Letter from George B. Cortelyou to E. A. Hitchcock

Ack 5110 1902 Sons ESTABLISHED 1847. 98.1008102. Bleecher Riand 197. Meicer. A Personal, Newtherh May 5th, '02 190 Mary re President Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Devi Sir My dear President Roosevelt, I wrote you last Monday recommending Mr. P. F. Griffin for appointment as inspector of Indian clothing in the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department in New York. I spoke to you of the matter at the staff dinner, and you expressed yourself as favoring the idea of having this gentleman appointed and gave me an appointment to see you the following morning, and then introduced me to secretary Hitchcock. Mr. Griffin, the man I recommend, is a man in receipt of a guaranteed salary of $25,000. per annum from Messrs. Rogers, Peet & CO. and has besides that an interest in the profits, bringing his total remuneration up to about $40,000. per annum. The position of Indian Inspector is worth about $700. or $800. a year, and I assert, and think the above practically proves, that Mr. Griffin is a very desirable man for the place, and that his motives for taking it are beyond suspicion, and the probabilities that he would administer the place to the strictest honesty, amount to a practical certainty. The above is to recall the matter to your mind. Now then I want to say that I am writing to Mr. Secretary Hitchcock by this mail and that I hope you will do everything you properly can, and that you have the time for, to have this