Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files 1926-1942 (continued)
F 1 Education (1927-1933).
a. Correspondence.
b. Pamphlet: National Education Association: "Report of the Legislative Commission" (July, 1929).
c. Remarks: Daniel A. Reed: "Department of Education." (Dec. 6, 1927).
d. Speech: WC: "Our Public Schools" (June 19, 1929).
e. Radio Address: WC: "The Educational Bill" (1930).
f. Remarks: Clifton A. Woodrum: "The Public School" (Apr. 15, 1932).
g. Radio Address: William F. Russell: "Education" (Apr. 16, 1933).
F 2 Education (1934, 1938).
a. Correspondence.
b. Speech: Braswell Deen: "Educational Situation" (Jan. 31,1934).
c. Statement: Miles C. Allgood: "Education" (Mar.).
d. Remarks: Jed Johnson, Sr.: "Our Weak Schools Must Have Relief or the Education of Millions of Our Younger
Generation Will be Interrupted and Neglected at a Critical Period in Their Lives" (Mar. 20, 1934).
e. Remarks: James G. Polk: "To Provide Federal Aid for Vocational Education" (Mar. 23, 1934).
f. Remarks: F. B. Swank: "School Bill -- H.R. 6533" (Apr. 9, 1934).
g. Pamphlet: National Education Association: "Emergency Federal Aid for Education: A Review of the Evidence" (Apr., 1934).
h. H.R.7520: To assist the public schools in maintaining full terms and to reimburse unpaid school teachers and employees.
WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
i. Letter from Hon. John Studebaker, Commissioner, Office of Education. (1938).
F 3 Education (1928-1942).
Miscellaneous clippings and Congressional Record excerpts.
F 4 Farming (1927-1928).
a. Correspondence. Includes form letter from R. A. Green. Attached clipping.
b. Speech: Marvin Jones: "Twenty-cent Cotton" (Dec. 7, 1927). Attached clipping.
c. Speech: WC: "A Plea for the Farmer" (Feb. 28, 1928). Printed; typescript; handwritten notes.
d. House Report No.1778 (H.R. 13447: To establish a dairy and livestock experiment and demonstration station for the
South near Lewisburg, Tennessee). Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by Edwin L. Davis.
e. Public Law 602 (H.R. 13447).Seventieth Congress (1928).
F 5 Farming (1929).
Correspondence and other data concerning proposed experimental dairy farm at Durant.
F 6 Farming (1929).
a. Speech: E. Eugene Cox: "The Cotton Farmer Continues to Carry the Jute Trust on His Back" (Feb. 7, 1929).
b. Booklet: Department of Agriculture: "Dairy Work at the Huntley Field Station, Huntley, Montana, 1918-1927." Technical
Bulletin No.116 (June, 1929).
c. H.R. 1: To establish a Federal Farm Board. Seventy-first Congress; First Session (1929). A bill by Gilbert Nelson Haugen.
d. House Report No.1 (H.R. 1).
F 7 Farming (1930-1932, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940).
a. Correspondence (1930, 1932). Subjects include proposed experimental dairy farm at Durant and Federal Farm Marketing Act.
b. Radio address: David Lawrence: "The New Day in Agriculture" (1931). Typescript.
c. Radio address: Tom W. Cheek: "Why We Propose to Amend the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act" (Feb. 24, 1940).
Typescript. Cover page for WC insertion into Congressional Record.
d. Letters from WC to constituents re: Agricultural bulletins; also lists of Agricultural Bulletins.
e. Farming: Typescript of article on Cotton Loans. (1934).
F 8 Farming (n.d.).
Miscellaneous longhand speeches and/or speech fragments.
F 9 Farming (n.d).
Miscellaneous documents, clippings, and Congressional Record excerpts. WC, Elmer Thomas, T.P. Gore, Thomas D. McKeown, et al., on various agricultural issues.
F 10 Flood Control, Committee on (1938, 1940).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Will M. Whittington.
b. H.R.9465: To authorize a preliminary examination of the Kiamichi River and its tributaries in Pushmataha and Choctaw
Counties. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
c. H. R. 8421: To amend rivers and harbors public works legislation to provide for Wister Reservoir. WC Bill.
Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
F 11 Foreign Debt Settlement (n.d., 1928).
Miscellaneous clippings and Congressional Record (excerpts.)
F 12 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1917, 1920).
a. House Document No.240: "Statue of Sequoyah-- Proceedings in Statuary Hall ...June 6, 1917." Sixty-eighth Congress;
First Session.
b. Pamphlet: General Land Office: "Regulations Concerning Coal Mining Leases, Permits and Licenses" (1920). Circular
No. 679.
F 13 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1921-1923).
a. Pamphlet: "Memorial Exercises at the Grave of Pushmataha, Congressional Cemetery, Decoration Day, May 29, 1921."
b. Bulletin 14: Office of Indian Affairs: "Indian Wars and Local Disturbances in the United States, 1782-1898" (1921).
c. Bulletin 17: Office of Indian Affairs: "American Indian Legends" (1922).
d. Bulletin 18: Office of Indian Affairs: "The Progress of the Blackfeet Indians" (1922).
e. Bulletin 24: Office of Indian Affairs: "Indian Reservations" (1923).
F 14 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1924).
a. Report: "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1924."
b. Hearings (H.R. 7324): "Claims of Loyal Shawnee and Loyal Absentee Shawnee Indians." Sixty-eighth Congress; First
Session (1924). A bill by Thomas D. McKeown.
c. Hearings (H.R. 9017): "Claims of Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes (The Leased District)." Sixty-eighth Congress; First
Session (1924). A bill by Charles D. Carter.
d. Public Law 222 (H.R. 5325): An act conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims for claims of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians. Sixty-eighty Congress (1924).
F 15 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1925-1926).
a. Correspondence (1926). Includes letter from Charles D. Carter. Clipping attached.
b. Bulletin 3: Office of Indian Affairs: "United States Indians: Historical Reference" (1926). (Printed at the Salem Indian
School, Chemawa, Oregon.)
c. Bulletin 8: Office of Indian Affairs: "Indian Missions of the United States" (1926). (Printed at the Phoenix Indian School.)
d. Bulletin 30: Office of Ethnology: "Indian Art and Industries" (1926). (Printed at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School.)
e. Speech: James A. Frear: "Confiscating Navajo Indian Funds" (Feb. 4, 1926).
f. Speech: James A. Frear: "The Indian Bureau's Chains and Manacles" (Mar. 4, 1926).
g. Speech: James A. Frear: "The Indian Bureau's Vicious Oil Leasing Bill" (Mar. 23, 1926).
h. Speech: James A. Frear: "Commissioner Burke's `Defense' Furnishes Absolute Proof of Indian Bureau Malfeasance"
(Apr. 23, 1926).
i. Speech: James A. Frear: "Indian Bureau Maladministration, Including Merrit's California Junket, Require Congressional
Investigation" (Dec. 13, 1926).
j. Public Law 309 (H.R. 7077): An Act to amend appropriations bill of 1914 providing money to meet treaty stipulations
Sixty-eighth Congress (1925). A bill by E. B. Howard.
k. Hearings (H.R. 5218): "Absentee Shawnee Indian Claims." Sixty-ninth Congress; First Session (1926). A bill by Thomas
D. McKeown.
l. H.R. 9169: To authorize certain changes in homestead allotments of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Sixty-ninth
Congress; First Session (1926). A bill by Charles D. Carter.
m. Public Law 96 (H.R. 4761): An act concerning statutes of limitation involving Indian title suits in Oklahoma. Sixty-ninth
Congress (1926). A bill by W. W. Hastings.
n. Public Resolution 27 (H.J. Res. 134): Authorizing Cherokee Indians, Seminole Indians, Creek Indians, and Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians to prosecute claims. Sixty-ninth Congress (1926). A bill by W. W. Hastings.
F 16 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1926-1927).
a. Correspondence (1927). Letters to or from include Charles Burke, John Collier, and James A. Frear. Topics include
Choctaw-Chickasaw coal lands.
b. Booklet: American Indian Defense Association: "Are Our Treaties with the Indians `Scraps of Paper'?"
c. Bulletin 2: Office of Indian Affairs: "Bibliography of Indian Legends" (1927). (Printed at Salem Indian School,
Chemawa, Oregon.)
d. Bulletin 23: Office of Indian Affairs: "Indian Population of the United States, June 30, 1927" (1927).
e. Report: "Annual Report of the Director of the Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1927."
f. Remarks: James A. Frear: "Bureau Oppression of American Citizens Is a National Disgrace" (Jan. 4, 1927).
g. Speech: James A. Frear: "Congressional Investigation of Indian Mistreatment Is Required" (Jan. 11, 1927).
h. Address: William H. Harrison: "An Address to the Choctaw People" (Oct. 3, 1927).
i. Slip Opinion: U.S. Supreme Court: "Heirs of Samuel Garland v. Choctaw Nation" and Sophia C. Pitchlynn and Others,
Heirs-at-law of Peter P. Pitchlynn v. Choctaw Nation" (Jan. 3, 1927).
j. Hearings (H.R. 177 and S.1616): "Chippewa Indian Classification." Sixty-ninth Congress; First and Second Sessions
(1926-1927). House bill by Harold Knutson and Senate bill by Henrik Shipstead.
k. H.R. 345: To amend and act dealing with removal of restrictions on lands of allottees of Five Civilized Tribes. Seventieth
Congress; First Session (1927). A bill by F. B. Swank. l Form letter. (1927).
F 17 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1927-1930). Franklin Bourland.
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Charles H. Burke, Charles D. Carter, Edwin L. Davis, A. M. Free, Milton C.
Garber, J. W. Harreld, Scott Leavitt, and Thomas D. McKeown.
b. H.R. 12704: For the relief of Franklin Bourland. WC Bill. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928).
F 18 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1906, 1928). Choctaw and Chickasaw Coal and Asphalt Lands.
Office of Indian Affairs letter transmitting photostatic copy of 1906 memorandum relating to these lands.
F 19 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928). Choctaw and Chickasaw Coal and Asphalt Lands.
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Charles H. Burke, Charles Curtis, Scott Leavitt, and W. B. Pine. This relates mainly to the legislation providing for the sale of such lands.
F 20 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928). Choctaw and Chickasaw Coal and Asphalt Lands.
Correspondence, including petitions. Letters to or from include Charles H. Burke, and Scott Leavitt. This relates mainly to legislation providing for extending coal leases and lease payments.
F 21 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928). Choctaw and Chickasaw Coal and Asphalt Lands.
a. H.R. 9858: providing for the purchase by the United States of the segregated coal and asphalt deposits in Oklahoma from
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes. WC Bill. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928).
b. H.R. 12574: To extend certain existing leases upon the coal and asphalt deposits in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
and permit extension of time to complete payment on coal purchases. WC Bill. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928).
c. S.3867: A bill with the same intent as H.R. 12574. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by W. B. Pine.
d. House Report 1421 (H.R. 12574).
e. Public Law 507 (S.3867). Seventieth Congress (1928).
f. Press Release: WC Bill. Typescript.
F 22 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1898, 1928). Restrictions on Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes.
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Charles H. Burke.
b. Public Law 162 (H.R. 8581): An act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory (1898). A bill by Charles
Curtis.
F 23 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928). Restrictions on Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes.
a. H.R. 12000: To extend the period of restrictions on lands of certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes. Seventieth
Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by Scott Leavitt.
b. Hearings (H.R. 12000): "Extension of the Period of Restrictions, Five Civilized Tribes." (1928).
c. House Report 1193 (H.R.12000).
d. Speech: WC: "Restrictions, Five Civilized Tribes" (May 12, 1928). Concerns H.R. 12000.
e. Statement: WC: Concerns H.R. 12000. Typescript.
F 24 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928). Restrictions on Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes.
a. S.3594: To extend the period of restriction in lands of certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes. Seventieth Congress;
First Session (1928). A bill by Lynn Joseph Frazier.
b. Senate Report 982 (S.3594).
c. Public Law 360 (S.3594). Seventieth Congress (1928).
F 25 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928)
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Charles H. Burke, James V. McClintic, and the American Indian Defense Association. Topics include Choctaw and Chickasaw property and funds, Indian Survey, law enforcement on reservations, and Flathead "spoilation."
F 26 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928).
a. Bulletin No. 16: Eastern Association on Indian Affairs: "The Problem of Indian Administration: A Summary of the
Meriam Report" (1928).
b. Bulletin No. 17: Eastern Association on Indian Affairs: "Indian Boarding Schools: Findings of the Meriam Report" (1928).
c. Bulletin: General Federation of Women's Clubs: "A Bulletin on the Meriam Report" (1928).
d. Report: Department of the Interior: "Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Fiscal Year, 1928,
relating to the Bureau of Indian Affairs" (1928).
e. Bulletin 20: Office of Indian Affairs: "Indian Citizenship" (1928).
f. Petition: Court of Claims: "Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations v. United States."
g. Speech: Louis C. Cramton: "The Bureau of Indian Affairs" (Jan. 12, 1928).
h. Speech: Louis C. Cramton: "The Pueblo Lands and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District" (Feb. 15, 1928).
i. Speech: Louis C. Cramton: "Some Facts about Indian Affairs" (Mar. 23, 1928).
j. Address: William H. Harrison: "An Address to the Choctaw People" (Oct. 1, 1928).
F 27 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928).
a. H.J. Res.255: Providing for loan of $2,500,000 to the Choctaw and Chickasaw. Seventieth Congress; First Session
(1928). A bill by Thomas D. McKeown.
b. H.R. 462: Providing for a per capita payment of $100 to each enrolled member of the Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota.
Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by Conrad George Selvig.
c. Hearings (H.R. 7204): "Creation of Indian Trust Estates." Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by E. B. Howard.
d. Hearings (H.R. 9294): "Osage Tribal and Individual Affairs." Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). In two parts. A
bill by E. B. Howard.
e. House Report 589 (H.R. 462).
f. House Report 1901 (S.2360): "Amending Act for Division of Lands and Funds of Osage Indians of Oklahoma."
Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by Lynn Joseph Frazier.
g. Subcommittee Report (H.R. 9294): "Osage Indians of Oklahoma."
h. Public Law 172 (S. 2342): An act providing for a per capita payment of $25 to each enrolled member of the Chippewa
Tribe of Minnesota. Seventieth Congress (1928). A bill by Henrik Shipstead.
i. H. J. Res. 26: To pay tuition of restricted Indian children in public schools, (Oklahoma).
j. H. R. 10741: Settlement claim of J. F. McMurray. (1928).
F 28 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1928).
Miscellaneous clippings and Congressional Record excerpts. WC, W. B. Pine, Thomas D. McKeown, W. W. Hastings, Joseph Bruner, et al., on various aspects of Indian policy.
F 29 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1925, 1929).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include American Indian Defense Association, Indian Rights Association, Charles H.
Burke, C. E. Creager, W. B. Pine, C. Rhoads, W. H. Sproul, and Ray Lyman Wilbur. Topics include Choctaw and
Chickasaw funds and coal lands, Seminole claims, Indian trust estates, Kiowa Agency conditions, and Indian Restrictions Bill.
b. House Report 1358, Part 2 (H.R. 7204): "Should Government Agents Give Away Indian Property?" Minority Report on
Indian Trust Estate Bill. A bill by E. B. Howard.
c. H.R. 5218: A bill to carry into effect article twelve of treaty between U.S. and loyal Shawnee and loyal absentee Shawnee
of Oct. 14, 1868. Sixty-ninth Congress; First Session (1925). A bill by Thomas D. McKeown.
d. Senate Report 1640 (S.5127): "Carry into effect the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and the loyal
Shawnee Indians." Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929). A bill by Elmer Thomas.
F 30 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1929).
a. Remarks: Burton K. Wheeler: "Indian Affairs -- Letters of Commissioner" (Dec. 21, 1929).
b. Resolutions: Chickasaw Nation Convention (Nov. 11, 1929). Concern tribal affairs and service of Douglas H. Johnston.
c. Statement: Douglas H. Johnston (Nov. 11, 1929). Concerns tribal affairs and history.
d. Report: "Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year Ended June
30, 1929."
e. Petitions: Court of Claims: The Chickasaw Nation vs. The United States of America (Aug. 5, 1929). No.K-334, No.
K-335, and No. K-336.
f. Petition: Court of Claims: The Chickasaw Nation vs. The United States of America (Aug. 29, 1929). No. K-376.
g. Letter from the Hon Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior. (1929).
F 31 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1929).
a Subcommittee Report (H.R. 13748): Loyal Shawnee Indians (1929). Typescript and carbon copy. A bill by E. B. Howard.
b. Hearings (H.R. 13748): "Claims of Loyal Shawnee Indians." Seventieth Congress, Second Session (1929). A bill by E. B.
Howard.
c. Senate Document 263: "Indian Funds." Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929).
d. Senate Report 1640 (S.5127): "Carry into effect the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and the loyal
Shawnee Indians." Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929). A bill by Elmer Thomas.
e. H.R.16696: Providing for the sale of the remainder of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929) A bill by W. W. Hastings.
f. H.R.17022: Providing for the same purposes as H.R. 16696. Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929). A bill by W.
W. Hastings.
g. H.R.986: Providing for the same purposes as H.R. 16696. Seventy-first Congress; First Session (1929). A bill by W. W. Hastings.
h. H.R. 2901: Providing for the purchase by the United States of the segregated coal and asphalt deposits from the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Tribes. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; First Session (1929).
i. S.5852: To provide for final settlement of the claims of J. F. McMurray and Mansfield, McMurray, and Cornish against
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929). A bill by Charles Curtis.
j. S.J.Res. 221: To amend the joint resolution extending the tribal existence and government of the Five Civilized Tribes of
Indians in the Indian Territory, approval Mar. 2, 1906. Seventieth Congress; Second Session (1929).
k. Public Resolution 80 (H.J.Res. 343): To extend the time within which suits may be instituted on behalf of the Cherokee,
Seminole, Creek, and Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Seventieth Congress (1929). A bill by W. W. Hastings.
F 32 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1929).
Miscellaneous clippings and Congressional Record excerpts. W. W. Hastings, WC, W. B. Pine, et al., on Indian education, congressional investigation, and other aspects of Indian policy.
F 33 Indian Affairs, Committee on (1930).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Eastern Association on Indian Affairs, Melven Cornish, O. H. Cross, Charles J. Rhoads, and Ray Lyman Wilbur. Topics include claims legislation and trust funds.
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