Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to the Secretary of Interior E. A. Hitchcock
This item contains correspondence regarding the conduct of Walter L. Cohen, Register of the Land Office at New Orleans. Correspondents include: B. H. Peterson, Frank B. Williams, and the Honorable Lewis S. Clark.
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the Impeachment of Dr. Peterson, I herewith enclose you a copy of a
communication which has been filed with the President, together with
certain letters which will explain themselves. Dr. Peterson, tells
me that he has been recently informed by one of the attorneys for
Bradford in that case that Cohen did not want to testify against
him, but that Bradford brought pressure to bear which compelled Cohen
to testify.
In a certain case pending against one of the entries
made by Bradford, which was suspended on the report of Special Agent
Peterson, the case was set for hearing on a certain day, and the
appropriation for the hearing was made some thirty days before the
day of trial, yet Johnson represented to Peterson that no appropria-
tion had been made, up to the day before the case was set for hear-
ing, then it was too late to have his witnesses subpoenaed and the
Register and Receiver refused to allow Peterson to continue, and thus
defeated the action of the Government in Bradford's interest. Under
the regulation of the department Peterson had the right to continue
the case without even filing an affidavit for continuance. It evi-
dently appeared that this was simply a means of favoring Bradford.
I am confident that a thorough investigation would reveal facts
somewhat startling in their nature.
Very respectfully,
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