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    "title": "Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Philip B. Stewart",
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    "ocrText": "WHITE HOUSE,\nWASHINGTON.\nJune 26, 1905.\nDear Phil:\nAt my request Secretary Hitchcock has just come in and has given me\nthe report of the special inspoctor who last investigated the Surveyor\nGeneral's Office of Colorado. This report is dated April 20,1905.\ninvestigated the office in august 1904\nThe same inspoctor had pepor bad yoar bofore and had pointed out the\ngeneral inefficiency of the work under Vivian and the fact that the of-\nfice was handled primarily foun a political, and only secondarily from a\nlast ahril\nbusiness, standpoint. This report of 20th is of course a strictly\nA\nconfidential report and can not be made public; but I wish you to under-\nstand that the Secretary and I, in spoaking as we did about Vivian, were\nproceeding upon official knowledge gained in the only way in which wo\ncan get knowledge worth having. The report is long and sets forth in\ndetail many of the faults. I quote a few extracts from it:\nThe condition of said office and the employees, and the work being\nperformed by thom, has not materially changod sinco my former examina\ntion as reported August 1,1904.\n*\nThore appears to be a dis-\nposition on the part of certain employees of this office to oppose\nreforms and mothods asked to be adopted for the betterment of the\nservice. There appears to be no head to this office, and system,\ndiscipline and mothod are lacking.\nThe instructions given\nin my former report have been almost entirely disregarded.\" (Hore\nI condense.)\n\"Too many clerks and draftsmen have been employed and\nmore than were necessary to perform the office work.\nWhat\nthis office needs is a very compotent Chief Clerk, a man who thorough\nly understands his business and who will install system and discipline,\nand put this office on a business working basis; a man who will act\njustly and firmly, and who has the bost interests of the service at\nheart. The present incumbent is not in any manner compotent.\nThe cost of performing this work per mining location is far groater"
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