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    "title": "Copy of a Letter from Maurice Wormser to President Theodore Roosevelt",
    "description": "This item is a letter regarding Major McLaughlin and his work with the Navajo Indians in Arizona.",
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    "ocrText": "Copy\nTHE NEW WILLARD,\nWashington, D.C., Jan. 9th, 1907.\nMr. President:\nI beg herewith to enclose two papers for your considera-\ntion, both bearing date of March 1906, one a letter from the\nCommissioner of Indian Affairs and the other a copy of my ap-\nplication for permission to act in conformity with the order of\nthe Interior Department contained in above letter.\nI have ever been ready to comply with said order, and have\nhad men in my employ at large expense since April 1906.\nThe Secretary of the Interior has stated to me that at\nsome time in the future it is his intention to send his Senior\nIndian Inspector, Maj. McLaughlin to the reservation and submit\nthe question of a lease for consideration of the Navajo tribe\nof Indians, but said Inspector has been engaged in other im-\nportnat work, and is about to resume certain negotiations with\nthe Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota. I am informed that\nhe is at present in this City awaiting orders from the Secre-\ntary of the Interior.\nIf Mr. President you would grant myself and my associates\nthe favor of allowing Maj. McLaughlin to take the necessary\nsteps under proper instructions from the Secretary of the In-\nterior, to proceed without delay to the Navajo Agency in\nArizona and negotiate with the Indians of that reservation for\na lease, as per our application herewith enclosed, I would be\nmuch relieved from the embarrassed position in which I have been"
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