One of the United States Senators died, the other served his term.

(One of the bankers was released from prison by executive order after I left office.) These were merely individual cases among many others like them.

Moreover, we were just as relentless in dealing with crimes of violence among the disorderly and brutal classes as in dealing with the crimes of cunning and fraud of which certain wealthy men and big politicians were guilty.
Mr.Sims in Chicago was particularly efficient in sending to the penitentiary numbers of the infamous men who batten on the "white slave" traffic, after July, 1908, when by proclamation I announced the adherence of our Government to the international agreement for the suppression of the traffic.
The views I then held and now hold were expressed in a memorandum made in the case of a Negro convicted of the rape of a young Negro girl, practically a child.

A petition for his pardon had been sent me.
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 1904.
The application for the commutation of sentence of John W.Burley is denied.

This man committed the most hideous crime known to our laws, and twice before he has committed crimes of a similar, though less horrible, character.