VOLUME 54 February 4, 1905 to March 31, 1905 SERIES 2Indexed to page 71, 168, 282, 429, End.State, Secretary of, 8, 55, 108, 139, 195, 233, 344, 472, 482, 495, Treas., Secretary of, 276, 356, 397, 489, War, Secretary of, 4,9, 31, 49, 59, 304, 329, 337, 341, 345, 379, 402, Attorney-General, 124, Postmaster-General, Navy, Secretary of, 81, 145, 418, 425, Interior, Secretary of, 43, Agriculture, Secy. of, 20, Com. & Labor, Secy. of,Abbott, E. H. 24, Atkins, Mrs. A. B. 72, Abbott, Rev. Dr. Lyman, 84, 223, Allison, Hon. Jr. 115, Anthony, R. A. 236, Andrews, S. H. 282, Aldrich, C. H. 295, Anderson, Miss S. C. 368, 405, Arctander, J. W. 494,A B Blommers, O.[Y]. 16, Bratton, C.B. 30, Bacon, Robt. 56, Bryan, Hon. W.J. 60, Bunnell, A.O. 87, Butler, CH. 99, 375 Bishop, J.B. 122, 157, 263, 281, 391, 413, 433, 459, Butler, Prest . N.U. 128, Byrne, Major [Joro.?] 130, Bonheur, L.L. 134, Bonaparte, Hon. C.J. 144, Buxton, E.N. 146, 361, Bridges, Robt. 159, 414, 419, Beach, R.W. 165, Bradley, Hon. 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Chas. 377, Traverse, Mrs. F.C. 393, Tyler, Mrs. A.C. 437, Tracey, Mrs. Chas. 445, Tuckerman, Miss Emily, 503, T U V W Van Wormer, J. R. 53, Vernon, Res. Dr. W. T. 58, Van Tuylee van Serooskerken, Baron E. L. L. 126,234, Van Ingen E. 134, Von Briesen, Arthur 387,V W Wynne, Hon. R. J. (Pm. Y.) (See front page) Wilson, Hon. Jos. (Secy. of Agric.) (See front page) ------------------------------------------------------- Williams, Hon J. S. 32, Whitney, Caspar 64, Washburn, C. Y. 89, Wood, C. E. S. 143, Wetmore, E. 149, Wendell, B. 194,253, Wood, W. S. 196, Wilson, Gen. J. U. 259, Wislir, Owen 273, Wood, Gen. Leonard 288, Wigmore, J. H. 303, Walcott, Dr. H. P. 316, Washburn, Hon. W. D. 362, Warner, Maj. Wm 378, Wrenn, R.D. 396, Wise, Hon. J. S. 426, Wilson, Hon. E. D. 475,YZ Young, Col. Lafayette, 88, Yeomans, Hon. J.S. 257, YZ Ziegler, Wm. 315, 1 Personal February 3, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: The Rev. John Alexander Dowie, with Mrs. Dowie, is soon to visit Mexico. He wishes especially to see President Diaz in connection with certain matters which he thinks will make for the peace of nations. May I ask you to procure for Dr. and Mrs. Dowie the interview requested? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Powell Clayton, American Ambassador, Mexico City, Mexico. 2 Personal February 4, 1905. My dear Senator Platt: I have already taken up Blumenthal's matter with Mr. Loomis, and it is to be attended to if it can properly be done. Now as to O'Brien: you will remember that at your suggestion I had on Secretary of State O'Brien last spring and positively promised to take care of his brother. Now I have written O'Brien telling him that I was able to offer him the ministership to Uruguay, and he had accepted. I do not see how in the world I can go back on it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate.3 Personal February 4, 1905. My dear Mr. King: I thank you for your letter; but of course there is not for one moment contemplation of making railroad rates on the basis that you speak of, or of doing substantially more than is done in theory now. The essential difference is simply that instead of, as in a case which has just been decided, letting the railroads hold off a decision three years, it goes into effect at once. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William F. King, 408 Broadway, New York.4 February 4, 1905. The Secretary of War: If they make no change in the Isthmian Canal law, we may want to make changes in the personnel of the commission. I am afraid Walker will have to go. I do not think Burr and Harrod are of much further use. Can you find out about two engineers named Bogue and Jacobs, both living in New York? I wish to Heaven I could get Root at a salary of fifty or a hundred thousand - which I would cheerfully give him to take complete charge and run this whole business. Theodore Roosevelt5 February 4, 1905. My dear Mr. Pradt: I regret that it is not in my power to attend the dinner in honor of the completion of forty years of service of Chief Justice Nott. I wish it were possible for me to be present in person, to testify to the regard and esteem I have for him, and to say how I appreciate what his services on the Court of Claims have meant to the Government. Wishing you a most pleasant evening, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. A. Pradt, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.6 February 5, 1905. Blessed Kermit: We have had cold weather, and although there has not been much snow it has laid on the ground so that we have had pretty good riding. Yesterday Dan Moore went with me alone on the sergeant's black horse, the runaway. Ted rides him all right, but Dan could not hold him and he bolted and ran all the way up Rock Creek, across bridges and over the half-frozen fords until he reached Silver Springs. I had an awful time hunting him up and at one time expected I would have to pass the night out in the woods seeking for him, in which case I would have been about as badly off as if you had had to pass the night out during the blizzard. Mother finds it rather cold for riding and has been out but once or twice recently. Senator Lodge goes with me this afternoon. Poor Ted has a huge boil or carbuncle on his neck, [*but*][and] is just as good-humored and uncomplaining as can be, and taught his Sunday7 School class as usual this morning. I think he is pretty good to get up early enough every Sunday morning to teach that Sunday School class. He has studied hard with Matt. He has improved very much in his boxing. By the way, Roly Fortescue insisted upon boxing with me the other day. I did not exactly want to box; I was afraid I would hurt him, and I did, giving him a most gorgeous pair of black eyes. Ethel has been under the weather; but Sister and the two little boys are as well as possible. I think Mother feels the strain of the social season a good deal now, and I shall be very glad for her sake with the 4th of March is past. I am at times driven nearly wild both by the Senate and by the Speaker. But I have been trying my best to get along somehow and not get in a hopeless snarl, as Cleveland did. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. 8 February 6, 1905. Dear John: The enclosed letter from the good Carnegie explains itself. I have written him that I utterly disagree with him. Foster is also weakening. He says he has grave doubts as to whether the Senate amendments are not Constitutionally right. I told him that in that case the thing to do was in manly fashion to say that it was not possible under our Constitution to pass general arbitration treaties, and to leave it at that. I hope to see you to-morrow, and that you have not been hurt by coming out to-day. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. Enclosure.9 February 6, 1905. Dear Will: About the medal of honor, I want to do whatever you think right; but don't you think it would be a little unfortunate for the Philippine Commission, which in a sense is composed of subordinates of the President, to present the President with a medal of honor? It seems to me to be a little unwise. I shall talk with you about it to-morrow. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. 10 Confidential. February 6, 1905. Dear George: Your letter is very satisfactory. I am not surprised at what the newspaper correspondent tells you. Unlike what is found in most wars, there is in this a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction among the military attaches and the newspaper correspondents with the side with which they happen to be serving. The feeling is by no means universal, but it is extensive. Our military attaches with the Russian army think that the Russians are colossal in their mendacity and trickery, and do not think they fight as well as the Japanese, and that they are at heart thoroughly hostile to all other European powers and to the United States, and would really like to make an alliance with Japan. They however like the Russians individually. As regards our representatives with Japan, Captain Morrison, Mr. George Kennan and Mr. Frederick Palmer strongly sympathize with the Japanese and like them individually and in mass - that is governmentally - and believe them to be friendly to America. On the other hand Captain March, Lieutenant Fortescue, John Fox and Richard Harding Davis immensely admire their valor and efficiency as soldiers, but think they are hostile to all white people, including America, and that they are insincere, treacherous and inscrutable. Personally, I greatly admire the Russian people; but I think the Russian government represents all that is worst, most insincere and unscrupulous, and most reactionary; and undoubtedly our people who live in11 2 Japan are better treated by the Japanese and have more sympathy with them than is the case with those who live in Russia. I like the Japanese; but of course I hold myself in readiness to see them get puffed up with pride if they are victorious, and turn against us, or the Germans, or any one else. However, I do not believe that any alliance with, or implicit trust in, any foreign power will ever save this country from trouble. We must rely on our own fighting power, in the first place, and upon being just and fair in our dealings with other nations, in the second place. Our regular army is insignificant in size, though I think most of the regiments would make good fighting units. Our navy is excellent. We will have no trouble with Japan, or with Germany, or with any one else if we keep our navy relatively in as good condition as it is now, and if we continue to show that we are honestly and sincerely desirous to deal honorably and fairly by all nations, and that we earnestly hope for their goodwill while yet being ready to defend our own rights if the necessity arises. In St.Peterburg Spring-Rice will call upon you. He knows just how I feel on all these matters, and you can talk with him without any reserve. England's interest is exactly ours as regards this Oriental complication, and is likely to remain so. If the situation on this point should change, I would of course wire you at once. But it is important that without any talk whatever being made of it, there should be a thorough understanding between us and the English as to what is happening. Moreover, at present the Germans seem inclined to act with us. I do not know how long it will continue; but meanwhile I would like you12 3 to be careful to keep on good terms with the German Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and to say to him that I have told you how much pleased I have been at the position taken by the Emperor,and my belief that the two countries will be able to work together as regards our policy in the far East. What the Japanese Minister said to you was substantially true. Of course, the military situation may alter; but if peace should come now, Japan ought to have a protectorate over Korea (which has shown its utter inability to stand by itself) and ought to succeed to Russia's rights in and around Port Arthur, while I should hope to see Manchuria restored to China. Of course it would be out of the question to forecast the details of peace now, because no one can tell whether the military situation will continue unchanged, or what will be the result if Russia keeps on the war for another year. I do not believe that Japan has the slightest intention of making an alliance with Russia, or that she will do so unless affairs change very much for the worse as regards herself and the war. If the Russians beat her, and she finds that America and England separately or together will give her no help, she may conclude that she has to make what terms she could with Russia. But this is not as yet among the probabilities. I think you had better be ready to go to St. Petersburg at once, as I should like to make the change immediately after the 4th of March. All of this letter is in the deepest confidence. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George V. L. Meyer, American Ambassador, Roma, Italy.13 February 6, 1905. Personal. Dear Curtis: I have your letter of the 4th instant. Senator Crane does not think we can with advantage start that inquiry into the child labor matter, but I am having a report made to me about the proposed investigation from the Department of Commerce and Labor. If you are attacked in the clubs about the Miles matter again, if I were you I would turn on the assailant and ask him what he means by being so unpatriotic a fellow as to desire to see the office of a Lieutenant General of the United States degraded by his acceptance of a small State position for the purpose of receiving pay to which he is not entitled from the Federal Government. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. 14 February 6, 1905. Personal. My dear Mr. Simon: Mrs. Roosevelt and I are of course delighted with the picture. It seems to me to possess that power of giving shape to imaginative symbolism which marks only the great artist. It will ever be one of our most cherished possessions. Mrs. Roosevelt and I have frequently gone down to see your "Castles in the Air"; and I am glad that we bought "Where Light and Shadow Meet" before we saw this "Castles in the Air", for upon my word I do not know which I would have chosen. With high regard, and renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Marcius Simon, 156 Boulevard Pereire, XVII, Paris, France. 15 February 6, 1905. Personal. My dear Mr. Harvey: Mr. Charles A. Gardiner of New York City has so exactly the views which I think ought to obtain in this Government as to what the proper construction is as to the power of the Executive that it seems to me it would be a very valuable thing if he could put these views before the people through the North American Review. I commend the matter to your personal consideration. With regard, Theodore Roosevelt Col. George Harvey, Editor, Harper's Weekly, New York, N. Y. 16 Personal February 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Blommers: I wish to thank you personally for your great courtesy in sending me the picture. I appreciate it, and wish you to understand how I value your remembrance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. O. G. Blommers, Scheveningen, Holland. 17 Personal February 6, 1905. Dear Colonel: I wish I had not grown so hardened and skeptical about newspaper reports of game. I place more confidence in the letter you enclose. But I want you seriously to consider whether it is worth while, [*as*][if] we do not have a very long time, [*to*] divid[*e*] that time between a possible bear hunt and possible wolf hunt, and th[en] [*perhaps*] slipping up on both. Unless you know your ground absolutely, and know what can be done, I advise you strongly not to take me on a bear hunt. I do not want to make a failure of the first hunt I go on during the trip, and I shall be after bears in Colorado. My experience is that you have to have a man who knows the ground thoroughly and a good pack to be able to do anything whatever with bear; and I should not suppose that you could possibly make a sure killing of a bear in a four days' hunt. Unless you are very positive of success I think we had better confine ourselves 18 to coyote, jack-rabbit, and wolf. What do you think of it? At any rate, let outsiders know that we are simply after jack-rabbits and coyotes. I do not want it to get into the papers that we are trying to kill bear, and then fail to get any. Remember that any failure on my part will be heralded all over the Union; and of course I shall arrive in Texas soft and in no condition to do what I could do after a fortnight in the open. Be very sure of the bear business before you embark on it. If you are absolutely sure that we can get jack-rabbits and coyotes by taking a week or ten days after them, let us try for them, and then let the announcement be made that that is what we are going to do instead of announcing something that we may slip up on. I suppose we shall leave here Sunday night, March 26th, and in that case we can begin our hunt about the 1st of April. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas. 19 February 6, 1905. My dear Colonel Evans: In the whirl of doing a million things - some of them I hope well, some of them I know not so well - your name was omitted from the Annapolis Board of Visitors and put on the West Point Board of Visitors. I had not understood that it was the Annapolis Board that you particularly wished. I suppose it came about on account of Mr. Cortelyou's absence in Europe. Now, do you care to go on the West Point Board, or would you rather that next year I put you on the Annapolis Board? Write me frankly; and I beg you to believe, my dear Colonel, that I deeply regret the mistake because of which you have been designated for the board you did not wish. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Dudley Evans, President, Wells-Fargo Express Co., 51 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 20 February 6, 1905. My dear Secretary Wilson: I do not like the way [position] in which in the Agricultural Appropriation Bill the two hundred and thirty-odd skilled laborers and laborers are proposed to be promoted to the classified service. It seems to me that if this bill passes I should have to have all those men dismissed, because it is intolerable that legislation of this kind be enacted. Cannot this be explained to the Senate and to whoever has the bill in charge, and a substitute offered for the last paragraph in the bill, providing that none of the promotions, transfers or appointments herein provided for shall take effect save under and in pursuance of the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission? I do not want to have to dismiss all these men; but I think I should have to do something drastic to emphasize my extreme disapproval of the measure. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.21 February 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Carnegie: I do not agree with you about the treaties. I am not willing to go into a farce. We have the power to make special arbitration treaties now, and it is simply nonsense, from my standpoint, to pass a general treaty which says that we can negotiate special treaties if we like, which of course we can do whether the general treaty is or is not passed. But I shall take up the matter with Secretary Hay to-morrow morning and go carefully over it with him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York, N. Y. 22 January 27, 1905. Dear Grant: Edith has shown me your letter. In the first place, about the windows. We do not want transoms or windows that open in or out. We want windows that open up and down with outside blinds. We are a little doubtful as to whether the sky-light is advisable. It might be more care than it was worth. Now, about the woods. Before settling on this I wish we could have some figures on the cost. As you know, we were very much nonplussed at the figures. Judging from the amount the Lodge's paid for their extension, we had not expected that the figures would be anything like as large. Would it be possible to have some other man, who might do the work cheaper, figure on them? How about that Oyster Bay builder, Mailer? Our idea is to have this room done as cheaply as possible, and as nearly as possible in the style of the rest of the house. If we could afford it of course we would like to have it handsome; but we can not afford it, and therefore we can only have as much beauty as is compatible with building cheaply a room of the necessary size. Our idea was to have the floor of cheap hard wood, the ceiling of 23 cheap wood, the walls with linen paper and finished in oak or similar wood like that we have in the rest of the house. Now, if you think it would not be incongruous, and if the cost of the whole thing is not too expensive, then we could put in the four pillars with the wood back of them, and finish the fireplace with wood over it. But before agreeing to purchase the Tindalo wood and the mahogany logs for these purposes, I think we ought to have an idea of what the whole expense will be. Then we can see whether we can afford to purchase these handsome woods even for this limited amount of work. Would having the four pillars and the wood back of them, and the wood above the fireplace, of handsome wood look incongruous? We love your plan with the bay window and with the pillars as a feature, and the big fireplace; but we feel we ought to know something as to what the cost will be before we commit ourselves to the expensive woods. Would it do to make the pillars of plain wood? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. Grant La Farge, 30 East 21st Street, New York. 24 Personal February 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Abbott: If your father has returned, show him this letter. There has been a kaleidoscopic change about the arbitration treaties. Most of the Republican and all the Democratic members of the committee have now agreed that they can not be passed without amendment and ought not to be passed, and that the original amendment to which I so strongly objected should be inserted, namely, that it should be declared and whatever agreement is hereafter entered into under these treaties is itself a treaty and requires ratification by the Senate. To my utter surprise, Andrew Carnegie and some other excellent gentlemen, who I think desire merely (although perhaps unconsciously) to make believe they have something when they have nothing, are inclined to support this. I still remain of the opinion which I expressed to your father, that if such an amendment is put in I had better withdraw the treaty on the ground that it is a sham, for we would be then in the position of having a treaty 25 which solemnly said that whenever we liked we could conclude another treaty - which of course we could do anyhow, without the preliminary treaty. I write you simply that you may know what the situation at the moment is. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*?? ????*] [*all these treaties, to which*] Mr Ernest Hamlin Abbott, [*the Senate*] The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. [*Foreign affairs*] [*Committee now object, ???*] [*submitted in advance to*] [*each member of the committee*] [*a year ago, and no*] [*member save Morgan raised*] [*any objection, or expressed*] [*anything save approval.*][*26*] February 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Love: The difficulty I have found has been [that of] primarily on geographical grounds. I had to make various appointments to Alaska for all kinds of men from different localities and I have not been able to find a place for you yet. If I am able to do so I most surely shall, but I dare not hold out immediate hope. With regret that I can not write more encouragingly, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. K. Love, United States Land Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.27 February 6, 1905. My dear General: I thank you heartily for your full and very satisfactory report on the Paul Jones matter. I shall send in a message to Congress at once. With warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Horace Porter, American Ambassador, Paris, France.[*28*] Personal. February 7, 1905. My dear Smith: The only comment I have to make on your editorial, as on your other writings about me, is that in all sincerity I do not feel that I can quite act up to the standard you set for me. My dear fellow, I thank you from my heart. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Editor, The Press, Philadelphia.29 February 7, 1905. My dear Mr. Hoar: If President Wright can arrange for me to lunch with you after the exercises at the college, it will indeed be a great pleasure. I thank you most warmly for your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Rockwood Hoar, Worcester, Massachusetts. 30 February 7, 1905. My dear Mr. Bratton: I thank you heartily for your letter and the photograph which you were good enough to send. Your father and mother are citizens of whom I am proud, and I congratulate them, especially your mother. With good wishes to all the members of your family, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chas. B. Bratton, Lewistown, Pa.[*31*] February 7, 1905. To the Secretary of War: In my last annual report to Congress I remarked, "We should, however, pay much more heed than at present to the development of an extensive system of floating mines for use in all our more important harbors." I should like to know what action has been taken by the Chief of Artillery in this matter. Theodore Roosevelt[*22*] Personal & private February 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Williams: Your letter interests me much. Can you come in tomorrow morning and let me talk to you about it? I am not prepared to give an offhand judgment. For there may be difficulties of which I am not cognizant, but personally, I have always wished that we could have the President inaugurated and the new Congress go into [*effect*] being on January 1st, just as is done in State legislatures. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John S. Williams, House of Representatives.33 February 8, 1905. Chief Jusice Edward Kent, Phoenix, Arizona. Shall I appoint Kibbey or would you accept the governorship yourself? Answer with entire frankness. Theodore Roosevelt. (Official) [*34*] February 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Sidwell: A year from next fall I want Archie to enter Groton School. May I ask if he is being trained with this and in view, and what you regard as the chances for his being able to pass the necessary entrance examinations? With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Principal Thomas W. Sidwell, Friends' Select School, 1811 I Street, Washington.35 February 8, 1905. Dear George: I thank you for your letter, and have gone over it with Alice. Some of that $5000 she says she will need at once. The rest I shall return to you and ask you to invest for her as you so kindly suggest. I am greatly obliged to you for all the trouble you are taking. With love to Mrs. George and to your father and mother, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George C. Lee, Jr., 44 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.36 February 8, 1905. My dear Dr. Hollander: Referring to your note of the 7th instant to Mr. Loeb, I am sincerely obliged to you. And now let me do with you what I cannot do with more than a limited number of men, and that is to ask you to let me know when you see a bit of work that you think you can do with advantage to the Government. I count it a piece of good fortune for the Government whenever I can have you work for it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Jacob H. Hollander, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[*37*] Personal February 8, 1905. Dear Seth: It seems to me you have stated the case exactly. We do not escape danger by the plan I propose, but we incur still greater danger by failing to take action. What Burgess says is most suggestive. I had not thought of it before. By the way, Depew is entirely right in saying that when we try to make too drastic legislation, it simply acts in favor of the very corporations aimed at. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street, New York.[*38*] February 8, 1905. Dear Florence: Edith and Alice are agreed that the colors of the waistcoats as you originally proposed them - which as I remember [*are*] were brown and yellow - are far better than those of Grant's waistcoat which so attracted my attention. So if it is not too late, keep to the original plan. It was a great pleasure and comfort to see you both here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant La Farge, 30 East 21st Street, New York.[*39*] February 2, 1905. Dear Bat: It was a pleasure to me to get you the appointment as deputy marshal. Now, you have doubtless seen that there has been a good deal of hostile comment upon it in the press. I do not care a snap of my fingers for this; but I do care very much that you shall not by any act of yours seem to justify this criticism. I want you not only to be vigilant, courteous and efficient officer, always on hand, always polite to every one, always ready for any duty that comes up, but I also want you to carry yourself so that no one can find in any action of yours cause for scandal or complaint. You must be careful not to gamble or do anything while you are a public officer which might afford opportunity to your enemies and my[*40*] critics to say that your appointment was improper. I wish you would show this letter to Alfred Henry Lewis and go over the matter with him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. B. Masterson, The Delavan, Broadway and Fortieth Street, New York, N. Y.[*41*] PERSONAL February 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Okeson: I hope you received the photograph. Let me thank you again for the cup and saucer. By the way, will you tell me exactly to whom it originally belonged? With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Horace H. Okeson, 1229 Seventeenth Avenue, Altoona, Pa.[*42*] February 8, 1905. Dear Mr. Speaker: Don't you think we can help out the soldiers who were penalized for what they did after the Galveston disaster by having their own money used to make good the loss of their effects at the very time when they were doing really wonderful work in guarding the city. The bill has passed the Senate and I understand it has been reported favorably from the Committee on Military Affairs of the House. But whatever you do I'll stand by! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. C. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.[*43*] February 8, 1905. To the Secretary of the Interior: I have personally examined the matter of the application of the City of San Francisco, through its official representative, an attorney, Mr. Percy V. Long, for permission to obtain its water supply from the Yosemite National Park. I find that the Geological Survey favors the granting of this application (the Reclamation Service having gone into the matter thoroughly) and regards it as a proper request to grant. It appears that the reservoirs which will be created and tapped are remote from the Yosemite Valley, and that no damage whatever to the National Park will follow from granting the petition. Accordingly I should like to hear from you as to why it would not be proper in the first place to grant to San Francisco the use of the Lake Eleanor reservoir site, and all rights of way for diversion canals thereto; second, to grant to San Francisco the right of way for diversion canals from the Tuolumne River below Chany Creek when requested; and third, to hold the Hetch-44 Hetchy and Tuolumne meadows reservoir sites for the joint use of the Turlock and Modesto irrigation districts and the City of San Francisco and other municipalities in the neighborhood, when it is shown that they are required for the use of either or both of the applicants. Theodore Roosevelt[*45*] Personal February 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: This summer I wish you could have the rural free delivery service investigated. Complaints are made that its classification under the civil service law has worked damage by making the classified force dictators to Congressmen. Moreover, it is stated that if there were not for this classification, retired farmers who already have teams, and who would not wish increased pay, would accept the positions they are now barred from taking because younger men obtain them and instantly begin a clamor for increased pay. I would like this matter looked into. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Chairman, Republican National Committee, The Arlington, Washington.[*46*] Personal February 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Carnegie: I wish to supplement my note to you of the other day. My view is that most emphatically we would not only not get the substance if we accepted the amendment, but we would get no shred of the substance, and would stay exactly where we are now under the Hague arbitration treaty. Moreover, as Hay pointed out to me when I showed him your letter, you are in error as to what occurred as to the British treaty concerning which you [spoke] wrote. You say, "I found the Secretary of State distressed about Arbitration Treaties as I once before found him about the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - Senate amendments in both cases. I said to him these had strengthened the latter and Britain would cheerfully accept them. He thought not, but later pronounced me 'a true prophet.'" Concerning this, Secretary Hay writes me that you have evidently forgotten the fact that the British Government did not accept the Senate amendments of the treaty in47 question, but on the contrary promptly rejected them. So that your prophecy, which he distinctly remembers your making, was not justified by the outcome. Amendments to a treaty are to be judged by the particular circumstances of each case. In this case there should be no amendment, and the proposed amendment would make the treaties absolutely worthless and therefore, in my judgment, improper to embody as part of the supreme law of the land. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York.48 February 8, 1905. My dear President Northrop: I have your letter of the 6th instant. Mr. Swenson is a perfectly fair man and has given satisfaction as a good, average Minister. He has been writing to everybody that an exception [may] should be made in his case and he be allowed to retain his position for twelve years, he having already been there eight. In my judgment eight years is the very limit that one of our Ministers should reside at any foreign court; and most certainly Swenson has done nothing which would justify making an exception in his case. We have in the diplomatic service a few exceptional people, but Swenson does not come in this class, but in that of the good, average, commonplace men who do well enough, but who have no claim whatever on the Government; for the obligation is due from them to the Government and not from the Government to them. I wish I could write you more favorably. I should [feel O'Darlen?], a better man, in Swenson's place. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Cyrus Northrop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.49 PERSONAL February 9, 1905. Dear Will: When you go to the Philippines next summer could you stop at Hawaii to look into the labor problem there, and especially into the Japanese business. Carter has written a very interesting letter to Hay, which I would like you to send for. The Japanese have become very numerous in the islands. They far out number the whites, and are now showing signs of an insolent temper, which may make them a most formidable problem. After reading Carter's letter would it not be well for you to communicate with him and see if he needs a regiment or two of troops in the islands. Yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. H. Taft, Secretary of War. 50 Personal February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Hunter: I am really obliged to you for that editorial. You understand, as most of my New York friends and critics naturally do not, what the Bat Masterson type is. I have been very glad to appoint a few men like Bat Masterson, Pat Garrett, Major Llewellyn, Seth Bullock, and others to positions. They are the real survivors of the Viking age, and correspond to those Vikings, like Hastings and Rollo, who finally served the cause of civilization. As far as I know, Bat Masterson's record is absolutely clean; but there are one or two, like my friend Ben Daniels, who in their youth did things they had no business to do, and who, for all that, are down at bottom far better men than many a smug citizen who looks down on them. With thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. H. Hunter, Care The Post, Washington.51 Personal February 9, 1905. My dear Driscoll: I think you have made out a pretty good case in favor of Barry. I did not mean that I preferred Jones. I meant that Jones had a greater record as a naval officer. His feat in the capture of the Sorapis was absolutely unique. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. E. Driscoll, House of Representatives. 52 Personal February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Irvine: Yours is a very kind letter, and I wish I could see you here. If you ever come to Washington, let me know. As for Mr. Blair, I shall take up his case with the Attorney General, but of course I shall have to consult with the representatives from the State of Washington when it comes to making the appointment. I am sure you understand that I have no power to appoint any man unless the Senate will confirm him, and the Senate will not confirm any man for whom at least one, and by preference both, of the Senators from the State will not veto. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. M. Irvine, Headmaster Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.53 February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Van Wormer: I have your letter of the 8th instant, and what you write naturally pleases me and I thank you cordially. It was very pleasant having you here, and I look forward to having Mike here next Tuesday. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John R. Van Wormer, The Lincoln Safe Deposit Company, New York. 54 February 9, 1905. My dear Mrs. Thorndike: I have your letter of the 7th, enclosing your sister's letter. I am happy to say that I shall be able to do even better than I expected, for I can send Mr. Thackara to Berlin. Colonel Roosevelt says he does not know German, and would prefer to stay in Brussels. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Paul Thorndike, 244 Marlborough Street, Boston. 55 February 9, 1905. Dear John: Will you look over & correct the enclosed letter? I think I shall then get the judgment of Taft and Moody on it. I also send you an interesting letter from Speck, about which I shall talk with you to-morrow. I also enclose you a letter from Meyer, which is also of interest. Choates note and [enclosing] Lansdowne's telegram [go are?] good I return it herewith. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, 800 Sixtennth Street. Enclosures.56 February 9, 1905. Dear Bob: I enclose check for $500 for the class gift to Harvard. I wish it were in my power to make it more. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bacon, 1 Park Avenue, New York. Enclosure[My dear Colonel Dodge:] 57 [I have your letter] of the 30th ultimo, and gladly enclose the note of introduction you desire. Good luck to you for Volumes III and IV of Napoleon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, 96 Avenue Kleber, XVIe, Paris, France. February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Permit me to cordially commend to you Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, the historian and student of horsemanship, who is an old personal friend of mine. I bespeak for him your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To the United States Ambassador to France, Paris, France. 58 February 9, 1905. My dear Dr. Vernon: I thank you for the address received through Mr. Mulvane, and I have genuinely enjoyed it. I want you to read the speech I am to make on Lincoln's Birthday at the Republican Club of the City of New York. In it I have tried (with what success I do not know) to make my position as to the colored man as clear as possible, and yet to do it in a way that would, if possible, arouse sympathy rather than antagonism for that position in the minds of the colored man's own neighbors, North and South. Be sure to let me see you if you ever come to Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. W. T. Vernon, President, Western University, Quindaro, Kansas. 59 February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Secretary: General Story's report certainly shows that the present status of the field artillery is most unsatisfactory. I am glad you are taking the matter up and that you will make the recommendation you intend to to Congress next year. I return the papers herewith. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosures. 60 February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Bryan: I thank you for your letter and the accompanying editorial on the question of civil service reform. I shall take it up with Civil Service Commissioner Cooley. It was a great pleasure to catch a glimpse of you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. J. Bryan, Editor and Proprietor, The Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska. 61 February 9, 1905. My dear Mr. Lamb: I greatly appreciate the honorary membership to which I have been elected by the Y. M. C. A. Bible Class of Richmond. May I through you express to them my gratification at what they have done and my appreciation of what it signifies? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Lamb, House of Representatives. 62 February 10, 1905. Dear Cabot: I need hardly tell you that from the time you said that you really wished Reynolds' appointment it was merely a question of where he was to be put--for it was a fait accompli that he was to be put somewhere. Always yours, T. R. Hon. H. C. Lodge, United States Senate.63 February 10, 1905, My dear Senator Platt: I thank you for Professor Farnam's letter. You have doubtless noon my letter to Secretary Hitchcock on the subject. Of course it is now a matter for Congress to legislate about, and whatever policy it promulgates I shall follow. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. H. Platt, United States Senate.64 Personal February 10, 1905. My dear Whitney: I regret to say that I am already committed to Scribner's for that book, if I publish it at all. Now for your kind offer. I have no doubt you could be of real assistance, but I shall be driven to death up to the time you start on your South American trip. When you come back will you arrange so that I may see you? Wishing you all good fortune , I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Casper Whitney Editor, Outing. 239 Fifth Avenue, New York.65 February 10, 1905. My dear Senator Cullom: I learn that the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has reported the arbitration treaties to the Senate, amending them by substituting for the word "agreement" in the second article the word "treaty". The effect of the amendment is to make it no longer possible, as between its contracting parties, to submit any matter whatever to arbitration without first obtaining a special treaty to cover the case. This will represent not a step forward but a step backward. If the word "agreement" were retained it would be possible for the Department of State to do as, for instance, it has already done under the Hague treaty in the Pious Fund arbitration case with Mexico, and submit to arbitration such subordinate matters as by treaty the Senate had decided could be left to the Executive to submit under a jurisdiction limited by the general treaty of arbitration. If the word "treaty" be substituted, the result is that every such agreement must be submitted to the Senate; and these general arbitration treaties would then cease to be such, and indeed in their amended form they amount to a specific pronouncement against the whole principle of a general arbitration treaty. The Senate has of course the absolute right to reject or to amend in any way it sees fit any treaty laid before it, and it is clearly the duty of the Senate to take any step which, in the exercise of its best judgment, it deems to be for the interest of the nation. If, however,66 2 in the judgment of the President a given amendment nullifies a proposed treaty it seems to me that it is no less clearly his duty to refrain from endeavoring to secure a ratification, by the other contracting power or powers, of the amended treaty; and after much thought I have come to the conclusion that I ought to write and tell you that such is my judgment in this case. As amended we would have a treaty of arbitration which in effect will do nothing but recite that this Government will when it deems it wise hereafter enter into treaties of arbitration. Inasmuch as we of course now have the power to enter into any treaties of arbitration, and inasmuch as to pass these amended treaties does not in the smallest degree facilitate settlements by arbitration, to make them would in no way further the cause of international peace. It would not, in my judgment, be wise or expedient to try to secure the assent of the other contracting powers to the amended treaties, for even if such assent were secured we should still remain precisely where we were before, save where the situation may be changed a little for the worse. There would not even be the slight benefit that might obtain from the mere general statement that we intend hereafter, when we can come to an agreement with foreign powers as to what shall be submitted, to enter into arbitration treaties; for we have already when we ratified the Hague treaty with the various signatory powers, solemnly declared such to be our intention; and nothing is gained by reiterating our [adherence] to the principle while refusing to provide any means of making our intention effective. In the amended form the treaties contain nothing except such expression of barren intention, and67 3 indeed, as compared with what has already been provided for in the Hague arbitration treaty, they probably represent not a step forward but a slight step backward as regards the question of international arbitration. As such I do not think that they should receive the sanction of this Government. Personally it is not my opinion that this Government lacks the power to enter into general treaties of arbitration, but if I am in error, and if this Government has no power to enter into such general treaties, then it seems to me that it is better not to attempt to make them, rather than to make the attempt in such shape that they shall accomplish literally nothing whatever when made. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S. M. Cullom, Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.68 PERSONAL. February 10. 1905. My dear Colonel: By all means let us live in camp; and remember, my dear Colonel, do not take me into that bear country unless you are pretty confident that we can get a bear. I do not want to start out with a failure, for it would be advertised throughout the length and breadth of the United States. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. Let us be prepared to stay a week or as if necessary in the bear county, if we go at all; and make us engaged for me to speak after April 1st. From that date on I must have a real holiday. Col. Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.69 Personal February 19, 1905. My dear Major Hunter: I thank you very much for your courtesy, and I look forward to reading your book. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major Alexander Hunter, 909 O Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.70 February 10, 1905. Persnal. My dear Senator Frye: That is very kind of you, and I shall keep the box. I am happy to be able to say that I think I can arrange to keep Tebbetts; but I shall have him up here and make him swear to keep the peace with Thompson. You might write him to come up now, and then I shall see him and settle it with him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. P. Frye, President pro tempore, United States Senate. 71 February 10, 1905. My dear Reid: Your letter gave me real pleasure. I take the same view that you do about the athletic situation. We do not want too much athleticism, but we do want efficiency and a sportsman like spirit in our athletics. I shall be very glad if you finally decide you can go. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. T. Reid, Jr., Belmont School, Belmont, Cal.72 Copy cont in handwriting. February 11, 1905. My dear Mrs. Atkins: Permit me to express my profound sympathy with you in your your grief. I know that no words of mine can avail to lighten your sorrow, but I wish you to understand how deeply I feel with and for you. Again expressing my sympathy, believe me, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mrs. Addison B. Atkins, 1318 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.73 February 11, 1905. Dear Uncle Rob: You are more than kind, but I shall spend only one night in New York, and that all Corinne's. With hearty thanks, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. R. B. Roosevelt 57 Fifth Avenue, New York.74 February 11, 1905. Dear Florence: I enclose herewith the two browns which are the ones we think would be best for the waistcoat. It is awfully good of you to make it for me, and I am sure you know how I appreciate it. I return to you Lafcadio Hearn's "Japan". No other book I have read on Japan has given me so vivid a picture of the real condition of this strange alien civilization. It is a very high civilization, just as the post-Homeric Greek civilization was high; but the people who make it up have ideas as alien to ours on some points as had those people whose deepseated convictions made the [*prejudice of*] passions depicted by Aeschylus seem natural. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant La Farge, 124 East 22d Street, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.75 Personal February 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Smith: All right, I shall appoint Judge Townsend unless there is grave reason to the contrary, although I think he is a little too old for the place. About that Dresden man, for reasons I have explained to you, I am afraid I shall have to make the change; but later I shall do my best to take care of your friend. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Emory Smith, The Press, Philadelphia.76 Personal February 11, 1905. My dear Egan: Most certainly few articles have pleased me more than yours did, and as soon after the 4th of March as possible I shall get you to come to lunch, when I shall discuss my Saga business with you. I shall probably write it this summer. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, 212 North Capitol Street, New York.77 February 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Potter: I regret that my engagement next Tuesday evening precludes my acceptance of your kind invitation to be present at the dinner in honor of Mr. Thomas M. Mulry. Will you extend to him and your guest my cordial greetings and best wishes for a pleasant evening. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevlt Mr. D. C. Potter 280 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 78 February 11, 1905. My dear Governor Cummins: Before asking you to come on I shall ask the Secretary of War if he cannot review the decision of General Oliver. I well remember a case, which I suppose is somewhat similar, in connection with General Baldy Smith and the Chickamauga Park Commissioners. I gather it is a controversy between old soldiers. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert B. Cummins, Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa. 79 February 11, 1905. Personal. My dear Baron Kaneko: I thank you for your letter, and am interested in that precis [of] by certain members of the Yale Faculty. When I next see you I have two or three matters to tell you. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron Kentaro Kaneko, The Leonori, Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.To be written out by hand. 80 February 11, 1905. My dear Sir: Permit me to thank you most heartily for your courtesy and for the beautifully bound and interesting volume you have sent me. I shall read it with the utmost pleasure. Again thanking you, believe me, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. Unkichi Kawai, The Hochi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan.81 Personal February 12, 1905. Dear Paul: I spoke to you the other day of Truman H. Newberry as Assistant Secretary when Darling goes out next September. Have any objections? He is a Detroit man and is at the head of the Naval Militia of the State, and used his yacht as a training boat for it, and then took his whole outfit aboard the Yosemite to man her, and served through the Spanish-American War He is a man of means, and I believe about the best man in the United States for the place. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy.82 Personal February 12, 1905. My dear Newberry: It was a pleasure to me to be able to tell Senator Algar of my intention. The only proviso, however, was that Secretary Morton would not object. I do not for a moment believe that he will, but as I told Senator Alger, I could not make the outright promise until I had consulted the the Secretary. I shall at an early opportunity do so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Truman H. Newberry, Detroit, Michigan.83 Personal February 12, 1905. My dear Mr. Carpenter: I am really obliged to you for the beautifully bound copy of your father's book. I shall read it with the greatest interest. With regard. believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Herbert S. Carpenter, 56 West Fifty-fifth Street New York, N. Y.84 Personal February 12, 1905. My dear Dr. Abbott: I thank you for your letter and the editorial. I have read the letter carefully, and I am sorry to say that I do not agree with you about it. In the first place, you say there has been "an agreement, testified to and not denied", by which certain election districts were to be carried by the Republican party in return for administrative support of the denominational schools. There has been no testimony to this effect of a kind to merit denial, and as far as I know the statement is a lie pure and simple. I shall be astonished if the Outlook repeats such a slander absolutely without basis of any kind. In the next place you say that it has been testified that over $55,000 has been given to schools where the pro rata of the petitioners would be less than $2000. I am not aware that there is the slightest evidence of this. If it is true, it reflects, I suppose, upon Commissioner Jones, who is out of office, and the contracts made by him have now but little more than four months to run. At the end of four months the damage, if such there be, will cease, for Mr. Leupp will assuredly make contracts on the right basis. But this is not the main point. The main point is that in my judgment you whole analogy between these Indian trust funds and the funds held by the Government for white citizens is misleading. The Government has no moneys which it pays out pro rata on quarter day to the citi-85 2 zens, or uses for the benefit of each individual citizen. On the Indian reservations, however, it has funds which it disposes of at the request of each individual Indian, or as in its judgment it deems wise for each individual Indian. When a number of the individuals petition that their shares of this money shall be used for a given school, it seems to me entirely improper to refuse their request. It does seem to me, however, that it would be better to have the money given to the Indians themselves so that they can use it as they see fit; and in accordance therewith I have championed the enclosed bill, as you will see from the enclosed report. I am sorry not to take your view of this matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Editor, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. Enclosure [*I do not see the slightest real analogy to the [mon??ccl??an] public school question in this matter. I have always [a?a?fiomed] in radical fashion our public school system; I send my sons, at the public expence, to the public schools, while they are young; late I use my own money to send them to a church school. The public moneys on the Indian reservations are not to be used for [ae?????ial] schools, but the funds ECA to be divided among the Indians individually; are properly to be used for as the individuals prefer, any other [cou??] seems to me radically unjust.*]87 February 15, 1905. Mr. A. C. Burnell, Secretary, Republican State Editorial Association, Care of Hon. John A Sleicher. Holland House, N. Y. Permit me through you to extend to the members of your Association and their guests my cordial greetings and best wishes for the success of the banquet to-night. I wish it were possible for me to be present in person. Theodore Roosevelt (President's private acct.) 88 Personal February 15, 1905. Dear Colonel: I am immensely interested in what you write about Panama, and am glad you like Wallace. I agree with you that the commission should be reduced in number, and that no civil engineer should be on the com mission, and that there should be no requirement that any number of the commission should be a retired army or navy officer. I look forward to seeing you when you are in Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Lafayette Young, The Capital, Des Moines, Iowa. 89 February 15, 1905. Dear Charleys: Unfortunately, I have already accepted Congressman Hoar's invitation for lunch when I am in Worcester, and I shall leave immediately after lunch. For obvious reasons I could not refuse Mr. Hoar, but I should like to have gone to your house. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. G. Washburn, 44 Elm Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 90 Personal February 15, 1905. My dear Mr. Mcclure: Besides the copy you sent me I had another copy of Schillings' book, and am immensely pleased with it . Do tell him how I would like some time to see him in Washington. He has done really wonderful work. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. S. S. McClure, 10 Norfolk Street, Strand, London, England.91 February 15, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: In accordance with your request Y accept your resignation, to be effective May 30th next. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Joseph H. Choate, American Ambassador, London, England.92 Personal February 15, 1905. My dear President Harper: I do not know of Mr. Baldwin. Doubtless he is all that you say, but I do know Mr. Harlan and Mr. Bethea and think they would both make admirable judges. We also have a friend in Illinois man here on the Court of Claims named Wright. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President William R. Harper, University of Chicago, Chicago. 93 Personal February 15, 1905. Dear Cabot: I am very much pleased that you liked my speech. Saturday or Sunday, can you go on a ride or walk? Always yours, T. R. The San Domingo treaty [goes in today! I hope it] [??] Hon. H. C. Lodge, United State Senate.94 Personal February 15, 1905. My dear Colonel Lyon: I shall have my friend Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York, with me on the hunt. He is a close friend of mine, and I shall take him along instead of any army or navy doctor. Now let me say, at the risk of repetition, that no engagement should be made for me to speak after leaving Houston, about April 1st, on the bear hunt. I do not want a time fixed for me to come out from [*on*] that hunt, if we decide to go at all, for I would like to get something on it - bear or wild cat or peccary - and we may find it better to spend a week than to spend five days. Moreover, I do not want to have any set speeches, or any set entertainments of any kind, after I start on that hunt. I am rather tired out, and shall be more tired by then, and I wish the holiday to be unbroken by any formal engagement. But let me beg of you not to go on the bear hunt or peccary hunt, or whatever it is, unless we are sure of getting some95 game. I would like greatly to kill a bear, but will be perfectly content to get a peccary instead; but when I go in there I want to get something if possible; and above all I want to leave there in time enough to get some coyotes and jack-rabbits and a big wolf with the long dogs. I would rather see the long dogs get a big wolf than go on a bear hunt. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.96 Personal February 15, 1905. My dear General Porter: I want to thank you for your most kind letter. It was with real reluctance that I accepted your resignation, for I appreciate all that you have done in your post; and you can not be more pleased at being connected with my administration than I am at having had you under me. But I understand thoroughly the pressing personal reasons you set out in your letter to Secretary Hay, which made it obligatory to leave. I am obliged to you for letting me keep you later in the spring, and shall accept your resignation to take effect April 30th. I was sorely tempted to ask you to stay even later, but this would have made it difficult in transferring the other men from their respective posts. I have sent in an urgent request for Congress to act on the John Paul Jones matter, but of course I have not the slightest97 est idea whether they will or not. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Horace Porter, American Ambassador, Paris, France.98 Personal February 15, 1905. My dear Mr. Smith: Since I wrote you there has arisen a good deal of opposition to Judge Townsend on account of his age. Every one admits that he is a very good man, but they all say it is very undesirable to appoint a man sixty-five years old to such a position. Candidly, what do you think of the matter yourself? Do you not think it is important to have a young, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Philadelphia. 99 Personal. February 15, 1905. My dear Mr. Butler: That is a most significant extract from the treaty with Tripoli. It was negotiated by Washington, and under it the President and Senate delegated to a third party complete rights of arbitration. You are very kind. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Henry Butler 1535 I street, N. W. Washington. 100 February 16, 1905. President William R. Harper, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. I am thinking of you all the time and I am sure everything will go all right. Theodore Roosevelt 101 February 14, 1905. My dear Mrs. Robinson: I greatly appreciate your letter . I only wish I could have called upon you myself, for it would have given me such pleasure to catch a glimpse of you. Affectionately yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Sr., 109 East 31st Street, New York, N. Y.102 February 14, 1905. My dear Colonel: I have your letter of the 14th instant, and thank you for writing me. You know it will always be a pleasure to see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Alexander R. Lawton, Savannah, Georgia.103 February 14, My dear Colonel Eckstein: I thank you for your photograph, and very deeply appreciate the compliment conferred upon me by the Hebrew Union Veteran Association. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. I. Eckstein, 167 East 90th Street, New York, N. Y. 104 February 14, 1905. My dear Comrade Isaacs: I have received through Comrade Donovan the badge and certificate of membership of membership in the Hebrew Union Veteran Association. I deeply appreciate the compliment conferred upon me. May I through you extend my warm thanks to the Association? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Adjutant Isidore Isaacs, Hebrew Union Veteran Association 890 East 165th Street, New York, N. Y. 105 Personal February 16, 1905. My dear Mr. McBee: I am very much pleased with your letter and also with the article. As regards the arbitration matter, the people who have exasperated me more than any others are those, like John W. Foster, Andrew Carnegie and Wayne MacVeagh, who, partly from jealousy of John Hay and partly from that curious vanity which makes men desire to cover up defeat, have insisted that we ought to take, on the half-loaf principle, a measure which is not a half a loaf at all, but a distinct, though slight, step backward. The opposition of the Senate is so wrong that I can not believe that those who took it really think themselves right. Washington himself, in 1796, concluded a treaty with Tripoli which the Senate ratified, and in this treaty the Senate and the President delegated to the Dey of Algiers the power to arbitrate on all questions that arose under the treaty between the parties in interest, and bound themselves to submit to his decision. In other words the founders of the Constitution, under the first President, concluded an arbitration treaty under which they submitted everything to arbitration. Moreover, not a month ago the Senate, after two years and a half delay, passed a treaty under which they gave the President power to refer to arbitration by the Hague Court all private claims affecting the citizens of the United States and the various South Ameri-106 2 can countries. Every sensible man knows that the Senate, while perfectly willing to declare itself for a general principle, such as reciprocity, for instance, will not conclude any specific reciprocity agreement, and neither will it conclude any genuine arbitration treaty save under wholly exceptional circumstances. I was able with the utmost difficulty to get the Alaska boundary treaty through only by having it understood that I intended to put on one Republican and one Democratic Senator among the three commissioners. Under this treaty, by the way, the Senate delegated, not to the President but to three men appointed by the President, the absolute power to decide on the sovereignty of the United States over a great strip of territory - an infinitely greater delegation of power than any asked for in these arbitration treaties which the Senate has rejected. I do not wish to bind myself as regards future action, even to myself, but it does seem to me that it would be foolish and undignified to make any attempt to negotiate any further arbitration or reciprocity treaty, with the Senate occupying its present position. The individual Senators evidently consider the prerogative of the Senate as far more important than the welfare of the country. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, Editor, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York.107 PERSONAL. February 16, 1905. Major John: What is an interesting letter from McCormick, and I remember [????????????] I [????] you one from Tower. Both our cloth dolls seem [??????] getting [a?????] ! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Belter copy on page 108 Hon. [Mc??????], Secretary of States. Enclosure108 PERSONAL. February 16, 1905. Dear John: This is an interesting letter from McCormick, and I return it. I enclose you one from Tower. Both our cloth dolls seem to be getting active! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of States. Enclosures109 February 14, 1905. My dear Bishop Johnston: I wish to thank you personally for the admirable address of your son, the Rev. Mercer Johnston, on the occasion of the memorial services for Major General Henry W. Lawton. It gave real pleasure to read it. I shall never forget your sermon to our regiment in Dan Antonio, and look forward to seeing you when I come there for the reunion soon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rt. Rev. J. S. Johnston, D. D., 309 Pecan Street, San Antonio, Texas. 110 Personal February 16, 1905. My dear de Forest: Please show this letter to Mr. Ward for his private information. He says, "It is important that the President should know that the people are looking to him to do what he can to secure the legislation which he has already recommended." I wish that Mr. Ward would realize that the only thing I can do to secure legislation is to recommend it. If he will study the papers at all he will find that there is a constant yell that I am encroaching upon the powers of Congress. I can not lobby for bills. I can recommend their passage and bring them to the attention of Congress and the people, but if the people do not take interest enough to impress Congress, why, Congress will pass them or not just as it chooses. As for my making a recommendation about the regulation of immigration in my inaugural address, that of course would be utterly out of place. I should not dream of such a thing, and it would not111 serve any possible purpose as Congress will not be in session for several months thereafter. I shall discuss it in my next message to Congress. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert W. de Forest, 30 Broad Street, New York.112 Personal February 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am interested in the conversation you report with the Emperor. I can not believe that England has any intention of taking part in the partition of China, but there certainly do seem to be suspicious indications as to the possible action of France. I think the Emperor rendered a service by what he did. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charlemagne Tower, American Ambassador, Berlin, Germany. 113 February 14, 1905. My dear Mrs. Longstreet: I thank you for the beautiful copy of your book, "Lee and Longstreet", which you have sent me. May I ask that you accept the accompanying photograph? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. James Longstreet, Gainesville, Georgia. Enclosure 114 Personal February 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Norwood: I want to congratulate you both, but especially Mrs. Norwood, upon that family, which is evidently all right, not merely in quantity but in quality. I should like to think that the photograph you sent me was the photograph of a typical American family, for if it was a typical family I would be entirely confident about the solving of our future problems! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. S. Norwood, Titusville, Florida. 115 Personal February 17, 1905. My dear Chancellor: Your letter of the 15th pleases me very much, and I thank you for it. I am glad you like the speech. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Allison Chancery Court, Nashville, Tennessee. 116 February 17, 1905. My dear Judge: I thank you for your letter, and I am pleased to find that Bishop Strange was your kinsman. With regards and thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas R. Roulhac, United States Attorney, Birmingham, Alabama. 117 Personal February 17, 1905 My dear Mr. Knight: I wish I could have seen you to have a talk over things in general. Let me thank you for your kindness in coming on to the banquet, and say how much I appreciate it Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George A. Knight San Francisco, California. 118 February 17,1905. My dear Captain Bradley: I shall at once take up the case of Major Reeve with the most earnest desire to do what you wish. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas W. Bradley, House of Representatives. 119 Personal February 17, 1905. My dear Chancellor: I have read your letter with the utmost attention, and I thank you for it. I shall look up that Morrill bill. It was a great pleasure to have you here. Pray give my regards to Mrs. Hill. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Walter B. Hill, St. Denis Hotel, Broadway and 11th Street, New York.120 February 17, 1905. My dear Mr. Speaker: Your letter gives me real pleasure, and I thank you for it. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Morrill N. Drew, Speaker, House of Representatives, Augusta, Maine. February 17, 1905. My dear Judge: I thank you for your letter and as very much pleased that you like the speech. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon . John E McCall U. S. Court Chambers, Memphis, Tenn. 122 Personal February 17, 1905. Dear Bishop: I can not tell you how I enjoyed that lunch. But I am sure you know it without its being necessary to say so. What you tell me in your note is interesting, and I am inclined to think that your guess is the correct one. In great Haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor, The Globe, 5 Dey Street, New York. 123 February 17, 1905. My dear Hart: You are more than kind, and I accept for myself with the greatest pleasure; but I doubt if Mrs. Roosevelt will be in Cambridge with me. I do not like her generally to go off on trips with me because they are very exhausting and she has enough to wear her out anyway; but I shall come myself with the greatest pleasure. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, 19 Craigie Street, Cambridge. Massachusetts.124 February 18, 1905. The Attorney General: Of Mr. Sternfeld I have a high opinion. No judge of his professional qualifications. Please give him a hearing and report to me what can be done. Senator Beveridge has just brought him in. Theodore Roosevelt 125 February 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Forbes: This is to introduce to you Mr. Patrick Egan. He has certain railway matters to lay before you. About those I am not competent in any way to speak. But Mr. Egan was Minister to Chile while I was serving under President Harrison's administration myself, and his course as Minister was admirable and led to the establishment of most pleasant personal relations between us, which have been kept up form that day to this. I commend him to your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. [W]. Camaron Forbes, Commission to the Phillippine Mandis, P. I.. Hon G 126 To be written out by hand February 18, 1905. My dear Baron Van Tuyll: I have been interested in Seton Karr's book, and thank you for sending it to me. I return it to you herewith. Perhaps you would be interested in a noteworthy German hunting book " Mit Blitzlicht und Buchse," by C. B. Schillings, which I enclose. Pray present my regards to your charming wife, and tell her how much I enjoyed sitting by her at dinner the other evening. Very sincerely yours, Baron E. L. L. van Tuyll van Serooskorken, Secretary, Legation of the Netherlands, 1738 M Street, Washington. Enclosures 127 Personal February 18, 1905. My dear Forbes: I have given Patrick Egan a letter of introduction to you. He was an excellent Minister to Chile and is a man of nerve, with whom I have had very pleasant and friendly relations. But I know absolutely nothing about his business capacities or relations, and could express no judgement whatever upon his railroad scheme. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, Commission to the Phillippine Islands, Manila, P. I. 128 Personal February 18, 1905. Dear Murray: I have your letter of the 17th. I wish Burgess would write for some New York paper his views. At any rate it ought absolutely to be understood that the screeching idiots like Wayne MacVeagh - dishonest idiots, too, for the most part - have no business to assume that the President must forward a treaty which the Senate has ratified, in shape which makes it the reverse of what it was intended to be. I fear, however, that the custom of half a century in one case and of a century in the other would prevent the reversal of the practice as to the amendment of treaties and the non-veto of separate items. It was great fun seeing you at lunch. In haste. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York.129 Personal February 18, 1905. My dear Governor Higgins: Is there any trouble about the reappointment of John McMackin? If so, I hope it will not be considered out of place for me to write this line simply to testify from my personal knowledge of the man. As you know, I took a great interest in labor matters and was brought into close contact with McMackin, and because I am thus to a certain extent an expert in the business, I venture to ask your personal consideration of his case. I think he is an extremely good man. With high regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank W. Higgins, Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y. 120 February 18, 1905. My dear Major Byrne: I am very much obliged to you, and I shall get you to do just what you propose. I shall put it off until after the fourth of March to see whether we are going to get the legislation or not. Meanwhile I have been sounding two or three men for places, or at least for a place on Commission. I think I have got a good man whom I shall tell you about. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Byrne, New York, N. Y. 131 Personal February 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Patterson: I have your letter. Most certainly the appointment of Ambassador McCormick is not in any way to be charged up to the Chicago Tribune. I agree with all that you say. We were sorry Mrs. Patterson and you could not be at the dinner. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert W. Patterson, The Tribune, Chicago. 122 February 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: You are very good, as you always are. I am pleased to see that copy of my letter, and I only hope you are not putting yourself to too much trouble in obtaining for me the original [english]. With regards to Madame Jusserand, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. J. Jusserand, The French Ambassador.123 February 18, 1905. My dear Bishop: I am very deeply pleased by your note. Whom are you coming to Washington? It will be such a pleasure to see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop Charles B. Calloway, Jackson, Mississippi.134 February 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Bonheur: I have your note of the 17th instant, and enclosed herewith an autographed letter from the President, as you desire, addressed to Mr. Edward Van Ingen, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. Sincerely yours, Wm Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President. Mr. Lucien L. Bonheur, 114 East 56th Street, New York, N.Y. Enclosure February 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Van Ingen: Permit me, through you, to extend my congratulations to your guest of the evening, Senator Depew, and to wish him a long continuance of his career of usefulness in the Senate; and permit me to thank the members of the committee of what used to be my own district, for their remembrance of me. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward Van Ingen, Chairman, Committee of Arrangements, Republican District Committee, 29th Assembly District, New York.135 February 20, 1905. My dear Miss Louisa: I want to thank you for your letter. I wish you and your sister could get to Washington and take lunch or dinner with us some time early in June. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Summit Avenue, Rodlands, California. 136 February 20, 1905. Personal. My dear General Duffield: I am very much obliged to you for the clipping of your letter to the Free Press. Do you know that some of the Senators actually contend that I had no business to send you and your colleagues down to Venezuela? In other words, they wish to reduce this Government to absolute impotency in dealing with foreign powers. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Henry M. Duffield, Detroit, Michigan.137 February 20, 1905. Personal. My dear Herbert: I was greatly touched and pleased by your thought of me. I have hung up the picture, which I think excellent, in my study. How good it is of old Mohawk also! The sight of it recalls the days when we were together with Elliott and many another good fellow at Meadowbrook. Mrs. Roosevelt is as much pleased as I am with your thoughtful kindness and remembrance of us. Again thanking you, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry L. Herbert, Kingscote, Lakewood, New Jersey.138 Personal. February 20, 1905. My dear Senator: While I was in the army I thought very highly of Major Ayres, and I still believe that while actually in the field he is a good man. I am sorry to say that his record in time of peace makes it exceedingly difficult to do anything for him. I intend for the next few promotions to go among the senior men on the list; and even if I went down there are others whom I am afraid I should have to put ahead of Ayres. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William P. Frye, President pro tempore, United State Senate.139 Personal February 20, 1905. Dear John: I have already accepted Joe Choate's resignation to take effect on May 30th on his statement that he wished it to take effect between May 15th and 20th. I wish you would look in your Department at Choate's letter and the copy of my reply. Probably Reid's name will be sent in as Ambassador on March 6th. He can take office May 30th or June 1st, as he chooses. If the two great hearts break over this business, they break with my blessing and cordial approval. Tell Hardy that I suggest April 1st as the time for him to leave, and notify Collier to this effect. I have been dealing with members of the House in the effort to get them to vote for battleships all morning, and feel quite grovelling enough and on a sufficiently low plane intellect-140 ually and morally to appreciate the endorsement from Texas which you send me. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. Enclosures.141 Copy Department of Justice, February 18, 1905. My dear Colonel Hepburn: You write asking me if I can properly say to you whether, in the proposed amendment to the Interstate Commerce Law, your attitude has been adverse to the recommendation made in the President's message, or otherwise. I see no reason why I can not answer your letter and give the information you desire. The President's message contained two recommendations. First, that the Commission should be given the power to fix the future rate for the transportation of persons and property, if the rate in force should be found to be unjust or unreasonable. Second, that the rate as fixed by the Commission should go into effect of its own force, subject to a review by the courts of the United States. It is obvious that neither Congress, nor any agency created by Congress, can withdraw from the courts the right to condemn any rate fixed by the Commission upon the ground that it is confiscatory of the property of the railroads. You conferred frequently with the President and me about the draft of a bill which would put into effect the recommendations. The bill subsequently introduced by you was the result of those conferences and was in all substantial parts, except as herein stated, drawn in this Department, and was regarded by the President as carrying out the recommendations of his message. The only material change was substitution of 50 days for 30 days. It was your view that, for the purpose of expediting the action of the courts, a special Court of Commerce should be created, and you desired that some one in this Department should draw a form of bill to create such142 2 a court and confer upon it such powers as it might need in the performance of its duty. This was accordingly done in a separate bill which you incorporated in your bill. At all times, I take pleasure in saying, you have exhibited an earnest desire to deal with this important subject in a way which would conform with the letter and the spirit of the President's recommendation. Very truly yours, William H. Moody. Colonel W. P. Hepburn, House of Representatives. I cordially concur in the above. Col. Hepburn, like Senators Allison and Dolliver, has aided in every possible way in this rate bill; and when it seemed possible to expedite the bill by dropping his own measure and pushing the Townsend-Esch measure, which achieved substantially the same result, he at once followed this course. We have all been after the same result; and I am very certain we will in the end achieve it, from the very fact that we are striving in the spirit that Col. Hepburn has shown in the affair; a spirit which is concerned with getting the substance and which is therefore entirely willing to make concessions to unimportant differences of detail. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.143 Confidential February 20, 1905. My dear Wood: I thank you for your letter. I was horrified at the developments in Oregon, but of course the only thing to do was to put the knife in to the hilt. I have asked the Attorney General to write to Judge Bellinger for his views as to the need of a new district, and unless they can show the need very clearly I should veto the bill. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. E. S. Wood, Chamber of Commerce Building, Portland, Oregon.144 Febrary 20, 1905. My dear Bonaparte: I have your letter of the 19th instant, and have directed that Campbell Dallas Edgar shall be put on my list for appointment to Annapolis if he meets the requirements. He has an ancestry and record which entitle him to this. I do not understand what class he is to enter for. Will you let me know? I only appoint sons of army and navy officers, so it is useless for others to apply. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, 601 Park Avenue, Baltimore.145 February 20, 1905. The Secretary of the Navy: Will you please give me the proposed armament for all of our battleships authorized during or since 1900? The results of the Japanese war make me feel more than ever that the 8-inch gun is the smallest which is of any real use against hostile battleships. I should like the name and probable date of completion of each of these battleships, together with its proposed armament. Theodore Roosevelt146 January 27, 1905. My dear Buxton: I have your note of the 7th. That is a most interesting book. The text is very good also, but it tells less than I wish it did tell about the circumstances of the taking of the pictures. [?] With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. N. Buxton, Plaza Hotel, New York.147 February 20, 1905. My dear Mrs. Riis: That is most interesting. When I see you I shall talk it over with you. I am looking forward to seeing all four of you here. With love, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Jacob A. Riis, 524 North Beech Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y.148 February 20, 1905. My dear Senator Hale: I had Dunning down for Milan, and am very sure we can arrange it. I shall take it up at once with Assistant Secretary Loomis again, but unless I mistake it has already been arranged for. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Eugene Hale, United States Senate.149 February 20, 1905. My dear Mr. Wetmore: May I through you extend my good wishes to the Sons of the Revolution and my regret that I cannot be present at their banquet on Washington's birthday? I feel that the Society does admirable work in keeping alive our sense of continuity with the great events of the past, and therefore in fostering loyalty and high-minded patriotism. Wishing you all good fortune, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward Wetmore, 343 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y.150 PERSONNAL. February 20, 1905. My dear Colonel Lyon: I do not see how it would be possible to change the Minister at Hayti or Liberia at present. I shall try to get Ferguson a consulship. About Dr. Suhler, I cannot at present do anything, and I could not in any event send him to Germany, for I never send a man to the country in which he was born. I much prefer not to send foreigners abroad anyhow; although I cannot make this a universal rule. I shall make no promise about the Court of Commerce until I have been over with you the record of Judge Waller Burns. Of course, the appointments in Texas I shall fill in practically all cases on your recommendation. Now, about the hunt. As long as you are so sure of our finding bear or peccary it is all right. I shall try to make that rear platform speech at Fort Worth, but not151 try to set the day in advance, because we ought to leave ourselves at liberty to stay longer after the bear if necessary. As a matter of course I shall talk before the Legislature on the occasion of my visit to Austin [*?*]. With hearty thanks, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.152 PERSONAL. February 20, 1905. My dear Mr. Rhodes: I thank you for your letter and am very glad you like my speech. But, my dear sir, while I agree with you fully as to the folly of the Congressional scheme of reconstruction based on universal negro suffrage, in writing about it I pray you not to forget that the initial folly lay with the southerners themselves. You say, quite properly, that you do not wonder that much bitterness still remains in the breasts of the southern people about the carpet-bag negro regime. So it is not to be wondered at that in the late sixties much bitterness should have reminded in the hearts of the northerners over the remembrance of the senseless folly and wickedness of the southerners in the early sixties. Those of us who most heartily agree that it was the presence of the negro which made the problem, and that slavery was [????] the worst possible method of solving it, must therefore hold up to reprobation as guilty of doing one of the worst deeds which history records, those was tried to break up this Union153 because they were not allowed to bring slavery and the negro into new territory. Every step which followed, from freeing the slave to enfranchising him, was due only to the North being [greatly moved] slowly and selectively forced to act by the South's persistence in its folly and wickedness. I would not say these things in public because they tend, when coming from a man in [my position] public place, to embitter [?????] people. But you are writing what I hope will prove the great permanent history of the period, and it would be a misfortune for the country, and especially a misfortune for the South, if they were allowed to confuse right and wrong in perspective. My difficulties with the southern people have come not from the North but from the South. I have never done one thing that was not for their interest. At present they are, as a whole, speaking well of me. When they will begin again to speak ill I do not know. In either case my duty is equally clear. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James Ford Rhodes, 392 Beacon Street, Boston.154 February 21,1905. PERSONNAL. My dear Mr. Griffiths: I am very glad to offer you the consul General Generalship Liverpool. Will you please advise me at your earliest convenience if you accept? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt J. I. Griffiths, Esq., Indianapolis, Indiana. 155 PERSONAL. February 21, 1905. My dear Captain Goddard: I think I ought to write you plainly in reference to your last letter. I know no man who has one valuable work than you have done. But I know no man who mars such work more. I do not believe that Sheffield meant to toll you, or intimate, that he would appoint your man as assistant if he were himself appointed. I do not know whether I shall appoint Sheffield or not, and it would be a count against him if he had made any such pledge, directly or indirectly. You ought never to have gone to him about such a request at such a time, and I am astonished at your doing so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Morton Goddard, 98 Bleecker, Street, New York. 156. February 21, 1905. My dear Sir: I think you very much for the election to membership in the Pokegama Club. I only wish there was more chance for me to see the club and take my share of the good things that go with membership therein. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W.W. Cooley, Secretary, Pokegama Tuxedo Club, St. Paul Minnesota.157 PERSONAL. February 21, 1905/ My dear Bishop: I shall show Mrs. Roosevelt those two amusing cartoons. I have written Dr. Thaw at once. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. R. Bishop, The Chobe, 5 Day Street, New York. 158 PERSONNAL. February 21, 1905. My dear Dr. Thaw: I have just received the beautiful copy of the Inaugural Ode. I thank you cordially for it, and shall read it through. I am sure with pleasure, a the first opportunity. Meanwhile, let me say how much I appreciate what you have done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Alexander Blair Thaw, Century Club, New York.159 PERSONAL. February 21, 1905. My dear Bridges: I have your letter of the 20th. Of course, I am not be able to do anything worth writing about; but I intend if the hunt is a success to have another chapter for that book you are to publish. Dr. Alexander Lambert of New York is going with me. He says he will take some photograph. He is a Yale man and a very good fellow. Suppose you communicate with him and see if you can help him about the camorra, etc. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bridges, 153 fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. P.S. Dr. Lambert's address is 125 East 36th Street. 160 February 21, 1905. My dear Mr. Meyer: I wish to express my very deep appreciation as an American of what you have done for the navy. Believe me, understand and appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Adolph Moyer, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C161 My dear Mr. Senator Foraker: Attorney General Moody has told me about the Arizona judgeship. I simply have not the slightest remembrance of your over speaking to me about it. Such a multitude of things are brought to my attention the whole time that it is a physical impossible for me to keep them in mind. I had no remember about it. Moody has no remembrance of it, and I do not remember the subject even being discussed. Now, my dear Senator, if there is any matter of appointment you and I have discussed, do give me a memorandum about it now, so that I shall not forget it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Foraker, United State Senate.162 Written out by hand. Confidential. February 20, 1905. Mr. President: I thank you for your confidential letter. Your quotation of me is substantially correct when you say that I addressed you as follows on the occasion of your visit to me as Colombia's agent in the Panama matter: "If you had been President of Colombia you would have saved Panama, because you would have known how to safeguard its rights and the interests of all and would have avoided the revolution which caused its secession from Colombia. In that case my Government could have helped Colombia to be one of the richest and most prosperous countries of South America." Like you, I desire to draw a veil over the past; but my dear Mr. President, as you speak of your country as being deeply injured by my country do let me point out to you that in the words of my own quoted above I was endeavoring to show why I thought you would have saved Colombia from the trouble that befell her had you been her President. This country, so far from wronging Colombia, made every possible effort to persuade Colombia to allow herself to be benefited. I can not seem by remaining quiet to countenance for one moment the idea that this country did anything but show a spirit not merely of justice but of generosity in its dealings with Colombia. Had you been President, I firmly believe that this spirit would have been met with a like spirit from Colombia and that therefore Colombia, by the mere fact of ratifying the treaty agreed upon with the United States, would have prevented the163 2 [r?????ties] in Panama, and would have itself become rich and prosperous. You say you are lacking at present the means of arranging in a [???r????] manner the pending questions between Columbia the United States and Panama, and you ask me to do justice and thereby help you. Of course if I can help you in any way I will; but, my dear Mr. President, I do not quite understand what it is expected we shall do. If the people of Panama desire to take a [ple??iscits] as to whether or not they shall resume connections with Columbia, most emphatically I have no objections and will be delighted so to inform them; but I can not press them unless they desire to do it. So about their assumption of a portion of Columbia's debt. So leave stated then in our judgment this should be done by Panama, and we were informed by their minister here, Mr. Bunau-Varilla, that they intended to do it; but we can not force them to do it. As for the purchase of the islands which I understand Columbia would like to sell to us, our Nave Department does not deem it to our interest to procure them, and I am very much afraid that a treaty for their purchase would not be approved by the Senate of the United States. I have shown your letter to Mr. Hay. I wish I could write you in a matter that would be more agreeable. With profound respect, I am, Sincerely yours, Gen. R. Reyes General R. Reyes, President of Columbia, Bogata, Columbia.164 PERSONNAL. February 23, 1905. Dear Douglas, Like the tarantula, I have trouble of my own, and I have not the vaguest intention of even thinking about any now between Alexander and Hyde. It will always be a pleasure to see Alexander. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Douglas Robinson, 23 West 26th Street, New York.165 February 23, 1905. My dear Mr. Beach: I wish I could arrange for that luncheon, but it is a simple physical impossibility. I can spend but a little over twenty-four hours at Cambridge, and I am afraid every moment will be occupied. I am sincerely sorry. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. W. Beach, The Harvard Advocate, Cambridge, Mass. 166 Personal February 23, 1905. My dear Senator, I have your letter of to-day's date. As regards the consuls, I had supposed you had had a full conference with Mr. Loomis; and of course some of the Ohio places have to be taken away from her. Ohio has more than her share now. Just recently I have appointed for you personally three Ohio men to consular positions, two of which were not held by Ohio men. Now it is absolutely necessary that I should bring up the quotas of some of the other States, and as [*where*] those appointments have been made for you, the positions held by Ohio men in whom you were not interested must be filled from other States - the quality of the applicants being of course first tested. You know that Ohio has more than her quota, and yet in spite of this fact I have brought down upon myself considerable criticism, especially from some of your opponents in Ohio, because I have nevertheless brought in three consuls for you within167 the last few weeks - Knabenshue Jackson, and the man who went to Cardiff. It is a simple impossibility to credit Ohio with these three appointments and not to substitute, in some of Ohio's other places, men from other States. I had assumed that you know all about these matters from your talks with Mr. Loomis. Of course I want to send in these consuls to the Senate immediately after the 4th of March. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. R. Foraker, United Stats Senator. 168 Personal. February 23, 1905. My dear Major Jenkins: I shall ask Moody to take that matter up. but you must allow me to say that I can not quite understand what you mean in your letter. You say charges are made showing the District Attorney's absolute unfitness for the office, and that steps will be taken to remove him by impeachment, but that you have nothing that would justify your Committee in taking action. Now, if there is nothing to justify the charges, there is nothing for me to investigate. Please forward this letter of mine to whoever is making the charges. Say that it is nonsense for them to make the charges before your Committee instead of making them to me, and that they must know this to be true; that the mere talking about the impeachment of the District Attorney when they have not succeeded in getting him removed by the President shows that either they are very foolish169 or not acting in good faith. But tell them that if they have any charges which they can substantiate, they are derelict in their duty if they do not immediately place them before me. I have forwarded your letter to the Attorney General. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John J. Jenkins, House of Representatives.170 PERSONAL. February 24, 1905. My dear Mr. Jusserand: I have thought over the very impertinent letter of the Sabbatarian Society to you, which you left with me, and which I return together with the rough draft of the answer which you had prepared. In my judgement it would be far better for you not to answer at all. I am accustomed to the vagaries of good, narrow-minded, people, but this particular vagary is a piece of impatience so gross that the writer is not entitled to an answer from you. The treasurer of the association, Colonel Bacon, I know, and he is as through-paced a lying blackguard as there is anywhere around. I do not know the secretary, the man who wrote you. He may be merely a well-meaning fool, but he may also be a blackguard like Bacon, with a thirst for self-advertising; and if so it would be171 quite possible that he would answer your letter by another letter still more impertinent, and then publish the whole correspondence. It is nobody's business why you, the French Ambassador, called on Sunday evening on the President, and my advice is that you do not answer at all. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. J. Jusserand, The French Ambassador.172 February 23, 1905. My dear Swift: I have been told (I do not know on what ground) that I may be asked to appoint to some position (I do not know what) a man named Will wood of Lafayette, and I have also been told that you know something against him. Is this last thing? I have been very glad to be give Griffiths an appointment and also to be able to place Bennett as postmaster of Indianapolis. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Lucius B. Swift, Hubbard Block, Indianapolis, Indiana.[*173*] February 24, 1905. Dear Florence: At the inauguration I go first to the Senate chamber where I look on while the Vice-President is sworn in, and then go to the platform outside where I myself am sworn in and where I make my inaugural speech. If you try to com- bine both places there is a fair chance of your losing the second; thus, four years ago, Edith went to the Senate chamber to see me sworn in and then the crowd was wholly unable to get out to the platform and finally had to give it up entirely. Of course you may be able to make it, but than again you may not. The Senate chamber is an interesting spectacle, but the President himself is only there as a spectator. His part comes when he takes the oath and makes his inaugural outside. Under the circumstances I should advise you to let me send you only the seats for plat-[*174*] form and to go there without trying to go into the Senate chamber; but I will send you the seats for the Senate chamber too if you desire. [They are yours now; but if you are not] going to use them, [let me know] as of course they are in great demand. Will you let me know Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant LaFarge, 124 East 22 Street, New York City.175 Personal February 23, 1905. My dear Colonel Lyon: I have your letter of the 20th, enclosing proposed itinerary. Mr. Loeb has written you about the plans of the trip itself. I shall just say one word more about the hunt. As you know, when I start in I shall be soft, and my experience is that in an entirely new country, with a kind of riding to which one is not accustomed, the chances are not very good for success. If the hunters you have engaged have [packed] dogs so good that they can hold the bear, I suppose we shall have a fair chance; but I can not help having an uneasy feeling that inasmuch as you yourself know nothing about the country and have not been hunting there, we may find that we are able to do nothing at all. If anywhere in the western part of the State there is good javelin (and peccary) hunting, and men who have javelin hounds, and if there is a reasonable certainty of our getting the peccaries, I wish you would think it over and decide whether it is not better for us to go there, and then on your wolf hunt. If I were able to take two or three weeks in the thicket, find out the lay of the land, and make all of my preparations accordingly, and then be prepared to stand a week's ill luck and keep on until it turned, why I should be hopeful; but as things actually are I hope you will plan the kind of a hunt on which we are most apt to have success.176 I should of course very much like to kill black bear with the dogs, and would rather do this than kill a peccary; but if the chances are good for peccary and not good for bear, I think it would be much wiser to try for the peccary under the circumstance. But [?????] you say goes. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.177 February 23, 1905. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Mr. Hill was a Connecticut man and Connecticut has less than its quota, while Nebraska has more. I do not believe that my good friend Senator Platt of Connecticut would be willing to give up this place. All I can say is that when the opportunity comes and when I am able to take care of your friend Hostetter, I shall do so. I shall take the matter up with Senator Platt. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. Rosewater, Omaha, Nebraska.178 PERSONAL. February 24, 1905. My dear Miss Proctor: The beautiful gift book has come. I am delighted both with its contents nd with its cover! and I thank you so much or your remembrance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Edna Dean Proctor, South Framingham, Mass.179 February 24, 1905. Darling Kermit: I puzzled a good deal over your marks. I am inclined to think that one explanation is that you have thought so much of home as to prevent your really putting your whole strength into your studies. It is most natural that you should count the days before coming home, and write as you do that it will only be 33 days, only 26 days, only 19 days, etc; but at the same time it seems to me that perhaps this means that you do not really put all your heart and all your best effort into your work; and that if you are able to it would be far better to think just as little as possible about coming home and resolutely set yourself to putting your best thought into your work. It is an illustration of the old adage about putting your hand to the plow and then looking back. In after life, of course, it is always possible that at sometime you may have to go away for a year or two from home to do some piece of work. If during that whole time you only thought day after day of how soon you would get home I think you would find it difficult to do your best work; and maybe this feeling may be partly responsible for the trouble with the lessons at school. Wednesday, Washington's birthday, I went to Philadelphia and made a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, took lunch with the Philadelphia City Troop and came home the same afternoon with less fatigue than most of my trips cost me; for I was able to dodge the awful evening banquet and the180 2 night on the train which taken together drive me nearly melancholy mad. Since Sunday we have not been able to ride. I still box with Grant, who has now become the champion middle-weight wrestler of the United States. Yesterday afternoon we had Professor Yamashita up here to wrestle with Grant. It was very interesting, but of course jiu jitsu and our wrestling are so far apart that it is difficult to make any comparison between them. Wrestling is simply a sport with rules almost as conventional as those of tennis, while jiujitsu is really meant for practice in killing or disabling your adversary. In consequence, Grant did not know what to do except to put Yamashita on his back, and Yamashita was perfectly content to be on his back. Inside of a minute Yamashita had choked Grant and inside of two minutes more he got an elbow hold on him that would have enabled him to break his arm; so that there is no question but that he could have put Grant out. So far this made it evident that the jiu jitsu man could handle the ordinary wrestler. But Grant, in the actual wrestling and throwing was about as good as the Japanese, and he was so much stronger that he evidently hurt and wore out the Japanese. With a little practice in the art I am sure that one of our big wrestlers or boxers, simply because of his greatly superior strength, would be able to kill [throw] any of those Japanese, who though very good men for their inches and pounds are altogether too small to hold their own against big, powerful, quick men who are as well trained. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass.181 Personal February 23, 1905. My dear Senator Platt: I have directed Secretary Hay, in accordance with the Joint Resolution passed by Congress, and approved by the President on April 8,1904, and in accordance with the request of Senators Dillingham, Nelson, Burnham and Foraker in the letter of February 18, 1905, to endeavor to procure an amendment of Article 2 of the Award of the Bering Sea Tribunal so as to change the close time established for seal-killing, making it read "from the 10th of July to the 30th of September" instead of "from the 1st of May to the 31st of July." In view of the recent action by the Senate on the motion of the Foreign Relations Committee in amending the general arbitration treaties so as to strike out the word "agreement" and substitute the word "treaty," and in view of the claim at that time put forth that the Executive had no power to enter into any such agreement without the consent of the Senate-that is, without making it a treaty-I wish, for your information, to put the following facts before you: In the first place, as you know, the text of the general arbitration treaties had been submitted to each member of the Foreign Relations Committee before being submitted to the various foreign powers; and the treaties as actually negotiated with these foreign powers followed without deviation the text thus submitted in advance to the various members182 2 members of the Foreign Relations Committee. With the exception of Senator Morgan, no member of the Foreign Relations Committee took exception to the form or matter of the proposed treaties, and all who expressed any opinion explicitly approved; but when the treaties were laid before the Foreign Relations Committee, they amended them so as to, in my opinion, make them rather worse than valueless; and one of the reasons - indeed, I think the main reason - alleged was that the Senate could not delegate any portion of the treaty-making power, and that the word "agreement" used in the general arbitration treaties, itself simply meant treaty. In this joint resolution, a copy of which I enclose, you will see that in April, 1904, the Senate and House requested the President to negotiate and conclude negotiations with the Government of Great Britain for a review and revision of the rules and regulations governing the taking of fur seals, to determine what revision and regulation should be made to abate the killing of nursing mother seals on the high seas, so as to preserve the fur seal industry; and that the President was requested to negotiate and conclude negotiations with Russia, Japan, and other maritime nations to secure "their adherence to end a common agreement with the terms of any satisfactory revision of the rules and regulations - - - which may be agreed upon by the Governments of Great Britain and the United States." In the letter of the four Senators, of February 18, 1905, they ask an amendment to Article 2 of the Award of Bering Sea Tribunal, stating that Article 9 of the award gives the Secretary of State the warrant to ask for the required revision of the regulation in question.183 3 I enclose you not only a copy of the resolution but a copy o the letter and memorandum of Senators. I have directed, as above stated, Senators. I have directed, as above stated, Secretary Hay to act on the request of the Senators and try to secure the agreements of the governments in question. I feel, however, in view of my past experience, that I should like to have you cognizant of all the facts, for I want come one to know that in this instance I am acting on the request of four Senators who have made a special study of the subject, and under the authority of a joint resolution which distinctly asks the President to negotiate and conclude the proposed change of rules. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. H. Platt, United States Senate. Enclosure184 February 24, 1905. My dear Cutting: I am sorry indeed to learn of your decision and of the reasons for it. Whenever Bayard, Jr., feels that his health has sufficiently recovered for him to take a position, let me know, and if I can put him in I surly will. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Bayard Cutting, 32 Nassau Street, New York.185 February 24, 1905. My dear Seth: Will you send this letter to Speaker Mills for his confidential information? I am sorry to say that Mr. Honey is convinced that the Marshal has been interfering, or endeavoring to interfere, with the course of justice, and he feels that if he is left in he can, by the exercise of his powers in connection with the choice of jurors, thwart the efforts to obtain justice. The situation in Oregon is such as to justify measures that under no ordinary conditions could be taken. I had to remove the District Attorney for cause not given, and on its face it seemed an injustice; but he has since been indicted. I do not think that the Marshal has acted in any way as badly, but if those responsible for the prosecution insist that they can not go on with the Marshal in power, it will be difficult for me to refuse to remove him. I am sorry to be obliged to write you like this. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street, New York.186 February 24, 1905. My dear Mr. Townsend: I like Mr. Wedemeyer's looks, but I can not say whether or not I would be willing to put him on the Interstate Commerce Commission; certainly not without a most careful examination, not only into his record but into the records of all other possible competitors. And, my dear sir, as for a consulate, at present I simply can not give another to Michigan. I am just sending O'Brien as Minister to Denmark, [???????]. I hate to have to answer you in this way on a matter in which you are so interested. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles E. Townsend, House of Representatives187 Personal February 24, 1905. My dear President Schurman: I have your letter of the 20th. I am inclined to continue Otare as Governor, as he is an old friend of mine; but I hear well of Hagerman. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.188 Personal February 24, 1905. My dear Mr. Munsey: I should like to appoint Mr. Wilder, but I have already promised Senator Spooner one man [an excellent one, I believe] from Wisconsin, who is to go to Peru to take the place of the Wisconsin man now at Uruguay, and I think it will be a simple impossibility to give Wisconsin another man. Moreover, I should have to have the Senator's endorsement. [I wish I could do whatever you ????] Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Mr. Frank A. Munsey, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York.189 Personal February 24, 1905. My dear President Harper: I have been very deeply touched by your letter, written at such a time. Now, my dear fellow, let me say to you with all the earnestness I can how deeply I appreciate all the aid and comfort you have given me by advice and friendship and example, and how proud I am, as an American of you and of your career and of all that you have done. With deep regard and sympathy, and heartiest good wishes for your speedy recovery, I am Ever your friend, Theodore Roosevelt President William B. Harper, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 190 Personal February 24, 1905. Dear Senator Spooner: The enclosed explains itself. I would not write you about the matter did I not understand from remarks you have made that you favored the treaty. If this is so, will it not be possible to have the treaty reported out from committee as soon as possible? I take it for granted that it can not be ratified during this last week of the session, but at least it can be reported out, and we would know whether or not there was a chance to get it ratified at all, and the San Domingan Government would be strengthened. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, United States Senate. Enclosure191 Personal. February 25, 1905. My dear Senator Crane: Can you help along this Jamestown Exposition at all? The landing of the first white settlers at the mouth of the James is the only event comparable in importance with the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth as marking the beginning of what is now the United States, and I hope that you will feel like giving a helping hand toward the exposition. Faithfully yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. W.M. Crane, United States Senate.192 February 25, 1905. My dear Governor: It is always a pleasure to hear form you, and I thank you for writing. But you need trouble to deny any such statement. I know you too well, and Mr. Wilson too well, to pay any attention to it. With high regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. H. Longino, Jackson, Mississippi. 193 Personal February 25, 1905. My dear Taft: I wish I could appoint Wilder, but I have already prom- ised Senator Spooner to appoint a friend of his, and unless he will agree to take Wilder in place of that friend, I fear it will be out of the question for me to appoint him. It is impossible to put any more appointments in Wisconsin. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry W. Taft, 40 Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 194 Personal February 25, 1905. My dear Wendell: I like your article so much that I must just send you a line to tell you so, [????????????????????????] [???????????????????????????????????????????????????????] With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Barrett Wendell, Hotel Columbia, 16 Avenue Kleber Paris, France.195 Personal February 27, 1905. Dear John: This letter may amuse you. Uncle Edward evidently has his eye on Nephew William, and sings a variant on the old song that "Godlin is our friend and not Short"! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. Enclosure 196 February 27, 1905. My dear Mr. Wood: I have just received through the courtesy of Judge Hunt your address on Presidential Electors. I am greatly obliged to you, and shall read the address with real interest. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William S. Wood, San Francisco, California. 197 February 27, 1905. My dear Judge Hunt: I thank you for your letter, and I enclose an acknowledgment to Mr. Wood. I am very much pleased at all you are accomplishing. The conviction of Bridgeman and the sentence you gave him are mighty healthy matters for public morality. With warm regards to Mrs. Hunt, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Hunt, U. S. District Judge, Helena, Montana. Enclosure 198 February 27, 1905. My dear Mrs. Bartlett: Permit me to thank you most warmly for the photograph. It is a most admirable likeness of the Admiral. On the strength of your recommendation I gave a sitting to the Japanese photographer myself. With renewed thanks and assurance of my very deep regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Jeanie R. Bartlett, 1836 Jefferson Place, Washington. 199 Personal February 27, 1905. My dear Major Pitcher: A word as to the mountain lions in the park. I think they should be killed off where the sheep and deer winter in your immediate vicinity. I do not think they should be killed off in the rest of the park. Won't it be better to prevent Buffalo Jones from extending his ravages among them beyond the neighborhood of the Mammoth Hot Springs? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Pitcher, U. S. A., Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park, Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming. 200 February 27, 1905. My dear Mrs. Townsend: That article interested me, and I am sure it will interest Mrs. Roosevelt. You are very kind to send it to me, and I appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Edward Mitchell Townsend, Jr., Oyster Bay, N. Y. 201 February 27, 1905. To the Committee on Admissions, Century Club: I understand that Mr. Elbert F. Baldwin is an applicant for admission to the Century Club. I know him personally; he is a member of the editorial staff of The Outlook; is a gentleman of high standing, and I regard him as a most desirable man for admission to the Club. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 202 February 27, 1905. My dear Bishop Spalding: Mr. Sargent handed me your message, and it touched and pleased me very much. My dear Bishop, you know how I have grown to value you and to prize your friendship. I look eagerly forward to the time when you have recovered your strength and I may see you. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop John L. Spalding, Peoria, Illinois. 203 Personal February 27, 1905. Dear Cecil: I do not think your informant could have known what he was talking about. At the time of the sortie from Port Arthur the Russian fleet was on the whole a little interior to the Japanese, but in number of battleships surpassed it by one. I have heard it alleged that the panic in the Russian squadron was due to the fact that the Czarowitch was crippled in her steering-gear, but in reality I do not think that this had anything to do with it. Very possibly the death of the Admiral, who was on the Czarowitch, did cast the rest of the Russian fleet into confusion. But to say that the Japanese were being beaten at the time when this happened in absurd. The total lose in the Japanese fleet that day was about 150 men killed and wounded, or about a dozen per ship; and not one of the vessels was hurt enough to require its taking refuge in a port. Under these circumstances, while it may or may not be true that the Russians were doing as well as the Japanese until they became panic-struck at the death of their Admiral, it is manifestly absurd to suppose that the Japanese were being beaten. From their standpoint, the fight had hardly begun. It is true, however, that the fight was conducted at very long range, this I believe being due to the fact that the Japanese, having so few big armored ships, have been most reluctant to jeopardize them. It is also true that our naval people are not very 204 - 2 - much impressed with the Japanese gunnery, as shown on the day in question - notably, the comparatively slight damage done the Askold when she was not far off; and they do not understand why the Czarowitch was not pressed. But they think that throughout the war the Russians at sea have not only shot badly, but, unlike the Russians on land, have shown rather poor fighting edge. At Present Rojestvensky may have a fleet materially somewhat superior to the Japanese, but it is lying for months in tropical waters and the bottoms of the ships must be fouling badly. If it moves into Japanese waters it will have no good base, while the Japanese ships will be at home with excellent bases, all of [xxxx] repaired, and with the morale of their officers and crews at the highest point. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Spring-Rise, and say the next time you come over we shall expect her to be with you. I need hardly tell you how much I enjoyed your visit from every standpoint. I am having my own troubles here, and there are several eminent statesmen at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue whom I would gladly lend to the Russian Government, if they cared to expend them as body-guards for grand dukes whenever there was a likelihood of dynamite bombs being exploded! Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Cecil Spring-Rice, Foreign Office, London, England. 205 February 28, 1905. My dear Governor Chamberlain: I thank you for your very kind letter of the 27th in- stant , and appreciate it. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Governor of Oregon, Salem, Oregon. 206 Personal February 28, 1905. My dear Father Doyle: Will you go over the enclosed copy of my speech to be made to the Mothers' Congress, and return it to me with any suggestions or corrections you care to make? I should like to have it back by Friday of this week. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Rev. A.P. Doyle, Apostolic Mission House, Bunker Hill Road, Brookland, D.C. 207 Personal February 28, 1905. Dear Florence; Will you go through the enclosed copy of my speech to the Mothers' Congress, and return it to me at your earliest con- veniance with any suggestion or correction? I ought to have it back this week, if possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant La Farge, 124 East 22d Street, New York, N.Y. Enclosure 208 Personal February 28, 1905. My dear Senator Platt: I have requested that the gentleman in whom you are interested be promoted to Consul at Barbados. The other day the Secretary of the Treasury told me that he did not think it was possible that Mr. Roberts should remain as Treasurer of the United States any longer. He has a very kindly feeling toward him, but he thinks that on account of his age his usefulness is past. He will have completed his second term, eight years in all, in June next. This gives me the chance to do what we were talking about the other day in a way that I think will meet your wishes. We can promote Charles H. Treat to the position of treasurer, and then put Charles W. Anderson in as internal revenue collector in Treat's place. As you know, my only object is to give some conspicuous recognition to some colored man in New York, and Anderson I think is undoubt- odly our best man to appoint. He is a devoted friend of yours, as you know, as is Mr. Treet. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T.C. Platt, United States Senate. 210 Personal February 28, 1905. My dear Mr. Legare: I wish to thank you for the work that you did for the Navy in conjunction with men like Mr. Tate of Georgia, Mr. Meyer of Louisiana, and others. I am happy to be able to say to you that one of the two battleships will be named the South Carolina, in accordance with our conversation of the other day. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. George S. Legare, House of Representatives.211 February 28, 1905. My dear Senator Platt: Mr. Byington has not been a very efficient man, although his grandson, the consular clerk, is performing the duties of his grandfather's place very well. I did not realize how much interested you were in him when I acted, and I of course was anxious to do what I could for Senator Quay's brother. I can transfer Mr. Byington to Algiers or to Milan, both of which places carry the same salary as Naples, or to Catania. The last is in Sicily, where the climate is excellent for an old man, and the duties of which place I think he can perform all right. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. O.H. Platt, United States Senate. P.S. I send you the enclosed correspondence. Don't you think you can let up on that delegate bill? I think Alaska ought to have a delegate; otherwise we shall be more or less at the mercy of self-constituted and very irresponsible Alaskan representatives. Enclosures212 Personal March 1, 1905. My dear Dr. Crothers: Both Mrs. Roosevelt and I have enjoyed "The Gentle Reader" so much that I must tell you so. By the time I had gotten so far as the anecdote of "The Probable Son" I settled myself down for more pleasure! Perhaps I liked the chapters on poetry and history most, but I like them all, and I really think Mrs. Roosevelt like them even more than I did. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Rev. Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 213 March 1, 1905. My dear Mr. Clampitt: I thank you heartily for your book and the inscription, and anticipate reading it with pleasure. [It is pleasant to hear from a real Rocky Mountain man!] With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] John W. Clampitt, Esq., The National Book Concern, Chicago, Ill.214 March 1, 1905. My dear Mr. Loud: It gives me pleasure to tell you, with reference to our conversation of the other day, that of the two battleships one shall be named the Michigan as you desire. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. Ceo. A. Loud, House of Representatives.215 March 1, 1905. My dear Mrs. Beale: I think well of Horace Washington. The trouble is that there are a number of good men that we wish to promote, and very few promotions to make, for in addition to rewarding those who have done well in the service there are certain outsiders who are entitled to recognition. If I am able to give Mr. Washington his promotion, I shall be really pleased. I do wish you could be in Washington on Saturday. Faithfully yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale, Care of Mrs. Emmons Blaine, 5 The Raymond, Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois.216 March 1, 1905. Sir: I have received through the Navy Department the letter of January 18, 1905, addressed to me and signed by District Governor Faivas; County Chiefs Tuitele, Satele, Fuimaono, and Letuli; Magistrate Alaipalelei; Councilor Aumavae; District Clerk Katafern, and Clerk of District Clerk Magalei, of the Western District of Tutuila, stating the great pleasure they had received under the kind administration of Commander Underwood over the people of Tutuila and Manua, the public improvements carried out by him, and the satisfaction afforded by the schools of Tutuila. You will please communicate to the signers of the letter the great satisfaction it has given me to learn of their contentment under the governorship of Commander Underwood, and thank them for their kind expressions of good will to me personally. It will always be a matter of gratification and pleasure to hear of their continued advancement in education. This,217 united with their sincerity and the kindly sentiments of the heart they possess should lead to the highest order of good citizenship, which we may well be proud to share with them. I trust that the material benefits proceeding from continued good government, and earnest endeavor of their part, may multiply rapidly. It will be my pleasant duty to appoint over them those men as governors, who, by character and example, shall endeavor in every way to advance the happiness and enlightenment of the people of Tutuila and Manua. Very respectfully, Theodore Roosevelt Commander C.B.T. Moore, U.S.N., Governor of Tutuila, Samoa.218 March 1, 1905. Dear Miss Kathleen: That was very kind and thoughtful of you. The letters are from my uncle, and I am obliged to you for sending them to me. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt MIss Kathleen Pearl Mack, Helena, Montana.219 Personal March 1, 1905. My dear Comrade: I thank you for the specimen which Senator Carter has handed me. With good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Fred Sein, Post Office Box 533, Helena, Montana. 220 March 1, 1905 My dear Goddard: That is a very nice and manly letter of yours, and I appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Norton Goddard, 98 Bleecker Street, New York. 221 March 1, 1905. My dear Mr. Sprague: I have your letter of the 28th ultimo. Will you thank Lucinda and Vincent Lindsay for sending me the star, and say how much I appreciate it, and the remembrance? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. O. Sprague, Postmaster, Prince Bay, N.Y.222 March 1, 1905. My dear Senator Cullom: I have your letter of the 1st instant. I understand perfectly, and thank you for all you have done. I shall send a brief message on the San Domingo matter to the Senate next Monday, so as to direct attention to it. If you can get in tomorrow morning, or the day after, I should like to show you the message. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S.M. Cullom, United States Senate. 223 March 1, 1905. My dear Dr. Abbott: Perhaps the enclosed letter may interest you. Return it to me when you are through with it. One of the best State Senators from South Carolina (Hon. S. G. Mayfield of Denmark, S.C.) came in to see me to-day and to my surprise and delight told me he heartily approved of my appointment of Dr. Crum, and that the opposition to [Crim] Crum was in his opinion (though he was a Democrat) entirely untenable. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. Enclosure224 March 1, 1905. My dear Judge: I am immensely interested in your letter. I feel that you put your finger on the sore spot when you speak of the lack of moral courage of the better element in the South; and as you say, the thing I was striving to do was to give some backbone to these people and to show that I was not in sympathy with any meddling on the part of northern philanthropists. I am especially interested in your remarks about the progress of the negro, and in your experience, of which you may well be proud, with both white and colored jurors. With high regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Jacob Trieber, District Judge, Little Rock, Arkansas.225 March 1, 1905. My dear Mrs. Gitterman: You say in your letter, "It needs but an additional word from you to ensure" the passage of the three bills desired, and you add that you now turn hopefully to me as the ultimate factor in their passage. You then make an argument to me why I should pass the bills, and say that you abide with confidence the patriotic confidence of my decision. Now, my dear Mrs. Gitterman, I wonder if you have any idea how much patience it requires not to answer impatiently such a letter as yours. I have done my best for the three bills. I called specific attention to the matters in my message. I am not the legislative body. I am the executive; and if you will read the papers you will see that Congress is very jealous of anything like a usurpation of authority on my part. I simply have not the slightest power to accomplish the end you desire; and so far from it's being true that a word repeatedly and it has brought no result as regards these bills, and there is absolutely nothing I can do. Let me repeat; all that I can possibly do has been done, and of this you must surely be aware. The President can recommend the passage of legislation and set forth the need of it, just as I have226 -2- done in this case. If the people at large, and therefore their representatives in Congress, take an interest in the subject and back him up the President the less will pass. If they do not take the interest in the subject, there is nothing he can do that will secure their passage. I very earnestly wish that the philanthropic people who take, as they ought to take, a disinterested concern in matters of genuine public importance such as these three bills, who learn to appreciate the limitations on the President's power and the line dividing what he can do from what he cannot. It would help them to attain their ends. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. John Milton Gitterman, President, Public Education Association, 201 Second Street, N. E., Washington, D. C.227 March 2, 1905. Hon. D. C. Heyward, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. I thank you for your telegram. It was a great pleasure to be able to name one of the battleships in honor of South Carolina. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (Official) 228 March 2, 1905. My dear Mr. MacVeagh: I hear wall of Baldwin, as I also hear well of Harlan, Landis, and Bethen. With many thanks for kind letter, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Franklin MacVaugh: Chicago, Illinois. 229 March 2, 1905. My dear President Northrop: I think highly of General Howard, but the Secretary of the interior thinks that the present Assistant Secretary is one of the best men in the entire service. I should have to look very carefully into the situation before turning him out. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Cyrus Northrop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 230 March 2, 1905. My dear President James: I think highly of General Howard, but the Secretary of the Interior thinks that the present Assistant Secretary is the Interior thinks that the present Assistant Secretary is one of the best men in the entire service. I should have to look very carefully into the situation before turning him out. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.231 March 2, 1905. My dear Senator Kimbrough: It was a real pleasure to hear from you. I wish to thank you for writing me. I know General Baldwin well. He has many excellent qualities. I promoted him to his present position. Whether I can promote him again I can not at present say. It of course depends much upon the standing of the other men to be considered. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. C.M. Kimbrough, Senate Chamber, Indianapolis, Indiana. 232 March 2, 1905. My dear Senator Gallinger: I have sent the letter and memorandum of Professor Fletcher to Secretary Taft. I think that the statements are probably exaggerated, but there is undoubtedly too much foundation for them. The remedy is to pass the Panama Commission bill practically as it came from the House; but I understand that Senator Gorman will not let the Senate do this. If the House bill, in substantially its present form, is not passed, there will continue to be cause for just complaint at Panama. I shall change one or two commissioners; but the fault is radical, for as long as we have a law requiring me to have a commission of seven, and limiting me as to the composition of that commission, it is absolutely impossible that the best work should be done, and it will often prove impossible that even good work shall be done. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. H. Gallinger, United States Senate. 233 March 2, 1905. Dear John: Root was in error about the message. It is all right and I shall send it in. Allison, Platt and Cullom all day there is no reason why it should not go in. Have you any documents to go in with it? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. 234 March 2, 1905 My dear Major Pitcher: Will you permit me to introduce to you Baron E.L.L. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Secretary of the Netherlands Legation? The Baron is a great sportsman, and is much interested in game preservation. He may visit the Park. Commending him to your courtesy, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Pitcher, U.S.A., Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park, Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming. March 2, 1905. My dear Baron: I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed letter of introduction from the President, addressed to Major Pitcher. Sincerely yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President. Baron E.L.L. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Secretary of the Netherlands Legation, 1738 M Street. Enclosure 235 Private (underline) March 2, 1905. My dear Senator: I find that the State Department and especially the outgoing head of the Bureau of American Republics, feel very strongly that Mr. Fox should be promoted. They say, with much justice, that inasmuch as they know nothing against his habits which would warrant them in removing him from his present position, they do not feel that this should be a bar to his promotion. I think I shall put him in with the distinct understanding that if he in any way comes short I shall at once remove him. With great regard, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Henry Gassaway Davis, 1703 Massachusetts Avenue.236 March 2, 1905. My dear Mr. Anthony: In view of your letter, with its "allegory," I think I should write you what the facts were. You brought your complaint against the Kodak Company to me. I submitted it to Attorney General Knox. Mr. Knox reported to me that his judgment was that you had a case, but that it was impossible to be sure until we had reached decisions in certain cases then pending, and that in his opinion it would be very unwise to begin a suit in the matter until the other decisions were rendered, especially as the suits he was bringing or had brought dealt with matters of far greater importance to the welfare of the people. I repeated this in substance to you. Mr. Moody came in as Attorney General last summer and I brought the case to his attention. He looked into the matter very carefully and reported to me, and has since repeated his report, that he was very doubtful whether [a case] an action would lie; that he did not re-237 gard the case by any means as strong as certain other cases which he was prosecuting or hoped to prosecute; and that it was simply impossible to take it up without neglecting more important duty; and that moreover he did not like to take it up when he feared that the suit would be a failure. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard A. Anthony, University Club, Fifth Avenue and 54th Street, New York. 238 March 2, 1905. My dear Mrs. Fairbanks: I thank you for "The Masqueraders," which I have just begun. It was very good of you to think of me. I wish particularly to thank you for the very pleasant evening at Secretary Wilson's dinner. Sincerely - yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue. 239 March 2, 1905. My dear Mrs. Gary: I thank you for the two novels which you have been so kind as to send me. You are very good to have thought of me, and I appreciate it. Will you give my warm regards to Mr. Gary? I hope he will soon be all right. I need hardly say how much I enjoyed the privilege of taking you in to dinner at Secretary Wilson's dinner. With renewed regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. James A. Gary, 1200 Linden Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland.240 March 2, 1905. My dear Senator Fairbanks: I accept your resignation. Will you permit me to express to you my very deep sense of appreciation of the admirable work you have done on the United States and British Joint High Commission? It has been eminently useful, and I thank you on behalf of the people. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Senate.241 March 2, 1905. My dear Mr. Harriman: I am pleased that Mr. Curtis is to exhibit his really marvellous collection of Indian photographs in New York. Not only are Mr. Curtis' photographs genuine works of art, but they deal with some of the most picturesque phases of the old-time American life that is now passing away. I esteem it a matter of real moment that for our good fortune Mr. Curtis should have had the will and the power to preserve, as he has preserved in his pictures, this strange and beautiful, and now vanishing, life. Hoping that his exhibition will have the success it deserves, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E.H. Harriman, 120 Broadway, New York.242 Personal February 28, 1905. My dear Senator: When you come to Washington I should be glad to have you call on me, as there are two or three things I would like to go over with you. With regards to Mrs. La Follette, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. R. M. La Follette, United States Senate.243 Personal March 2, 1905. My dear Mrs. Marchant: I thank you for the poem, and appreciate your sending it to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Susie Marchant, 155 Taylor Street, Cleveland, Ohio.244 March 3, 1905. My dear Mr. Jesup: May I, through you, thank the Chamber of Commerce, and say how deeply I appreciate the message of goodwill from this the foremost representative of all our commercial organizations? With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Morris K. Jesup, President, Chamber of Commerce, New York. 245 March 2, 1905. My dear Mrs. Thorndike: it will be pleasure to meet Sir Charles, and i am es- pecially glad to learn that he is a Civil War veterans. Thanking you for your good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Paul thorodike 244 Marlborough Street, Boston. 246 March 3, 1905. Friends: I thank you from my heart for your greeting. Of the many I have received, none has touched me more. May Heaven keep you all. Your friend and fellow-countryman, Theodore Roosevelt To the Officers and Members of The Fremont Old Guard, 586 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.247 [To be] written out by hand March 3, 1905. My dear Mrs. Dewey: This is just to send my heart-felt greetings to you and the Admiral. I wish you to know that I shal think of you both when I am being inaugurated tomorrow. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mrs. George Dewey, 1747 Rhode Island Avenue.248 March 3, 1905. Personal. Dear Speck: I am greatly interested in that speech before the budget commission of the Reichstag by Admiral von Tirpitz. Of course he is absolutely right in saying that the Japanese war has shown that the battleships are the determining factors in sea contests. I am interested that he should have reinforced his position by the various quotations from me. I wish it were possible to make Senator Hale learn his speech by heart! It might do him good. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H.S. Sternburg, German Ambassador, 1435 Massachusetts Avenue.249 March 3, 1905. My dear Mrs. Johnson: I feel quite bacchanalian with that cherry bounce, and I am delighted with it, as well as the beautiful decanter in which it has come. It was most kind of you to think of me. Give my regards to Mr. Johnson, and believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson, 1735 I Street.250 March 3, 1905. My dear Mr. Stoll: I have your letter of the 28th ultimo, and thank you and your associates for the compliment paid me in electing me an honorary life member of the Chelsea Independent Association. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frederick F. Stoll, President, Chelsea Independent Association, 419 West 21st Street, New York, N.Y. 251 March 3, 1905. My dear Roche: Your letter distresses and concerns me. Do you know of a consulate in a climate which would suit you? Of course I may not be able to give it to you, but I shall certainly try if you will let me know. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James Jeffrey Roche, American Consul, Genoa, Italy.252 March 3, 1905. My dear Colonel Treadwell: I am genuinely pleased by the resolution, signed by yourself and Messrs. Edmund P. Cottle, William H. Chapin, James M. Anderson, George Curtis Treadwell, Robert Kelly Prentice, J. Wray Cleveland, George Albert Wingate, William Littauer and Norton Goddard, members of my staff as Governor. I earnestly wish you and they could be present tomorrow. You know how warm my memory of you all is, and this act of yours and theirs makes another tie between us. Good luck to you all. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel H.H. Treadwell, 15 Union Square, New York.253 March 6, 1905. My dear Wendell: After writing you, which was based upon my reading your article in the magazine, Senator Lodge has sent me the original manuscript of it. Now, I wish to thank you again. You have said the very things which I most desired to have said and that no one but a Harvard man and a personal friend of mine could have said. I wish I could see you here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Barrett Wendell, Hotel Columbia, 16 Avenue Kleber, Paris, France. P.S. Don't misunderstand me. I mean that I liked the things you said of me because I hope that, right or wrong, for the [?] was held by the part [?] large to embody the ideals you [describe?], and nothing long [?] no find, and yet no humble or [?] feel that the [?] [?] look see or their [?] in the [?] [?]254 March 6, 1905. My dear Mrs. Selmes: I must send you a line of personal thanks. I only wish I could have seen you on the day of my inauguration. Ever your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Tilden R. Selmes, Lakewood, N.J. 255 Personal March 6, 1905. My dear Gilder: I like the ode much, and your thought in sending it to me. I am so glad Rodman was in the squadron. I wish I had seen him. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R.W. Gilder, The Century Company, Union Square, New York.256 March 6, 1905. My dear Judge Speer: After going over the matter with the Attorney General and Senator Clay, who was very insistent that the bill should be signed, it seemed to me that there was hardly sufficient grounds to warrant a veto. I am sorry not to have been able to do anything you suggested. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Emory Speer, United States Judge, Macon, Georgia.257 March 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Yeomans: I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, tendering your resignation as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which I hereby accept. I regard you as an honest and upright public servant. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James D. Yeomans, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. 258 March 6, 1905. Personal. My dear Mrs. Knox: It is a pleasure to receive the silk quilt. I thank you for it, and appreciate your having sent it. Wishing you all good fortune, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Carolyn C. Knox, Gardiner, Maine. 259 March 6, 1905. My dear General Wilson: I wish to express to you my profound appreciation of the way in which you have managed this whole affair of the inauguration. Every one agrees that there never before has been an inauguration as successfully planned and managed in all its details as this, and to you more than to any other one man the credit belongs. Many others contributed to the result; and may I through you thank the gentlemen of the committees associated with you for what they did to contribute to the success of the occasion? I beg you to say to them that I am profoundly thankful to them. With hearty regard, and renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brig. Gen'l John M. Wilson, Chairman, Inaugural Committee, The New Willard, Washington, D.C. 260 March 6, 1905. Dear Comrade: I want to thank you heartily for your kind letter. While I think it best that Judge Krebs should write, of course I shall see him and you too any time you wish; but you must remember that the shaping of the bill is a matter of legislation, and if I can have a clear letter to put before certain of the legislators it will count much more than any mere talk with me. With warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W.A. Kissam, Whitehall, 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y.261 March 6, 1905. Dear Mamie: It was a real regret to us that you and Fred could not be here. I am so sorry that Fred should have been sick. I have directed the State Department to send you a letter of introduction to the diplomatic and consular representatives abroad. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Frederick Roosevelt, 583 Fifth Avenue, New York.262 March 6, 1905. Dear Elihu: I appreciate the telegram. No one did more than you have done to make my first term a success, and I thank you now from the bottom of my heart, my dear fellow. With love to you and yours, Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building, New York. P.S. The night before the inauguration John Hay did such a characteristically nice thing. He sent me a ring containing some of Abraham Lincoln's hair, cut from his head after he was assassinated, and with my initials and his engraved on the ring; saying he wished me to wear it when I took the oath. Naturally no present could have pleased me more. 263 Personal March 6, 1905. My dear Bishop: I appreciate your telegram. No one has a greater right to feel proud over the inauguration than you have. I made no effort to get you or Murray Butler, or indeed any of my near circle of friends and advisers, on, because I know I should not see you. With warm love to your wife, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J.B. Bishop, Editor, The Globe, 5 Day Street, New York. [*264*] March 6, 1905. Dear Uncle Rob: It was peculiarly pleasant having you here. How I wish Father could have lived to see it too! You stood to me for him and for all that generation, and so you may imagine how proud I was to have you here. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, 57 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.265 March 6, 1905. My dear Madam: I thank you for the table-spread you have made with your own hands and appreciate the gift. With best wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Ogda Somonian, 32 Pink Street, Worcester, Mass.266 March 6, 1905. Dear Mr. Dearborn: I have been much gratified by, and cordially appreciate the message of greeting and good-will from your League conveyed through you. Please express to the members of the League my hearty thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H.W. Dearborn, Chairman Executive Committee, Roosevelt Commercial Travellers League of America, New York, N.Y.267 Personal March 6, 1905. My dear Mrs. Schumann-Heink: Your telegram pleased us both, and I want to thank you for it. With love and good wishes to all the eight children, Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Schumann-Heink, Care of Mr. Henry Wolfsohn, 131 East 17th Street, New York, N.Y. 268 March 6, 1905. My dear Senator Hale: It proved to be impossible to arrange for Dunning. In my letter of February 20th I told you that I was confident I could arrange to put Dunning into Milan. At that time I expected to remove [xxxx] man at Naples. For reasons which Senator Platt, of Connecticut, will explain to you, this proved impossible, and therefore, in order to appoint Senator Quay's brother [xxxxxxx] I had to shift Spooner's man from Florence to Milan. As I say, when I wrote you I intended to put Quay into Naples and keep Spooner's man in Florence; but when it proved impossible to make a vacancy at Naples, Quay had to go to Florence and Spooner's man to Milan. Of course Spooner's man could not be put out of the service. He is an excellent man whom I know well. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Eugene Hale, United States Senate. 269 March 6, 1905. My dear Comrade: I thank you very much for the relic from the Viscaya, and particularly appreciate your having sent it to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. M. Klos, 1020 Tenth Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois.270 March 6, 1905. Dear Mrs. New: I am very much obliged to you for "In the Arena;" though I a little resent your not having put your name in the book. I have already glanced at Hector, and am delighted with it. It was delightful catching a glimpse of you both the other day. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Harry S. New, Indianapolis, Indiana.271 March 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Schreyvogel: I have received the two pictures, and am delighted with them, of course, as I always am with your work. With hearty thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Schreyvogel, 1232 Garden Street, Hoboken, N. J.272 March 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Ohm: That makes a beautiful paper weight, and I certainly thank you for having sent me so attractive an inauguration gift. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. C. Ohm, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 273 March 6, 1905. Dear Dan: Thank you from both of us, old fellow. I liked your article on the "square deal." Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Owen Wister, 64 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina.274 March 6, 1905. My dear Bowen: I find that it will be out of the question for me to make an engagement in the evening. I can not tell far enough in advance what may turn up for the few evenings I have free to be willing to commit myself about them. How long would it take to show those manuscripts and sketches? I ask you this because if it is only to see the manuscripts I shall have you come in some time right after lunch; but I really have too much on my hands just now to be able to listen to a lecture, even though the lecture was as interesting, as this particular one is sure to be. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Clarence W. Bowen, Care The Independent, New York.275 March 7, 1905. My dear Senator Foraker: If I am able to appoint either Connell or Joyce, or both, I shall be glad, but I need hardly tell you that I am driven nearly mad to find places where they do not exist. I am speaking within bounds when I say that almost all my friends among the Senators and one or two others, of whom I can use the term "friend" only in a hyperbolic sense, are very desirous of appointments which I would greatly like to give them but which I simply have not in my possession, and which therefore I cannot give. I do not even care to say that I think or am confident that I shall be able to make the appointments, as such an expression is usually taken as a promise; but I shall do my best. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Yoraker, United States Senate.276 March 7, 1905. My dear Secretary Shaw: In the Rittman matter, I would like to have you tell Rittman that Senator Foraker so far from approving of his removal objected and earnestly stated to me that he hoped Mr. Rittman would not be displaced; but after I explained the situation to him he, as I though rather reluctantly, stated that of course if I had decided upon it he would not make any opposition, although he reiterated his regret at the decision. In other words, the Senator had no responsibility for it, and I think it due him that this should be stated to Mr. Rittman. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury.277 March 7, 1905. My dear Miss Colburn: I thank you for your very kind letter. With best wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss S. Bulloch Colburn, 24 Liberty Avenue, West Somerville, Mass.278 March 7, 1905. Dear Fox: An internal revenue collector is not like a judge and I have rightfully to pay more heed to political considerations. I do not know whether I can appoint Howard or not. I wish I could see you, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Fox, Jr., Big Stone Gap, Virginia.279 March 7, 1905. My dear General: I am touched that you should write me on such an anniversary. Believe me that I appreciate it and that I appreciate you and your services. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. John C. Black, Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.280 March 8, 1905. My dear Senator Patterson: Your letter gives me real pleasure. I feel about Judge Wickersham as you do. I am inclined to think that the accusations as to what he did before he was judge are false. At any rate, they were taken in account by the President and Senate when he was appointed judge, and now that he has made a good judge I think he ought to be continued. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. M. Patterson, United States Senate.[*281*] March 8, 1905. Personal. My dear Bishop: I have your letter of the 7th. I am so sorry not to have seen your boy. I did not know he was in the parade or I should have been on the lookout for him. I shall not arrive in New York until noon and then have to go to a wedding; so I shall not be able to have that breakfast with you. I am sorry, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Globe, 5 Dey Street, New York, N.Y.282 March 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Andrews: I am very sorry that it will not be possible for me to accept the kind invitation of your Club for March 15th. Please extend to the members of the Club my hearty thanks and good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Samuel H. Andrews, Pres., Roslyn Republican Club, Roslyn, N. Y.[*283*] March 9th 1905 Friend, I was glad to hear from thee. One of my forbears was a member of the Society of Friends, and dwells at or near West Chester two hundred years ago. His name was David Potts, I think. Wishing thee well, I am very truly Theodore Roosevelt To Dr. Jesse C. Green284 Personal March 8, 1905. My dear Mr. Denton: That is a very frank and manly letter from you, and I appreciate it. You have been a most satisfactory public servant in all ways. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James Denton, Danville, Kentucky.285 Personal. March 8, 1905. My dear Comrade: I thank you for the remembrance carved with your own hand and appreciate your having sent it to me. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. N. C. Cook, Saxon, Ohio.286 March 8, 1905. My dear General: I thank you for your letter which accompanied the gift from the old soldier. I have sent him a personal letter of acknowledgment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. C. H. Grosvenor, House of Representatives.287 March 8, 1905. My dear Governor Herrick: May I through you express to the Battalion of Engineers of the Ohio National Guard my deep sympathy over the dreadful disaster which befell them? I was inexpressably shocked at the news. Let me thank you again for coming on to the inauguration. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio.288 Personal. March 9, 1905. Dear Leonard: Well, the inauguration went off splendidly and I am getting along with no more than the usual and normal amount of worry which every President must have. Congress does from a third to a half of what I think is the minimum that it ought to do, and I am profoundly grateful that I get as much. Next year I believe we shall get improved tariff arrangements for the Philippines. Thank Heaven, we can now make a start in the railroad matters! But of course, it is one long fight and worry. However, I am not complaining. Take it on the whole I have gotten an astonishing proportion of what I set out to get. When I became President three years ago I made up my mind that I should try for a fleet with a minimum strength of forty armor-clads; and though the difficulty of getting what I wished has increased from year to year I have not reached my mark and we have built or provided for twenty-eight battleships and twelve armored cruisers. This navy puts us a good second to France and about on a par with Germany; and ahead of any other power in point of material, except, of course, England. For some years now we can afford to rest, and merely replace the ships that are worn out or become obsolete, while we bring up the personnel.289 2 As regards the Philippines, I suppose that at present there is nothing to do but to show patience and back up you men who are out there. I am happy to say that Taft will visit you this summer. You have been awfully good to Teddy and Helen and I am very much obliged. Give my love to Mrs. Wood. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major General Leonard Wood, U.S.A., Manila, Philippine Islands.290 Personal. March 8, 1905. My dear Governor Referring to your letter of the 7th instant and the enclosed acknowledgment from the President, the President would have no objection to both letters being made public by you, if you think well of it. With regard, Sincerely yours, Wm. Loeb, Jr., Secretary to the President. Hon. Frank W. Higgins, Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y. Enclosure. March 8, 1905. My dear Governor: I would like through you to express my hearty thanks to the men of the National Guard of the State of New York who came down here to the inauguration. Indeed it does speak well for their patriotism and sense of civic duty that the guardsmen who accompanied you to Washington should all have paid their own expenses without expectation of reimbursement to them from the State. And, my dear Governor, surely you know what a pride and pleasure it was to me to see you [?] at the inauguration. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank W. Higgins, Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.291 Personal. March 9, 1905. My dear Colonel Lyon: I have felt horribly about giving up the bear hunt. But things are so mixed in the Senate that I simply dare not trust to their getting off at the time I expected them to. I still think it probable that they will do so, but I can [could] not be certain and of course I dare not take chances. They may reject the Santo Domingo treaty outright very soon and in this case my troubles are over. But it is perfectly possible either that they will talk three or four weeks about it or that they will pass it with such amendments that I will have to exercise some care in getting Santo Domingo to accept them. In either event it would be impossible for me to get off until a week later than I had intended. Accordingly to my great chagrin I had to put our meeting off a week. You see I am not my own master. No public man is his own master, and I simply have to do the best I can with conditions as they are. It is even possible that the292 Senate may sit so long that I shall have to defer my visit entirely, but I do not think this probable. As things are now I shall be down at San Antonio on the 7th, and after that we shall have five or six days with your long dogs at any rate, and we all try for [will catch] coyote and jackrabbit and I hope a wolf, but I am awfully sorry about the bear hunt. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.293 March, 8, 1905. Personal. My dear Mr. Markham: Let me thank you for the poem on Lincoln. I appreciate it particularly coming at such a time as this. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edwin Markham, Westerleigh, Staten Island N.Y.294 March 8, 1905. Darling Corinne: These photographs were sent me by Leonard Wood. It was such a pleasure to have Douglas and you down here for the inauguration, and to see the boys and Corinne. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr., 422 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. Enclosures.295 March 9, 1905. Personal. My dear Mr. Aldrich: I wish to point out to you what you from your experience as a lawyer and your knowledge as a public servant should not require to have pointed out to you - that it is nonsense to ask me to call upon Colonel John S. Cooper or any one else for complaints, and it prejudices your case to have you make such a proposition. Every definite statement you make will receive full consideration; but you have no business to make any charge by innuendo, or to request the President or the Attorney General to call upon people to obtain information as to which you do not particularize. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Charles H. Aldrich, Esq., Home Insurance Building, Chicago, Illinois.296 March 9, 1905. My dear Archbishop: I have your letter about Mr. O'Shaughnessy. You and I have always been such good friends that you will pardon my writing frankly. I do not at all like the way O'Shaughnessy has been pushing himself and intriguing to get every friend of his to advance his interests. He has gone back in my estimation during the last two months, and I am less inclined to help him than I was. I am glad to pay heed to recommendations from friends like you in the appointment of men, and when I found that you and Archbishop Ireland wished him appointed I was very glad to do so. Once in the service I hold it against a man if he tries to rise otherwise than by his own merits. You ask me to send O'Shaughnessy to Vienna. To do so I would have to jump him over the heads of others more fit, unless the vacancy is only in the second secretaryship and unless there are no other men with longer periods of service and better records entitled to that promotion. I fear that O'Shaughnessy has the wrong theory of the diplomatic service. He is not in it to work for his country. He is in it to see what can be gotten out of it for himself. This is not a good way for a young fellow to start, and it is not a good way, so far as I am concerned, for him to try to get promotion.297 2 Understand me: If there is a vacancy in the first secretaryship at Vienna he certainly can not be appointed; if there is a vacancy in the second secretaryship he can be appointed only if there is no one else of greater claim in the service who ought to be transferred there. It may, however, be that there is no one desiring such transfer, and in that case he can be appointed. But it has not been a good thing for O'Shaughnessy that, instead of settling down to do the best work he could where he was put, he has been ceaselessly endeavoring, largely in ways that I do not like, to get to some court of larger social pretensions than the court at Copenhagen. This is all that his desire means. The Storers keep telling me that there is no work to be done at Vienna, so it is out of the question that O'Shaughnessy wishes to go there for the sake of the work. I am sorry to have to write you in this strain, my dear Archbishop, but I think it is better for O'Shaughnessy to understand the impression his importunities are causing. I think it might be well for you to send him this letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Archbishop John J. Kean, Dubuque, Iowa.298 Personal. March 9, 1905. My dear Tarkington: I like "In the Arena" so much that I must write to tell you so. I particularly like the philosophy of the preface and the first story. But I like all the stories. Mrs. Protheroe does not come within the ken of my own experience, but the other comedies and pitiful tragedies are just such as I myself have seen. Do let me know if you get to Washington again. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Booth Tarkington, 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.299 March 9, 1905. My dear Garfield: This is a sample of letters which it might be worth while taking into account to the extent of making a clear statement of the course of traffic followed by beef. Of course, Strayer is not frank in his statement of the problem. He surely means that [He] sometimes sells poor beef cattle for three cents per pound, (live weight), including hide, horns, hoofs, offal, etc., and he sometimes buys prime cuts from good beef cattle for twenty-five cents per pound. But I think it would be well to have clearly worked out the history of a single beef as to the price paid for it up to the time it goes into the retail butcher's hands. It is very desirable that the bulk of the people shall have in accessible fashion an explanation of what seems to puzzle them. The do not understand the report; & I want to make it clear to them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James R. Garfield, Commissioner of Corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor. Enclosure.300 March 9, 1905. My dear Knox: We have been carefully considering Felton, and Taft, from his knowledge of him, thinks that he is not quite as good a man as two others; but I have not definitely made up my mind. When are you coming back to Washington, as I shall get you to come around to take lunch or dinner? I am anxious to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, Palm Beach, Florida.301 March 10, 1905. My dear Senator: I thank you for your kind note. I do wish you could have been here at the inauguration. With regards to Mrs. Laughlin, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Laughlin, The Lenox, Buffalo, N. Y.302 March 9, 1905. Personal. Dear Elihu: Will you quietly find out for me what is thought of Lindon W. Bates in New York. He has submitted a very noteworthy report of the Panama canal to me. He has had wide experience in different parts of the world. For some reason Taft did not entirely like what he saw of him when he was out in the Philippines, but from other sources I hear so well of him that I should like to obtain any information you have at your disposal about him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building, New York, N.Y.303 March 10, 1905. My dear Mr. Wigmore: I have your letter of the 8th instant, and thank you for writing me. I shall at once get the Department of Justice to take the matter up. It has been a great shock and surprise to me to hear these accusations against Judge Kohlsaat, as I had always supposed he was an excellent man, and I am very fond of his brother; but of course I know nothing whatever of the facts alleged. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John H. Wigmore, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Illinois.304 March 10, 1905. My dear Taft: I enclose you a report of Lindon W. Bates on the project of the Panama canal, together with an abstract of the report made by Walter Wellman. I am very deeply impressed by this report. It seems to me to be of such consequence that I should like to have a committee or board of the best engineers to be found in the country appointed specially to consider it. Of course, I should also like Parsons and Wallace to report on it. Probably it would be best to have their two reports considered by the board of engineers, together with the Lindon W. Bates report. I believe we could get the biggest and best engineers that there are to consent to serve ad hoc; that is, to go over this report and then go to Panama and survey the ground, having this report in view. If the project is acted upon, so Mr. Wellman tells me, Bates will expect what the board of engineers may deem reasonable compensation for his professional services in submitting the report. If it is not acted upon, of course305 there will be no claim; and in any event the amount paid will be left to the judgment of the board of engineers. Let me reiterate that this report impresses me very much, and I do not think that we can afford [to fail] to treat it in other than a serious manner. I should like to talk about it with you at your early convenience. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosure.306 Personal. March 9, 1905. My dear Sir George: I liked your son's book much. I am not well read in [of] the period; but it gave me a much clearer idea of the times, a much more vivid picture of them, than I ever before had had. Moreover, in addition to being instructive it had the great merit of being interesting! Having begun the book I read it in all my spare hours until I had finished it. Well, I have just been inaugurated and have begun my second term. Of course I greatly enjoyed inauguration day, and indeed I have thoroughly enjoyed being President. But I believe I can also say that I am thoroughly alive to the tremendous responsibilities of my position. Life is a long campaign where every victory merely leaves the ground free for another battle, and sooner or later defeat comes to every man, unless death forestalls it. But the final defeat does not and should not cancel the triumphs, if the latter have been substantial and for a cause worth championing. It has been peculiarly pleasant to me to find that my supporters are to be found in the overwhelming majority among those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain people. As I suppose you know, Lincoln is my hero. He was a [the] man of the people who always felt with and for the people, but who had not the slightest touch of the demagogue in him.307 2 It is probably difficult for his countrymen to get him exactly in the right perspective as compared with the great men of other lands. But to me he does seem to be one of the great figures, who will loom ever larger as the centuries go by. His unfaltering resolution, his quiet, unyielding courage, his infinite patience and gentleness, and the heights of disinterestedness which he attained whenever the crisis called for putting aside self, together with his farsighted, hardheaded common sense, point him out as just the kind of chief who can do most good in a democratic republic like ours. Having such an admiration for the great railsplitter, it has been a matter of keen pride to me that I have appealed peculiarly to the very men to whom he most appealed and who gave him their heartiest support. I am a college-bred man, belonging to a well-to-do family [which was well-to-do], so that, as I was more than contented to live simply, and was fortunate enough to marry a wife with the same tastes, I have not had to make my own livelihood; though I have always had to add to my private income by work of some kind. But the farmers, lumbermen, mechanics, ranchmen, miners, of the North, East and West, have felt that I was just as much in sympathy with them, just as devoted to their interest, and as proud of them and as representative of them, as if I had sprung from among their own ranks; and I certainly feel that I do understand them and believe in them and feel for them and try to represent them just as much as if I had from earliest childhood made each day's toil pay for that day's existence or308 3 achievement. How long this feeling toward me will last I cannot say. It was overwhelming at the time of the election last November, and I judge by the extraordinary turnout for the inauguration it is overwhelming now. Inasmuch as the crest of the wave is invariably succeeded by the hollow, this means that there will be a reaction. But meanwhile I shall have accomplished something worth accomplishing, I hope. I wish you could have been here on inauguration day, for I should think that the ceremonies, if such they can be called, would have interested you. I send you herewith a copy of my inaugural speech. The Secretary of State, John Hay, was Lincoln's private secretary, and the night before the inauguration he gave me a ring containing some of Lincoln's hair, cut from his head just after he was assassinated nearly forty years ago; and I wore the ring when I took my oath of office next day. I had thirty members of my old regiment as my special guard of honor, riding to and from the Capitol. And in the parade itself, besides the regular army and navy and the national guard, there was every variety of civic organization, including a delegation of coal miners with a banner recalling that I had settled the Anthracite coal strike; Porto Ricans and Philippine Scouts; old style Indians, in their war paint and with horses painted green and blue and red and yellow, with their war bonnets of eagles' feathers and their spears and tomahawks, followed by the new Indians, the students of Hampton and Carlisle; sixty or seventy cowboys; farmers clubs; mechanics309 4 mechanics clubs - everbody [sic] and everything. Many of my old friends with whom I had lived on the ranches and worked in the roundups in the early days came on to see me inaugurated. There, I am half ashamed of having written you about such purely personal matters! Our internal problems are of course much more important than our relations with foreign powers. Somehow or other we shall have to work out methods of controlling the big corporation without paralyzing the energies of the business community and of preventing any tyranny on the part of the labor unions while cordially assisting in every proper effort made by the wage-workers to better themselves by combinations. In all these matters I have to do the best I can with the Congress. I have just as much difficulty in preventing the demagogues from going too far as in making those who are directly or indirectly responsive to Wall Street go far enough. In foreign affairs I have considerable difficulty in getting the Senate to work genuinely for peace, and also in making it understand, and indeed in making our people understand, that we cannot perpetually assert the Monroe Doctrine on behalf of all American republics, bad and good, without ourselves accepting some responsibility in connection therewith. Of course in the Senate I have to deal with frank enemies like Gorman, and in addition with the entire tribe of fat witted people, headed by a voluble, pin-headed creature named Bacon from Georgia, a horrid instance of the mischief that can be done by a man of very slender capacity, if only he possesses great loquacity,310 5 effrontery, and an entire indifference to the national welfare. However, though there is much that is worrying and exasperating and though there are many checks and though we never get more than a third to a half of what really ought to be gotten, yet on the whole there is progress. This country is, I think, learning to take its position more seriously. I am very proud of what we did with Cuba. I hope that ultimately it will be possible to do much the same kind of thing with the Philippines, though as yet the Philippines have not begun to make enough progress to enable me, even to myself, to formulate this hope with distinctness. As far as I can see this country is on good terms with other countries, and I believe it wishes to act fairly and justly, and yet to keep a sufficient armament to make it evident that the attitude proceeds not from fear, but from the genuine desire to do justice. Just at present it looks as if Kuropatkin's army was in desperate straits. Six weeks ago I privately and unofficially advised the Russian Government, and afterwards repeated the advice indirectly through the French Government, to make peace, telling them that of course if they were sure their fleet could now beat the Japanese, and if they were sure they could put and keep 600,00 men in Manchuria, I had nothing to say; but that in my own belief the measure of their mistaken judgment for the last year would be the measure of their mistaken judgment for the next if they continued the war, and that they could not count upon as favorable terms of peace as the Japanese were still willing to offer if they refused to come to terms until the Japanese armies were north of Harbin.311 6 But the Russian Government has shown a fairly Chinese temper for the last year or two. Their conduct in Manchuria was such as wholly to alienate American sympathy, and to make it evident that they intended to organize China as a step toward the domination of the rest of the world. The Japanese have treated us well. What they will do hereafter, when intoxicated by their victory over Russia, is another question which only the future can decide. Meanwhile, when I realize most keenly the difficulties inherent under a free representative government in [of] dealing with foreign questions, it is rather a comfort to feel that Russia, where freedom has been completely sacrificed, where the darkest and most reactionary tyranny reigns, has as yet been unable to do well in the exercise of the functions, proficiency in which could alone justify in any degree [at all] the tyranny. Both from the diplomatic and military standpoints Russia has during the last year or two done as badly as any republic could possibly do; and much worse than either of our governments has ever yet done. The English-speaking peoples have a wholly different set of evil tendencies to combat. I believe that we shall work through our troubles and ultimately come well out of them; but there are plenty of anxious times ahead, and there are many serious evils to face. In England, in the United States, in Canada, in Australia, and in the English parts of South Africa there is more and more a tendency for the men who speak English to gather into the cities and towns, so that these grow at the expense of the country folk. Now in the past the man on the farm has always proved to be the man who, in the last analysis, did best service312 7 in governing himself in times of peace, and also in fighting in times of war. The city-bred folk, and especially where the cities are of enormous size, have not yet shown that they can adequately fill the place left vacant by the dwindling of the country population. Moreover, the diminishing birth rate among our people is an ugly thing. In New England, for instance, the old native stock is not quite holding its own. Here the results are not visible owing to the great immigration, but in Australia the effect is alarming, for the population is increasing slowly and moreover at a constantly diminishing rate, in spite of the fact that the great island continent is very sparsely populated, and in spite of the two or three very large cities. However, I suppose that almost always and in almost every country there has been cause for anxiety. The most marvelous growth in population and material prosperity, and, I believe, in the average of human happiness, that the world has ever soon in any race, has taken place among the English-speaking peoples since the time when Goldsmith gave poetic expression to the general feeling of gloom which prevailed among educated men at what they were pleased to consider the morbid growth of the cities and the decadence of the men in England: much good has gone hand in hand with the evil of the tremendous industrial development of the day. I do not think the average American multi-millionaire a very high type, and I do not much admire him. But in his place he is well enough; and I am inclined to think that on the whole our people are,313 8 spiritually as well as materially, on the average better and not worse off than they were a hundred years ago. How I wish I could take advantage of your delightful invitation and visit you! But there is no such luck for me at present. With warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland, England314 March 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Haggard: When you get through your investigation of the Salvation Army colonies will you let me know what you find the facts to be? I am immensely interested in the subject. It was delightful having you and Miss Haggard here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. Rider Haggard, Hotel Normandie, Washington, D.C.315 March 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Ziegler: I understand that you are to confer with Mr. Walter Wellman concerning an Arctic project. I have been very much interested in the work of Mr. Wellman in this direction. It is I suppose needless to say that if he goes on such an expedition I shall help him in every way I properly can - just as I have helped Peary. I have known Mr. Wellman many years, and while of course I can not speak of his capacity as an Arctic explorer, I have great confidence in him and in his power to manage men and in his administrative ability. I am sure whatever he says can be trusted absolutely. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt William Ziegler, Esq., New York.316 March 11, 1905. My dear Dr. Walcott: I understand that there is talk of giving the degree of A. M. to Morton Goddard of New York. No man is better entitled to it. His philanthropic and civic work have been of really noteworthy character. I do not know another man who has to his credit so much of substantial achievement in work in the poorer districts of New York. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Henry P. Walcott, State Board of Health, State House, Boston, Massachusetts.317 March 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Thompson: I have received your letter, and I have at once withdrawn the appointment. The reason I sent your name in for the place was because it is in my judgment a far more important position than any in France, with the possible exception of the Consul Generalship in Paris, which had to go by promotion to Mr. Mason, and I am very anxious to get the highest type of men we could possibly obtain for Cuba. However, I have a first class man for the position who will be notified accordingly. Now, my dear fellow, let me explain to you that I understand absolutely your motives. I knew you did not want any position save for the purpose of doing the best work in your power; for you are among those who wish to do service318 for the Government, not to have service done for you by the Government. With hearty regards, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert J. Thompson, 195 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.319 March 11, 1905. Dear Maxy: It was a great pleasure to see you the other day. I have even a better man than Boyle for Boyle's position. With love to Jessie, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. M. H. Maxwell, Cunard Steamship Co., New York, N. Y.320 March 11, 1905. Dear Maud: It was so good to hear from you. Everything went off well. I wish I could see you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Maud Elliott, The Mendota, Washington, D. C.321 March 11, 1905. Dear Mr. Estabrook: I have your letter of the 10th. I hardly know what to say to that proposition. It might work and it might not. In any event I shall carefully consider it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt H. D. Estabrook, Esq., 195 Broadway, New York, N. Y.322 March 11, 1905. My dear Mr. Thompson: Your letter really pleased me. I told the Civil Service Commissioners that they, as well as the politicians and everyone else, must give Wallace a free hand just exactly as if he was employed by a big railroad corporation that expected results and wished them as quickly as possible. You are good to have written me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Thompson, 253 Broadway, New York.323 Private March 11, 1905. My dear Colonel Cody: Unfortunately I am obliged to make it an invariable rule never to give any letter to a foreign potentate. Will you, however, show this letter to our Ambassador in Paris? I have had close relations with you. I believe in you and like you, and anything the Ambassador can properly do for you I shall be very glad to have done. I have take up at once with Mr. Newell the other matter you mention, and hope it can be arrange to your satisfaction. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel W. F. Cody, 45 Avenue Rapp, Paris, France.324 March 11, 1905. My dear Baron: I thank you for your letter and the enclosed newspaper. When you return it would be a pleasure if you could come on here, but I wish you to suit your own convenience. Before I go west, however, I should like to have a little talk with you. Things are marching fast nowadays! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Banzai! Baron Kentaro Kaneko, Hotel Somerset, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.325 March 11, 1905. My dear Grant: I was interested in the article you sent me, and very much pleased with your letter. Will you give my warm regards to your son? May good luck attend you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Louis J. Grant, 93 Nassau Street, New York.326 March 11, 1905. My dear Mrs. Mewes: I thank you as a good citizen, and congratulate you on what you have done for the country. Wishing you well, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Lydia Ann Mewes, Cochranville, Chester County, Pennsylvania.327 (Original sent in the President's handwriting.) March 9, 1905. My dear King Edward: On the eve of the inauguration Sir Mortimer handed me Your Majesty's very kind letter, and the miniature of Hampden, than which I could have appreciate nothing more. White, who will hand you this, has repeated to me your conversation with him. Through him I have ventured to send you some studies of mine in our western history. I absolutely agree with you as to the importance, not only to ourselves but to all the free peoples of the civilized world, of a constantly growing friendship and understanding between the english-speaking peoples. One of the gratifying things in what has occurred during the last decade has been the growth in this feeling of good will. All I can do to foster it will be done. I need hardly add that, in order to foster it, we need judgment and moderation no less than the good will itself. The larger interests of the two nations are the same; and the fundamental, underlying traits of their characters are also the same. Over here, our gravest problems are those affecting us within. In matters outside our own borders, we are chiefly concerned, first with what goes on south of us, second with the affairs in the orient; and in both cases our interests are identical with yours. It seems to me that if Russia had been wise she would have made peace before the Japanese took Moukden. If she waits until they are north of[*328*] -2- Harbin the terms will certainly be worse for her. I had this view unofficially conveyed to the Russian Government some weeks ago; and I think it would have been to their interest of they had then acted upon it. With hearty thanks for your cordial courtesy, believe me, very sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.[*329*] March 13, 1905. The Secretary of War: I return the letter of Wallace and the memorandum of Parsons. If I understand Wallace's letter he will hardly be content with an active commission of three. Seemingly he wants control by himself. Moreover, it seems to me that we ought to have an immediate consideration of the Bates canal project. I do not suppose it will make any difference in the work for the next few months, but after that time it might. How would it do to have Parsons and Wallace give their views on this project, and then get a special commission of the very best engineers obtainable to report thereon? T. Roosevelt Enclosures[*330*] Personal March 13, 1905. My dear Mr. Lawson: I have your letter of the 11th instant. The newspaper reports are not quite accurate in that matter. A number of protests have been received against Mr. Harlan's appointment. Three or four of them have been on the ground that it would damage the candidacy of his brother. The others have been on the ground that he is not as good a man for the position as Baldwin or Landis. On the whole, the backing from the bench and bar [are] is strongest for Landis. I think I can arrange about Landis and Harlan, however, as next year I shall doubtless have certain circuit judges to appoint in connection with the interstate commerce bill, and Senator Hopkins and Senator Cullom have both stated that they would gladly acquiesce in the appointment of Harlan for one of these positions. They are neither of them hostile to Harlan. They both think that Landis is the better man, and as I have said, this appears to be the opinion of very many members of the bench and bar of Chicago,[*331*] including the President and late President of the Bar Association, Judge Baker, Robert Lincoln, and so forth and so forth. There is no difficulty whatever in Cannon's district. The real difficulty is something which the papers, apparently, have not known, and that is as regards the promotion of Judge Kohlsaat. Kohlsaat's brother is my close friend, to whom I am devoted, and I was dumfounded on finding that there were charges against the Judge. But charges have been made, and are of a very serious nature, and before I can grant the request of the Senators that I promote him (a promotion which I should have made without their request if it were not for these charges) I shall have to have them carefully gone into. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Victor F. Lawson, The Chicago Daily News, 123 Fifth Avenue, Chicago.Personal March 13, 1905. My dear Sir: This letter is of course not for publication. I would like to tell whoever wrote the editorial of March 9th on Mrs. Roosevelt and the Children at the Inauguration how much I was pleased with it. Evidently whoever wrote it was either a father or a mother, and I liked it better than anything else I have seen about the inauguration. Sincerely yours, To the Editor of the Post-Telegram, Camden, New Jersey.[*333*] March 13, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Will you call in person on the Emperor and express to him my great appreciation of the beautiful edition of the Niebelungen-Lied which he has just sent me through Ambassador Sternburg? Say to His Majesty that I could not have received a gift I would have appreciated more. I have always been very fond of the Niebelungen-Lied, and have possessed a copy of it for thirty-two years. This copy had the old German somewhat modernized, and therefore I am, fortunately, able to understand fairly well the more archaic version [of] in the beautiful edition the Emperor has himself sent me. Pray explain to him particularly how much I appreciate his courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charlemagne Tower, American Ambassador, Berlin, Germany.[*334*] March 13, 1905. My dear Senator Patterson: I see the New York Sun says I promised to attend the banquet of the Chamber of Commerce at Denver. I know you did not give this out, but it is causing me a little embarrassment. As I told you, it is impossible for me to say anything at present. If when I come out after the hunt I am able to stop at Denver, and if at that time the invitation of which you so kindly spoke to me is tendered, it will be a great pleasure to give it consideration if I am able to; but I can not say definitely because I do not know what the circumstances will be. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas M. Patterson, United States Senate.[*335*] March 13, 1905. My dear Mr. Griggs: I have received, through your son, your lines on my inauguration. I am really gratified by your more than kind expressions and genuinely appreciate them. Pray accept with my thanks my hearty good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. Y. Griggs, Ottawa, Illinois.[*336*] March 13, 1905. My dear Mr. Scott: I appreciate the compliment paid me by my election to honorary membership in your Club, and accept with pleasure. I very much enjoyed meeting with you all last month. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter Scott, Recording Secretary, New York Press Club, New York, N.Y.337 March 13, 1905. The Secretary of War: After a certain number of old men have been appointed brigadier general; I should like to make Dorst, Stephen C. Mills and Pershing brigadier generals, in that order, if there are not better men who should be appointed. These three men I know personally and think very highly of. This is for the [future of ? ? ?] Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure The enclosure is a memorandum of the service of Col. Stephen C. Mills, setting forth his claims for promotion to brigadier general.Personal March 14, 1905. My dear Captain Dickson: I took out my rifle to examine it yesterday, the first time since it came back, and find that the fore sight has been knocked to one side. May I ask that you have it replaced and tested on the range, so that I may be sure that it is in good condition? Then please have both the fore and hind sights marked with a scratch or nick to correspond with a scratch or nick on the barrel, so that I can tell at once if either sight shifts and will also know exactly the point to which to shift it back. Ought not this to be done for all the military rifles, by the way? Otherwise I should think there would be danger of the soldiers continually having accidents in actual rough service which would make their rifles shoot badly. I should like my rifle returned as soon as possible. Sincerely yours, Captain T. C. Dickson, U.S.A., Assistant Chief of Ordnance, War Department. [*340*] March 13, 1905. My dear Senator Scott: After going most carefully over the situation I came to the conclusion that inasmuch as no possible damage would come to Atkinson, I should shift the two Illinois men, transferring Wright to the position of District Judge in Illinois and making Booth Judge of the Court of Claims instead of Circuit Judge. If this transfer had not been made, Wright would have continued Judge of the Court of Claims; so that Atkinson is in no way damaged by the transaction. You are very welcome to show this letter to him. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. N. B. Scott, United States Senate[*341*] March 13, 1905. To the Secretary of War: The proper organization and training of the artillery arm are so important to secure our national defense that I desire the Chief of Artillery may submit to the General Staff on or before June 30th next recommendations on the following subjects: 1. The separation of the coast and field artillery; and if recommended the best way of accomplishing it. 2. The increase, if any, necessary in the personnel of the coast artillery, the organization it should have, and the inducements that should be given to retain the technically skilled enlisted men in the artillery services. 3. The organization the field artillery should have to prepare it for war and the increase, if any, that should be made in its personnel. 4. In what tactical units should field artillery be assembled for station in order to better train it in time of peace for war? 5. At which military reservations in our country can field artillery best have practice under conditions akin to those of active service and which of these are recommended as stations for field artillery? 6. Should examination for promotion of officers in the artillery include all grades? 7. What examination should be given to candidates for appointment as second lieutenants of artillery in order to assure their qualifications for that branch of the service?[*342*] -2- 8. What is the cost of completing the entire torpedo defense of the United States including the accessories of such defense and what personnel does it require to man it? 9. Is the present appropriation for target practice sufficient to qualify skilled gunners in both branches of the artillery corps? I wish, if possible, the report of the General Staff, including a draft for the legislation recommended, to be in the hands of the Secretary of War for his consideration by September 1, 1905. If the policy recommended for artillery garrisons requires an increase of shelter the Quartermaster General should include the necessary estimates for the coming year so that supplementary estimates may be avoided. Theodore Roosevelt[*343*] March 14, 1905. My dear Senator Spooner: Can you come in tomorrow morning and see me bout the Santo Domingo treaty? Moreover, I should like to say a word to you about Wilder. I hear he is a far better man than Hicks for a diplomatic position, and I am of course very anxious that we should have only thoroughly good men appointed to these places. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, United States Senate. 344 Personal. March 14, 1905. Dear John: How are you to-day? When do you leave town? Before leaving I shall call on you with Taft, unless you can come here to the office and see Taft here with me. I enclose a memorandum Speck gave me. The Kaiser wants to know what Tower's call on him meant. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. 345 March 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Secretary: Will you look at the enclosed? How would it do for you to see Wellman, and [xxxx] try to get into touch with some of the best engineers here, even if you do not cable abroad, and get their view of Bates? Cortelyou tells me that he hears very highly of Burton. Some day early next week, preferably in the evening, I should like to take up the whole matter with you. Will that suit you? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosure. 346 March 14, 1905. My dear Archbishop: I still feel that Mr. O'Shaughnessy has striven to rely on others and not on his own efforts for advancement. I offered the second secretaryship at Vienna to the present third secretary at Berlin, Captain Landon, a far abler man than Mr. O'Shaughnessy, who has never said or hinted one word to me since he got into the service. He has always simply said that he would like to go wherever there was work to be done, and was more than content to abide by the decision of the Department where that should be. He may decide that he would rather do work in Berlin as third secretary than go to Vienna as second secretary, although the last is a promotion to which he is entitled. If he so decides I shall send O'Shaughnessy as second secretary to Vienna. Otherwise I shall offer him the third secretaryship in Berlin, if he desires it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Archbishop John J. Keane, Dubuque, Iowa.347 Personal March 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Tiffany: I thank you for your letter enclosing the letter of Senator W. A. Clark. Of course Senator Clark knows perfectly well that there was no attempt on the part of the Executive Department to take matters into its own hands, and I do not quite know why it seemed to him worth while to make such a statement in a private letter. He also knows perfectly well that there is no intention of setting up what he calls a collection agency for creditors. Under the proposed protocol we could [?] collect debts only in the sense that [?] Collector Stranahan in New York collects debts for creditors of the United States. All that would be done would be to put men that were honest and capable within their spheres into the Santo Domingan ports, honestly to collect the custom dues in accordance with the request of Santo Domingo; and then, again in accordance with the request of Santo Domingo, to turn over half to help run the government and to turn over the other half to a commission of high-minded men who348 would examine into the claims of the various creditors and apportion them on their merits. It will indeed be an infamy if a minority of the Senate, from purely partisan reasons, refuses to do its clear duty and grant the relief to Santo Domingo which Santo Domingo needs. Every man who votes against this treaty by his vote invites foreign nations to violate the Monroe Doctrine, and refuses relief and protection to a struggling American republic which has appealed to us for aid. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. G. Tiffany, 65 East 66th Street, New York.349 Personal March 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Noyes: I have received letters for and letters against Mr. Harlan. Yours is the first protest I have had against Mr. Landis; and curiously enough, some of the best men I know in Chicago have written me that he is temperamentally better fitted for the bench than Mr. Harlan. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank B. Noyes, The Record-Herald, Chicago, Illinois.350 March 14, 1905 My dear Foulke: I earnestly hope you will take that editorship. It would be a genuine advantage to every one who is interested in decency, and therefore incidentally to me, if you would do so. You may not be able to work permanently under Mr. Ochs, but as long as you are there you will do what you think right and therefore you will do well. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Dudley Foulke, Jekyl Island Club, Brunswick, Georgia.351 March 14, 1905. Dear Bob: I have your letter of the 13th, enclosing your article from Public Opinion. I send you a copy of my speech of last night. In the divorce matter, as you know, I come nearer to your position than I do to that of Mrs. Roosevelt; but I do unqualifiedly condemn easy divorce. I know that the effect on "the Four Hundred" of easy divorce has been very bad. It has been shocking to me to hear young girls about to get married calmly speculating on how long it will be before they get divorces. It is mere foolishness for the women like "Constance," who has been deeply wronged, to refuse to get a divorce and marry again. It is another thing to do as "the Four Hundred" does and show an atavistic return to the system of promiscuity. By George, one would have to be a Washington or a Lincoln to feel that one's task was greater and better worth doing, and had been better done, than Marshal Oyama's! Most certainly352 the Japs are a wonderful people. I feel rather bitterly when I compare what they have done with the howling and whooping and yelling of our own people against even a moderate increase of the navy, with their absolute refusal to give us efficiency even in a very small army, and with their entire ignorance of how to combine generosity and firmness in our foreign policy, so that they will reject a treaty like that we have made with Santo Domingo and yet yell in favor of bluster in [?], foreign affairs. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert Grant, 211 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts. Enclosure353 My dear Mr. Bryce: Will you permit me to introduce Mr. Albert Halstead? He is a newspaper man of the best type, an old personal friend of mine, a graduate of Princeton University, and a gentleman. He wishes to ask your advice as to how to gain certain information in connection with some features of governmental administration in England. Commanding him to your courtesy, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rt. Hon. James Bryce, House of Commons, London, England. March 14, 1905. My dear Mr. Halstead: Enclosed I send you a letter the President has written, introducing you to the Rt. Hon. James Bryce. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President. Mr. Albert Halstead, Wyatt Building. Enclosure.354 Personal March 14, 1905. My dear Sir: I have just received the cigarette case belonging to my brother, and thank you for your courtesy in sending it to me. I shall at once forward it to his daughter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Louis W. Olms, 341 West 29th Street, New York. 355 March 15, 1905. My dear Senator Heyburn: On thinking over your resolution, as well as taking with certain Senators about it, I feel it would be an unwise resolution. It has been suggested to me that the resolution might be taken to include a visit to Santo Domingo by the Committee, which of course would be out of the question. I fear that such a resolution would merely do mischief. May I ask you to call and see me? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. B. Heyburn, United States Senate.356 To be written out by hand. March 15, 1905. My dear Shaw: Mrs. Roosevelt and I have been greatly concerned about Mrs. Shaw. I trust she is now on the high-road to recovery. With assurance of my deep sympathy, believe me, my dear fellow, Very faithfully yours, Hon. L. M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury.357 March 15, 1905. My dear Mr. Springer: I look forward to seeing you when in Denver, although I am afraid my visit will be very brief. Poor Wolcott's death was a shock to all of us who knew him here. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Springer, Continental Trust Company, Denver, Colorado. 358 Personal March 15, 1905. Dear Speck: You are a trump: I should prefer the Mauser telescope, and when I get back from my hunt I shall take advantage of your promise and get you to send over the rifle and have it put on. I am very such obliged to you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, The German Ambassador. 359 March 15, 1905. My dear Cardinal Gibbons: I sent your note about Pelletier to Secretary Taft. I think, however, he is rather prepossessed for Russell. I do not know whether anything can be done for Mrs. Powers, but I shall ask Commissioner Cooley to take the mat- ter up at once. I hope what you desire can be done. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Maryland. 360 March 16, 1905. My dear Cutting: I have your letter of the 10th. You have not bothered. me in the least, and must always feel free to come to me. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., NordHoff, California. 361 March 15, 1905. My dear Buxton: I am so greatly concerned at hearing of your accident. It is a matter of great regret to me. I hope you are now on the high-road to recovery. Present my regards to Miss Buxton. I hardly venture to hope that I shall see you now before you leave. Again expressing my concern, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward North Buxton, Government House, Ottawa, Canada.362 March 14, 1905. My dear Senator: That is a very amusing poem. Give my regards to your daughter when you write, and especial compliments on behalf of the family stork! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William D. Washburn, Minneapolis, Minnesota.363 Personal March 16, 1905. My dear Mr. Crothers: The new book has come, and not only Mrs. Roosevelt, but I, look forward to reading it. I wish you could get to Washington. We should both like to see you so much. Is there any chance of your being down here during the next two week? If so, we should like you to come either to lunch or dinner. If not, then pray let us know whenever you find you are to be here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.364 March 16, 1905. Dear Sue: It was a pleasure to appoint Barclay; though I think it would have been to his own interest if he has gone to Berlin. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Susan L. Kean, 1700 I Street, N.W., Washington.365 March 16, 1905. My dear Judge: Naturally your letter pleases me very much. I thank you for it most heartily. It means a great deal to me. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Ben B. Lindsey, Judge, County Court and Juvenile Court, Denver, Colorado.366 March 14, 1905. Dear Colonel: I have your letter of the 13th instant. I am delighted with the good news about the wolves, but please do not have any taken alive and turned out. I would not care to hunt any that were loosed for that purpose. It would not do, on more accounts than one. If we can put them up and kill genuine live wolves and have a genuine hunt, I shall be very glad; but I shall ask you not while I am along on the hunt to have any turned loose before the dogs. Even though I did not myself take part in such a hunt, yet if it took place while I was on the trip there would be just the same talk and laughter about it that there was over that Mississippi bear hunt when the bear was tied up. Of course I declined to have anything to do with the bear that was tied up, but this did not prevent the papers making fun of the matter. It would not do to have any wolf taken alive and turned out before the hounds while I was367 along, even though I took no part in the chase. If we are able by legitimate hunting to get after some big wolves, I shall be glad. If not we shall take jack-rabbits or coyotes; but nothing must be turned loose after having been captured. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas. 368 March 16, 1905. My dear Miss Anderson; I am in receipt of your letter. I shall at once take the matter up with the Secretary of War. It seems to me that those flags should be put under glass and then kept either in the White House or the War Department. I shall let you know later. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Sophia C, Anderson, 1527 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D.C. 369 March 16, 1905. My dear Mr. Hull: I have been a good deal disturbed by the alleged interview with you about Japan and the Philippines. I am sure that you have been misrepresented, and I wish you would contradict the interview. Your prominence personally, and the fact that you are the Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the House, of course tend to make outsiders attribute a semi-official importance to the interview. The Japanese will of course see the interview, and not unnaturally will think that it implies hostility on our part toward them. I know that you agree with me that the proper way for us to behave as regards foreign affairs is to scrupulously pay proper courtesy to all foreign nations, and neither to wrong them nor talk about them in ways which will make them think we are hostile or intend to wrong them, and yet to keep steadily prepared to hold our own. Many of our own people grow suspicious of the Japanese because an occasional Japanese official is reported to use language such370 as this which you (I am sure falsely) are reported as using. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt It may be that the Japanese have designs on the Philippines. I hope not; I am inclined to believe not; for I like the Japanese, and wish them well, as they have much in their character to admire. But I believe we should put our naval and military preparations in such shape that we can hold the Philippines against any foe. If we do this, and act justly towards and speak courteously of, our foreign neighbors, we shall have taken the only effective steps to make our position good. Hon. J. A. T. Hull, Des Moines, Iowa. 371 March 16, 1905. My dear Mr. Miller: I have your letter of the 9th instant. Indeed, I do remember the occasion to which you refer well. I thank you for your courtesy, and appreciate the remembrance you have sent Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. With the thanks of both Mrs. Roosevelt and myself for your kindness, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank A. Miller, The Glenwood, Riverside, California.372 March 18, 1905. My dear Senator Platt: I transmit herewith the nominations of certain judges for Illinois. Charges were made against Judge Kohlsaat, whom I recommend for promotion to the position of Circuit Judge. I forward herewith a copy of the charges, of Judge Kohlsaat's answer, and of the report of Assistant Attorney General Robb, who was at once sent to Chicago to investigate the charges and to report on the qualifications and recommendations of all the candidates. I also enclose the letter of the Attorney General to me accompanying these papers. I agree with the conclusions of this letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. H. Platt, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. Enclosures373 March 16, 1905. My dear Mr. Miller: I have your letter of the 9th instant. Indeed, I do remember the occasion to which you refer well. I thank you for your courtesy, and appreciate the remembrance you have sent Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. With the thanks of both Mrs. Roosevelt and myself for your kindness, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank A. Miller, The Glenwood, Riverside, California.374 March 18, 1905. My dear Professor: I have just received the enclosed telegram. I must most emphatically request that under no circumstances do you ever quote a private conversation with me. You cannot be sure that you have quoted it correctly. As a matter of fact in this instance you have evidently quoted me incorrectly. You must excuse my saying that it is out of the question for me while President to see any man or talk with him if there is so much as a chance of his repeating in public private conversations with the President. Let me reiterate that you have misquoted me in this instance, and even if you had quoted me correctly it would have been unpardonable of you to have done so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Enclosure.375 March 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Butler: May I, through you, extend my heartiest greetings to the guest of the evening, Senator O. H. Platt. It is difficult to say what I really think of Senator Platt without seeming to use extravagant expression. I do not know a man in public life who is more loved and honored, or who has done more substantial and disinterested service to the country. It makes one feel really proud, as an American, to have such a man occupying such a place in the councils of the nation. As for me personally, I have now been associated with him intimately during four sessions of Congress, and I can not over-state my obligations to him, not only for what he has done by speech and vote, but because it gives me heart and strength to see [him] and consult with so fearless, high-minded, practical, and farsighted a public servant. Wishing you a most pleasant evening, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Charles Henry Butler, Esq., Reporter, United States Supreme Court, Washington.[*376*] March 18, 1905. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th instant. I am afraid there is little that I can add to what the Secretary of War has told you. In a place like yours, and indeed in all places connected with the Isthmian Canal Commission, if at any time after careful inquiry I come to the conclusion that it would be to the advantage of the service to change a given man, I shall change him. I shall, so far as possible, try to avoid hurting his feelings; but I shall consider myself under no obligation whatever to have a personal interview if I become thoroughly satisfied as to the facts. It is not a question of trying any man [in the court of law] and condemning him without a hearing. It is a question of executive judgment as to whether a man has the adaptability, the power to get on with people, and the understanding of the situation, which would make his services as good as the services of some one else. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. Kyle, The St. James, Washington, D.C.377 March 18, 1905. General Charles Tracey, Glen Springs, Watkins, N.Y. We are thinking of you all the time and earnestly hoping you will soon be better. You know how fond we are of you and how we respect and like you. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private account) 378 March 18, 1905. Major Williams Warner, St. Louis. Missouri. Heartiest congratulations to you and the republicans of Missouri. Theodore Roosevelt. (President's private acct.) 379 March 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Secretary: That is a very interesting letter, of which Major Kennon has a right to be proud. I am glad that it is to be filed with his papers, and hope this letter of mine can be filed with them too. He is the type of man whom we should keep an eye on. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 380 March 18, 1905. My dear brother Franklin: I am much touched and pleased at the resolution trans- mitted by you on behalf of the brethren of Matinecock Lodge. Will you convey to them my fraternal thanks and regards, and believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter Franklin, Secretary, Matinecock Lodge No. 806 Oyster Bay, N. Y. 381 March 18, 1905. Dear Brother Derby: I shall see Taft about that, but I am not sure that he will be able to go away at this time. he will have to have the work of the State Department on his shoulders while Hay is away. After that, he has to go to the Philippines. He is an awfully busy man. I wish I could write you more encouragingly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Roger Alden Derby, Porcellian Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 382 March 18, 1905. Dear Brander: I look forward to the book on "American Familiar Verse," and shall keep in mind what you say about Jefferson. It was such a pleasure to see Miss Butler. In great haste, faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York. 383 March 18, 1905. Dear Governor: I am very much pleased with your letter about Anderson. I took a pride in making that appointment. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank S. Black, 170 Broadway, New York. 384 March 18, 1905. Personal. Dear Shaw: That is a first rate idea. Let Lambert give you the facts and you can write the article yourself. If Scribners do not need all of Stewart's photographs he might give you some; but I do not think he ought to write the article on the hunt, because it might conflict with one I hope to be able to write. I hope Bridges can do what you desire. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Dr. Albert Shaw, Review of Reviews, 13 Astor Place, New York, N.Y. P.S. I think the article should be confined to my country life at Oyster Bay. [Only I should write about the hunt.]385 March 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Smith: You are very kind, and I have no doubt that that would be a most attractive little dog; but we already have more dogs than we ought to have, and I simply dare not accept another. I thank you both for the offer, and the very nice letter. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. B. S. Smith, 32 Nassau Street, New York.386 March 18, 1905. Dear Little Friend: I liked your letter, and I send you herewith the photograph for the school. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Vitalie Pappin, St. Mary's Indian School, Belcourt, North Dakota. Enclosure387 March 18, 1905. My dear Mr. von Briesen: I accept the election of honorary vice president of the Legal Aid Society. I do it because I feel that no society is doing more invaluable work for the country than this. You befriend the friendless in the most effective possible manner. Ever since I have been Police Commissioner I have followed closely the work that your society has done, and I cannot speak too highly of it. You right wrongs for the very people who of all others most need to have their wrongs righted and who are yet most helpless to secure their righting. Wishing you Godspeed in your admirable work, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur von Briesen, President, Legal Aid Society, 49 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.[*388*] March 18, 1905. My dear Mr. Smalley: I thank you for the interesting articles and am pleased with them. I thought my speech at the St. Patrick celebration contained good, sound common sense! I hope you liked my address to the Mothers' Congress. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George Smalley, Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D.C.389 March 18, 1905. My dear Congressman Hull: Since sending you my letter of this morning I have seen your denial of the interview. So you have already done what I hoped you would do. It is now entirely unnecessary to pay any heed to my letter. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. J. A. T. Hull, Des Moines, Iowa.390 March 18, 1905. My dear Professor Munsterberg: Since sending my letter I have received your telegram, so pray consider my former letter unwritten. Evidently there was an outrageous garbling of your words and what I regard as a great breach of hospitality toward you. But it is safer not to quote me still. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.391 March 18, 1905. Dear Bishop: The enclosed letter may amuse you. Send it back to me when you are through with it. With love to all, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, New York Globe, New York, N.Y.392 March 18, 1905. Personal. My dear Sir: I thank you for your interesting book. Is there a proposal to do anything toward preserving this church building or the cemetery? If so, please let me know about it, as I should like to participate in any such movement. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. James Stacy, Newman, Georgia. P.S. Since writing the above I have just received from Mr. N. J. Norman, a member of the committee, a copy of the circular letter which has been sent out, and have taken pleasure in sending him my check for $50. to aid in the preservation of the church and cemetery.393 March 19, 1905. Mrs. Frank C. Travers, 59 West Seventy-fourth Street, New York, N.Y. Inexpressibly grieved and shocked at the sad news. Pray accept my deepest and most sincere sympathy with you in your great bereavement. You know how fond I was of your husband and how much I shall mourn him. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)394 March 20, 1905. My dear Senator Beveridge: It seems to me that Governor Kibbey is acting entirely within his rights, and that the people of Arizona are acting entirely within theirs, in transmitting any kind of [?] protest they wish to make. Then the Congress, having considered the petition, must act as it deems best, paying only such heed to the petition as in its judgment the needs of the nation as a whole warrant. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, The Portland.395 March 20, 1905. My dear Mr. Newberry: I shall appoint you as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, perhaps not until September and perhaps the 1st of June. The exact date I shall let you know later. This is the position I have wished you to have ever since we both came back from the Spanish War. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Truman H. Newberry, Detroit, Michigan.396 March 20, 1905. My dear Bob: Let me congratulate you most heartily, and do give my warm regards to Miss Dabney. I am so pleased with the news. I hope that you will both be on to Washington next winter, and then I shall have you both at lunch or dinner with us. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert D. Wrenn, 24 Broad Street, New York, N.Y.397 March 20, 1905. The Secretary of the Treasury: The enclosed letter from the Merchants' Association explains itself. It seems to me that the best plan is for you to have carefully prepared an answer, point by point, to everything in this letter, and then next week to allow the Borgfeldts' counsel to come here and you and I hear him, having the experts of the Department present so as to answer whatever point is raised. Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure The enclosure is a letter from the Merchants' Association of New York (346 Broadway), in regard to duties upon importations of earthenware from Holland by George Borgfeldt & Co., claiming that decisions of Treasury Department are unjust, and asking the President to take action.[*398*] March 20, 1905. Personal My dear Fox: I have your letter of the 16th. I am very much afraid I could be of little use to you in those matters. I do not know the present conditions. I do not know the defects in the present laws. The evils I had to contend with were those of divided power, which was shared between a four-headed commission and a superintendent. These evils have been done away with, and I am afraid I should have to take more time than I have at my disposal if I should try to go into the matter deeply enough to give you advice worth having. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Austen G. Fox, 45 West 33d Street, New York.399 Personal March 20, 1905. Dear Brander: I greatly like the book of "American Verse," including both your introduction and the choice of poems! What a loss Bunner was! It is a real misfortune that he did not live. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York.400 March 20, 1905. Dear Kermit: Poor John Hay has been pretty sick. He is going away to try to pick up his health by a sea voyage and rest. I earnestly hope he succeeds, not only because of my great personal fondness for him, but because from the standpoint of the nation it would be very difficult to replace him. Every Sunday on my way home from church I have been accustomed to stop in and see him. The conversation with him was always delightful, and during these Sunday morning talks we often decided important questions of public policy. I paid a scuttling visit to New York on Friday to give away Eleanor at her marriage, and to make two speeches - on to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and one to the Sons of the American Revolution. Mother and I have been riding a good deal, and the country is now lovely. Moreover, Ted and Matt and I have begun playing tennis.401 The birds have come back. Not only song-sparrows and robins, but a winter wren, purple finches and tufted titmice are singing in the garden; and the other morning early Mother and I were waked up by the loud singing of a cardinal bird in the magnolia tree just outside our windows. Yesterday afternoon Archie and Quentin each had a little boy to see him. They climbed trees, sailed boats in the fountain, and dug in the sand-box like woodcocks. Poor Mr. Frank Travers died last night. I was very sorry. He has been a good friend to me. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.402 March 20, 1905. The Secretary of War: I have received your report of March 17th, together with the report of Dr. Reed and the answer thereto made by the Commission. It appears from this that Dr. Reed's report (which of course should under no circumstances have been given to the public until you chose so to give it, and until the answer thereto had been made by the Commission) was, without your knowledge, printed in the Medical Journal. It further appears that the statements which he thus published were in many instances unwarranted by the facts; and his accusations in many instance unsupported by proof. Dr. Reed has not displayed in this report the qualities of temperament or the power of accurate judicial observation needed to make a report valuable to the Government. It is true that he was not charged with the duty of making such a report and that he was appointed to be a commissioner to assess value of real estate. Nevertheless when he assumed to make a report on sanitary conditions at your request as Secretary of War, he was under obligation to speak with care and justice on so403 important a subject and to observe the proprieties as to its publication. Judging from your report it appears that the chief difficulties that have arisen have come from the inherent faultiness of the law under which the Commission was appointed. It further appears, however, that in view of our experience with the workings of the Commission, a rearrangement of duties, and a change of personnel in view of this rearrangement, should be made. I am glad that you are shortly to submit to me a plan with these objects in view. Theodore Roosevelt[*404*] March 20, 1905. My dear Mr. Hurley: I have received your letter of the 18th. I am sure that your brother would be a good man for the Secret Service, but I am very much afraid that there will be no vacancies for the next year. They have been reducing the force recently, so all I can do is to say that we shall keep your letter on file, and if the chance comes (subject to the assurances already given) I shall be glad to have your brother appointed. Regretting that I can not write you more favorably, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Daniel J. Hurley, Harvard University Football Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts.405 March 20, 1905. My dear Miss Anderson: The enclosed report explains itself. If you will have the flags sent here, I shall arrange that they be kept as they should be kept in the War Department. I very deeply appreciate the chance of having them put there. With high regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Sophie C. Anderson, 1627 Sixteenth Street, Washington. Enclosure406 March 21, 1905. Captain R. F. Peary, Bucksport, Maine. Telegram received. Of course I shall be much pleased, and thank you heartily. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Official407 March 21, 1905. My dear Mr. Langley: I am very confident we can provide for the Government receiving the Freer collection of pictures. Do not on any account refuse this offer. I have no question that Congress will appropriate the trivial sum needed to take care of them. They are very valuable. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. S. P. Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.408 March 21, 1905. My dear Beveridge: In reference to Mr. Strohm's letter I want to say that I did not hesitate "on account of the criticism involve" in the action proposed, but on the account that it would create a very bad precedent. I earnestly hope we can appoint Mr. Strohm to some position, but it is out of the question to say what or when. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, United States Senate.409 March 21, 1905. My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 18th instant, concerning the Collector of Customs for Alaska. That appointment has already been made. By the way, why is Darling to stay in until September? Could the change not be made in June? I of course desire to consult your convenience in the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Redfield Proctor, Hot Springs, Arkansas.410 March 21, 1905. My dear Speck: I am greatly obliged to you. You have one me a real service. By the way, pray tell His Majesty that I am much pleased with the conversation which Ambassador Meyer reports that he had with him at Berlin. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.411 March 21, 1905. Personal My dear Mr. Mead: I thank you for the copy of Mr. Duval's letter. I have never seen the Times editorial. You say it was written by "Mr. Miller". If "Mr. Miller" is responsible for the Times editorials during my administration generally, and especially during the last campaign, then Mr. Miller is a liar pure and simple, and it is not worth while paying heed to anything he says save on the assumption that it is false. I do not mean that Mr. Miller is merely mistaken as to his facts. I mean that he purposely and deliberately falsifies the facts. The course he took in connection with the allegations against Mr. Cortelyou and myself about blackmailing corporations during the campaign, is not compatible with any other assumption, and renders it unnecessary ever again to pay any heed whatever to any unsupported assertion that he may make. Nor was this an isolated case. He habitually and continually falsifies the facts. Whether he has done this because he is paid to do it, or of his own free will, I do not know, and indeed, I do not care. As I have said before, I have not seen412 the editorial to which you refer for I never do see the Times editorials; but I happen to know what they did for the year preceding the last election, and during that time they not only lied in their editorials in most scandalous and slanderous fashion, but refused to publish the truth in their news columns and deliberately used these news columns in their campaign of falsehood. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. S. C. Mead, Secretary, Merchants' Association, 346 Broadway, New York.413 Personal March 21, 1905. Dear old fellow: I am awfully sorry I sent you that letter. I thought it would only amuse you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Globe, 5 Day Street, Boston.414 Personal Personal March 21, 1905. My dear Bridges: You have probably noticed in the papers during the last few days some comment about an alleged plot in reference to Santo Domingo which Senator Morgan put out in the Senate. In brief, the statement was that a Mr. and Mrs. Reeder had obtained concessions from the Santo Domingan Government, or were about to obtain what they call a treaty with the Santo Domingan Government, when the treaty was anticipated by the protocol signed on behalf of the United States Government with the Santo Domingan Government. Apparently the Reeders had told Senator Morgan, or had claimed, that their treaty would have been recognized or adopted by Santo Domingo if it had not been for the negotiation of the protocol by the United States Government; and Mrs. Reeder further stated that she had consulted Mr. William Nelson Cromwell about her negotiations, and that in her belief William Nelson Cromwell was responsible for the United States negotiating the protocol, which closed the negotiations about the so- called Reeder treaty. As far as it concerned the action of the United States Government, the whole statement was a tissue of lies so ridiculous that it is a marvel that any man of moderate intelligence should have for one second paid heed to it. The whole Santo Domingan policy was carried on under direct supervision of John Hay, acting under my direction. Not a movement was415 2 taken save on our initiative. Cromwell never spoke to either of us, either directly or indirectly, about the treaty or about Santo Domingo. As for the Reeders (or Readers), I had never, so far as I knew, heard of them, still less been in direct or indirect communication with them, until I saw their names printed in the papers at the time Senator Morgan made his speech; but it appears from a statement in this morning's paper that Mrs. Reader, when she was Miss Ella Rawls, was, or asserts herself to have been, the stenographer to whom I dictated "The Rough Riders," and to whom I afterward gave a letter of commendation similar to several letters I have given to stenographers who have done good and faithful work for me. "The Rough Riders" I wrote for Scribners, and I think that most of the arrangements were carried on with you personally. If my memory is correct, you agreed to and did furnish me a stenographer, whom you paid and to whom I dictated the successive chapters of the book. This stenographer was a woman. I do not remember her name, but I remember that she did her work excellently; and while I am not certain, my impression is that I gave her a letter of recommendation or commendation, whether a general letter or a letter to some specific person, I can not say. So far as I know I have never seen her or heard of or from her since the time she was thus employed, six or seven years ago. Can you give me any information about her, and about the circumstances of her employment? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bridges, 153 Fifth Avenue, New York.416 March 21, 1905. My dear Professor Munsterberg: I want you to understand that even before I received your letter I regarded your explanation as absolutely satisfactory and shall never even think of the incident again. I hope soon to see you in Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.417 March 21, 1905. My dear Stewart: Mr. Loeb has shown me your letter to him of the 18th, which is very satisfactory. I cannot sufficiently express my very deep sense of obligation to you for all that you are doing. By George, if we don't have fun it will not be [our] your fault! I rather hope we shall get a bear. Can't you go with us and start us off at any rate even if you cannot stay the entire month? With warm regards to Mrs. Stewart and hearty thanks to you again, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colo.418 March 22, 1905. To the Secretary of the Navy: May I ask your attention to the enclosed letter on behalf of the Navy League of the United States and copies of the League's publications. The Navy League is doing a very much needed work and any way we can help it we ought to. Unless there is serious objection I hope we can order 500 copies as suggested in the letter. Theodore Roosevelt419 March 22, 1905. My dear Bridges: I have your letter of the 21st instant. I have just written to Dr. Shaw that under no circumstances is there to be an article about my hunting trip in the Review of Reviews, and no photographs of it are to be published anywhere. I do not believe I shall have any magazine account of the trip at all. If I do it shall be in Scribners. In any event, if the trip is successful an account of it will appear in the hunting book you are to publish for me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bridges, 153 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.420 March 22, 1905. Dear Harry: I have your letter of the 20th instant, with enclosure from Mr. Robinson. I shall not be here until the end of May. In any event I do not think Sargent would come. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. B. Chapin, Boston & Albany Railroad, Boston, Mass.421 March 22, 1905. My dear McKim: That is a splendid turkey gobbler. I envy your shooting him and I thank you for sending him to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles F. McKim, 9 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y.422 March 22, 1905. My dear Sir: Like all good American citizens I have a very warm interest in and sympathy for the plan of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association. I wish you all success in your efforts to assure the erection of a suitable monument at Provincetown. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Franklin Crocker, Hyannis, Mass.423 March 22, 1905. My dear Dr. Shaw: I have just received a letter from Mr. Bridges in which he says he saw Mr. Lanier of the Review of Reviews in reference to a proposed article on my hunting trip to be published in The Country Calendar. Doubtless you already understand the matter, but let me again say that I do not wish any article about, or any photograph concerning, my hunting trip to be published anywhere. The article of which you spoke and the photographs are to relate purely to my Oyster Bay outdoor life and not to this hunting trip. If anything is written about the hunting trip at all I shall write it myself-- probably not for any magazine. It was as usual delightful to catch a glimpse of you the other day. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor Review of Reviews, New York, N. Y.[*424*] March 22, 1905. My dear Sir: I have your letter of the 20th instant. As Mr. Munsterberg has publicly stated that the reports of his speech, so far as they in any way concern me, are false, no action is called for by me. It was not a nice incident from any standpoint. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Davis, President, Cosmopolitan Club, Detroit, Mich.425 March 22, 1905. To the Navy Department: In view of the fact that H. A. Herbert and H. J. Hirshinger, one after three and one after five examinations, have been appointed to the Marine Corps as without examination, I direct that the same course be pursued about Howard W. Stone, who General Elliott feels is fit thus to be appointed. I would not make this order if I had not, while in ignorance of the situation, stated that if other candidates had been appointed without examination I should so direct in this case. Hereafter I direct that no such appointments be made and that a rule be promulgated explicitly prohibiting them. Theodore Roosevelt[*426*] March 22, 1905. My dear Mr. Carrington: I thank you for the foot of that rabbit. It was very kind of you to think of me. Good luck! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W.H. Carrington. March 22, 1905. My dear Mr. Wise: The President wishes you would send Mr. Carrington the enclosed letter. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President. Hon. John S. Wise, 20 Broad Street, New York, N.Y. Enclosure427 March 22, 1905. My dear Dr. Hale: I thank you for "The Promoters." I shall read it with interest and appreciate your thinking of me. Will you thank Mr. William Hawley Smith for me? With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain, U. S. Senate.428 March 22, 1905. Dear Mr. Smalley: I regard that letter as a compliment of the kind which I particularly appreciate. The imitation or parallelism was unconscious on my part, which makes the compliment all the pleasanter. I am particularly fond of Jowett's Thucydides. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George Smalley, Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D.C.429 March 22, 1905. My dear Mr. Deloney: Senator Clark has just handed me the beautiful photograph of the elk passing by your ranch. I thank you for having sent it to me. How I wish I were out with you just at this time! With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Deloney, Jackson, Wyoming.430 March 22, 1905. My dear Mrs. Robinson: I am sorry to say that my rule is invariable that I never appoint the sons of any one except regular army and navy officers. I cannot appoint the grandsons, nephews, or adopted sons. Scores of applications have been made to me to do so, but I have had to refuse them all. It was very good of you to write. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Sr., 109 East 31st Street, New York, N. Y.431 March 23, 1905. Personal. My dear General Bates: While I have authorized no official announcement, I am glad to be able to tell you that I had always intended you to be Lieutenant General after Chaffee. The details I shall go over with you later. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. J. C. Bates, U.S.A., Commanding Northern Division, St. Louis, Missouri.432 March 23, 1905. My dear Mr. McKelway: I have your letter of the 22d instant. I am sorry to say that I cannot agree with you about Arrowood. He was an officer, and so far from receiving more lenient treatment than an enlisted man, he should in my judgment be held to a stricter accountability. For him there is absolutely not one shadow of an excuse. If the court martial had possessed the power, it would undoubtedly have condemned him to both imprisonment and dishonorable discharge, exactly as is done with the poor enlisted man, who, without his advantages, without his training, and not owing anything like as much to the Nation, commits the same offense that he has committed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. J. McKelway, Editor, Presbyterian Standard, Charlotte, N. C.433 March 23, 1905. Personal. Dear Bishop: That is an extraordinary statement in Hearst's paper. You know Uncle Rob, and therefore know without my telling you that fond though I am of the old gentleman, his and my views of politics rarely coincide; though I thoroughly appreciate his support of me last year. I did not make my announcement that I would not accept another term, without thinking it carefully over and coming to a definite and final conclusion. If you recall the words I used you will remember that I not merely stated that I would not be a candidate; I added that I would not any under circumstances accept the nomination. And I would not. Unquestionably this announcement caused me a little trouble in the Senate, the men coming to the conclusion that I need not be regarded as a factor hereafter. But I think the trouble between me and the Senate has been rather exaggerated, and I have endeavored to minimize, not emphasize, it. I do not much admire the Senate, because it is such a helpless body when efficient work for good is to be done. Two or three determined Senators seem able to hold up legislation, [much of it] or at least good legislation, in an astonishing way; but the worst thing the Senate did this year - the failure to con-[*434*] -2- firm the San Domingan treaty - was due to the fact that the Democratic party as such went solidly against us, and this [?], coupled with the absence of certain Republican Senators, rendered us helpless to put through the treaty. The result has been that I am in a very awkward and unpleasant situation in endeavoring to keep foreign powers off San Domingo and also in trying to settle Venezuelan affairs. There is of course additional friction for which the Republican members cannot be held guiltless. Their attitude on the arbitration treaties represented the overwhelming feeling of the Senate, a feeling which is unjustifiable, but which is encouraged by men like Wayne MacVeagh and others and not rebuked with any emphasis by the outside public. This feeling is in effect that the Senate should exercise the chief part in dealing with foreign affairs. Now, as a matter of fact the Senate is wholly incompetent to take such part. Creatures like Bacon, Morgan, et cetera, backed by the average yahoo among the Democratic Senators, are wholly indifferent to national honor or national welfare. They are primarily concerned in getting a little cheap reputation among ignorant people, and in addition it is but fair to say that they are perhaps themselves too ignorant and too silly to realize the damage they are doing. Unfortunately, they often receive aid and comfort from men like Spooner and Hale - one of whom invariably uses his ingenious mind to put in meticulous and usually slightly improper amendments435 -3- to every treaty, and the other is very apt to criticize all the important steps of the administration. Both ultimately support the administration, but meanwhile they stir up opposition to it and give to Bacon, Carmack and their kind, arguments which they are too witless to develop for themselves. The result is what we see in the San Domingan matter. After infinite though and worry and labor, with Root, Taft and Hay as my chief advisers, I negotiated a treaty which would secure a really satisfactory settlement from every standpoint of the San Domingan matter. Hale sneers at it in a speech. Spooner, with the aid of Foraker, puts in amendments which seem to justify the Democratic criticisms and which make it look as if they were adopting an apologetic attitude on the part of the administration. Mischievous monkeys like Wayne MacVeagh go about wagging their heads and furnishing arguments to the dull, silly, professional Democratic journals like the New York World and most of the southern papers. The result is that by a narrow margin we find ourselves without the necessary two-third vote in the Senate for confirming the treaties. The Senate adjourns. I am then left to shoulder all the responsibility due to their failure. Bacon, Morgan, Carmack and company go off, hoping that disaster will come to the country because the Republican administration will thereby be discredited. Spooner and Foraker go away entirely self-satisfied, not feeling any sense of responsibility, and indeed not thinking about the matter at all; although they have been yelling that the Senate is part of the436 -4- treaty-making power. Meanwhile I have to take all the steps and have to spend an industrious summer engaged in the pleasant task of making diplomatic bricks without straw. The Senate ought to [should] feel that its action on the treaty-making power should be much like that of the President' veto over legislation. In other words, it should be rarely used, and the presumption should always be against every amendment. A man of Spooner's mind or of Hale's mind is a curse from the standpoint of getting things accomplished in matters affecting foreign affairs; but at the same time we must not forget that the Bacon, Morgan, Carmack type is a thousand-fold worse. That we shall have a muss on the interstate commerce business next year I have no doubt; but I feel that we can get the issue so clearly drawn that the Senate will have to give in. On that issue I shall have a number of my own party against me. My chief fear is lost the big financiers, who, outside of their own narrowly limited profession, are as foolish as they are selfish, will force the moderates to join with the radicals in radical action, under penalty of not obtaining any [it] at all. I much prefer moderate action; but the ultra-conservatives may make it necessary to accept what is radical. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Globe, 5 Day Street, New York, N. Y.437 March 23, 1905. My dear Mrs. Tyler: The terrapin was delicious, and it was awfully good of you to send it to us. I have long grown to regard any piece of thoughtfulness of us on your part as characteristic! With love to all your family, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. A. C. Tyler, 1034 I Street, Washington, D. C.438 March 23, 1905. My dear Mr. McBee: That is a very interesting editorial. If you see the High Master of St. Pauls this year pray tell him I appreciate his letter. I return it herewith as you request. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.439 March 24, 1905. My dear Judge: I have your letter of the 21st. It was a genuine pleasure to appoint you, and I know you will do admirable work in your new position. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. C. C. Kohlsaat, Judge, United States Circuit Court, Chicago, Illinois.440 March 24, 1905. My dear Bishop Horstmann: Naturally, your letter pleases me very much. If I am in Washington when you come here you must do me the honor of taking lunch with me. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop I. F. Horstmann, 583 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio.441 March 24, 1905. Confidential. My dear Mr. Johnston: Your letter pleases me. The present plan of a commission I understand is owing to Senator Bacon, of Georgia. It is an idiotic plan, admirably calculated to interfere with the efficiency of the work. Of course, the President should be given an absolutely free hand in dealing with it; but as this is not the case we shall do the best we can under the Commission. My idea is to put as the executive head some man who shall occupy a similar position to that of Mr. Cassatt with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and under him the chief engineer who shall have full power. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. K. Johnston, Tyrone, Pennsylvania.442 March 24, 1905. Personal. My dear Judge: I thank you for your letter. I was especially glad to hear your views about the contest for the governorship. We have been rendered a little uneasy by the fact that some of the Republicans joined the Democrats against the seating of Peabody, so I am rather relieved to get your judgment. I hope to see you when I am in Colorado. Before I go on my hunt I do not want to say a thing. If when I come out I can greet the people of Denver I shall be glad, but I do not want to make a promise now. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Campbell, Supreme Court Chambers, Denver, Colorado.443 March 24, 1905. Dear Kohlsaat: I have your note. The last time you were in Washington I sent for you, but you had just left for Chicago. Cannot I see you in the course of the next week, before I go west? There are several things I wish to talk over with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat, Chicago, Illinois.444 March 24, 1905. Personal. Dear Governor Higgins: I am very glad you vetoed that divorce law. Of course, you have your trials in plenty; but if it is any comfort I want you to know that we outsiders feel that you are fully justifying all our hopes about you. It looks to me as if we now had New York State politics on a good, healthy basis, and I cannot help believing that the people will see this. With warm regards to Mrs. Higgins, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. W. Higgins, Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.445 Written out by hand. March 24, 1905. My dear Mrs. Tracey: Will you accept the profound sympathy of both Mrs. Roosevelt and myself? There is nothing that we could say that would in any way lighten the burden of your grief; but at least I wish you to know how we who so prized your husband's friendship, and who felt such respect and affection for him, sympathize with you. With much respect, my dear Mrs. Tracey, believe me, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mrs. Charles Tracey, 20 Willett Street, Albany, N.Y.446 March 24, 1905. Logan C. Murray, Louisville, Kentucky. Program received and approved. Printed instructions on several important points will be mailed you to-morrow. WM. LOEB, JR., Secretary to the President. (Official)447 March 24, 1905. My dear Mr. Clover: I want to thank you for the very interesting little Lincoln book; also for the editorials and copies of your addresses, which you have so kindly sent me. I am really obliged to you; and I am always particularly pleased to see Lincoln's wonderful style - matter and manner alike - praised as you praise it, with appreciative understanding. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Samuel T. Clover, Los Angeles Express, Los Angeles, Cal.448 Dictated over 'phone, by Secretary Adee. March 24, 1905. President Diaz, Mexico. For my countrymen and in my own name I offer heartfelt condolence upon the death of Ambassaddor Aspiroz. Theodore Roosevelt449 (Copy) Telegram sent through State Department. March 25, 1905. His Majesty Hiung, Emperor, Seoul. While appreciating your Majesty's kindly sentiments toward Minister Allen, I regret that circumstances preclude reconsideration of the appointment of his successor, who I am sure will merit your Majesty's confidence as fully as he possesses mine. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.450 March 25, 1905. My dear Colonel Duffy: May I through you extend my heartiest regards, as well as my sincere thanks, to the officers and men of the 69th Regiment for their escort on St. Patrick's day? It was a very genuine pleasure to me to be thus escorted, and I wish now, through you, formally to thank the regiment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Edward Duffy, 69th Regiment, N.G.N.Y., Corner Third Avenue and 7th Street, New York.451 Personal Personal March 25, 1905. My dear Mr. Curtis: I have seen your article on Alabama. I suppose it was mostly based on what Mr. Faulkner had told you. You quoted a statement by Mr. Faulkner. In this statement Mr. Faulkner falsified the truth in every particular, and I ought to use stronger language about him. When he says that I have appointed fewer negroes than McKinley but of worse type, he utters what he knows to be a deliberate falsehood. He can not point to a single new appointment of a negro to office which I have made where the negro is not of the highest character. You can ask him to do so if you so desire. In Alabama I have made but one new negro appointment - a man of the very highest character (so admitted to be by every man, white or black, who knows him) in place of a man of poor character. The chief new white appointments of mine in Alabama are Judge Jones and Judge Roulhac, who are far and away above any white appointees in office in Alabama when I came into the Presidency. You must pardon my saying that your letter is on most points so hopelessly inaccurate that it is evident your informants have purposely misled you. There has been trouble over three post offices; which is simply another way of saying that in Alabama, as in every other State, North and South, improper people are sometimes recommended for appointment. When I came into the Presidency the Republican party in Alabama was split between the Vaughn and Youngblood factions. No one with452 2 any pretension to [of] veracity will tell you that either Vaughn or Youngblood is as good a man as Thompson. While Aldrich acted with Thompson, which he did until about a year ago, the same people who are now attacking Thompson attacked Aldrich just as bitterly. I do not mean to say that conditions in Alabama are satisfactory. They are not. But I do mean to say that it is a nonsensical falsehood to state that the appointments have not been of a higher grade during the last three and one half years than they were during the preceding four years in Alabama, taking the average. This is true as regards the negro appointees, and true as regards the white appointees. Also when men like Faulkner state what they do, to the effect that McKinley was building up a white man's party in the South, they either state what they know to be untrue, or else they are ignorant of the fact that the vote for McKinley in 1900 in the eleven ex-Confederate States fell off tremendously from what it had been in 1896. In 1904 it fell off again, but only slightly, and the fall was more than accounted for by the negroes who had been disenfranchised in the interval. There was practically no difference. Thus in 1900 four Republican Congressmen were elected in these ex-Confederate States. Exactly the same number were elected last fall - one being lost in North Carolina and one gained in Virginia. This letter, of course, is not for public use. I write it because I know you and believe in you, and I am sorry to see a statement signed by you of so grossly inaccurate and misleading a character. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William E. Curtis, 1801 Connecticut Avenue, Washington.453 March 25, 1905. Dear Mrs. Reed: It was a great pleasure to hear from you. If I can appoint Mrs. Picking's son I shall be glad to do so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Thomas B. Reed, The Shoreham, Washington, D. C.454 March 25 , 1905 . Dear Emlen : I shall put the business letter before Taft. I am very much pleased at what you tell me of the visit of Christine and you to Southboro . George's confirmation was a great satisfaction , and I am delighted that he has been teaching a mission class at Southboro in athletics , and almost more pleased to find that his success with his class in extemporaneous speaking may mean that he will be able to go on with it in other fields . As for Philip being in minor mischief , that does not make a parti- cle of difference , and I am glad he has worked up so well in his form . Ted has a friend here named Blagden , who , like himself , has been teaching a mission class , and who , like himself , is very fond of sport. Last evening they combined their mission classes for some function , and early this morning were out snipe shooting together at Blagden's place , which is on outskirts of the [*455*] city. Do tell Christine the pleasure your letter gave me. I shall show it to Edith at once. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt 33 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.[*456*] Personal March 25, 1905. My dear Mr. Edwards: That is a complete explanation. I thank you for having sent it to me. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Harry S. Edwards, Postmaster, Macon, Georgia.457 March 25, 1905. My dear Judge O'Brien: I glanced at the book you have sent me and am very much pleased with it. I have long been wanting to have such a short history, and I shall read it with genuine interest. I wish I could have seen you at the dinner, and I thank you for your very kind and friendly allusions to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, New York, N.Y.[*458*] March 27, 1905. Dear Augie: I have just been shown a copy of your letter to Senator Gorman. That was an awfully nice act of yours, to take such an interest on behalf of Anderson, and I genuinely appreciate it. I was glad to see you the other day at the wedding. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. August Belmont, 23 Nassau Street, New York, N.Y.[*459*] March 27, 1905. My dear Bishop: This will introduce to you Mr. Arthur H. Woods, a tutor at Groton School. He may be in New York next winter. He is a personal friend of mine and a very fine fellow. He wishes to speak to you about a certain matter. May I commend him to your courtesy? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J.B. Bishop, The Globe, New York, N.Y.[*460*] March 27, 1905. My dear General Hubbard: This will introduce to you Mr. Arthur H. Woods, a tutor at Groton School. He may be in New York next winter. He is a personal friend of mine and a very fine fellow. He wishes to speak to you about a certain matter. May I commend him to your courtesy? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, The Globe, New York, N.Y.[*461*] March 27, 1905. Dear Mr. Robinson: I have enjoyed your poems, especially The Children of the Night so much that I must write to tell you so. Will you permit me to ask what you are doing and how you are getting along? I wish I could see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Edwin A. Robinson, Esq., 450 West 23d Street, New York, N.Y.[*462*] March 27, 1905. Dear Mr. Forbush: That statement of mine is all right. During my time there have never been any but scattering shore birds in my neighborhood on the north shore of Long Island, and there are as many of these as there ever were. During the same period there has been a great diminution in the shore birds, once so plentiful, in the Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island, as I happen to know because my uncle lives there. Wishing you well, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. H. Forbush, Ornithologist, State Board of Agriculture, Wareham, Massachusetts.463 March 27, 1905. [*Private*] My dear Mr. De Conlay: I have your letter of the 24th instant. Few things would please me more than to receive such a set of "Australian poets." Australia has always appealed to me and interested me immensely. You are a great big democratic commonwealth, a new commonwealth; and yet, besides working out the great industrial, social and governmental problems set before all latter-day democracies, you have what appeals to one side of my nature even more - the frontier, the life of the bush and of the plains. With many thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James de Conlay, Jr., 1135 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.[*464*] Personal March 27, 1905. My dear Gilder: I have received the copies of your article and like it very much. It is evidently based on what Murray Butler wrote, isn't it? I wish I could see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, The Century Company, Union Square, New York.[*465*] March 27, 1905. Dear Mrs. Robinson: All right, I shall take that up at once with the hope that I can put the boy in. I shall do so unless among his competitors there are cases which I cannot pass by. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Sr., 109 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. This refers to the appointment of the son of Captain William E. P. French to West Point.[*466*] March 27, 1905. My dear Captain Rhodes: I congratulate you heartily. I shall read your essay with real interest. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Charles D. Rhodes, U.S.A., Office of Chief of Staff, War Department.467 Personal March 27, 1905. My dear General Fraser: I shall read the essay with real interest. I think the manifesto you refer to is on a par with the generalship which seems to have inspired it. It was a great pleasure to see you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major General Sir Thomas Fraser, 83 Onslow Square, S. W., London, England.468 March 27, 1905. My dear Mrs. Custer: I have received, at the hands of General Weston, your letter of the 18th instant. Your husband is one of my heroes, as you so well know. With regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, Care General J. F. Weston, Commissary General of Subsistence, War Department.469 March 27, 1905. My dear North: To my very great regret I shall probably not be back from the West by the 16th of May. If you are here after that day, can not you and Lord Crawford come on and spend a night with us at the White House? You will be able to tell from the papers whether I return to the East before you leave the country. Give my warm regards to your father. I wish I could see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Eric North, Care Lord Crawford, Yacht Valhalla, Care New York Yacht Club, New York, N.Y.470 March 27, 1905. Dear Willie: That is a very interesting letter. I am glad to hear how well you think Cuba is doing. My information is exactly to the same effect. Steinhart I think as highly of as you do. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Astor Chanler, Barrytown, N.Y.471 March 24, 1905. My dear Senator: I am sorry to say that there simply is not any vacancy at present. I am sure that Mr. Moses is an admirable man. I am truly, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. H. Gallinger, United States Senate.472 March 28, 1905. To the Acting Secretary of State: I have carefully considered the following cablegram from Minister Dawson: Secretary of State, Washington, Under pressure foreign creditors and domestic peril, Dominican Government offers nominate a citizen of the United States receiver southern ports pending ratification protocol; four northern ports to be administered under the award. Forty-five per cent total shall go Dominican Government, fifty-five to be deposited New York for distribution after ratification. Creditors to agree take no further steps in the meantime and receiver to have full authority to suspend importers preferential contracts. Italian, Spanish-German, and American creditors except the Improvement, accept unconditionally, Belgian French representatives will recommend acceptance. Some modus vivendi absolutely necessary. I am ready, if desired, start Washington, D.C., twenty-eighth to explain details and modifications to plan obtainable; whole matter can be held open during my absence. DAWSON. I direct that the Minister express acquiescence in the proposal of the Government of Santo Domingo for the collection and conservation of its revenues, pending the action of the United States Senate upon the treaty, to the end that in the meantime no change shall take place in the situation which would render useless its consummation or bring complications into its enforcement. The Secretary of War of the United States will present for nomination by the President of the Dominican Republic men at act in the positions referred to, in both the northern and southern ports. The utmost care will of[*473*] -2- course be taken to choose men of capacity and absolute integrity, who, if possible, shall have some knowledge of Spanish. All the moneys collected from both the northern and southern ports, not turned over to the Dominican Government, will be deposited in some New York bank to be designated by the Secretary of War and will there be kept until the Senate has acted. If the action is adverse the money will then be turned over to the Dominican Government. If it is favorable it will be distributed among the creditors in proportion to their just claims under the treaty. Meanwhile Mr. Hollander will thoroughly investigate these claims, including the claim of the American Improvement Company, and will report in detail all the information he is able to gather as to the amount actually received by Santo Domingo, the amount of indebtedness nominally incurred, the circumstances so far as they are known under which the various debts were incurred, and so forth. This action is rendered necessary by the peculiar circumstances of the case. The treaty now before the Senate was concluded with Santo Domingo at Santo Domingo's earnest request repeatedly pressed upon us and was submitted to the Senate because in my judgment it was our duty to our less fortunate neighbor to respond to her call for aid, inasmuch as we were the only power who could give this aid, and inasmuch as her need for it was very great. The treaty is now474 -3- before the Senate and has been favorably reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations. It is pending, and final action will undoubtedly be taken when Congress convenes next fall. Meanwhile Santo Domingo has requested that the action above outlined be taken; that is, she desires in this way to maintain the status quo, so that if the treaty is ratified it can be executed. With this purpose in view I direct that the proposed arrangement be approved. It will terminate as soon as the Senate has acted one way or the other. Theodore Roosevelt475 March 28, 1905. My dear Mr. Wilson: I am sorry you feel obliged to resign. I wish to thank you for your faithful and efficient service. I should like to promote Mr. Hubbard in your place, but unfortunately I fear I am already committed in the directions. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. E. S. Wilson, United States Marshal, San Juan, Porto Rico.476 March 28, 1905. My dear Mr. Roden: I wish I could be present at your dinner. The Navy League is doing admirable work and I congratulate you on the effective way in which the Admiral Dahlgren Section is helping it forward. Every citizen of the United States should be interested in the Navy[, as a mere matter of ????] With best wishes for a pleasant occasion, I am, Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Captain E.K. Roden, Secretary, Section 31, Navy League of the United States, 1311 Delaware Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania.477 March 28, 1905. My dear Dr. Slicer: I was very glad to receive your letter, but I am sorry to say I can not give the letter to Dr. Seaman, as you request. If I should give such a letter in one case, it would have to be given in very many,and it would be out of the question for me to do it. I am sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer, 156 East 38th Street, New York.478 March 28, 1905. My dear Mr. Hitt: I felt that your boy had earned that promotion, and was glad to give it to him; purely from the standpoint of the good of the service! I am so glad to hear that your health is better. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. R.R. Hitt, 1507 K Street, Washington.479 March 28, 1905. My dear Colonel McCook: That is an excellent letter of Mr. Fisher. I do hope he will publish an article. In a nutshell, it is as he says that "the people are the court of last resort, and that the President is their only responsible sale agent and representative, and therefore properly the depositary of their reserve powers of government." With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel John J. McCook, 120 Broadway, New York.480 March 28, 1905. My dear General Dodge: Upon the retirement of Generals Gillespie and Randall, Generals Weston and Greeley, both Civil War veterans of excellent records, become the senior brigadier generals and will be promoted - one of them when General Sumner retires. Then General Grant is the senior, followed by Bell - Baldwin coming two or three numbers lower down. Baldwin has already had a promotion to brigadier general under me. As for the Army and Navy Journal, I have never forgotten its conduct at the time of the Missouri accident, and have authorized no authoritative statement of my position in its columns since. Faithfully yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York.481 Write out by hand March 29, 1905. Dear Woody: I am overjoyed at the news. I have known Mrs. Elliott and I congratulate you with all my heart; and I congratulate her, too. Next year we shall see you both down here. With all good wishes, my dear fellow, believe me, Ever yours, Captain Woodbury Kane, Aiken, South Carolina.482 March 29, 1905. Personal. My dear Mr. Loomis: During my absence and that of Secretary Hay, Taft is to act as the head of the Government so far as foreign affairs are concerned. Will you bring all matters of importance before him? I hope you have had a most pleasant trip. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. B. Loomis, Assistant Secretary of State.483 March 29, 1905. Dear Alec: Saturday evening I dine out, but can't you get down either Saturday evening or Sunday morning, and then we can take a ride Sunday afternoon which will kind of break you in for the Texas riding? We start together on Monday morning. Your room will be ready for you either Saturday evening or Sunday morning. Faithfully yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Dr. Alexander Lambert, 125 East 36th Street, New York.484 March 28, 1905. My dear Senator Gorman: I at once looked into the matter about Hollander. It appears that a year ago, at the time when Sanchez was up here trying to induce us to assume some kind of protectorate over the Island, President Morales asked the State Department to send them some man who could go down there and help straighten out their finances. Secretary Hay asked Hollander (whom, so far as I know, Morales did not know or even know of) if he could undertake the job, but Hollander was unable to do so. I want to thank you again for your courtesy today. I guess we shall be able to hold things down until the Senate come together and has time to act one way or the other. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. P. Gorman, 1432 K Street, Washington.485 March 28, 1905. My dear Mr. Curtis : I have your letter of the 27th instant. Instead of resorting to assertion and reassertion as to the accuracy of your letter, I shall ask you to come down to facts. The question is not as to whether conditions in Alabama as regards appointments are satisfactory. I know they are not. I have been for some time endeavoring to improve them, and an investigation is now being carried on into them with a view to my action on my return. In Mississippi and Louisiana I have felt very well satisfied with the character of the men I have appointed. In Alabama I have not felt nearly as well satisfied, and at times I have felt very much dissatisfied. But this is not the question. Your statement, and the statement of Mr. Falkner to which you gave currency, was that my appointees were of a lower grade than the previous appointees, and this statement is entirely untrue. Mr. Falkner stated that though I had appointed fewer negroes, they were of worse character. This matter is simple. Please name the negro in Alabama who is my new appointee there, and the old one, and then ask any one to compare them. Then take all my new negro appointees and compare them with the old office-holding negroes whom I displaced. In Alabama you can write to Booker Washington or to Judge Jones. When we come to white men, my two conspicuous appointees in Alabama were Judge Jones and486 2 Judge Roulhac. I shall be obliged to you if you will point out any of the previous appointees who represent as high a grade. As for the referees, I am now having Thompson's case looked up. Judge Jones has reported to me that he is a good man, but that Scott is not a good man. From other sources I have had the direct reverse told me. I have been assured that Aldrich was better than both of them, and that he was worse than both of them. I have been unable to find any difference between the men recommended by the three of them when they acted together and the men now recommended by Nessrs. Thompson and Scott. You say I have issued an order forbidding office-holders taking an active part in politics. You have not taken the trouble to find out anything about the order before you wrote about it. I have issued no such order. I have been very careful to issue no order which I could not enforce. I have never said that office-holders should not be on State and National Committees; that they should not go as delegates, and so forth and so forth. All I have ever said was that I should not permit any office-holder to neglect his duties, or to use his position as an office-holder to coerce others, and that I did not wish to see office-holders predominate on committees. In every State there are a number of office-holders who are taking an active part in politics. Yerkes, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is thus taking a part in Kentucky politics; Taft is just going to preside at the Ohio convention; Marshal Johnson in Georgia, is the man who has chiefly advised me about the matters in Georgia; and so forth, and so forth. Where my own nomination was concerned, at the last national convention, I stated that it was my pref-487 3 erence that office-holders should not go to the convention; but even here I did not make it a general rule, and certain office-holders went. In view of the above I am spared the necessity of commenting upon either the taste, the temper or the accuracy of your remarks when you say that I "would vindicate my sincerity and honestly" if I would call for Mr. Thompson's resignation, and ask why I "did not enforce the order strictly." I would recommend that hereafter you know what any given order is before you talk of sincerity and honesty in enforcing it. As for Mr. Thompson's staying on the committee or not, that will be decided after I get my report from the investigation now being made into Alabama affairs. In your concluding paragraph you say, "Have you removed these improper people? Have you removed the postmaster at Dotham? Have you removed the postmaster at Marion? Have you removed the postmaster at Andalusia? You know that they are bad men and should not have been appointed." Here again it would have been well for you to find out something about the facts. Under date of March 1, 1905, the Postmaster General reported to me that an inspector had investigated the post office at Dothan and reported that "the appointment of Byron Trammell has in no way reflected upon the Administration, nor has it tended to retard the efficiency of the service at Dothan. Trammell is respected by his acquaintances and stands well in the community he serves, where he is looked upon as a high class man." The Inspector recommended that he be kept! Of course under these circumstances Trammell was not removed.488 4 At Andalusia the same post office inspector reported that Barnes had given excellent satisfaction as postmaster, but that in view of his past record his appointment was ill-advised; that he was not looked upon as a clean man; and thereupon Barnes was removed. As for the postmaster at Marion, so far as I know the case has never been called to my attention. I have communicated with the Post Office Department and find nothing on file there in the way of charges which the Post Office Department considered even worthy of investigation. About ninety per cent.of the patrons of the office asked for the appointment of Dennis, and he was also recommended by Mr. Aldrich, while it does not appear that he ever was a deputy in the internal revenue service in Alabama. So far as I know there is not the slightest foundation for the accusations that you make. But I have directed that they be investigated by our agent when he goes to Alabama. It thus appears that as regards these three postmasters where you state that I "know the incumbents to be bad men" and ask why I "have not removed the," one of them I have removed; that as to another there has been an investigation resulting in the incumbent's favor; while as to the other there is not so much as a scintilla of proof of the charges you advance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William E. Curtis, 1801 Connecticut Avenue, Washington.489 March 30, 1905. To the Secretary of the Treasury: I have recently issued orders classifying all laborers who have been doing classified work. Registers of laborers had been established and it was ordered that all unclassified laborers should be appointed from those registers. Heads of Departments, Bureau and Offices, are of course explicitly prohibited from hereafter appointing any laborer except from these registers, where such registers have been established, and the Auditors will take note that where any man is appointed save from these registers, he is illegally appointed and is not entitled to receive any salary. Please call the attention of the Auditors of the several departments to the above. [Theodore Roosevelt] 490 March 30, 1905. My dear Mr. Cuyler: You are very kind to have sent me that autograph. If you happen to have a photograph of the seal I shall be delight- ed to have it. Thanking you for your thoughtfulness, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Telamon S. Cuyler, 61 East 72d Street, New York. 491 March 30, 1905. My dear Mrs. Fiske: I remember you well when you were a little girl. I know how fond Uncle Jim was of you, and in memory of him I ask you accept the enclosed check, to be used in any way you see fit for your children. It is to be accepted for them. With regard, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Clarence S. Fiske, 114 Battle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Enclosure 492 March 29, 1905. My dear Governor Johnson: I have required your very cordial letter officially inviting me, in addition to the invitation extended recently by Mr. John W. Arctander, to be present at Minneapolis at the "17th of May Festi- val" of the Scandinavian singers. In your letter you say that this festival will be unique, in that it is to celebrate Norway's liberty day - the day of the adoption of the free constitution of Norway; that it is to be held in the Swedish Tabernacle, the largest Swedish church in the city, and that among the numerous citizens of Swedish birth or descent who will take part in it are members of half a dozen of the choirs of the leading Swedish churches. You further say that it is the specific purpose of those who have the festival in charge to make it a practical object lesson to the people across the sea of the desirability of the two nations learning to know each other, so as to increase the cordiality of their relations. Permit me through you to express my very sincere regret that I am not able to be present. May I through you extend to those present, to the American citizens of Norwegian and Swedish extraction of Minneapolis, my cordial good will and my hearty and sincere regard? It is but the bare truth to say that there are no better citizens in our land than those of Scandinavian birth or extraction. Their493 - 2 - honesty and industry, their high sense of civic duty, their independence, and their profound patriotism give them so high a position that [we feel] all must feel that the country is to be congratulated upon having them here. Every good American must look at his fellow Americans of Scandinavian origin with the heartiest regard and respect, for they have in the highest degree those qualities which make us proud of the name of American. I wish them well here, where they are engaged in doing their full duty as American citizens. Of course I also wish their kinsmen well in their homes; and I earnestly hope that they may there dwell together in a spirit of brotherly love and mutual forbearance. We here have found our fellow citizens, alike of Swedish and Norwegian birth, to be such good citizens, so loyal in their duty to their neighbors and the state, that we are certain that all that all they need is to know each other in their own homes to make each appreciate to the full the good qualities of the other, and to make all alike resolute to prevent any growth of the spirit of discord or uncharitableness. You, my dear Governor, who write to ask me to attend this festival in commemoration of the independence day of the Norwegians, are yourself by birth a Swede. I congratulate the people of this Union upon this as yet another sign of the way in which all Old World bitterness between two peoples of different stocks dies out in this country, and I most earnestly hope that exactly as these differences vanish here, so they may vanish abroad, and the peoples dwell together in a spirit of generous and kindly charity one for another. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John A. Johnson, Governor of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.494 March 29, 1905. My dear Mr. Arctander: I have received your letter and the Governor's. He be- ing the official head of the State I assumed of course that I should send my letter to him. I enclosed you a copy. I thank you for the copy of the "Three Orations" which you have so kindly sent me and which I have enjoyed reading. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt John W. Arctander, Esq., 913 New York Life Building, Minneapolis, Minn. Enclosure.495 Private March 30, 1905. Dear John: Naturally I am delighted at the news of your steady improvement, although it is only what I had anticipated. I look forward to nearly four years of work together with you, my dear fellow. There has been rather a comic development in the Santo Domingo case. Morales asked us to take over the custom houses pending action by the Senate. I decided to do so, but first of all consulted Spooner, Forakar, Lodge and Knox. All heartily agreed that it was necessary for me to take this action. Rather to my horror Taft genially chaffed them about going back on their principles as to the "usurpation of the executive." But they evidently took the view that it was not a time to be over-particular about trifles. I also consulted Gorman, who told me that he had taken it for granted that I would have to take some such action as that proposed, and believed it necessary. I understand, however, that this was merely his unofficial opinion, and that officially he is going to condemn our action as realizing his worst forebodings. Cassini and Takahira have been to see me about peace negotiations, be we do not make much progress as yet because neither side is willing to make the first advances. The Japanese say, quite rightly, that they will refuse to deal unless on the word of the Czar, because it is evident496 - 2 - evident that no one minister has power to bind the government. Cassini announces to me that officially the government is bent upon war, but that privately he would welcome peace. The Kaiser has had another fit and is now convinced that France is trying to engineer a congress of the nations, in which Germany will be left out. What a jumping creature he is, anyhow! Besides sending to me he is evidently engaged in sending to all kinds of other people. I am against having a congress to settle the peace terms. The enclosed letter from Spring-Rice was given me by Ades, who said it was evidently intended for me to read. With some misgivings I did so. I think you will find it interesting. I was amused at the part in which he speaks of the Kaiser having now openly come out as friendly to the Americans and the Japanese. The Chinese obviously desire the war to go on in the hope that both combatants will ultimately become completely exhausted. The European powers want peace. I have an idea that the English would be by no means overjoyed if the Japs took Vladivostok. It looks as if the foreign powers did not want me to act as peacemaker. I certainly do not want to myself. I wish the Japs and Russians could settle it between themselves, and I should be delighted to have any one except myself give them a jog to settle it. [between themselves] If France will do it, it will serve the purpose just as well. Everything else is getting along quietly. I hope to leave the burdens of state on Taft's broad shoulders and start west next Monday.497 3 Of course there may be a blow-up in Santo Domingo, or some complication in the Far East, which may bring me back. Give my love to Mrs. Hay. I earnestly hope that you are having a good time as well as getting better. Ever yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. John Hay, State Department. Enclosure498 Personal March 31, 1905. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am happy to be able to tell you in response to your last note that I entirely agree with the Emperor that it is unwise for the peace negotiations, when the time comes to carry them on, to be considered in a congress of the nations. The Japanese Minister has informed me that Japan takes this view also. I informed the British Ambassador that this was my view, and he told me that he had no doubt that the British Government would also take it. I saw the Russian Ambassador, and for your private information will say that I told him that in my judgment it was ominantly to Russia's interest to make peace, and that I thought, as regards the terms offered by the Japanese, it would be a case of the sibylline books; that each delay, if the delay meant another Japanese victory, would mean an increase in the onerousness of the terms. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Baron H. Sternburg, The German Ambassador.499 March 31, 1905. My dear Mr. Straus: I have your letter of the 30th instant and am much pleased that you like what was done about Santo Domingo. I believe we have worked the thing out pretty well. Now let me thank you for all the strength and aid you have given me. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Mr. Oscar S. Straus, 42 Warren Street, New York.500 Personal March 31, 1905. My dear Bishop: I am so much obliged to you for your kindness, and look forward to the night at your house. Of course you can sign my name to the appeal in question. With regards to Mrs. Lawrence, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop William Lawrence, 122 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.501 Personal March 31, 1905. My dear Mr. Gummere: Of course I am anxious that you should keep on the most friendly terms with the French, but I should be obliged if you would also be careful to keep in touch with the German Minister, telling him that I have requested you to do so. I should like you to work with him so far as you can do so without causing friction with France. Of course I hope you will also get on well with the English and all other representatives of foreign governments. Sincerely yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Hon. Samuel R. Gummere, United States Minister, Tangier, Morrocco.502 Personal March 31, 1905. My dear Gilder: I thank you for your letter and am particularly interested about Robinson. Curiously enough I had just written him, but evidently had the wrong address. Now I should like to help him, but it seems to me that it is inadvisable for him to go to England. You know I believe that our literary men are always hurt by going abroad. If Bret Harte had stayed in the West[, if he] had not even come East, he might have gone on doing productive work. To go to England was the worst thing possible for him. [?] the same way, I think Joel Chandler Harris has continued to do good work because he has remained in Atlanta instead of going to New York. I wish you could find out for me how Robinson is getting along. Perhaps I could give him some position in the Government service, just as Walt Whitman and John Burroughs were given Government positions. It seems to me inadvisable to send him abroad. Faithfully yours, [Theodore Roosevelt] Mr. R.W. Gilder, The Century Magazine, Union Square, New York.503 March 31, 1905. Dear Miss Emily: One of those medals is to go to you without fail. Sincerely yours, T. R. Miss Emily Tuckerman, 1600 I Street, Washington.504 March 31, 1905. My dear Captain English: I have your letter and the clippings. I thank you warmly for your invariable courtesy and kindness. Next year I hope you, and if possible Mrs. English, will be on here for some of the big functions. I want to have the pleasure of having you at the White House. With warm regards, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain William E. English, 102 Monument Place, Indianapolis, Indiana.