Letter from Governor Theodore Roosevelt to Mr. Hitchcock

STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER April lath, 1900. ALBANY EXCELSIOR Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Hitchcock:-- I thank you very much for your two lettors of the 11th inst, Now, as to the Charter Commission. I know Mr. Collier and value him very highly. I am very much afraid, however, that it will not be possible for me to put him upon the Commission. I have already pretty nearly made up my list and I have on it now more lawyers than I desire. The effort to try to get the different interests represented by thoroughly competent men who shall do more than to merely represent the different interests, is harder than you would imagine. I have been at my wits end and for some reasons I am sorry that I did not have a larger commission as it would enable me to place some additional men; and yet to represent cer- tain boroughWand certain interests I am not able to get men whom I regard as really big enough. With high regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roseuels