Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock
In this letter, the President requests a report on communications between Senators and Representatives from Oregon. Correspondence between the Congressmen is included.
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November 30, 1903.
Hon. Joseph G. Cannon,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington D. C.
Mr. Speaker:-
In addition to the reasons heretofore pr esented to you by
us both verbally and in writing, we beg respectfully but most earnest
ly to submit the following, which seem to us ought to be convincing,
unanswerable and conclusive why Oregon should be repr esented on the
Committee on Rivers and Harbors in the national House of Represen
tatives.
The two principal enadidates, as we understand, from the
Pacific Coast, are Honorable Wesley L. Jones, representing he
state of Washington, and Honorable Binger Hermann, representing t he
state of Oregon. In this connection it must be borne in mind that
the state of California is already repr esented by old members both
on the Committee of Commerce of the Senate, Senator Perkins, and on
the Committee on Rivers and Harbors in the House by Representative
Me Lachlin of California. Furthermore, t he state of Washington is
already represented on the Senate Committee of Commerce by Senator
Foster of that state. Should Representative Jones, therefor e, be
placed on the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House then each
of the states of California and Washington will have double r epre-
sentation, that is a Senator and a Member each on the Committees of
Commerce of the Sera te and Rivers and Harbors o. the House respect-
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