1:48 p.m., July 24, 1906.) (dated 23rd). Secretary of State, Washington. July 23, 3 p.m. President of Guatemala informs me he is returning prisoners war not yet exchanged to Salvador, via San Jose, by the first ship. He is indignant at injurious charges circulated respecting treatment of prisoners. Combs. -Fd-[*Ackd 7-28-06*] Kan. City, Mo. July 24/06 President Roosevelt Oyster Bay My Dear Mr. President:- I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 18th inst. forwarded to me here from Washington, and answering it I wish to first say that it affords me very great satisfaction to know that by years of arduous work, a life of unceasing toil without the aid of money or other support than my own exertions I have been able to reach a position of such esteem2 in your estimation. I wish to express my thanks for what you say. At the risk of burdening you Mr. President let me lay bare my innermost thoughts upon this subject. It has happened that while representing a clientage I have represented the public in Railroad Rate Regulation for several years, without having the object of office in view, but since it became certain that the law would be passed, I have been importuned by a great many persons of both political parties and both in and out of congressional circles and official life to make application for appointment on the Commission. To all I have given one answer:- I will not be an applicant for it. I did, after much persuasion say to Senator Dolliver3 that I would not refuse it. I have for similar reasons said that to others, but with no intention of seeking it. There were three democrats on the Commission counting Mr. Lane, and I could see no reason to suppose that either of them should not be continued. Other things being equal, I supposed that the majority would be republican. Hence, a strong application from me with endorsements from the entire west, which has been tendered me in a large measure would mean one of three things: the retiring of some democrat to make room for me; the4 making of the Commission a democratic board, or the refusal of my application to the disappointment of your western friends and mine. I couldnt expect you to do either of the first two things, and should have felt grievously disappointed at the third. With this analysis of the situation in mind and possessed of an extreme desire to avoid troubling and probably disappointing my friends I said to you that I did not desire the position. By that I relieved my friends, the President of the United States, and my humble self from further thought upon the subject. I did not want the position at the sacrifice of so good a man as Mr Clements, as I told Senator Dolliver (and he will bear me out) last winter at Washington. I am still of exactly the same5 feeling no advantage have I ever taken or will I ever take in the affairs of life which rests upon the injury to or defeat of a friend, except in open contest where there is a fair fight. Had I made the application I felt that either Judge Clements or I would have to be turned down yet he could not say I was his opponent. Then, again, Mr President I feel that I owe much to the great cattle and other Livestock interest of this country which I represent; I feel attached to western life and its people, and if after all I should secure the appointment and official should prove an unhappy one6 or for other causes I should not like the position of Commissioner, I might find that I had given up a desirable position to become dissatisfied - at least that was a factor in my decision. A great many of my personal friends have told me that they are disappointed at my decision, and that I owed a duty to the public etc. Some newspaper editorials in some western papers have taken that position. Now, Mr President I may have been right or I may have been wrong, but I had to decide on my course. I shall now submit to you an offer to leave it to you to decide, and I know of no higher or more capable authority; but upon the express condition that I shall not be considered as an applicant7 for the position, until and unless you shall have first decided that you are going to place some one in Judge Clements place. I have to say that I should be wanting in the element of good citizenship were I to refuse a call to serve my country; and I have not said that I would refuse such an offer; I could scarcely say that if it came in that way that I do not want it. At least you can command me in the matter. Judge Clements is a man of 8 high moral character; clear above being influenced to do wrong to any man or any interest. He is capable, and I know of no complaint against him or ground of complaint (and I believe I know the entire situation) except such as comes from sources where it will always exist against any Commissioner doing his full duty. If you take the same view you will retain him; if you do not retain him, I am at your service, and if you should desire it my friends would give you the most extensive recommendations for me, from the Gulf to Canadian Border. None of that to be done with my consent until and unless you decide that Judge Clements is to not be retained, and that your decision is not to make room for me. Again I thank you, Mr President,9 for the honor you have conferred. There will be much important litigation growing out of the various matters arising under the new law; I think I understand it and the subject matter and I do not hesitate to say to you that I should like to represent the government side of such of those cases as I might be able to give attention. Further than that I have nothing to ask except your continued good will. With great Respect I am Sincerely Yours S H CowanBUCKINGHAM PALACE, 24 July 1906. Dear Mr. Whitelaw Reid The King desires me to say that it would give him much pleasure to receive Mr. Byran, and that perhaps he would be able to call here at 11-30 on Thursday morning next. Would you kindly come with him. Believe me Your's very truly (Signed) Knollys[Enc in Reid 7-27-06]COPY. ISTHMIAN CANAL ZONE. EXECUTIVE OFFICE. July 24, 1906. Dear Mr. Secretary: Knowing the demands upon your time during the closing days of Congress and immediately thereafter, I refrained from writing you respecting your proposal to transfer me to the Government of the Philippine Islands. On his arrival on the Isthmus, Mr. Shonts advised me that he had a conversation with you respecting the transfer in which you told him you had conferred with the President and that the transfer would be made in Septmber. I have considered the matter settled since you advised me to that effect the day before I left Washington. In that conversation you asked me to tell you whom I thought should be my successor. After consideration I determined to suggest Governor Winthrop of Porto Rico for the dual position of Governor-Minister; but Ch. Shonts tells me it is thought best to divide the offices, and, in that view of the case, I have no hesitancy in recommending Col. Gorgas for Governor and Commissioner, and Wm. F. Sands for Minister. In event of his appointment Col. Gorgas should continue to be Chief Sanitary Officer; and the good of the service will be promoted by having the Governor in immediate contact with the daily details of the sanitary work and situation and at the same time the Chief Sanitary Officer will be greatly aided by possessing the authority and prestige of the Governor. The powers of the combined positions are needed to keep up strict observance of preventive measures, now that the absence of disease removes the incentive of fear. So important is it that the Governor actually directs the work and agencies of sanitation that I had determined to submit to you a plan of making Col. Gorgas the Director of Hospitals, and combining the work of the sanitation squads (which is mechanical and does not involve applied medicine) with the work of the Bureau of Municipal Engineering, now-2- in the Construction Dept, and putting them under the immediate supervision of the Governor. I am confident this consolidation would result in bettering the service all along the line. We have yet to deal, on the Isthmus, with a large criminal element, and also the walking delegate and strikers, These will come when it is better and wider known that health conditions permit a visit to the Isthmus. The harpies and criminals will come, then, in droves, and about 1908 I expect to hear something to our disadvantage from organized labor. These matters must be handled, largely, by the Gov. of the Zone, especially the labor problems, if possible, for the administration would dislike to call on the marines to coerce labor during a presidential campaign. It would hardly do to duplicate the Homestead affair on the Isthmus. I think Col. Gorgas' military training would be of service in dealing with the criminal class and also a strike situation. I believe it is a mistake, under the conditions here, to separate the Minister from the Governor, but if the separation is decided on, Sands, the present Secretary of Legation, should be promoted to Minister. He has earned it and should receive it. He is thoroughly qualified; speaks Spanish, French and German, and has had ten years in the diplomatic service. He is very popular with the Panamanians and would preserve the status quo. He is the only one who could fit into the peculiar situation and go ahead without complicating affairs. He showed his ability to do this even when he was charge, after Mr. Barrett was withdrawn and before I was appointed. I think his selection is practically imperative. For myself, I feel that the work I was sent here to do, has been accomplished. The relations between the Government of the Zone and the Republic of Panama, have been continued on the high plane and excellent footing of friendship and good will where you placed them in December, 1904, and I believe the good work then inaugurated has been strengthened and cemented-3- into conditions that are enduring; for they are gratifying and honorable to both. Health conditions on the Isthmus are so good as to secure for it a high rank among all tropical countries of equal altitude. I do not think we have changed the climate, and believe the Isthmus has been grossly maligned as to the prevalence of disease in the past; but it is a fact that after we took over the Zone, yellow fever cases appeared in Panama or Culebra every month excepting August, 1904, and by May 1905, was increasing so rapidly that within 30 days after I assumed the duties of Governor the disease became epidemic; that 60 days thereafter it was checked and within 180 days was eliminated; and to-day a recurrence is no more feared on the Isthmus than in in Philadelphia. All forms of malarial fever have been checked and considered as producing little hazard. The fear that disease would prevent or greatly impede the construction of the Canal has passed and been replaced with confidence. Every branch of the Department of Government and Sanitation has been fully organized, even specialized, and doing the work efficiently and working in perfect harmony. The lines of jurisdiction are fixed and observed and the whole is an excellent machine so operating that administration is now routine. The hospital service is equal if not superior to the hospital service anywhere in the tropics. The quarantine service is effective, i. e., perfect in accomplishment. The postal service, including registry and postal money order systems, is handling an enormous business as satisfactorily as anywhere in the United States. The police force of the Zone is a source of pride and satisfaction to all of us and the admiration of all who investigate its organization and work. The Customs and Revenues Service is excellent and gives complete satisfaction. The Courts have secured and are entitled to the sincere confidence and respect of all classes of the community. Our twenty-five schools are doing excellent work.-4- Perhaps the most surprising results have been attained in the Municipalities. The honest, efficient and economical administration of their affairs, a slight tax on real estate, small license fees on occupations and $600. license tax on saloons, have enabled the municipalities to build market houses, school houses, municipal buildings, slaughter houses, grade and light streets, construct roads, pay salaries of all municipal officers and to have a balance of cash on hand June 30, 1906, of $109,617.38 (silver). The schools are maintained by the Government of the Zone, and the Municipalities without assistance from the United States. The Postal service, and Revenue and Customs service are also self-sustaining. Among many gratifying results is the fact that the laws and methods of administration of the Zone Government are attracting the attention of several Central and South American countries and inquiries are frequent respecting them. I have no doubt this small government will do much to leaven the whole lump. I have written you thus fully in order that your memory may be refreshed as to facts, already known to you, to justify a request that I be advised definitely as to when I am to start for the Philippines and that I be afforded the opportunity to return to the States for a month or six weeks to confer with you and to arrange my private business affairs to meet the changed conditions. If I am to leave in September, the time is short now, and I should like to come up at once. If the transfer is not to be made, or made at a later date, I should like to come now so as to return in time to be here when Secretary Root arrives on September 22d. Will you therefore please cable me permission to come north, provided, you are going to be in Washington or New York, for I wish to confer with you. I shall have many regrets in leaving here, especially the loss of association with the officials and people of Panama, for I doubt if I ever secure so firm a hold on the friendship of an entire community as I have thisone; but I recognize the wisdom and advantage of the change; but there are some things about the new station I would like to talk over and also some things here. I would feel a good deal better satisfied if the legislative authority had been operative and I could leave behind a completed system of laws that would hereafter be adopted by Central and South American countries. Is is a rich field. Mr. Bishop has been a house guest for three weeks and is a most companionable man. He goes north tomorrow and will be sadly missed. Mr. Shonts has been with Stevens at Culebra and I have seen but little of him. He will stay here for sometime yet. Very very truly, Charles E. Magoon.[*[Enc. in Taft 8-6-06]*][*Ackd 7-26-06*] HERBERT PARSONS 13TH DISTRICT NEW YORK House of Representatives U.S. Washington D.C. 52 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. July 24, 1906. The President Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. President:- Many thanks for your letter. The Odell-Platt-Quigg rapprochement lost some impetus last week and does not now appear so formidable, but I am afraid that circumstances will arise which will require your decided action. Meanwhile, I am very sure that if it is known that, while doing nothing, you are watching the State situation, it will be a constant help to matters. Big Tim Sullivan, the other day in a conversation in which he proclaimed his loyalty to August Belmont and explained that when Quigg this year asked him to serve Ryan he replied that he must stand by Belmont first of all, said that there was a great deal more back of this Republican fight than County Chairman, that as Platt and Depew were soon to go it involved their successors in the Senate, the inference that my informant and his interviewer drew being that financial interests which have a regard for legislation intended to seize the opportunity. What Sullivan said was true as to what the contest in the State-2- indirectly involves, as it seems to me. And I hope that for that reason I will be pardoned if I take the liberty of warning you about the situation. It seems to me also that the suggestion of Secretary Root's name in connection with the governorship is not sincere but only made with a sinister purpose. Faithfully yours, Herbert Parsons[*Ackd 7-27-06*] CHICAGO EVENING POST, J.C. SHAFFER, PREST. Chicago, July 24, 1906 My dear Mr. President:- The Bibliophile Society of Boston, of which I am a member, have recently secured some unpublished letters of Charles Lamb, and other interesting matter concerning Lamb and his works, and have published them (in five volumes) and Volume 1 is now ready for distribution. The publications of the society are for the members, but this work of Lamb, being of such importance, a few extra copies were printed, and I have been able to secure one extra copy, and I have telegraphed the Treasurer today to send the said copy to you and the future volumes will be sent as they are published. You have autographed so many of your own books for me, and have shown me so many courtesies at your home that I have at times felt embarrassed because I could not in any way adequately reciprocate these compliments. I trust, therefore, that you will permit me to present to you these volumes of "The Letters of Charles Lamb" as they are issued by our society, and accept them with my best compliments. I am sure you will find in them much that will interest you. Trusting that you are having a mental and physical rest, and with compliments to your good wife, I am Sincerely yours, J.C. Shaffer Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President Washington, D.C.[*Ackd 7-27-06*] WAR DEPARTMENT. [WASHINGTON.] July 24 1906 Pointe au Pic Province of Quebec Canada- Mr dear Mr. President, Ex-Senator Thurston representing the International Contracting Company has been telegraphing me in great haste to conclude a contract for the furnishing of Chinamen on the Isthmus. This is the contract the validity of which Moody has now approved. The contract is rather experimental and a sample for only 2500 men and perhaps need not be the result of invitation for bids although there have been a number of offers from various people to furnish Chinamen--Shonts is anxious also to have the contract closed, but I do not wish to approve until it has been submitted to you--I should prefer to delay matters until Shonts' return. We have an agent in Spain getting good workmen there and I do not think it necessary to be precipitate. The failure to invite bids is sure to give us trouble on the2 WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. one hand, and yet to invite bids is sure to invite much public discussion on the other-- Pepperman is coming to see me at Murray Bay with the contract and some other matters and I can send him to Oyster Bay if you weakly yield and allow your vacation thus to be invaded. Very sincerely yours Wm H Taft.Copy Mrs. Storer sent me (Secretary Taft) letters of Cortesi and Ireland - One from Cortesi Dec. 10, 1905 - one from Ireland Oct. 7, 1901, with addendum in Mrs. Storer's handwriting of explanation - one from Ireland Feby 2, 1904 - one from Ireland Oct. 23, 1903 - one from Ireland April 5, 1904 - one from Ireland Nov. 3, 1901. On the envelope in Mrs. Storer's handwriting was the following endorsement: "My reasons for not answering Theodore Roosevelt's 'strictly personal' letter of December 11th, 1906 (1905). "Please return the enclosed copies after reading them yourself only, to Mrs. Bellamy Storer, Morgan Harjes & Co., Paris." Pointe au Pic, July 24, 1906. My dear Mrs. Storer: I have read the within correspondence and return the copies as you request without having shown them to anyone. I ought to say that it contains several statements of fact with respect to matters of which I had personal cognizance that are inaccurate because they are incomplete and lack the qualifications they should have had. I only do this lest you might think a return without comment was intended by me to be a confirmation of the statements as made. Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft. Copy of endorsement on Storer correspondence. [*F*] SUBJECT: A. L. LANGDON, TRAFFIC MANAGER, DONALD WILSON, SUPERINTENDENT. THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. July 24, 1906. Dear Mr. Loeb:- I have your letter of July 23rd, and wish to thank you for writing me under cover of "personal" relative to the condition of basket of apples which was received at Sagamore Hill by express July 23rd. The basket originated at Dover, Delaware, was only half full when delivered to us by the Adams Express Company and the contents in an over-ripe condition. I am to-day writing to Mr. J. Zimmerman, Superintendent, Adams Express Company, New York City, calling his attention to the matter. Relative to the shipments in general for Sagamore Hill, I have to advise you that I have take the matter up with all of our people, and trust that you will have no further trouble. I exceedingly regret any annoyance to which you have been subjected. Yours truly, Donald Wilson Superintendent. W-F Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Sagamore Hill, Long Island.M-COPY American Legation to Guatemala and Honduras. July 25, 1906. Honorable Elihu Root, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy with translation appended of a note received from the Guatemalan Minister for Foreign Affairs expressing the gratitude of his Government for the intervention of President Roosevelt and the United States Government in behalf of peace. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, Leslie Combs. Enclosure: As above indicated.[*[Enc in Adee 8-11-06]*][*F*] PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY 24 STATE STREET New York July 25th, 1906. Mr. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mr. Loeb:- I have your note of the 24th inst., which encloses a communication addressed to Mr. J. B. Bishop to be handed to him on his arrival in New York. I will see that this is done, although at this writing I am without advice of that gentleman's departure from the Isthmus. To arrive on the 1st or the 2nd, he should be on board of our S/S"Colon" which should leave the Isthmus on her regular schedule tomorrow noon. Truly yours, E. A. Drake Asst. to the Prest.The Editorial Rooms, "The Weekly Press." [*Ackd 6-22-06*] Christchurch, N. Z. July 25th 1906 For Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir/ I have just read with much interest & pleasure your book "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter" and as a slight recognition of that enjoyment you have given me I am sending you a copy of "The Weekly Press" containing an account of my last deer stalking trip. I am now engaged in writing an article for a colonial magazine on deer stalking in New Zealand & I will also be pleased to send you a copy as it will probably contain some interesting information for you,should you, as it is announced, think of paying us a visit. You can be quite sure if you come, of a most hearty welcome, for you are well known to us by name & reputation & none will be more pleased to meet you than those who share your love for outdoor recreation. I may say that I am Editor of the Farmer pages yet, Weekly press & having been brought up to a country life, & intrusting from my dear old father, a Yorkshire fox hunter & a love of sport. I have never once missed, during the 20 years I have been employed in this office, spending my annual holiday with gun or rifle, & have now had seven seasons deerstalking the first among fallow deer as a breaking in; the last six among red deer. Do you know that one of the most interesting "characters" to me, in your book was the little black & tan terrier [skip] Skip. It appealed to me, for one of the same breed was my faithful little companion from puppyhood till old age carried her off. Her memory was marvellous & her intelligence almost human & for her size she was [a] a splendid dog for hares & rabbits. Like skip she was fond of a ride in the saddle when she got tired. I followed with much interest your criticisms of books on big game shooting, many of which I had been able to obtain from our public library & some of which I have. I have a great admiration for Vaughan Kirby among African sportsmen & writers, & as a writer he is, I think, far before Selous, as a good deal of the latter's writing is too much in diary form, a style that I, like yourself, [I] do not care for. Baillie-Grohmans has of course a special interest for us deer stalkers. I should much like a trip to America but doing special work on a paper prevents me from getting the necessary time. The interviews I should like to have would not be with the use of the pen but the rifle. Perhaps the time may come some day. I feel sure you will pardon a stranger to yourself writing in this familiar way [but] & the love for outdoor life & sports must be my excuse if necessary. With very kind regards I remain yours faithfully E. Hardcastle[*F*] POST OFFICE, RAILROAD TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE MILLBROOK DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK July 25th, 1906 ALTAMONT To His Excellency The President of the United States My dear Mr. President, Thank you for your kind note, and also for the letter of introduction to the officers of our diplomatic service abroad. It was good of you to give the matter your personal attention, and I am sure we shall appreciate the privileges of our stayabroad. We are anticipating a delightful journey. With renewed thanks for your courtesy, believe me, dear Mr. President. Sincerely yours, Juliet K. Lamont (Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont)CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION: THEODORE P. SHONTS CHIEF OF OFFICE: W. LEON PEPPERMAN ISTHMIAN CANAL AFFAIRS OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION PANAMA CANAL BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. EES-- GENERAL AUDITOR: ERNEST S. BENSON GENERAL PURCHASING OFFICER: DAVID W. ROSS DISBURSING OFFICER: JAMES G. JESTER July 25, 1906. My Dear Mr. Loeb: I am in receipt of a telegram from the Secretary of War, reading as follows: "Send to President copies of Chinese contracts and all papers. Also of all applications to furnish Chinese laborers." In accordance therewith I send you herewith copy of a form of contract drawn by Mr. Paul Charlton, Law Officer in the War Department, accompanied by his memorandum thereon, and the opinion of the Attorney- General. The views of the Isthmian Canal Commission as to the employment of Chinese are set forth in the attached copy of a letter from Chairman Shonts to the Secretary of War, dated May 16th, reviewing the labor situation on the Isthmus. A later expression of the views of the Commission is set forth in a cablegram from Chairman Shonts to the Secretary of War, of this date, copy of which is hereto attached. I also enclose herewith copy of a communication from Chief Engineer Stevens to Mr. Shonts, dated May 4, 1906, relative to the employment of Chinese. Very truly yours, W. Leon Pepperman Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Inclosures. As stated. P. S. I also inclose herewith a list of some of the persons-2- or firms who have made formal proposals for the furnishing of Chinese labor, showing the different kinds of propositions submitted; also a list of the persons or firms who have made inquiries of the Commission, having in mind the submission of formal proposals for the furnishing of Chinese labor in case it should be desired. PeppermanTRANSLATION OF CABLEGRAM RECEIVED FROM CULEBRA, C. Z., July 25, 1906. TAFT, Washington. We are very short of common labor. We promised many Senators and Representatives would advertise as soon as ready to contract for Chinese. Now waiting to get Attorney-General approval of last draft of contract. Soon as received by you will you have Ross advertise shortest time you think wise so we can let contract earliest possible date, or will you instruct that we close contract without advertising? SHONTS.[*Ackd 7-27-06*] WAR DEPARTMENT, [WASHINGTON.] Pointe au Pic P.O. Canada July 25 1906. My dear Mr. President, Referring again to the Chinese, I have just sent the following dispatch to Pepperman-- "Send copies of Chinese contract and all papers, also of all applications to furnish Chinese laborers, to the President. Cable Shonts that I am in doubt as to whether we ought not to advertise for bids for Chinese labor--Tell him to cable his and Stevens' opinion. Have copy of his answer forwarded to the President and to me. Ask Shonts also if he has looked into the financial responsibility and business record and experience of the International contractingCompany and how it compares with that of other applicants." These papers and the answers from Shonts and Stevens may enable us to reach a satisfactory conclusion. I am sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft[*Ackd 7-27-06*] R. B. WILLIAMS, JR. C.E. - PRES. & TREAS. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. R. F. PROCTOR, C.E.-SECY. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. CLYDE POTTS, C. E.-VICE PREST. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. DESIGNS CONSTRUCTION SUPERINTENDENCE SEWERS, WATER WORKS AND GENERAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. WILLIAMS, PROCTOR & POTTS INCORPORATED. ENGINEERS. 17 BATTERY PLACE, TELEPHONE 4139 RECTOR. CABLE ADDRESS. "WILWHIMAN, NEW YORK." WESTERN UNION CODE USED. NEW YORK CITY. July 25th, 1906. [[shorthand]] President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. President: The enclosed bill of Mr. E. K. Hutchinson for cleaning boiler, was sent to you by Mr. Hutchinson at our suggestion, the item having been previously rendered to us. This work was ordered done by your Mr. Seaman entirely without our knowledge, and had nothing whatever to do with our work. We think if you will refer the matter to Mr. Seaman you will find that it is a proper charge. Respectfully, WILLIAMS, PROCTOR & POTTS, INC. By R. B. Williams President. [*[R. B. Williams]*] RBWJr/SJuly 25, 1906. MEMORANDUM. This form of proposal is the one referred to in the letter of Chairman Shonts to the Secretary of War of May 16, 1906, but the same has been superseded by the typewritten form of contract transmitted to Secretary Loeb, July 25, 1906.Labor---Panama Canal. [*Void-Not issued*] Invitation for Proposals to Furnish Labor to be used under the Direction of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Canal Zone Isthmus of Panama. Isthmian Canal Commission Office of Administration July, 1905. Washington 1905[*Void-Not issued*] ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, Office of Administration. WASHINGTON, D. C., 22nd July, 1905. INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS TO FURNISH LABOR TO BE USED, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, UPON THE CANAL ZONE, ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. Invitation for proposals. The Isthmian Canal Commission, under authority of an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved June 28, 1902, being "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans"; the various executive orders issued by the President of the United States; and of various laws enacted and approved by the Isthmian Canal Commission, and subject to the limitations imposed by law and said Acts of Congress, hereby invites sealed proposals, or bids, in triplicate, for contracts to furnish labor or persons of the nationalities and other qualifications, hereafter more particularly designated, upon the construction, maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, and the various works of improvement and sanitation connected with said objects within the Canal Zone or upon the Isthmus of Panama, as hereinafter more particularly specified. Envelopes containing bids must be marked, "Proposals for furnishing labor, Isthmian Canal and Railways," and addressed to the Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D. C. Bids must be received no later than 10 o'clock A. M., August 15, 1905, at said office, at which time and place they will be opened in the presence of bidders. No bids delivered after the day and hour, or at a place different from that state, will be considered under this invitation. The Isthmian Canal Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to accept such as in its judgment are most advantageous to it. I. Who may make proposals or bids. I. Proposals or bid will be received from individuals, co-partnerships, or corporations duly organized and existing, and legally competent in every respect to enter into and to perform all the terms, conditions and obligations of such proposal or bid.4 Qualifications of bidders; security for completion of bid and for fulfillment of contract. 2. Proposals or bids under this invitation must be accompanied by a certified check upon, or a certificate of deposit in, a banking corporation, or a responsible trust company in the United States, to be approved by the Commission, and made payable to the order of the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, for the amount of $20 per person for each person proposed to be furnished as a laborer under this invitation. Such certified checks or certificates of deposit, and the moneys represented thereby, are to be deposited (and the bidder so agrees) as security that the bidder will, if awarded a contract as hereinafter provided, duly accept and enter into the same, and that he, or the assignees thereunder, will faithfully, punctually and fully perform and carry out all the terms, provisions and conditions thereof made obligatory by the terms thereof; and such checks or certificates of deposit may be collected by the Isthmian Canal Commission whenever it may deem the same necessary for its protection; but in said event the proceeds thereof shall be kept on deposit by the Isthmian Canal Commission in a responsible depositary, to be selected by it, at such interest as it conveniently can obtain. Certified checks or certificates of deposit (or, if collected, the proceeds thereof, with any such interest) of unsuccessful bidders shall be returned upon the awarding of the contract, and within thirty days after the opening of the bids. Certified checks or certificates of deposit (or, if collected, the proceeds thereof, with any such interest) of the successful bidder will be returned to the depositor thereof within thirty days after the execution and delivery of the contract, upon the execution and delivery by the successful bidder to the Isthmian Canal Commission, in lieu of said deposited security, a bond with surety or sureties satisfactory to the Isthmian Canal Commission, conditioned that said contractor will faithfully, punctually and fully perform and carry out all the terms, provisions and conditions of such contract made obligatory by the terms thereof, and shall otherwise be in form satisfactory to the Isthmian Canal Commission. Nationality of laborers. 3. Proposals are invited, to be expressed in terms of daily wages, payable in gold currency of the United States, or its equivalent, for the labor of 2,000 Japanese laborers, 2,000 Chinese laborers, 2,000 Italian laborers, upon the following terms and conditions: 1. The term of employment will be three years. 2. The working day shall consist of eight hours. 3. Wages will be paid upon the basis of eight hours for a day's work. 5 4. All work in case of extraordinary emergencies (being overtime in excess of eight hours per day, and all work upon Sundays or holidays), shall be paid at the rate of time and half time; wages will be paid monthly to each individual performing labor. 5. Sundays the 1st day of January, the 22nd day of February, Thursday and Friday of the week commonly called "Holy Week," the 4th day of July, the 3rd day of November, the day proclaimed by the President of the United States as "Thanksgiving Day," the 25th of December, and the single, principal national holiday designated and observed by either the Chinese, Japanese, or Italian Governments, shall be considered holidays, upon which no work shall be performed except in cases of extraordinary emergency, and for which no wages will be paid unless work is performed; and if work is required and performed upon such days, or any of them, wages shall be paid therefor at the rate of time and half time. 6. The Isthmian Canal Commission will furnish and repair all tools and implements and appliances in its judgment necessary for the performance of the work to be done. 7. No damages or indemnity will be paid to laborers or to their families for the death or disability of any laborer by accident or disease. 8. Suitable foremen, superintendents, and physicians will be appointed, and will be paid reasonable salaries. Such persons are to be of the nationalities of the persons with whom they serve, and are to be subject to the approval and direction of the Chief Engineer. 9. Cooks, in the proportion of one to each twenty-five laborers, will be paid at the same rate of wages which such laborers' receive. 10. Nurses for hospital service, of the nationalities of the respective laborers, in such numbers as may be designated by the head of the Department of Government and Sanitation, Canal Zone, shall be paid at the same rate of wages received by laborers. 11. The Isthmian Canal Commission will furnish and provide for such laborers, and the other persons specified, free of charge, suitable and proper lodgings, or bunk houses, wood or other fuel for cooking purposes, necessary water for domestic and bathing purposes, sanitary arrangements as may be designated by the Governor of the Canal Zone, necessary medicines and medical and surgical treatment, as well as proper care and attention during sickness, with subsistence in addition during such time as any of said persons shall be in hospital; no wages will be paid to any laborer during illness and absence from work, either in quarters or in hospital. All physicians and nurses shall report to and be under the control of the Department of Government and6 Sanitation of the Canal Zone, and may be removed and discharged by said department in its discretion. 12. No taxes of any sort shall be imposed upon any person governed by above provisions, but the impost duty provided by the laws of the Republic of Panama will be by it collected upon all commodities brought into the Canal Zone and used by any of the persons governed by this proposal, except such supplies and commodities as shall be provided by the Isthmian Canal Commission. 13. Families and children will be allowed to accompany the laborers in the proportion of fifteen per cent. of the total number of laborers employed at any time. 14. On the expiration of the period of three years herein above referred to, new contracts may be entered into between each of said laborers and the proper officers of the Isthmian Canal Commission, upon terms to be agreed upon at said time. 15. All of said laborers shall be furnished, by the successful bidder with whom a contract shall be made, at either Cristobal (Atlantic port) of La Boca (Pacific port), Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama. 16. The full number of laborers to be furnished under this proposal must arrive within the Isthmian Canal Zone on or before 1st December, 1905. As liquidated damages for delay in such arrival, there shall be promptly paid by the contractor or his sureties, on demand of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and in its discretion, the sum of $10 for each person who shall not be furnished as above. All laborers proposed to be furnished hereunder shall be subject to physical inspection by officers provided by, and at the expense of, the Isthmian Canal Commission at ports of embarkation and upon arrival of said laborer upon the Canal Zone. Individual contracts for labor for the term above specified and at the rate provided in the contract of the successful bidders, will be made between such laborer and the Isthmian Canal Commission at the time of the arrival of such laborer upon the Canal Zone, and his acceptance for service by the proper officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission. No power of attorneys, assignment, or other instrument executed by the laborer and governing wages to be received by him for services under the individual contract last mentioned, can be legally accepted by the Isthmian Canal Commission, nor will execution of any instrument to effectuate such purpose create any liability upon such Commission, or be recognized officially by it; amounts due each laborer for work actually performed will be paid individually to such laborer each month, as hereinbefore specified. Intending contractors must submit with their proposals or bids the form of contract proposed to be entered 7 into between the laborers and themselves. Such contracts must not be in conflict with the Constitution or laws of the United States, and must be approved by the Isthmian Canal Commission. Concessions for the carrying on of commercial enterprises for supplying food, clothing and other commodities to laborers employed on the Canal Zone, will be granted by the Governor of the Isthmian Canal Zone under such reasonable conditions as may be imposed. The introduction and use of opium in any form is absolutely prohibited on the Canal Zone. Gambling by lotteries, devices, or any other instrumentality, will not be permitted within the Canal Zone. Concessions for proper amusements will be granted by the Governor of the Canal Zone, subject to his approval, regulation and control. It is expected that adequate banking facilities will be furnished by private persons upon the Canal Zone. II. Proposals are also invited, in connection with and as part of the proposal under Article I (and proposals under both Articles I and II must be made by each person submitting bids), for the transportation of laborers proposed to be furnished to either of the said ports, Cristobal or La Boca; the furnishing to each of said persons proper and suitable clothing, bedding, food, subsistence, and other supplies and commodities as are customary and usual in such cases, and as shall be provided in the individual agreement between the said successful bidder and each of said laborers, a duplicate copy of which said contract shall be delivered to the proper officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the arrival of each of said laborers within the Panama Canal Zone and his acceptance as an employe of the Isthmian Canal Commission. The said individual contract between the successful bidder and each individual laborer, and the contract between the Isthmian Canal Commission and the said successful bidder, shall contain such provisions as are reasonable and usual, covering requirements of the governments of which said laborers are subjects, with regard to deposits of money in the home country of each laborer and periodical remittances to said home country for account of said laborers. A detailed statement of the proposal in this regard on the part of each bidder shall accompany each bid, and shall set out with particularity the amount and character of the things to be furnished and paid by such contractor for above, and usual and necessary objects, in any, not above indicated. The service to be rendered by the successful bidders, in compliance with above requirement, shall be under the inspection and subject to the direction and control of the Isthmian Canal Commission at all times; and in case of failure by8 said successful bidders and contractors, or either or any of them, to fully carry out and perform his, its, or their engagements and agreements, in this and in any other matter covered by either of said contracts, the said Commission shall thereupon notify the said contractor or contractors that said deficiencies or neglects exist, and that, upon his, its, or their failure promptly to fulfill the conditions of said contracts, or either of them, in every respect, the Isthmian Canal Commission will furnish and supply the things to be furnished, supplied and done, declared to be deficient in its judgment, at the cost and charge of the said contractor or contractors and his, its, or their sureties. Proposals under Article II shall express the sum or amount for which the conditions of said Article II will be performed, in terms of a daily charge, payable in gold currency of the United States, or its equivalent, for each unit of one day's labor performed by each of the laborers with whom it has an individual contract who shall have been employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission as a laborer under the terms of this proposal, and of a contract consequent upon and incident to such employment. Contractors will be paid monthly under this article. III. Contractors will be required to deport, at their own proper charge and expense, to the place of embarkation, the wives and families of all persons who have died or have become permanently disabled upon the Canal Zone while in the service of the Commission, both such as have accompanied said persons to said Zone and such as have since been there born. Upon request of the proper officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, contractors will be required to see that on the termination of the term of service of any such laborer or his permanent disability, such person is promptly deported to the place of his embarkation, without any cost or charge to the Isthmian Canal Commission or the government of the Canal Zone from the time of the relinquishment of the said employment. No laborers will be accepted who have been brought from any part of the Hawaiian Islands. Suitable regulations as to the personal identification of each laborer coming upon the Canal Zone under the provisions hereof, or of the contract entered into under such provisions, will be adopted by the authorities of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and the contract between the individual laborer and the Isthmian Canal Commission shall be submitted by such laborer for inspection, registry, or any other purpose, to the proper officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon demand. 9 Regulations as to the admission of Chinese laborers; identification. Subjects of the Chinese Empire proposed to be furnished as laborers hereunder must be identified at port of embarkation by a certificate vised by Chinese authorities and by the medical officer making the physical examination, which shall serve by physical measurements, photograph, thumb mark, or any other reasonable method, to absolutely identify each individual person so proposed and presented. Chinese laborers are desired from the southern rice provinces only, and such persons only will be accepted as have been accustomed to climatic and physical conditions approaching in similarity those experienced upon the Isthmus of Panama; for instance, persons who have been accustomed during their working lives to labor in rice fields and similar occupations. Laborers not of the agricultural class, such as are commonly known as Cantonese boat people, are not desired, and will not be accepted. Contractors will be required on the arrival of Chinese laborers at the ports of the Republic of Panama, to give a bond running to a person authorized and designated by the Republic of Panama for that purpose, in the amount of $5, gold or its equivalent, for each Chinese person so landed said bond to be satisfactory to the Republic of Panama and a guarantee that the laws of the Republic of Panama with relation to the subjects of the Chinese Empire (a copy of which is appended to this proposal) shall be fully complied with, and as well as such other reasonable laws and regulations as shall from time to time hereafter be adopted by said Republic, and that said contractor, upon the completion of the term of service of such Chinese person or persons, shall promptly deport the same upon his or their declination of services with the Isthmian Canal Commission, by resignation, discharge, or otherwise. Laborers to be furnished under this proposal must be males, between the ages of 21 and 42 years, and shall be free from physical infirmity, deformity, and disease. The certified checks, certificates of deposit, or bonds hereinbefore provided for to be furnished by bidders hereunder shall be held to respond in compensation to the Isthmian Canal Commission for any loss or expenditure which may accrue to it or which it may be forced to make by reason of the neglect or failure of the person depositing the same to comply with the requirements of this proposal or any contract hereafter entered into between such person and the Isthmian Canal Commission governing the subject-matter of said proposal or contract. Appended to this invitation will be found the acts of the Congress of the United States, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and of the Republic of Panama, and the Executive Orders of the President of United States, applicable to the subject-matter of said proposal and contracts. It is understood and agreed that the terms and provisions10 of the Acts of Congress, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and the Republic of Panama applicable hereto are incorporate in and made a part of this invitation, and shall be embraced in and made a part of any contract entered into by virtue of this invitation. The Isthmian Canal Commission, in determining the proper person to whom to award the contract or contracts hereunder, will exercise its direction and secure a person or persons capable of fulfilling the conditions and requirements of said contract. To aid in such selection each bidder must state what organization and facilities he commands for undertaking the work, and with what organization and credit or means of credit he will carry out such contract. T. P. SHONTS, Chairman, Isthmian Canal Commission. 11 APPENDIX EXHIBIT A. Panama, December 2, 1904. By the direction of the President, it is ordered that, subject to the action of the 58th Congress as contemplated by the act of Congress approved April 28, 1904: Section 1. No importation of goods, wares, and merchandise shall be entered at Ancon or Cristobal, the terminal ports of the Canal, except such goods, wares, and merchandise as are described in Article XIII of the treaty between the Republic of Panama and the United States, the ratifications of which were exchanged on the 26th day of February, 1904, and except goods, wares, and merchandise in transit across the Isthmus for a destination without the limits of said Isthmus, and except coal and crude mineral oil for fuel purposes to be sold at Ancon or Cristobal to sea-going vessels; said coal and oil to be admitted to those ports free of duties for said purposes: Provided, however, That this order shall be inoperative, first, unless the Republic of Panama shall reduce the ad valorem duty on imported articles described in class 2 of the act of the National Convention of Panama passed July 5, 1904, and taking effect October 12, 1904, from fifteen per centum to ten per centum, and shall not increase the rate of duty on the imported articles described in the other schedules of said act except on all forms of imported wines, liquors, alcohol, and opium on which the Republic may fix higher rates; second, unless article 38 of the Constitution of the Republic of Panama as modified by article 146 thereof shall remain in full force and unchanged so far as the importation and sale of all kinds of merchandise are concerned; third, unless the consular fees and charges if the Republic of Panama in respect to entry of all vessels and importations into said ports of Panama and Colon shall be reduced to sixty per cent, of the rates now in force; and, fourth, unless goods imported into the ports of Panama and Colon consigned to or destined for any part of the Canal Zone shall not be subjected in the Republic of Panama to any other direct or indirect impost or tax whatever. Sec. 2 In view of the proximity of the port of Ancon to the port of Panama, and the port of Cristobal to the port of Colon, the proper customs or port official of the Canal Zone shall, when not inconsistent with the interests of the United States, at the instance of the proper authority of the Republic of Panama, permit any vessel, entered at or cleared from the ports of Panama and Colon, together with its cargo and passengers, under suitable regulations for the transit of the imported merchandise and passengers to and from the territory of the Republic of Panama, to use and enjoy the dockage and other facilities of the ports of Ancon and Cristobal, respectively, upon payment of proper dockage dues to the owners of said docks: Provided, however, That reciprocal privileges as to dockage and other facilities at Panama and Colon, together with suitable arrangement for transit of imported merchandise and passengers to and from the territory of the Canal Zone, shall be granted by the authorities of the Republic of Panama, when not inconsistent with its interests, to any vessel, together with its cargos and passengers entered at or cleared from the ports of Ancon and Cristobal: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall affect the complete administrative, police, and judicial jurisdiction of the two governments over their respective ports and harbors, except as hereinafter provided in Section 6. Provided, also, That vessels entering or clearing at the port of Panama shall have the absolute right freely to anchor and lade and discharge their cargos by lighterage from and to Panama at the usual anchorage in the neighborhood of the islands of Perico, Flamenco Naos, and Culebra, though included in the harbor of Ancon, under the provisional delimitation as amended under Section 5 hereafter, and to use the said waters of said harbor for all lawful commercial purposes. Sec. 3. All manifests and invoices and other documents in respect to vessels or cargoes cleared or consigned for or from the ports of Panama and Colon shall, as heretofore, be made by the officials of the Republic of Panama. All manifests, invoices, and other documents in respect to the vessels and cargoes cleared or12 consigned for or from the ports of Ancon or Cristobal shall be made by officials of the United States. Sec. 4. No import duties, tolls, or charges of any kind whatsoever shall be imposed by the authorities of the Canal Zone upon goods, wares, and merchandise imported, or upon persons passing from the territory of the Republic of Panama into the Canal Zone, and section 5 of the Executive order of June 24, 1904, providing that duties on importations into the Canal Zone are to be levied in conformity with such duties as Congress has imposed upon foreign merchandise imported into ports of the United States is hereby revoked, but this order shall be inoperative unless the authorities of the Republic of Panama shall grant by proper order reciprocal free importation of goods, wares, and merchandise and free passage of persons from the territory of the Canal Zone into that of the Republic of Panama. Sec. 5. The provisions of this order also shall not be operative except upon the condition that the delimitation of the cities and harbors of Colon and Panama, signed on the 15th day of June, 1904, by the proper representatives of the governments of the Republic of Panama and of the Canal Zone, shall be provisionally enforced, and while the same shall remain in force with the consent of both parties thereto, the provisional delimitation shall include not only the terms set forth in the writing thereof, but also the following, viz: That the harbor of Panama shall include the maritime waters in front of said city to the south and east thereof, extending three marine miles from mean low water mark, except the maritime waters lying westerly of a line drawn from a stake or post set on Punta Mala through the middle island of the three islands known as Las Tres Hermanas, and extending three marine miles from mean low water mark on Punta Mala, which waters shall be considered in the harbor of Ancon. Sec. 6. This order also shall be inoperative unless the proper governmental authorities of the Republic of Panama shall grant power to the authorities of the Canal Zone to exercise immediate and complete jurisdiction in matters of sanitation and quarantine in the maritime waters of the ports of Panama and Colon. Sec. 7. The Executive order of June 24, 1904, concerning the establishment of post-offices and postal service in the Canal Zone is modified and supplemented by the following provisions: All mail matter carried in the territory of the Canal Zone to or through the Republic of Panama to the United States and to foreign countries shall bear the stamps of the Republic of Panama properly crossed by a printed mark of the Canal Zone Government, and at rages the same as those imposed by the Government of the United States upon its domestic and foreign mail matter, exactly as if the United States and the Republic of Panama for this purpose were common territory. The authorities of the Canal Zone shall purchase from the Republic of Panama such stamps as the authorities of the Canal Zone desire to use in the Canal Zone at forty per centum of their face value; but this order shall be inoperative unless the proper authorities of the Republic of Panama shall by suitable arrangement with the postal authorities of the United States provide for the transportation of mail matter between post-offices on the Isthmus of Panama and post-offices in the United States at the same rates as are now charged for domestic postage in the United States, except all mail matter lawfully franked and inclosed in the so-called penalty envelopes of the United States Government concerning the public business of the United States, which shall be carried free, both by the governments of Panama and of the Canal Zone: Provided, however, That the Zone authorities may for the purpose of facilitating the transportation of through mail between the Zone and the United States in either direction inclose such through mail properly stamped or lawfully franked in sealed mail pouches, which shall not be opened by the authorities of the Republic of Panama in transit, on condition that the cost of transportation of such mail pouches shall be paid by the Zone Government. Sec. 8. This order also shall not be operative unless the currency agreement made at Washington June 20, 1904, by the representatives of the Republic of Panama and the Secretary of War of the United States, acting with the approval of the President of the United States, for the establishment of a gold standard of value in the Republic of Panama, and proper coinage shall be approved and put into execution by the President of the Republic of Panama, pursuant to the authority conferred upon him by law of the Republic of Panama, No. 84 approved 13 June 20, 1904, and unless the President of the Republic of Panama, in order that the operation of the said currency agreement in securing and maintaining a gold standard of value in the Republic of Panama may not be obstructed thereby, shall by virtue of his authority conferred by law No. 65, enacted by the National Assembly of Panama on June 6, 1904, abolish the tax of one per cent. on gold coin exported from the Republic of Panama. Sec. 9. Citizens of the Republic of Panama at any time residing in the Canal Zone shall have, so far as concerns the United States, entire freedom of voting at elections held in the Republic of Panama and its provinces or municipalities at such places outside of the Canal Zone as may be fixed by the Republic, and under such conditions as the Republic may determine; but nothing herein is to be construed as intending to limit the power of the Republic to exclude or restrict the right of such citizens to vote as it may be deemed judicious. Sec. 10. The highway extending from the eastern limits of the city of Panama, as fixed in the above-mentioned provisional delimitation agreement of June 10, 1904, to the point still further to the eastward where the road to the "Savannas" crosses the Zone line (which is 5 miles eastward of the center axis of the canal) shall be repaired and maintained in a serviceable condition at the cost and expense of the authorities of the Canal Zone, and also in like manner the said road from the said eastern limits of the city of Panama to the railroad bridge in the City of Panama shall be repaired at the cost of the authorities of the Canal Zone; but this order shall not be operative unless the Republic of Panama shall waive its claim for compensation for the use in perpetuity of the municipal building located in the Canal Zone. Sec. 11. The Unites States will construct, maintain, and conduct a hospital or hospitals either in the Canal Zone or in the territory of the Republic, at its option, for the treatment of persons insane or afflicted with the disease of leprosy, and indigent sick, and the United States will accept for treatment therein such persons of said classes as the Republic may request; but this order shall not be operative unless, first the Republic of Panama shall furnish without cost the requisite lands for said purposes if the United States shall locate such hospital or hospitals in the territory of the Republic; and second, unless the Republic shall contribute and pay to the United States a reasonable daily per capita charge in respect of each patient entering, upon the request of the Republic, to be fixed by the Secretary of War of the United States. Sec. 12. The operation of this Executive order and its enforcement by officials of the United States on the one hand, or a compliance with and performance of the conditions of its operation by the Republic of Panama and its officials on the other, shall not be taken as a delimitation, definition, restriction, or restrictive construction of the rights of either party under the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama. This order is to take effect on the 12th day of December, 1904. Wm. H Taft, Secretary of War. Panama, December 6, 1904. Executive order of December 6, 1904, explanatory of Executive order of December 3, 1904. Section 1. Consignments of goods, wares, and merchandise which by virtue of Section 1 of the above-mentioned order of December 3, 1904, can not be entered for importation at the ports of Ancon or Cristobal may nevertheless, at the option of the consignor, if accompanied by the proper consular invoices of the consul of the Republic of Panama at the port of consignment, be landed at Ancon or Cristobal, respectively, in transit to any part of the Canal Zone or the Republic upon payment of the proper duties to the Republic of Panama, under suitable arrangements similar to those provided for by Section 2 of said order of December 3, 1904. But such goods, wares, and merchandise not accompanied by consular invoice of the consul of the Republic shall not be permitted to land at Ancon or Cristobal.14 Sec. 2. The order of December 3, 1904, shall be construed to permit free exportation and consignment of goods, wares, and merchandise and free transit of persons and vehicles from the Republic through the Canal Zone and from the terminal ports thereof. By direction of the President: WM. H. TAFT, Secretary of War. Exhibit B. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January , 1905 Executive Order: By direction of the President, it is hereby ordered that-- 1. To entitle goods, wares, and merchandise to entry at Ancon and Cristobal, the terminal ports of the Isthmian Canal, Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, it is necessary that it be established by the certificate of a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, or of the chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, or of the chief of the department of material and supplies, that said goods, wares, and merchandise are necessary and convenient for the construction of the Isthmian Canal or for the use and consumption of certain officers and employees in the service of the United States and of the Government of the Canal Zone and their families, stationed on the Isthmus of Panama, and are to be devoted to that purpose exclusively. 2. The certificates above required shall be granted only when the goods, wares, and merchandise to be certified are (1) the property, including live stock and forage, of or under contract of purchase by the United States and intended for use in the work of constructing the Canal or the sanitation of the Isthmus, or for the service of the Government of the Canal Zone; (2) the property, including live stock and forage, of or under contract of purchase by a contractor with the United States or the Government of the Canal Zone for work on the construction of the Isthmian Canal, the sanitation of the Isthmus of Panama, provided that any goods, wares, or merchandise that are to be offered for sale by any contractor to this employees or otherwise shall not be entitled to such entry; (3) the property of the Government of the Canal Zone or any municipality of said Zone; (4) property and provisions intended for sale in commissaries established and contractors of the Isthmian Canal Commission, of the Panama Railroad Company, or of any contractor with the Isthmian Canal Commission for work on the Isthmus (together with the families of such persons), who are citizens of the United States or who receive compensation on what is known as the gold pay roll of the Commission, of the railroad company, or such contractor; (5) household furniture of such officers and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission stationed in the Canal Zone, or Republic of Panama, including such articles, effects, and furnishings as pictures, books, musical instruments, chinaware, bed and table linen, and kitchen utensils; also wearing apparel, toilet objects, and articles for personal use; books, portable tools, and instruments; jewelry and table services, in quantities and of the class suitable to the rank and position of such officers and employees and intended for their own use and benefit and not for barter or sale, imported from the United States. 3. This order contemplates the exclusion from benefits of the commissaries established and maintained by the Commission of all employees and workmen who are natives of tropical countries, wherein prevail climatic conditions similar to those prevailing on the Isthmus of Panama, and who therefore may be presumed to be able to secure the articles of food, clothing, household goods and furnishings, of the kind and character to which they are accustomed, from the merchants of Panama, Colon, and the towns of the Canal Zone, and whose ordinary needs may be supplied without recourse to the government commissaries. Should it develop hereafter that said merchants charge prices in excess of legitimate profit, or practice other extortion, the United States, for the protection and assistance of all its employees, whether from the tropical or temperate zone, will supply its 15 commissaries with such staple articles as are required and desired by the inhabitants of tropical countries, and permit all its employees and workmen and those of its contractors to avail themselves of the benefits and privileges afforded by said Government commissaries. This order is to take effect on the 7th day of January, 1905. WM. H. TAFT, Secretary of War. Exhibit C. An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to acquire, for and on behalf of the United States, at a cost not exceeding forty million dollars, the rights, privileges, franchises, concessions, grants of land, right of way, unfinished work, plants, and other property, real, personal, and mixed, of every name and nature, owned by the New Panama Canal Company, of France, on the Isthmus of Panama, and all its maps, plans, drawings, records on the Isthmus of Panama and in Paris, including all the capital stock, not less, however, than sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-three shares of the Panama Railroad Company, owned by or held for the use of said canal company, provided a satisfactory title to all of said property can be obtained. Sec. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to acquire from the Republic of Colombia, for and on behalf of the United States, upon such terms as he may deem reasonable, perpetual control of a strip of land, the territory of the Republic of Colombia, not less than six miles in width, extending from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and the right to use and dispose of the waters thereon, and to excavate, construct, and to perpetually maintain, operate, and protect thereon a canal of such depth and capacity as will afford convenient passage of ships of the greatest tonnage and draft now in use, from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, which control shall include the right to perpetually maintain and operate the Panama Railroad, if the ownership thereof, or a controlling interest therein, shall have acquired by the United States, and also jurisdiction over said strip, and the ports at the ends thereof, to make such police and sanitary rules and regulations as shall be necessary to preserve order and preserve the public health thereon, and to establish such judicial tribunals as may be agreed upon thereon as may be necessary to enforce such rules and regulations. The President my acquire such additional territory and rights from Colombia as is his judgment will facilitate the general purpose hereof. Sec. 3. That when the President shall have arranged to secure a satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal Company, as provided in Section 1 hereof, and shall have obtained by treaty control of the necessary territory from the Republic of Colombia, as provided in Section 2 hereof, he is authorized to pay for the property of the New Panama Canal Company forty millions of dollars, and to the Republic of Colombia such sum as shall have been agreed upon, and a sum sufficient for both said purposes is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid on warrant or warrants drawn by the President. The President shall then, through the Isthmian Canal Commission hereinafter authorized, cause to be excavated, constructed, and completed, utilizing to that end, as far as practicable, the work heretofore done by the New Panama Canal Company, of France, and its predecessor company, a ship canal from the Carribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Such canal shall be of sufficient capacity and depth as shall afford convenient passage for vessels of the largest tonnage and greatest draft now in use, and such as may be reasonably anticipated, and shall be supplied with all necessary locks and other appliances to meet the necessities of vessels passing through the same from ocean to ocean; and he shall also cause to be constructed such safe and commodious harbors at the termini of said canal,16 and make such provisions for defense as may be necessary for the safety and protection of said canal and harbors. That the President is authorized for the purposes aforesaid to employ such persons as he may deem necessary, and to fix their compensation. Sec. 4. That should the President be unable to obtain for the United States a satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal Company and the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia and the rights mentioned in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms, then the President having first obtained for the United States perpetual control by treaty of the necessary territory from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, upon terms which he may consider reasonable, for the construction, perpetual maintenance, operation, and protection of a canal connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean by what is commonly known as the Nicaragua route, shall, through the said Isthmian Canal Commission, cause to be excavated and constructed a ship canal and waterway from a point on the shore of the Caribbean Sea near Greytown, by way of Lake Nicaragua, to a point near Brito on the Pacific Ocean. Said canal shall be of sufficient capacity and depth to afford convenient passage for vessels of the largest tonnage and greatest draft now in use, and such as may be reasonably anticipated, and shall be supplied with all necessary locks and other appliances to meet the necessities of vessels passing through the same from ocean to ocean; and he shall also construct such safe and commodious harbors at the termini of said canal as shall be necessary for the safe and convenient use thereof, and shall make such provisions for defense as may be necessary for the safety and protection of said harbors and canal; and such sum or sums of money as may be agreed upon by such treaty as compensation to be paid to Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the concessions and rights hereunder provided to be acquired by the United States are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid on warrant or warrants drawn by the President. The President shall cause the said Isthmian Canal Commission to make such surveys as may be necessary for said canal and harbors to be made, and in making such surveys and in the construction of said canal may employ such persons as he may deem necessary, and may fix their compensation. In the excavation and construction of said canal the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua, or such parts of each as may be made available, shall be used. Sec. 5. That the sum of ten million dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, toward the project herein contemplated by either route so selected. And the President is hereby authorized to cause to be entered into such contract or contracts as may be deemed necessary for the proper excavation construction, completion, and defense of said canal, harbors, and defenses, by the route finally determined upon the provisions of this Act. Appropriations therefor shall from time to time be hereafter made, not to exceed in the aggregate the additional sum of one hundred and thirty-five millions of dollars, should the Panama route be adopted, or one hundred and eighty millions of dollars should the Nicaragua route be adopted. Sec. 6 That in any agreement with the Republic of Colombia, or with the States of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the President is authorized to guarantee to said Republic or to said States the use of said canal and harbors, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, for all vessels owned by said States or by citizens thereof. Sec. 7. That to enable the President to construct the canal and works appurtenant thereto, as provided in this Act, there is hereby created the Isthmian Canal Commission, the same to be composed of seven members, who shall be nominated and appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall serve until the completion of said canal unless sooner removed by the President, and one of whom shall be named as the chairman of said Commission. Of the seven members of said Commission at least four of them shall be persons learned and skilled in the science of engineering, and of the four at least one shall be an officer of the United States Army, and at least one other shall be an officer of the Unites States Navy, the said officers respectively being either upon the active or retired list of the Army or of the Navy. Said Commissioners shall each receive such compensation as the President shall prescribe until the same shall have been otherwise fixed by the Congress. In addition to the members 17 of said Isthmian Canal Commission the President is hereby authorized, through said Commission, to employ in said service any of the engineers of the United States Army at his discretion, and likewise to employ any engineers in civil life, at his discretion and any other persons necessary for the proper and expeditious prosecution of said work. The compensation of all such engineers and other persons employed under this Act shall be fixed by said Commission, subject to the approval of the President. The official salary of any office appointed or employed under this Act shall be deducted from the amount of salary or compensation provided by or which shall be fixed under the terms of this Act. Said Commission shall in all matters be subject to the direction and control of the President, and shall make to the President annually and at such other periods as may be required, either by law or by the order of the President, full and complete reports of all their actings and doings and of all moneys received and expended in the construction of said work and in the performance of their duties in connection therewith, which said reports shall be by the President transmitted to Congress. And the said Commission shall furthermore give to Congress, or either House of Congress, such information as may at any time be required either by act of Congress or by the order of either House of Congress. The President shall cause to be provided and assigned for the use of the Commission such offices as may, with the suitable equipment of same, be necessary and porper, in his discretion, for the proper discharge of the duties thereof. Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the Unites States from time to time, as the proceeds may be required to defray expenditures authorized by this Act (such proceeds when received to be used only for the purpose of meeting such expenditures), the sum of one hundred and thirty million dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form as he may prescribe, and in denominations of twenty dollars or some multiple of that sum, redeemable in gold coin at the pleasure of the United States after ten years from the date of their issue and payable thirty years from such date, and bearing interest payable quarterly in gold coin at the rate of two per centum per annum; and the bonds herein authorized shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority: Provided, That said bonds may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury at not less than par, under such regulations as he may prescribe, giving to all citizens of the United States an equal opportunity to subscribe therefor, but no commissions shall be allowed or paid thereon; and a sum not exceeding one-tenth of one per centum of the amount of the bonds herein authorized is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expense of preparing, advertising, and issuing the same. Approved, July 28, 1902. EXHIBIT D. TREATY WITH THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA. The treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama, under which the construction of the Panama Canal has been made possible, was signed at Washington on November 18, 1903, was ratified by the Republic of Panama on December 2, 1903, and by the United States Senate on February 23, 1904, and is as follows: The United States of America and the Republic of Panama being desirous to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Congress of the United State of America having passed an act approved June 28, 1902, in furtherance of that object, by which the President of the United States is authorized to acquire within a reasonable time the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama, the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries,—18 The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State, and The Government of the Republic of Panama, Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Panama, thereunto specially empowered by said Government, who after communicating with each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE I. The United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama. ARTICLE II. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said canal of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the canal to be constructed; the said Zone beginning in the Caribbean Sea three marine miles from mean low-water mark and extending to and across the Isthmus of Panama into the Pacific Ocean to a distance of three marine miles from mean low-water mark, with the proviso that the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors adjacent to said cities, which are included within the boundaries of the Zone above described, shall not be included within this grant. The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the Zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said enterprise. The Republic of Pana further grant in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the Zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco. ARTICLE III. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights, power and authority within the Zone mentioned and described in Article II of this agreement and within the limits of all auxiliary lands and waters mentioned and described in said Article II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority. ARTICLE IV. As rights subsidiary to the above grants the Republic of Panama grants in perpetuity to the United States the right to use the rivers, streams, lakes, and other bodies of water within it limits for navigation, the supply of water or water power or other purposes, so far as the use of said rivers, streams, lakes, and bodies of water and the waters thereof may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said canal. ARTICLE V. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity a monopoly for the construction, maintenance and operation of any system of communication by means of canal or railroad across its territory between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. 19 ARTICLE VI. The grants herein contained shall in no manner invalidate the titles or rights of private landholders or owners of private property in the said Zone or in or to any of the lands or waters granted to the United States by the provisions of any article of this treaty, nor shall they interfere with the rights of way over the public roads passing through the said Zone or over any of the said lands or waters unless said rights of way or private rights shall conflict with rights herein granted to the United States, in which case the rights of the United States shall be superior. All damages caused to the owners of private lands or private property of any kind by reason of the grants contained in this treaty or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said canal or of the works of sanitation and protection herein provided for, shall be appraised and settled by a joint commission appointed by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Panama, whose decisions as to such damages shall be final and whose awards as to such damages shall be paid solely by the United States. No part of the work on said canal or the Panama Railroad or on any auxiliary works relating thereto and authorized by the terms of this treaty shall be prevented, delayed or impeded by or pending such proceedings to ascertain such damages. The appraisal of said private lands and private property and the assessment of damages to them shall be based upon their value before the date of this convention. ARTICLE VII. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States within the limits of the cities of Panama and Colon and their adjacent harbors and within the territory adjacent thereto the right to acquire by purchase or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, any lands, buildings, water rights or other properties necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation and protection of the canal and of any works of sanitation, such as the collection and disposition of sewage and the distribution of water in the said cities of Panama and Colon, which, in the discretion of the United States may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said canal and railroad. All such works of sanitation, collection and disposition of sewage and distribution of water in the cities of Panama and Colon shall be made at the expense of the United States, and the Government of the United States, its agents or nominees, shall be authorized to impose and collect water rates and sewerage rates which shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of interest and the amortization of the principal of the cost of said works within a period of fifty years and upon the expiration of said term of fifty years the system of sewers and water works shall revert to and become the properties of the cities of Panama and Colon respectively, and the use of the water shall be free to the inhabitants of Panama and Colon, except to the extent that water rates may be necessary for the operation and maintenance of said system of sewers and water. The Republic of Panama agrees that the cities of Panama and Colon shall comply in perpetuity with the sanitary ordinances whether of a preventive or curative character, prescribed by the United States and in case the Government of Panama is unable or fails in its duty to enforce this compliance by the cities of Panama and Colon with the sanitary ordinances of the United States the Republic of Panama grants to the United States the right and authority to enforce the same. The same right and authority are granted to the United States for the maintenance of public order in the cities of Panama and Color and the territories and harbors adjacent thereto in case the Republic of Panama should not be, in the judgment of the United States, able to maintain such order. ARTICLE VIII. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all rights which it now has or hereafter may acquire to the property of the New Panama Canal Company20 and the Panama Railroad Company as a result of the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Colombia to the Republic of Panama over the Isthmus of Panama and authorizes the New Panama Canal Company to sell and transfer to the United States its rights privileges, properties and concessions as well as the Panama Railroad and all the shares or part of the shares of that company; but the public lands situated outside of the Zone described in Article II of this treaty now included in the concessions to both said enterprises and not required in the construction or operation of the canal shall revert to the Republic of Panama except any property now owned by or in the possession of said companies within Panama or Color or the ports or terminals therof. ARTICLE IX. The United States agrees that the ports at either entrance of the canal and the waters thereof, and the Republic of Panama agrees that the towns of Panama and Colon shall be free for all time so that there shall not be imposed or collected custom-house tolls, tonnage, anchorage, light-house, wharf, pilot, or quarantine dues or any other charges or taxes of any kind upon any vessel using or passing through the canal or belonging to or employed by the United States, directly or indirectly, in connection with the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the main canal, or auxiliary works, or upon the cargo, officers, crew, or passengers of any such vessels, except such tolls and charges as may be imposed by the United States for the use of the canal and other works, and except tolls and charges imposed by the Republic of Panama upon merchandise destined to be introduced for the consumption of the rest of the Republic of Panama, and upon vessels touching at the ports of Colon and Panama and which do not cross the canal. The Government of the Republic of Panama shall have the right to establish in such ports and in the towns of Panama and Colon such houses and guards as it may deem necessary to collect duties on importations destined to other portions of Panama and to prevent contraband trade. The United States shall have the right to make use of the towns and harbors of Panama and Colon as places of anchorage, and for making repairs, for loading, unloading, depositing, or transshipping cargoes either in transit or destined for the service of the canal and for other works pertaining to the canal. ARTICLE X. The Republic of Panama agrees that there shall not be imposed any taxes, national, municipal, departmental, or any other class, upon the canal, the railways and auxiliary works, tugs and other vessels employed in the service of the canal, storehouses, workshops, offices, quarters for laborers, factories of all kinds, warehouses, wharves, machinery and other works, property, and effects appertaining to the canal or railroad and auxiliary works, or their officers or employees, situated within the cities of Panama and Colon, and that there shall not be imposed contributions or charges of a personal character of any kind upon officers, employees, laborers, and other individuals in the service of the canal and railroad and auxiliary works. ARTICLE XI. The United States agrees that the official dispatches of the Government of the Republic of Panama shall be transmitted over any telegraph and telephone lines established for canal purposes and used for public and private business at rates not higher than those required from officials in the service of the United States. ARTICLE XII. The Government of the Republic of Panama shall permit the immigration and free access to the lands and workshops of the canal and its auxiliary works of all employees and workmen of whatever nationality under contract to work upon or 21 seeking employment upon or in any wise connected with the said canal and its auxiliary works, with their respective families, and all such persons shall be free and exempt from the military service of the Republic of Panama. ARTICLE XIII. The United States may import at any time into the said Zone and auxiliary lands, free of custom duties, imposts, taxes, or other charges, and without any restrictions, any and all vessels, dredges, engines, cars, machinery, tools, explosives, materials, supplies, and other articles necessary and convenient in the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the canal and auxiliary works, and all provisions, medicines, clothing, supplies, and other things necessary and convenient for the officers, employees, workmen and laborers in the service and employ of the United States and for their families. If any such articles are disposed of for use outside of the Zone and auxiliary lands granted to the United States and within the territory of the Republic, they shall be subject of the same import or other duties as like articles imported under the laws of the Republic of Panama. ARTICLE XIV. As the price of compensation for the rights, powers and privileges granted in this convention by the Republic of Panama to the United States, the Government of the United States agrees to pay to the Republic of Panama the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in gold coin of the United States on the exchange of the ratification of this convention and also and annual payment during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,ooo) in like gold coin, beginning nine years after the date aforesaid. The provisions of this article shall be in addition to all other benefits assured to the Republic of Panama under this convention. But no delay or difference of opinion under this article or any other provisions of this treaty shall affect or interrupt the full operation and effect of this convention in all other respects. ARTICLE XV. The joint commission referred to in Article VI shall be established as follows: The President of the United States shall nominate two persons and the President of the Republic of Panama shall nominate two persons, and they shall proceed to a decision; but in case of disagreement of the commission (by reason of their being equally divided in conclusion) an umpire shall be appointed by the two Governments who shall render the decision. In the event of the death, absence, or incapacity of a commissioner or umpire, or of his omitting, declining or ceasing to act, his place shall be filled by the appointment of another person in the manner above indicated. All decisions by a majority of the commission or by the umpire shall be final. ARTICLE XVI. The two Governments shall make adequate provision by future agreement for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention and delivery within said Zone and auxiliary lands to the authorities of the Republic of Panama of person charged with the commitment of crimes, felonies or misdemeanors without said Zone and for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention and delivery without said Zone to the authorities of the United States of persons charged with the commitment of crimes, felonies and misdemeanors within said Zone and auxiliary lands. ARTICLES XVII. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States the use of all the ports of the Republic open to commerce as places of refuge for any vessels employed in the canal enterprise, and for all vessels passing or bound to pass through the canal which may be in distress and be driven to seek refuge in said ports. Such vessels shall be exempt from anchorage and tonnage dues on the part of the Republic of Panama.22 ARTICLE XVIII. The canal, when constructed, and the entrances thereto, shall be neutral in perpetuity, and shall be opened upon the terms provided for by section I of article three of, and in conformity with all the stipulations of, the treaty entered into by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain on November 18, 1901. ARTICLE XIX. The Government of the Republic of Panama shall have the right to transport over the canal its vessels and its troops and munitions of war in such vessels at all times without paying charges of any kind. The exemption is to be extended to the auxiliary railway for the transportation of persons in the service of the Republic of Panama, or of the police force charged with the preservation of public order outside of said Zone, as well as to their baggage, munitions of war and supplies. ARTICLE XX. If by virtue of any existing treaty in relation to the territory of the Isthmus of Panama, whereof the obligations shall descend or be assumed by the Republic of Panama, there may be any privilege or concession in favor of the Government or the citizens or subjects of a third power relative to an interoceanic means of communication which in any of its terms may be incompatible with the terms of the present convention, the Republic of Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form, for which purpose it shall give to the said third power the requisite notification within the term of four months from the date of the present convention, and in case the existing treaty contains no clause permitting its modifications or annulment, the Republic of Panama agrees to procure its modification or annulment in such form that there shall not exist any conflict with the stipulations of the present convention. ARTICLE XXI. The rights and privileges granted by the Republic of Panama to the United States in the preceding articles are understood to be free of all anterior debts, liens, trusts, or liabilities, or concessions or privileges to other governments, corporations, syndicates, or individuals, and, consequently, if there should arise any claims on account of the present concessions and privileges or otherwise, the claimants shall resort to the Government of the Republic of Panama and not the United States for any indemnity or compromise which may be required. ARTICLE XXII. The Republic of Panama renounces and grants to the United States the participation to which it might be entitled in the future earnings of the canal under Article XV of the concessionary contract with Lucien N. B. Wyse, now owned by the New Panama Canal Company and any and all other rights or claims of a pecuniary nature arising under or relating to said concession, or arising under or relating to the concessions to the Panama Railroad Company or any extension or modification thereof; and it likewise renounces, confirms and grants to the United States, now and hereafter, all the rights and property reserved in the said concessions which otherwise would belong to Panama at or before the expiration of the terms of ninety-nine years of the concessions granted to or held by the above-mentioned party and companies, and all right, title and interest which it now has or may hereafter have, in and to the lands, canal, works, property and rights held by the said companies under said concessions or otherwise, and acquired or to be acquired by the United States from or through the New Panama Canal Company, including any property and rights which might or may in the future either by lapse of time, forfeiture or otherwise, revert to the Republic of Panama under any contracts or concessions, with said Wyse, the Universal Panama Canal Company, the Panama Railroad Company and the New Panama Canal Company. The aforesaid rights and property shall be and are free and released from any present or reversionary interest in or claims of Panama and the title of the United States thereto upon consummation of the contemplated purchase by the United States from the New Panama Canal Company, shall be absolute, so far as concerns the Republic of Panama, excepting always the rights of the Republic specifically secured under this treaty. 23 ARTICLE XXIII. If it should become necessary at any time to employ armed forces for the safety or protection of the canal, or of the ships that make use of the same, or the railways and auxiliary works, the United States shall have the right, at all times and in its discretion, to use its police and its land and naval forces or to establish fortifications for these purposes. ARTICLE XXIV. No change either in the government or in the laws and treaties of the Republic of Panama shall, without the consent of the United States, affect any right of the United States under the present convention, or under any treaty stipulation between the two countries that now exists or may hereafter exist touching the subject- matter of this convention. If the Republic of Panama shall hereafter enter as a constituent into any other Government or into any union or confederation of States, so as to merge her sovereignty or independence in such government, union or confederation, the rights of the United States under this convention shall not be in any respect lessened or impaired. ARTICLE XXV. For the better performance of the engagements of this convention and to the end of the efficient protection of the canal and the preservation of its neutrality, the Government of the Republic of Panama will sell or lease to the United States lands adequate and necessary for naval or coaling stations on the Pacific coast and on the westerns Caribbean coast of the Republic at certain points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. ARTICLE XXVI. This convention, when signed by the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties, shall be ratified by the respective Governments and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington at the earliest date possible. EXHIBIT E. WHITE HOUSE Washington, D. C., April 1, 1905. The practical result of the operations of the Isthmian Canal Commission appointed and acting under previous executive orders has not been satisfactory, and requires a change in the personnel of the Commission and in the instructions for its guidance. The Commission will hold quarterly sessions the first of January, April, July, and October of each year, at the office of the Governor on the Isthmus of Panama, and will continue each session as long as public business may require. Further notice of such meetings shall not be necessary to their regularity. The Commission may hold special sessions at the call of the Chairman. Four members shall constitute a quorum, and the action of such majority shall be the action of the Commission. The Commission, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War and subject to the approval of the President, is charged with the general duty of the adoption of plans for the construction and maintenance of the canal and with the execution of the work of the same; with the purchase and delivery of supplies, machinery, and necessary plant; the employment of the necessary officers, employees and laborers, and with the fixing of their salaries and wages; with the commercial operation of the Panama Railroad Company and its steamship lines as common carriers; with the utilization of the railroad as a means of constructing the canal; with the making of contracts for construction and excavation, and with all other matters incident and necessary to the building of a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, as provided by the Act of Congress of June 28, 1902. For convenience and to secure the uninterrupted course of the work, an Executive Committee of not less than three members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Commission to act in place of the Commission during the intervals between the meetings of the Commission, and to report it doings in full to the24 Commission at the next meeting. A minute of every transaction of the Executive Committee shall be made, and one copy of the minutes shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War and another copy transmitted for the consideration of the Commission at its next meeting. Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held at the office of the Governor on the Isthmus of Panama at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on each Monday and Wednesday of every week, and further notice of such meetings shall not be necessary to their legality. A majority of their number shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meetings. The action of such majority shall be the action of the Executive Committee. For convenience of executing the work to be done, there shall be constituted three executive departments: (a) The head of the first department shall be the Chairman of the Commission, who shall have direct and immediate charge of: 1. The fiscal affairs of the Commission; 2. The purchase and delivery of all materials and supplies; 3. The accounts, bookkeeping and audits; 4. The commercial operations in the United States of the Panama Railroad and steamship lines. 5. He shall have charge of the general concerns of the Commission, subject to the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War, and shall perform such other duties as may be placed upon him from time to time by the Secretary of War. (b) The head of the second department shall be the Governor of the Zone, with the duties and powers indicated in the Executive Order of May 9, 1904, which includes, in general: 1. The administration and enforcement of law in the Zone; 2. All matters of sanitation within the Canal Zone, and also in the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors, etc., so far as authorized by the treaty, the Executive Orders and Decrees of December 3, 1904, between the United States and the Republic of Panama relating thereto. 3. The custody of all supplies needed for sanitary purposes, and such construction necessary for sanitary purposes, as may be assigned to this Department by the Commission. 4. Such other duties as he may be charged with from time to time by the Secretary of War. 5. He shall reside on the Isthmus and devote his entire time to the service, except when granted leave of absence by the Secretary of War. (c) The head of the third department shall be the Chief Engineer. He shall have full charge on the Isthmus: 1. Of all the actual work of construction carried on by the Commission on the Isthmus; 2. The custody of all supplies and plant of the Commission upon the Isthmus; 3. The practical operation of the railroad on the Isthmus, with the special view to its utilization in canal construction work. 4. He shall reside on the Isthmus and devote his entire time to the service, except when granted leave of absence by the Secretary of War. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. All officers and employees shall be appointed and their salaries shall be fixed by the head of the department in which they are engaged. Their appointment and salary shall be subject to the approval either of the Commission or, if the Commission is not in session, of the Executive Committee. The employment of laborers, where the contract of employment is made in the United States or outside of the Isthmus, shall be negotiated and concluded by the Chairman of the Commission, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee. Where the employment of laborers is effected upon the Isthmus, it shall be conducted under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee. CONTRACTS. Contracts for the purchase of supplies or for construction involving an estimated expenditure exceeding $10,000 shall only be made after due public advertisement in newspapers of general circulation, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible 25 bidder, except in case of emergency, when, with the approval of the Secretary of War, advertising may be dispensed with. In the making of contracts for supplies or construction involving an estimated expenditure of more than $1,000 or less than $10,000, competitive bids should be secured by invitation or advertisement whenever practicable. As soon as practicable after the date of this order, the Isthmian Canal Commission, as hereafter constituted, shall hold a session in the city of Washington for the general purpose of reorganization under this order, and for the special purpose of fixing the number and character of officers and employees to serve in the city of Washington in the work of the Commission. The Commission is especially charged with the duty of maintaining a complete system of accounts on the Isthmus, which shall be duplicated in Washington, so that there may always be in Washington the proper means of informing the President, the Secretary of War and the Congress of the amount of work done, the cost of the same, the amount of money available, the amount of money expended, and the general financial condition of the enterprise. BOARD OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS. There will hereafter be appointed by the President, nine civil engineers of the highest standing, having experience in works of canal construction and hydraulics, to constitute a Board of Consulting Engineers, to which will be submitted by the Isthmian Canal Commission, for its consideration and advice, the important engineering questions arising in the selection of the best plan for the construction of the canal. The recommendation of the Board of Consulting Engineers shall be considered by the Isthmian Canal Commission, and, with the recommendations of the Commission, shall finally be submitted, through the Secretary of War, to the President for his decision. REPORTS. The executive officers of the Commission shall make duplicate reports upon the work and operation of their respective departments to the Secretary of War and the Isthmian Canal Commission from time to time, and as often as may be required by the Secretary of War or the Chairman of the Commission. The Secretary of War will make to the President a report at least annually, and as often as he may deem advisable or the President may require. All executive orders relating to the subject of the Panama Canal, except so far as they may be inconsistent with the present order, remain in force. Theodore P. Shonts is hereby appointed a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and its Chairman; Charles E. Magoon is hereby appointed a member of the Commission and Governor of the Canal Zone; the appointment as Governor shall take effect upon the date of his arrival on the Isthmus, and the resignation of the present incumbent of said office shall thereupon take effect; John F. Wallace is hereby appointed member of the Commission and Chief Engineer; Rear-Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott, U. S. N.; Brigadier-General Peter C. Hains, U. S. A. (retired); Colonel Oswald H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and Benjamin M. Harrod are hereby appointed members of the Isthmian Canal Commission. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. EXHIBIT F. ACT NO. 3. AN ACT reciting an executive order of the President of the United States and to provide for the suppression of lotteries and similar enterprises in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and for other purposes. Whereas, the executive order of the President of the United States, dated May 9th, 1904, defining the jurisdiction and functions of the Isthmian Canal Commission, directs as follows: "If there be now in force within the Canal Zone any franchise granting to any person or persons a privilege to maintain lotteries or hold lottery drawings or other26 gambling methods or devices of a character forbidden by the laws of the United States, or if the grantee of any such privilege has now the right to sell lottery tickets or similar devices to facilitate the business of the concessionaire, the Commission shall enact laws annulling the privileges or concessions and punishing future exercise of the same by imprisonment or fine, or both." Now, therefore, by authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the Isthmian Canal Commission, that: SECTION 1. Lotteries and similar enterprises offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance are repugnant to the laws of the United States and the general policy of the government as established by the enactments of the legislative branches of the National and State Governments exercising jurisdiction in the territory subject to the sovereignty of the United States, it is hereby declared that each and every franchise or concession granting to any person or persons, association or corporation, a privilege to maintain lotteries or hold lottery drawings or other gambling methods or devices, in the territory now included in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, or to sell lottery tickets or similar devices to promote or facilitate any lottery or similar enterprise, in said Zone or elsewhere, became null and void upon acquisition by the United States, in perpetuity, of the use, occupation and control of the territory included in the Canal Zone, and the rights, power and authority granted by the treaty signed at Washington, November 18, 1903. SEC. 2. The establishment, maintenance, promotion or drawing of any lottery, policy-lottery or similar enterprise in the Canal Zone is unlawful, and cannot be authorized by a municipality or other political subdivision within said Canal Zone or any public officer or officers thereof. SEC. 3. If any person or persons shall establish, set on foot, carry on, promote, make or draw, publicly or privately, within said Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, any lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or similar enterprise of any description, by whatever name, style, or title the same may be designated or known; or if any person or persons shall by such ways and means expose, set aside or offer for sale any house or houses, lands or real estate, or any goods or chattels, cash, or written evidences of debt, or certificates of claims, or any thing or things of value or tokens thereof whatever; every person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisoned not to exceed five years, or both, for the first offense; and for the second or subsequent offense by both fine and imprisonment. SEC. 4. If any person or persons within said Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall vend, sell, barter, or dispose of any lottery ticket, or tickets, order or orders, device or devices, of any kind, for or representing any number of shares, or any interest in any lottery, or scheme of chance, or shall be concerned in any wise in any lottery or scheme of chance, by acting as owner or agent in said Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, for or on behalf of any lottery or scheme of chance, to be drawn, paid or carried on, either outside of or within said Canal Zone, every such person shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court, and for the second or subsequent offense by both fine and imprisonment. SEC. 5. Whoever shall by printing, writing, or in any other way publish an account of any lottery, or scheme of chance of any kind or description to be carried on, held, or drawn, either outside of or within the said Canal Zone, stating when or where any lottery or scheme of chance by whatever name, style or title the same may be denominated or known, is to be drawn, for the prizes therein, or any of them, or any information in relation to said drawing or prizes, or any of them, of the price of a ticket, show, or chance therein, or where any ticket may be obtained, or in any aiding or assisting in the same, or in any wise giving publicity to such lottery or scheme of chance, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 6. Whoever shall cause to be brought within the said Canal Zone, from abroad, for the purpose of disposing of the same, or depositing the same therein, for the purpose of having them disposed of within said Canal Zone, any papers, certificates, or instruments purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or other enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance; or shall cause any advertisement of any such lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or other enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, to be brought within the 27 said Canal Zone, or deposited in or circulated in said Canal Zone, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment of not more than two years, or both in the discretion of the court; and for the second or subsequent offenses, by both fine and imprisonment. SEC. 7. No letter, postal card, or circular concerning any lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or other enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, and no list of the drawings at any lottery or similar scheme, and no lottery ticket or part thereof, and no check, draft, bill, money, or money order for the purchase of any ticket, tickets, or part thereof, or of any share or any chance in any such lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or similar enterprise shall be carried in the mail or delivered at or through any post-office or branch thereof, or by any letter carrier; nor shall any newspaper, circular, pamphlet, or publication of any kind containing any advertisement of any lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or similar enterprise of any kind offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, or containing any list of prizes awarded at the drawings of any such lotter or similar enterprise, whether said list is of any part or all of the drawings, be carried in the mail or delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier. Whoever shall knowingly depost or cause to be deposited, or shall knowingly send or cause to be sent, anything to be conveyed or delivered by mail anything forbidden to be carried by mail, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 8. No postmaster or other persons employed in or otherwise connected with any branch of the Department of Posts shall act as agent for any lottery, policy-lottery, gift concert, or similar enterprise or otherwise vend lottery tickets; nor shall he knowingly receive or send any written or printed advertisement circular or ticket of any lottery or similar enterprise. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 9. The Circuit Courts of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction to try and determine charges or violations of this Act, and to render judgment and impose sentence according to the provisions of this Act. Criminal proceedings against persons charged with any violation of this Act shall be conducted in the name of the Government of the Canal Zone, and follow, as far as applicable, the existing Code of Criminal Procedure in force in said Canal Zone. SEC. 10. Bazaars, church fairs and charitable entertainments, conducted by religious or charitable organizations, may be authorized to conduct raffles and gift enterprises by securing a permit therefor, which said permits are to be issue by the Governor whenever, after proper investigation, it shall appear that the gross proceeds of said enterprise are to be used for charitable purposes, and that the articles to be given as prizes in furtherance of said enterprise were acquired by donation and not by purchase. SEC. 11. All laws or parts thereof which are in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted August 11, 19045. J. G. WALKER, Chairman Isthmian Canal Commission. EXHIBIT G. ACT NO. 4. AN ACT to prohibit gambling in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and to provide for the punishment of violations thereof, and for other purposes. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the Isthmian Canal Commission: SECTION 1. (Parties Engaged in Gambling.)--Every person who, within the limits of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall play at any game whatever28 for any sum on money or other property of value, or shall bet any money or property upon any gaming table, bank, or device, or at or upon any other gambling device, or who shall bet upon any game played at or by means of any such gaming table or gambling device, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court, and upon a second or any subsequent conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned not more than two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 2. (The Proprietor of Gambling Devices.)---Every person who, within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall set up or keep any gaming table, faro bank, keno, or any kind of gambing table or gambling device, or gambling machine of any kind or description, under any denomination or name whatever, adapted, devised, and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property, except billiard tables, or who shall keep any billiard table for the purpose of betting or gambling, or shall allow the same to be used for such purpose, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. (Proprietor or Occupant of Private Premises on Which Gambling is Permitted.)---If any person or persons, within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall suffer any game or games whatsoever to be played for gain upon or by means of any gaming device or machine of any denomination or name in his or their house, or any outhouse, booth, arbor, or erection of which he, she or they are the owners, or have the care or possession, the person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not to exceed two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. (The Proprietor or Occupant of Public Houses.)---If any keeper or keepers within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, of any tavern, boarding house, ordinary, or other house of public resort, shall suffer any game or games whatever to be played for money or other property or token of value at or within such tavern, boarding house, ordinary, or other house of public resort, or in any out-house, building, or erection appending therto, every such keeper or keepers shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not to exceed two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. (The Keepers of Gambling Rooms.)---If any person within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall keep a room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, canal boat, or other water craft to be used or occupied for gambling, or if any person being the owner of any room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, canal boat, or other water craft, shall rent the same to be used or occupied for gambling, the person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the first offense, and upon a second or any subsequent conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. And if the owner of any room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, canal boat, or other water craft, shall know that any gaming table, gambling apparatus, or establishment is kept or used in such room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, canal boat, or other water craft, for gambling, winning, betting, or gaining money or other property, and shall not forthwith cause complaint to be made against the person so keeping any such room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, canal boat or other water craft, he shall be taken, held and considered to have knowingly permitted the same to be used and occupied for gambling. SEC. 6. (Common Gambler.)---If any person within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall keep or exhibit any gaming table, establishment, device, or apparatus, to win or gain money or other property of value, or shall aid, or assist, or permit others to do the same, or if any person shall engage in gambling for a livelihood, or shall be without any fixed residence, and in the habit or practice of gambling, he shall be deemed and taken to be a common gambler, and 29 shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than six months and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1000.00). SEC. 7. The court shall have authority to commit the party or parties found guilty of violating any provision or provisions of this Act in default of payment of any fine or costs imposed therefor, and any person so committed shall be allowed a credit on said fine or costs of one dollar ($1.00) for each day of actual imprisonment inflicted on him; provided, that in the event of a sentence to imprisonment in addition to a fine, the time allowance herein provided shall not commence or be counted until the expiration of the time of imprisonment fixed and inflicted as a punishment for the offense. SEC. 8. (Recovery of Property of Value.)---Any person or persons who shall lose any property or money in a gambling house or other place at either cards or by means of any other gambling device, or game or device of any kind, such person, the wife or guardian of such person, his heirs, legal representatives or creditors, shall have the right to recover the money or amount thereof, or the property or the value thereof, in a civil action, and may sue each or all persons participating in the game, and may join the keeper of the gambling establishment in the same action who shall be jointly and severally liable for any money or property lost in any game or through any gambling device of any kind, and no title shall pass to said property or money by reason of its being lost in any such game or gambling device, and in an action to recover the same no evidence shall be required as to the specific kind or denomination of money, but only as to the amount so lost. SEC. 9. Whereas an emergency exists, this Act shall be in force and effect on and after its passage. J. G. WALKER, Chairman Isthmian Canal Commission. EXHIBIT H. ACT NO. 9. AN ACT to provide sanitary rules and regulations for the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and for the enforcement thereof. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the Isthmian Canal Commission: SECTION 1 (Powers of Chief Sanitary Inspector.)---The Department of Health is charged with the duty to secure the enforcement of the sanitary rules and regulations prescribed by this Act. The Chief Sanitary Inspector of the Canal Zone, under the direction of the Chief Sanitary Officer, shall be charged with the immediate duty of securing the enforcement of said rules and regulations. The Chief Sanitary Inspector shall have authority to make such charges for his work in cleaning premises, in covering water barrels, cisterns and other water containers; in covering open ponds or pools of water with oil, and for other preventive measures; in abating nuisances, or in doing any other work necessary for the protection of public health, as may be authorized and fixed by the Board of Health. He shall be aided in said work by the Sanitary Inspectors serving under him, who shall have the powers of deputies in such districts as the Board of Health may indicate. SEC. 2. (Nuisances.)---Whatever is dangerous to human life or health, whatever building, or part or cellar thereof, is overcrowded or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress, or is not sufficiently ventilated, drained, lighted, or cleaned, and whatever renders soil, air, water, or food impure or unwholesome are declared to be nuisances and to be illegal. Every person having aided in creating or contributing to the same, or who may support, continue, or retain any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of these rules and regulations, and shall be liable for the cost and expense of the abatement or remedy required therefor.30 SEC. 3. (Privies, Cesspools, etc.)---No privy, cesspool, or reservoir into which and privy, watercloset, stable, sink or other receptacle of refuse or sewage is drained, shall be so constructed or maintained that, through leakage or overflow of its contents, it may cause pollution of the soil or water near or about habitations, nor shall the overflow from any such reservoir or receptacle be permitted to discharge into any public place, or in such a way as to cause danger to health; and such pits, reservoirs or receptacles shall be cleaned, and the contents thereof removed, at such times and under such precautions as are prescribed by the Board of Health. Whenever, by reason of the construction of sewers or otherwise, such pit, reservoir or receptacle becomes unnecessary, it shall be closed, filled, or otherwise done away with in such manner as the Board of Health may direct. SEC. 4. (Sewers, Drains, etc.)---All house sewers or drains for the conveyance of deleterious or offensive matter shall be water-tight. Where public sewers are, or shall be, constructed in front of or near any premises, the Board of Health may order house connections to made therewith. In such event, the house sewer must be properly trapped and vented, in order to prevent a backflow of gas from the sewer into the house. SEC. 5. (House Refuse, Garbage, etc.)---No house refuse, offal, garbage, dead animals, decaying vegetable matter or organic waste substance of any kind shall be thrown upon any street or public place, and no decaying vegetable or putrid matter shall be kept in any house, adjoining cellar or out-house for more than twenty-four hours. SEC. 6. (Cans for Garbage.)---All house refuse, offal, garbage, decaying vegetable matter or organic waste substance of any kind shall be placed in covered cans or other receptacles approved by the Board of Health, and such cans or other receptacles shall, at such hour of the evening as shall be directed by the Sanitary Inspector, be put in a place of convenient access for the collector of garbage. SEC. 7. (Cleaning of Premises.)---All private premises are to be kept in a clean and sanitary condition; all decaying vegetable and animal matter, and all filth accumulations of whatever source, must be removed; all water containers must be covered so as to make the access of mosquitos to the water surface impossible; ponds and pools of water within 200 yards of any dwelling must be drained or filled, or the surface of the water kept covered with oil. Whenever any property owner or tenant fails to comply with the instructions of the Sanitary Inspector to put his premises in proper sanitary condition within forty-eight hours after receiving notice so to do, it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to do all things that may be necessary to clean the premises and put them in proper sanitary condition, and for this work he shall make such charge as may be fixed and authorized by the Board of Health. SEC. 8. (Unwholesome Food.)---No meat, fish, bird, fruit, vegetables, milk, or anything for human food or drink, not fresh nor properly preserved, wholesome and safe for such use, nor any flesh of any animal which died by disease or which was, at the time of its death, in sickly or unwholesome condition, shall be offered or held for sale as food. SEC. 9. (Slaughter Houses, Markets, etc.)---The keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals to be killed for food, shall be in the manner best adapted to secure and continue their wholesomeness as food. Every butcher or other person owning, leasing or keeping any slaughter house where cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals are killed or dressed shall cause such place to be kept thoroughly cleaned and purified, and all offal, blood, fat, refuse, and unwholesome and offensive matter of all kinds must be removed therefrom at least once in twenty-four hours during and after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein mentioned. Any person being the owner, lessee, or occupant of any market, or of a stall or place in any market, store, building, or other place, or of any stalls wherein animals are kept, shall cause such place, room, building, stable, stall or market to be thoroughly cleaned and purified, and all offal, fat, garbage, refuse, and unwholesome and offensive matter must be removed therefrom at least once in twenty-four hours during and after the use thereof. Such person shall also keep all woodwork clean and painted or whitewashed, except floors and the tops of counters or tables. The floors of such buildings, places 31 or premises shall be so constructed as to prevent blood or offal or foul liquids or washings from reaching and settling into the earth beneath. SEC. 10. (Contagious Diseases.)---Every physician, druggist, school teacher, clergyman, midwife, nurse, and every head of a family having knowledge of any of the following named diseases shall immediately report the same to the Sanitary Inspector, or to the Board of Health: Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small-pox, chicken pox, plague, dysentery, diphtheria, and membranous croup. SEC. 11. (Small-pox.)---Whenever a case of small-pox is reported to a Sanitary Inspector, he shall report the same to the Board of Health, and the physician in charge of the hospital or emergency hospital to which the locality in which the case occurs has been assigned shall remove the same to the hospital, or other building designated for his district and for this purpose by the Board of Health. The Board of Health shall cause to be thoroughly fumigated and disinfected all rooms, clothing bedding and other articles of whatever nature which may have been exposed to the contagion, or make such other disposition of portable articles as may be necessary to protect the public health. SEC. 12. (Yellow Fever.)---Whenever a case of yellow fever is reported, it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to report the same to the Board of Health and to the physician in charge of the hospital, or emergency hospital, to which the locality in which the case occurs has been assigned, and said physician shall cause the case to be removed to the hospital, or other building, provided for such cases. The following rules are to be observed in caring for yellow fever patients: 1. Those in care of the sick shall see that at all times, both day and night, the bed occupied by the sick person is completely enclosed by mosquito netting, so as to make it mosquito proof. The windows and doors of rooms occupied by the sick must be screened with mosquito netting. 2. The Sanitary Inspector shall cause to be screened such other rooms in the house as he may consider necessary for protection against mosquitos. Any person removing, breaking, or otherwise injuring these screens, so as to disable them from keeping out mosquitos, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of these rules and regulations. 3. The Sanitary Inspector shall see that all places in the house, yard, outhouses, or places connected with the house, where mosquitos may breed, are rendered proof against the mosquito, and all persons living in the house must use such care and watchfulness that in the part, or parts, of the house occupied by them, no water in jars, bottles, cans, hollow places in floors or yards, or any other place or article in which water might collect is allowed to remain. 4. On the termination of the case, or after its removal to the hospital, the Board of Health shall cause to be made a thorough and careful fumigation of all rooms in the house where the case occurred, and if, in their judgment, it is necessary to protect the public health, neighboring houses shall also be fumigated. SEC. 13. (Cholera.)---Whenever a case of cholera is reported, the Board of Health shall take precautions as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, publishing and enforcing such special rules and regulations as may be necessary for the guidance of all who may be in any way exposed to the disease. SEC. 14. (Typhus Fever, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup.)---Whenever cases of typhus fever, diphtheria, membranous croup are reported, the Board of Health shall take such precautions as will protect the public health, adopting and publishing such special rules and regulations as may be necessary for the guidance of those who may be exposed to the disease, or will aid in preventing its spread. SEC. 15. (Plague.)---Whenever a case of plague is reported, the Board of Health shall cause the house where the case is to be visited by a physician, who shall have the case removed to the hospital. The Board shall cause the house from which the case was removed to be thoroughly disinfected, as also all other buildings which have been exposed to the contagion. It shall also prepare and publish special rules and regulations for the protection of public health. SEC. 16. (Physicians and Clergymen Visiting Contagious Cases.)--The Board of Health shall adopt such rules as may be necessary relating to the visiting of any cases of the above named diseases, except chicken pox, by physicians and clergymen. Copies of these rules, in duplicate, shall be mailed to each physician32 practicing, and each clergyman in orders in the Canal Zone and in the cities of Panama and Colon. One of these copies is to be signed by the physician or clergyman and filed in the Health Office. No clergyman desiring to minister to a person suffering from any of the above named diseases, except chicken pox, shall visit the patient without first notifying the Sanitary Inspector. SEC. 17. (Consultation.)--In all doubtful cases of contagious diseases the Sanitary Inspectors of the Canal Zone shall notify the Board of Health, and such Board shall at once take steps to examine and decide the character and nature of any case thus laid before it. SEC. 18. (Importation of Infected Persons and Things.)--No person or article liable to propagate a dangerous disease shall be brought within the limits of the Canal Zone without special permission from the Sanitary Inspector, and anyone having knowledge that such person or article has been brought within such limits shall immediately notify the Board of Health. SEC. 19. (Exposure of Infected Persons or Things.)--No person shall, within the limits of the Canal Zone, carry or remove from one building to another any patient affected with the contagious disease mentioned in Section 10 without a permit in writing from the Sanitary Inspector, nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual so affected, or of the body of such individual, or of any article capable of conveying contagion or infection, or by any negligent act connected with the custody thereof, or by needless exposure of himself or herself, cause or contribute to the spread of contagious diseases from any such individual or dead body. SEC. 20. (Funerals.)--After death from a contagious disease there shall not be a public or church funeral of any person who has died of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, or membranous croup. The family of the deceased shall, in all such cases, limit the attendance to as few persons as possible and take all precautions possible to prevent the exposure of other persons to contagion or infection. SEC. 21. (Filled in or Made Land.)--No low ground or sunken places shall be filled with any materials containing putrescible animal or vegetable matter. SEC. 22. (Obnoxious Trades.)--No person or company shall erect or maintain any factory or place of business dangerous to life or detrimental to health or where unwholesome, offensive or deleterious odors, gas, smoke, deposit, or exhalations are generated, unless permit to erect or maintain the same shall have been obtained from the Board of Health, and all such establishments must be kept clean and wholesome, so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to public health. No offensive or deleterious waste substance, refuse, or injurious matter shall be allowed to accumulate upon the premises or be thrown or allowed to run into any street or public place. Every person or company conducting such a factory or business shall use the most approved and all reasonable means to prevent the escape of smoke, gases, odors, and to protect the health and safety of all operators employed theren. SEC. 23. (Use of Public Water.)--Where water from the public water supply may be introduced, the Sanitary Inspector shall require the necessary pipes to be laid by the owner or owners of the premises whose occupants require water, and whenever pipes have been laid to any premises, the Sanitary Inspector shall cause to be closed and removed, or otherwise done away with, all receptacles of whatever nature and kind for the storage of water, except such barrels, tubs, basins, or other receptacles as are used for the washing of clothes or other similar articles or the watering of animals, and all receptacles so used shall not have the water allowed to stand in them any longer than forty-eight hours. Should any water be found upon any premises in which there are wrigglers or the larvae of mosquitoes, their existence shall be considered a violation of these rules and regulations. SEC. 24. (Closing of Wells.)--Upon the introduction of the public water supply into any premises, the occupants of which had before obtained their water from a well, the Sanitary Officer shall cause said well to be closed. SEC. 25. (Reports of Marriages and Births.)--Every clergyman or magistrate performing a marriage, and every physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child, must report the same to the Board of Health upon blank forms furnished for such reports, within three days after the performance of such marriage or the birth of said child. 33 SEC. 26. (Certificate of Death, Burial Permits, etc.)--Every undertaker, or other person, who may have charge of the funeral of any dead person, shall procure a properly filled out certificate of death and its probable cause, upon the form provided for such purpose. Such certificate is to be duly signed by the physician who last attended the deceased, and must be presented to the Board of Health and a burial permit obtained before the body of the deceased person is removed for burial. The physician last in attendance upon any person dying within the limits of the Canal Zone must write out and sign, without delay, the professional certificate of death, and leave it with the family of the deceased or give it to the undertaker in charge of the remains. When a body is to be removed outside the limits of the Canal Zone, a transit burial permit will be issued by the Board of Health to the undertaker or other person in charge of the remains, upon the presentation of a properly filled out certificate of death. SEC. 27. (Leprosy, Elephantiasis, Beri-Beri.)--Any person having knowledge of a case of leprosy, elephantiasis or beri-beri must report the same at once to a Sanitary Inspector or to the Board of Health. SEC. 28. (Typhoid Fever.)--Anyone having knowledge of any case of typhoid fever must at once report the same to a Sanitary Inspector or to the Board of Health. All urine and faeces of typhoid patients must be disinfected before disposal. SEC. 29. (Sale of Poisonous Drugs.)--No strychnine, opium, arsenic, nor other poisons shall be sold, except on prescription or requisitions signed by a physician, except that carbolic acid, sulphate of copper and similar materials may be sold for use as disinfectants without such certificates. SEC. 30. (Venereal Diseases.)--Venereal diseases of prostitutes must be reported to a Sanitary Inspector or the Board of Health by anyone heaving knowledge of the same, and such prostitutes are to be isolated and subjected to medical treatment by the Board of Health. SEC. 31. (Duties of Sanitary Inspectors.)--The Chief Sanitary Inspector and his assistants may enter upon or within any premises where conditions dangerous to public health are known or believed to exist, and shall examine into the nature of complaints made by any inhabitant concerning sources of danger or injury to health. He must preserve accurate records of his official actions, and report the same to the Board of Health monthly and at such other times as may be directed by said Board. Whenever, in his judgment, danger shall arise to the public health in special cases not covered by the regulations of general application, he shall at once report the same to the Board of Health, which shall order such measures to be taken as may be necessary and proper in such special cases. SEC. 32. (Building Permits.)--The plans of all buildings, public and private, excepting those erected by the Isthmian Canal Commission or any of its departments or sub-departments, shall be submitted to the Board of Health for its approval as to ventilation, plumbing and drainage, and no building permit for any such building shall be issued by the municipal authorities without the approval of such Board. SEC. 33. (Penalties.)--A violation of any of the provisions of the foregoing rules and regulations is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and any person, corporation, or association, upon conviction of such violation, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 34. (Courts for Offenses.)--Any court of the Canal Zone having jurisdiction to hear and determine cases of misdemeanor under the penal code of the Zone shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine cases arising upon violations of these rules and regulations and to impose the fines and penalties herein provided and to enforce the same. SEC. 35. (Charges for Work Done.)--Forty-eight hours after notice has been served by a Sanitary Inspector upon the owner or tenant of any premises, either by delivery to such owner or tenant of a written notice or by the posting of said notice in a conspicuous place upon said premises, and no steps have been taken to abate the nuisance, to clean the premises, to cover water containers, to screen door and window openings or to do such other things as required in said notice, or in case that due diligence is not exercised in doing the work directed to be done in said notice, the Sanitary Inspector shall have the right to enter upon34 said premises and perform such work, charging therefor at rates fixed by the Board of Health. The Sanitary Inspector shall report the amount so charged, together with the name of the person who, as tenant or owner of the premises, is responsible for the conditions to be remedied, to the Collector of Revenues, who shall proceed to collect the same, and in case any tenant fails to pay the amount so charged, the collection is to be made from the owner of the premises. Should any such amount so charged remain unpaid thirty days after the owner has been notified in writing by the Collector of Revenues, or thirty days after the posting of a copy of a bill for the work in a conspicuous place on the premises, the amount so charged shall be reported by the Collector of Revenues to the Treasurer of the municipality in which the whole or greater portion of the premises is situated, and said amount charges, with ten per cent. added, shall become a lien upon the real estate and be collected in the same manner and at same time as municipal taxes. Enacted September 2, 1904. J.G WALKER, Chairman Isthmian Canal Commission. EXHIBIT I. Act No. 10. AN ACT to provide maritime quarantine regulations for the ports and harbors of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the Isthmian Canal Commission : SECTION I. The Maritime Quarantine Regulations for the ports and harbors of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, shall be as follows : SEC. 2. Vessels entering the port or harbor at Ancon or Cristobal from any foreign port where there is a United States Consular Office must present to the Quarantine Officer of the port and to the Customs Officer of the port, or his authorized deputy, each a bill of health of the same character and form as is required of vessels entering the ports of the United States from said foreign ports. Vessels entering the port or harbor at Ancon or Cristobal from any port of the United States must present to the Quarantine Officer and to the Customs Officer of the port, or his authorized deputy, each a bill of health, signed by the Customs Officer of said port of the United States from which said vessel sailed. SEC. 3. Such vessels having entered or called at intermediate ports must also present each of the port officers named in Section 2 a supplemental bill of health of the same character and form as is required of vessels entering the ports of the United States from foreign ports. SEC. 4. Any such vessel entering the port or harbor of Ancon or Cristobal without such bill of health or supplemental bill shall forfeit to the Government of the Canal Zone not more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, the amount to be determined by the court, which shall lien on said vessel, to be recovered by proceedings in the proper court of the Canal Zone. SEC 5. Vessels arriving at any of the ports herein names, under the following conditions shall be inspected by the Quarantine Officer of the port prior to entry : (a) All vessels from foreign ports; (b) all vessels with sickness aboard; (c) vessels from domestic ports where any quarantinable disease prevails; (d) vessels from domestic ports carrying passengers or articles suspected by the Quarantine Officer as being capable of conveying the infection of a transmissible disease. SEC. 6. The limits of anchorage of vessels awaiting inspection and for vessels undergoing quarantine shall be fixed from time to time for each port by the Chief Quarantine Officer, and this may be different for vessels of different sanitary conditions, or for vessels from ports of different sanitary conditions. SEC. 7. Every vessel subject to quarantine inspection shall be considered in quarantine until granted free pratique, and such vessels shall fly a yellow flag from 35 the foremost head from sunrise to sunset, and shall observe all the other requirements of vessels actually quarantined. SEC. 8. The captain or master of a vessel in quarantine shall allow no communication with his vessel, except as provided for in these regulations, under penalty of the law ; nor shall any watercraft approach such vessel within two hundred (200) meters under penalty of the law. SEC. 9. No person or thing shall be allowed to leave a vessel in quarantine without written permission from the Quarantine Officer. SEC. 10. Towboats, or any vessel or boat having had communication with a vessel in quarantine shall, with their personnel, be submitted to such measures of sanitation as the Quarantine Officer may judge to be necessary. SEC. 11. No person, except such officers of the port as are required to do so by the nature of their duties, and the agent of the vessel, if he has the consent of the Quarantine Officer, shall go aboard any vessel subject to quarantine until she has been granted free pratique. Any person going aboard prior to the issuance of free pratique shall be subject to the same restrictions as the personnel of the vessel if, in the opinion of the Quarantine Officer, this is necessary for the protection of public health. SEC. 12. The Quarantine Officer, after the inspection of a vessel and her documents, shall decide whether said vessel is liable to convey through herself, her personnel, or any articles aboard, any of the following diseases, to-wit: Plague, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Small-Pox, Typhus Fever, Beri-Beri, or Leprosy, and if so, she shall be placed in quarantine and forbidden entry until free from such liability ; and he shall determine what sanitary measures, whether with regard to the vessel, her cargo, or her personnel, are required to enable him to do so. In making these decisions he will be guided by the regulations of the United States in so far as they may be applicable to the conditions at his port and as modified from time to time by the regulations of the Isthmian Canal Commission. SEC. 13. Passengers aboard vessels subject to inspection will be required, at the discretion of the Quarantine Officer, and on notice given to present personal certificates from a designated officer at the port of embarkation, certifying to their sanitary history and conditions. SEC. 14. Every case of sickness aboard any vessel in the harbor shall be immediately repotted to the Quarantine Officer, who shall direct the sanitary measures to be taken therewith. SEC. 15. The Chief Quarantine Officer shall also have direct charge of the sanitation of the harbors and vessels lying therein, and shall see that such measures are enforced as are necessary for the proper hygiene of vessels, their cargoes, and their personnel, whether in port or en route, and to prevent the vessels from being a source of danger to other vessels or to the port, and he is authorized to certify bills of health to vessels clearing for other ports under his jurisdiction, setting forth in each place the conditions of the port, vessel, cargo, passengers and crew ; and he is authorized, at the request of any vessel, to disinfect said vessel and otherwise place her in such sanitary condition that she may leave the port in free pratique and be able to make entry at her port of destination without further disinfection or detention in quarantine. SEC. 16. The Quarantine Officer shall make such changes for the disinfection of vessels and their cargoes, and for the transportation and subsistence of passengers as may be fixed by the Board of Health of the Government of the Canal Zone. SEC. 17. The Chief Quarantine Officer must report all cases of infectious or contagious diseases found by him at once to the Chief Sanitary Officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission. SEC. 18. The certificate of the Quarantine Officer that the vessel has complied with all the Quarantine Regulations of the Isthmian Canal Commission shall be required of every vessel requiring inspection as a prerequisite for customs entry. SEC. 19. Any violations of the above regulations, for which penalty has not otherwise been provided, shall be a misdemeanor, and any person or persons guilty of such violation shall, when convicted thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) , or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 20. Any court of the Canal Zone having jurisdiction in cases of misdemeanor under laws of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction of cases of misdemeanor arising under this Act. Enacted September 2, 1904 J.G. WALKER, Chairman Isthmian Canal Commission 36 EXHIBIT J. ACT No. II. AN ACT designating the days which shall be observed as public holidays in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the Isthmian Canal Commission: SECTION I. The first day of each week, commonly called Sunday; the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, Thursday and Friday of the week commonly called "Holy Week," the fourth day of July, the third day of November, the day proclaimed by the President of the United States as "Thanksgiving Day," and the twenty-fifth day of December, shall be public holidays, and shall not be legally recognized as days for presenting for payment or acceptance, for the maturity and protest and for giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes, or other commercial or negotiable paper; and all notes, drafts, checks or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on any of said public holidays shall be deemed as having matured on the day previous: Provided, that in case of notes, drafts, checks or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on any public holiday, when the preceding day is also a public holiday, the same shall be deemed as having matured on the last preceding day which is not a public holiday. SEC. 2. Whenever any day, except Sunday, designated by this act as a legal holiday shall fall on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, then and in such event the day next succeeding shall be a public holiday in the Canal Zone, and shall not be legally recognized as a day for presenting for payment or acceptance, for the maturity and protest, and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes or other commercial or negotiable paper; and all notes, drafts, checks, or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on such public holiday shall be deemed as having matured on the previous Saturday. SEC. 3. All laws or parts of laws hitherto in force in the Canal Zone making public holidays other days than those designated as such in this Act are hereby repealed. This act shall be in force on and after the seventh day of September, I904. Enacted this 2d day of September, I904. J. G. WALKER, Chairman Isthmian Canal Commission. EXHIBIT K. (From the "Gaceta Oficial," Panama, March I8, I904.) LAW No. 6, of I904 (of March Ii).—By which the immigration of Chinese, Turks and Syrians into the Territory of the Republic is prohibited, and fixing the conditions to be complied with in order that foreigners of these nationalities at present domiciled on the Isthmus may continue liveing therein, if they so desire. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF PANAMA. Decrees. ARTICLE I. From and after the promulgation of this law, the immigration of Chinese, Turks and Syrians into the territory of the Republic is prohibited. ART. 2. Steamship companies, enterprises o any character, or private individuals who shall, thirty days after the promulgation of this law, introduce into the territory of the Republic immigrants of the nationalities mentioned in Article I, shall pay as a fine for every immigrant introduced the sum of two hundred pesos ($200), current money, being further obliged to return them at their own cost to the place from which they were brought; and if, eight days after their introduction, they shall have failed to gather them in order to return them to the place of their 37 origin, or to another place beyond the Isthmus, they shall pay an additional fine of five hundred pesos ($500), current money, for every individual,without this payment exempting those fined from the obligation of always removing beyond the Republic such immigrants as they may have introduced. ART. 3. Chinese, Turks and Syrians at present domiciled on the Isthmus, who shall desire to continue living with their families in the same places where they are at present residing, shall have he right to remain in the Republic, provided they possess real property, an agricultural estate, an hacienda, commercial or industrial establishment or a known licit trade. ART. 4. In order that the Chinese, Turks and Syrians residing in the Republic may obtain the grace granted them y the first part of Article 3, it is indispensable that they report to the first political authority of their place of residence, in order that they may be entered on a Register which shall be opened for the purpose of carrying out said provisions, and any other provisions which the Executive Power may issue for the purpose of providing regulations for the execution of this law. ART. 5. The foreigners referred to in Article I of this law, who should come to the territory of the Republic en route to other countries, shall be considered as transients, and obliged, by the first political authority of the port or place of arrival, to continue their trip to their destination within the shortest period of days which may be allowed them. For the purposes of this article, the Captain of the port, or, in his absence, the Inspector of Police of the place, shall require of the Captain of the vessel a declaration of the persons in transit he may have on board, and he shall present with this declaration said individuals to the respective political authority, in order that these provisions may be enforced. The transient himself is obliged to make a declaration of his quality as such to the inspector of Police, if he should be called upon to do so, in order than the prescriptions of the first part of this article may be applied to him. ART. 6. The captains of vessels who shall violate the provisions of the preceding article, shall incur a fine of not less than one hundred pesos ($100), legal money, for each individual. ART. 7. In the prohibitions referred to in this law are not comprised the Diplomatic officials or Consuls of the Chinese and Turkish Governments, whose credentials shall suffice to permit their entry into the Republic of Panama, or their residence therein, definitely or in transit, as the case may be. Given in panama, the seventh day of the month of March, nineteen hundred and four. PABLO AROSEMENA, President. JUAN BRIN, Secretary. National Executive Power.—Panama, March II, I904. Let it be published and executed. M. AMADOR GUERRERO. TOMAS ARIAS, Secretary of Government.[*F*] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. July 26, 1906. The President: I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a despatch from the Legation at Buenos Aires, transmitting a clipping from La Nacion purporting to give a translation of a letter from The President to Dr. Miguel F. Rodriguez. Respectfully submitted: Robert Bacon Acting Secretary. Enclosure: From the Argentine Republic, No. 370. June 14, 1906, with one enclosure.[*[For 2. enc. see T. Roosevelt 6[7]-13-06 & White 6-14-06]*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 WH RA GI Paid Govt----11a The White House, Washington, D. C. July 26, 1906. Hon. [Wm.] Loeb, Jr: Your letter of yesterday with enclosed cablegram from Escalon. I took the liberty of answering it in the President's name on Monday and took it for granted that you had seen copy. Robert Bacon.G. Translation. Office of the Secretary General, of the 3rd Pan American Conference, RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26, 1906. I have the great honor of advising Your Excellency that the Third International American Conference, now assembled in this city, approved by acclamation a motion of the Argentine delegation that the Conference manifest the gratification with which it viewed the successful mediation of the Presidents of the United States of America and of the United States of Mexico toward the peace agreement between the Republics of Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador. I take supreme pleasure in bringing this Resolution to Your Excellency's knowledge and begging you to transmit it to the illustrious Chief Magistrate of your country. I am glad, Mr. Secretary of State, to present to Your Excellency, at this time, the assurance of my highest consideration. J. F. de Assis Brasil, Secretary General of the 3rd International American Conference. ---------------[*[Enc in Bacon 8-24-06]*][*F*] [*Ackd 7/27/06*] CUSHING'S ISLAND MAINE July 26, 1906 My Dear Loeb - If you don't mind I think I will stop off at Oyster Bay on my way back to Washington next Wednesday or Thursday and talk over that Lowden business & one or two other things with you. Sincerely yours, L. A. Coolidge [*[Coolidge]*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. CIPHER. RIO JANEIRO, (Received 3:15 p.m., July26, 1906). Secretary of State, Washington. Coffee scheme has passed House of Deputies, submitted to Senate; certain to become law very soon. Authorizes the loan of fifteen millions pound sterling. This is entirely separate from the project to fix rate of exchange concerning which no action taken yet. Griscom, -Fd-[*F*] FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. JOHN F. LACEY, IOWA, CHAIRMAN. F. W. MONDELL, WYO. J. M. MILLER, KANS. J. C. NEEDHAM, CAL. E. W. MARTIN, S. DAK. J. W. FORDNEY, MICH. A. J. VOLSTEAD, MINN. J. M DIXON, MONT. PHILIP KNOPF, ILL. GEO. SHIRAS 3D, PA. J. J. MCCARTHY, NEBR. F. M. GRIFFITH, IND. J. I. BURNETT, ALA. G. P. FOSTER, ILL. W. W. RUCKER, MO. EZEKIEL S. CANDLER, MISS. JOHN LIND, MINN. B. S. RODRY, N. MEX. WM. M. REECE, IOWA, CLERK. Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives U. S., Washington, D. C., Oskaloosa, Iowa July 26, 1906. [*Personal*] President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. President: I wish to thank you sincerely for the very kind and complimentary letter which you sent me on the 16th instant. Political affairs in Iowa are very unpleasant just at this time; but there is one thing that we all agree on, we all "Stand pat" on Roosevelt. I hope you will not rest too strenuously in your summer vacation. There will be no rest for those who will make the fight for a Republican House in the 60th Congress. I have just returned from a hurried trip to the Roswell New Mexican Irrigation Field and the Wichita Game Refuge, the problem of introducing a buffalo herd in the Wichita, has only one difficulty, and that is the danger of the Texas ticks. I think Madison Grant and Mr. Hornaday ought to consult with you and get the benefit of your wisdom on that subject before the animals are sent in. I believe it could be made a great success, but extreme care will be required in the introduction of the animals, to protect them from infection. Sincerely yours, John F. LaceyTELEGRAM. CIPHER. The White House, Washington. San Salvador, (Received 9:50 p.m., July 26, 1906). The Secretary of State, Washington. Awaiting your reply to my telegram of this morning. My opinion is that "Marblehead" will not be needed after next Sunday. Merry. -KQ-TELEGRAM. CIPHER. The White House, Washington. San Salvador, Sal. (Received 3:22 p.m., July 26, 1906.) Secretary of State, Washington. Disarmament will be completed Saturday next; country is absolutely quiet. Advisable to promptly visit Nicaragua and to return to Costa Rica. Marblehead is going to Corinto in a few days for coal. Can I proceed with her next Sunday? Merry. -Fd-L.A. COOLIDGE HOME LIFE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. July 26, 1906. Hon William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Dear Sir:- I am instructed by Mr. Coolidge to send you the following quotation attributed to President Roosevelt by Mr. Landon in the campaign in Mr. Hitt's district (the 13th) in Illinois: "It is time for the man with the patch on his breeches to come to the fore, and for the man with the dollar to go to the rear." Yours truly, Frank L. Peckham, Secretary.[*[7-26-06]*] ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. Department of Construction & Engineering. - - - 0 - - - MEMO. FOR CONTRACT BY PERCENTAGE. It is proposed to form a Construction Company to be composed, of from ten to fifteen first-class railroad and general contractors, to be taken from as many points in the United Stated as practicable, and having abundant financial resources, experience in their special lines of work, and to have as large a following as possible of experienced foremen and sub-contractors. The amount of capital stock of said company, $25,000,000.00, to be subscribed to in such proportions as the individual members of the company may settle, to be fully paid up, or provided. The Company to give a bond for the successful prosecution and completion of the work, to the amount of $10,000,000. Call this Construction Company thus formed, in the succeeding memoranda, "The Contractor." Call the Isthmian Canal Commission "The Commission." Form a joint committee of five, consisting of tow representatives, engineers or otherwise as the Contractor may elect, to represent the Contractor, and three members to be chosen by the Commission, one of whom shall be its Chief Engineer who will be the chairman of the said committee, to fully investigate all engineering data which has been accumulated as regards quantities, classification, character of work, etc., and this committee to agree upon an approximate total estimate of the cost and time needed to complete the so-called 85-foot level lock canal between the waters of-2- the Caribbean Sea at Colon and the waters of the Pacific Ocean at La Boca, on the Isthmus of Panama, all as authorized and approved by Congress. The work to be embraced under this contract to be only that of canal construction proper, and will consist of the following items: All dredging, clearing and excavation from the locks to the ocean at each end of the canal. The construction of the Gatun dam. The construction of the Gatun locks and regulating works. The clearing and excavation from the Gatun dam to Bas Obispo. The excavation and complete execution of taking out the Culebra Cut, so called, from Bas Obispo to the dam and locks at the southern end of the canal. The construction of the dams at the southern end of the canal. The construction of the locks and regulating works at the southern end of the canal. The reconstruction of the Panama Railroad, on new line or lines as required by the location and construction of the canal. And in case it is decided that breakwaters are to be constructed at either the north or the south end of the canal for the proper protection of entrances to the canal, then a supplementary contract, based on the same rate of percentage, to be agreed upon between the Contractor and the Commission for the execution of the work of completing the breakwaters on the same terms as-3- are proposed for the items enumerated above. To make a contract as between the Commission and the Contractor, whereby the latter undertakes to carry out the work enumerated in the items given above, being the construction of the canal proper, on the following terms: The Commission to pay the Contractor, as total remuneration for his carrying out the work as undertaken, __________________; the percentage to be based on the above total estimate as agreed to by the committee, and said payment to be made only on the conditions as given below, viz.: The Contractor to receive no percentage at all until the entire completion of the work embraced in the contract is accomplished. For every $10,000,000 that the final cost overruns the agreed estimate, the rate of per cent proposed to be paid to the Contractor to be lessened by one (1); so that, for example, if the Contractor's percentage is fixed at 6 per cent, and the final cost should overrun the estimated cost $60,000,000, then the Contractor would receive no compensation at all. If the final cost should be less than the amount agreed upon by the committee, then the difference, or profit, is to be divided, one-third of the same to go to the Contractor and two-thirds to the Commission. For every year of time taken by the Contractor to complete the work, beyond the estimate of time as agreed upon by the Committee, the rate of per cent proposed to be paid to the Contractor-4- to be decreased by one (1). For every month that the Contractor saves by completing the canal before the time agreed upon by the Committee, the Contractor to receive a bonus of $100,000. The Commission, through its own organization and forces, separate and distinct from the Contractor, will carry out the following work: Government and Sanitation. The handling of Material and Supplies. Municipal Engineering, covering the construction of water works, sewers, roads and streets in towns and camps. Building Construction, covering the building of new and repairs to all structures needed for quarters of all classes of employees, both for the Commission and the Contractor and for Government uses, including the Sanitary Department. Branch of Labor & Quarters. The Commission, through its Branch of Labor & Quarters shall furnish all quarters for all needed employees of the Contractor at such points and of such character as may be approved by the Chief Engineer and the Sanitary Department, with reasonable promptitude, and will maintain and police same in every respect the same as it does quarters for its own employees. Mechanical Division. The Commission will operate such machine and allied shops, furnishing same provided with proper tools and equipment, as may be necessary to properly care for and maintain-5- all equipment, whether of the Commission or the Contractor; such maintenance of equipment being, however, understood to mean ordinary shop repairs, the Contractor being understood to make all outside yard or running repairs excepting those necessitating so-called shopping; and the Commission will furnish such material and tools as can economically be made in the shops for use of both the Commission and the Contractor. And all machine or shop work done as above by the Commission for the Contractor will be billed to the latter at actual cost plus 15 per cent. Bureau of Material and Supplies. The Commission will maintain its local storehouses and storekeepers, and furnish on proper requisitions all needed material, tools, etc., for both the Commission and the Contractor on the same and usual basis of cost plus store expense, etc., and will furnish these materials and supplies to the Contractor precisely the same as to itself, entering the value of same in book accounts to properly obtain the cost of the work. All quarters, offices, engines, shovels, drills, dredges and other equipment needing water will be furnished with same by the Commission free whenever the supply is ample, from the water mains of the Commission. Fuel, either oil, coal or wood, will be furnished the Contractor on the same terms as supplied to the Commission. The Commission will furnish the Contractor with funds at monthly or semi-monthly periods as may be decided, sufficient in amount to cover the pay rolls for the current pay period for all-6- employees of the Contractor, who shall disburse same according to legal and established methods as required by the statutes and rulings of the Treasury Department of the United States, and make such returns of same to the Auditor of the Commission as the latter may direct from time to time. The Contractor will take over and put into use at the time of his assuming charge of the work embraced under his contract all new and modern plant that may be owned by the Commission at that time, and all such old plant that the Commission may own and that the Contractor desires to use. The Commission will buy and own all new plant used in the execution of the Contractor's work excepting when the Contractor sub-lets any part of the work, when in such case the Contractor or the sub-Contractor will furnish the necessary plant at his or their own cost. All of the equipment owned or that may be acquired by the Commission under the conditions as expressed above, will be furnished the Contractor free of rental or other charges, and will be returned by the Contractor to the Commission on the completion of the work embraced in the contract or at the terminating of the contract for any cause whatever, in as good condition as received, ordinary wear and tear excepted. The Contractor will take over in his employ all employees on the pay rolls of the Commission then on the Isthmus, at the date-7- of his assuming the work he contracts to do, who may be employed on the work which is designated to be executed by the Contractor under this contract. Where the Commission has entered into contracts whether directly or indirectly for the supply or employment of foreign or other labor the contractor shall assume and carry out the said contracts. And no employee on the gold rolls, so-called, who is taken over by the Contractor as above defined, will be reduced in salary or be discharged, excepting for failure to give proper service, to the Contractor, and then only on, and with the approval of the Chief Engineer. It is understood that all the rules established and put in force or that may be established and put in force from time to time by the Sanitary Department of the Commission during the life of the contract, said rules being necessary for the protection of the health of officers and employees and therefore the fundamental requirement for the successful prosecution of the work, are to be strictly enforced and respected in every minute particular by the Contractor and through him by his employees. The same commissary and mess house privileges that are given the employees of the Commission shall be given the employees of the Contractor; but the Contractor may assume charge if he desires of the operation of all eating and lodging houses necessary for the proper accommodation of his or of the Commission's employees. He may conduct the operation of these houses directly or by a contract with a third party. But in any case, the terms of such contract-8- and the operation of such eating or lodging houses shall in all details be subject to the approval of the Chief Engineer regarding prices, privileges and general methods; and shall also be subject to the daily inspection by any party whom the Chief Engineer shall designate for such inspection duty, and any directions or modifications which the Chief Engineer may consider necessary for the proper housing and feeding of the employees shall at once be carried out by the Contractor. The profit or loss to the Contractor arising from the operation of these houses shall be credited to or debited to the general account in fixing the total cost of the work under contract. In order to successfully supply the work with the proper number of common laborers, it is necessary that the recruiting of all foreign common labor shall be done by and under the authority and protection of the United States. Therefore, the Commission, through its agents, will arrange for the contracting and furnishing of all such necessary common labor, and just as far as possible the same is to be of the character and numbers as desired by the Contractor. All the expense of such recruiting, transporting, caring for and repatriating such common labor shall be properly divided between the Commission and the Contractor in exact proportion to the number of such common laborers each party receives at the time of its arrival on the Isthmus. Transportation of the Contractor's employees and employee's families from and to points in the United States and the Isthmus-9- of Panama shall be on ships of the Panama Railroad Steamship Company as far as practicable in the decision of the Commission, and in no case shall the rates to be charged the Contractor for such transportation be to exceed one-third the regular published tariff rates for commercial passengers. In case the amount of such rates and such transportation as may be afforded by the Panama Railroad Steamship Line be not deemed ample and satisfactory by the Contractor, he may employ other lines in such business, or he may establish his own line, but only for the handling of his own employees and their families. The Commission will also assume the cost of construction of any additional trackage or other additions to the facilities of the Panama Railroad which may be needed by the Contractor in the execution of the work embraced under his contract, the amount and character of such work being subject to the approval of the Chief Engineer. The Contractor's employees shall be allowed transportation on the trains of the Panama Railroad at exactly the same rates as are paid by the Commission for its own employees, such rate in no case to-10- should one-half of the regular published tariff rates for commercial passengers. The Commission, through its engineering staff, will furnish all plans, specifications, lines, levels, measurements, and directions necessary to enable the Contractor to properly conduct his work. It will also give monthly or other necessary estimates that the Contractor may require to enable him to make settlements with his sub-contractors. It will also, through its Chief Engineer, make final decision as to the completion of any and each part of the work from time to time, and also make decision as to the final and complete execution of all the work embraced under this contract. All of the engineering work as described above to be under the supervision of the Chief Engineer and such engineers as he may designate from time to time to represent him. The Contractor shall at all times during the progress of the work under this contract, as called for by the Auditing Department of the Commission, furnish the Commission with any and all figures or data relative to the execution of the work, cost and distribution of same, and such figures shall be full, accurate and complete, and the Contractor shall, if the Commission so requests, allow the General Auditor of the Commission access to his books, accounts and pay rolls for the purpose of enabling the Auditor to examine, verify or otherwise audit such books, accounts and pay rolls.-11- It is understood that gold, or the legal currency of the United States, is the standard of all the monetary considerations mentioned in this contract. It is understood that wherever the words "Chief Engineer" are used in this contract, that the Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission is meant and none other, and that the work in all its phases and details is to be absolutely under the direction of the Commission, through its Chief Engineer, who shall approve or disapprove without the privilege of appeal on behalf of the Contractor excepting to the Chairman of the Commission, any and all acts of the Contractor regarding the amount and character of plant, material, methods of work, amount and character of laborers, wages and working hours of laborers, rates of salary and working hours of all gold or white employees. July 26, 1906. (Accompanying letter to Chairman Shonts, under date (of July 27, 1906. MCI[[shorthand]] [*Ackd 7-28-06*] Not Dictated COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE LIBRARY Dear Mr. President: I am glad that you ask if I am interested in taxation, rather than if I think I know anything about taxation -- a very different matter! To prove my interest, and at the risk of proving at the same time my ignorance! I am sending you by same mail as this is a little tract which I wrote at the request of the Society for Political Education, thirteen -- no, twenty three-- years ago. The synopsis at the close will relieve you of the slightest necessity of reading the body of the text! May I add that when this was written I had never read a page of Henry George -- a statement which I could hardly believe myself when I later case to read his economic works. While I did not accept and never have accepted his theory of taxation, I came so near it that only my refusal to take the full vale unearned saved me! Cordially Yours James H. Canfield 7/27/06[*Ackd 8-6-06*] 3 Achinduich Lodge, on the Hills July 27th 1906. TELEGRAMS, CLASHMORE, STATION, BONAR BRIDGE. SKIBO CASTLE, DORNOCH, SUTHERLAND. Dear Mr President Lest you missed it I enclose the Prime Ministers speech to the Inter. Par. Conference. Your last note was so important I sent it to Morley to show the Prime Minister. He did so & it was afterwards read to the Cabinet Morley writes. "Your note from T. R. made a good point in the Cabinet. Prime Minister will make a magnificent declaration Tuesday to the Inter. Par. Conference." So your note influenced the situation. The Cabinet has resolved upon serious attack Militarism. Twenty thousand men less in Army and last years programme in Navy reduced one ship out of four. — This renewal is valuable. Thus our programme next year will be drastic — You may rest assured your policy & your leadwith petty political & personal affairs, to mount into the high arena of world problems & as in this instance leading mankind to a higher Civilization, the only sure passport to enduring fame. Petty things, Worry. Great Problems exalt and ready Pray dont forget that you are called upon to lead in the worlds work. We are in retreat upon the high moors & Lochs, for two weeks. Some day.— Some day we hope we are to welcome you & yours to Skibo, but I put it six years hence. Kindest greetings to Dear Mrs Roosevelt. Mrs Carnegie & I have her marked very high in our private book I assure you, on her account you are put pretty near her. Success to you & if I can be of the slightest service I shall be happy indeed Always Sincerely yours Andrew Carnegie. will be welcomed & followed — Mr Root sent me in confidence copy of Correspondence with Russia re Hague Conference showing that you had not forgotten to instruct him as per your note. This I sent to Morley because Root said "I might show to our English friends." It was very welcome. Sir Edward Grey Foreign Sec'y notes "this is good news" on margin. The Cabinet is a Unit on your policy. It seems the English speaking race is to speak as one at the Hague. France as you know will cooperate. The Entente Cordial" is complete. Continent at present would compel Britain to join with France if she were attacked. With these three (our sister Republic dear France one) the outside & less advanced world might hear something drop one of these days & you might be the dropper. Who knows. So the Great Drama of Humanity proceeds What a relief it must be to you, harrassed as Presidents must be under our faulty system [*[FOR ENC SEE CA 7-27-06]*][*F*] PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY 24 STATE STREET NEW YORK New York, July 27th, 1906 Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir- Referring to my letter of 28th inst., with reference to delivery of letter to Mr. Bishop, I am just in receipt of cable from him dated Calebra, July 26th, in which he requests that I inform the President that he is delayed there on account of unfinished business and will cable when he does sail. When this latter information is received, I will, of course, promptly communicate it to you, but I beg to request that you will be good enough to advise the President of the postponement of Mr. Bishop's departure from the Isthmus. Truly yours, E. A. Drake Asst. to the Prest. R[*F*] The Toledo Blade Co. Toledo, Ohio EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ROBINSON LOCKE, EDITOR Toledo, 0., July 27 '06 Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay N.Y. To the President:-Two years ago last spring, sometime prior to the meeting of the Ohio Republican convention, there was a question as to what that conventlon would do in regard to giving you an endorsement for the Presidential nomination the next year. The rank and file of the Republicans wanted you endorsed but there was a movement on the part of certain politicians to withhold such endorsement thinking that Senator Hanna might be induced to become a candidate. At that Juncture, believing I knew the temper of Ohio Republicans, I sent letters to Republican editors of the state asking them for views on the question for publication in the Blade. The responses were all I hoped for and proved that the sentiment of the state was for you regardless of the [xxxx] desires of Senator Hanna or the wishes of his friends. Those letters, coupled with the declaration you made at that time regardingThe Toledo Blade Co. Toledo, Ohio EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ROBINSON LOCKE, EDITOR 2 an endorsement, followed by Senator Hanna's illness and death, broke down all opposition and your endorsement followed. There Is now much discussion throughout Ohio as to what the action of the state convention this year shall be with regard to that part of the platform endorsing your administration. I know there is a strong feeling among Republicans against endorsing the course of either Senator Foraker or Senator Dick, believing if this is done it will look like a slap at your administrative policy, the one opposing the railway rate bill and the other the Phillipine tariff measure--two things in which you were deeply interested. There is a feeling that the convention should heartily commend you, not in a perfunctary manner, but by specifically pointing out what you, through congress, have accomplished. Those who take this position think all endorsements should stop with that and that as our senators opposed you they should not be mentioned. Of course the senators and their friends will oppose this plan and there may be a contest on the floor of the convention.The Toledo Blade Co. Toledo, Ohio EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ROBINSON LOCKE, EDITOR 3 The Blade believes in [speciffi] specefically endorsing you and your administration and making no reference to the senators. I have prepared the enclosed circular letters which I purpose sending the Republican editors of the state and a number of leading Republicans and then publishing the answers. I thought you would be interested in the plan and in the result. I have written Senator Foraker to find out his opposition opposition to the appointment of Howard Mannington to the Collectorship at this place. I thank you for the invitation to call on you at Washington next winter to discuss the collectorship and shall be pleased to see you. Very truly, F. L. Dustman[*[FOR ENC. SEE DUSTMAN 7-28-06]*][*Ackd 7/28/06*] HEINS & LA FARGE, ARCHITECTS. 30-32 EAST TWENTY-FIRST STREET, NEW YORK. G. L. HEINS. C. GRANT LA FARGE In re Roosevelt House. July 27, 1906. Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir:- Will you kindly let me know if it will be convenient for us to have Hamilton Bell & Co. send workmen to Sagamore Hill to go over the matters mentioned in your letter to Mr. La fARGE? Yours very truly, Heins & La Farge, Per Bush [[shorthand]][*F*] American Embassy Vienna Confidential . July 27th 1908 My Dear Sir Your letter of July 10th received, expressing the wish of the President that, in answer to any inquiries made of me on behalf of Government authorities relative to Mr. Arthur von Briesen, of New York, and his competency to be the official counselor of the Hungarian Exposition of Agriculture in the United States. I shall say that he is a personal friend of the President's and that he stands high, both professionally and personally. I have directed Mr. Rives, Secretary if our Embassy, to reply in the same way if inquiries should be made of him in my absence from Vienna. Will you kindly inform the President that I have received a most cordial reply to my recent letter to Count Apponyi, in which he says, quoting his words: "My remembrance of my short stay in the United States and of the conversation I had with that great and good man, President Roosevelt, is such a vivacious one that I shall be peculiarly happy to meet the representative of the country and of a first magistrate whom I heartily admire." The Count suggestsautumn as the best time for my visit to Budapest when Parliament is in session and opportunities will be afforded me to meet, quite informally, members of the Royal Hungarian Government. Before then he says, because of their absence from the country, that I would probably miss meeting several gentlemen I would like to see, himself included. In conveying this information to the President will you kindly add that my best wishes go to him for a well earned long and happy vacation from official cares. What a marvelous record he made during the last sixty days of Congress in shaping Federal legislation! I believe it stands unparalleled in the history of our Government. I trust, my dear friend, that you and Mrs. Loeb will enjoy a superabundance of the good things possible this summer and-- that the precious baby's teeth will not prove troublesome! Always sincerely yours, Charles S. Francis[*Ackd 7-30-06*] Eastern Yacht Club REGATTA COMMITTEE. HENRY HOWARD, CHAIRMAN, AMORY ST., BROOKLINE. LOUIS M. CLARK, SECRETARY, 50 CONGRESS ST., BOSTON July 27, 1906. My dear President Roosevelt.- All matters in connection with the German-American races are progressing most satisfactorily. Nineteen boats have formally entered for our trial races, seventeen of these having been built especially for them since our announcement last February. Even at this time there is more general interest in the matter than in any yachting event which has ever taken place in New England. I send you herewith a small book which contains the general rules and conditions of the match. You will notice in each step we are taking every effort is made to give the match as much of an International character as possible and to this end I am keeping the name of the Eastern Yacht Club in the background. You will also notice that on one of the first pages of the book there is a note stating exactly what your relationship is to the cup. I received a letter yesterday from Admiral Von Arnim, President of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club, giving the names of the boats selected in Germany, to-gether with the names of the men who are to sail them in this country, as follows:- 1. Tilly VI. Owner: Consul General Dollman and Mr. R. Krogmann of the Club. North German Regatta represented by Mr. I. Weitzmann. Amateurs: two officers of the First Regiment of Foot Guards.-2- 2. Wannsee. Owner: Seglerhouse Club on Wannsee of the same Club represented by Mr. 0. Protzen. Amateurs: Mr. B. Bakenius and Mr. C. Polbom. 3. Glückauf IV. Owner: "Mine owner" Stlnnes of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club represented by Naval Constructor Wustrau. Amateurs Naval Constructor Meissner and Mr. B. Wustrau. I cannot tell you how disappointed we are to learn that you will be unable to come to Marblehead during the race week. I suppose that every one in asking for your presence at a function thinks that there are special reasons why an exception should be made in his behalf. This is my feeling in connection with our races for the following reasons:- First: The races are under the Joint control of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club and the Eastern Yacht Club. The Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club is the German Emperor, so that these races are actually under his control Jointly with the Eastern Yacht Club. Second: It has always been his custom to personally award the prizes at Kiel and he did this last year to all the American prize winners of which there were a number. Third: With your personal knowledge of the German people you can appreciate what a great compliment your presence would be considered, not only by the German yachtsmen at Marblehead, but by all other Germans, both in Germany and America. As far as the feelings of all Americans in our neighborhood are concerned, it goes without saying that you would be welcomed as no one else could be, but, as this would also be true in any other section of our country, I cannot make use of it as an argument in this case.-3- Do you not think that the above reasons really differentiate this case from most other functions to which you are asked? Would you possibly consider favorably the following suggestion that we arrange a dinner at the close of the races about Sept. 10 to 15, dinner to be given to the German and American contestants and no announcement to be made that you were coming. You could then come on unofficially at the last minute and I would undertake that this plan would not be known even to other members of my committee until you actually arrived at the Club House, if you so preferred. Our trial races begin on Aug. 13 and continue daily until the 19th. I will send you detailed program giving courses, etc. as soon as it is issued. Yours sincerely, Henry Howard HH/I Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, Oyster Bay.[*[For 1. enc. see Entrie's, ca 7-27-06]*][*W*] [*Please send up copy of this letter with return of this note*] [*attached*] [*Ackd 8-3-06*] UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON. L/L Medicine Lodge, Kansas, July 27, 19o6 Dear Mr. President: On January 31, 19o6, you wrote me a letter on the railroad rate bill in which you made some observations on an interview with Mr. C.L. Davidson of Wichita, Kansas, a copy of which I had sent you. Mr. Davidson stated in his interview that the Hepburn bill would be of no benefit to Kansas. You discussed this statement of Mr. Davidson in your letter to me and I would like to have the privilege of making your letter public should occasion demand it. I will use it to show that the railroad rate law, as finally passed, is a good measure and will undoubtedly prove effective. Very respectfully, Chester I. Long [*[Long]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*[ca 7-27-06]*] [[shorthand]][*[attached to Long, 7-27-06]*]7-27-06[*Ackd 8-7-06*] AMERICAN EMBASSY. LONDON 27th July 1906. PRIVATE Dear Mr. President: When I wrote you last week that if Mr. Bryan asked me to present him to the King I should probably be unable to do it, I reckoned without my host. Mr. Bryan didn't ask, but the King did! I enclose a copy of the letter which his private secretary sent me. Under the circumstances, there was nothing for me to do but to communicate at once with Mr. Bryan, which I did by telephone. He seemed much gratified by the incident, and immediately proposed to come to Dorchester House at whatever hour I named to be taken to the Palace for the presentation. The clipping attached here from the Court Circular shows how it was arranged. At the last Court we introduced Harry White in his new capacity as Ambassador. A day or two later the King sent word that he wanted to see him before he left town. White afterwards told me that the King seemed desirous to talk about Algeciras; but that in the course of the conversation, he mentioned Mr. Bryan, and said he had a curiosity to see him, but had hesitated a little, wondering whether, [*Court Circular. Buckingham Palace, July 26. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited Their Majesties the King and Queen this morning. His Excellency the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador (Count Mensdorff-Pouilly-Districhstein) and His Excellency the United States Ambassador (the Hon. Whitelaw Reid) had audience of His Majesty this morning, when His Excellency Count Albert Apponyi and Mr. W. J. Bryan had the honour of being severally presented to the King by the Ambassadors. His Majesty received a Deposition from the Inter-Parliamentary Association, the Delegates being "introduced into His Majesty's presence by the Lord in Waiting. Lord Loreburn (Lord Chancellor) and the Rt. Hon. J. W. Lowther, M.P. (Speaker of the House of Commons), were present. Lord Weardale (President of the British Executive Committee) presented to His Majesty, on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Association, the Medal struck In Commemoration of the meeting of the Association. The Earl Granville (Lord In Waiting), Lord Farquhar (Master of the Household), Colonel Lord Edward Pelham Clinton, Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, and the Hon. John Ward (Groom and Equerries In Waiting), and Lieut.-Colonel C. Frederick (Deputy Master of the Household) were in attendance.*]2. in view of political relationships, such an interview would be entirely agreeable to you. White said he promptly disclaimed on your behalf the least likelihood of any feeling on the subject. Evidently Lord Knollys's note was the result. At the same time, the King was not born yesterday; and I have no doubt that the adroit bracketing in the Court Circular of the presentations of two of the principal speakers at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference by their respective Ambassadors was intended to make it seem merely a natural civility to men prominent in the proceedings of a body which he was to receive at the Palace. The King received Bryan with perfect courtesy and cordiality, and on the whole Bryan appeared well. The King complimented him on being a great traveller as well as a great orator, and Bryan mentioned having been in Norway at the time of the Coronation and praised the appearance of the King's daughter as she became formally Queen of the country. Once he got on rather more dangerous ground. The King asked him something about his observations in Russia, and Bryan sharply censured the Government and was about beginning to express pretty unreserved sympathy with the revolutionists--obviously forgetting the Czar's relationship. The King, however, adroitly interposed some question on another subject, and thus switched Bryan off before anything too aggressive had been said. He still kept him talking, however, so that the interview lasted for a quarter of an hour or more, while the rest of the Inter-Parliamentary deputation were gathering in the waiting rooms. I wrote you that Bryan's speech at the Fourth of July banquet had proved quite a disappointment to Americans, but that the reports of it in the English newspapers apparently led to a general feeling among Englishmen that he had made a serious and rather important address. Their opinion of3. him as an orator was materially enhanced by his first appearance in the Conference in advocacy of an amendment to a resolution about disarmaments. An occasional Englishman who listened to it has said that he found it more demonstrative and rhetorical than the style to which they were used, but the general comment both in society and in the newspapers was to the effect that it vindicated the reputation of the "silver tongued" orator. His second appearance, at the luncheon in Westminster Hall, was hardly so successful. I listened to this, and thought it about up to Bryan's best standard; but of course it was extreme in some of its statements, highly rhetorical, and a little crude in its thinking. The notion that the sacrifice of any human life in war was a monstrous calamity, because the world had better uses for Shakespeare and Bums than to make Tommy Atkinses of them, struck a good many Englishmen as pretty far fetched. They are generally very polite in their better newspapers here about such matters, but one of them, the "Telegraph," censured this rather sharply. While Bryan was waiting here the next day before we started for his audience at the Palace, he read the "Telegraph," and was sufficiently a child of nature to let it be seen how little he liked it. As the net result of his visit to London, however, I think he has risen decidedly in the estimation of the English and of the diplomatic corps; —but then it must be remembered how low he stood a few years ago. There seems to be a general idea among them that he has a fair chance of being the next President, and of course they are all curious enough to want to see him and many of them worldly enough to want to establish good relations with him. I an giving a dinner to-night to the American delegates to the Conference, and of course Bryan appears among them. So far as I know, it is the last I shall see of him. It is droll that among those delegates who are to be my guests 4. and are to meet the Prime Minister and several members of his Government, the Lord Chief Justice, the Bishop of London, etc., the most prominent (with the exception of T. E. Burton of Ohio) are John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, William J. Bryan and D.L.D. Granger! But I felt sure you would not want such a body, advocating measures to which you have so conspicuously committed your Administration, to come to London and play so prominent a role without some recognition frcm the Embassy; and I have "taken the curse off" a little by including Peirce and Riddle from among our foreign Ministers, Governor David R. Francis, and a lot of other important Americans of both parties who happen to be in town. ************ I am sending to the State Department to-day a report of a conversation which I had on Wednesday last with Sir Edvard Grey about their notice to Russia of their desire to have a reduction of armaments made a subject for the next Hague Conference. I had not then received a copy of Mr. Root's last letter to Russia, in which he expresses the same desire, but I shall immediately inform Sir Edward Grey of it. Meantime, I fortunately took somewhat the same line in my reply, though I was careful to point out that the armaments of the United States were so far below any European standard that, while our people generally would receive the proposal with great approval, no reduction the Conference would recommend wouId be likely in any way to affect us. I have not forgotten my promised record of the various doings of the Longworths while here. But the congestion of the past week or two has been beyond anything I have ever seen in London, and now I shall have no chance until after I get through with an address I have to deliver at Cambridge University next Thursday. By that time Parliament will have adjournedthe King will have gone, and the American crowd in London will have dispersed, so that there will be a little chance to breathe and do things. I am waiting to see whether you cable to make the effort to present McBee. The cable, if it comes at all, should come within a few days. There will be real difficulty about it, however, if the effort is to be made. The King spoke when I was presenting Bryan to him yesterday of the tremendous pressure on him during his last week here, and was evidently feeling that he could not edge in many things more. I took the opportunity of a chance meeting at a wedding the other day to tell him that I had your warrant for answering some of his questions about Algociras, and should hold myself subject to his call. He said at once, with an appearance of keen interest, that he would watch for an opportunity and let me know. As he said nothing about it, however, yesterday, I begin to think he means to put it off until after his visit to the Continent. By the way, he mentioned, in the course of yesterday's conversation, that when he went to the Continent he was going "to see the Emperor of Germany, quite privately." Believe me always Very sincerely yours, Whitelaw Reid[For enc see 7-24-06]ISTHMIAN CANAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING Jno. F. Stevens, Chief Engineer. Culebra, Canal Zone, July 27 , 1906. Mr T. P. Shonts, Chaiman, The Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D. C. Sir: The type of canal to be built, having now been decided, and the preliminary work necessary for construction, being well along, so that energetic and intelligent plans, which have hitherto been impossible, looking to the completion of the Canal, can now be put into execution at the earliest date, and at the least practicable expense. So that now seems the proper time that the Chief Engineer should express his views as to what, in his Judgment, will be, all things considered, the best method of building the Canal. There are two ways to be considered, viz: The Commission to build it directly, by "Days' work" so called, or to build it by contract, with outside parties. Of the two methods, I decidedly prefer the latter, if it can be properly put into effect. I regard it now, as impracticable to undertake to divide up the work into a number of small parts, and to try to let each part to a separate firm of contractors. There are so many perplexing elements and questions, such as the control of labor in supply and pries, repairs to end manitenance of plant and equipment, the necessary relations of many contractors to the Panama Railroad, together with the absolute certainty that, in spite of our best efforts to guard against it, one or more of the contractors would prove-2- unsatisfactory, and an undue delay of any one part of the work will delay the whole. Formerly I was of the opinion that these objections could be overcome, but I am not now of that opinion. I am strongly opposed to endeavoring, by advertisement or otherwise, to let the entire work to any one firm or Construction Company by either lump sum or by unit prices. Such a proceeding would I believe, take too much power, or control of the work, out of the Commission's hands and place it in the hands of the contractors. It would also render a combination probable to govern prices and time, which might result in disaster and would, in case of delays and difficulties cause such loss of time that would long postpone the completion of the Canal. It is probably true, however, that for many reasons, most of the actual work of constructing the Canal, can be best handled by men and methods trained and practiced by first-class contractors. In my own experience, extending over thirty years, I know that the large contracting firms have a following of experience superintendents, foremen, sub-contractors and laborers, which it would be an impossibility for the Commission to duplicate. As a matter of common business judgement, we should avail ourselves of the best skill and experience, and these will be found among the contracting firms of the United States. This is no small undertaking, but one that calls for the united and untiring efforts of the best brain and muscle that the United States can produce, and there is no one man capable, either physically or mentally, of carrying, in all its details, this stupendous work to a rapid and successful conclusion. But by associating with us the best of all the needed elements, we can do the work quickly and well. I beg to attach some memoranda which I have drawn up, inviting your attention to a plan which, if carried into effect, will, I know, solve the-3- problem In a satisfactory manner. The plan is simple and effective - it is only to carry out the work of building the Canal proper, by percentage, paid to an association of contractors. I may remark that for a number of years I have followed about the same plan in carrying out large and important works, and have been much pleased with results. Any contractor who carries out successfully any part of this work is clearly entitled to a fair profit as remuneration for his time, the use of his plant and money. Any man who bids on any or all of this work will, if he bids intelligently and honestly, intending honestly to carry out his contract, allow for, and will make provision for, every contingency he can imagine. He will have to do so to insure himself against financial disaster. It is not probable, though possible, that all these adverse conditions will be met. If they are not, or any one of them, then the contractor makes an exorbitent profit and the Commission pays more than it should. A bond will not build this Canal, and in the end the United States must pay the cost of it; the Contractors cannot be expected to. By the plan I have outlined, you will note, the following strong points are covered: We get the combined efforts of the best and most experienced class of men on earth, each a specialist in his particular line, together with his following of trained employees, themselves a tower of strength. We are assured that our contractors are possessed of all necessary financial backing, and we are protected by a bond, in so far as a bond is protective in any case. We will know exactly what the work costs, in every part, and we also know that we will be paying only a fair and legitimate profit on the cost of-4- the same. We are destroying all incentives to make the construction cost as much as possible; on the contrary, we are penalizing all such attempts, and making economical work an object. We are also offering every incentive to hasten the time of completion of the work, and can well afford to pay the bonus mentioned. In five years time our interest charges will be $2,500,000 per year, or $200,000 per month, double the monthly bonus offered. We will, by drawing into the contracting firm, members from different parts of the country, be practically establishing the most effective system of labor agencies possible in the United States, and will be securing the co-operation of the most powerful interests that can be combined, to aid us in keeping our ranks of foremen, locomotive engineers, steam shovel men and mechanics, of all classes, full of the best men of all classes. We will, also, be disarming a strong interest in the United States which is now, to say the least, not helping us, but, as I have good reason to believe, is handicapping us, in our efforts to secure competent employees. Their interests are now in the United States. Then, they will be here and with us; and such a combination as proposed will, of its own strength, override any possible opposition or criticism of the work. And the fact that the construction of the Canal was being undertaken by the best contractors in the United States will appeal so favorably to the people at large that I think popular confidence would be so strengthened and public faith that success was already assured, be so strong, that practically unanimous support would come from all classes; and such support is of vast moral and material aid. The best trained talent of the world, backed by the United States Government: Can any plan be stronger?-5- and as vital a point as any is the fact that we are absolutely keeping the control of the work in our own hands, and entirely under the direction of our engineering staff, and I think the concensus of opinion of the American engineers would be, that a work of this character and magnitude, with the peculiar and enormous interests involved, can, in justice to ourselves who are entrusted with, and will be held accountable for it, be carried out in no other way. I will say that I have considered this matter for several months, and have good reason to believe that such a plan, presented to the right parties, will be received with favor, and that such an organization can be speedily and satisfactorily effected, at a percentum of remuneration not to exceed 6 per cent, which I would not consider, under the circumstances, as too great. I think no time should be lost in considering this proposition, and if favorable, acted upon in effecting an organization. I believe all matters can be successfully arranged in three months time, if we act promptly, and I desire to recommend strongly that action be not delayed. Truly yours, (Sgd) Jno. F. Stevens, Chief Engineer. McI.(Copy.) Isthmian Canal Commission Department of Construction and Engineering Jno. F. Stevens, Chief Engineer, Culebra, July 27th, 1906. Personal. Mr. T. P. Shonts, Chairman, Isthmian Canal Commission, Culbera, C.I. Dear Sir:- Further in regard to letter I addressed you to-day about advisability of letting the contract for building the canal on percentage basis. For your information, will say that before I left Washington in the latter part of June, the President called me in and talked over the matter of contract. He had had, previously, a consultation with Mr. Walston H. Brown, of New York, Brown Bros. I think they have an office on Wall St., a few doors east of J. P. Morgan's. I have not the number. This Brown was formerly of the firm of Brown, Howard & Co., heavy contractors and bankers. I was in their service 1887 and 1888, building the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry., and know them to be able, pushing and financially competent for any undertaking they may tackle. The President expressed himself as extremely anxious to get the work under contract - formally - by or before November next, if possible. At his suggestion I met Mr. Brown in New York and had a quite a conversation with him. I found he had secured the co-operation of quite a number of prominent contracting firms, about along the lines I have suggested in my name submitted to you to-day. Brown also advised me he was quite ready to at once, as soon as we were ready, to perfect the organization of his company, and I told him I would put the matter up T.P.S. -2. to you as soon as I had time to consider it. I therefore recommend that if the President and Secretary of War approve, that arrangements be made through Mr. Brown, for the organization of such a company, and the making of such a contract as I have, in general terms, described. I should, however, want to be consulted on the names and number of the members of such a company, as well as to the details of the contract. Meanwhile, I can only add, no time should be lost in taking the matter in to consideration. Truly yours, JNO. F. STEVENS, Chief Engineer.[*Ackd 7-31-06*] NEW SALT WATER SWIMMING POOL 65 X 45 FEET H.M. PATERSON, RESIDENCE—MANAGER Manoir Richelieu At the entrance to Murray Bay OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE RICHELIEU & ONTARIO NAV. CO. ALSO TADOUSAC HOTEL TADOUSAC, P.Q. AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAGUENAY C. S. KNOTT, GENERAL MANAGER FORMERLY GENERAL MANAGER FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTELS (P.O. Address) Manoir Richelieu, P.Q. July 27, 1906. My Dear Mr. President: I have been over the Chinese labor matter on the Isthmus with Mr. Pepperman, and have examined the papers which were forwarded to you by my direction. The political phase of the question is one which I can not discuss with satisfaction because I do not have as clear an opinion upon it as I should like. My impression is that we can very well defend the employment of Chinese on the Isthmus because it is so difficult to secure white labor of any kind there, and because all the labor that we secure must be secured under a system of contract of some kind, - unless it be the very worthless Jamaica negro labor. I am clear about one thing, and that is that we ought not to let any contract except after inviting bids, and also requiring the successful bidder to furnish bond in an amount to provide sufficient security to the Government for the execution of the contract. I think the contract which has been drawn tentatively between the Government and the International Contracting Company is one that is satisfactory and that ought to be made the basisNEW SALT WATER SWIMMING POOL 65 X 45 FEET H.M. PATERSON, RESIDENCE—MANAGER Manoir Richelieu At the entrance to Murray Bay OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE RICHELIEU & ONTARIO NAV. CO. ALSO TADOUSAC HOTEL TADOUSAC, P.Q. AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAGUENAY C. S. KNOTT, GENERAL MANAGER FORMERLY GENERAL MANAGER FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTELS (P.O. Address) Manoir Richelieu, P.Q. for bids. We ought to advertise as promptly as we can now if it is concluded to be well to go on, so that we can secure the first installment of laborers for the Isthmus from China in about four or five months, - say as early as December. I think the advertisement for bids ought to allow intending bidders at least six weeks in order that they may have communication with China on the subject. If you conclude that there are no political objections I think it would be well at least to make the experiment. We need not bring over more than 2500 under the contract, reserving the right to demand a larger number should the experiment prove to be successful. More than this, Mr. Stevens thinks that we ought to have several kinds of labor in order that, should difficulty arise with any particular class, we may not be greatly embarrassed. My [con]precise recommendation therefore is: That you give me the authority to go ahead and direct the advertisement for bids on the basis of the form of contract already found to be legalNEW SALT WATER SWIMMING POOL 65 X 45 FEET H.M. PATERSON, RESIDENCE—MANAGER Manoir Richelieu At the entrance to Murray Bay OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE RICHELIEU & ONTARIO NAV. CO. ALSO TADOUSAC HOTEL TADOUSAC, P.Q. AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAGUENAY C. S. KNOTT, GENERAL MANAGER FORMERLY GENERAL MANAGER FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTELS (P.O. Address) Manoir Richelieu, P.Q. by the Attorney General, the bids to be invited after due advertisement not less than a month and not exceeding six weeks. Very sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. [*P.S. After thinking of the matter further, I doubt if we have any right to allow unfounded objections however formidable politically, to present our going on with what the enterprise of building the canal really needs. But, of course, we shall be glad to defer to your better judgment*][*Ackd 7-31-06*] NEW SALT WATER SWIMMING POOL 65 X 45 FEET H.M. PATERSON, RESIDENCE—MANAGER Manoir Richelieu At the entrance to Murray Bay OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE RICHELIEU & ONTARIO NAV. CO. ALSO TADOUSAC HOTEL TADOUSAC, P.Q. AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAGUENAY C. S. KNOTT, GENERAL MANAGER FORMERLY GENERAL MANAGER FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTELS (P.O. Address) Manoir Richelieu, P.Q. July 27, 1906. My Dear Mr. President: I agreed to make Secretary Root and his family comfortable on one of the Panama Railroad Company's steamers, and Shonts thought at the time it would be possible, but further investigation satisfies me it will not be nearly so comfortable as it would be to order a warship to meet him at Colon. There is no real reason why this should not be done. He can not have the "Charleston." of course, because it has gone off into the Pacific, but one of the new cruisers might be ordered down to bring him home. He will reach Panama about September 25, and I suggest therefore, if it meets your concurrence, that you direct Secretary Bonaparte, - or Newberry. -to make arrangements accordingly. Traveling in the tropics in the summer time on the sea is very pleasant if one is well housed, but if he is in narrow quarters it is not as comfortable as at Oyster Bay or Murray Bay. Very sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President, Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*[ca 7-27-06]*] Entries of American Boats. for the German-American Races. Name of boat. Name of Designer Name of Owner. Alecto E. W. Hodgson E. W. Hodgson R. L. Pond Auk E. A. Boardman Chas. F. Adams, 2d Bonidrei Crowninshield Geo. W. Wightman Caramba E. A. Boardman C. H. W. Foster Chewink VI N. G. Herreshoff F. G. Macomber, Jr. Cod Crowninshield Dr. Morton Prince Ellen E. A. Boardman Chas. P. Curtis, Jr. Hayseed I Small Bros. F. P. Bowden Hayseed III Crowninshield H. L. Bowden Lorelei Frank T. Wood B. P. Cheney Manchester E. A. Boardman J. Lewis Bremer New Orleans Small Bros. S. F. Heaslip Sally VIII Burgess & Packard L. F. Percival Skiddoo N. G. Herreshoff Herbert M. Sears Spokane Clinton H. Crane F. Lewis Clark Sumatra Crowninshield Francis Skinner Vim William Gardner Trenor L. Park Windram Kid Small Bros. F. G. Macomber, Jr. Moslem II Burgess & Packard B. D. Barker.[*[Enclosed in Howard, 7-27-06]*]ENC. IN CARNEGIE 7-27-06 CA 7-27-063 INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE. PHACE OF THE FUTURE. PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH. By a the fourteenth conference of the Parliamentary Union, which at international peace by arbitration, it could be a for the trust striking two vast representing a to two of the trust momentous in the. It and deplete the of Washington and After [?]: and in the [?] which [?pies] the opposite [?] the [?] artist has vividly realised he death of [?]. The Royal Gallery in the [P?] of Washington is the scene of the interesting [?] which yesterday began its deliberation. The [?] progresses of the conference, together with other particulars, has already been published in The Daily Telegraph. It will be enough, therefore,to [?], with reference to the committees of the [?ings] that are being held this week, that the delegates member between 500 and [?00], the countries represented being Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Servia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Among the leading delegates may be mentioned M. Auguste [B?rt] (an ex-Prime Minister of Belgium), M. d'[?] de [Oc?] (France), M. de Plenar (of the Upper [?], Austria), Professor R. Eickhoff (Germany), Count Albert Appenyi (the Hungarian Minister for Education), the Marquis P. Gulladauro (Italy), M. H. [E?t] (Norway), Count Raoul Hamilton (Sweden), and Mr. W. J. Bryan (ex-member of the United States Congress). Some of the delegates are accompanied by their wives. A particularly interesting features at the opening was the appearance of the representatives of the Russian Duma, who, however, have had to return promptly as their country in consequence of the grave crisis which has arisen there. But the most important event in [?tion] with the first day's proceedings was the long and significant speech, delivered in fluent French (in which language, by the way, most of the day's addresses were given) by Sir Henry Campbell-[?man], who was described by the president (Lord Weardale) as "the ever faithful champion of our cause." It may be noted that the English members of the union who attended included Earl Carrington, the Earl of Crews, Mr. Thomas Leegh (Under-Secretary of Board of Education), Lord Tweedmouth, Colonel Howard Vincent, M.P., Lord Kinnaird, and Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. Lord Weardale, in welcoming the delegates, recalled the first conference held in Paris, in 1889, when the Inter-Parliamentary Union consisted of "a small but ardent group of the friends of conciliation and peace." Now there were 2,500 members, representing many [?] of their fellow citizens. The progress of the [?] had been marvellous, and the union's [?] had taken deep root in every country and in the [?] of Parliaments. They awaited with [?] the time when neither peoples nor Governments would resort to armed before having made a [supre?] appeal to [?] and international justice." That [?ment] had the sympathy of M. [Fu?] of [D?] [D?], and of King Edward, who had always shown himself a resolute lover of peace. (Cheers.) That day a specially hearty and sympathetic greeting, extended the president, would be offered to the representatives of the youngest Parliament in the world—the Russian Duma. (Cheers.) Sir Henry Campbell-[?man], speaking in French, said: It is my high privilege as the head of his Majesty's Government to extend to you, the members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a most cordial welcomes. Gentlemen, I am delighted to see you, and it is with [?ed] satisfaction that I bid you welcome to England in the same of the British Government and of the [?]. Let me add that it given me very great pleasure to [?] you here at Westminster on behalf of the [?] of [?], [?] whose [?] you, the representatives of the Parliaments of the Western World, are gathered. [*This is the declaration.*] I have the honour to [?] to you that I am authorised to welcome you in the [?] of the King— (cheers)—whose services in the cause of peace are known to you all, and who has expressed a special interest in this historic gathering. (Cheers.) The majority of you have not came here—and I think you will wish this to be [?]—as the accredited delegates of your respective Parliaments. This gathering is unofficial. But you are here, if I read the clause aright, in the tallest cause as the [?credited] representatives of your fellow countrymen and women, and in this [?ity] you are entitled to express, with an authority attending to [?] the reason, and [?] which baffles the will and lowers the self-respected the western world, and when we ask [?], as we are bound to do, whether the object of these preparations is attained, we encounter another paradox. The other day I observed that Lord Lenedowse, in discussing the growth of [?ments], made use of a striking phrase. He said: "The moment may come when the people of this country will prefer to eat their daily bread in fear rather than starve in security." But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the means of security has indeed been attained? Is it not evident that a process of simultaneous and progressive arming defeats its own purpose? Bears answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach. If we hold with the late Mr. Hey that war is the most futile and ferocious of human follies, what are we to say of the surpassing futility of expending the strength and substance of nations on preparations for war, possessing no finality, [?able] to no [?] that statesmanship can devise, and for ever concerning the reserves on which a State must ultimately rely when the time of trial comes, if come it must—I mean the well-being and vitality of its people? Do not imagine that I wish to discourage you by contrasting the hard facts of the situation with the aspirations which we all share. That is the last thing that I have in my mind. I was not despondent about the future. (Cheers.) In the first place, it is only a few short years [?] peace was a [?] on the face of the earth, liable at any moment to be trampled upon and despitefully need; and if wars and preparations for wars have not ceased where she found a rest for the sole of her foot at The Hague, remember that time is needed for the growth of confidence in the new order of things, and that allowance must be made for the momentum of the past which thrusts the old régime forward upon the new. Remember, too, that the people are on your side. (Cheers.) I know it is said that democracy is as prone to war as any other form of government. But democracy, as we know it, is a late comer on the world's stage, where it has barely had time to become conscious of the characteristic powers, still less to exert them effectively in its external relations. The bonds of mutual understanding and esteem are strengthening between the peoples, and the time is approaching when nothing can hold back from them the knowledge that it is they who are the victims of war and militarism; that war in its tawdry triumphs scatters the fruits of their labour, breaks down he paths of progress, and turns the fire of constructive energy into a destroying force. (Cheers.) In this connection I cannot refrain from saying for myself, and I am sure for every one in this great and historic assembly, how glad we are to welcome among us to-day the representatives of the youngest of Parliaments —the Russian Duma. We deeply appreciate the circumstances of their appearance in our midst. It is, I venture to think, of good augury for your movement and for the future of Europe that the first official act of the Russian Parliament in regard o affairs outside the Russian Empire has been to authorise its delegates to come here to Westminster and to join hands with us in the assertion of those great principles of peace and goodwill which were so incalculably advanced by the Head of the Russian State, the author and convener of the first Hague Congress. I make no comment on the news which has reached us this morning; this is neither the place nor the moment for that. We have not a sufficient acquaintance with the facts to be in a position to justify or criticise. But this at least we can say, we who base our confidence and our hopes on the parliamentary system: New institutions have often a disturbed, if not a stormy youth. The Duma will revive in one form or another. We can say with all sincerity. "The Duma is dead: long live the Duma!" (Cheers.) The time is approaching to which we are all looking forward with intense interest and [?] hope when the delegates of your various nationalities find themselves once again at The Hague, there to renew their labours in the cause of peace. I can only end as I began, by wishing success to your deliberations. May they pave the way to far-reaching and beneficent action. Tell your Governments when you return home —what the members of the British Parliament, whom I see before me, are never tired of talking [?]— that example is better than precept, that actions speak louder than words; and urge them in the name of humanity to go into The Hague Congress, as we ourselves hope to go, pledged to diminish charges in respect of armaments. Entreat them to go there with a belief in the good disposition of nations to one another, such as animates you, the members of a score of Parliaments, and may it be your great reward, when you next assemble a year hence, to know that, as a result of your labours, the light of peace burns with a steadier and a more radiant flame. (Cheers.) Count Apponyi (Hungarian Minister of Education) thanked the Prime Minister in the name of the union's representatives for his "historic utterances." They were the more historic inasmuch as they contained a direct message from the British Sovereign. At the instance of the Hungarian delegate the following telegram was then despatched to his Majesty: "The Inter-Parliamentary Union now in session has received with profound gratitude your Majesty's gracious [?] of [?] and [?][?] [?] you [?] and [?] [?] The majority o fyou have not [?] [?] you will wish [?] accredited delegation of your [?] The [?ing] is [?] [?] the times mighty to [?] the accredited representatives of your [?] men and women, and [?] [?ed] to express, with [?] [?] the reason, and the [?] of a [?] not the least [?] [?] of the [?] (Cheers.) In addressing you I felt that I [?] much speaking to the representatives of [?] of Europe and America as to the [?] of principles and hopes that are common in us all, and [?] out which our life on earth would be a life [?] horrors or prospect. With the purpose of your [?], let me say at once, his Majesty Government [?] [?edly] to associate [?]. It is their hope that your deliberations will do [?] their understanding between the [?]. You have indeed done so mach [?] the new [?] to shape and substance to the growing the [?] that war may be banished from the earth. All of [?], I suppose, can [re?] a [?] when such a [?ing] as this would have [?] the [?] of [?] who call themselves practical ones. You would have been called dreamers, and your places [?] [?ibable] arrangement for the [?] and [?] of war would have been [?ed] as [?]. Gentlemen, let us be charitable to our judgment of those misguided men and those dark ages. We are all creatures of habit. And by habituating the world to the idea that peaceful [?] differences as diplomacy has failed [?] you have opened men's eyes; you have [?] Let me recall the words [?] to your [?] in 1880 by the [?] President of the French [?]: "Grâce à [?], [?] où la conception de l'arbitrage [?] un jeu de l'expriz ou une [?] que l'on a coutume d'appeler, [?] opposition injustifée, la '[neg?] [?].' Aujourd'hui, il faut faire le part de l'[?]. Des [?atives] qui ont aboutt [?] M pour d'[?] qu'il on est des peuples [?] des [?], et que, pour les [pre?] [co?] pour les [?s], Il n'y a pas de résistance qui ne disparaise, à la longue, [de?t] la toute-prissance d'une idde, quand [?] de force à la source sainte de lat fr?eé!" Gentlemen, it must be a [?] of delight and encouragement to you to feel that [?] [?] eloquent words were uttered a great step has been taken towards the realization of this ideal. I believe that there are now in existence at present thirty-eight arbitration agreements between the different Powers. These instruments have all been [f?ed] [?] October, 1903. Thanks to Lord Lansdowns, Great Britain had entered into agreements with ten Powers, by virtue of which all legal questions arising between the [?] two contracting Powers, and all questions relating to the interpretation of treaties which diplomacy has failed to settle, are to be referred to the [?] Court of Arbitration subscribed at The Hague. Notwithstanding the proviso which [?] a [?] to arbitration of matters affecting the vital interests, the independence, or the honour of the two contracting States, we may [?] that the [?] of these agreements in a [?] much to say, a splendid achievement. (Cheers.) In these proceedings I may be [?] to [?] that Great Britain has borne a leading part. For we owe to the Government of the late Lord [Bellebery?] —(cheers)— and o our Delegates at the first Hague Congress the initiation of the Parliament Tribunal of [?]. I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. We have already seen how questions arousing passion and excitement have attained a solution, not necessarily by means of arbitration int he strict sense of the word, but by referring them to such a Tribunal as that which reported on the North Sea incident; and I would ask you whether it may not be worth while carefully to consider, before the next Congress meets at The Hague, the various formation which differences might be submitted, with a view to opening the door as wide as possible to every means which might in any degree contribute to moderate or compose such differences. But, gentlemen, there is a dark side to the shield. We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which Governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. Such change as there has been is for the worse. Judging by the budgets of the great naval and military Power, we might be living in a world where resort to force was the only known method of settling our differences, and the words "arbitration" and "[?tion]" mean devoid of meaning. You will not have forgotten the words of the Emperor of Russia in [?ing] the first Hague Congress: "The fowarded changes consequent on this state of things [?] at public prosperity at its very source. The intellectual and physical strength of the nations, labour and capital, are diverted from their [?] application and unproductively [?ed]. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible [?] of destruction, which, though to-day they are regarded as the last word of science, are [de?ed] to-morrow to lose all value in consequence of [?] fresh discovery in the same field." These words describe only too faithfully the position to-day, seven years after they were written. Ont he one hand we find the reasoned opinion of Europe declaring itself more and more [?ongly] for peace, and on the other hand preparations for war which in their extent and effectiveness suggest that a lust for blood is the actuating principle of modern society. It is this sinister paradox [?] [?] (Hungarian Minister of Education) [?] the Prince Minister to the [?] of the [?] representatives for his "[?] [?]." They were the [?] histroc inasmuch on they [con?] a direct message from the British Sovereign. At the [?] of the Hungarian delegate the following telegram was then [?ed] to the Majesty: "The Inter-Parliamentary Union now in sessin has [?] with profound gratitude your Mejesty's [?] and [?] [?] that your Majesty very [?] be spared to continue to protects the welfare of the English people and the cause of international [?]." A specially [?] reception was then given in Professor Kovalevski, one of the delegates representing the Russian Duma. Speaking on behalf of his [?] he said that as members of the Duma their object was to put an end to the arbitrary and [?] rule of [?], and to [?] for it a [?] of the reality of liberty and justice. They were officially delogated to England to participate in the great international work of liberty and justice, [?] manifested by the ideals of peace. They were delighted to carry out that mission. But that [?] had been rudely and roughly brought to an [?] siege. Their sentiments remained the same, [b?] duty now was to return at once to their country so as to [?] the struggle for those high principles that were their aim and object, and for the peace of the world. Is the course of the subsequent proceeding a long [?] [?] on the report of the commission appreciated at the last conference at Brussels to consider the American proposal for an international parliaments. Certain resolutions which had been approved of by the Inter-Parliamentary Council were, after one ore two amendments, carried in the following form: (1) That is would be advantageous to give The [?] Conference a more permanent [?] in 10 the week of pacification, and that the Powers should agree in establishing the periodical meeting of these conferences. (2) That the Powers, when appointing their representative to the second Hague Conference, could usefully include in their instructions the duty of endeavouring to find the means of constituting a permanent consultative council entrusted with preparing the codification and development of International law. (3) The Inter-Parliamentary Council has also agreed in the conclusions of the Commission that it would be advisable to modify certain statutes of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and to submit to the Conference resolutions containing the change of text necessary in respect to Articles 2, 4, 6, and 8 of the statutes in order to carry out the recommendations of the Commission. The Inter-Parliamentary Council was of the opinion that the choice of a new locale of the Inter-Parliamentary Union could be left to the initiative of the members of the next Inter-Parliamentary Conference. [B ?eatly] a report was submitted containing the recommendations of a committee appointed at the Brussels Conference to consider the scheme of a model arbitration treaty. Mr. R. Bartholdt (United States) explained the position which had been arrived at, and in the course of the evening discussion Mr. W. J. Bryan mowed that: If a disagreement should occur between contracting parties which in the terms of the arbitration treaty need not be submitted to arbitration, they shall, before declaring war, or engaging in any hostilities whatever, submit the question or questions in controversy to The Hague Court, or some other impartial international tribunal, for investigation and report, each party reserving the right to act independently afterwards. Finally, it was agreed that this amendment should be brought forward again and considered at to-day's meeting. CONVERSATIONE AT THE MANSION HOUSE. In the evening the delegates attended a conversatione, given in their honour at the Mansion House by the Lord mayor and Lady mayoress. Nearly every member of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference attended, and the splendid reception-rooms of the mansion House were crowded by a very brilliant and distinguished throng. The guests as they arrived were received in the salon by the Lord mayor and Lady mayoress, who were assisted in offering the stately and traditional hospitality of the City of London by the Sheriffs and heir wives. Those present included: The French Ambassador, the Spanish Ambassador, the Mexican Minister, Prince Michel Khilkoff, the Roumanian Minister and madame Catarafe, the Chinese representative and Madame Ivan Chen, the Netherlands Minister, the Persian Chargé d'Affaires, the Chilian Minister and madame de Gaza, the Bulgarian Minister and Madame Tsokow, the Belgian Minister, the Italian Chargé d'Affaires, the Columbian Minister and Mme. Gutierres-Ponse, the Greek Minister and Madame Metexas, the Norwegian Minister, Lord Kinnaird, Lord and lady Westdale, Lord and Lady Joicey, Lord and lady Lyveden, Sir Chrier, Farness, M. P., and Lady Farness, Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George, M. P., Right Hon. J. Sinclair, M. P., and Lady Marjorie [?], the Soliciter-General for Scotland and Mrs. Ure, Sir Joseph and lady Disnedale, Sir Fredk. Banbury, M. P., and lary Banbery, Sir John and Miss Heron-Maxwell, Sir Felix and Lady Schmater, Sir Joh runner, M. P., and Lady Bramner, and Sir Howard Viscent, M. P. During the evening a select programme of vocal [?] was contributed for the entertainment of the visitors by the pupils of the Guildhall School of Music, and Herr Worme's Orchestra played a number of choice morceaux during the intervals. Many of the greats expressed much admiration for he stately official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. hey appeared quite familiar with the importance and dignity of the office of Lord mayor, and well acquainted with its history.Copy of translation. Department of State Republic of Guatemala, Central America. Guatemala, July 28, 1906. Mr. Minister: The President of Guatemala has directed me, which commission I hasten with pleasure to execute by communicating to Your Excellency, and through you to President Roosevelt and the enlightened government of the United States, to express the most profound and sincere appreciation of the government and the people of Guatemala for his esteemed mediation in restoring peace with the Republics of Salvador and Honduras. The glory of the President of the United States whose policy for peace and harmony in all countries of the Continent deserves the sincere and enthusiastic applause of humanity, is unquestioned; and since it concerns Guatemala, it gives me pleasure to inform you that we appreciate the immense value of his efforts made in behalf of the harmony and brotherhood of Central America; to which Your Excellency as contributed largely by your marked and able diplomacy. I beg of you to be good enough to communicate to President Roosevelt and his government the sentiments of gratitude and sympathy of President Estrada Cabrera and the Government2 Government of Guatemala, which they extend to you and to accept the assurance of my most distinguished considerations. -s- Juan Barrios M. H. E. Mr. Leslie Combs, E. E. and M. P. of the United States of America, City.[*[Enclosed in Adee, 8-11-06]*][*F*] LENOX. MASS. HOTEL ASPINWALL O.D. SEAVEY July 28, 1906 Dear Mr. President I have just received your very considerate letter of the 26th inst. In view of what you say, I shall make up my mind as to attending the review after I get back to Washington on Tuesday next. I thinkI had already written an official letter to the Commanding Officer of the Dolphin suitable for him to communicate to the crew: in accordance with what you say. I write Newberry by this mail to give it to the reporters. Secretary Root seems to be acquiring nautical experience, if the enclosed clipping is accurate. The President, Oyster Bay. Believe me, as ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte I can usually be more useful, at the Department than elsewhere, but on the other hand, I find the Navy men a little sensitive to any show of indifference as to matters in which they take great interest. There is one matter to which it would be well, I think, to give some attention at the time.- i. e. a inspection of the quarters intended for you and also for Sec'y Taft and the ladies on the ship which will take you to Panama. [*[For enc. see 7-11-06, Root & Bonaparte]*][*Ackd 7-30-06*] COMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. Valparaiso, Indiana. July 28, 1906. My dear Mr. President:- The public press is authority for the statement that at a recent conference, you, Speaker Cannon, Hon. J. S. Sherman and others agreed that the Republican campaign for the election of Representatives to the Sixtieth Congress should be conducted upon the "Stand pat" policy, which, of course, is generally taken as an authoritative announcement that tariff revision will have no place in the consideration of that Congress if the House should be controlled by the Republicans. I do not know how much truth there may be in the press report, but I may be pardoned for saying that in my judgment no announcement could be made that will do more towardmaking the next House democratic than that. There is a strong sentiment among the rank and file republicans throughout this part of the country in favor of a rational revision of tariff schedules, along protection lines, by the next Congress, and, in my opinion, we will lose many close districts if it is generally understood that no consideration will be given to that important question. My desire for the election of a republican House impels me to express to you my views upon the situation. The country seems well satisfied with your administration, and with the work of the recent session of Congress, but there will be much disappointment if the party leaders decide that the next Congress shall do nothing in the way of modifying customs duties that are believed to be unnecessarily high in many particulars. With sincere regards, I am Very truly yours E. D. Crumpacker Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*[For 1. enclosure see 7-23-06]*]BLADE EDITORIAL ROOMS TOLEDO, O. 1 TOLEDO, O., July 28, '06. Dear Sir: The important work of the Republican State Convention at Dayton, in September, will be the construction of the platform. Concerning certain planks there is now considerable discussion. Some believe the platform should endorse President Roosevelt's administration in a general way, but not be specific in regard to the railway rate bill and other measures. Others, and this class seems numerous, do not want a mere perfunctory endorsement, but a specific one - one that will show full confidence in the President's course. There are those who want Senators Foraker and Dick endorsed, and others declare as Foraker opposed the railway rate bill and Dick the Philippine tariff bill, measures affirmed by the President, that to endorse the course of the Senators would mean to oppose the President's policy, and they insist the President be heartily endorsed in everything, and all endorsements stop at that. Will you write 100 words, more or less, for publication in the Blade, expressing your views on this question and mail in the enclosed stamped envelope. Point out the way the party in this state should take in the matter. Truly yours, F. L. DUSTMAN, Managing Editor Blade.[*[ENC. IN DUSTMAN TO T.R. 1-27-06]*]TELEGRAM. CIPHER CABLEGRAM. The White House, Washington. SAN SALVADOR, SAL. (Received 4:22 p.m. July 28, 1906.) Secretary of State, Washington. Disarmament bona-fide. Will leave on the Marblehead Sunday. Will maintain strict neutrality in fact and appearance. Merry. -Fd-No. 591 AMERICAN EMBASSY. ST. PETERSBURG, July 28, 1906. Sir:- In looking back over the period from the present time to the day of the assembling of the Duma, (May 10th.), one now realizes that the responsibilit? for the present situation must be distributed. The Tsar, unwisely influenced by his entourage, kept In office discredited officials and failed to call upon the Constitutional Democrats to form a Cabinet, thus losing an opportunity for coming to a mutual understanding. Finally through the advice of the reactionists and the Court party, the Duma was suddenly dissolved. On the other hand, that body immediately asked for power greater than that of our House of Representatives and beyond that given to it by the Fundamental Laws under which It existed and was authorized to legielate. It proposed the abolition of the Upper House. It demanded the abolition of the death penalty and amnesty for all prisoners irrespective of their crime, at a moment when assassination of officials was increasing THE HONORABLE ROBERT BACON, ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON, D.C.-2- throughout the Empire. In other words, the revolutionists wanted amnesty for themselves, while at the same time they were demanding the punishment of officials for past offenses. The expectations and ideas of the peasants were raised by promises of vast areas of private land. Expropriation was urged without properly considering the effects upon the people or an equitable method of carrying out such a gigantic scheme. Even compensation on a greatly reduced valuation would have severely tested the resources of a government already weigned down by an enormous national debt. The first consequences of the Imperial coup d'etat were great nervousness on each side and almost absolute inertia as far as appearances went, thus showing that the revolutionists were taken by surprise and the Labor Party not organized for a general strike. The Government made great preparations for three days previous to the dissolution, by filling the City of St. Petersburg with troops, but practically no disturbances took place, both the Cadets and the revolutionists being unprepared. While the various parties in the Duma were previously evidently divided from each other, the dissolution has for the time being brought them together, and it is now reported that a majority of the members have signed the Manifesto calling on the people to refuse to pay taxes or to furnish further troops. It would be still more to the point if they could compel the people to give up the consumption of vodka, which demoralizes them and at the same time furnishes an enormous indirect revenue to the Government. -3- It has just been rumored that the Emperor will proclaim, in an Ukaze, that all people are to be equal before the law. This would do more to break the backbone of the revolution and stop the sinews of war coming from the Jews, than any other single act. But knowing the prejudice that exists in Russia against the Jews, it is hardly to be credited at this time. If the Tsar is to strengthen or regain his hold on the people within the next six months, it will not be effected by promises, but only by actual concessions and sacrifices. The Court party labors under the delusion that the next Duma will be more conservative, but to my mind it is sure to be more radical. Those nearest to the Emperor do not yet appreciate that unless a constitutional government is maintained, bankruptcy stares Russia in the face, for it is inconceivable to believe that without such a government foreign tankers would furnish another loan for running expenses or any other purposes without the sanction of the Duma. No serious disturbances have yet followed the dissolution of the Duma and the indications at present are that a general strike will not be attempted. The members of the late Duma who attended the meeting in Viborg have returned to St. Petersburg without being arrested, one blunder at least being thus avoided by the authorities. The Government is however suppressing the opposition papers and caviardeing again in order to prevent the Viborg Manifesto from reaching the people, which however is only a matter of time. What effect all this will have on the peasants-4- remain to be seen. The conflict must go on, but whether it will last for months, or years, is what those most conversant with Russian affairs are unable to predict. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, GvL Meyer[*F*] Marquette, Mich., July 28th 1906 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Oyster Bay, My Dear Mr. President: What a kind and thoughtful interest you have shown for my work with the camera, in behalf of the hunter and the hunted! Your much appreciated letter of the 14th. inst. was forwarded from Pittsburgh and reached me yesterday on my return from White Fish Lake, where I have camped every season for thirty-five consecutive years; so you see I am a regular migrant. I felt intuitively, before opening your letter, that it contained a protest in some form, against further "firing in the air", as the article in the National Geographic Magazine would strike you. The fifty or sixty prints sent the Editor to select from, in illustration of a very brief article, were, with true newspaper enterprise, all appropriated, and I had not the heart to restrict the number to eight or ten, which, in the first instance, seemed ample. However, Mr. Grosvenor has been so nice about it and as the magazine is practically limited to the members of the Society, reaching but few sportsmen, perhaps no harm has been done. Let me write, in all sincerity, that your former appeal did not fall on deaf ears or fail to awaken a determination to make an effort to comply with your suggestions, even though I may have hesitated to say so in black and white. In fact, all my plans have changed the past six months, and it was with no faltering that I declined to enter into a fairly favorable contest for the regular nomination for Congress this-2- Summer, or with any less hesitation shall I decline an Independent Republican nomination, which I understand will be offered me in September. Next week I go to Canada after a few more moose pictures and the first of September leave for Newfoundland for an illustrated chapter on the woodland caribou. The rest of my program is quite extensive, but I will not take up your time describing it. I hope you are getting some relaxation this Summer and that you will keep within reasonable distance of the eight hour law. Most sincerely yours, Geo Shiras 3.Sa to Sh[*[Enc. in Bonaparte 7-28-06]*] [*[7-11-06]*]TELEPHONE 1118-GRAMERCY Intended for [*Navy dept*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 33 UNION SQUARE, BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEICKE," NEW YORK New York The first Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From [*NEW YORK PRESS*] Address________________ Date_____[*JUL 23 1906*] Established: London, 1881, New York, 1884 [*ROOT REACHES BRAZIL Drenched Attending Reception on Way to Pan-American Conference, Pernambuco, Brazil, July 23.-- The United States cruiser Charleston, carrying Secretary Root and his party to the Pan- American conference in Rio Janiero, lies anchored out in the roadstead. The sea is rough, and the Secretary was the only member of his party to come ashore in the launch to-day. He was thoroughly soaked before he reached the landing. Mr. Root received a popular greeting here, His speech, made to a large assemblage, was helpful to the friendship between the United States and Brazil. He made a comparison between the histories of the two countries, referring to the struggles of each with Indians and enemies from the Old World. The coaling of the Charleston has been proceeding slowly on account of the roughness of the weather. The cruiser will leave for Bahia, where she will make a short stop, and thence to Rio Janeiro, where she is due about July 26. The congress will be opened to-morrow.*] TELEPHONE 1118-GRAMERCY Intended for [*Navy dept*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEICKE, Inc. 33 UNION SQUARE, BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEICKE," NEW YORK New York The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From..... [*DEMOCRAT CHRONICLE*] Address..... [*ROCHESTER, N.Y.*] Date - [*JUL 11 1900*] Established: London, 1881, New York, 1884 [*If Secretary Bonaparte keeps on lending battleships to his colleagues in the Cabinet there won't be any left for him to use in case he should like to take an outing.*]COPY. NAVY DEPARTMENT Office of THE ADMIRAL OF THE NAVY MILLS BUILDING WASHINGTON. Richfield Springs, July 29, 1906. My dear Colonel Vrooman: I share in your feelings of pleasure on the two days we met - here and in Utica. It was keen enjoyment to see all the old comrades too, and feel we had shared those tremendous four years. I have read, with earnest attention and pleasure, your beautiful and touching address at the Founders and Patriots' meeting. You cleared up for me a point which worried me as to who prevented the junction of the Columns of Burgoyne and St. Leger. I wish you would, some day, do justice to Count de Grasse's action before Yorktown, when but for him, Cornwallis could not have been forced to surrender. All too little credit is assigned that splendid performance. Mrs. Dewey and I look forward to the pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Vrooman and with assurance of regard, I am Yours sincerely, (signed) - GEORGE DEWEY.[*[Enc in Vrooman 8-3-06]*][*P.F*] Des Moines Iowa Sunday July 29/06 TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON My Dear President: I appreciated more than I can tell your very kind letter of congratulation over the sale of the Panama bonds, and I thank you therefor - This is the eve of the Convention. Both sides are full of fight - The Gov. does not propose to leavethe discussion of content to the convention in the accustomed way, but proposes to seize the Convention, by deposing the temporary chairman have his man and not the Districts appoint a Committee on credentials and then immediately ask a report and thereupon make the nominations by acclamation - declare - them carried and adjournThere is but one way left and that is for the Committee to make up a role as at Nat'l conventions, and exclude contested delegation while the vote is being taken on their seats. I think this will be done. Our people propose to be fair and they are sure they can control. I shall not be surprised if you lose a Sect of Agriculture in the interest of harmony in the State. Of course they will not be satisfied but the farmers will elect Tama Jim. The Gov. has thrown out the suggestion that he may call out troops to enforce a square (?) deal. Refusing to leave the content to any tribunal except his friends he seems to be in need of troops. I am taking no part. I leave tomorrow (Monday) morning for Ottumwa to speak at a Chautauqua. Your Obt Servant L M Shaw [*[Shaw]*]Established [?] PUBLIC LEDGER AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW. [?] [?] [?] high places [?] [?] [?] pessimistic the tone to some of the college oratory this year. Were it not for the protesting voice of President Day, of Syracuse University, and other representative instructors, young men just entering business and professional life might conceive that they have little chance for success if they respect the old ideals of honesty. The world has not gone wrong, however, and If many forms of wickedness abound, grace much more abounds. The exposures , while showing that there have been wide departures from the accepted standards of good conduct, make it plain that there is a civic public conscience awake and alert which holds fast to the moral law in private and public life and punishes those who violate It. It was long ago declared, "It is impossible but that offenses will come, but woe unto him through whom they come." There has never been a time when great offenders were less immune from the penalties of the violated law than they are today. The public conscience is asserting itself more wrathfully than ever before. The standards have not been lowered. "Dr. Henry S. Drinker, of Lehigh University, addressing a graduating class this week, traversed the pessimists who intimate that the age is exceptionally degenerate in all ranks of society. What possible excuse, exclaims Doctor Drinker, is there "for such a sentence as this in the address of a leading college president? 'We are dealing with the virus of a universal infection. The whole nation needs a new baptism of the old virtue of honesty.' " This is the bane of the ill-considered college oratory of the hour. President Drinker furnishes the antidote: "The conscience of the nation, as a nation, is keen, and its instincts are for the right. There has been no period of moral stagnation through which our people as a people have been [passing] and from which they are now awakening." [?] [?] at President Drinker's address is that the world is growing better. It is certainly sensitive to crime in spheres supposed to be immune from punishments that strike at common criminals. "The struggle is to bring our practice up to the ideals of the present and to conform in our social and business life to the enlightened and clarified public opinion of the day."W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. [*F*] [*Encs retd 8/4/06*] House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. Albuquerque, N. M., July 30th, 1906 Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Loeb:- Your letter of the 26th instant Just received. I have ordered the buttons to-day and also have written to Senator Penrose about John Mitchell. Hope I may be successful in getting him to act. As I wrote you some days ago I went over to Deming to meet several of the Joint Statehood people from Arizona and I found they were very fearful that Governor Kibbey's attitude would be against Jointure. That he is Chairman of the Republican Central Committee and that he and Mr. E. E. Ellingwood, Chairman of the Democratic Committee have called for a Joint meeting of the committees to convene August 4th, but I assured them that I thought that Governor Kibbey would not take any very strong action against jointure, but suggested that they send some one, who is his friend to see him at Phoenix and they decided on General T. F. Wilson of Tucson as he is a member of the Equlization Board and a personal friend. I inclose you a despatch which I received last evening from General Wilson. I also inclose a letter which I received this morning from Governor Kibbey, which I think explains itself. I had written him a few days ago, suggesting that I could meet him and Chief Justice Kent with a couple of New Mexico friends and discuss the question with him, at some point outside of the Territories. I believe I suggested Los Angeles or Long Beach, California. The worst part of it is, that Governor Kibbey, Chief Justice Kent and the Secretary are all on the returning board. I confess it looks a little tough but however we will go ahead and endeavor to lick them out. I think you ought to take some steps to see that there is an honest squad[?] any one who would (Andrews, W.H.)W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. W. J. L. No. 2, 7/30/06 write a letter like the one I inclose of his, there is no telling what they might do. I suggested to these people that they reorganize the joint statehood league and elect General Wilson as Chairman, as he is a good organizer, which they did and they also elected a Mr. Charles F. Hoff as Secretary, who is a very strong Democrat and I also suggested that if they would have their committee composed on half Democrats and half Republicans it would be better and send out speakers, both Democrat and Republican to every precinct and bawl. It is the only thing we can do. The rub is to raise the money. They will raise some over there. Wilson thinks they can raise $10,000 among themselves. And said it would take $10,000 more for speakers and bands and expenses. I am going to try to raise it. Just how, at this moment I do not know. I saw Major Llewellyn. He was over to Deming with me and I gave him your compliments. I expect to see him again in a few days. With kind regards to the President and yourself, I remain, Sincerely, your friend, W. H. Andrews Delegate from New MexicoTranslation Department of Government & Foreign Affairs. Panama, July 30, 1906. No. 110/11. Mr. Minister: In reviewing the course of the relations of our two countries, during the preparation of a memorial which I must place before our next Legislative Assembly, I discover that although much has been gained in the manner of interpreting the convention between them for the construction of the inter-oceanic canal, there still exists on the part of certain of your authorities whose minds are fixed upon the physical fact alone of this great work of construction, the tendency to ignore other interests not given to their safe-keeping, - and, on the part of our authorities, a persistent attempt to apply - more or less pertinently - the letter of isolated articles of this convention, undervaluing its broad and generous spirit. Of this, recent examples may be seen in the measures which diminish our fiscal receipts and in our manner of opposing them. It seems to me, further, that certain fortunate circumstances make this an opportune moment to arrive at a common formula of interpretation of this convention in harmony with the lofty ideals which actuated each party at its conclusion. These circumstances are: That you, who are so intimately acquainted with the most minute details of this convention - of its initiation and its development - are at the head of this Legation; The possibility that your Government will profit by your high merits and call you to a higher post; My transitory and temporary acceptance of the post which I occupy, in which one of my highest aspirations is to leave the relations of Panama and the United States of America firmly knitted and on a basis of the greatest harmony. For this I am favorably situated by my intimate knowledge of the facts and reasons which influenced the drawing up of this convention, and of the smoothing over of the principal difficulties which arose in the beginning of its enforcement; by the part I took in our separation from Colombia, by my collaboration in the councils of the Junta de Gobierno, by the mission with which I was charged, together with Dr. Eusebio Morales, to your country in 1904, and later, here, in the so-called Amador-Taft Agreement. I may mention, also, the approaching session of our Legislative Assembly, which is to continue the important work of our national organization, and the very flattering visits-2- to when we look forward, first, of your eminent Secretary of State, Mr. Root, after having travelled in and studied the countries of South American and given his personal attention to their tendencies and desires; - and later, of your illustrious President, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, for whom Panama has the greatest admiration, gratitude and respect. All this has moved me to submit to Your Excellency with the permission of His Excellency, President Amador, the following exposition. The peculiar geographical situation of this isthmus makes it indespensable that we, its natural sovereigns, possess it - not in absolute dominion, but on the contrary, subordinating that dominion to the end for which it was created by the hand of God, - that is, as the most favorable place for connecting artificially the two greatest oceans, - as a natural bridge uniting the two American continents, and in this manner the principal highway of universal commerce. It was discovered by the most daring marine genius that the world has produced, under the protection of the first military, maritime and commercial nation of those times - but neither the science nor the arts were at that time sufficiently advanced to cut - permit the simile - the precious jewel which they found - it was with difficulty that they could use it in its natural state. Then came our emancipation from Spain, brought about by our own endeavors, and, dazzled by the splendor of the Great Colombia, the dearest and most beautiful of Bolivar's genius, we united our fate with that nation. Time passed and Colombia could not realize that which we so ardently desired. Your fellow citizens, with that commercial foresight which characterizes them, after agreeing with Colombia, constructed the Panama railway, the first work which, in a way, gave to your country the right of preference when the time arrived to develop and perfect this highway. Your far-sighted statesman, who already guessed our phenomenal progress, began from that date to endeavor to obtain complete control of it. Colombia being unable to take up alone the great work of the Inter-Oceanic Canal, its execution was entrusted to a French Economic Company, of which the eminent Ferdinand de Lesseps became President - but neither the prestige of that great man, nor the immense resources of the rich French nation, were powerful enough to prevent the terrible crush which we all are familiar with. Your growing interests, political and commercial, make it every day more imperatively necessary to your national life to construct and control this interoceanic canal. Your triumphant diplomacy obtained from the Great Powers and recognition that your interest in this affair was supreme, - they gave you a free hand with the sole limitation that they also should enjoy the benefits of the transit. Your law-givers in unequivocal terms have expressed the desires of your nation and have-3- supplied the means and the form in which it shall be accomplished (Spooner Law). In the same measure that you made prodigious steps in the way of progress and advancement to be the richest and most powerful nation in the world, Colombia degenerated, carried us with her in her ruin, and made it absolutely impossible to advance towards our manifest destiny. These were the historic events which preceded and were the principal cause of our separation from Colombia. This separation once perfected, Panama hastened to offer to the United States of America with unlimited generosity, without haggling and irritating delays, as much as your nation believed to be necessary to guarantee and assure the great capital, the lives of its citizens, and even its national reputation which it was about to risk in this immense enterprise. The very special circumstances of the time, of the juridical persons parties to the convention, of the relations which it created in the very heart of Panama, as well as between the two nations, the object of this convention, - all gave to it a special character which imposes on both of the contracting parties with the imperative duty to keep these circumstances before them at all times when interpreting and developing its dispositions, and to reject the interpretations of ordinary law although they may be authorized, when they conflict with the high ethical principles which served as a standard in the making of this treaty. These special circumstances may be lightly sketched as follows: The time had arrived to solve the problem already fully explained to Colombia. Your legislators had clearly formulated their declaration of the necessities and the just requirements of the American people - our separation from Colombia has as principal cause our ardent desire to assure the construction of the canal as an unavoidable duty towards the world, the American people and ourselves. There was, therefore, no place for delays and great urgency to resolve this problem. The inequality of the juridical persons parties to the treaty, the varied and distinct contributions which each one brought to the task - immeasurable for the greater part - takes away from this negotiation the usual character of an exchange of equivalents, and makes it rather a treaty based on mutual good-will and honor. As for the relations established by the treaty, they are of so intimate a nature that harmony depends only on the greatest prudence and reverence of one for the other. We are not two neighbors who need to be on good terms; we are two living under the same roof, each guarding his own special interests, and who, for that reason, owe each other constant consideration and reverence. By reason of the guarantee of our independence and of the valuable interests which your country has here, our political life affects you in a specially intimate manner, and our destiny cannot remain indifferent to you while at the same time the respect which you owe to our sovereignty imposes a prudence upon you which would embarrass your action did we not, on our side, lend ourselves to facilitating the-4- accomplishment of that which must be of the greatest benefit to both our countries. In approving Article 136 of our Constitution, we give an evident proof of the loyalty of our intentions. The object of the treaty the construction of the Interoceanic Canal "Pro Mundi Beneficio", is so lofty a one that it would be to stain its greatness to associate with it ideas of pecuniary advantage or of any other nature. The incidents which have occurred during the short life of the Convention go to strengthen the doctrine which I have in view, to establish by means of this exposition, in my great desire to have a golden rule by which will be resolved in future all questions which may arise between our respective countries, originating from this convention. This golden rule may be synopsized as follows: Panama recognizes the greatness of the rights conceded to the United States of America by the Treaty, but the United States in using these rights will always hold in view the interests of Panama in order not to injure then unnecessarily. During the discussion of the Treaty in your Senate, certain doubts arose as to the meaning of Article II, with respect to the limits of the cities of Panama and Colon, and as to what was meant by their adjacent ports, - and our Minister in Washington, with the approval of the Junta de Gobierno, defined their limits and explained all in entire accord with the ideas of the Senate, this dissipating all doubts. When the stipulations of the treay were first put into practice by the first Governor of the Canal Zone, General Davis, difficulties arose which were partly not without foundation, partly the result of our inexperience, and partly perfectly natural, as natural as the complaint of one whose member is being amputated, even with his consent. The authorities of the Zone proceeded by proxy and adhered strictly to the written ordinary law, and this was the cause of our grievance and complaint. Even the eminent Mr. Hay, alarmed at our attitude and believing, perhaps, that Panama had repented of its action and was endeavoring to avoid its obligations, closed the door to us and argued American law (rights) to us from behind his fortified walls - but let me say here, in honor of his memory, that before giving his reply to Mr. Obaldia, our Minister, he had expressed his favorable opinion of the attitude adopted by President Roosevelt, that noble and justice-loving soul, towards this matter which was of such vital importance to us. This attitude of the President was set forth in the letter of October 18, 1906, directed to the Secretary of War, and instructing him to come to the Isthmus in order to investigate these questions, to confer with the President of Panama and to assure him that it was "not the intention of the United States to take advantage of the rights given by the treaty to interfere in the well-being and prosperity of the State of Panama, or of the cities of Panama and Colon." This famous letter has been and should continue to be in the future the key by which may be translated the articles of the Hay-Varilla Treaty, and had necessarily to be appended to the treaty. Its explanatory merit is irrefutable, coming as it does from the negotiator of the traction your side, whose-5- high political, juridical and moral authority merit the greatest veneration and respect, - reinforced by the opinion of the Ex-Secretary of State, Mr. Hay, who was directly concerned in the drawing up of the treaty. I cannot refrain, Mr. Minister, from quoting here his most important declarations, as I consider that their publication is of the greatest benefit to our good relations: 1. "We have not the slightest intention of establishing an independent colony in the center of the Republic of Panama, or or excerising the functions of Government to a greater degree than that necessary to place us in a position to construct, protect and benefit by the canal, in accordance with the rights given to us by the treaty, and the last thing that we desire is to obstruct the commerce and prosperity of the people of Panama." 2. "No matter how far an exact construction of the treaty could convey us, should this be required by the exigencies of the case when exercising a power equal in effect to a sovereignty over the strip of the canal, it is our full intention that the rights which we hold be exercised with all the care due to the honor and the interests of the people of Panama." 3. "The exercise of the powers given us by the treaty within the geographical limits of the Republic of Panama, may easily, if a true sympathy is not shown with the present and future well-being of the people of Panama, cause a sentiment of distrust toward the American Government." 4. "After conferring with the Secretary of State (Mr. Hay) and with you (Mr. Taft), I have resolved that if it is possible for you to do so, it will be of great advantage for you to visit the Isthmus of Panama in person and confer with the President and other governmental authorities of the Republic of Panama." The Amador-Taft agreement, based upon these noble declarations, restored confidence and tranquility to our people and strengthened the harmony which happily exists today and which it is my desire to maintain, adopting as a fixed rule in the interpretation of the treaty the reading of the spirit rather than the letter, and availing myself for this purpose of the generous declarations of your great President, contained in his letter of October 18, 1904, to his Secretary of War. From the foregoing, it is clear that in high administrative circles the rule which I have just indicated is the one applied in interpreting the treaty, but its re-affirmation in clear terms, and even more, its wide publication, seems to me to be proper and even necessary, so that all may know and all apply it, and thus a general tendency may be given to the arrangement of our mutual interests and the preservation of the harmony which now so happily exists between the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone. This is the object of the present exposition, which I take the liberty of submitting to you. With sentiments of the highest consideration, I am, Your Excellency's etc., etc, (Sgd) RICARDO ARIAS[*F*] STEPHENS LITHO. & ENG. CO. ST. LOUIS [*Wrote Rep Watson 8/[8]18/06*] E. K. LeSEURE, President C. V. McCLENATHAN, Cashier. No. 5812 DANVILLE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Danville, Ill. July 30, 1906 190__ Hon. James S. Sherman, Chairman, Rep. Congressional Com'te, New York City, N.Y. Dear Mr. Sherman:- I left New York Friday evening at 6:26. For Sunday I had an engagement with Representative Watson of Indiana at Rushville, where I arrived on that evening. I spent the night with him, and have just returned to Danville. In my conversation with Mr. Watson he informed me that he had spent several days in Missouri. He made a speech at a Congressional Convention at St. Joseph at which Fulkerson was renominated, and was in Rhodes' district and one or two other districts. I went over the Missouri situation with him. He seems to be hopeful of Fulkerson and of Shartel, if Shartel can he prevailed upon to accept the nomination, and believes there is a fighting chance for Rhodes and Welborn. It seems there is quite a factional fight between Senator Stone and Governor Folk, Stone desiring to succeed himself and Folk desiring to succeed Stone. I also went over quite fully with Watson the situation in Indiana. It is fairly hopeful, but needs attention. The Indianapolis News and, in fact, nearly all the large dailies in Indiana, are independent and are out for mischief. The Democrats, of course, are yelling for tariff revision, and wherever there is a Republican business man (and all business men are prospering as never before) who desires cheaper raw material, steel billets, free hides, or any[*2*] STEPHENS LITHO. & ENG. CO. ST. LOUIS E. X. LeSEURE, President C. V. McCLENATHAN, Cashier. No. 5812 DANVILLE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Danville, Ill. ___ 190___ J.S.S.--2. thing, á la the free hide people in Massachusetts, he thinks the tariff ought to be revised. But when you get to the great mass of th people, they seem to be content, except as they may be mislead by the hurrah for revision and fall into the current. The scheme of the Democrats is to press Roosevelt and say he is all right so far as he has gone, but that he has not gone far enough, and then proceed to hustle for Bryan. Watson tells me that he has written a letter to the President advising him of the situation. He received a reply from the President which he showed to me, in which the President said he would write a letter that would be satisfactory to Watson, to you and to myself, and would make it as strong as desired to indicate his wish for the success of the Republican party in the election of a Republican House, and his accord with the policy of not undertaking to enact revenue legislation at this time in other words to stand pat. The truth is that in his answer to the Massachusetts free-hide delegation headed by Douglass which called on him sometime during the last session of Congress -- I can not recall the exact date -- he hit the nail squarely on the head. He demonstrated the impracticability of revising the tariff in the face of a demand from Massachusetts for free hides and a counter-demand from the Middle West and stock-raising section for a retention of the duty on hides. In such a situation, when revision comes it could only be in the shape of a compromise that would command enough votes to pass it. However, I need not go further into the merits of[*3*] STEPHENS LITHO. & ENG. CO. ST. LOUIS E. K. LeSEURE, President C. V. McCLENATHAN, Cashier. No. 5812 DANVILLE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Danville, Ill._______________190__ J.S.S.--3. the matter. Watson also says that in Indiana and in Missouri our Democratic friends are preaching to Republicans that the President alone did all that has been done and that it makes no difference to him whether there is a Republican or a Democratic Congress. Of course, this is the grossest kind of lying on their part, but still Watson thinks it has some effect on the socalled independents and weak-kneed Republicans. I happen to know that the President is as anxious for a Republican House of Representatives as I am and as you are. Watson is decidedly of the opinion that a Roosevelt letter that would cover the ground would be of immense value, more so now than at any other time, because the active campaign is not to begin until the middle or 20th of September, and a letter of the kind Watson indicates — and I concur in his view -- would keep great multitudes of Republicans in line and would render nil the demagoguery and misrepresentations of the enemy. Watson goes to West Virginia to make a speech at a Congressional convention on Wednesday next, and told me he would start from there for New York, where, no doubt, he will see you. I think it might be well for him to run down and have a conversation with the President touching the situation, or, if the President has not the leisure to see him and desires further communication from him, from you, or myself, we can write.STEPHENS LITHO. & ENG. CO. ST. LOUIS E. X. LeSEURE, President C. V. McCLENATHAN, Cashier. No. 5812 DANVILLE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Danville, Ill. ____ 190__ J.S.S. -- 4. We have the material out of which to construct success, under the leadership of the President. The House has stood with him from b beginning to end, and the Senate has yielded substantially all matters of importance, if we except the Philippine tariff bill, and will, in my Judgment, yield upon that at the next session of Congress. I need not say to you again, as I have said to the President, that from every standpoint we must win this fight in November next to enable the party to be victorious in 1908. I find a great number of letters awaiting answer on my return, and I have written this hurriedly. It is not perhaps as coherent as it ought to be, but I think it deals with the situation so that you will understand and the President will understand it. If you desire, when you write the President you may forward this letter to him. When the President writes the letter which, in his letter to Watson, he expressed a willingness to write, I think it would be well to have him address the letter to Watson, as it would tend to immediately strengthen the Indiana situation, and, after the letter is published — which, by the bye, might be given out, if the President so elects at the time it is mailed to Watson — it would render unnecessary any work upon Watson's part in his district. His district is safe, but you know that it is arranged that he and I are to make the campaign together. He is the best stumper and the most reliable of all the Representatives with whom to make a campaign,[*5*] STEPHENS LITHO. & ENG. CO. ST. LOUIS E. K. LeSEURE, President C. V. McCLENATHAN, Cashier. No. 5812 DANVILLE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Danville, Ill. _____________190__ J.S.S. - 5. and if I am to make a tour of the kind you seem to think wise I will have to have him with me because he can take care of a meeting as well as I can, and the truth is, I think, better. With best wishes, I am with respect, etc., Yours very truly, J G Cannon[*Ackd 8-1-06*] Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS Washington July 30 1906 Dear Mr. President I very much appreciate your insight about my health. I am at loss to know how anyone got an idea that I am ill. Everything is going smoothly - I hope to start for home within a day or two. If Murray is delayed in returning I may telegraph you asking for the appointment ordesignation of some one to act for a few days. We are having a friendly reunion at Mentor in honor of my brother Irvin the last of the family to become engaged - The young woman is a niece of Robert Bacon. I hope your ankle is getting strong again. Very sincerely, James Rudolph Garfield(Copy.) U: S. R. S. Hancock. Navy Yard, New York, N. Y., July 30, 1906. Sir: I Respectfully report that at or about 10:20 A. M., Saturday, July 28th, I placed an order with Thomas J. White, the contractor for meats delivered at this yard for four hundred twenty-five (425) pounds pork loins, to be delivered on Monday following. At or about 2:30 P. M. Monday, July 30th, four hundred and twenty-two (422) pounds pork loins were delivered; forty-three (43) pounds were returned because the meat was slightly tainted, and an order was placed by telephone for twenty-one (21) pounds, to bring the delivery up to four hundred (400) pounds. Very respectfully,. (Signed) F. H. Lemly, P. A. Paymaster, U. S. N. The Commanding Officer.[*[Enc. in Bonaparte 8-15-06]*][*P.F*] July 30th 1906 AMERICAN EMBASSY, ST. PETERSBURG. My dear Mr. President As you are not in Washington I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of my dispatch of July 28th to the Department, forwarded by the same courier.The Duma has now been dissolved for a week & practically no disturbances have taken place as yet on account of its dismissal. At a meeting of the workmen of the Great Putiloff works it was voted after some debate to abandon the idea of a general Strike. The Central Labor Committee has sent word out to the workmen in the various factories that they should abstain from any strikes of a political character and the same notice has been given by the union of R. R. Employees. My family are leaving today in order to sail August 15th for America (Gods Country), as my boy is to be coached for 3 weeks in Greekbefore returning to Groton. If after another week the outlook is such that disturbances are unlikely I propose to go to Kissingen Bavaria for a cure Subject to recall at a moments notice by wire _ This I understand will be in accordance with your instructions of July 24th forwarded from the Department.AMERICAN EMBASSY, ST PETERSBURG. "The President is strongly of the opinion that you should not leave Russia, in view of the present situation as described in your telegrams, except for such place from which you Can return at Short notice." Eddy returns this afternoon, Miles in two days & Bliss in a week. It is too Early yetto form any opinion as to what weight the manifesto, Signed by some of the Ex Members of the Duma, will have next October when the recruits for the army will be Called for. Affairs move Slowly in this Country, and all Signs fail, as those of rain in time of drought. Believe me my dear Mr President respectfully yours George v L Meyer [*[Meyer]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay L. I. New York[*[For1enc see Meyer 7-28-06]*]REED SMOOT, Chairman. J. P. DOLLIVER, W. A. CLARK, CHESTER I. LONG, J. B. McCREARY. C. A. BADGER, Clerk. UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Provo City, Utah, July 30, 1906. Hon. W. H. Andrews, Albuquerque, N. M. Dear Mr. Andrews: I desire to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 27, 1906, and in answer will state that upon my arrival home I took up the question discussed in Washington with Senator Beveridge and yourself with some of my friends, and they told me that the parties I spoke of were in favor of joint statehood rather than no statehood at all, and from what was said, I thought that it would not be necessary to have the latter come to Utah to discuss the question. If you or any of your representatives intend visiting Arizona in the near future, I wish you would let me know what the feeling is in relation to joint statehood. If there is any question as to the position taken by the people there on this matter, I will then interest myself in the same. With very best wishes and kindest regards, I remain, Yours very truly, Reed Smoot.[*[Enclosed in Andrews, 8-2-06]*]Personal WAR DEPARTMENT [WASHINGTON.] [*Ackd 8-2-06*] Pointe au Pic Province of Quebec Canada July 30th 1906 My Dear Mr. President, A much needed rain has interfered with my game of golf this morning and it has occurred to me that I could not spend the time better than by writing you concerning my status and stating a little more in detail what I said to you when I last saw you at Oyster Bay. You have been good enough to offer to appoint me to the Supreme Bench to succeed Justice Brown and I have not hesitated to express to you a number of times the pleasure I would have in accepting the appointment if I could do so. The chief reason for (over [*Please don't misunderstand me to think that l am indispensable or that the world would not end or much the same, if I were to disappear on the St. Lawrence River, but circumstances seem to me to have imposed something in the nature of a trust on me that personally I should not discharge by now succeeding Brown. In the nature of things the trust must end with this administration and one or two or three years is short to do much and yet the next session of Congress may result in much for the benefit of the Filipinos and it seems to me its my duty to be in the fight. Mrs Taft says this is an outrage on you. She hasn't read the letter but she has seen its weight & size.my hesitation was the condition of matters in the War Department including the Philippines and Panama Canal bureaus. With respect to Panama matters, I have no doubt that Mr. Root to whom you proposed to transfer supervision of the Canal Commission would do the work better than I have done it or could do it. Of course, we shall still be subject to attack by Morgan et. al. for what has been done and I could perhaps meet the attack better than anyone because of my familiarity with what has been done, but that consideration would not be great enough to require me to sacrifice my ambition to go on the Bench or risk the chance of doing so. With respect to Army matters, there are several important bills pending which should he pushed as far as possible this next session, notably the artillery bill, the elimination bill to aid promotion and the medical bill. I have acquired now considerable experience and knowledge in respect of the best[*[7-30-06]*] 2. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. way of securing the attention of Congress to such matters - Then, too, we are just in the midst of the project for making brigade posts, and the progress needs pushing - However my qualifications are not so peculiar in respect to those matters as to give primary importance to my remaining at the head of the War Dept on any of these accounts. It is true that the irregularities in the constructing quartermaster's shops in Manila may create a scandal against the Army. A report came to me that I was charged with having enjoyed the usufruct of the abuse of making free furniture in those shops for officers and some of them general officers. If I have had, or own, any furniture made or repaired at those shops, I had no knowledge of it at the time and have none now - Wood writes me that they have found no (overaccount against me, though as you suggested, it is good luck only if it is so, for I might have received a present from some officer, or still more likely Mrs. Taft might have received one which he had had made at the shops. Of course the shops were not under me while I was in the Philippines and I knew nothing of what was being done there. I am advised that some of the many useless presents which Alice received, and which I received were packed in ordinary pine boxes for our trip home by men from the quarter master's dep't but neither she nor I knew it and the expense was trifling. [*The foreman or superintendent responsible for irregularities doubtless inserted our names just to invoke as many prominent names as possible to protect himself. So Gadington who made the first investigation thinks.*] ¶ [Still] It would doubtless be better for me to carry through this investigation. It is being thoroughly looked into by Major Wood an Inspector General and his report will be forwarded as soon as it is completed. It involves checking up records reaching back over [two] three or four years. I have directed Gen. Wood to[*[7-30-06]*] 3. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. have the investigation as thorough as possible without respect to persons and have told him that this was your wish. Court Martial proceedings will be undertaken as soon as the report can be had and examined. While none of the reasons singly or jointly for my continuing in the War Office that I have stated are serious and weighty enough to require me to give up the certainty of going on the Bench for an uncertainty in that respect, they do add weight to my chief objection yielding to the attractive invitation, which I am now about to state. I have been connected with the administration of civil government in the Philippine Islands since February 1900. Much of what has been done in working out the problems and carrying the burden thrust upon the United States, I am more or less responsible for. Rightly or wrongly (overthe people of the Islands, and especially those who have been most anxious to make our government a success there have confidence in my earnest desire to help the Filipino people and my willingness to do everything I can to secure them prosperity peace and a gradual extension of self government. There has been a steady improvement in the Islands in many ways. The central government has been made more compact and less expensive; the school system has been enlarged and made more effective; the personnel of the constabulary has been improved and the abuses incident to its powers and the native tendency to [which] tyrannize over nations have been reduced and restrained; the administration of justice has been made more efficient, American judges have learned Spanish and become familiar with Spanish law and Filipino judges have learned English and the principles of American law necessarily accompanying our institutions; a system of internal taxation upon tobacco and liquor has been introduced of permanent value; the land tax has been suspended [and] though4. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. much remains to be done in the matter of a proper adjustment of that kind of a tax to the local and peculiar conditions, indeed a special commission might well be appointed to consider this matter; the health department although expensive has greatly aided the people and saved them from the awful destruction the result of [by] epidemics in Spanish times and is being improved each year; wagon roads are being constructed but no such progress as could be reasonably expected in a temperate climate can be insisted on these because of the absence of good road material and the very destructive character of tropic rains upon highways; great harbor works at Manila, Iloilo and Cebu are under construction and near completion. Many church questions remain to be settled[ment]. The adjustment of matters growing out of the purchase of the Friars' land moves slowly. Ladsonism is being stamped out. The latest surrender of Sakay, Montalon and others was most (overimportant — The forays of religious lunatics or fanatics, pulajanes so called, in Samar Leyte and Tarlac, have no such social significance as would the persistence of professional ladronism which I am glad to think is less than it ever has been. [and] Its disappearance relieves agriculture in the rich provinces of Cavite, Batangas, Laguna and Rizal of an incubus that has always burdened it since we have been there and indeed in Spanish times — The great difficulty we have had is in the necessary expense of a government aiming to educate the people to keep them healthy, to give them good roads and to protect them by proper police in all of which respects the Spaniards failed. The loss or changes of markets for the products of the Islands in Japan China and Spain especially in sugar and tobacco have made business poor and the destruction of the cattle by the rhinderpest has interfered with agriculture. At present business is poor - not so poor as represented because the exports do not fall off, but it is doubtless[*[7-30-06]*] 5. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. dull. The passages of the Philippine tariff bill allowing free trade in everything but sugar, tobacco and rice on which 25% would be charged would have a greater effect upon business by way of encouragement than by actual increase of sales effected. If we could secure a compromise at 30% without free trade, I am now inclined to think I would favor it for free trade would be certain to come in a few years and what we need now is encouragement. I am hopeful we may secure such a compromise or some other at the coming session — We have taken a great step in securing contracts by responsible companies to build and operate seven hundred and fifty more miles of railway The franchises granted are doubtless to be made the subject of attack. I have already sent you a letter explaining the reasons for granting the franchises as we did. I did not then explain to you some of the (overpersonal grounds of attack upon the franchises due to my responsibility for them - One is that Speyer & Co who have accepted a franchise to construct four hundred and twenty five miles of railroad in Luzon had employed Strong & Cadwallader a firm of lawyers of which my brother Henry is a member in important business matters prior to the time the question of the franchise arose and it is now charged that through my brother I was induced to give Speyer & Co an advantage over other competitors. As a matter of fact, long before the act was passed making such railways possible by guaranties, I notified Speyer & Co and my brother that their employment of Strong & Cadwallader in this matter would be most embarrassing to me and they accordingly employed John G Milborn and my brother had no relation or connection with the negotiation at all. Another most annoying incident, annoying because it was due to my disposition to talk with everyone available on the subject is the fact that without the slightest professional or business or official relation on his part, to the matter, Cromwell's name is dragged in and made[*[7-30-06]*] 6. WAR DEPARTMENT, [WASHINGTON.] the ground for the claim that some thing must have been wrong because he advised and consulted in respect of the form of invitation for bids and must have had some pecuniary or professional interest for clients in the matter. The substance for this charge is that Colonel Edwards, Captain McIntyre and I were engaged in drafting the invitation for bids and consulting the Philippine Commissioner by cable, at the same time (i.e. in April & May & June 1905) that Cromwell was frequently in my office and the bureau of insular affairs in respect to Panama matters and heard our discussions and took an interest. As he had had much experience in Northern Pacific R. R. matters I asked him to look over the invitation for bids and tell me whether any other clauses were needed to protect the interest of the Govt and whether in any way we could make better provision for securing competition against Speyer & Co. He did so and made some suggestions chiefly in respect to legal terms, [but] but nothing was done at his instance that substantially changed the invitation. He likes as you know to be consulted and was glad to give more attention than many others whom I also consulted. As a matter of fact, he had no professional (overin pecuniary interests in any bids and after the invitations were issued, he had not the slightest part in passing or the subsequent bids or in the [reletting of] second [re]invitation for bids or in the negotiations for the concessions which took place subsequent to the two lots of bids and which resulted in the present franchises. He represented neither successful or unsuccessful bidders or anyone else. It is only annoying and exasperating that I did not foresee that it would have been much better not to have talked with him in regard to the matter or to give the appearance of consulting him. We talked with everyone, prospective bidders especially, with a view to securing competition. But Cromwell's name is supposed to be grounds enough for a general assault. It is my fault and I admit it and must stand the consequences. Willard Reed Green the unsuccessful partners of Pat. Egan who could not even raise money enough to deposit the earnest money check is the gentleman who is now engaged in attacking the franchises on these grounds and if I understand his insinuations, he even attacks poor old Root who declined employment by Speyer & Co after he left the War Dept but who assisted me most efficiently loyally and grandly in the whole matter.[*[7-30-06]*] 7. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. The result is that I expect an investigation and an attack upon my honor and the administration for the doing of the thing that, on the whole, will work more good to the Filipino people than anything else I can be made responsible for in the [last] six years of struggle and fight we have been carrying on in their behalf. It is the necessity one is under, in carrying on such public business, [for] of securing witnesses and establishing evidence [that] in respect to each thing done that one is not a thief and has not a corrupt motive [that] which makes administrative work under conditions of partisan politics so irksome to me. But, of course, it is part of the burden one assumes and it is cowardly to run away from it when one is in it. [This is the consideration] I have given you these details in order that you may see the importance of my continuing through the next session of Congress as the responsible head of the War Dept. But even these matters could perhaps be shifted (overor I could testify before committees as a Justice of the Supreme Court; and I had almost made up my mind to avail myself of your kindness and generous confidence in offering to appoint me to succeed Brown, when I received letters from Ide, Leganda and others in the Philippines showing a most gloomy view of the business situation and a feeling on the part of those who had worked with me and stood by my efforts so long that my transfer to the Bench with the Philippine tariff bill where it is, would be most discouraging to them — I looked into my motives and saw that what I was about to do was the result of a desire to avoid controversies that were mine to fight and that it was my duty to my Filipino friends, if you would consent, to stay and fight them. [The only] I know that few, if any, even among my friends will credit me with anything but a desire, unconscious perhaps, to run for the Presidency and that I must face and bear this misconstruction of what I do — But I have confidence that you credit my reasons as I give them to you and will believe me when I say I would much prefer to go on the Supreme Bench for life than to run for the Presidency and that in twenty years of judicial service I could make myself more useful to the country than as President even if the impossible event of my election should come about. And now about the Brown vacancy will you let me say a few words? You are anxious to make an appointment that will strengthen the Bench and at the same time fill the public desire to have a worthy appointment made. You would like to appoint Moody[*[7-30-06]*] 8. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. [I have given you these details, words that you may see the importance of my continuing through the next session of Congress as the responsible head of the War Dept. But even these matters could perhaps be shifted and I had almost made up my mind to shift them by your generosity kindness and generous confidence to other shoulders and to go up into and atmosphere] and Moody would make an excellent Justice and ultimately would be confirmed but I fear it would rouse a good deal of discussion that might be avoided if an opportunity arose later in the administration as it is likely to. I am very fond of Moody. He is lovable and has such pleasing modesty and is withal so loyal and able. But I must give you my unbiassed judgment. He would be right on all the great questions and would doubtless develop greater strength of decision in the independent position on the Bench than he is credited with in an administrative position. His mind is Judicial and his thoughts seem clear and with great common sense. My own judgment is that in spite of all that can be truly said in favor of Moodyit would be wiser now to appoint Lurton. Lurton is beyond dispute the ablest circuit Judge on the bench. He was State Chancellor, Chief Justice of Tennessee and now has been for more than fourteen years circuit Judge and presiding Judge in the court of appeals. His circuit has embraced Michigan and Ohio as well as Kentucky and Tennessee and he has therefore northern and southern reputation. His appointment will be hailed by the country as an evidence of your non partisan desire to elevate and strengthen the Supreme Court. Lurton entered the Confederate army at fifteen, was one of John Morgan's men, and spent a year or more at Johnson's Island. He is a Democrat but the Republicans of Tennessee will welcome the appointment. The personal consideration I ought to mention — Brewer told you the appointment of Lurton would make my appointment from the same circuit impossible. I think this unfounded because Lurton's appointment will be taken as from the south. But however this may be, it ought not to prevent the appointment of the best man and one who has earned it. You will be sorry it rained this morning for it has inflicted this letter on you — But the letter has been in me for some weeks — It had to come out. I have made you a confessor — It is a burdensome function for you — Gratefully and sincerely yours Wm H Taft.[*Ackd 8-2-06*] Pt. a Pic P.Q. Canada July 30th 1906. WAR DEPARTMENT, [WASHINGTON.] My dear Mr. President, Governor Ide has written me to suggest that when Smith goes to the Islands, he take control as acting Governor General only, giving Ide a leave of absence for six months and then that at the end of this time, Smith's inauguration as Governor General take place. He points out that such a leave was enjoyed by Wright and that it would be in the interest of economy, rather than to pay two salaries as Governor General because Ide is entitled to a leave and to a commutation of his leave if he retires before his leave expires. [The only economy that I can see is that] My own judgment is against the proposition. We have alreadyeconomized to the extent of not filling the vacancy in the Commission made by the retirement of Wright for about six months at the rate of $15000 a year and I do not see why the Commission may not properly commute Ide's leave after his resignation takes effect by continuing to pay his salary during the period for which he would have been allowed leave. It is better, it seems to me, to have Smith inaugurated and made Governor General de jure & de facto with all of the title than to continue the temporary arrangement. [More than that, we shall need Magoon's presence in the Islands promptly for there is much work to be done and the Commission has been already been crippled by absence of its members [?] resigned and his resignation took effect in September then would be no vacancy to which Magoon could be appointed.] If you approve, therefore, I shall advise Ide that I can not concur in this suggestion but that his rights can be protected as above outlined — The only economy which Ide's suggestion would effect would be the saving for six months of the difference between a Governor General's salary of $20000 and that of a commissioner at $15000 or $2500 — By the vacancy not filled, we have saved $7500 as it is. Sincerely yours Wm H Taft.[*ppF*] [*Ackd 8-1-06*] R. B. WILLIAMS, JR. C.E. - PRES. & TREAS. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. R. F. PROCTOR, C.E.-SECY. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. CLYDE POTTS, C. E.-VICE PREST. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E. DESIGNS CONSTRUCTION SUPERINTENDENCE SEWERS, WATER WORKS AND GENERAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. WILLIAMS, PROCTOR & POTTS INCORPORATED. ENGINEERS. 17 BATTERY PLACE, TELEPHONE 4139 RECTOR. CABLE ADDRESS. "WILWHIMAN, NEW YORK." WESTERN UNION CODE USED. NEW YORK CITY. July 30, 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. President: In response to your favor of the 27th inst. relative to Mr. Hutchinson's bill returned to us, we feel that further explanation on our part will clear the matter up. Our contract called for the installation of a pumping plant at Sagamore Hill and all necessary piping connected thereto to operate the plant. Upon completion of our work trouble was experienced with the hot and cold water. We left instructions with Mr. Seaman and Mr. Hutchison that should any trouble arise in connection with the operation of the plant which we had installed, that Mr. Seaman was to call upon Mr. Hutchison or us to rectify the trouble immediately, and at our expense. At the time of the trouble above mentioned, Mr. Seaman, of course, did not know whether the trouble was caused by our installation or not, but very naturally thought it was. As a result, Mr. Hutchinson, the plumber, was sent to Sagamore Hill to investigate and rectify the trouble. His investigations showed that the hot water boiler needed cleaning due to an accumulation in the bottom. This, of course, had nothing to do with our contract, or was the necessity of cleaning it caused by any work that we had done; therefore, we did not feel that the plumber's chargeWILLIAMS, PROCTOR & POTTS INC. TO PAGE 2 DATE July 30, 1906. for the work done on the boiler should be borne by us. Further, Mr. Seaman sated to the writer in person that the trouble was not our fault and that the bill should be submitted to you. Trusting that this will explain satisfactorily our position, and regretting to trouble you further, we are, Respectfully yours, WILLIAMS, PROCTOR, & POTTS, Inc. By R.F. Proctor Secretary RFP/SCortina d'Ampezzo Austrian Alps AMERICAN EMBASSY, ROME [*Private*] [*Ackd 8-14-06*] July 30, 1906 Dear Mr. President I am on my way back to Italy after a brief visit to England where I had many interesting talks with political friends of both parties and the King also asked me to come & see him which of course I did. They all sounded your praises with various degrees of enthusiasm (I am not sure that I did not detect a slight indication of a feeling on the part of His Majesty that you are superseding him asthe great diplomatist and particularly as the great Peacemaker of the world) but as Reid doubtless keeps you posted as to all that is going on there and I do not wish to take advantage of my intimate relations with British statesmen to poach upon his preserves I shall not take up your time with detailed accounts of all that [they] was said to me. With Haldane however the Secretary of War and the ablest man in the cabinet with the possible exception of Edward Grey. I had a conversation, the substance of which I think it desirable to send you. After alluding to the Algeciras Conference and to the beneficent influence you had exercised there as well as to the very able manner in which you utilize, for the promotion of peace, [the] our great position in the world (which latter you have been so largely instrumental in creating he said: ' But there is a greater service still to humanity than making peace between Russia & Japan or settling the questions at issue at Algeciras which your President - and he alonecan render and that is the limitation or better still the restriction of armaments." He then went on to explain that our position as a great power is such - and your personal influence is so great that a proposal to the above effect coming from you would not only be sure to command attention and attain success but that it would also be free from any suspicion as to sinister designs which would undoubtedly be aroused if the proposal emanated from any European great Power. He added that in[*[7-30-06]*] American Embassy, Rome. 2/ his opinion the German Emperor is the kernel of the whole question and, as you are known to have one him a considerable and beneficent influence, if you could persuade him to consent to stop any future increase of German Military & Naval Expenditure the British Government would be prepared to meet more than half way any such proposal and would cooperate still more cordially in an [general] international arrangement tending to a general reduction of armaments. Haldane seemedto think that such a proposal might be made either by our representatives at the Hague Conference next year, the German Emperor's consent having been if possible previously obtained or before the meeting of the conference by us or by some other Power. He did not suggest England as a proposer and I rather gathered that he thought another Power - particularly ourselves - would be more desirable but he clearly thinks you are the only ruler who can bring the thing about satisfactorily. Not knowing your views as to the practicability of such an arrangement I was careful not to commit you in any way but merely expressed interest in what he had said and I added that I should take an early opportunity of making you acquainted informally with his views. When I saw Edward Grey he also hinted at the general subject but I thought it best to leave any discussion thereof on his part to be conducted with Reid. He said nothing about your being the one to obtain such an agreement but merely how desirable the latter would be if obtainable.There is no doubt that the subject is "in the air". Some little time ago I wrote the Secretary of State of a talk I had had with Tilton who [the subject] seemed to think the project not unfeasible, particularly as to the Navies of the world though admitting that it would be more difficult to secure its being loyally carried out as regards the great armies of the continent, the details of which it would be [best] easy to control than those of ship-building. You will also have observed that it has been discussed at the recent Parliamentary Conference in London. I may add that my talk with3/ (7-30-06) AMERICAN EMBASSY, ROME. Haldane was quite confidential and I did not mention it to Reid thinking best to transmit its substance first to you. Haldane said that there is no doubt that France would [be] cordially welcome any such arrangement and he seemed to think most of the other powers would too; but the French budget is evidently very heavily strained now by the cost of keeping up their armaments. Next week or the week after I am going to spend five or six days with the King ofItaly ibex shooting in the high Piedmontese alps. He is a very sensible man and doubtless has views also on the limitation or reduction of armaments which I shall endeavor to extract from him without in any way committing myself on the subject and transmit them to you. We have taken a chamois shooting near here for Jack who goes out every other day at 3 a.m. and stays away till 8 or 9 p.m. and has so far killed two. They seem to be fairly numerous but difficult to get at at this season when they are very high up the mountain tops. I am shortly going to hike up my abode across the frontier in Italy during August being desirous of keeping the rest of my leave for a visit homeward this fall. By the bye I see that you are to be away at Panama and also shooting in the west and as my visit will be chiefly to see you I should be glad to know at what dates you will be away from Washington so as to time my visit accordingly. The Reids are very happy inEngland and dispense a princely hospitality at two beautiful houses in town and country to both of which they were kind enough to ask me. Yesterday I met Francis my colleague in this country who was travelling through this beautiful district with his family and stopped here to breakfast. He also seems very happy but has yet had time to take root, as the Reids have in London. If you have time I shall be glad to know your views about the limitation or reduction of armaments. I rejoice to hear of Root's great success in Brazil. His visit will do immense good in S. America. Yours most Sincerely Henry White[*ackd & Enc retd 8/4/06*] W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C. Albuquerque, N. M. July 31st, 1906 Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York, My dear Mr. Loeb:- I inclose you a letter which I have just received from Prescott, Arizona. He is a Democrat It is a long winded letter, but if you will read it through you will notice what he says about being for the President. We are sending out lots of stuff into Arizona, got a list of several hundred names and have quite a lot of clerks in Santa Fe under Max Frost, who is sending out the stuff daily, says he is reaching about 1000 people a day, i.e. statehood bills, campaign documents, etc. Your friend, W. H. Andrews Delegate from New Mexico[*F*] T/R DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON. July 31, 1906. William Loeb, jr., Esquire, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. Sir: I enclose herewith copy of a despatch from the American Ambassador at London on the subject of the Federation of Grocers Associations of the United Kingdom and transmitting letters from the Secretary of the Association to Mr. Reid; also copy of a telegram to the President, asking for re-assurance as to the purity of American canned meats, together with his reply, and a Resolution passed by the Conference of thanks to the President. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Robert Bacon Acting Secratary. Enclosures From Great Britain, N. 225, July 13, 1906.[*[For 6 encs see 7-2-06 7-3-06 7-3-06 7-7-06 7-9-06 7-10-06]*]F Department of State. Washington. July 31, 1906 My Dear Mr. Loeb: I have your letter of the 27th, enclosing letters of Mr. Schiff and Doctor Adler. Upon carefully reading them I find that from Mr. Schiff's reply to the Alliance in Paris he seems to understand that the President has done as much as he possibly can. Doctor Adler's letter refers only to the massacre which was suppose to be planned July 28th, which happily has passed without trouble. I will cable the Ambassador, however, to keep us fully posted, and to cable us if he sees theslightest opportunity of any such action as is suggested. Sincerely yours, Robert Bacon The Honorable William Loeb jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y.[*PF*] [*Ackd 8-3-06*] July 31st 1906 My dear Mr. President, The one thing I can do about the J. Van V. verses is to try to write as usefully & frankly through you to the fact as I would daresay to lovely Lorraine lately (I suppose you saw her form in the August Century.) As it stands, "I wenton the Marsh" is somewhat baffling Exteriorly it is evidently "Amateurish", not [competent?] & old-fashioned with its Apollo & "Neptune's vast domain", and "flowing locks" & "pink touches"- but also there is observation in it- and one really imaginative line- "That the golden clouds of dreamland". It would have been better if the past had, instead of jumping at once into the classic,- begins with some homely thought- & he- I caption- bringing out the idea here on this new world. I hear trolleys not far off, & the rest,- the gods still move about- etc. etc. than go on with the description- making it somehow, still closer to fact- but without such a prosaic phrase as "pink touches"- & others. I'll keep on criticizing V. V. if I can be of any use- either this again, or anything she [?] - or her![*Boat sponge*] I'm glad George has had this mighty rough experience. He will know now how working men are sometimes treated as to food, etc., besides getting an idea of physical exertions outside of sport. He is now having a great time. — He is in fact not unlike a certain other friend of mine who has such zest that he is always having the time of his life. Faithfully [*[Gilder]*] R. W. Gilder[*[7-31-06]*] P.S. White was, especially when younger, such a great friend of ours - he was such a marvellous, lightning-like Genius that you can imagine how deeply I have been stirred lately - as you and others, too, must have been. He was not the monster they have tried to make out - but he wasamong those artists who mistake pleasure for happiness. I know men in New York who proclaim vice as a principle. When I think what a glorious time such boys as yours and mine have- without soiling their souls, & dishonoring their families, & injuring those they come in contact with, I feel the depth of the tragic mistake.- I have just had up here an artist of genius,- Blumenschein,- married to a fine girl (also an artist) & it is a delight to find him sound in these matters - He lives in Paris, an example to some of hismarried companions. That chap will go far - he did our Western articles - has some strong work in this number of McClure. —I feel very strongly about these things -for I know so many of these men - & I thank Heaven that the most conspicuous man in our country is a living example of [what] the true enjoyment of this life.COPY. Navy Department, Washington, D. C. July 31, 1906. Sir:- The department has to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of Mr. A. H. Williams of July 20, 1906, requesting, in behalf of the Shipkeepers at the Yard under your command, a ruling as to whether or not four hours shall constitute a days work for Shipkeepers on Saturdays during July, August and September, in view of the provisions of Navy Yard order #633. In reply, you are advised that employees who, by reason of their nature of their duties, are regularly required to work on Sundays and Holidays, are not effected by the provisions of Navy Yard order #633. Very respectfully, Truman H. Newberry, Acting Secretary. Commandant, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal. First Endorsement. Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal. August 6, 1906. Respectfully referred to the Naval Constructor for the information of Mr. Williams and the Shipkeepers employed at this Navy Yard. H. W. Lyon, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. --- Commandant Navy Yard and Station.[*Enc. in Williams 8-20-06*][*Ackd 8/1/06*] State of New York, Senate Chamber, Albany,. Finance Committee. Geo. R. Malby, Chairman. 32nd Dist. Ogdensburg, N. Y. July 31st, 1906. Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear William:- At the close of the last Legislature I had completed my sixteenth year of continuous service, five years in the Assembly and eleven years in the Senate. I came to the conclusion that I had served my state long enough, [at] [least] if not faithfully and well. Our Congressional Convention is to be held on August seventh and I believe I will be tendered the nomination, [and] if so, I will accept. I propose to take a small part in govermental affairs. It will be a good experience at least, and I hope to enjoy it. I desire through you to congratulate President Roosevelt on the stand which he has taken with reference to many important matters of legislation during the past session, and in particular with reference to his Rate Bill, Agricultural Bill and State Hood Bill. They were all in the highest and best interest of the people and it required just such a courageous and determined man as he is, to carry them out successfully. His management of our Foreign Affairs has been simply superb and meets I know with the unanimous approval of all the people in these parts. I think that I can promise him in advance, my most hearty support, should the future, as I expect it will be, in line with the past. Mrs. Malby and the boys are in the best of good health, and she joins with me in sending best of good wishes to yourself and family. With kindest regards, I am Very sincerely your friend, Geo. R. MalbyThe Pennsylvania Railroad Company Office of the President, Philadelphia, July 31st, 1906. General Office, Broad Street Station. My dear Mr. Loeb: Your favor of the 26th instant was duly received, but I have delayed replying until I could have an opportunity to confer fully with our people on the subject. I find that the bill for the President's special train between Washington and Oyster Bay, July 1st, which is returned herewith, was made up on the regular basis that is charged for the handling of all special passenger trains over our lines. For your information, I may say that the rate for this special train service is $3.00 per mile for distances less than 100 miles, and $2.00 per mile for distances greater than 100 miles. While the Pullman bill is not analyzed in detail, I find that the charge is made up as follows: Private car "Columbia", one day's service, $ 75.00 12-section drawing-room sleeping car "Cynwyd", 55.00 Commissary supplies, based on actual cost plus 20% to cover service, 20.29 Total, $150.29 The explanation of the Pullman charge is as follows: Where private cars are chartered for a one-day run, the rate is $75.00; where chartered for two days or more the rate is $50.00 per day; where chartered for 30 days or more, the rate is $45.00 per day. For special sleeping cars the charter rate is $45.00 per day, with a minimum of three days, unless the full capacity of the car at regular berth rates is less, when the latter rate is charged, as was done in this case for car "Cynwyd". For more than thirty days the rate is $40.00 per day. I believe that you will find that the rate of $2.00 per mile is the customary rate charged by railroads generally for handling a special train of this character. Trusting that I have given you full information on the points desired, and with my best wishes to you for a pleasant summer, I remain, Yours very truly, W A Patton Assistant to the President. Mr. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L.I.P. 7 American Embassy, London 31st July 1906. Dear Mr. President: Since writing you the other day about what the Foreign Office here said concerning reduction of armaments and the Hague Conference, I have had a letter from Sir Edward Grey, acknowledging my note which communicated to him the substance of Mr. Root's statement on the subject to the Russian Ambassador. Sir Edward says: I am much pleased at the information. If when the time comes, the United States proposes the reduction or limitation of armaments as a subject for consideration. I am sure that our delegates will be instructed cordially to support the proposal. And the initiative of the United States in this matter would be very welcome to us. I shall send a separate letter to the State Department, advising them of what Sir Edward Grey says;--inasmuch as I have already written to the Department concerning his information as to their purposes and his desire for a comparison of notes after both Governments have fully studied the situation. Of course my suggesting to you the sending of that dispatch to the Grocers' Federation was more or less irregular. It was not for the Ambassador, but for the Consul-General to be looking after business, and probably neither of us ought to have dragged the President of the United States into the matter. At the same time, i felt sure that just then such a dispatch as you sent would have a most excellent effect, and I hope you have seen no occasion to regret sending it. 2. But when the grocers wanted to use you still farther, obviously for advertising purposes and to work off their old stock, I drew the line. Two or three efforts in this direction have been made upon me. One of them was a rather curious scheme by a gentleman who gave his card as Mr. J. Proctor Humphris, Managing Director, Dixon & Hunting and the Farringdon Press Ltd., 180 Fleet Street, London, E.C. This gentleman had a fine proposal to retrieve the damage done to the foreign trade in American meats by sending over twenty London correspondents, representing the leading Metropolitan and provincial papers, to report on present packing house conditions in dispatches and letters to their respective journals. He said he thought he could manage it for £5,000! He evidently had the fancy that the Government was so keen about the matter that it would be ready to retain him at that price! When I suggested, however, that the Government was not seeking trade in that way he admitted that he supposed it would more properly be the business of the Armours, Sifts, etc. I declined to have anything whatever to do with it, and did not encourage him. Then came another effort from the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom. They wanted me to get from you another dispatch, setting forth that the trouble had been chiefly with meat used at home, and that the goods sent to foreign markets had always been carefully inspected. Their reason was that they had on hand half a million dollars worth of American tinned meats, which they believed to be good, but which were made dead stock on their hands by the late agitation. I refused absolutely to put them in communication with you, told them they ought not to dream of the President's doing any more than he had already done, and that there was no reason why they should address him directly on such a subject3. when they would not think of addressing directly the King of any European country in the same way. Then they wanted advice. My first suggestion was that they should go to the Consul-General, to whom all such business matters belonged. I couldn't get rid of them on that basis; and so I finally suggested that their proper course, if they wanted to communicate in any way with the Government, was to address a statement of their situation to Mr. Metcalf, since either he or Mr. Wilson would be the only one who could properly take cognizance of it, and either could, if he thought proper, bring the matter to your attention. With this they left me; but they have since advised me that they have both cabled and written to Secretary Metcalf, asking him to get from you some intimation that the inspection of canned exported meat has been satisfactory. I promised them that if they addressed Secretary Metcalf on the subject, I would let you know of their appeal and the reasons for it; but I did not understand that they clung still to the idea of getting an advertisement on the subject by dragging you personally into the matter. I don't know how much you could properly say as to the satisfactory nature of the previous inspection of exported meats; but I personally hope you won't say anything. It might be construed here as an undignified touting for trade. The Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of Agriculture could properly give the Grocers' Federation whatever statement on that subject the facts may warrant. That ought to be sufficient for them, and probably would help them greatly. Once or twice before I have written on this general subject to the State Department, resenting the disposition here to go straight at you about things concerning which they would never dream of approaching the head of any other State, unless through his Ministers. Every man Jack of them is keen to get the advertisement of your name. 4. Still the Federation of Grocers' Associations is a highly respectable organization; the situation in which they are placed with their enormous stock of canned goods is unfortunate; and if the goods have been properly inspected, I hope it may be possible for Secretary Metcalf or Secretary Wilson to say so, [*even that however might be too much advertising. Lord Curzon writes me a grateful letter for your wreath. Believe me Sincerely yours, Whitelaw Reid.*][*Copy made by Scribners Aug 17*] [*Ackd 8-14-06*] Leipzig , the 31st of July, 1906. Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I am glad to learn from our ambassador Baron Sternburg that you are so good as to permit me that I should dedicate to you the 4000th volume of my Continental Series which will be 'A Manual of American Literature' ___________ To His Excellency the President Theodore Rooseveltedited by Mr. Theodore Stanton, in collaboration with the Professors of the literary department of the Cornell University. This volume will appear about the end of the year 1907 when I shall have the honour of forwarding to you the first copy which will be ready. I need hardly mention that I am delighted and proud to be able to dedicate this volume which is especially devoted to the literary America, to the famous President of the U. S. I am also very happy that you consent to my including some of your works in my Series, and I should be glad, according to your wishes, to begin with "Outdoor Pastimes." I find that this book will fill one of my small volumes and, as to terms, I beg to propose Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, ( or £50 sterling) which sum has proved, according to my experience, a fair payment in the instances of one volumebooks by very popular authors and which, therefore, I trust will meet your views. I may perhaps. on this occasion, mention that my edition is published for sale on the Continent of Europe, i.e. our market is in countries in which English is not the native language. Our sale is, therefore, naturally rather limited and not to be compared with that in the U S. and England. I enclose a few pages from our Catalogue giving some particulars about our series which may perhaps interest you. I should be much obliged to you for a reply, at your convenience, that I may send you my cheque and the usual agreement about 'Outdoor Pastimes.' With Kindest regards I have the honour to be Yours faithfully - Tauchnitz.[*F*] FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SERENO E. PAYNE, CHAIRMAN. JOHN DALZELL, CHARLES H. GROSVENOR, JAMES T. McCLEARY, SAMUEL W. McCALL, JOSEPH W. BABCOCK, EBENEZER J. HILL, HENRY S. BOUTELL, JAMES E. WATSON, CHARLES CURTIS, JAMES C. NEEDHAM, WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, SAMUEL M. ROBERTSON, CHAMP CLARK, WM. BOURKE COCKRAN, OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, DANIEL L. D. GRANGER WILLIAM K. PAYNE, CLERK. COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, D.C., Rushville, Ind. July 31, 1906. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, n. Y. Dear Mr. President:- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of recent date answering my suggestions with regard to a letter on campaign topics. This Speaker came from New York to my house and I showed him your answer to my communication. He was very much pleased with it and thought that it was the best suggestion that had been made up to this time, and that it would be of immense benefit to our party. he suggested that I should come east at once and confer with you and with Mr. Sherman together, but my engagements will not permit. I am to speak at several congressional Conventions, including one in the old Dayton district in West Virginia tomorrow, and it will not be possible for me to see you personally. However, the Speaker said that he would write you and also Mr. Sherman and express his approval of t his plan and would also suggest that, owing to conditions in Indiana, it would be eminently proper for you to address your communication to me. I would suggest that your letter cover the work of the last Congress and also your views on the issues involved in the present political controversy. If you will pardon me, I think that you ought to be characteristically vigorous in expressing your anxiety with regard to the result this fall so far as the Republican House isFIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SERENO E. PAYNE, CHAIRMAN. JOHN DALZELL, CHARLES H. GROSVENOR, JAMES T. McCLEARY, SAMUEL W. McCALL, JOSEPH W. BABCOCK, EBENEZER J. HILL, HENRY S. BOUTELL, JAMES E. WATSON, CHARLES CURTIS, JAMES C. NEEDHAM, WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, SAMUEL M. ROBERTSON, CHAMP CLARK, WM. BOURKE COCKRAN, OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, DANIEL L. D. GRANGER WILLIAM K. PAYNE, CLERK. COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, D.C., concerned. I think I know when I say that this letter will be of incalculable benefit and forever set at rest the idea that there is now or has been any vital differences between the President and Congress. Democratic papers are howling this thing persistently and have gotten quite a large number of our people to believe it. Your letter will end all that and will show to the people the vital necessity of electing a Republican House this fall if your great reform measures are to be carried into execution and strengthened wherever weak. In other words, the result this fall is a vote of confidence in you and your administration and the people ought to be made to know that you feel that way about it. I have written Mr. Sherman touching this matter and I will let you know when I hear from him. With kind personal regards, I am, Sincerely yours, James E. WatsonAmerican Institute of Social Service 287 Fourth Ave., New Yok City, July 31st, 1906. [*Ackd 8/2/06 encl recd*] To The Hon. William Loeb jnr., Secretar to the President, Oyster Bay, Dear Sir, Enclosed you will find the letter from the German Imperial Embassy in Washington. It was a response to the request I had made for arranging if possible, an interview with the President of the United States of America. I see that it cannot be for the present. Commissioner General Sargent, however, urged me to approach President Roosevelt through you by a written statement as soon as possible. I have come with a message from Germany. The German National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic invites the United States to organize a U.S. National Committee and join, as such, the International Congress for the Suppression of the White SlaveTraffic for more effective work through international co-operation. A number of Purity Societies and similar organizations in the United States have expressed their full satisfaction with the plan and are looking forward to its speedy development. A most favorable circumstance is the fact that a "National Purity Conference" will be held, D.V., in Chicago Oct 9-11, 1906. It is possible that the National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic will be chosen there from the number of the societies present, while others may join it later. It seems only natural that the Governmental work of the Bureau of Immigration, until now the most important of all that is being done in this country for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic should take its proper place in this cause and be, in some way, represented on a U.S. National Committee or definitely connected with it. This probably explains and excuses my importunity in this matter which affects the condition of manhood and womanhood throughout our globe. Thanking you in advance for kindly returning my credentials and the letter from Washington, and looking forward for a message concerning the statement herewith included, I am Yours respectfully Maria Lydia Winkler [*see also Grace H. Dodge, Aug. 3 1906 Reynolds, James B. 7/23/06*][*[For attachment see 7-31-06]*][*[7-31-06]*] ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION Appointments made by the Washington Office for service on the Isthmus of Panama, from January 1st to July 31st, 1906, and the mode of selection. Recruiting Civil Personal Position Agents Services Special Application Total ======= ========= ========= ========== =========== ====== Assistant Auditor 1 1 Assistant Chief Fire Dept. 1 1 Assistant Engineer 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Quarantine Officer 1 1 Blacksmith 37 2 39 Blacksmith's Helper 9 1 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boilermaker 60 2 62 Brass Lathe Man 3 3 Bricklayer 11 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Captain of Barge 1 1 Car Inspector & Repairer 19 19 Carpenter 455 1 1 457 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chief Draftsman 1 1 Chief of Medical Clinic 1 1 Clerk 88 1 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coach Cabinet Maker 1 1 Conductor 36 6 42 Cook 3 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper & Tinsmith 13 13 Dietist 1 1 Draftsman 1 7 2 4 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drill Runner 56 56 Fireman 2 2 First Class Private 55 55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreman 20 8 1 29 General Foreman 1 1 2 Geologist 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hydrographer 1 1 Iron Worker 7 7 Inspector 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interne 13 5 1 19 Laboratory Assistant 1 1 Landscape Gardener 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Levelman 1 1 3 5 Locomotive Engineer 68 4 72 Loco. Painter & Varnisher 1 1-2- Recruiting Civil Personal Position Agents Service Special Application Total Lumber Foreman 1 1 Machinist 238 16 3 257 Marine Engineer 1 1 Master Car Builder 1 1 Molder 48 9 57 Municipal Sec'y & Treasurer 1 1 Nurse 24 10 10 44 Painter 27 27 Patternmaker 20 1 21 Pipefitter 10 1 11 Pit Foreman 1 1 Planing Mill Mach. Hand 8 1 9 Plasterer 19 19 Plumber 75 1 76 Postal Clerk 13 2 15 Powderman 2 2 Rodman 19 10 2 31 Sanitary Foreman 1 1 Sanitary Inspector 4 4 School Teacher 3 3 Special Agent 1 1 Steam & Air Drill Workman 1 1 Steam Engineer 5 5 Steam Shovel Craneman 25 2 1 28 Steam Shovel Engineer 23 3 26 Steam Shovel Fireman 4 1 1 6 Stenographer 3 34 11 20 68 Steward 2 2 Storekeeper 1 1 Superintendent of Laundry 1 1 Supt. of Transportation 1 1 Supervisor 1 1 Supervisor of Air Compressors 1 1 Telegraph Operator 13 13 Telephone Operator 1 1 Third Lieutenant of Police 1 1 Time Inspector 1 1 7 9 Timekeeper 31 7 1 39 Tinsmith 3 3 Tool Room Man 1 1 Track Foreman 36 3 1 40 Trainman 57 2 59 Transitman 1 2 3 Wireman 6 6 TOTAL 1471 181 210 61 1923 NOTE:— Those marked special are persons whose appointments were specially requested by officials on the Isthmus. During the year 1905 about 25% of persons appointed failed to sail; the per cent is thought to be somewhat smaller this year.[*[Enc in Shonts 8-23-06]*][*attached to Winkler 7-31-06*] [*Winkler*] NATIONAL PURITY CONFERENCE Chicago, October, 9-11, 1906 This is the most important gathering of purity workers ever held in this country. A program of the highest merit will be provided which will include our most eminent speakers. You are invited to attend and participate in this Conference and we urge you to extend the same invitation to all who are interested and to aid us in making the Conference widely known. Churches, reform societies and all organizations promoting Purity are requested to send delegates. For further information pertaining to railroad rates, speakers, local arrangements and other details, address National Purity Federation B. S. Steadwell, Pres. La Crosse - - - Wisconsin [*Int*] [*[CA, July 1906]*] July 26, 1906, the Acting Secretary of the Interior directed this office as follows: In accordance with the wishes and instructions of the President, I have to direct that you immediately suspend and withdraw from entry, filing or selection under the public land laws all of the public lands in the townships described in the list inclosed herewith until further orders from the Department. Said list of townships are those on which the Director of the Geological Survey has advised the Department "workable coal is know to occur." I also inclose for your information and for the files of your office copies of certain correspondence in relation to this matter. Very respectfully, Thomas Ryan, Acting Secretary. By office telegram of July 27th to the several land offices there was furnished a description of the lands withdrawn and they were directed to note the same upon their records. August 9, 1906, the Acting Secretary directed that the local officers, Are not to accept any coal cash entries based on coal declaratory statements made of record prior to date of telegraphic order of July 27, 1906.[*[9-15-06]*] XVe Ccongrès Universel de la Paix MILAN, 15-22 Septembre 1906 COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION Portici Settentrionali, 21- MILAN Siège de la Société Internationale pour la Paix — Unione Lombarda — Milan, Juillet 1906. Monsieur, Cette année se reunira à Milan, du 15 au 22 Septembre prochain, le XVe Congrès Universel de la Paix. Ce sera un nouvel anneau qui viendra se souder à la longue chaîne de nos Congrès. Ce sera une nouvelle démonstration des progrès réalisés par notre brillant idéal après les Congrès de Paris (1889), de Londres (1890), de Rome (1891), jusqu'à celui de Lucerne, qui a été le dernier, venant après les Congrès de Berne, Chicago, Anvers, Budapest, Hambourg, Paris, Glasgow, Monaco, Rouen et Boston. Nous ne connaissons pas de période, dans l'histoire de notre temps, qui soit mieux préparée que la période actuelle aux oeuvres fécondes de la Paix. Après la fin de la guerre russo-japonaise, dont les horribles souvenirs nous font encore frémir, après la conférence d'Algésiras, où la solidarité internationale et le désir de la Paix ont empêché à l'ancienne rivalité franco-allemande de brusquer les choses, le vieux continent est complètement rentré dans l'ordre. La Paix est bien assurée encore au delà de l'Océan Atlantique. Les jeunes républiques du Sud, de même que les États-Unis, s'apprêtent à envoyer leurs représentants à la troisième conférence Pan-Américaine, petit commencement de la grande union sociale et morale de l'Amérique, de la plus grande Amérique de demain. Voilà où nous en sommes, voilà les premiers heureux symptômes de cette trêve entre les nations que nous avons signalée plus haut et que nous souhaitons durable pour le progrès de tous les peuples. La Triplice d'un côté et l'Alliance franco-russe de l'autre ne revêtent plus aujourd'hui leur ancien caractère belliqueux. Aussi bien le premier que le deuxième de ces deux groupes d'alliance laissent pleine faculté à chacune des nations qui en fait partie de se rapprocher à toute autre nation dans un but de sincère amitié. Le commerce en profite et l'accroissement des échanges fait ressortir avec plus de force la nécessité de la solidarité internationale, dont les bienfaits commencent à être appréciés même par les classes les plus pauvres de la population, débarrassées, au fur et à mesure que progresse l'instruction, de tous les anciens préjugés. En cette heureuse période de la vie internationale nous voyons mûrir des promesses solennelles et des oeuvres d'une portée immense. Dans l'attente de la deuxième Conference de la Haye le Gouvernement anglais lance hardiment à la face de la diplomatie européenne sa proposition pour la réduction simultanée et progressive des armements. Le Gouvernement italien, par la voix de son ministre des affaires étrangères, s'associe de tout coeur à la proposition anglaise. Même l'Empereur d'Allemagne reconnaissait ouvertement, il n'y a pas longtemps, le grand besoin de la paix pour l'Europe. Ceci doit nous remplir d'espoir. C'est la preuve évidente qu'on est en train de renoncer, sous la pression de l'opinion publique, aux anciens errements. Les gouvernements qui, dans le passée, étaient parfois hostiles et plus souvent indifférents envers le mouvement pacifiste, aujourd'hui l'envisagent bien autrement. Ils s'intéressent à son développement, ils cherchent même à réaliser certaines de ses aspirations les plus pressantes. FRANCESCO MARCELLI-MILANO[*[ENC. IN. DUNNING TO LOEB 8-29-06]*] [*SEP 14 INDEX BUREAU 969 1906 DEPT.OF STATE*] Aidons donc à notre tour les gouvernements, soutenons-les de notre mieux en ce moment décisif ! Soyons unis, nous les hommes de la Paix du monde entier, en nous don-nant tous rendez-vous au Congrès de Milan ! Cette nouvelle réunion doit réussir imposante, elle doit être la manifestation de la conscience universelle, qui aspire à la paix durable ! L'Italie, cette jeune nation qui a conquis son indépendance au prix d'énormes sacrfices, n'a qu'une ambition : c'est d'aider les peuples du monde entier à s'unir dans la paix et dans la justice. La ville de Milan s'associe de toutes ses forces à ce rendez-vous humanitaire. Milan, où a été proclamé, au commencement du Moyen Age, l'edicte de la Paix religieuse, où s'est affirmé en toute sa rigueur le principe de la liberté des Communes, et où pendant la révo-lution de 1848 sont écloses les plus hautes aspirations de fraternité européenne et mondiale, invite tous les apôtres de la Paix à ce Congrès, au milieu de la grande Exposition, du Simplon, par laquelle on fête le triomphe du travail sur les forces hostiles de la nature. Acceptez donc son invitation, hommes généreux de chaque pays et trouvez vous dans ses murs pour y sceller, avec le XVe Congrès Universel de la Paix, l'union de l'humanité dans l'idéal le plus grand de civilisation et de progrès ! COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION. E. T . MONETA, Président. GUGLIELMO FERRERO - Comte Avv. UMBERTO OTTOLENGHI, Vice-présidents. Avv. ANTONIO BASLINI, Trésorier. Dott. ALESSANDRO TASSONI ESTENSE, Secrétaire. Le Congrès aura lieu sous le patronage d'un Comité d'Honneur, présidé par S. E. Tommaso Tittoni, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, et par le Sénateur Marquis Ettore Ponti, Maire de Milan. La première séance du Congrès aura lieu le Samedi 15 Septembre, à neuf heures dans la grande salle de la Villa Reale au Jardin Public. Un discours d'ouverture sera prononcé par M. le marquis Ettore Ponti, sénateur et maire de Milan. Pendant le Congrès, il y aura des fêtes et réceptions, un Garden Party à la Villa Reale et un banquet sera offert par la Municipalité de Milan. Messieurs les Congressistes, pendant leur séjour à Milan, auront libre entrée aux Musées de la Ville. Une médaille souvenir sera donnée aux délégués des Sociétés pacifistes. L'Administration des Chemins de fer de l'État a accordé les réductions suivantes sur les prix ordinaires des billets : a) pour le voyage d'allée à Milan et pour le retour 60 %.; b) pour les voyages en Italie, réductions du 40 % au 60 % selon les parcours. Une commission spéciale sera chargée de fixer les logements pour les congressistes, qui en feront demande. La contribution de chaque Société pour les frais du Congrès est de 10 francs pour la pre-mière voix déléguée, plus 5 francs pour chacune des autres voix. Les adhérents, membre des So-ciétés de paix, paient 5 francs. Cette contribution doit être envoyée au Trésorier du Congrès de la Paix, avocat A. Baslini, à l'adresse du Comité d'organisation, 21, Portici Settentrionali. Dans le but de faciliter le travail d'organisation et en vue du nombre très élevé des visiteurs de l'Exposition de Milan à cette époque, il faut que les Congressistes envoient leur adhésion avec la plus grande sollicitude.[*[CA 7-1906]*]It is generally believed that the Territorial Auditor will be one of the first men to "walk the-plank" after the arrival of Governor Curry. And, further, there is said to be a strong probability that City Clerk Fred J. Beck of Roswell will be appointed as his successor. Beck is an old time friend of Captain Curry, a dyed in the wool Democrat, and once served as a deputy under Curry in a county office. His competency and integrity are unquestioned and his appointment would have the general approval of Roswell people.[*[Enclosed in Andrews 6-9-07]*][*[Ackd]*] AMERICAN LEGATION, BOGOTA. August 1, 1906. My dear Mr. Loeb: Enclosed you will please find an informal letter addressed to the President in regard to the important negotiations now pending between Colombia, the United States, and Panama, for new treaties of peace, friendship, and commerce, which I ask you to be good enough to hand to him at your convenience. I have made a point since I came to Colombia not to bother the President with any direct correspondence whatever, except one personal note I sent him during my trip up the Magdalena river about some animals I shot, but, in view of the absence of Mr. Root, and the probability of these questions with Colombia being taken up with the President immediately after Mr. Root's return, I have thought it best to send the President this detailed discussion of the situation. I have forwarded a copy of the letter direct to the State Department as a matter of record, so you need not take the trouble to send it there for filing. With kind personal regards, I remain, Yours very cordially, John Barrett Hon. William Loeb, Jr., etc., etc., OYSTER BAY, L. I.[*[For 1 enc. see 8-2-06 Barrett]*](Secretary Bonaparte's letter) (Copy) Navy Department Washington. August 1, 1906. Sir: My attention has been called to an editorial in your issue of July 27th last, under the heading "A Lamentable Naval Episode." In this article you profess your disbelief that there was any want of authority on the part of the President or the Secretary of the Navy, or the two combined, to dismiss an officer of the Pay Corps, convicted by a court-martial of very disgraceful conduct, but sentenced to a milder punishment than dismissal. I ask that you submit to your readers the language of Article 36 of the Articles for the Government of the Navy, contained in Section 1624 of the United States Revised Statutes. This Article says: "No officer shall be dismissed from the naval service except by the order of the President or by sentence of a general court-martial; and in time of peace no officer shall be dismissed except in pursuance of the sentence of a general court-martial or in mitigation thereof." In view of your language regarding the President and myself contained in your editorial, and of this provision of law, your own sense of propriety must be left to determine your further course. I remain, Sir, Yours respectfully, (Signed) Charles J. Bonaparte Secretary. The Editor of the Providence Journal, Providence, R. I.[*[Enc in Bonaparte 8-15-06]*]TELEGRAM CIPHER CABLEGRAM. The White House, Washington. GUATEMALA, (Received 9 p.m., August 1, 1906.) Secretary of State, Washington. Leave today via Panama. President of Guatemala announces complete disbanding of the army. Combs. -Fd-[*ackd 8/2/06*] TELEGRAM The White House, Washington. 2 NY 9s Gi183 181-8P Philadelphia, Pa., August 1. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: I learn that Morton is in Europe and will not return until August fifteenth. I have run out the situation more fully on my own account, and am in a position to talk more definitely about what might be done. I can write but of course it would be more satisfactory to explain the situation to you personally. I think it is of the utmost importance for the approaching election and for the future of the Party that the situation should be adjusted in some way. If not infringing on your vacation and if entirely agreeable I can call on you for a brief interview at Oyster Bay any time that suits you, realizing, however, your need of a rest and vacation, if you do not want to be disturbed, I will write but have some fear of the possibility of letter miscarrying. Whatever termination is reached should be agreed on as soon as possible. I should think from what I have learned since my interview with you that something might be done in the direction desired. Please wire me to Arcade Building, Philadelphia. Boies Penrose. [[shorthand]][*Ackd 8-2-06*] Judge Company JUDGE LESLIE'S WEEKLY 225 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK JOHN A. SLEICHER PRESIDENT August 1, 1906. [[shorthand]] PERSONAL. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The President Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear President, I had a delightful week with Governor and Mrs. Black. The Governor asked me to give you a message to the effect that he had not changed his attitude at all, and that it was still what you know it to be at the time of his last interview. In other words, he is not sitting down in a game with those who have either had cards up their sleeves, or used double-dealing methods. He realizes, as every sensible man does, that if the President and Governor of this State are acting together they can control the situation absolutely against anybody and everybody. I am glad to see that my friend Charles Emory Smith of Philadelphia has had a talk with you, and I hope and believe that the papers are accurate in reporting your attitude toward the serious situation in Pennsylvania. You said to me long ago the party must do its own housecleaning. If you had not put your heavy hand on the situation in New York, we would not have had our housecleaning at Albany last winter. The result was not only the most wholesome legislation that we have had in many years, but, more than that, the defeat of a lot of unwholesome bills which, in other days, would have had first consideration. It has been years since we have had such a capable and conscientious Committee on Rules as the Assembly had last winter, and youJudge Company JUDGE LESLIE'S WEEKLY 225 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK JOHN A. SLEICHER PRESIDENT #2 August 1, 1906. know the power that lies in this Committee for good or for evil. Governor Higgins, while not making much noise, has done a great deal of good, hard, honest work, and a great deal of deep and timely thinking. How much the State owes to you and to him for the excellent record of the legislature last winter, the people do not yet know, and perhaps never will. I have not believed that Hearst intended to be a candidate for the governorship, for reasons which I do not care to state. I do believe that he would like to be the dominating factor in New York politics, so that he might go to the Senate, if the Democrats capture the legislature in the near or distant future. The Bryan revival shows the desperate straits of his party. The Democracy is in an unhappy plight when it hangs its only hope of success on a twice-defeated candidate who returns once more to the arena bearing, as his only distinguishing plumes, those that he has stolen from you. He only need keep on talking to make his over-throw complete and final in 1908. We can trust him to do it, for vanity is his principal, if not his only vice. Sincerely yours, John A. Sleicher[*[For 2 encs see 8-11-06 8-9-06]*][*F*] WAR DEPARTMENT, [WASHINGTON.] Pointe au Pic Province of Quebec Canada [Jul] Aug 1st 1906. My dear Mr. President, I have your letter of the 27th of July approving the making of the contract for Chinese laborers on the Isthmus and I have Pepperman's telegram announcing that you had directed the inviting of bids. I am glad you concluded to direct this course. It may not be necessary to advertise. We have had a number of applications and it may be quite enough to invite proposals from those who have made inquiry. The conditions surrounding the successful performance of such a contract are so peculiar that there are naturally only a few persons so situated as to be able to make a proffer and my impression is that we can reach all such persons without formal advertisement. But I'll confer with Pepperman & Shonts about this. I am annoyed at the publicity given to the orders in the War Dep't with respect the eight hour law. Williams of the Brooklyn Transcript is running a literary bureau in the interestof my candidacy for the Presidency and has undertaken the impossible task of reconciling the labor unions to my political course. Neil told me of those eight hour orders and in this way it reached the press. I dont like it because, it seems a palpable effort to placate the labor people just before election, whereas it was only in pursuance of the policy which you have so often declared and in which I fully concur and sympathize, that we must enforce the laws both in favor of, and against labor unions. The truth is the 8 hour law has been evaded in the War & Navy departments so far as contracts on public works have been concerned, or at least the violations of the law by contractor and subcontractor has been winked at. Opinions from former Attorneys General have helped the evasions. This is not only wrong but it is bad policy and justifies the feeling among laboring men that they are not getting a square deal. I have'nt heard from Littlefield as to my helping him - I had a letter from the chairman of the Maine committee and I answered him, suggesting that he confer [?] with Littlefield and if he thought I could help him, I would come. My secretary comes on Saturday and further communications will be in typewriting so that you can read them without difficulty Sincerely yours Wm H Taft.PUBLISHER OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF LITERATURE, INCLUDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMIST OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE. CHARLES A. MOORE, PRESIDENT. WILLIAM F. DRAPER, FIRST VICE-PRES. JOSEPH E. THROPP, SECOND VICE-PRES. WILBUR F. WAKEMAN, TREASURE AND GEN'L SECRETARY. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. WILLIAM BARBOUR, NEW JERSEY. A. D. JUILLIARD, NEW YORK. DAVID L. EINSTEIN, NEW YORK. DAVID WILLIAMS, NEW YORK. THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN LABOR AND INDUSTRIES National Headquarters, No. 339 Broadway (Bet. Worth and Leonard Sts.) TELEPHONE 5690 FRANKLIN NEW YORK August 1, 1906. (ELT)-732 BOARD OF MANAGERS. Augustus G. Paine, New York. Lyman B. Goff, Rhode Island. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio. Henry McCall, Louisiana. A. R. Wilson, New York. J. F. Hanson, Georgia. Charles A. Moore, New York. William Barbour, New Jersey. Theodore Justice, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Coffin, Maryland. Frank W. Cheney, Connecticut. William F. Draper, Massachusetts. A. D. Juilliard, New York. Theo. M. Ives, New York. Joseph E. Thropp, Pennsylvania. John E. Reyburn, Pennsylvania. William Whitman, Massachusetts. A. J. Cordier, New York. D. M Ferry, Michigan. Homer Laughlin, California. Every sincere Protectionist should regularly read the AMERICAN ECONOMIST. $2.00 a year. Address. 339 Broadway, N. Y. Mr. President: I was very much gratified to have your letter of July 25th enclosing your check to the dollar subscription fund together with your cordial endorsement of the plan. You will pardon me for the way this was given out for publication, namely in having the letter addressed to Mr. Sherman. It is always dangerous to have two names identified with a plan of this kind, and I appreciate the compliment of your sending the check to me. Of course this entire enterprise is in the name of Chairman Sherman, consequently I trust you will think that I took no liberty with your letter in substituting Mr. Sherman's name for my own. The enterprise is being handled by the Tariff League and I hope to have it administered so that-2- so that every loyal republican who co-operates, will receive all of the documents of the Committee and be pleased with his personal identification with the campaign. I am now introducing a sort of endless letter chain which will be explained by the regular receipt which you will receive. I want to inaugurate this thought, that Mr. Jones has sent his check. He meets his friend Smith, says he, "Smith, have you sent your dollar?" Smith does not know what he means and Jones thereupon hands him one of the enclosed blue slips. If we can introduce a national idea that everybody has an interest in the success, it will mean much in this and in future campaigns. The receipts thus far are not large, but they are increasing daily and you would be surprised at the splendid letters which accompany the dollar subscriptions. I am inclined to think that Chairman Sherman will authorize a good newspaper story giving quotations from these letters in a few days. Sincerely, W. F. Wakeman To the President Oyster Bay New York [*The Associated Press carried the item regarding regarding your subscription to practically every daily newspaper in the United States.*][*[Enc in Cooley, 8-8-06]*][*To be held until Wednesday morning August 7/06.*] [*M*] Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Third Conference of American Republicans I beg you to believe that I highly appreciate and thank you for the honor you do me. I bring from my country a special greeting to her elder sisters in the civilization of America. Unlike as we are in many respects, we are alike in this, that we are all engaged under new conditions, and free from the traditional forms and limitations of the old world is working out the same problem of popular self government. It is a difficult and laborious [take] task for each of us. Not in one generation nor in one century can the effective control of a superior sovereign, so long deemed necessary to government, be rejected, and effective self control by the governed be perfected in its place. The first fruits of democracy are many of them crude and unlovely; its mistakes are many, its partial failures many, its sins not few. Capacity for self government does not come to man be nature. It is an art to be learned, and it is also an expression of character to be developed among all the thousands of men who exercise popular sovereignty. To reach the goal towards which we are pressing forward, the governing multitude must first acquire knowledge that comes from universal education, wisdom that follows practical experiences, personal independence and self respect befitting men who acknowledge no superior, self control to replace that external control which a democracy rejects, respect for law, obedience to the lawful expressions of the public will, consideration for the opinions and interests of others equally entitled to a voice in the State, loyalty to that abstract conception, --one's country,-- as inspiring as-2- that loyalty to personal sovereigns which has so illuminated the pages of history, subordination of personal interests to the public good, love of justice and mercy, of liberty and order. All those we must seek by slow and patient effort; and of how many short comings in his own land and among his own people each one of us is conscious. Yet not student of our time can fail to see that not America alone but the whole civilized world is swinging away from its old governmental moorings and entrusting the fate of its civilization to the capacity of the popular mass to govern. By this pathway mankind is to travel, whithersoever it leads. Upon the successes of this our great undertaking, the hope of humanity depends. Nor can we fail to see that the world makes substantial progress towards more perfect popular self government. I believe it to be true, that viewed against the background of conditions a century, a generation, a decade ago, government in my own country has advanced, in the intelligent participation of the great mass of the people, in the fidelity and honesty with which they are represented, in respect for law, in obedience to the dictates of a sound morality, and in effectiveness and purity of administration. Nowhere in the world has this progress been more marked than in Latin America. Out of the wreck of Indian fighting and race conflicts, and civil wars, strong and stable governments have arisen. Peaceful succession in accord with the people's will has been replaced the forcible seizures of power permitted by the people's indifference. Loyalty to country, its peace, its dignity, its honor, has risen above partisanship for individual-3- leaders. The rule of law supersedes the rule of men. Property is protected and the fruits of enterprise are secure. Individual liberty is respected. Continuous public policies are followed; national faith is held sacred. Progress has not been equal everywhere, but there has been progress everywhere. The movement in the right direction is general. The right tendency is not [speciale] exceptional, it is continental. The present affords just cause for satisfaction: the future is bright with hope. It is not by national isolation that those results have been accomplished, or that this progress can be continued. No nation can live unto itself alone and continue to live. Each nation's growth is a part of the development of the race. There may be leaders and there may be laggards, but no nation can long continue very far in the advance of the general progress of mankind, and no nation that is not doomed to extinction can remain very far behind. It is with nations as it is with individual men; intercourse, association, correction of egotism by the influence of other's judgment, broadening of views by the experience and thought of equals, acceptance of the moral standards of a community the desire for whose good opinion lends a annotation to the rules of right conduct - these are conditions of growth in civilization. A people whose minds are not open to the lessons of the world's progress, whose spirits are not stirred by the aspirations and the achievements of humanity struggling the world over for liberty and justice, must be left behind by civilization, in its steady and beneficent advance. To promote this mutual interchange and assistance between the American Republics, engaged in the same great tack, inspired by the same purposes,-4- and professing the same principles, I understand to be the function of the American Conference now in session. There is not one of all our countries that cannot benefit the others; there is not one that cannot receive benefit from the others; there is not one that will not gain by the prosperity, the peace, the happiness of all. According to your program no great and impressive single thing is to be done by you; no political questions are to be discussed; no controversies are to be settled; no judgment is to be passed upon the conduct of any State; but many subjects are to be considered, which afford the possibility of removing barriers to intercourse, of ascertaining for the common benefit what advances have been made by each nation in knowledge, in experience, in enterprise, in the solution of difficult questions of Government, and in ethical standards, of perfecting our knowledge of each other, and of doing away with the misconceptions, the misunderstandings, and the resultant prejudices, that are such fruitful sources of controversy. And [T]there are some subjects in the program which invite discussion that may [advance] lead the American Republics towards agreement upon principles, the general practical application of which can come only in the future through long and patient effort. Some advance at least may be made here towards the complete rule of justice and peace among nations in lieu of force and war. The association of so many eminent men from all the American Republics, leaders of opinion in their own homes, the friendships that will arise among you, the habit of temperate and kindly discussion of matters of common interest, the ascertainment of common sympathies and aims, the dissipation of misunderstandings, the exhibition to all the American peoples of this-5- peaceful and considerate method of conferring upon international questions, this alone, quite irrespective of the resolutions you may adopt, and the conventions you may sign, will make a substantial advance in the direction of international good understanding. These beneficent results the Government and the people of the United States of America greatly desire. We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong. We neither claim nor desire any rights, or privileges, or powers that we do not freely concede to every American Republic. We wish to increase our prosperity, to expand our trade, to grow in wealth, in wisdom, and in spirit, but our conception of the true way to accomplish this, is not to pull down others and profit by their ruin, but to help all friends to a common prosperity and a common growth, that we may all become greater and stronger together. Within a few months, for the first time the recognized possessors of every feet of soil upon the American continents can be and I hope will be represented with the acknowledged rights of equal sovereign States in the great World Congress at The Hague. This will be the world's formal and final [and formal] acceptance of the declaration that no part of the American continents is to be deemed subject to colonization. Let us pledge ourselves to aid each other in the full performance of the duty to humanity which that-6- accepted declaration implies, so that in time the weakest and most unfortunate of our Republics may come to march with equal step by the side of the stronger and more fortunate. Let us help each other to show that for all the races of men the Liberty for which we have fought and labored is the twin sister of justice and peace. Let us unite in creating and maintaining and making effective an All-American public opinion, whose power shall influence international conduct and prevent international wrong, and narrow the causes of war, and forever preserve our free lands from the burden of such armaments as are massed behind the frontiers of Europe, and bring us ever nearer to the perfection of ordered liberty. So shall come security and prosperity, production and trade, wealth, learning, the arts, and happiness for us all. Not in a single conference, nor by a single effort, can very much be done. Few labor more for the future than for the present; but if the right impulse be given, if the right tendency be established, the work you do here will go on among all the millions of people in the American continents, long after your final adjournment, long after your lives, with incalculable benefit to all our beloved countries, which may it please God to continue free and independent and happy for ages to come.[*DEPT OF STATE Aug 30 1906 2ND ASST. SECRETARY*] Agreement as to Reciprocal Tariff Concessions between the United States of America and Spain. The Government of the United States of America and in its name His Excellency Mr. William Miller Collier, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Majesty the King of Spain, and the Government of His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, and in its name His Excellency M. Pío Gullon é Iglesias, Grand Cross of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of Leopold of Belgium, of St. Olaf of Norway, of St. Stephen of Hungary, etc. etc., Life Senator, Member of the Royal Academy of Political and Moral Sciences, Minister of State desiring to promote the mutual trade interests of the two countries and the former having proposed to the latter the concession by Spain of the most favored nation treatment (Portugal excepted) in exchange for the tariff treatment which on the part Acuerdo para la reciproca concesión de Tarifas entre los Estados Unidos de América y España. El Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de America y en su nombre el Excmo Señor William Miller Collier, Enviado Extraordinario y Ministro Plenipotenciario cerca de Su Majestad el Rey de España y el Gobierno de Su Majestad Católica el Rey de España, y en su nombre el Excmo Señor Don Pio Gullón é Iglesias, Gran Cruz del Aguila Roja de Prusia, de Leopolde de Belgica, de San Olaf de Noruega, de San Esteban de Hungria, etc. etc., Senador vitalicio, Academico de la Real de Ciencias Morales y Politicas, Ministro de Estado, en su deseo de favorecer los intereses comerciales de ambos Paises y habiendo el primero propuesto al segundo la concesión por parte de España del tratamiento de nación mas favorecida (si se exceptua el otorgado á Portugal) á cambio del tratamiento -2- of the United States is considered (if the treatment accorded to Cuba be excepted) as the most favored nation treatment, that is, that made by the concessions made to various countries in the articles comprehended in section three of the American tariff:- It is hereby in behalf of the said two Governments agreed as follows: I. The following mentioned products and manufactures of Spain exported from Spain to the United States, shall upon their entrance into the United States be dutiable as follows:- Crude tartar, or wine lees or argols, crude, five per cent ad-valorem. Brandies or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon Still wines, and vermuth in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs per case of one dozen bottles de tarifa que, por parte de los Estados Unidos se considera como el de nación más favorecida (si se exceptua el otorgado á Cuba) esto es, el constituido por las concesiones hechas á varios paises en los articulos incluidos en la Sección tercera de la tarifa americana. Han acordado lo siguiente: I Los productos y manufacturas españoles que á continuación se expresan exportados de España á los Estados Unidos serán sometidos á su entrada en dichos Estados Unidos a los siguientes derechos:- Los tartaros crudos ó sedimentos de vino, crudos, cinco por ciento ad-valorem. Los aguardientes ú otros espiritus manufacturados ó destilados de granos u otras materias, un dollar y setenta y cinco centavos por proof gallon. Los vinos no espumosos y vermut en barricas, treinta y cinco centavos por gallon; en botellas o jarras, por cajos de doce -3- or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. Paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad-valorem. II. The products and manufactures of the United States will pay duty at their entrance into Spain at the rates now fixed in the second column of the Spanish tariff, it being understood that every decrease of duty accorded by Spaln by law or in the commercial pacts now made or which In future are made with other nations will be immediately applicable tellas ó jarras que contengan cada una de ellas no más de un quart y mas de una pinta ó de veinticuatro botellas ó jarras que no contengan mas de una pinta cada una, un dollar y veinticinco centavos por caja y lo que en dichas botellas ó jarras exceda de estas cantidades quedará sujeto a un derecho de cuatro centavos por pinta ó fracción de pinta, sin que se puedan imponer derechos separados ó adicionales sobre las botellas ó jarras. Las pinturas al oleo, á la acuarela y al pastel y dibujos á pluma y tinta y las estatuas, quince por ciento ad-valorem. II. Los productos y manufacturas de los Estados Unidos adeudarán á su entrada en España los derechos actualmente establecidos en la segunda columna del arancel español, entendiendoso que toda rebaja de derechos otorgada por España en virtud de una ley ó de acuerdos comerciales actualmente en vigor, ó que en adelante celebre con terceras Naciones, será inmediatamente aplicada á los -4- to the United States, exception only being made of the special advantages conceded to Portugal. III. The present arrangement will enter into effect as soon as the necessary decrees and proclamations can be promulgated in both countries and it will thereafter continue in force until one year after it has been denounced by either of the High Contracting Parties. Each of the High Contracting Parties, however, shall have the right to rescind forthwith any of its concessions herein made by it, if the other at any time shall withhold any of its concessions or shall withhold any of its tariff benefits now or hereafter granted to any third Nation, exception being made of the special benefits now or hereafter given by Spain to Portugal and those now or hereafter given by the United States to Cuba. Estados Unidos, con la única excepción de las ventajas especiales concedidas á Portugal. III. El presente arreglo entrará en vigor tan pronto como puedan ser promulgados los decretos y proclamaciones necesarios en ambos paises y continuará vigente hasta un año despues de que lo haya denunciado una de las dos Altas Partes Contratantes. Cada una de las dos Altas Partes Contratantes tendrá en todo caso el derecho de rescindir inmediatamente cuantas concesiones quedan establecidas en este acuerdo si la otra, en cualquier momento, le niega alguna de sus concesiones, ó le niega la aplicación de ventajas de tarifa otorgadas en la actualidad ó más adelante á terceras Naciones excepción hecha de las ventajas especiales otorgadas en la actualidad ó mas adelante por España á Portugal, y de las otorgadas en la actualidad ó más adelante por los Estados Unidos á Cuba.-5- IV. The Government of His Catholic Majesty will forthwith issue the necessary decrees and orders and the President of the United States will thereupon, at once, make the necessary proclamation. Made in duplicate, in San Sebastian, August the first one thousand nine hundred and six. WILLIAM MILLER COLLIER IV. El Gobierno de Su Majestad Católica publicará inmediatamente los decretos y órdenes necesarios y el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, á su vez, hará desde luego la proclamación necesaria. Hecho por duplicado en San Sebastian, el primero de Agosto de mil novecientos seis. PIO GULLON. [*F*] W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C. Albuquerque, N. M., August 2nd, 1906 Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York, My dear Mr. Loeb:- I inclosed you a letter just received from Senator Reed Smoot and also my answer to same. I hate to write such a letter, but there is no other way out of it. I have also received letters from the Joint Statehood League of Arizona and possible fifty other letters. I will not burden you with sending them to you, but I am satisfied we are going to get through. The only thing I am really needing is financial assistance. I have a letter this morning from Penrose, in which he states he has not been able to do anything for me. He does not mention John Mitchell's name, but I do not believe that letter reached him, when he wrote me. Sincerely, your friend, W. H. Andrews Delegate from New Mexico[*[For 2 enclosures see 8-2-06 & 7-30-06]*]Albuquerque, N. M., August 2nd, 1906 Hon. Reed Smoot, Provo City, Utah My dear Senator:- Your letter of July 20th is received. I think it is true that there is a tendency or sentiment among your people in Arizona to vote for Joint Statehood, but that will not do. You must send for Brother Webb, who was Speaker of the last House of Representatives in Arizona, and also for Brother Kimball. Of course the last mentioned is by far the most influential, but the other gentleman has a large influence among your people and he is a Democrat. It don't make any difference about the politics-- what we want is a vote for Joint Statehood and as I said before I want you to send for both gentlemen to come up to Salt Lake and you meet them there and go over the situation carefully and thoroughly with them, so there will be no mistake about the situation. If necessary every solitary member of your people in Arizona must be notified to vote for Joint Statehood. It will carry there provided this is done. I know you are all right and want to help us and I assure you, you will not be forgotten. I inclose you a copy of the President's letter to Dr. Mark A. Rodgers, Secretary of the Statehood League of Arizona. You may have seen it in print, but this is an exact copy and shows his position on the subject. I am having this letter reproduced-- fac-simile of the letter and if it will aid you any, I will have several hundred of them sent to you, as soon as I receive them from the printer, which you can mail to Arizona. Now my dear Senator don't you overlook this thing. It is of vital importance, not only to me, but to yourself. Please let me hear from you. Sincerely, your friend, [*[W. H. Andrews]*] Delegate from New Mexico[*[Enclosed in Andrews, 8-2-06]*][*Ackd 8-27-06*] Personal. AMERICAN LEGATION BOGOTA. August 2, 1906. Dear Mr. President: Before starting tomorrow on my long overland journey-- the longest of its kind ever undertaken by an American official in the history of our relations with South America--to Guayaquil, Ecuador, where I am to meet Secretary Root and accompany him to Panama and Colombia, I desire to tell you something about the progress that has been made towards the restoration of the entente cordiale between Colombia and the United States. I would not have you think that, in discussing this matter, I am seeking to draw attention to myself--for, on the contrary, I feel as if I had done nothing more than my duty--but I am sure you will be interested in knowing the facts. Summed up in one sentence, the present situation is as follows: after nine months of patient and persistent but almost hopeless effort in the face of what seemed at times to be overwhelming odds, I have begun actual and direct negotiations with President Reyes for the framing of new treaties of peace, friendship, and commerce between Colombia on the one hand and the United States and Panama, respectively, on the other. The first will supersede the famous convention of 1846 with New Granada, and the latter will, of course, include the definite recognition of Panama as an independent republic by Colombia. RATIFICATION OF TREATIES WILL INAUGURATE A NEW ERA. If these treaties are ratified, as does not seem at all improbable, their proclamation will inaugurate a new era not only in the friendly relations of these three republics but in the prestige and influence of the United States throughout all Latin America. This conclusion is warranted from the comment of the representative newspapers of Rio Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, and Mexico, and from the interest displayed by the Latin American Ministers accredited to this government. There is no denying that, although the Latin republics recognized Panama without long delay, their innermost racial sympathies were with Colombia in this affair, and it can be gathered from the tone of their press and from what my Latin colleagues tell me, that they are closely watching the outcome of my mission and hopeful that the United States will deal kindly with Colombia. -Two- FINAL CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT REYES. Yesterday President Reyes, his Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Alfredo Vasquez Cobo, and myself, held our final conference before my departure, in which they read to me a memorandum of the principal points they wish to incorporate in these treaties and which they desire me to lay before Mr. Root when i meet him at Guayaquil. I regret that they have not sent me the revised copy thereof so I can enclose it in this letter. While, of course, I have given no assurances or promises whatever, and have indicated what did not seem acceptable or possible, I am confident that our differences are not serious enough to imperil the success of the negotiations. The chief concessions on our part or that of Panama which Colombia seeks are: (a) The free passage of Colombian shipping through the Canal. (b) The granting of the privileges described in the main part of ARTICLE XVII of the Hay-Herran convention, which reads as follows: "The government of Colombia shall have the right to transport over the Canal its vessels, troops, and munitions of war at all times without paying charges of any kind. This exemption is to be extended to the auxiliary railway for the transportation of persons in the service of the Republic of Columbia******" (c) Free access to the Canal Zone of Colombian national products like cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and other native grown food supplies that will be required by the army of workmen. (d) Reciprocal or free trade relations with Panama in such native products. (e) The transportation at a minimum rate by the railway until the Canal is finished of Colombian government controlled products like salt, shipped from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of Colombia, where clearly and officially labeled as government and consumption in Colombia.-Three- (f) The transport by said railway at a minimum rate of Colombian mails which in turn will pass through the United States post offices of Cristobal and Ancon and not those of Colon and Panama. (g) The assumption by Panama of a fair and just proportion of the foreign debt contracted prior to the separation. (h) The arbitration with Panama of the question of reasonable payment to Colombia for the loss of the Panama Railroad, which, by contract with the French Company, was recognized as Colombian government property to revert to it at the expiration of a certain number of years, but which Panama delivered to the United States free of all liens in Article XXI of the Hay-Herran treaty and is therefore responsible for. and (l) Some lesser but not difficult points of mutual agreement. What Colombia Yields and Concedes. President Reyes, by my advice, has publicly announced to his people that Colombia will make no demand whatever on the United States either for any indemnity on account of the separation of Panama or for the arbitration of points at dispute with the United States. This was desirable because a considerable element of the population, until this declaration was made, had dreamed of and expected such settlement. Colombia also stands ready to grant free refuge in its harbors to shipping in distress bound to and fro the Canal; and, what is most important in view of the strategic position near the Canal with excellent harbors, of her extensive Atlantic and Pacific coast lines, President Reyes, in response to my suggestion, assures me confidentially that Colombia will guarantee its favorable attitude to the shipping and interests of the United States in case of war, and to prevent the use of its waters for operations against the United States or the Canal. ! There are also other considerations of value to the United States which, however, I will not take your time to describe here.-Four- President Reyes desires that the United States shall use its good offices, (a) to arrange that Panama shall send to Bogota a duly empowered confidential agent to undertake negotiations for the Colombia-Panama treaty, and (b) to advise Panama to act fairly in the matter of the public debt, reciprocal trade, railroad, etc. Such points I shall discuss carefully with Mr. Root between Guayaquil and Panama. What Colombia proposes as outlined above, President Reyes desires should be kept confidential to the United States and Colombian governments until I have conferred with Mr. Root and he in turn has discussed the situation with you. Actual Growth of Friendly Feeling towards the United States. In connection with what I have written down above, it may interest you to hear of the tangible growth of friendly feeling towards the United States and its Minister in Bogota between the latter's arrival here in November, 1905, and the present moment. Nine months ago I was frankly told on all sides that a complete understanding between Colombia, the United States, and Panama was impossible within five years on account of the state of public feeling; the local newspapers were most reserved in references to reaching any settlement; and, while I was always treated with politeness and respect by everybody, I noticed a certain dignified aloofness, and hesitation to express friendly sentiments and expectation of renewal of friendly relations, mingled with an absolute negation of the possibility of recognizing Panama, that made me appreciate keenly the difficult and delicate mission on which you had sent me here. Remarkable Change of Sentiment. To make a long story short and without reciting the methods employed and attitude assumed--always, however, most honorable, frank, and square-- except to state that it so drew on my nervous energy and patience that I do not want to repeat the experience, I will record that in due time even the fanatical opponents of the Hay-Herran treaty called voluntarily on me and expressed regret that they had opposed it; that ex-President Caro, the leader of the anti- American political party, the Archbishop of Bogota and head of the powerful Catholic church in this republic, and the Papal Nuncio, told me of their own accord that they desired to reciprocate my efforts at healing the wounds of the past; that the newspapers in all parts of Colombia contained kind references to my endeavors to bring about a new situation until now they are even openly calling for any early settlement of all questions with the United States and Panama; that the National Chamber of Commerce, representing the solid business interests of the entire country, in recent session adopted strong specific resolutions commending the negotiations of President Reyes and myself; and that my intimation that it might be a good idea to-Five- invite Secretary Root to Cartagena was received almost with enthusiasm, and in a few days, as a result of general public wish expressed in the newspapers, President Reyes will send him a formal invitation confirming the informal one he asked me to send before Mr. Root left the United States; that my 4th of July reception was the largest of its kind ever held in Bogota, being attended by over 500 of the leading and representative men and their families of this capital; and that I have been almost overwhelmed with manifestations of kind interest on the part of all classes of people, including invitations from the Governors of different states to visit their capitals as their guest. Again I reiterate that I mention these conditions as facts only, and not as directing any credit to myself. In short I have tried simply to do all the time just what I thought you and Mr. Root would expect me to do under the circumstances. The Overland Journey to Guayaquil. Although this communication is running to considerable length, I cannot close without telling you briefly about the journey I am to make overland to Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador. Leaving here tomorrow, August 3, I expect to reach Guayaquil, September 17, after having traveled, including side trips, over 1200 miles on mule back and afoot! The route will take me through a section of South America that is practically unknown to the outside world that has no railways and few good roads, and yet is probably one of the most resourceful of the western hemisphere in latent potentialities. It possesses a variety of temperate and tropical climate due to different altitudes, an extent of agricultural, timber, and mineral wealth, and a location in relationship to the Panama Canal that will surely cause it to experience a great development upon the opening of the waterway. President Reyes says that I will be the pioneer foreigner to traverse this country and that my reports thereon should be of special value not only to Colombia and Ecuador but to the United States in the opening up of new fields of trade and investment. An Excursion of Some Hardship but Interesting. Of course the journey will entail considerable hardship, discomfort and encounter some hazards, but I look forward to it with keen interest, having made similar excursions in the hear of Asia when Minister to Siam. The route will take me alternately into rich tropical valleys and over high mountain plateaus from seal level to 18,000 feet, through primeval jungles, cultivated plains, barren and timbered uplands, passed districts said to be richer in minerals than any other part of the United States or South Africa, and across rivers that veritably hear no sound save their own dashings like Bryant's Oregon! In Colombia, I shall visit the states of Antioquia, Caldas, Cauca, and Narino, and shall pass through all the important coast states of Ecuador.-Six- Official Report on Colombia Recommended. As giving you new data not generally known about Colombia and as bearing directly on the proposed treaties, I hope you may find time to read my official report entitled "Colombia: A Land of Great Possibilities", which should have been published during July in the "Daily Consular and Trade Reports", and which Presidents Reyes says is the fairest review that has ever been prepared on this country's resources and conditions by a foreign representative. As a matter of record, I am sending a copy of this letter to the Department of State so that you need not take the trouble of forwarding it there for filing. Hoping that you have not been bored with this informal communication, which is the only one I have sent you since I left Washington for Colombia, except a brief personal note describing some animals I shot on the Magdalena river; and expressing my kind personal regards, I beg to remain, dear Mr. President, Yours very respectfully, John Barrett The President, Oyster Bay, L. I.[*[Enc. in Barrett 8-1-06]*][*Ackd 8/4/06 8/7/06*] UNION STATION Pittsburgh, Pa. August 2, 1906. My dear Mr. Loeb: While we were in Paris last month, Mrs. Church and I spent an afternoon in the atelier of M. Rodin, who is coming to Pittsburgh next April to attend our dedication. We saw some very wonderful specimens of his work which have not yet been shown to the public, and during our most interesting interview, M. Rodin confessed that he has a strong desire to execute a bust or statue of President Roosevelt. M. Rodin feels that he could make his marble vividly express the tremendous energy and vitality of our President, and there is probably no other sculptor to be considered in such a test unless it would be our own Mr. Saint Gaudens. The thought has entered into my mind that in the time between now and next April the way might possibly be opened to provide for the execution of this statue, and that its most appropriate abiding place would be in the Art Halls of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh. I only tell you about this incident because you may be interested to know that M. Rodin has expressed this desire. I did not encourage his suggestion, but I know that the thought is still in his mind. Sincerely yours, S. H.Church Hon. William Loeb, Jr.. Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. [*Samuel Harden Church Penna. Station, Pittsburg, Pa*]Form No. 282 TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN CIPHER. 1 CO. NX.KQ. 87 From Lausanne, (Received 10:31 p.m.) August 2, 1906. SECSTATE. Washington. Please inform President that I will accept Japan secretaryship: and express my great gratification and appreciation for promotion. May I add to you, personally, that while Japan a post I should like above all others, owing to present critical condition of my father, who is here, I should have preferred at present moment post less far from him; if that not convenient, however, am prepared to start for Japan as soon as desired, and beg you to pardon me for mentioning this personal matter. Dodge. [*[Henry Percival]*] Dodge Metropolitan Club, Wash. D.C. Deciphered by the Chief Clerk's Office,[*F*] PORT WASHINGTON, LONG ISLAND August 2, 1906 Dear Mr President-- My wife and I would like much to go on the Mayflower on September 3 to see the review and we are very thankful to you for asking us. I will write to Bob Bacon as you suggest but if he can't pilot us over we will go anyhow--if we have to swim. Very Sincerely Yours F. P. DunneTELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 NY VV GI 14/13 Roma Loeb, Secretary, Oyster Bay. Cable received. Must be some misrepresentation. Letter follows. Gabriels. [*[1906]*] Received August 2 -- 10;10aC.G. Gunther's Sons, [*F*] Furriers (Estabd. A.D. 1820) No. 184 Fifth Avenue ,New York, Aug. 2nd, 1906. Mr. William Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- Your favor of 1st inst received. The skins you refer to have probably not been cured right. We do not know what can be done with them unless you return them to the party that mounted them. Very truly yours, C G. Gunther's Sons Per de Lancey.[*Ackd 8-6-06*] August 2, 1906 TY'N-Y-MAES DUBLIN, N.H. Dear Mr. President May I ask your advice on something that is very important to me? I want to get your advice especially, as I think that you understand my point of view. Before I tell you theproblem, youwill be glad to hear that I passed my Massachusetts Bar Examinations and got an A again at the Law School. A few days ago I had an offer made to me by a man to tutor his boy (eighteen years, whom I like) for a year, beginning next October. The tutoringwill be light and the principal part of the work will be to travel very slowly all through the United States, studying political and economic conditions as we go. I can lay out my own itinerary and divide my time as I see fit. This plan appeals to me a great deal. As you know, I hope some day to go into politics. It seems to me that a chance to see this country thoroughly and to study the conditions, is a wonderful one from a political point of view. It would also prevent my settling down later into a Boston Anti, into the narrow minded sort of man that is so common there. And finally[8-2-06] TY N-Y-MAES Dublin it would give me an opportunity to make many friends in the different parts of the country which would help me legally as well as politically. At the end of the year I could come back to the Law School and graduate at 26 - about the average age. Do you think that my taking a year for this purpose would make the Boston lawyers consider me to restless to trust? Or do you think that men will consider this as a sign of a lack of enthusiasm for the Law?as a matter of fact, I want to go not because I am restless and not because I do not love the law, but because I feel that it will be the very best preparation that I can have for what I hope to do in life. If you would tell me what you think about this, I shall be very grateful indeed. I hate to ask this of you, as I know how many more important things you have on your mind. But you were so good in arousing my interest in politics a year ago, that I am sure you will be willing to direct them now. Please remember me to all the family. Greens or Curalie! Very sincerely yours Matthew HaleWm, W. Hart Telephone 5462 38th St. Taxidermist and Furrier 451 Seventh Avenue. [*Ackd 8/4/06*] The Den New York August 2nd 1906 190 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir: Have you any Game Heads or Fur Rugs, that might be well to have looked over? They can be cleansed, repaired and made moth-proof on the premises, if you prefer. We have men engaged in similar work in your vicinity and can send a competent man to estimate cost, this is a very small matter compared to the loss incurred by neglect and the absolute loss of valuable trophies, when they can be made as fresh as originally. Shall we look over your collection? Hoping to be favored with an early reply. I am, Faithfully yours, W. W. Hart [[shorthand]][*Ackd 8/2/06*] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 2 NY VV GI 30 Paid---10:11a Vancouver, B.C. August 2. President Roosevelt: State of my health requiring me to take coolest northern route I regret inability to pay respects. I express most sincere and respectful wishes for your continued health and welfare. Baron Komura, Japanese Consulate.[*Ackd 8-3-06*] [[shorthand]] TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 3 NY VV GI 226 DH----4p Philadelphia, Pa., August 2. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt: You will recall when I saw you in Oyster Bay that you expressed a willingness to meet ex-Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, and Mr. Barnsdall of Pitttsburg, concerning very serious complications in Indian Territory over gas and oil matters. Mr. Barnsdall is the largest independent oil operator in Pennsylvania. The matter is of very great importance in many ways, and I would like greatly to see some steps taken towards an adjustment of difficulties. Senator Jones and Barnsdall can call and see you at Oyster Bay any time after Wednesday August eighth. If you will wire me as to what train they should take I will notify them. They will have the matter fully prepared so as to prevent the same to you verbally, in a concise way, and will also leave a written brief with you. In case you desire to have H. V. V. Franchott, Supt. of Public Works and supplies, residing at Olean, who represents as you know, interests identical with those represented by Jones and Barnsdall, present at the interview, I will have Senator Jones notify Franchott to accompany them. The adjustment of this matter is of great importance to we here in Pennsylvania and I think that Senator Jones will be able to show you that they have some real grievances with the Interior Department. Please wire me at Arcade Building, Philadelphia. Boies Penrose.[*P.F*] Rio de Janeiro, August 2, 1906. The President of the United States, Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. My dear Theodore:- Today ends a week of our visit in Rio, and although we have another day here and several days at São Paolo, I think it is safe to say that there has been no miscarriage so far as the visit to Brazil is concerned, or so far as the visit to the Pan-American Conference is concerned. The Brazilians have been most kind and hospitable, and have really amazed me by the extent of their preparations, the multitude of things they have done to show their appreciation of the visit, and the importance which they ascribe to it. Of course there were a thousand pitfalls, but Baron Rio Branco is an exceedingly astute and capable man and he and Nabuco have worked up the demonstration of international friendship and appreciation with the most careful attention to the minutest details. The City of Rio has been en fête for a week, and under the leadership of the press and the students, a very general enthusiasm has spread through the people. Of course this is evanescent, but I have no doubt there will be a residuum of friendly feeling and of confidence in our kindly feelings, left in place of the wide spread distrust which seems to characterize South American opinion regarding the purposes and attitude of the United States. Such Americans as are hereHonorable Theodore Roosevelt, Aug. 2/06. #2 engaged in various enterprises appear to feel much encouraged to the improvement of their position, and the treatment which they may expect. Brazil has enormous possibilities and she needs immigration and capital. I hope this visit will serve to attract American capital here and to give a certain degree of confidence in the conditions of the country which will promote immigration. I should be glad to feel that Brazil will receive some benefit from her expenditure of money and effort. Nabuco wishes me to say to you that he is immensely gratified by the way the affair has gone. I made a speech at the Conference Tuesday evening, which, I understand has been pretty fully cabled to the United States, and which I designed to be the formulation of the true raison d'être of the Conference, and the true theory of relations between the American Republics. It was exceedingly well received, and I think will serve to clarify the ideas of a good many people in the Conference and out of it, who did not really know what the object of the Conference was. So far as I can see, what I said is being taken as serious and genuine. I hope there may be a friendly and cordial expression in the press of the United States to back up the many things which I have said about our friendly feelings towards Brazil and South America generally. Of course I am being driven like a battery of light artillery and am having a pretty hard time. I have to make almost as many speeches as you sometimes do when on the warpath, but is is all exceedingly interesting, and I have a strong feeling that it is really doing some good.Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Aug. 2/06. #3 Mrs. Root and Edith get pretty tired sometimes, but they too are enjoying the journey, with it novel experiences. The friendly relations we have cultivated with South American Representatives in Washington, and their families, are standing us in good stead here, and have resulted in our having whereever we go quite a little crowd of friends, who both make it agreeable for us and serve to create an atmosphere among the other Spanish and Portuguese speaking people. I enclose a copy of what I said at the Conference, lest it should have been inaccurately and not fully reported. I enclose also for the special benefit of Mrs. Roosevelt, an aricle published in a Para paper the day before we landed there. This will serve to show her the high standard of conduct to which it is her duty to hold her husband, especially on Sundays and in his financial transactions. Please give her my love and that of Mrs. Root and Edith. I hope you are having a reasonably quiet and restful Summer. I am immensely pleased by the settlement of the Guatemala and Salvador difficulty. The cooperation of Mexico in that is a good object lesson as to the way in which the stronger American States can be of service to the others and the way in which American affairs ought to be conducted. I am told that it has produced a most favorable impression among the South Americans here. I have had a long talk with the Colombian Representatives and have arranged for a meeting with General Reyes at Cartagena on my home from Panama, if I live to get through all the speechmaking, handshaking, and bowingand smiling, and weazle words, and banquets and sweet champagne that the trip holds out before me in an apparently endless and wearisome vista. Faithfully yours, Elihu Root[*Ackd 8-6-06*] AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS WINDSOR. VERMONT. Aug 2, 1906. Dear Mr. President:- Your note of the 30th is at hand. As my father is at present ill with sciatica, I am writing you in accordance with his wishes. He fears that the model will not be ready for use in the Mint this summer. The work in the studio is finished, but experimental reductions are now being carried on in Paris which is the only place where they can give the reductions their proper relief. They will be shipped to America by the end of this month when they will be decided upon by you and Mr. Saint-Gaudens; Then, if it is considered advisable, the models now in the studio will be sent abroad to Paris where the die can be properly made, unless there will be any difficulty in the way of striking American coins with the French die. If you desire to see the large models, I can go down to Oyster Bay with them at once, but as another journey will be needed on the arrival of the reductions, it would seem, perhaps, a trifle useless at present. Faithfully yours, Homer Saint-Gaudens[*Ackd 8/3/06*] THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE August 2nd, 1906. PERSONAL Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, Sagamore, Oyster Bay, L.I. My dear Mr. President:- I have your note of August 1st. I am sorry that the thing occurred, but it was the result of a clear misunderstanding. I was out of the office at the time, and my attention was called to it after the despatch was published. But the statement as made to me seems to acquit the office and our representative of any failure of judgment. When the cable message first came, as an act of precaution our people called up Mr. Bailey on the telephone and notified him of Bishop Gabriel's statement, and asked him to verify it. He reported having submitted the matter toSecretary Loeb, who in turn was supposed to have consulted with you, and who later reported that you verified the statement, but that you did not want to be quoted as saying so. Bishop Gabriel's interview was a public one, at which many were present. He claimed to quote you textually, and the audience was unquestionably reported in the papers of Rome. Our people had no thought that, assuming that the Bishop was authorized to make such a statement, and that he had faithfully conveyed the message, there could be no reason for not publishing it. Nor did they understand that you objected to the publication of these facts; nor of Bishop Gabriel's quotation of your words. The message by telephone was that you objected to being quoted in any interview on the subject. There was one phrase in the telegram which quoted the Bishop as saying that you had authorized him to tell the Pope "that you werehappiest because pleasant relations continued between the Vatican and the American Government." As no relations whatever exist between the Vatican and the American Government it was assumed that this was an obvious error in cabling, and this phrase was cut out. I may be mistaken, but I just say frankly that from their point of view, and with the information before them, I cannot quite see how they could have done else than they did. It was their clear understanding from Mr. Bailey's message that Mr. Loeb confirmed the authority of Bishop Gabriel and the accuracy of the message conveyed to the Pope. They got no impression that "While the general purport was true, the words were not mine, (yours)", but distinctly the other impression, that the words were true but that you did not want to supplement them now with anything like an interview. It is fair to add that this explanation of the matter was made to me very soon after the despatch was sent out, and could not have been an afterthought on the part of the people of this office. Sincerely yours, Melville E. Stone[*F*] Aug 2 1906 Pointe au Pic Province of Quebec Canada. WAR DEPARTMENT, [WASHINGTON.] My dear Mr. President, I have your letter in reference to examination of enlisted men. It is quite possible that we are violating the law. I have not examined the statute. I assumed that Ainsworth who is usually most careful and accurate in this matter would have kept me straight. The original order was prepared by Oliver for the preliminary examination of enlisted men and the subsequent order was made by Ainsworth after conference with Bell and me. I have telegraphed Ainsworth this afternoon to secure an opinion from the acting Judge Advocate General Crowder and also to send me a statement of the practiceand precedents. I'll advise you at once as soon as I receive the opinion and the note of precedents. Sincerely yours Wm H Taft P.S. I have urged speed in this matter of the opinion. — It is more than a month before the examinations take place -[*Ackd 8-3-06*] [*see T.R. 7/25/06*] PUBLISHER OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF LITERATURE, INCLUDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMIST OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE. CHARLES A. MOORE, PRESIDENT. WILLIAM F. DRAPER, FIRST VICE-PRES. JOSEPH E. THROPP, SECOND VICE-PRES. WILBUR F. WAKEMAN, TREASURE AND GEN'L SECRETARY. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. WILLIAM BARBOUR, NEW JERSEY. A. D. JUILLIARD, NEW YORK. DAVID L. EINSTEIN, NEW YORK. DAVID WILLIAMS, NEW YORK. THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN LABOR AND INDUSTRIES National Headquarters, No. 339 Broadway (Bet. Worth and Leonard Sts.) TELEPHONE 5690 FRANKLIN (ELT-737. NEW YORK August 2, 1906. BOARD OF MANAGERS. Augustus G. Paine, New York. Lyman B. Goff, Rhode Island. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio. Henry McCall, Louisiana. A. R. Wilson, New York. J. F. Hanson, Georgia. Charles A. Moore, New York. William Barbour, New Jersey. Theodore Justice, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Coffin, Maryland. Frank W. Cheney, Connecticut. William F. Draper, Massachusetts. A. D. Juilliard, New York. Theo. M. Ives, New York. Joseph E. Thropp, Pennsylvania. John E. Reyburn, Pennsylvania. William Whitman, Massachusetts. A. J. Cordier, New York. D. M Ferry, Michigan. Homer Laughlin, California. Every sincere Protectionist should regularly read the AMERICAN ECONOMIST. $2.00 a year. Address. 339 Broadway, N. Y. Mr. President: In a conference with Chairman Sherman of the National Congressional Committee today, I was told that several newspapers would like to use a photograph of your letter sending in your subscription to the dollar fund. Would it be agreeable to you to send me a duplicate of your letter of July 25th addressed to Mr. Sherman according to the enclosed copy, for the purpose of reproduction? My letter of yesterday explains why I gave out the letter in the name of Mr. Sherman. I think it would have a good effect to allow the newspapers to use the photograph of your letter as indicated above signed by you. Of course we would like to have your signature to the letter for that is the important point. Sincerely, W. F. Wakeman To the President, Oyster Bay, New York.K-Copy. Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., Aug. 2nd, 1906. Moved by H.T. Eliers F.R.S., V.M.H., Seconded by Sir Daniel Moriss K.C.M.G., V.M.H. and carried unanimously and with acclamation: - "That the Members of the International Conference on Hybridization & Plant Breeding gathered from all parts of the World and assembled in the Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain desire to express to the President of the United States of America and to the Minister of the Department of Agriculture at Washington their hearty appreciation of and thanks for the invaluable assistance which has been given to Farmers, Horticulturists, Planters, and Scientific men throughout the whole world by the Liberal distribution of America Research publications." (signed) W. Wilks, Sec: R.H.S.[*[Enc in Adee, 8-28-06]*][8-2-06]Hon W S Andrews Com 127g ST. JOHNS HERALD AND APACHE NEWS Vol, 22. ST. jOHNS, APACHE CO., ARIZONA, AUGUST, 2, 1906. No. 47. Curt Cronemeyer, Esq., of the firm of Cronemeyer and Schembers, the enterprising merchants and stockmen of Allantown, this County, was a business visitor in town last week. This is one of the oldest firms in that part of the County, and the men in the firm have done much towards developing the resources of that part and are still hard at worrk, as all true citizens of Apache are found to be. ------------------------------- Alfred Ruiz, Esq., one of the attorneys in the Water Rights case on the side of the plaintiffs, is in Springerville this week looking after the interests of his clients while the taking of evidence is progressing before the Commissioner there. Mr. Ruiz has taken an active interest in this case from the beginning and is peculiarly fitted for the work at hand, having been a resident of the County for a long term of years and also a close student of irrigation problems coming before the western courts. ----------------------------------- Mrs. Isaac Backstien, with her two children and her sister, Miss Cecelia Barth, came in from Clifton last week for a visit with relatives and friends here. Miss Cecelia returned home from a visit with friends in Clifton. Mr. Backstien who is well known here, is prominently spoken of as candidate for Treasurer of Graham county. -------------------------------------- Hon. J. L. Hubbell of Ganada has gone to Phoenix to attend the meeting of the Territorial Republican Central Committee. Mr. Hubbell has for many years been one of the leading men of the party in Arizona, and is one of the organizers of the party here. He has always been one of the hard workers and his wise counsels have brought prestige to the party in the Territory. He stands for the possible kind of statehood for Arizona, under the most favorable conditions to be had at once. No one can dispute that it will be well for the republican party of Arizona if the counsels of such conservative and able men as Mr. Hubbell prevail at this Committee meeting. ---------------------------------- The anti papers are continually saying that the papers favoring jointure are without influence. If it makes them feel any better to say this, it's all right. ------------------------------------ Subscribe for the HERALD. -------------------------------------------------------- THE APACHE COUNTY BANK & TRUST CO. of St. Johns, Arizona Capital $30,000 We Solicit Your Banking Business A Letter to Mr. Ellinwood by Mr. Isaac Barth, Chairman County Democratic Central Committee and [Membe???] Territorial Committee ----- St. Johns, Arizona, July 28, 1906. Hon E. E. Ellinwood, Chairman of the Territorial Democratic Central Committee. Sir:-- Noticing your opinions expressed under the heading "It is the People's Business," which appeared in the Phoenix "Republican" of the 24th, in which you are quoted as reminding members of the Territorial Democratic Central Committee that if their opinions on the statehood questions do not coincide with your own, that it is the duty of such Committeeman to resign; and being a member of that Committee I take this opportunity to communicate to you my view upon that subject. I am a native of Arizona and all my life has been spent in an endeavor to promote the general welfare of this Territory; and I have always regarded that statehood is the greatest boon that can ever come to us; and I have ever persistently and consistently advocated the admission of Arizona as a state. At the age of eighteen I was first elected a member of the Committee from which you would now expel me as a traitor to my native Territory. In 1904 the Tucson Convention elected me as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention; and while at St. Louis I worked in union with the other delegates from Arizona to secure a plank in the National Platform declaring for separate statehood for Arizona. We were successful, as you know, but, I found that the delegates from the Eastern States were against the proposition even in that Democratic gathering. The platform was adopted, it is true, but the financial plank was the only one that was considered of importance and the statehood plank went in unnoticed. After the convention, in travelling through some of the Eastern States, and meeting men who were informed upon the question. I became convinced that we wouldn't be admitted as a single state within the next generation; and when the present enabling act was approved by the President, I decided that matter: no matter how much we may prefer single statehood, the best interests of Arizona demand that we accept jointure; and therefore I believe myself consistent in advocating its acceptance. You say that "the member does not represent himself or his own views but the sentiment of the party at the time of the selection of the committee." Your opinion upon this point-- like mine upon the statehood question-- must have changed recently. Are you not the same Ellinwood who wrote to Judge Harmon of Ohio: "Though the Ariz. delegation is instructed for Hearst, I am personally acquainted with each member of delegation and assure you that they are men of good sense and will use their own judgment and Will not Consider these Instructions Binding after the first Ballot." The letter was given to me and read by me to Henry F. Ashurst of Coconino. What has changed the opinion you then held upon this point of instructions? You say that we have had no new instructions from the party since the convention of two years since and we must be bound by the instructions then given. The Convention of 1904 didn't instruct us upon any point whatsoever. We were named solely as a committee to assist in the election of our Delegate to Congress and to name the time and place for holding the next Convention. The jointure question is not a political issue, and even if it is, we have no authority whatever to bind the Democratic Party to either side of that question. Am I going to resign? Decidedly not. I still consider myself as entertaining the same political opinion that I held at the time of my last election to this committee and up to the present moment am a staunch supporter of the cause of Democracy, and incredible as it may appear to you, Ellinwood, my views upon even this "treasonable" question of jointure are upheld by a great number of my constituents, and in view of that fact I shall only regret that upon statehood, religion and some other equally important questions our views are different--but I shall not resign. You, my friend Ellinwood, in your zeal against jointure cannot read me out of the Democratic Party. Why do you want to have the members who are in favor of joint statehood resign? Haven't you a majority in the Committee who are opposed to jointure? Are you afraid of the result of a vote in that Committee? We want statehood, Ellinwood, and we can't get it any other way and you know it. Come let us mind our own business. 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SPEND Your Money with us and You Will GET VALUE RECEIVED WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF DRUGS, MEDICINES, AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT MAIL ORDERS Solicited, which will have our Prompt and Careful Attention We pay CASH for Hides and Pelts Why not buy your Schilling's Best from us? We carry a full line— of tea, coffee, baking-powder, spices, flavoring extracts, soda—and sell them right. ST. JOHNS DRUG CO. ELEGANT, did you say? Why simply STUNNING! SO SAY PURCHASERS OF THE NEW SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT THE ARIZONA CO-OPERATIVE MERCANTILE INSTITUTION CALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELF GOOD GOODS LOW PRICES GUSTAV BECKER General Merchandise Springerville, Arizona Keep constantly on hand a large and well selected stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, BOOTS AND SHOES. And everything usually found in First-Class Establishment Any article not in stock will be furnished a special order and on short notice. BUY FROM OUR ADVERTISERSThe St. Johns Herald. And Apache News. The Official Paper of Apache County. Published every Thursday at St. Johns, Arizona. REAMER LING Editor Apache News Co., Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION RATE. One year..................................$2.00 All subscriptions must be paid in ADVANCE. The paper will be stopped at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertising rates furnished on application. Entered as second-class matter January 12, 1905, at the post office at Saint Johns Arizona under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Artesian Wells for Apache County. There is artesian water to be had in the valley of the Little Colorado River; this remains to be wholly proven by conditions not yet apparent. But we are willing now to start out on the conditions which partly prove the theory correct, that there is artesian water here. No Moses has ever come along and struck a rock anywhere around here and caused pellucid streams to gush forth; and we have very grave doubts that such will ever happen. It will take some money and some work to demonstrate that artesian water is waiting below the surface for some enterprising persons to make a way for it to come to light. It is down there waiting. While in conversation with Mr. Gustav Becker of Springerville, we learned something of the start in this line of discovery which is encouraging to one who believes artesian water can be had in this valley. Mr. Becker has had parties boring for artesian water. At a depth of 210 feet these parties had the misfortune to get their drill fastened and were compelled to abandon their contract. They had encountered water at points before reaching that depth, and at present the water is standing at a depth of 130 feet in the well. Piping encases the well and shuts off first waters encountered. In the boring they first went through a layer of sandstone, after which soapstone, reddish and slate colored, composed the formation. This soapstone formation made piping necessary. Mr. Becker is in correspondence with other parties now, and he intends to push forward the work as soon as possible. If the drill can be removed from this well, he will sink to a depth of 1,000 feet or more there; if not successful in removing the drill, another well will be bored, with the same intention of going on to a depth of 1,000 feet if water is not encountered before. St. Johns has an artesian well — small, but still an artesian flow of water from a depth of only eighty feet. This well was bored several years ago, for Mr. J. L. Hubbell, and is still "doing business at the old stand." The water from this well flows out of the top of a pipe four feet from the surface of the ground. It is in the valley near McIntosh Spring, which spring throws out a stream sufficient to supply St. Johns with all water necessary for domestic purposes and thousands of gallons run to waste every year. This spring bursts forth from the face o! the mesa at least 400 feet above the valley. Most of the good springs of the Little Colorado Valley and adjacent country, like the McIntosh Spring, are found on higher ground. When once the artesian water question is solved here, then many other hard and vexing problems of water supply for various lines of business will find an easy solution. Artesian water may be had here; but it will take some money and work to bring it into use, as it has been the case everywhere. Next to building of storage reservoirs for the conservation of the annual flood waters, this development of artesian water stands in importance. Both are possible; both are highly important; both are waiting for some one to attend to their development. Arizona’s debt is greater than New Mexico’s debt. Under joint statehood Arisona will have the best of it in this matter. It took the Arizona corporation coyotes — it wasn't the people of Arizona, they have always been helpless in the matter — just 43 years to run up the debt of Arizona higher than that of New Mexico which territory has been “doing business" 20 years longer. ------------------ Weak Kidneys Bright’s Disease and Diabetes -------- Use Dr. Shoop’s Restorative to Cure the Cause, If You Suffer From These Symptoms. -------- If Your Back Aches Here are the symptoms of Kidney complaints: Urine laden with sediment, brick dust in urine, highly colored urine, greasy froth or blood in it, stringy mucous in urine, unusual desire to urinate, pain in passing water, pain in the back and over the kidneys, hot, dry and itching akin, hair dry and brittle, painful joints, legs feel heavy, sleeplessness, dullness, loss of weight, chilly sensations, loss of memory, general debility, irregular heart, disorders of eyesight, trouble with hearing, waxy skin, fever, shifting from one foot to the other in standing. An improper treatment is often worse than none. Most Kidney medicines get their effect from remedies called diuretics. These are practically kidney physics, acting as cathartics act on the bowels. They excite the kidneys to unusual action, they cause over-strain. These diuretic remedies are themselves the frequent cause of serious kidney disease. Don't try to doctor the kidneys themselves, for you will only harm them. Their only strength is nerve power. Dr. Shoop's Restorative vitalizes the nerves that operate the kidneys. Sold by SOLD BY ST, JOHNS DRUG CO. WITH AMPLE MEANS AND UNSURPASSED FACILITIES THE BANK OF COMMERCE, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. EXTENDS TO DEPOSITORS EVERY PROPER ACCOMMODATION AND SOLICITS NEW ACCOUNTS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $125,000.00 DEPOSITS, $1,000,000. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: SOLOMON LUNA, PRESIDENT. W. S. STRICKLER, W. J. JOHNSON, VICE PRESIDENT AND CASHIER. ASSISTANT CASHIER WM. MCINTOSH GEO. ARNOT J. C. BALDRIDGE A. M. BLACKWELL O. E. CROMWELL CITY BLACKSMITH SHOP ESTABLISHED 1880 Marinus Christensen, Prop'r. WEST AVENUE, North of A. C. M. I. St. Johns, Arizona C. W. DAVIS South Side Block, West of Court House, St. Johns, Arz. Will Shoe your Horse on Scientific principles or the old way, or do anything else that can be done by an Up-to-Date BLACKSMITH HOLBROOK, CONCHO & ST. JOHNS STAGE LINE. J. T. BERRY, Proprietor. TIME TABLE Leave Holbrook daily 10:00 a. m. Leave Woodruff daily 11:00 a. m. Leave Station daily 5:00 a. m. Leave Concho daily 9:00 p. m. Arrive St. Johns daily 11:00 a. m. Leave St. Johns daily 2:00 p. m. Leave Concho daily 8:00 a. m. Leave Station daily 6:00 a. m. Leave Woodruff daily 5:00 p. m. Arrive Holbrook daily 5:00 p. m. PASSENGER FARES. Holbrook to Woodruff $0.75 " " Station 2.50 " " Concho 4.50 " " St. Johns 6.00 St. Johns to Concho 1.50 " " Station 2.50 " " Woodruff 5.25 " " Holbrook 6.00 Stop-over Priviledges allowed at any point along the line. Fifty pounds of baggage carried free for each full fare passenger. Express carried to all points along the line. For rates inquire of our agents. No special passenger or express rates. Agents. I. R. HULET, Holbrook, Arizona. SCHUSTER MERC, CO., Concho, Arizona. ST. JOHNS DRUG Co., St. Johns, Arizona. Monarch Saloon B. Lopez, Proprietor CHOICEST Liquors, Wines, Beers, Cigars, etc. LOPEZ HALL FOR DANCES, ETC. Concho, Ariz. Don't Forget and you won't Forget the CHOICE Liquors, Beers, Soft Drinks and Cigars at Corner of Commercial & Court Sts., E. Armio's Monarch Saloon.INCREASED ASSESSMENTS. At the July meeting of the Board of Equalization it, with the information then possessed by it, believe the following assessments on the following described property are each too small, namely: Name. Description of Property. Amt. for which ASSESSED. A. C. M. I. Mdse 14,210 Improvements on lot 270 $ 16,910 00 Anderson C. P. Buggy. Piano. Household goods and Farming land 2425 00 Armijo Epimenio Stock of Goods 25 00 Armijo J. R. Improvements 425 00 Averette Elisha Improvements and land 318 50 Allen Alma 2 Workhorses 40 00 Acosta Genaro Carpenter tools 10 00 Bigelow J. A. House hold goods 10 00 Berry W. W. Workhouses. Piano. Household goods 160 00 Burk John, S. Improvements 45 00 Brown Benj 2500 Sheep, Stock Cattle and land 5476 00 Baca Francisco Horse 60 00 Buttler Frank Farming land 56 00 Bennet J. W. 75 Stock cattle and Stock of Goods 2900 00 Berry C. L. Farming land 90 00 Campbell J. T. Stock Cattle 1200 00 Colter Fred, T. Cattle Range Horses. Saddle Horses, land and Improvements 4900 00 Chaves Severo Improvements 50 00 Candelaria Domingo Grazing land 45 00 Chaves Nicolas 4 Range cattle 48 00 Duran Antonio Stock of Goods House hold goods 85 00 Davis Alma 2 Dairy cows 50 00 Duran Dionicio Sheep. House hold [goods?] Inprovements 1100 00 De Witt, A. A. Workhorses, household goods 95 00 Desmont Caroline Range Cattle. Sheep, Goats. Baggy Harness House hold goods 3015 00 De Witt E. R. Harness 5 00 Gallegos Bicente Lot in St. John Improvements 35 00 [G?ons] A. V. 2 Mures. Musical Instrument 58 00 Garcia Erminio Improvements on lot 50 00 Gibbons W. S. Improvements on land 150 00 Gibbons W. H. Stallion work horse farming land 395 00 Garcia Monico 800 sheep 1600 00 Gonzales Jerry Improvements on lot and H H Goods 550 00 Gibbons Richard 275 Cattle 3300 00 Gonzales Bernardo 5 Range cattle 60 00 Hamblin Fred work horse 40 00 Hamblin Frank work and Saddle horses 65 00 Hamblin G. O. work and Range horses. and Range Cattle 195 00 Homerighausen J. G. 7 Stock Cattle, Harness 99 00 Hulsey Marculus 10 Stock cattle 120 00 Hulsey John. L. 25 Stock cattle 300 00 Heap John Henry 10 Steers House hold goods and Impts 425 00 Hall J. O. 10 Stock Cattle and Land at Greer 370 00 Howell E P 125 a. cattle and H H goods 1525 00 Holt Guy W. 22 Stock Cattle 264 00 Howell Bud 125 Stock cattle 1500 00 Hamblin L. D. Farming land and pistol 105 00 Hamblin Deuane Improvements, Stock Cattle and land 215 00 Hamblin W. O. 5 Range Horses 50 00 Jacob Hamblin ½ int. saw mill and [work?] horses 132 60 Jepson Walter Work, Stock horses and Improvements 328 00 Jepson John 2 work horses 40 00 Lesueur Jas W Household goods and Improvements 150 00 Love David Stock cattle and Improvements 300 00 Lesueur W. F. 3 work horses 6 Stock cattle 177 00 Lesueur J. T. 5250 Sheep 10500 00 Little S. G. 67,769 acres Railroad land 13553.80 Lund William WSr 2 work horses 82 80 Love C. S. House hold goods, Farming land, 1 Stock Cattle 267 00 Martinez Evaristo 1600 Sheep 3200 00 Mineer August workhorses Stock horse 100 00 Montano Pedro 80 acres land 100 00 Miller Harris 50 Range cattle 600 00 Maxwell W. A. 20 Range horses 200 00 Mares Mariano House hold goods 15 00 Overson J. R. 25 Range cattle 240 00 Overson H. C. Farming land 50 00 Pederson M. H. work horse 40 00 Patterson J. B. House hold goods and land 650 00 Peralta Jesus lot and Improvements St. Johns 95 00 Peterson m. P. 1200 Sheep 2400 00 Patterson John T. 6 Stock cattle and House hold goods 102 00 Phelps Thomas 10 Stock horses 175 Stock cattle 2200 00 Platt Henry 35 Range cattle 420 00 Peralta Pablo 2 mules 80 00 Pratt A. H. 250 Stock Cattle 10 Saddle horses 3200 00 Perkins E. S. Mrs. 1000 Sheep 2000 00 Rothelsberger John P. 6 work horses, wagon, Farming Implements 40 Range cattle 685 00 Skousen J. N. 3 work horses, 2 Stock horses Dairy Cow, 2 wagons 192 00 Standifird J. H. 2 work horses 5 Stock horses 10 Range Cattle 230 00 Skousen Erastus 2 work horses 40 00 Sandoval Federico 1000 Sheep and 2 work horses 2060 00 Slaughter Joel 50 Stock cattle 600 00 Slaughter pat 75 Stock cattle 900 00 Slaughter John 40 Stock cattle 480 00 Schuster A. and B. Mdse and 2 work horses 6100 00 Stradling Joseph Improvements on lot 30 00 St Louis and San Francisco 115392.02 acres of Railroad Railroad company lands 23065.80 Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company 673,113.35 acres of Railroad grant lands 134,622.67 Slaughter P. E. 500 Rang cattle 6000 00 Salazar Felipe 4 Stock cattle and Tools 53 00 Sandoval Candido 1000 Sheep 2000 00 Sandoval Demetrio 370 Sheep 740 00 Sandoval Vidal 15 Stock cattle, improvements 205 00 The Apache County Bank and Trust Company Capital Stock 10000 00 Thompson Neadice 200 Range cattle 2400 00 Thompson J. F. Improvements 125 00 Trammell Connor 12 Range cattle 144 00 Tenney W. A. House hold Goods 25 00 Thompson Hyrum 6 Stock horses and Stock cattle 120 00 Udall Joseph Real and Personal property 2756 00 Vasburghe J. J. 7678.04 acres Railroad land 1535 60 Wabash Cattle Co 300 Stock cattle 3600 00 Wilkins Orson Improvements 10 00 Wahl Barthold 10 Stock cattle saddle horse 145 00 Wiltbank C. E. 25 Stock horse, H H Goods 15 Range cattle Farming land 585 00 Winsor George 160 acres land and Improvements 225 00 Wiltbank E. W. Work Saddle Stock horses Stock cattle H H Goods 725 00 Wiltbank Geo and Frank 4 Stock cattle 139 acres land 225 75 White Solomon Improvements 5 00 Wilhelm Z. G. 90 Stock cattle 1080 00 Wilhelm B. H. 125 Stock Cattle and H H Goods 1515 00 The owners of the above property and all who are interested therein, are hereby notified that the Board of Equalization will meet at the office of the Board of supervisors, in the court house.of Apache County, Territory of Arizona, at nine O'clock in the forenoon of the third Monday in August 1906, at which time and place they will take up, consider and determine whether the assessments alone specified, or any thereof, shall be increased, when and where you can be present with such witnesses as you may bring and will be giving a hearing. Witness my hand and stal of the County of Apache Affiixed this 14th day of July A. D. 1906 (Seal) Jesus Peralta. Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Alfred Ruiz Deputy. SAD DEATH. Everette N. Chandler of Jefferson City, Mo., a young man away from home and friends, died suddenly in Springerville, July 18th, 1906. He was on an excursion trip with some parties from Magdalena, N. M., in the White Mountains when he succumbed to hemorrhage. A messenger was dispatched to Cooley's, the nearest telegraph station. forty miles distant, to apprise his father. The interment took place the next day at 10 o’clock, in the Springerville cemetery. Rev. Robert Ballagh officiating. -------------------------------- The End of the World of troubles that robbed E. H. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "'Two years ago Kidney trouble caused me great suffering, which I would never have survived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They also cured me of General Debility." Sure cure for all Stomach, Liver and Kitjftey complaints, Blood diseases, Headache, Dizziness and Weakness of bodily decline. Price 50c Guaranteed by St. Johns Drug Co. drug store. -------------------------------- Miss Maria Ruiz arrived in Yuma this morning on a visit to her brother, Frank Ruiz, one of the guards at the penitentiary. She is a daughter of Hon. Alfred Ruiz of Apache county.—Yuma Daily Examiner. -------------------------------- Proposals for the Erection of a Wooden Bridge. Bids for the construction of a wooden bridge to be constructed over and across the Little Colorado River at the lower end of Greer Valley, at the place heretofore selected by the Chairman of this Board, as per plans and specifications on file in theClerk's oftice, payment to be made whenever there are sufficient funds n the Road Fund to pay for the same. Bids are to be received to the Third Monday in August 1906, at which time the bids will be opened. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Jesus Peralta, Clerk, by Alfred Ruiz, deputy. St. Johns, Arisona, July 9th, 1906. 7-12-30d A Proclamation -------------------------------- By the Governor of Arizona -------------------------------- Of an Order for an Election for Voting for Delegates to a Proposed Convention for the Formation of a Constitution for the Proposed State of Arizona to be Composed of New Mexico and Arizona as now Constituted and to Vote Upon the Question of the proposed Jointure. -------------------------------- To the Qualified Electors of the Territory of Arizona, and to Whomsoever Else it may Concern: Know Ye: That heretofore, to-wit: on the fourteenth day of July, 1906, by virtue and direction of, and in accordance with, the provisions of an act of Congress entitled: "An Act To enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," approved June 16, 1906. the Governor, the Chief Justice, and the Secretary of the Territory of Arizona apportioned the 44 delegates proposed under the provisions of said act of Congress to be elected from Arizona, who, together with the 66 delegates proposed to be elected from New Mexico, may constitute a convention for said Territories ol New Mexico and Arizona to form a constitution for the proposed State Of Arizona, among the several counties of Arizona as follows: To Apache county 1 delegate; To Cochise county 8 delegates; To Coconino county 2 delegates; To Gila county 3 delegates; To Graham countv 5 delegates; To Maricopa county 8 delegates: To Mohave county 1 delegate; To Navajo county 1 delegate; To Pima county 4 delegate; To Pinal county 1 delegates; To Santa Cruz county 1 delegates; Yavapai county 7 delegates; Yuma county 2 delegates, nd Know Ye Further by this lamation: That under the au????ity, and by the direction, of the provisions of said act of Congress, it has been by the Governor of Arizona, and is now by this Proclamation, ordered: That at the general election to be held in the said Territory of Arizona on the 6th day of November. 1906, the said Delegates apportioned to the said convention as aforesaid, shall be voted for by the electors qualified to vote at said general election, in the said several counties. And it is further ordered: That there shall also be submitted to the qualified electors at said general election, a question which shall be stated on the same ballots on which the names of candidates for Delegates to the convention aforesaid are printed in substance and form as follows: "Shall Arizona and New Mexico be united to form State? "Yes." "No." Electors desiring to vote in the affirmative of that question shall place a cross mark in the square to the left of the word "Yes" and those desiring to ote in the negative shall place a cross mark in the square to the left of the word "No" in the form above prescribed. Such election shall be conducted in all respects as prescribed by the laws of the said Territory of Arizona governing [?] elections. The returns of said election for Delegates to the proposed constitutional convention shall be made, and the certificate [?] persons elected thereto issued, as near as may be in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of the Territory of Arizona regulating the elections therein of members of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, and as is further prescribed by said act of Congress. And the result of the said election upon the question above directed to be submitted to electors at said election shall be ascertained, returned and duly certified, as nearly as it is practicable to be done, in the manner prescribed by the laws of this Territory tor the ascertainment, return and certification of the results of the election for Delegate to Congress, and as further prescribed by said act of Congress. And the several precinct, county, and Territorial officers in the Territory who are charged by law with any duties relating to general elections are, as far as those duties are applicable to the election hereby ordered and not inconsistent with said act of Congress, like wise charged with the performance thereof in respect to this election; and in addition thereto, such other duties in respect thereto as are prescribed bv the provisions of said act of Congress. In Witness Whereof, I, Joseph H. Kibbey, Governor of Arizona, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Territory to be affixed. Done at Phoenix, the Capital, this fourteenth day of July, A. D. 1906. (Seal) JOSEPH H. KIBBEY By the Governor. W. F. NICHOLS, Secretary of the Territory of Arizona. -------------------------------- A Mystery Solved. ‘‘How to keep off periodic attacks of biliousness and habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. King’s New Life Pills solved for me,” writes John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to everybody or money, refunded. Only 25c at St. Johns Drug Co. drug store. -------------------------------- James W. Lesueur, Esq., left this week for Mesa where he will become a member of Lesueur, Gibbons and Co.; Mr. Lesueur is an excellent young business man whom we are sorry to lose from our community, and we bespeak for him a successful career in his new home. -------------------------------- How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any one case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J.CHENEY & Co. Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe ble in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the bIood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cent per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. COLDS It should be borne in mind that every cold weakens the lungs, low ers the vitality and prepares the system for the more serious diseases, among which are the two greatest destroyers of human life, pneumonia and consumption. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great popularity by its prompt cures of this most common ailment. It aids expectoration, relieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a speedy and permanent cure. It counteracts any tendency toward pneumonia. Price 25c, Large Size 50c.Always remember the Full Name Laxative Bromo Quinine Cures a Cold in One Day, Grip in Two. E.W.Grove on Box. 25c. The St. Johns Herald is perfectly satisfied to fill in its little groove of journalism: it is not casting envious eyes at those anti journals which are always boasting of their big hunk of influence. Elephantine animals and newspapers are necessary evils of which we never complain. --------------------------- The Lax-ets Formula Show the formula which appears on every box of Lax-ets to any physician. Ask him if there is a better medicine to move the bowels naturally— gently yet surely. Lax-ets simply prompt the forces of Nature—free from all griping or pain. Put up In the form of candy tablets— pleasant to take and pleasant in effect—convenient in form. One Lax-et taken before meals or on retiring always brings relief. In a handy metal case only 5 cents a box. Sold by FOR SALE ST. JOHNS DRUG CO. --------------------------- We have the spectacle of a few antis, republican and democrat, conspiring to keep a fellow in congress who has never done a single good for Arizona. --------------------------- In Self Defense Major Haum, editor and manager of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was fiercely attacked, four years ago, by Piles, bought a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, of which he says: "It cured me in ten days and no trouble since." Quickest healer of Burns, Sores, Cuts and Wounds 25c at St. Johns Drug Co. drug store. --------------------------- Sheep dipping will soon begin hereabouts under the direction of a government inspector. Information received at this office last ye r from sheepmen seemed to co vey the fact that at least one su ervisor of dipping sent out th n was afflicted with a know-it- ll-ness which not only made it very unpleasant for all doing bu iness with him but also caused osses and injuries to the herds. 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WHITING, Agent, St. Johns, Ariz. THE ALONZO O. BLISS CO., WASHINGTON, D.C.[*[Enclose in Andrews 8-5-06]*][*8-3-06*] MANUEL AMADOR GUERRER0 Presidende de la Republica de Panama. A Su Excelencia THEODORE ROOSEVELT Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America. Grande y Buen Amigo: Habiendo llegado a mi conocimiento que Vuestra Excelencia se propone visitar próximamente la Zona del Canal, me es grato aprovechar esta oportunidad para invitar á Vuestra Excelencia, en nombre del Gobierno y pueblo panameños, para que haga extensiva esa visita á esta República. El Gobierno y el pueblo panameños, que en tan alto aprecio tienen a la persona de Vuestra Excelencia, se considerarián honrados con la presencia de huésped tan distinguido y celebrarian que ésta les prestara ocasion para manifestar una vez mas su amistad y simpatia hacia la Gran Nacion Americana y hacia su digno Mandatario. Ruego a Vuestra Excelencia se digne aceptar las protestas de personal estima con que tengo á honra suscribir me de Vuestra Excelencia. Leal Amigo M. Amador Guerrero. Ricardo Arias. Es copia J.D. Arosemena Jefe del Departamento de Relaciones Extoriores Dada en el Palacio Presidencial, Panamá, á 3 de Agosto de 1906.[*[Enc in Bacon 8-16-06]*]Translation. Department of Government & Foreign Affairs No. 53 - III. PANAMA, August 3, 1906. Mr. Secretary. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency the customary copy of a letter in which His Excellency Mr. Manuel Amador Guerrero, President of the Republic invites His Excellency Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America to do him the honour to extend to this Republic the visit which he proposes to make in the near future to the Canal Zone. I have much pleasure in offering to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. (signed) Ricardo Arias. To His Excellency The Secretary of State of the United States of America, WASHINGTON, D.C.[*[Enc in Bacon 8-16-06]*][*F*] 262 Madison Avenue S.W. Corner 30th St. August 3, 1906. Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. My dear Mr. Loeb: Thank you heartily for your kind favor just received, and I am glad to return this letter from Mr. Reynolds. I realize how important this proposed work is, and am glad that Mr. Reynolds is taking such an interest in the matter. If Mrs. Winkler approaches me, I shall be very glad to explain matters to her. Truly yours, Grace H. Dodge [*see Winkler, Maria Lydia " also 7/31/06 Reynolds, James B. 7/23/06*][*Ackd 8-4-06*] UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. Wilmington, Delaware. August 3rd, 1906. My dear Mr. President: I have just received a communication from the Department of State, informing me that my appointment as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration will expire on the 11th of October next, under the terms of Article 23 of the Hague Convention, and that you have expressed the hope that it would suit my convenience to serve as such for another term of six years. Please accept my sincere thanks for this. No other honor that has come to me in my life do I appreciate so highly, and I have written to the Department, expressing my willingness to serve. Each year as it passes is adding to the stability of this court, and gives increased assurance of its becoming one of the great muniments of the peace and civilization of the World. Each International controversy that is referred to it will help to establish the habit of lookingto it first for the settlement of International difficulties. Again, thanking you, and with kind regards, I remain, Respectfully and sincerely, Your friend, Geo. Gray To The President, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.[*Ackd & corrected proof ret'd 8/14/06*] LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE & CIE 79, BOULEVARD SAINT-GERMAIN, 79 (SIXIÉME ARRONDISSEMENT) ADRESSE TÉLÉGRAPHIQUE HACHECI-PARIS LIGNES TÉLÉPHONIQUES 807-68, 807-69, 807-71 [[shorthand]] PARIS le 3 Août 1906 A Monsieur le Président de la République des Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Monsieur le Président, Vous avez bien voulu, grâce à la bienveillante intervention de Monsieur l'Ambassadeur de France, faire la faveur d'accorder à un collaborateur de notre maison un entretien et l'autoriser à publier dans les "Lectures pour Tous" la conversation qu'il a eue le grand honneur d'avoir avec vous. Vous avez manifesté le désir que les épreuves de cette interview vous fussent soumises. En saisissant cette occasion de vous adresser nos plus sincères remercîments pour l'extrême obligeance dont vous avez bien[*[For 1 enclosure see (proof), ca. 8-3-06]*] voulu faire preuve en cette circonstance, nous prenons la liberté de vous faire parvenir l'épreuve de l'article que nous désirons publier dans notre magazine "Les Lectures pour Tous" et nous considèrerions comme une faveur que vous acceptiez de le parcourir et d'y faire, le cas échéant, les modifications que vous jugeriez utiles. Nous vous demandons de vouloir bien accepter d'avance l'expression de nos sentiments très reconnaissants et nous vous prions d'agréer, Monsieur le Président, l'assurance de notre profond respect. Hachette [Cie ?]AMERICAN EMBASSY, Constantinople, August 3, 1906. No. 1 The Honorable Elihu Root, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 1 of June 20, 1906, enclosing copy of my Commission as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey. Also letters of credit in duplicate on the bankers of the United States at London authorizing them to honor drafts for salary at the rate of $17,500 per annum, original of which has been forwarded to Messrs. Seligman Brothers, in accordance with your instructions. The form of oath as Ambassador has been properly filled out, sworn and subscribed to an forwarded to the Department under separate cover. A copy of my new letter or oredence has been handed to the Imperial Minister for Foreign Affairs and forwarded by His Excellency to the Palace, but the date for my formal reception by His Imperial Majesty has not yet been fixed.-2- Under ordinary circumstances a new Ambassador or Minister is seldom granted an audience under three weeks, and a delay of six to eight weeks would not be unprecedented by any means. There has been considerable newspaper talk about the Sultan being displeased at the action taken by the Government which may have been more or less well founded, but the conduct of the Minister for Foreign Affairs gives me no reason to anticipate any particular difficulty as he expressed himself personally as being exceedingly well pleased with the character of the President's letter and discussed the names of several officials who have been mentioned in Turkish circles as possible candidates for the position of Turkish Ambassador within a reasonable length of time. There can be little doubt about the Sultan having been greatly surprised and perhaps a little provokes at having the Embassy forced upon him, but he was probably not half as much annoyed as the European Powers aho have always looked upon any encroachment here -3- with a very jealous eye, as they wishes to regard Turkey as their own special reserve, and as I have repeatedly advised the Department during the past four years, I have very good reasons to believe that the reluctance of the Sultan against receiving an American Ambassador has been caused principally by the intriguing actions of certain European Powers, and particularly the German, Austrian and Russian. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN G. M. LEISHMAN Enclosure: Clipping from the Levant Herald on Pan Americanism which smacks very much of Teutonic origin, as it coincides very closely with opinions expressed by the staff of the German Embassy when intriguing against any increase of our influence in the Orient.[*[Enc in Adee 8-20-06]*]COPY American Legation. Panama. No. 144. CONFIDENTIAL August 3, 1906. To the Honorable Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Sir: I have the honor to transmit to the Department translation of a confidential communication from the Secretary of State of Panama for Foreign Affairs. I enclose a second copy of this translation to be forwarded to the Secretary of War if the Department so desires. I see evidences of a growing apprehension in this community that the United States is about to enter upon a policy of aggression violative of the letter and spirit of the directions given by the President to the Secretary of War, dated October 18, 1904. I take it that Secretary Arias presents this communication in the hope that Secretary Root, at the time of his visit to Panama, will take occasion to reassure the government and people of Panama by reasserting the policy and purposes set forth in the letter of President Roosevelt from which Secretary Arias quotes. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, Charles E. Magoon. Enclosures: Two copies of translation of communication from Mr. Arias to Mr. Magoon.(The Editor's rejoinder) PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY. Providence, R. I. August 3, 1906. Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of yesterday criticising an editorial that appeared in the Providence Journal on July 27th last under the head of "A Lamentable Naval Episode." You say in this letter: "In this article you prefess your disbelief that there was any want of authority on the part of the President and the Secretary of the Navy, or the two combined, to dismiss an officer of the Pay Corps, convicted by a Court Martial of very disgraceful conduct, by sentence to a milder punishment than dismissal." In addition you call our attention to Article 36 in the Navy Code. I cannot conceive that you have seen anything but a brief portion of this editorial for the criticism in question stated that the Secretary's action "is due entirely to the fact that the law gives him and the President, the Commander- in-Chief of the Army and navy, no power to inflict a more severe sentence. They can punish the officer, but they cannot dismiss him." You end your communication with the following statement:-2- "In view of your language regarding the President and myself, contained in your editorial, and of this provision of law, your own sense of propriety must be left to determine your further course." Permit me to assure you that if your criticism of this editorial had been based upon fact the course of the Providence Journal would have been immediately to correct its error and apoligize to the President and yourself. I enclose you with this a copy of the editorial article referred to and would ask that you take a few moments of your time to read what it contains. Very respectfully yours, (signed) FREDERICK ROY MARTIN.[*[Enc in Bonaparte 8-15-06]*][*F*] STUDIOS FOR ART PIANO CASES STEINWAY & SONS MAKERS NEW YORK August 3, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb: I have yours of the 2nd, and have wired you that a tuner will be sent tomorrow morning to look after the piano at Sagamore Hill. The reason has been specially trying on fine pianos; I have experienced the same difficulty with mine at Larchmont. Do not hesitate to have it tuned as often as necessary. I am sending by or Mr. Tapp, an expert tuner, two photographs of the President with a request for his signature. The smaller one for a friend of our House, and the larger one for your humble servant. If the President will be good enough toinscribe mine and sign his name I should appreciate it very much and give it a most prominent place in my office. Sincerely yours, N Stetson Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay L.I.[*Ackd 8/4/06*] The Provident Savings Life Assurance Society 346 Broadway. New York Secretary's Office. August 3rd, 1906. My dear Brother Loeb: So very sorry you cannot be with us on the 29th inst., as I know it would delight General Mills. I fully appreciate, however, your strenuous days and the avalanche of work constantly confronting you. It is very good of you even to take the time to drop me a line. I do not want, my beloved, to ever annoy you for a fraction of a minute but you know my affection for you and my interest in your welfare, and these combined cause me to presume upon your good nature when friends want me to do so. I received a 'phone from Fred Morris a few minutes ago, stating that his wife drove him to the depot at Lake Placid on Wednesday afternoon in company with Mrs. Young and upon their return to the hotel the horses ran away and Mrs. Morris was so unfortunate as to have her ankle bone badly fractured. Am very sorry as I fear the shock may injure her quite as much as the broken bone. I wrote you about my delightful visits with Admiral Dewey. I am enclosing copy of a note he sent me two or three days ago, referring to my address before the Founders and Patriots of which he is the National Head. As soon as I can arrange to be home for a few days, we expect his wife and himself over to pay us a visit. He is a most charming companion, as you doubtless know. Upon my return from Herkimer I expect to come over to Locust Valley to spend the night with my friend, Miller, and during the drive we will take, I shall hope to drop in to see your good wife and yourself for five minutes. With affectionate remembrances to both, I am Always yours, John W. Vrooman[*[For 1 enc. see Dewey 7-29-06]*]TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 1 WH RA GI 32 Paid Govt - 9:35a The White House, Washington, D.C., August 3/06 Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary, Oyster Bay. Following received last night: "Montevideo. State Department (For the President): Newspapers enthusiastically applaud Secretary of State Root's declarations before Rio de Janeiro congress, and say they obliterate completely all erroneous impressions and prejudices, and guarantee sovereignty of all American Republics. "Hacien" Buenos Aires says speech is as memerable for America as that of Monroe. The Secretary has relieved a situation which was impregnated with misunderstanding and enmity which non-American agencies thought could not be overcome. O'Brien." N. P. Webster. K-Copy. Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., Aug. 3rd, 1906 Excellency, I am direceted by the President and Council of the Royal Horticultural Society to ask you to be so kind as to forward enclosed if it meets you Your Excellency's approval. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, (signed) W. Wilks. Sec.R.H.S.[*[Enc. in Adee 8-28-06]*]Newspaper clipping in No. 1, August 3, 1906, from Turkey. PARTIE FRANCAISE. Le panaméricanisme. La doctrine de Monroë. L'expansion américaine. La conduite, mais surtout les résultats de la conduite du gouvernement des Etats-Unis depuis plusieurs années, pour être plus surement exact, dans le cours du dernier quart de siècle, se sont resumés dans la formule: l'Amérique aux Américains. La formule est belle est nul ne le contredit. Aussi a-t-elle servi à l'expansion vigoureuse de la jeune nation d'Amérique. C'est la doctrine de Monroë qui a surtout produit ces fruits pendant ces quinze dernières années, comme on le voit, en recueillant les faits saillants de cette période: Préparation lente de la guerre avec l'Espagne au moyen des secours de toute nature accordés aux insurgés de Cuba. Conclusion: annexion des Philippines et de Porto-Rico, fondation de la République cubaine gravitant nécessairement dans l'orbite des Etats-Unis -- c'est-à-dire, de toute manière, mainmise audacieuse et prépondérante dans les affaires des Antilles, jusque-là exclusivement européennes; Agitation, plus ou moins spontanée, de l'isthme de Panama, proclamation de la République, dépouillement-2- de la Colombie et prise du futur canal, jusque-là exclusivement international; Construction rapide d'une formidable marine de guerre, destinée, lorsqu'elle sera complète, à ne redouter personne, ni dans l'Atlantique, ni dans le Pacifique. Etablissement du point d'attache imprenable de Key-West, à la portée des mêmes Antilles, déjà entamées et au coeur desquelles on braque ce canon toujours menaçant et toujours prêt; Intrusion de plus en plus fréquente dans les affaires purement européennes; intervention dans des discussions jusqu'à présent jugées comme uniquement européennes - l'affaire marocaine en dernier lieu; Commencement d'un boycotage jaloux à l'égard de tout ce qui est étranger - biens et gens - introduction d'un protectionisme étroit, par les tarifs Dingley-MacKinley et la création de droits ad valorem, frappant jusqu'aux objets et effets personnels des voyageurs, dans une proportion qui souvent dépasse 66%; surveillance rigoureuse de l'immigration. ----------------------- Un peuple, nul n'en disconvient, a tous les droits de se fortifier et de montrer son énergie; c'est à ses voisins à se défendre dans la mesure de leurs forces, ou au moins à se tenir sur leurs gardes.-3- Ne sera-ce pas le rôle de l'Europe, vis-à-vis de l'Amérique, à un moment donné? Jetant un instant les yeux sur la carte de la mer des Antilles et du golfe du Méxique, telle que l'ont modifiée les événements récents, on peut se demander s'il y a la moindre illusion à se faire quant à l'occupation certaine, fatale, obligatoire, par l'Amérique, de ces îles où flottent encore les pavillons des différentes contrées de l'Europe. La question de l'île Saint-Domingue intéresse vivement l'Amérique qui n'est pas éloigneé d'intervenir, dans l'intérêt général, et un peu, sans doute, dans son intérêt. Un récente dépêche de Washington avait annoncé que le gouvernement avait donné l'ordre aux vaisseaux de guerre, COLUMBIA, MAYFLOWER and TACOMA de se rendre à Saint-Domingue, en vue de sauvegarder les intérêts américains, qui pourraient être compromis par l'insurrection. Selon des nouvelles reçues au ministère de la marine, du commandant des forces américaines dans les eaux de Saint-Domingue, un combat était imminent dans la province de Monte-Cristo entre 500 agitateurs dominicains et les forces gouvernementales forts de 600 hommes, qui avaient reçu l'ordre d'attaquer les agitateurs, parce que ces derniers avaient refusé d'accéder-4- aux demandes que le gouvernement dominicain leur avait faites dans le but d'amener un règlement pacifique des diffitultés actuelles. Une autre canonnière américains avait reçu l'ordre de se rendre dans les eaux dominicaines où le MAYFLOWER sera également envoyé sous peu. Le gouvernement de Washington a la ferme intention d'empêcher les agitateurs de renverser le gouvernementaactuel, cela dans le but de parer à toute nouvelle difficulté qui pourrait s'élever en ce qui concerne la perception par les Etats-Unis des revenus des douanes américaines, pour le plus grand bénéfice des créances de la dette publique. ------------------ L'Amérique aux Américains. Toute l'Amérique à tous les Américains. Le rêve est grand. Le panaméricanisme agit. Il va tenir ses assises à Rio-de-Janeiro prochainement et la Maison-Blanche n'a pas déplacé moins que son ministre d'Etat chargé des affaires étrangères, M. Root, pour la représenter à ce congrès où des résolutions graves peuvent être prises. Quelle va être l'attitude de l'Europe devant ce congrès òu la trop fameuse doctrine de Monroë réunira-5- d'entreprenant adeptes et montrera la vitalité prodigieuse d'un pays qui a une si légitime confiance dans sa vigueur, sa hardiesse et son génie? C'est aux chancelleries européennes à nous le dire.[*[ca. 8-3-06]*] [*[Enc in Adee 8-20-06]*]Lectures. Pl. 516. - 1re 24/7 1906 NOTRE INTERVIEW DU PRÉSIDENT ROOSEVELT. Entre les souverains et les chefs des grands États, le président Roosevelt a conquis une popularité grandissante. Il apporte à l'exercice du pouvoir une énergie, une initiative et des idées originales qui ont singulièrement développé le rôle des États-Unis dans l'histoire contemporaine. Dans la vieille Europe aussi bien que sur le nouveau continent, on suit aujourd'hui avec une curiosité ardente et sympathique la parole et l'action de M. Roosevelt. Quelles sont les opinions du président sur les grands problèmes actuels ? Dans quel esprit comprend-il sa responsabilité et son pouvoir ? M. Roosevelt, recevant à Washington l'envoyé spécial des Lectures pour tous a bien voulu répondre à ses passionnantes questions. AVEZ-VOUS UNE HEURE ARRANGÉE? Ce n'est pas une, mais bien deux entrevues que le président Roosevelt m'accorde cet après-midi là, pour la plus grande jalousie des << interviewers >> des deux continents. Ma première audience à la vérité fut brève. Une sévère consigne préserve le président de ses envahissants admirateurs. Non que la Maison-Blanche, accueillante et claire dans son aimable décor de jardins, soit défendue par ces gardes imposantes qu'on trouve d'ordinaire aux portes de palais. Pas un suisse, pas un laquais galonné, pas même un huissier à chaîne dans les antichambres présidentielles : mais, dans le grand salon-rotonde où l'accès est libre, de corrects gentlemen en complet veston, protègent le temps et le travail du chef de l'Etat. << Avez-vous un rendez-vous, une affaire arrangée ? Non ? Désolé... le président a son temps << arrangé >> ... Cinq minutes d'attente à peine et, les mains tendues, le président s'avance vers moi. Car M. Roosevelt ressemble, si l'on peut dire, à ses photographies, mais en plus gai et en plus doux. C'est bien le regard net et droit, les cheveux blonds, la moustache brusquement taillée à la yankee, l'immuable binocle, la taille haute et la poitrine athlétique que d'innombrables portraits ont fixés... Mais un sourire très bon et heureux éclaire cette mâle physionomie, l'anime d'une grâce imprévue. Le << rude cavalier >>, de qui l'allure sportive persiste sous la redingote, apparaît aussi un penseur et un brave homme : de ce puissant contraste, mal saisissable par l'objectif se dégage un charme dont l'impression est incomparable. Le président cherche l'heure où il pourra me recevoir. Maintenant, il y a conseil, puis des signatures. Dans une heure ? Exactement ! Je respire : je tiens mon << heure arrangée >>; plus rien à craindre des gentlemen en complet veston. Remerciements, vigoureuses poignées de mains, sortie triomphale. A la porte de la rotonde, je me heurte à un groupe de touristes flegmatiques... ils visitent... Alors ils veulent tous voir : une minute plus tôt, ils entraient et nous surprenaient avec le président ; ils auraient regardé quelques instants à distance, puis auraient poursuivi ; pourvu qu'ils ne parlent pas, on les laisse << visiter >> le président en même temps que la Maison-Blanche. A l'heure dit, me revoici dans la rotonde : mais, maintenant que j'ai mon << heure arrangée >>, on me dirige tout droit vers l'aile gauche de la maison Blanche, où sont les appartements du Président. PAR LA PAROLE ET PAR LES ACTES. Ainsi je demande d'abord au Président << comment un chef d'Etat peut enseigner l'énergie à un peuple ? >> Car j'imagine volontiers, M. Roosevelt, comme le meilleur des professeur d'énergie. Tout de suite M. Roosevelt distingue deux manières d'enseigner - et de consommer - l'énergie : il y a, dit-il, les actes et les paroles. Et vous attendez, n'est-ce pas, que le Président déclare aussitôt, suivant la formule banale, que les actes valent mieux que les paroles.... Pas du tout : pour cet homme d'action au sens le plus vrai, les mots ont une valeur indispensable : il n'admet pas les faits qui ne sont pas raisonnés, les initiatives qu'on n'explique pas. Quels actes, quels actes politiques surtout sont assez clairs pour qu'on se dispense de dire pourquoi et comment ils on été accomplis ? Sans doute parler ne suffit pas, mais agir à la muette est tout aussi insuffisant.... Je voudrais bien demander au Président quelques exemples personnels de cette méthode, faite à la fois de sagesse et de franchise. Sans doute il a deviné mon interrogation, car, abandonnant la théorie, le voici qui me raconte, avec une sincérité flegmatique, quelques-unes de ces décisions qui furent des secrets d'Etat et de gros secrets. C'est d'abord la révolution américaine de l'éternelle question de Panama. Là, M. Roosevelt crut nécessaire d'agir avant de parler : et, suivant son principe, il agit ferme et droit. Mais, sitôt le fait accompli, il s'empressa de donner bien haut ses raisons. Quant à l'intervention des Etats-Unis dans la guerre, dans la paix russo-japonaise.... Ici, M. Roosevelt s'arrête une seconde : et c'est une seconde de dure déception.... Va-t-il donc nous refuser une explication d'un des plus gros faits de l'histoire contemporaine ? Mon inquiétude est courte : le président veut simplement me poser une question : est-il ou n'est-il pas le seul chef d'Etat qui, tout au long de la guerre, n'ait rien dit du tout aux belligérants pas plus qu'aux autres ? Je reconnais honnêtement que M. Roosevelt fut alors le plus discret des témoins du duel où se passionnait bruyamment le monde. Cette constatation met M. Roosevelt de belle humeur.... Car elle lui permet de conclure que, lui seul qui n'avait rien dit, a pu faire quelque chose.... LA GUERRE EST PRÉFÉRABLE A UNE PAIX DÉGRADANTE. Une grosse question brûle mes lèvres : << Le formidable, le triomphant épanouissement industriel et commercial que nous contemplons aux Etats-Unis ne doit-il pas les entraîner à devenir une grande puissance militaire et maritime ? Car il faut bien protéger cette richesse, imposer des débouchés qu'elle exige, peut être conquérir.... >> Mais déjà le président m'a arrêté, tapotant avec énergie son crayon sur la table. Là encore, il précise et distingue : l'épanouissement économique est une chose, l'ambition politique en est une autre. M. Roosevelt insiste sur ce point : la situation géographique des Etats-Unis, qui n'ont ni voisins, ni adversaires immédiats, les protège assez pour qu'ils n'aient pas besoin de forces militaires considérables.... << D'ailleurs, ne puis-je m'empêcher de remarquer, les Etats-Unis et leur président se sont toujours déclarés amis et partisans de la paix.... >> Cette phrase produit un effet inattendu.que la Maison-Blanche, accueillante et claire dans son aimable décor de jardins, soit défendue par ces gardes imposantes qu'on trouve d'ordinaire aux portes de palais. Pas un suisse, pas un laquais galonné, pas même un huissier á chaine dans les antichambres présidentielles: mais, dans le grand salonrotonde oú l'accés est libre, de corrects gentlemen en complet veston. protègent le temps et le travail du chef de l'Etat. <> Cinq minutes d'attente á peine et, les mains tendues, le président s'avance vers moi, Car M. Roosevelt ressemble, si l'on peut dire, á ses photographies, mais en plus gai et en plus doux. C'est bien le regard net el droit, les cheveux blonds, la moustache brusquement ailée á la yankee, I ïmmuable binocle, la taille haute et la poitrine athlétique que d'innombrables portraits ont fixés... Mais un sourire très bon et heureux éclaire cette mâle physionomie, l'anime d'une gráce imprévue. Le << rude cavalier >>, de qui l'allure sportive persiste sous la redingote, apparait aussi un penseur et un bravehomme : de ce puissant contraste, mal saisissable par l'objectif se dégage un charme dont l'impression est incomparable. Le président cherche l'heure oú il pourra me recevoir. Maintenant, il y a conseil, puis des signatures. Dans une heure? Exactement! Je respire: je tiens mon << heure arrangée >>; plus rien á craindre des gentlemen en complet veston. Remerciements, vigoureuses poignées de mains, sortie triomphale. A la porte de la rotonde, je me heurte á un groupe de touristes flegmatiques... ils visitent... Alors ils veulent tous voir : une minute plus plus tót, ils entraient et nous surprenaient avec le président ; ils auraient regardé quelques instants á distance. puis auraient poursuivi ; pourvu qu'ils ne parlent pas, on les laisse << visiter >> le président en même temps que la Maison- Blanche. Et comment ne pas rappeler ici ces déclarations si saisissantes où s'exprime avec tant de relief la pensée du président. « Encore une fois, la paix ne peut s'obtenir que par la guerre. Une maigre attention est accordée à la femmelette ou au couard qui babille de paix; mais une due attention est accordée à l'homme fort qui, avec l'épée ceinte sur la cuisse, prêche la paix, non par d'ignobles motifs, non par crainte ou défiance de ses propres forces, mais par un sens profond de l'obligation morale. « Nous, citoyens des Etats-Unis, nous ne pouvons pas, même si nous le voulions, jouer le rôle de la Chine et nous contenter de pourrir pouce à pouce dans une ignoble aise à l'intérieur de nos frontières, ne prenant nul intérêt à ce qui se passe au delà, plongés dans un commercialisme qui joue des pieds et des mains, insoucieux de la vie plus haute, la vie d'aspiration, de peine et de risque, tout affairés seulement des besoins de nos corps pour le jour même jusqu'à ce que nous découvrions, sans l'ombre d'un doute, ce que la Chine a déjà découvert, à savoir qu'en ce monde une nation qui s'est adaptée à une carrière d'aise isolée et inguerrière est destinée, en fin de compte, à s'abaisser devant d'autres nations qui n'ont pas perdu les qualités viriles et aventureuses. Si nous devons être vraiment un grand peuple, nous devons nous efforcer de bonne foi de jouer un grand rôle dans le monde. L'armée et la marine sont l'épée et le bouclier que notre nation doit porter si elle veut faire son devoir parmi les nations de la terre. CE QUE M. ROOSEVELT PENSE DES MILLIARDAIRES. Me voilà renseigné sur les idées du président en matière de paix et de guerre. Mais il n'y a pas que la noble et tragique guerre qu'on mène le cavalier au poing. Il y a aussi ces redoutables conflits sociaux qui posent en adversaires les hommes d'un même peuple, opposent le travail au capital. Je risque brutalement la question. « Que pense M. Roosevelt de la question sociale au pays des milliardaires?... » ... Ce mot, ce mot si flatteur est à peine prononcé que je suis tenté de le regretter... car voici le président en colère, cette fois tout à fait en colère, parce que j'ai parlé de milliardaires! Le président n'aime donc pas les milliardaires, que tous le chroniqueurs d'Europe envient si éloquemment à l'Amérique? Eh bien! non, le président n'aime pas les milliardaires, ni même les simples millionnaires.... Ah! pourtant, ici encore, distinguons : ceux qu'il hait, suivant sa propre expression, c'est les accapareurs d'argent, les amasseurs de l'or par l'or qui, sans produire et sans rendre, entassent leur richesse.... On peut être milliardaire à force de travail et d'effort utile. Voici, par exemple, James Hill, qui conçut et construisit le chemin de fer transpacifique, — (le président a quitté son bureau pour, sur la mappemonde, me faire parcourir du doigt. le chemin de fer de James Hill), — eh bien! James Hill a bien gagné les millions : il les a largement payés.... Quant aux autres qui détiennent une richesse disproportionnée à leur effort, mal acquise et plus mal employée, le président est leur adversaire public, implacable.... Mais tous ceux là vont être des ennemis acharnés et puissants. Qu'importe à M. Roosevelt puisque sa sévérité est juste. Au mot « juste » une réflexion lui vient, qu'il exprime aussitôt avec sa franchise vigoureuse. En face des mauvais milliardaires, il y a des mauvais pauvres qui ne valent pas mieux, car leur pauvreté est faite de haine et l'excellence du sport, de tous les sports.... Mais, décidément, il faut se garder de prévoir les paroles du président : jamais elles n'ont la banalité des phrases imaginées d'avance : sur tous les sujets, l'esprit et le caractère si personnels de M. Roosevelt ménagent de piquantes surprises. Le voici maintenant qui proteste contre l'abus des sports, lui qui, le jour de son élection, connait si bien la montagne qu'on mit quarante heures à le trouver. Mais M. Roosevelt comprend le sport comme le milliard ; il n'est justifiable qu'autant qu'il sert le travail utile et productif et l'effort utile : c'est un auxiliaire, un auxiliaire indispensable, à qui il il ne faut pas permettre de prendre la première place. Ainsi le président a des amis anglais qui, suivant son mot, « sportent » tout le temps, sans autre but dans la vie. Voilà l'abus qu'on doit combattre. Et il y a bien aussi le danger de quelques sports violents... le foot ball, par exemple, qui fit de si nombreuses victimes l'année dernière qu'on prète au Président l'intention de le faire interdire dans les Universités.... Mais le Président proteste : jamais il n'a tenu compte du danger physique, mais seulement du danger moral. Quant au foot ball, un de ces fils, l'aîné du jeune arroseur dont les ébats sonores accompagnent l'entretien s'y cassa deux fois la clavicule et s'y brisa le poignet. « Entraînement », excellent entraînement que ces menus incidents, sans importance. Qui donc, aujourd'hui ne s'est pas cassé la clavicule? « Mais vous-même, monsieur le Président?... » Avec flegme, M. Roosevelt reprend son crayon démonstratif, celui qui tout à l'heure enserrait d'un chemin de fer la moitié de la mappemonde. Et sur sa propre personne, le voici qui commence un étonnant dénombrement chirurgical. Cette clavicule, [non pas une], deux, [mais trois] fois fut brisée : [foot ball] "boxing" [and] et "wrestling" ou cheval emballé.. le poignet gauche cassé deux fois et une fois seulement le bras [droit] gauche... le bras tout entier par exemple.... Le nez (avec binocle naturellement, et c'est le plus désagréable) fracassé à plusieurs reprises.... Quoi encore? Ah! les côtes évidemment... [quatre, non, cinq, peut-être une de plus,] trois enfoncées en deux ou trois sports.... » Je suis avec un ahurissement croissant cette pittoresque nomenclature : certes jamais chef d'État n'apparut aussi peu soucieux de ses membres, et aussi triomphalement « réparé » des pieds à la tête. A considérer l'allure à la fois simple et athlétique du président on est tenté de considérer ces fractures et démolitions périodiques, comme une hygiène singulièrement efficace : encore faut-il la manière de la pratiquer.... Sur cette originale conclusion, je m'aperçois que l'heure, mon heure est déjà plus que dépassée. Et je sais que le président qui ne sacrifie jamais une minute de son travail, l'a prise sur ses rares loisirs. Qu'ajouter d'ailleurs aux simples et fortes leçons qui se dégagent de ces paroles? La vie « rude et droite » de M. Roosevelt avant son élévation au rang suprême, son action politique à la tête de la République américaine ne sont-elles pas tout entières définies par ces franches et vigoureuses réponses où éclatent l'incomparable énergie et le souci de l'équité qui dominent ce grand caractère?nous efforcer de bonne foi de jouer un grand rôle dans le monde. L'armée et la marine sont l'épée et le bouclier que notre nation doit porter si elle veut faire son devoir parmi les nations de la terre. CE QUE M. ROOSEVELT PENSE DES MILLIARDAIRES. Me voilà renseigné sur les idées du président en matière de paix et de guerre. Mais il n'y a pas que la noble et tragique guerre qu'on mène le cavalier au poing. Il y a aussi ces redoutables conflits sociaux qui posent en adversaires les hommes d'un même peuple, opposent le travail au capital. Je risque brutalement la question. « Que pense M. Roosevelt de la question sociale au pays des milliardaires ?... » ... Ce mot, ce mot si flatteur est à peine prononcé que je suis tenté de le regretter... car voici le président en colère, cette fois tout à fait en colère, parce que j'ai parlé de milliardaires ! Le président n'aime donc pas les milliardaires, que tous les chroniqueurs d'Europe envient si éloquemment à l'Amérique ? Eh bien ! non, le président n'aime pas les milliardaires, ni même les simples millionnaires.... Ah ! pourtant, ici encore, distinguons : ceux qu'il hait, suivant sa propre expression, c'est les accapareurs d'argent, les amasseurs de l'or par l'or qui, sans produire et sans rendre, entassent leur richesse .... On peut être milliardaire à force de travail et d'effort utile. Voici, par exemple, James Hill, qui conçut et construisit le chemin de fer transpacifique, — (le président a quitté son bureau pour, sur la mappemonde, me faire parcourir du doigt, le chemin de fer de James Hill), — eh bien ! James Hill a bien gagné les millions : il les a largement payés.... Quant aux autres qui détiennent une richesse disproportionnée à leur effort, mal acquise et plus mal employée, le président est leur adversaire public, implacable.... Mais tous ceux là vont être des ennemis acharnés et puissants. Qu'importe à M. Roosevelt puisque sa sévérité est juste. Au mot « juste » une réflexion lui vient, qu'il exprime aussitôt avec sa franchise vigoureuse. En face des mauvais milliardaires, il y a des mauvais pauvres qui ne valent pas mieux, car leur pauvreté est faite de haine et d'envie, qui entraînent aux pires injustices. La pauvreté, qui, dans un pays d'intense production comme les États-Unis, est toujours provisoire et facile à vaincre, devient méprisable quand elle perd sa dignité. Méchants pauvres et milliardaires égoïstes sont les deux faiblesses de la société. ET LES SPORTS ? — COMBIEN M. ROOSEVELT S'EST CASSE D'OS. Voilà près d'une heure que le président Roosevelt veut bien m'expliquer ses idées, si hardies, si neuves, qui marquents on action publique. A deux reprises déjà, des gentlemen, les mains chargées de paperasses, ont discrètement entr'ouvert la porte. Je sens que je bouleverse des « heures arrangées ». Mais le président met tant de bonne grâce à ne manifester aucune lassitude que je risque quelques questions encore. Cette fois, nous abandonnons la guerre et la paix et les conflits sociaux : je voudrais l'opinion du président sur le mouvement littéraire et artistique aux États-Unis. M. Roosevelt me paraît très content de la production artistique de son pays : il me fait l'éloge de l'initiative et du talent qui s'affirment chez les peintres et les sculpteurs américains, d'ailleurs fort flatteusement accueillis par nos Expositions. Je pose une question nouvelle et indispensable : que pense M. Roosevelt du rôle des sports dans la vie moderne ? Je prévois d'ailleurs la réponse : ce tireur infaillible, ce cavalier indémontable, cet imbattable matcheur de tennis et de football va proclamer le poignet. « Entraînement », excellent entraînement que ces menus incidents, sans importance. Qui donc, aujourd'hui, ne s'est pas cassé la clavicule ? « Mais vous-même, monsieur le Président ?... » Avec flegme, M. Roosevelt reprend son crayon démonstratif, celui qui tout à l'heure enserrait d'un chemin de fer la moitié de la mappemonde. Et sur sa propre personne, le voici qui commence un étonnant dénombrement chirurgical. Cette clavicule, [non pas une], deux,[mais trois] fois fut brisée : [football] "boxing" [and] et "wrestling" ou cheval emballé... le poignet gauche cassé deux fois et une fois seulement le bras [droit] gauche... le bras tout entier par exemple.... Le nez (avec le binocle naturellement, et c'est le plus désagréable) fracassé à plusieurs reprises.... Quoi encore ? Ah ! les côtes évidemment.... [quatre, non, cinq, peut-être une de plus] trois enfoncées en deux ou trois sports.... » Je suis avec un ahurissement croissant cette pittoresque nomenclature : certes jamais chef d'État n'apparut aussi peu soucieux de ses membres, et aussi triomphalement « réparé » des pieds à la tête. À considérer l'allure à la fois simple et athlétique du président on est tenté de considérer ces fractures et démolitions périodiques, comme une hygiène singulièrement efficace : encore faut-il la manière de la pratiquer.... Sur cette originale conclusion, je m'aperçois que l'heure, mon heure est déjà plus que dépassée. Et je sais que le président qui ne sacrifie jamais une minute de son travail, l'a prise sur ses rares loisirs. Qu'ajouter d'ailleurs aux simples et fortes leçons qui se dégagent de ces paroles ? La vie « rude et droite » de M. Roosevelt avant son élévation au rang suprême, son action politique à la tête de la République américaine ne sont-elles pas tout entières définies par ces franches et vigoureuses réponses où éclatent l'incomparable énergie et le souci de l'équité qui dominent ce grand caractère ?[Enclosed in Hachette, 8-3-06]Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y. 4 August 1906 [*Ackd 8-6-06*] My Dear Mr. Roosevelt You will remember that last spring in Washington, I spoke to you about the possibility of becoming a regular editorial contributor to the Outlook when your present term of office expires: more than a mere contributor, an Advisory Editor. It was left that I might see & talk the matter over with you further during the summer at Oyster Bay. I have noted in the newspapers that you are cutting off personal interviews, and are taking this summer moreas a personal vacation than you have done in the past. To all your friends this seems very wise, and I do not wish to break in on your summer rest. Nor do I suppose that as this time you would wish to come to any definite conclusion in the matter. But I do not want you to imagine that it has passed from my thoughts or desires. So I write simply to say that this plan is very much in our mind & very much in our desires; that I shall be at Cornwall on Hudson during August & September; & that I could come to Oyster Bay at any time. preferably not a Monday or Saturday - if you were inclined to talk this suggestion over any further at the present time. It is needless to say that my associates are of one mind with me in this matter. Yours Sincerely Lyman Abbott.TELEGRAM. The White House, Washington. 3 W UA GI 185 Paid Govt --- 1906 DI -- WASHINGTON, D. C. August 4. [*/06*] Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. After conference with Acting Secretary Ryan as directed in your telegram of yesterday relative to Copper River Indiana following telegram was sent to Commanding General Department of the Columbia: "With reference to reported destitution among Copper River Indiana, Acting Secretary War directs you take such measures as are necessary and practicable to afford immediately such emergency relief as may be required. Ainsworth, The Military Secretary." Instructions were also telegraphed to Commanding General Department of the Columbia to telegraph this Office earliest possible date present condition of these Indiana and what relief measures, if any, are necessary also to telegraph immediately latest information he has on subject. On June twenty Commanding Officer Fort Lisoum, Alaska, telegraphed as follows: "Salmon beginning to run and Copper Center Indiana will not need assistance for some time. There are two thousand rations there, flour and bacon good for no other purpose ---- Smith, Commanding." War Department has received no later information. Will send you full report as soon as information is received. Ainsworth, Acting Secretary of War. WILLIAM W. COCKS, Long Island District. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON. At Old Westbury, Long Island, 8th Mo. 4th, 1906. William Perry, Astoria, Long Island, Esteemed Friend:- I enclose herewith a letter from the Auditor of the Treasury for the Navy Department which explains itself. If you should not have your claim adjusted within a reasonable time I will try to hurry them up. On 6th Month 22nd I wrote advising you to communicate with Capt. Adolphus Marix of Baltimore relative to a job. Did you ever hear from the Captain and are you still desirous of a job in the service? Very truly yours, William W. Cocks[Enc. in Youngs 8-22-06][*Wrote Gov Kibbey 8/8/06*] W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. Albuquerque, N. M., August 4th, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb:- I came up this morning from Las Cruces to see Colonel W. H. Andrews. I have been over the correspondence and find that he has got the thing going very well in Arizona. Hon. Thomas F. Wilson is President of the League. He is hard fighter and a good organizer and he is intensely in favor of carrying out the President's policy in regard to Joint Statehood. They are organizing the leagues in each county, sending out literature and it looks very encouraging. Of course the opposition [over there] to statehood is strong and is thoroughly organized. On the train this morning, I met a [Mr. Hamilton] gentleman from Tucson. He was enroute to Denver with his family to be gone a month. The information I got from him confirms the information already secured [by Col. Andrews, as well as by myself] and it plainly indicates that the corporations intend to defeat jointure if possible. They are claiming they will defeat it even if they have to spend large sums of money. Of course a great deal of this may be talk. But the facts are that Governor Kibbey as soon as he returned home, got into communication with Mr. Ellenwood, Chairman of the Democratic Committee and they issued a joint call for the purpose of forcing the Republican party to amalgamate with the Democratic party to defeat the measure. [From the correspondence that Col. Andrews game me to-day,] I find that Governor Kibbey sent out letters to all the committeemen when he made the call for the Central Committee to meet, asking them to send their proxies to his Secretary, Mr. Ely, as the distances were great and they might not want to come so far and so secured nearly all the proxies from the upper end of the Territory. Then, Sturgess, National Committeeman, he undertook to secure the balance of them with Frank Murphy, so as to have that committee tied up, hand and foot. The truth is if the committee had been properlyW. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. W. J. L. No. 2, 8/4/06 called and allowed to come in -- there were at least one half of them in favor of the President's policy, but he forestalled that by getting these proxies. Of course I fully realize that it would be a bad policy at this particular time to institute a general removal of Federal office-holders in Arizona. However in view of the indecent action of Governor Kibbey and his betrayal of the President's confidence by not having decency enough to at least keep out of the controversy, if he could not sustain the President in his ideas of joint statehood, I believe his summary removal is justified and I believe it would have a most salutary effect in the campaign already opened in Arizona. To my mind his action borders almost on, if not to an open insult to the President. My own opinion is that he ought to be booted out of his position as quickly as possible. The gentleman I met on the train, while opposed to jointure said he could not sustain Kibbey in his treatment of the President. I am going in person to Phoenix very soon and while I do not know it to be true, yet I have no doubt the President would be justified in removing Kibbey for being a common drunkard -- he, being, as is well known, a reformed drunkard and there have been numerous lapses into his former habits and customs of being inebriated. I believe, keeping everything in view--his attempts to betray the Republican party and his nasty course with reference to the President's well known wishes, warrant his immediate removal. In my opinion it will clear the atmosphere in Arizona and if the corporations wish to continue him on their pay-roll, after he is ousted from his office as Governor, it would not be so bad. It is currently reported that he is receiving pay from the corporations. Should the President decide to remove Kibbey as Governor of Arizona, it will be a most wise decision, and in that event, I know of no one in the Territory, who would make a better man to fill this position that General Thomas F. Wilson of Tucson, whom I have known for a great many years. He is honest, discreet and fearless. He is a good orator and has the confidence and respect W. H ANDREWS ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington W. J. L. No. 3, 8/4/06 of the people of Arizona, even of those who are opposed to Joint Statehood. "I have given this matter considerable thought and this letter is not written on the spur of the moment; it is written after thinking the matter over carefully and I may say further, that knowing Arizona as I do personally and the people there, nothing could have a better effect and clear up the atmosphere than his [removal] retirement as Chairman of the Territorial Republican Committee. Many people whom I have talked to and corresponded with, say that Kibbey's course confuses large numbers of voters and if he does [is] not [removed] retire from the Committee it will force the friends of the President's policy to put a third ticket in the field, through the treachery of Governor Kibbey delivering the Republican party of that territory bound hand and foot to Mark Smith, the Democrats and the corporations." One of the greatest dangers, my dear Mr. Loeb is that if Governor Kibbey is left in the position as Governor and the vote should be close, they would raise a clamor and he would throw the vote out and so defeat the President's wishes. There ought to be no mistake in that Returning-Board. Faithfully yours, W. H. H. Llewellyn Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y.G. AMERICAN LEGATION PANAMA. No. 149. August 4, 1906. To the Honorable ROBERT BACON, Acting Secretary of State, WASHINGTON. Sir, I have the honor to transmit a letter to you from Mr. Ricardo Arias, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, accompanying an invitation from President Amador to President Roosevelt to visit Panama at the time of his visit to the Canal Zone. There is no doubt that nothing would please and flatter the officials and people of Panama more than such a visit. They have a sincere regard and admiration for the man as well as the President, and are genuine in their expressions of gratitude for his attitude toward the Republic of Panama since its beginning. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, CHARLES E. MAGOON. Enclosures: 1. Letter from Mr. Arias to the Acting Secretary of State. 2. Translation. 3. Copy of letter from President Amador to President Roosevelt. 4. Original letter from President Amador to President Roosevelt.[Enc. in Bacon 8-16-06][*F*] The New York Historical Society Has received Two Hundred and Twenty-one miscellaneous volumes, relating to American History. (Entered in full on the "Accession List" of the Library.) A Gift From The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt for which I am instructed to return a grateful acknowledgement. Robert H. Kelby Librarian Library: Second Avenue, corner of Eleventh Street, New York City. August 4th 1906K-Copy. No. 235 American Embassy, London, 4th August,, 1906. Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a resolution passed by the Members of the International Conference on Hybridization and Plant Breeding, at their meeting in the Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain on August 2nd, 1906. I am requested by the President and Council of the Royal Horticultural Society to forward it to you. I have the honour, &c., Sir, Your obedient servant, Whitelaw Reid. The Hon. Elihu Root, &c. &c &c Secretary of State. Enclosures. 1. Mr. Wilks to Mr. Reid August 3rd, 1906. 2. A copy of Resolution of Royal Horticultural Society.[Enc in Adee 8-28-06]PERSONAL. Culebra, C.Z., August 4th, 1906. Mr. T. P. Shonts, Chairman, Isthmian Canal Commission, Culebra, C. Z. Sir: Referring further to the matter discussed in my letter of July 27th, in which I suggested a plan for placing under contract, the essential features of the work of building the Canal. I think the membership of such a company need not be limited to any small number of individual firms of contractors, the idea being to interest such a personnel, that all different classes of work can be handled by, so to speak, specialists in each line. For example, it would be supposed that enough eminent and successful firms or individuals, experienced in dredging, in steamshovel and train work, or in other methods of excavation and disposal of waste, in heavy masonry, etc., could be interested, so that each class of construction could be personally directed, and carried out only by men trained by long experience in their own particular lines of construction. Much would depend, of course, upon the choice of the individual members of such a company, but I think a careful disinterested canvass of the leading contractors of the United States, would demonstrate that it would be3. comparatively easy to enlist the efforts of the best fitted, ablest and finest equipped body of men in the world to do this work. Truly yours, JNO. F. STEVENS, Chief Engineer.[*F*] THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE August 4th, 1906. Personal. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, Sagamore, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Mr. President, I am greatly surprised and pained at yours of August 3rd. It involves a question of veracity on the part of a man in this office whom I supposed incapable of making a mis-statement. Fearing that Mr. Bailey might have made some error in transmitting Mr. Loeb's statement, I have this morning had him called on the telephone, and he repeats his statement to us in precisely the phrase that you give in your letter, leaving no room for doubt concerningthe matter. Of course I shall deal summarily with the man referred to. But now another question arises. We have done you an injustice, which I am most anxious to remedy in any way I can. My first impulse was to send out over the wires a statement of correction over our own signature. But then it occurred to me that in doing so I might be doing you more harm than good, and I also feel that on so delicate a matter you have a right to elect as to the form of correction, if there is one. Since the matter has run to this hour, and since I am to see you on Monday, it occurs to me that perhaps the fairest thing to you would be for me to wait and talk it over, as I am unable to see that another day or two's delay a this time will make a difference. Of course if I had dreamed of such a situation when the explanation was made to me on the afternoon of the publication I should have sent a correction at once, and that would have been the proper solution.I can understand perfectly how annoying the thing is to you. I suppose every Methodist paper throughout the country will be firing away at you, a they did at me two or three years ago for an imaginary pro-Catholic attitude. You cannot feel worse about it than I do, and I am not only willing but exceedingly anxious to remedy the wrong we have done you so far as possible, being conscious at the same time that a full remedy is probably utterly impossible. Sincerely yours, Melville E. Stone[*P F Shonts*] [*For the Prest*] Culebra, Canal Zone, August 4th, 1906. My dear Mr. Secretary: In line with our last talk as to what would be the best form of organization of those responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal, and acting on your suggestion that I carefully study the subject while on the Isthmus and give you my conclusions, beg leave to advise: First: That the best results will be obtained by distributing the work between various departments; each department to have its duties clearly defined; the head of each department to receive his instructions from and report to one common executive officer. The establishment of one executive office instead of three as at present, with an executive committee in addition, means fewer notions, more direct methods and greater co-operation. Second: That the Commission with the exception of one Army and one Navy engineer, should be made up of those holding important official positions on the work. This will not only be more economical in point of salaries paid, but will place each Commissioner in position where his views will be more valuable and authoritative because based on first hand knowledge. Third: That the position of Minister to Panama be made separate and2. distinct from that of the Governor of the Zone. The duties of the Minister being solely to the State Department and should be performed by someone having no official relation to the Commission. Fourth: That the Department of Government and Sanitation, as at present constituted, should be divided, one part in charge of a Governor who shall preserve order and another part in charge of an officer who shall preserve health in the Zone. This division of duties will place the head of the Sanitary Department, the success of whose work is essential to the success of the enterprise, on a parity with the heads of other departments, and will make his work more effective by making it free from the domination of any other department. Fifth: That the organization recommended should consist of the Chairman of the Committee and the following heads of departments, Vis: Chief Engineer Governor of Canal Zone Chief Sanitary Officer General Counsel General Purchasing Officer General Auditor Disbursing Officer. Manager of Labor & Quarters. Sixth: That the Commission should therefore consist of, (1) The Chairman (2) Chief Engineer (3) Chief Sanitary Officer 3. (4) General Counsel (5) Manager of Labor & Quarters (6) Army Engineer, (7) Navy Engineer. The fact, as you advised me in Washington, in May last, that you intend to transfer Governor Magoon to the Philippines in September next, makes the reorganization as herein indicated, a comparatively easy matter. No one will suffer by reason of the changes except Major Harrod. But the substitution of Mr. Smith, whom we have in mind for his place, will greatly strengthen the Commission, as well as prove more economical. There is another most important reason why the present is essentially an opportune time for inaugurating a permanent form of organization. We have practically finished our preparatory plans and the work is well advanced. We are just beginning the great task of construction. We have known the faults of the present organization for some time, but have steered clear of open ruptures by sweet methods, and promises of remedies later on, hoping to run along until the preparatory work was done. But it would be almost suicidal to commence the great task before us without a clear cut organization with centralized power, so that every officer will know his duties, powers and responsibilities. I have, therefore, with Mr. Stevens' advice and assistance, prepared an Executive Order, mandatory to the President's Order of April 1st, 1905, which I herewith enclose and which, in connection with this letter, will, I think, place our views fairly before you. I hope you will approve of the proposed order as submitted and ask4. the President to promulgate it together with the change in the personnel of the Commission at such time as will fit in with your plans for the transfer of Governor Magoon to the Philippines. Yours very sincerely, T. P. Shonts Chairman. The Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. S-C[8-4-06] [Enclosed in McKesson, 8-6-06]A NEW TOLEDO MOSES. GEORGE WALDORF in some particulars [?] the Hill, [?] an historic occasion, when Brice switched the Democratic party in Ohio from 16 to 1 on the gold standard, remarked that they couldn't switch any faster than he could. And 21 years of experience right up against the public udder, has [taught?] Waldorf how to switch. Before one did cow runs entirely dry, Boss Waldorf begins to locate a fresh one. He needs the milk. The funny thing about it all is that Waldorf takes himself seriously that after being a chronic officeholder all his political life, and one [?] [?] hardened of the bosses- even to the extent of turning the federal building in Toledo into a meeting place for the machine- Waldorf now takes the front as a leader of the forces of reform. And right back of him, catching step to the new music are [C????] Bonner and Postmaster Tucker, neither one of whom ever had to fight the machine while it had a good fight in it. Get whiz, what a spectacle. And what a political Moses Boss Waldorf will be, leading the [?] of the G.O.P. Israel out of the wilderness of machine politics [?] promised land that is flowing with milk and honey. And how brave and courageous is Waldorf! After he and his [?] have been thoroughly licked, George P. Moses Waldorf wants to lead people in a brave charge against the machine. It's enough to make a dog split its sides with laughter. CONFESSING POLITICAL SINS, WALDORF ASKS FORGIVENESS [*Aug 4th 06*] [*The Toledo Times*] Declares People of Toledo Did Right in Repudiating Machine Made Ticket Last Fall. SAYS SOME MEMBERS OF REPUBLICAN CABINET DON'T KNOW IT'S BUSTED - BONNER, TUCKER AND SOUTHARD ESPOUSE STRAIGHT BABER AT MEETING AT GERMANIA HALL. Col. George P. Waldorf last night in the presence of 180 "representative Republicans" formally confessed his repentance and sorrow over his connection with machine government in Lucas county, acknowledge that the Republicans of the county had rightfully repudiated at the polls the machine tickets, and asked forgiveness for his past transgressions. It was the political sensation of years, the first public confession and recantation of a machine Republican. When the ex-premier of the Republican cabinet, recently unhorsed by Walter Brown, had finished his confession and seated himself someone remarked in a perfectly audible tone, "I WONDER IF THERE'S A MENTAL RESERVATION!" Waldorf arose in response to calls from the rear of the hall. His first words caught instant and close attention. "There have been some things going on in this county for the past four years," he said, "that I want to forget. When a man who means right commits an error and acknowledges it, he ought to be forgiven." There was a dead silence for a moment and then there was a chorus of applause with laughter. Col. Waldorf continued: "The people have been dissatisfied with the management of political affairs in this county. The first rumbling of this discontent was heard when a good man went down to defeat --Dr. Hobart -- because the people believed, and unjustly, that he was controlled by a few men. "LAST FALL THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WAS NOMINATED BY THE SAME OLD METHODS AND THE PEOPLE REPUDIATED IT, AND THEY DID RIGHT. "Last November the people of this city destroyed the so-called cabinet or machine, but there are a few members of it left who do not know it." This last declaration was greeted with loud laughter. The colonel went on to pass an eloquent eulogium on Republican principles and expressed his unfaltering devotion to the Republican party and its nominees at all times. But he had a word of warning. He realized now that it was necessary for the party to get right down and let the people nominate by straight Baber. If the did not, two things would happen: the congressman nominated would be from one of the outside counties, and the Republican ticket would be again defeated. COL. GEORGE P. WALDORF.[ca 8-4-06] To the Territorial Central Committee: I hereby appoint my proxy for me and in my stead to attend and vote at the meeting of the above named committee, called to meet at Phoenix, August 4, 1906. of....................................County. [enclosed in Kibbey 7-14-06][*F*] W. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. Albuquerque, N.M. August 5th, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb:- I send you a copy of the St. John's Herald, containing a letter written by Mr. Isaac Barth, Chairman of the County Democratic Committee, and also a member of the Territorial Democratic Central Committee addressed to Mr. Ellenwood. That is about a sample of what is going on over in Arizona. Things are going our way very rapidly and I am sure we will win. With kind regards to yourself and the President, I remain, Sincerely your friend, W. H. Andrews Hon. William J. Loeb, Oyster Bay, L.I. N.Y.[For 1 enclosure 8-2-06] Translation. [*Ackd 8-17-06*] Clermont-Créans, (Sarthe), France. August 5, 1906. My dear President, I thank you for your reply, always so fresh, so categorical. Oh, what youth is yours! and how your youth and your confidence will have made amends for the old age and the scepticism of Europe. "The triumph of youth and of American faith over European old age and scepticism." That will be the theme of my speech at Pittsburgh, the 11th of next April. I shall make this address in English that it may make a deeper impression. I will give it at Pittsburgh and everywhere that you may deem it useful for me to speak a good word. Europe has need of America to be regenerated and saved. Admirable exchange of service; magnificent application of the great natural law: nothing is lost. Europe has created America, and behold, America is going to recreate Europe. All these forces, that ignorance and egotism oppose to each other, will end by aiding each other. You will truly have had the most glorious of roles by contributing to this harmony. Find for me favorable opportunities to render service to your country and to yourself during my stay in America. That will spur on Europe and the other heads of states. It is an indispensable act. I do not need to say that I accept with gratitude your invitation to the White House, whether before or after the 11th of April, I leave it for you to say. Your sincerely devoted D'Estournelle de Constant We should have been pleased to have given a warm reception to Mr. and Mrs. Longworth during their stay in Paris but they did not arrive until after the end of the season; Paris was empty. They can not compare it with London. It was not a fair trial. Over[*Ackd 8-17-06*] Translation. Clermont - Créans, (Sarthe), France. August 5, 1906. My dear President, I thank you for your reply, always so fresh, so categorical. Oh, what youth is yours! and how your youth and your confidence will have made amends for the old age and the scepticism of Europe. "The triumph of youth and of American faith over European old age and scepticism." That will be the theme of my speech at Pittsburgh, the 11th of next April. I shall make this address in English, that it may make a deeper impression. I will give it at Pittsburgh and everywhere that you may deem it useful for me to speak a good word. Europe has need of America to be regenerated and saved. Admirable exchange of service; magnificent application of the great natural law: nothing is lost. Europe has created America, and behold, America is going to .recreate Europe. All these forces, that ignorance and egotism oppose to each other, will end by aiding each other. You will truly have had the most glorious of roles by contributing to this harmony. Find for me favorable opportunities to render service to your country and to yourself during my stay in America. That will spur Europe and the other heads of states. It is an indispensable act. I do not need to say that I accept with gratitude your invitation to the White House, whether before or after the 11th of April, I leave it for you to say. Your sincerely devoted D'ESTOURNELLE DE CONSTANT We should have been pleased to have given a warm reception to Mr. and Mrs. Longworth during their stay in Paris but they did not arrive until after the end of the season; Paris was empty. They can not compare it with London. It was not a fair trial. OverAnd I have spoken only of Europe. How about the New World? [*[attached to Constans 8-5-06]*]SÉNAT Clermont-Créans Sarthe 3 août 1906. Mon cher Président, Je vous remercie de votre réponse toujours si franche, si catégorique. Oh, comme vous êtes jeune! et comme votre jeunesse et votre confiance auront corrigé [votre] la vieillesse & le scepticisme de l'Europe. "Le triomphe de la jeunesse et de la foi américaine, sur la vieillesse et le scepticisme européens." Voilà le thème de mon discours à Pittsburgh; le 11 avril prochain. Je ferai ce discours en anglais pourqu'il porte plus profondément. Je le ferai à Pittsburgh et partout où vous jugerez utile que je porte la bonne parole. l'Europe a besoin de l'Amérique[*[For 1. attachment see Cartons 8-5-06]*] pour être régénérée et sauvée. admirable échange de services; magnifique application de la grande loi naturelle: rien ne se perd. L'Europe a créé l'amérique, et voilà l'Amérique qui va recréer l'Europe. Toutes ces forces que l'ignorance et l'égoïsme opposaient les unes aux autres finiront pas s'entre aider. Vous aurez en vraiment le plus beau des rôles en contribuant à cette harmonie. Trouvez-moi si belle occasion de rendre justice à votre pays & à vous-même pendant mon séjour en Amérique. Cela stimulera l'Europe à les autres chefs d'Etat. C'est une action indispensable. Il va sans dire que, j'accepte avec reconnaissance votre invitation à la Maison Blanche soit avant soit après le 11 avril, à votre choix. votre sincèrement dévoué d'Estournelles de Constant Nous aurions aimé à fêter M. & Mme. Longworth pendant leur séjour à Paris mais ils sont arrivés après la fin de la saison; Paris était vide; ils n'auront pas pu comparer avec Londres. It was not a fair trial. J.[*D*] Si je n'ai poulr que de change mais la monde mieux?Telegram. [*F*] The White House, Washington. 1 NY VV GI 100 Paid night-----9:50a Albuquerque, N. M. August 5/6. [*[1906]*] Wm. J. Loeb: Joint Republican and Democratic committee met at Phoenix yesterday; Vote against joint statehood in the Republican Committee was thrity-five to fifteen. When Governor Kibbey made the call for the meeting he sent out proxies to all the committeemen asking them to sign same and return to the Secretary with the aid of Sturgess and Frank Murphy they succeeded in getting a large amount of proxies hence the vote. The President's friends in Arizona claim that majority of that Committee is in favor of joint statehood on account of the President's position. I wrote you fully yesterday and again to-day. W. H. H. Llewellyn.[*Ackd 8-9-06*] W. H. ANDREWS ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. Albuquerque, N. M., August 5, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb:- Some days ago Mr. Smith, who is Private Secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, was in El Paso on his way to Arizona to spend his vacation with the National Committeeman, Mr. Sturgess. He had wired to Ex-Governor Otero to come down to meet him and Mr. Sturgess. Governor Otero took with him ex-Attorney General Prichard and they wired the Republican Chairman of New Mexico, Hon. H. O. Bursum to meet them in Albuquerque and they prevailed on him to go down to El Paso with them. Bursum went along, not knowing for what purpose he was wanted by Smith and Sturgess. They all fell on him (Bursum) to get him to turn in and defeat Joint Statehood in New Mexico. Bursum said No - he had told Col. Andrews in Washington and also had practically told the President that he and Mr. Luna would stand for the joint statehood measure. They then said they were getting up a job on Andrews to get him arrested on some charge connected with the Enterprise National Bank, but so far nothing has been found. That they were using Secretary Hitchcock's name - that he was in communication with the Receiver of the Bank and intimated that everything was being done to trump up some charge on Andrews, even if it would not stick in court-- if they could get the bank officials to arrest him it would knock him out here in carrying the joint statehood matter through. They complained very bitterly at Andrews for going over to the President's cause. Smith claimed that he had helped to defeat Rodey - now he was going to down Andrews. That he was the fellow who was carrying this joint statehood thing through. Bursum said Andrews was all right, that he was simply doing what was the proper thing to do. Sturgess complained that Andrews was getting the forces together in Arizona and that they would probably succeed in carrying it over there--that he (Andrews) had gotten old General Wilson into the fight, who is a hard fighter and that they would probably carry Arizona and Sturgess said that they have got to knock AndrewsW.H. ANDREWS ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. W. J. L. No. 2, 8/5/06 out at all hazards, that is, to stink him out. I write you this, so that you can call this conspiracy off. As I wrote you yesterday, we are all right and we are going to get through, unless we are hampered by such fellows as Smith. I wired you to-day the result of the committee meeting in Phoenix yesterday. Notwithstanding the actions of Governor Kibbey and Frank Murphy in securing the proxies there were fifteen votes that stood by the President's policy for jointure. I am satisfied Arizona will pull through as the pot is boiling over there. Andrews is an organizer and a fighter and I might say a genius and I don't wonder old man Quay won his fights in Pennsylvania. I am going to remain here a day or two to help Colonel Andrews to shape things up. Faithfully yours, W. H. H. Llewellyn. Hon. William J. Loeb, Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y.[*Ackd 8/18/06 Enc retd*] 5 August 1906 Sunday STATION, CLANDON L & S.W.R. NEWLANDS CORNER, MERROW DOWNS, GUILDFORD. Dear Mr. President Knowing that you were good enough to take interest in the Spectator Experimental Company I asked ColonelI suppose however he would say he had gone into all these already in his letters in the Spectator. At the beginning of September the [men] Company will I hope go to Aldershot to be inspected by Sir John French who is an admirable trainer of men. Believe me dear Mr Presdent yours vy sincerely J St Loe Strachey[*Ackd 8/18/06 Enc retd] 5 August 1906 Sunday STATION, CLANDON L & S.W.R. NEWLANDS CORNER, MERROW DOWNS, GUILDFORD. Dear Mr. President Knowing that you were good enough to take interest in the Spectator Experimental Company I asked ColonelPollock ( who is our trainer) to write me a letter which I could show to you dealing with the training. Unfortunately he has not done quite what I wanted but he has written a very interesting letter of sound general ideas & so I send it on, I wanted something much more specific as to the method of training & the general results & the effect on the men's minds & bodies.I suppose however he would say he had gone into all these already in his letters in the Spectator. At the beginning of September the [men] Company will I hope go to Aldershot to be inspected by Sir John French who is an admirable trainer of men. Believe me dear Mr Presdent yours vy sincerely J St Loe Strachey[*PF*] WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON Pointe-au-Pic,Canada, August 5, 1906. My dear Mr. President: I have read General Wood's letter, and have taken a copy of it because of what he says on several subjects. It is a very interesting letter, and I concur with him in all that he says. I rather think that his statements show how absurd it would be for us to attempt to give the Filipinos independent government, with the hope that they can better themselves without outside aid under present conditions. Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Enclosure.[*F*] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. Pointe-au-Pic, Canada, August 5, 1906 My dear Mr. President: I merely write to congratulate you and all on the great speech which Root made at the Pan-American Congress, and on the good effect that it certainly will have on the South American Republics. The personal touch and presence, and expression of good will under the circumstances, are of much more importance among Latin Americans than they would be among us Anglo-Saxons. I sincerely believe that Root's visit to every South American capital and his coming home, as he will, with the eyes of the country fixed on him as having done something of the highest importance with respect to our relations on this Hemisphere, may bring him to the fore. If he could be induced to run for Governor of New York, I believe he could be elected. It would be a very hard fight, but the Democrats are getting into such a tangled condition that a man of his strength would find many Democrats behind him, and he would unite our party. A test of this sort, and a successful one, would do much toward dissolving the feeling of doubt as to his running powers. There is nothing that so reduces the formidable objection to a man as a candidate, and that really takes the sting out of the objection for election purposes so much as having gone through one campaign successfully, in spite of the objection. It then comes burnt powder. As ever, Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft The President, Oyster Bay, N. Y.[*F*] United States Senate Detroit, Mich., August 6, 1906. My dear Mr. President:- I think your letter of 4th inst. should be very comforting to the friends of Colonel Patten, because I know he is one of the truest men who ever lived and is most capable. This is the only reason why I became interested in him as I had never seen him until I went into the War Office. There would be no reason for my extreme anxiety for Colonel Patten's promotion had he not appealed to my ideals of loyalty, integrity and capability. If you make this promotion, Mr. President, you will not only reward the highest type of a man, but you will know that you have done for me a great personal favor which will not be forgotten. I am very much pleased at what you say of my natural force. All men are fond of a flattering word and when they get it from such a high source it has its high value. Concerning my health, I feel very uncertain. Can only do the best I can and hope. Would you please make my best regards acceptable to Mrs. Roosevelt. Respectfully yours, R. A. Alger The PRESIDENT, Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*Clarkson JS*] CUSTOM HOUSE, SURVEYOR'S OFFICE. New York. August 6th, 1906. Dear Mr. Loeb: I do not know whether you are aware of it or not, but I have a son-- my second son Harold R. Clarkson, --living at Montevideo, Uruguay. He went there four years ago in connection with a gold mining enterprise up in the Andes, which project has had varying fortunes waiting upon the approach of a railroad which was to have been built very rapidly but is not yet completed. This has left him a good deal of leisure time in Montevideo. He was acquainted with Spanish before he went there, and has pretty nearly perfected himself in it since. He first went to Montevideo while Col. Swalm, an old Iowa friend of my family, was Consul there, and, through him and Mrs. Swalm, got intimately acquainted with the President, Cabinet Ministers and other native dignitaries. He early became a member of the leading social clubs, and has had quite a social swing in the town. He knew Edward C. O'Brien, the American Minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, as all my family did, before he went to Montevideo, and, naturally, found great pleasure in General O'Brien being sent there. My son has often written me about the poor repute in which America was held in Uruguay because of the boorish ministers sent there who did nothing to make themselves or their country prominent there. He has just sent me a letter telling of what General O'Brien has done by way of counteracting this impression, and especially of the minute and extensive preparations which he has made for the reception of Secretary Root. While this letter was written entirely for the information of Mrs. Clarkson and-2- myself, I think maybe the President would be interested in glancing over the detail of it; and it has occurred to me that General O'Brien is entitled to have it known at headquarters how zealously and faithfully he is undertaking to popularize his government and people in South America. I also enclose some photographs which Hal himself took---as he is quite a kodaker---of some of the receptions held by Minister O'Brien. The President may find a few minutes in the hammock when this interesting detail from a faraway country would help him to beguile the time. In all his letters to me, which, of course, are very frequent, Hal has constantly said that O'Brien was working diligently to make a new record for the United States there and was succeeding. I am going away tomorrow to Nova Scotia, to stay two or three weeks on a farm and to have some good fishing and get ready to be back here early in September for the great flood of work which will be upon us in that month and in October and November. We are going to break all records in this port this year, and I can say to you that the port was never officially as well organized to do the work in the best possible manner that it is now. Sincerely yours, James S. Clarkson Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, N.Y.[For 3 encs. see Clarkson to Clarkson 7-12-06 & LA 7-12-06 & 7-8-06][*Ackd 8/8/06*] VIRTUE LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, JUDGES' CHAMBERS. HON. JAMES T. MITCHELL, CHIEF JUSTICE. HON. D. NEWLIN FELL, JUSTICE. HON. J. HAY BROWN, JUSTICE. HON. S. LESLIE MESTREZAT, JUSTICE. HON. WILLIAM P. POTTER, JUSTICE. HON. JOHN P. ELKIN, JUSTICE. HON. JOHN STEWART, JUSTICE. Philadelphia. Aug. 6, 1906. [*Personal*] To the President, I would be pleased to go over some matters pertaining to our Pennsylvanian affairs if agreeable to you sometime within the next ten days. I can arrange to go over almost any time you might think proper to name. With the assurance of my very great esteem I remain, Very sincerely yours, Jno. P. Elkin [*[Elkin]*][*P.F] Florence, August 6th 1906 Dear Mr Loeb, Your telegram of Thursday makes me surmise that the President has been annoyed by some newspaper reports about the words in which I spoke of him in my address to the Pope as spiritual director of the American pilgrimage to Rome. There must have been some misrepresentation, as I am conscious of having said nothing that is not in conformity with the well known policy of Mr Roosevelt to give a square deal to all American citizens, catholics as well as non-Catholics, and if anything different was published, it was against my wish and intention, because I appreciate very strongly the delicacy with which the official relations in the matter me to be touched upon. I spoke neither as an accredited agent, nor as a diplomat to whom any mission had been entrusted, but as a friend whom Mr Roosevelt had allowed to greet the Pontiff in his name by sending him his profound regards. The President knew I was to head an American pilgrimage and it was before the pilgrims alone that I read his friendly words without any intention of having them more than alluded to by the press. If they were reported in full, it was without my knowledge, and even so, if correcty stated, I trust they contain nothing that would be hurtful to the chief executiveof the American Republic. The text I enclose, which is an English translation from an Italian translation from the English, will, I am convinced, even in [f]its defective form, clearly prove this. Yet I beg Mr Roosevelt pardon for having possibly pained him, and in the future I will no more quote his words of April 28th, contenting myself with giving him every where the praise he is entitled to for his goodwill to all his fellow citizens and for his friendship to me. Sincerely yours + H. Gabriels Bishop of Ogdensburg. Address: Munokswala Belgium P.S. I regret not being able to forward letter last Thursday. Delay was caused by not having sooner the English translation of my address to the Holy Father. Kindly pardon mistake[r]s of Italian type writer.INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, Aug. 6th, 1906 190 Hon. William H. Andrews, Albuquerque, N.M., Dear Sir:— I attended the meeting of the Central Committee at Phoenix, where both so called Republican and Democratic Territorial Central Committees met on the 4th of August, the former in the Secretary's office and the latter in the office of the Governor. Note the preference granted to the Democracy by the Governor giving them the use of his Office while he packed the true Republicans and the conglomerates over to that of the Secretary. The meeting of the Republicans was called to order after ten Oclock, and Kibby took the floor and talked in opposition to Jointure, and added that it had become necessary for him to either resign the office of Governor or the Chairmanship of the Central Committee. He said that he had been advised by some of his friends to take the latter step. That he might not be wrongly quoted, he said he had prepared a statement to the Committee in writing in presenting his resignation. Then he read it. In this he injected more opposition to jointure and then went on to round up the railroad and Mining Corporations that are paying very little taxes in the territory. He stated that the Statehood question could not be considered an issue, but that the Corporations would no doubt try to make it one--overshadowing all others to divert the mind of the people from the real issues that need attention at the coming election. That portion of his statement in resigning the chairmanship which refers to under taxation of the Corporations[*2*] INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, 190 will be fine literature for the statehood element to use in the coming campaign. The personal attendance at the Republican meeting was light. I think over one third of the members were represented by proxy and most of these in the hands of the Governor or his private Secretary, all of which voted at all times against jointure, which gave the opposition a majority in the Gaddis & Perry Company wholesale and retail dealer in the Committee meeting and they carried ever thing before them. The vote on statehood matters stood 35 to 15, and on the conjunction with the Democracy--32 to 18. Of the members present I think we had a majority but I did not take the opportunity of counting faces. The Governor's appointees were all there in full array-to the beck and call of the the Governor. Several of the Committee there who are my personal friends told me confidentially that they favored Jointure and would vote for it but that certain circumstances existing forced them to support the opposition in this meeting. Not withstanding my anger at them, at the same time I could not help but feel a kinder of sympathy for men placed in such cowering positions. Another said he held a Federal jop and could not afford to loose it, while another stated that the opposition had the reins on his business. And so it went. I talked with Hon. I. T. Stoddard regarding Jointure. He said we had every arguement on our side and that away down deep in his soul he was for it would vote for it but that the opposition is banking on his support. I found quite an under current in Phoenix, favorable to statehood but not saying any thing for fear business or political interests might be injured. I know that the Governor's Secretary[*3*] INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, 190 had the proxy of [the] Mr Haggett of Yavapai and voted it for the opposition all the time and at same time Haggett is a strong Jointure man. I called him down on this and his reply was that the proxy was given him and he would vote it as he pleased. We had a hot fight and shot hot lead in to the opposition all the time and they took it with bowed heads but still vote yea with the opposition. During all our deliberations Frank Murphy sat in the Secretary's private office pulling the strings over the opposition. He and Mark Smith and Ellinwood controled affairs there just as completely as if they had constituted the Committee them selves. This is the State of affairs here when it comes to the meeting of a body like ours was there. He got roundly roasted by both Bird and myself and had to sit and take it. In my talk I refered to the fact of Murphy's activity in the Statehood matter and of his branding of all who favored Jointure in Arizona as traitors and I denounced him. Bird made a good speech there and they had to listen. The Railroad and Mining Corporation dominated that meeting and Kibby seemed to be an unrestless tool. He appeared like a hen on a hot hoe. They appointed a Committee of three to confer with a like committee of the Democrats to consider plans of fighting statehood. This Committe reported back with the recommendation that the Constitutional Delegates from the several Counties, be prorataed between the parties according to the votes cast respectively for the two Delegates to Congress at the last election, and the Convention for both parties to be called to meet at Bisbee, on the 13th of September. This met with considerable[*4*] INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, 190 opposition among the antis them selves and for a while it was dropped and I thought would pass over with out action, but Murphy set by and later forces on the Committee, to appoint the Committee of three perminently to act with the Democrats, but they would not se the day that the Democrats favored, to wit, the 13th. We set the time and place, Sept. 6th, at Brisbee. Old Dady Sturgess was elected Chairman to fill the un expired term of Kibby. After our adjournment, I had some business with Kibby, and while going over this, one of our Committee came in and said do you know what the Democrats done about setting a day. He said no. Then the delegate stated that they had set Sept. 6th. At this Kibby grew nervous and asked me and C.H. Akers, to go down stairs before our Committeemen got scattered and call them back in session that we set a different day. We went after them but many of them had scattered and we done nothing further, but I should not be surprised to hear that Kibby had a change made any way. I was told there that away down in Kibby's heart he favored Jointure, this by a man who is in close touch with him and that he believes he could be made to switch. The Arizona Republican and the Enterprise both come out and state that Allen T. Bird and O.D.M. Gaddis, were the only lonely ones there sowing the seed of discord. This come out on the fourth. On the 5th, the Republican mentions the names of J.L. Hubbell and Capt. John Hogue, as two Stallwart republicans being honestly misguided in the matter, but had nothing to say of Bird and myself. I infer from this that the sheet counts us as dishonest in our efforts. You, [will] no doubt will see the reports from the Arizona papers. Dont over look seeing that of the[*5*] INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, 190 Prescott, Journal Miner. It does give our strength there and admits that it was unexpected. It also states that the Democrats did not pass an anti jointure resolution after seeing what happened in the Republican Committee. I am writing you under another cover regarding another matter. Should you fail to receive it along with this, please wire me. With best regards, and hoping for success, I am yours truly, O. D. M. Gaddis [*P.S.:- I forgot to say that General Wilson was there & that we met and formed a Territorial Statehood league--with seven counties represented. Elected the General President of it. He will go ahead & do all we can--Please do not use my name at this time for the Press*][*[Enclosed in Andrews, 8-7-06]*]INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ARIZONA CAPITAL, $40,000, FULL PAID GADDIS & PERRY COMPANY wholesale and retail dealer in GENERAL MERCHANDISE DIAMOND "M" FLOUR GIANT POWDER CO 1 1/2 per cent per month charged after 30 days O. D. M. GADDIS, President J. E. PERRY, Vice President and Secretary POSTOFFICE IN BUILDING Hay, Grain and Feed Mining Supplies of Every Description BRANCH STORE AT YUCCA, ARIZONA. Kingman, Arizona, Aug. 6th,1906 190 Dear Mr. Andrews:- The matter I mentioned in my other letter to day that I would write about is this: I had a long talk with C.H. Akers, Editor of the Daily Gazette, Phoenix, after the adjournment of the Committee meeting. He is ripe to come over to our support with his paper, but says if he does he will undoubtedly loose considerable of his advertising business for a while and that the one who has a string on the paper may and in all probabilities will coerce him. This is the position he is in. Now comes the cold proposition as to what we shall do in this case. By getting his paper on our side we would at once have the support of the colums of a good daily and a man in Akers who is tireless in effort and would make a hard fight for statehood in Phoenix and Salt River Valley, the thickest portion of our population. He told me that the Governor's statements in his resignation, regarding the situation of the Corporations on the matter of taxes had opened his eyes and that that document would make the best campaign matter. That he could take simply just that document and go to every merchant and taxpayer of prominence in his County and show them where they stood on tax roposition and that he was firmly of the belief that the could make a big sweep in favor of statehood. He told me that a number of merchants there in Phoenix, had told him that they favored statehood but they they feared to come out openly for fear they would injure their business. I believe Akers could do good work for us, in fact I know he could. Can we raise for him the sum of five thousand dollars to put him an easy seat and start the ball rolling at once? He is in debt and hustling for a living and the life of his business on gaining grounds. The proposition is if we can arranged this matter so as to bridge him over the adverses of a change of front in the statehood matter, we will have a leading daily in Phoenix and the only republican paper there, for the Arizona Republican, being controled by the Murphys has practically gone over to Mark Smith and his gang, and is opposing us with its might and the other daily there is Democratic. Whether we carry Arizona or not, we must roll up the best vote possible-proving the statements of the Committee of twenty five from Arizona, before congress to be false, hoping thereby to be admitted at the short session of Congress any way. I can do but little here in the way of raising money. Our force in Mohave are not in position to put up. On receipt of this let me hear from you and if you think we can raise the wind let me know and if favorable and you desire to meet Akers and I in New Mexico, we will go and see you that arrangements can be made. If we can arrange matters it will prove the drawing card of the season. Let this letter be strictly confidential as if we cannot connect, and it should leak out it would injure Akers. I think a conference with Akers would prove very satisfactory to you. Yours truly O. D. M. Gaddis[*[Enclosed in Andrews 8-7-06]*][*F*] Wm. W. Hart Taxidermist and Furrier 451 Seventh Avenue The Den Telephone 5452 38th St. New York, August 6th 1906 Mr. Wm. Loeb Sec. to the President, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir: Your favor of yesterday is at hand and I shall be pleased to go to Sagamore on Oct. 1st, and will report the exact condition of the Bear Skins, etc., Thanking you, I am dear Sir:, Faithfully yours, Wm. W. Hart. per M.[*F*] "Not Slothful in Business. Fervent in Spirit. Serving the Lord." L. V. MCKESSON, REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INVESTMENTS. PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLD. 215-216 THE MARK. TELEPHONE 1650. TOLEDO O. 211-214 GARDNER BLDG. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President, of United States, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear President:- I thank you very much for your letter of July 7th, explaining how appointments are made. Your illustration made it very clear. I know George P. Waldorf was one of McKinley's appointees. The President did not want to appoint him. Hanna was told that Waldorf was a "tarred stick yes Hanna said, "but he is our tarred stick. The unfortunate thing about McKinleys administration was, that he allowed his managers to make the appointments, and in these appointments, the aristocracy of crime prostituted the country to conditions that you and I are now familiar with. As a proof of all that I have said with reference to George P. Waldorf's unworthiness for a position under your administration, I enclose two clipping from recent Toledo papers. I can see how you would be embarrassed to retire him after the favorable report of the inspector. The fact that his office is conducted on first class principles, and that our capable secretary of the treasury from whose office the inspection was ordered, has prickly heat desires for the next presidential candidacy. All this tends to prejudice the situation. I remarked to Mr. Edwards, Mr. Shaw's secretary, that he had election in Ohio, his answer, you had better go to Taft, which I was very glad to do. I am satisfied that Mr. Waldorf was not inspected on his moral fitness or his associations with the corrupt machine. It is commonly known that he is leader in as low political manipulations as were ever"Not Slothful in Business. Fervent in Spirit. Serving the Lord." L. V. MCKESSON, REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INVESTMENTS. PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLD. 215-216 THE MARK. TELEPHONE 1650. TOLEDO O. 211-214 GARDNER BLDG. P. T. R. -2- operated. One of the reliable clerk's in his office, said, "huh, the farce of the Bowen Inspection". I am glad to see a general stampede to get into the President's wagon, but it is a last resort. I do not know of any men who are talked of for this position, if conditions should so shape themselves as to make it necessary for a re-appointment, who would so heartily represent your principles as Leroy E. Clark. First of all, the machine men would want to retain Waldorf as their most efficient man, then I think Dick would be glad to put in McMaken. I have been told from pretty reliable source, that, if Dick would ask Foraker to endorse McMaken, he would do so. I want you to know that his appointment would not represent your ideas and my candid opinion is, that he would be very little better than Waldorf. Of course they are all going to be good now since you have won your hard fought battles and the people have driven them to the last ditch. I was wonderfully edified by reading Secretary Taft's speech in the south. It can not help but inspire the best citizens of the south to higher thinking and acting. In closing this letter I want to express my confidence in what you will do with reference to these or any other appointments, for I thoroughly believe in your integrity and ability. Sincerely and Affectionately, L. V. McKesson Dic-McK-[*[For 1. enclosure see Waldorf, 8-4-06]*]CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION: THEODORE P. SHONTS. CHIEF OF OFFICE: W. LEON PEPPERMAN. ISTHMIAN CANAL AFFAIRS OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION PANAMA CANAL BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. EES— GENERAL AUDITOR: ERNEST S. BENSON. GENERAL PURCHASING OFFICER DAVID W. ROSS. DISBURSING OFFICER: JAMES G. JESTER. August 6, 1906. My Dear Mr. Loeb: For your information I beg to say that Mr. Shonts left the Isthmus for New York yesterday, on our Company's steamer "Panama," and should reach the dock in New York about breakfast time Friday morning, the 11th. Very truly yours, W. Leon Pepperman [*[Pepperman]*] Mr. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President, Oyster Bay, New York. [[shorthand]] Sat.[*Ackd 8-9-06*] G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS 27 & 29 WEST 23RD STREET NEW YORK 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND. LONDON August 6, 1906 Dear Mr. President:-- I bear in mind that you make time during your journeys for a little historical reading between your official responsibilities. I am giving myself the pleasure of sending for consideration at some such "history hour" a copy of a book that I have myself just finished [completed], and which appears to me to constitute a most original, striking, and valuable contribution to American History. The period, that of the organization of the Republic, is one to which you have yourself given special study, and in which you are an authority. The author, Oliver, is an Englishman who might be referred to asbelonging to the Trevelyan school of historians, that is to say he is able to study American history with full freedom from the local prejudices which belonged to the majority of the British writers of the nineteenth century. He is, however, more critical than Trevelyan, and he has certainly a fuller understanding of the problems with which Washington and Hamilton had to contend. The volume is not merely a biography, but a critical study of character and of evolution. I feel confident that when you take time for its examination, you will find yourself in substantial accord with my commendation. I am, with much respect, Yours faithfully, Geo. Haven Putnam President Roosevelt.-2- As to the quality of the meat supplied. (The report here contains individual statements of a considerable number of officers and men of each vessel and continues.) 7. Every facility was given the Board by commanding officers and executive officers and commissary officers, to make its inquiry as comprehensive and thorough as might the deemed desirable. 8. The Board did not have the Contractor before it, and did not call upon him to reply to the above statements, believing it to be the intention only that information should be obtained from the ships affected. 9. In view of the above, the Board submits its opinions on the several points involved as follows: (1) We think the more severely critical and sweeping statements of some of the members of the general messes examined, overstate the facts of the case and should be accepted with a certain allowance. It seems that reports to superior authority were rarely made. In certain cases where a man states that these were made by others, it is doubtful if the intention was actually carried out. Complaints of food, either as to quality or quantity may always be made, are always received and investigated, and remedied when practicable; and we believe that such complaints would not fail to be made where food of very bad quality was frequently served. (2) in our opinion the statements contained in the clipping from the New York Press of July 21, 1906, insofar as they relate to tainted or spoiled meat, have no----3---- Substantial foundation. While tainted meat has been occasionally supplied, it has, we believe, in the great majority of cases, been detected and rejected, and has not gone to the mess tables. We believe, however, that meet and meat products may have been supplied which would have been tainted but for the improper use of preservatives, and that these preservatives rendered needs unpalatable and, possibly, unwholesome; and that these supplies did not always meet the requirements of the specifications which form a part of the contract. (3) It appears also that in some cases manufactured meat products, like hamburger steak and sausages have been of an inferior quality. (4) The Board is of the opinion that the cattle and sheep slaughtered for supply of ships at this very navy yard do not always meet the contract specifications. How often they fall below it we are unable to say. Where the meats are supplied cut up and ready for the coppers, as in the case of the Receiving Ship HANCOCK, it is very difficult to determine either of these points by inspection, and we think the information obtained indicates a probability that entire carcasses are not always delivered in their proper proportion, but that the best cuts are withheld and disposed of elsewhere. A means of avoiding this difficulty would be, in the case of ships his refrigerator and other facilities permitted--4-- the handling of considerable quantities of meat, to require from the contractor the delivery of complete carcasses. The character of the animals would thus be ascertained, and the delivery of the entire carcass would be assured. Very respectfully, (Signed) S.A. Staunton Captain, U.S. Navy. G.B. Wilson, Surgeon, U.S. Navy. W.B. Izard, Paymaster, U.S. Navy. The Commandant, Navy Yard, New York. Through Division Commander.[*[Enc in Bonaparte, 8-15-06]*](copy) U.S.S. COLORADO, Navy Yard, New York, August 6, 1906. Sir: 1. Referring to the clipping from the New York Press of July 21, 1906, the memorandum of the Navy Department, and the several endorsements thereon, herewith returned. 2. The Board appointed by the Commandant of the New York Navy Yard and Station, in the 2nd endorsement, has the honor to make the following report:- 3. The Board met on board the U.S.S. COLORADO at 10:30 a.m., August 2, 1906; present, all the members. 4. The junior member, Paymaster W.B. Izard, U.S.N., acted as recorded. 5. The clipping and endorsements referred to above were read aloud by the junior member, who also placed before the Board a copy of the contract with Thomas J. White, now supplying meat to vessels at the navy yard. 6. The Board decided to proceed as follows: - to visit the five vessels, HANCOCK, COLORADO, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND and PENNSYLVANIA; to examine the Executive Officer, Paymaster, Commissary Yeoman, Chief Master-at Arms, and any men of the General Mess who had made complaints of the quality of the meat; and, in the event that no complaints had been made, a sufficient number of the men from the several messes of the general mess to obtain the opinion prevailing[*Personal*] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. Pointe-au-Pic, Canada, August 6, 1906. [*Ackd 8/8/06*] My dear Mr. President: I send you a copy of the confidential letter I have from Magoon, which I think you will read with interest, which contains suggestions that may strike you as valuable. It would be a good stroke on many accounts to appoint Colonel Gorgas Governor of the Zone. He ought to have a lawyer of standing with him to advise him, but he has won the fight there, and this would be a graceful recognition of his victory. Again, as you know, we agreed that it was well to reduce the importance of the Governorship as compared with the work of the Chief Constructor on the Isthmus, and by the separation of the Minister in the Governor, this would be effected. Sands is a good man, and I think would make a good Minister. It is not necessary yet to determine it, however. I do not see much objection to delaying action until I see you in September. I will advise Magoon that we may have to delay his appointment to the Philippines until that time. I have received your very kind note, in answer to my long letter, and I have read it with a great deal of pleasure. I have a letter from Littlefield and from Carter, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Maine, asking me to come to Maine the latter part of August, or the first of September, and, with your concurrence, I am just about to prepare a speech, a copy of which I shall send you before I hand it to the press, and before delivery, for such suggestions of change as may seem wise to you. In this matter I have no hesitation in stating my-2- own views, but of course I understand that I cannot help occupying more or less of a representative capacity, and I do not wish to say anything that might embarrass you or the party on the issues which are but preliminary to the issues in the Presidential campaign. I feel, however, that both your statement to Gompers and the statement of Cannon leave no doubt about the position of the party with reference to the passage of the bill which Gompers insisted on, and that it is not only the right but the wise position for the party to take; that while the trades-unions are to be given all the liberty possible under the law for organization and for carrying out the legitimate purposes of such organizations, they are not to be put in the privileged class, and to have the remedial arm of the law weakened against their abuses any more than that arm is to be weakened against the abuses of organized wealth. The truth is that the common law is already tender in certain ways to the class of laborers, as I could explain; but to prevent men of property, and, what is more, men of the same class,- laborers who are not members of the union, from the use of the most efficient weapon which has been devised to protect their rights, viz., the writ of injunction, against not only possible but probable and certain abuse, is to create something akin to the benefit of clergy which the clerical profession was granted in the old days; and it is as un-Republican, or rather un-Democratic, as any proposition that has been made. I think we can afford therefore to meet the issue, and the way to meet the issue - I need not say to you because that is the only way you know how to meet an issue - is to meet it boldly when it has to be done. However, I shall try to be judicial judicious and moderate in my statements. As ever, Sincerely yours, Wm H Taft The President, Oyster Bay, N. Y.[For enc. see 7-24-06][*Ackd 8-8-06*] THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PHILADELPHIA MR. BOK'S OFFICE August seventh Nineteen hundred and six My dear Mr. Loeb: At your early convenience will you kindly lay before the President the enclosed proof of Doctor Egan's article and then let us have it back as soon as possible? If the President finds no occasion to make changes the page is all ready to go to press, but we trust that he would not hesitate for a moment so to amend the article as to make it perfectly satisfactory to him, no matter how many changes we might be called upon to make in order to meet his wishes. Cordially yours, Wm. V. Alexander Mr. William Loeb, JuniorW. H. ANDREWS, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C. [*F*] Albuquerque, N. M., August 7, 1906 My dear Mr. Loeb:- I inclose you newspaper clippings of the joint meeting held at Phoenix on Saturday the 4th instance, also two letters from Mr. O. D. M. Gaddis. The reason I select these two letters is that they cover the ground thoroughly and give you an idea of what is going on and I have a great mass of correspondence, but they are all of the same tenor and one letter is as good as all of them. I am satisfied we have them on the run. I wish you would notice what Mr. Gaddis has to say about the Phoenix Gazette. I knew that Mr. Akers was anxious to go along with us, but I also knew the indebtedness he had on his paper. He is afraid of being closed out if he jumped in, but Mr. Bursum, Mr. Luna and myself are going to fix this matter up at once. I have heard nothing from brother Penrose about the Mitchell matter. I think the miners are generally inclined to go with us and the Mormons are coming in rapidly over there on their own hook- they have evidently not yet received instructions from Utah, but they are coming in rapidly and the Mexicans also and with the miners, gamblers and saloon people, it will make a pretty clean sweep. I am expecting to get the President's letter daily, also the buttons. They tell me over there that the President being so strong for the measure, is the principal reason what is driving the people in. You and I talked about that feature when at Washington. I am satisfied that it is this what is bringing it about. Sincerely, your friend, W H Andrews Hon. William J. Loeb, Oyster Bay, L. I., New York[*[For 2. enclosures see 8-6-06]*][*File*] ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, IND., CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM, VT. KNUTE NELSON, MINN. HENRY E. BURNHAM, N. H. JOHN KEAN, N.J. CHARLES DICK, OHIO. SAMUEL H. PILES, WASH. THOMAS M. PATTERSON, COLO. JAMES P. CLARKE, ARK. FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS, NEV. JAMES B. FRAZIER, TENN. THOMAS R. SHIPP, CLERK. UNITED STATES SENATE. COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES, WASHINGTON. Rangeley, Maine, August 7, 1906. [*Private*] Dear Loeb: As you know my speech opening the Maine campaign will be a Roosevelt speech from first to last, weaving in the tremendous record that the Administration has made in a business way, etc., etc., etc. Don't you think it would be a tremendous good scheme to have the associated press send out now 1st that I am to open the Maine Campaign & 2nd that this is practically the opening of the national campaign? We will then have things practically as we want them. If you think this a good scheme, cannot you tip it off. I do not know a man outside of Indiana that I would write this letter to but your own loyal self. Sincerely, A.J.B. Hon. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Oyster Bay, N.Y.(Secretary Bonaparte's answer) NAVY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON August 7, 1906. Sir: I have received your letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing the copy of your editorial of July 27th. I had read this editorial throughout before writing you. An officer of the Pay Corps of the Navy was accused to the Department of behavior so gross and indecent that its details are unsuitable for publication. He was brought to trial by court-martial, was convicted, and received a sentence which did not include dismissal from the service. The Department, in its review of the case, commented with severity on the Paymaster's conduct, and, while approving the conviction, censured the sentence as inadequate. Under the law neither the President nor the Secretary of the Navy could do anything more. You said in your editorial: "The Secretary of the Navy, with the indorsement and possibly at the instigation of President Roosevelt, has performed many official acts during his brief career in the Cabinet which have caused astonishment to those who had knowledge of the facts; but he seems to have surpassed himself in the case of Paymaster x x x x x." Among the "many official acts" on my part which had "caused astonishment to those who had knowledge of the facts," the particular case in which I "seemed to have surpassed myself" was what you called later in the same article my "leniency" to this man. You knew when you wrote to me that I had shown him no "leniency," that I had punished him-2- as severely as the sentence of the court-martial made possible, and had expressed by regret and disapproval that I could not punish him more severely. Your editorial suggested that this "official act" in which I had "surpassed myself," was done "with the endorsement and possibly at the instigation of President Roosevelt." What the President really did when he learned of the Paymaster's conduct and the court-martial's sentence, you may or you may not know; but, in either case, your suggestion as to him was made, and made to your knowledge, without any justification in fact. I did not overlook the portion of the editorial mentioning that "it is said in explanation of the Secretary's leniency" that "the law gives him and the President x x x x no power to inflict a more severe sentence." This you professed to find "difficult to believe" when you wrote the editorial, but you certainly believed it when you answered my letter. You have accused two men of good character, both holding important public offices, one of them the highest off