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145. Mor.221. TR knew Mahan slightly, having met him in 1887. Their relationship, which was to develop apace during the 1890s, will be analyzed in Ch. 22.
146. See Chs. 22 and 23; also O’Gara, Gordon Carpenter, TR and the Rise of the Modern Navy (Princeton U. Press, 1969) for TR’s Presidential naval policies.
147. House Report 1, v. Sageser, “Two Decades,” 146, says that Lyman was censured unjustly. The facts of the case indicate otherwise.
148. See ib., 146 for an analysis of the media blitz following the committee’s report.
149. Ib.; N.Y. Saturday Globe, Mar. 8, 1890.
150. Gwy.106.
151. Mor.229, 230; Cut.72.
152. COW; Mor.233. Edith Roosevelt had just turned 29.
153. Mor.234; Sullivan, Mark, The Education of an American (Doubleday, 1938), 272–74; TR to HCL, Oct. 4, 1890 (LOD.).
154. Sto.215. The majority was 255 to 88.
155. Mor.236; Boston Evening Transcript, Oct. 30, 1890.
156. TR to B, Dec. 26, 1890.
157. Cha.195.
17: THE DEAR OLD BELOVED BROTHER
Important sources not listed in Bibliography: 1. Report of Commissioner Roosevelt concerning Political Assessments and the use of Official Influence to Control Elections in the Federal Offices at Baltimore, Md. (USCS, Government Printing Office, May 1891). Hereafter cited as Baltimore Report. 2. 52nd Congress, 2nd session, Report of the House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, June 21, 1892, Misc. Doc. #289, Report #1669. Hereafter cited as House Report 2.
1. TR to B, May 23, 1891.
2. See Las.30 ff. for an account of E’s life as a Hempstead “swell.” Wise, John S., Recollections of Thirteen Presidents (NY, 1906) 244.
3. Las.8. “He became a drunkard because he was an epileptic … in the family we understood that.” Mrs. Longworth int., Nov. 1954, TRB.
4. See p. 132; also TR to B, May 10, 1890, when he says that E has been drinking for “a dozen years.” TR to B, Apr. 30, 1890.
5. Sun, World, Aug. 18, 1891, also Las.30–4.
6. COW; Las.36; TR to B, passim, 1891.
7. TR to B, Jan. 25, 1891.
8. TR to B, passim, 1891, and below.
9. TR to B, Jan. 25, 1891; ib., Mar. 1.
10. See Wag.87–8; TR to B, Mar. 1, 1891.
11. Ib., Jan. 25, 1891. For other examples of TR’s curious, neo-Christian morality, see Wag.85–92.
12. Ib., and below.
13. TR to B, Feb. 22, 1891; ib., Feb. 15.
14. Ib., Mar. 1, 1891; COW; also Las.34 ff.
15. The legitimate baby was due in late June 1891. For lack of evidence we can only assume that the illegitimate baby was due in March or April 1891, E having departed for Europe the previous July (Sun, Aug. 17, 1891). It may have been due earlier, but as Katy Mann began her legal action only in January 1891, her pregnancy was surely not far advanced.
16. Mor.237.
17. Mor.238. BH eventually yielded to TR’s entreaties, and extended the rules to cover a token 626 places in the Bureau. See below for TR’s further efforts on behalf of reservation Indians.
18. Reed was an advocate of the spoils system, and his campaign for favorable votes during the appropriations crisis surprised many colleagues. “Well, I didn’t know you were in love with Civil Service Reform,” said a Tennessee member. “I don’t like it straight,” Reed admitted, “but mixed with a little Theodore Roosevelt, I like it well.” Columbus (O.) Press, May 8, 1892.
19. New York (“Historic Towns” Series, Longmans, Green & Co., 1891—issued simultaneously in New York and London). Reprinted in TR.Wks.X.339–547.
20. Spectator, Sep. 5, 1891. Other reviews in TR.Scr.
21. The Nation, May 14, 1891.
22. TR.Wks.X.512ff., 514, 529.
23. TR to B, Mar. 22, 1891.
24. Mor.284, 283.
25. W. Post, Mar. 30, 31, and Apr. 3, 1891. These amounts were by no means trivial in the 1890s, when clerks like Hamilton Shidy earned $720 per annum, or $14 a week.
26. Mor.284.
27. Ib.; Williams, Cleveland, “TR, Civil Service Commissioner,” U. Chicago dissertation, June 1955, 43.
28. House Report 2, 1. TR went down for a preliminary investigation on Mar. 28 but seems