Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock

This letter asks to postpone any further segregation of Cherokee lands until the dispute is decided by the Supreme Court.

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bearing upon the matter be postponed. I should like to have this done. Who is it under you who has charge of these segregation land matters directly ? Cannot he, whoever he may be, arrange with Senator Quay as to the details of the hearing? Sincerely yours, Theodore Rossever Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior.