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6 Petitioners visiting TR’s current reading included a novel by the Filipino consciousness-raiser José Rizal. TR to J. C. Abrey, 31 May 1902 (TRP); Maria [Mrs. Bellamy] Storer, In Memoriam Bellamy Storer (privately printed, 1923), 38–39.
7 On another occasion New York World, 22 Sept. 1901. Apparently, Henry Cabot Lodge had bet him he could not do it. TR demanded, and got, the Senator’s hat in settlement.
8 He encouraged his Baltimore Sun, 15 May 1902; Washington Times, 8 June 1902.
9 Hay, who as John Hay qu. in Byron Price memorandum (EMH). For a discussion of the question of presidential succession at this time, see George F. Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years (New York, 1903), vol. 2, 168–71.
10 a permanent Census TR, Letters, vol. 3, 238–39.
Chronological Note: Until TR’s Presidency, each census was conducted by a temporary “office” that went out of existence as soon as it reported. These “offices” had become sinkholes of patronage by the end of the nineteenth century; the 1900 census comprised some sixty thousand jobs, all political favors. On 6 Mar. 1902, TR signed a bill that not only created a permanent directorate, but made its appointments subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Clerkships and other administrative positions were made subject to the civil-service law. In 1903, the Bureau initiated a countrywide system of death registration and statistical reporting; in 1904, it produced the nation’s first population forecasts; in 1905, the first annual reports on cotton supply and distribution, and in 1906, the first in a series of annual “inter-censual” surveys. Theodore G. Clemence, “The Early Years of the Bureau of the Census: The Politics of Appointment and the Struggle for Independence,” ts. in Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., 8–12.
11 Senators Aldrich and New York Herald, 18 May 1902; TR to W.H.H. Llewellyn, qu. in Douglas, Many-Sided Roosevelt, 83.
12 “You have wasted” Hoar’s speech is given in Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 1, 1902, vol. 35, pt. 6, 5788–98.
13 At Arlington National The following account is based on TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers (New York, 1910), vol. 1, 59–66; and Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
14 The year’s first New York Sun and Washington Evening Star, 30 May 1902. 110 He had been See ms. in TRP. No previous President had delivered a Memorial Day address at Arlington.
15 “Is it only” TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 60.
16 Had he spat Literary Digest, 7 June 1902. See also Welch, Response to Imperialism, 144, and, for a concise analysis of TR’s antilynch policies from this moment on, William L. Ziglar, “The Decline of Lynching in America,” International Social Science Review 63.1 (1988).
17 Sure enough, when Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation,” 250. TR finally signed it into law on 1 July 1902; Literary Digest, 7 June 1902. An editorial exception was the New York Sun, which hailed TR’s speech as “a great public service … [that] excels anything that the President has yet delivered.” Alfonso, Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines, 203–5, finds the nation’s press, as a whole, supportive of TR’s Philippines policy.
18 Bruised and rueful See TR, Letters, vol. 3, 268–69, for TR’s attempt to explain his Philippines policy to an outraged cleric.
19 On Wednesday, 4 See Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 1, 1902, vol. 35, pt. 6, 6267–80.
20 “Be it enacted” Ibid., 6267.
21 old man’s tremor Scholars skeptical of this detail should try to read Morgan’s handwriting from 1902.
22 He had no new Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 1, 1902, vol. 35, pt. 6, 6267–80.
23 Senator Hanna sat The Treaty of New Granada was basically a trade agreement intended to protect free transit (then by railway) across the Isthmus of Panama. In return for right of way, the United States guaranteed the “perfect neutrality” of the Isthmus, as well as “the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.” Lawrence Beilenson,