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

This item includes a letter from Civil Service Commissioner Foulke about the investigation of Surveyor General Joseph Perrault.

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5 investigation of the case need hardly proceed further, since Per- rault has violated your rule and has undoubtedly committed an act in violation of good discipline. As I say, I have gone over the testimony with some care, and the result would seem to require at least two di smi ssals and three or four criminal prosecutions; but unless it seems to you that I am wrong in the foregoing conclusions, it will hardly be necessary to trouble you with the details of this investigation. Yours, ymu Duilly yourk Commi ssi oner. Enclosures. )