Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files, 1926-1942 (continued)
F 1 Old Age Pensions (1940).
a. Correspondence. Letters include to or from Elmer Thomas.
b. Remarks: Warren G. Magnuson: "National Old-Age Assistance Plan" (June 22, 1940).
F 2 Old Age Pensions (1941). Clipping.
F 3 Old Age Pensions (January - April 1941).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Ira M. Finley.
F 4 Old Age Pensions (May - June 1941).
Correspondence. Includes resolution.
F 5 Old Age Pensions (July - December 1941).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Ira M. Finley. Includes petitions.
F 6 Old Age Pensions (1941).
a. H. R. 601: To be known as the "General Welfare Act." Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Warren
G. Magnuson.
b. H. R. 1410: To be known as the "General Welfare Act." Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by
William Henry Larrabee.
F 7 Old Age Pensions (1942).
Correspondence and "General Welfare News-Advocate (Feb. 2, 1942, June 8, 1942), "Welfare News" (May 16, 1942).
F 8 Patents, Committee on (1932).
H. R. 11758: To renew and extend certain letters patent to James B. Coffey. WC Bill. Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1932).
F 9 Pensions, Committee on (1922, 1925, 1928, 1930). Mary A. Raglin.
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Harold Knutson.
b. H. R. 2879: Granting a pension to Mary A. Raglin. Sixty-ninth Congress; First Session (1925). A bill by Charles D. Carter.
c. H. R. 11150: Granting a pension to Mary A. Raglin. WC Bill. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928).
F 10 Pensions, Committee on (1927-1928, 1930-1931). Claud Austin.
a. Correspondence.
b. H. R. 13660: Granting an increase of pension to Claud Austin. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; Third Session (1930).
F 11 Pensions, Committee on (1928-1930). Martha Joe Peden.
a. Correspondence.
b. H. R. 4988: Granting a pension to Martha Joe Peden. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; First Session (1929).
F 12 Pensions, Committee on (1928-1929, 1931-1933).
a. H. R. 10159: An act granting pensions to widows and former widows of certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil
War. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928). A bill by W. T. Fitzgerald.
b. H. R. 10721: Granting a pension to James C. Laymance. WC Bill. Seventieth Congress; First Session (1928).
c. H. R. 7891: Granting a pension to James C. Laymance. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1929).
d. S. 477: To revise and equalize the rate of pension to certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War, to certain
widows, former widows of such soldiers, sailors, and marines, and granting pensions and increase of pensions in certain
cases. Seventy- first Congress; Second Session (1929). A bill by Joseph T. Robinson.
e. H. R. 3803: Granting a pension to Sarah A. Morris. WC Bill. Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1931).
f. H. R. 7274: Granting a pension to Alonzo L. Malone. WC Bill. Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1932).
g. H. R. 8998: Granting a pension to Georgia L. Spelce. WC Bill. Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1932).
h. H. R. 1956: Granting a pension to Sarah A. Morris. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; First Session (1933).
F 13 Pensions, Committee on (1934, 1936-1939). Joseph Oklahombi.
a. Correspondence.
b. H. R. 6185: Granting a pension to Joseph Oklahombi. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Congress (1937).
c. H. R. 1172: Granting a pension to Joseph Oklahombi. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
F 14 Pensions, Committee on (1935, 1937, 1939).
a. H. R. 1577: Granting a pension to Georgia L. Spelce. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
b. H. R. 1579: Granting a pension to Sarah A. Morris. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
c. H. R. 8254: Granting a pension to Dolores McGill. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
d. H. R. 1719: Granting a pension to Dolores McGill. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
e. H. R. 1723: Granting a pension to Georgia L. Spelce. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
f. S. 1236: An act authorizing the President to appoint Sergeant Alvin C. York as a major in the U. S. Army and then place
him on the retired list. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Nathan L. Bachman.
g. H. R. 1171: Granting a pension to Georgia L. Spelce. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
F 15 Post Office and Post Roads, Committee on (1934). Insurance.
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include James M. Mead.
b. H. R. 6902: To regulate commerce among the States, to promote the general welfare by strengthening confidence in life
insurance, and by protecting the policyholders of life insurance. (Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.)
Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934). A bill by John Jackson McSwain.
c. H. R. 7799: To make it unlawful to use the mails to solicit insurance against any perils, or to collect premiums on
insurance, in any State without complying with the laws of such State by appointing an agent upon whom service of
summons may be made. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
F 16 Post Office and Post Roads, Committee on. (1934-1935, 1937). Insurance.
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include S. W. King and Majes M. Mead.
b. Pamphlet: "Regulations of the Relief Department of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Company" (1934).
c. H. R. 1431: To make it unlawful to use the mails to solicit insurance against any perils, or to collect premiums on
insurance, in any State without complying with the laws of such State by appointing an agent upon whom service of
summons may be made. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
F 17 Post Office and Post Roads, Committee on (1939-1940).
a. Senate Report 236 (S. 1109): Amending the Act to Aid the Several States in Making Certain Toll Bridges on Federal
Highways Free Bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by John E. Miller.
b. S. 1037: Emergency highway construction. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Hattie W. Caraway.
(Part of Bill cut out).
c. H. R. 9575: An act to amend the Federal Aid Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
d. Public Law 195 (S. 1109): Changing toll bridges to free bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress (1939).
F 18 Post Office and Post Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous clippings on insurance and postal rates.
F 19 Prohibition (1932).
Correspondence.
F 20 Prohibition (n.d.).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 21 Public Building and Grounds, Committee on (1920, 1927, 1929-1931, 1933, 1935).
a. H. R. 278: To amend an act providing for the construction of certain public buildings. Seventieth Congress; First Session
(1927). A bill by Daniel A. Reed.
b. H. R. 6849: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Idabel. WC Bill.
Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1929).
c. H. R. 6850: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Poteau. WC Bill.
Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1929).
d. H. R. 6851: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Hugo. WC Bill.
Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1929).
e. H. R. 14807: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to construct an addition to the Federal building in Durant. WC
Bill. Seventy-first Congress; Third Session (1930).
f. H. R. 58: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Idabel. WC Bill.
Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1931).
g. H. R. 59: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to construct an addition to the Federal building in Durant. WC Bill.
Seventy-second Congress; first Session.
h. H. R. 60: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Poteau. WC Bill.
Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1931).
i. H. R. 61: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Poteau. WC Bill.
Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1931).
j. H. R. 4673: Relating to the construction of a Federal building at Hugo. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; First Session (1933).
k. H. J. Res. 175: To provide for an increase in the size of the Federal building being constructed at Hugo. WC Bill.
Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
l. H.R. 6120.
m. H.R. 6135.
n. H.R. 6333.
o. H.R. 6335.
p. H.Doc. 788.
q. H.R. 17035.
r. S. 845.
s. H.J. RES. 411
F 22 Public Lands, Committee on (1930, 1934, 1941).
a. H. R. 11133: Granting to the State of Oklahoma 210,000 acres of unappropriated non-mineral land for the benefit of its
agricultural and mechanical colleges and providing cash in lieu of land. Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1930). A
bill by Milton C. Garber.
b. H. R. 9137: Providing for the disposition of U. S. public lands situated in Oklahoma between the Cimarron base line and
the northern boundary of Texas. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934). A bill by Rene L. DeRouen.
c. H. R. 2234: To provide for payments to counties to reimburse them for loss of tax receipts on account of the use of
certain land by the U. S. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Francis Case.
d. H. R. 3103: Providing for equalization of taxes in counties where there are government-owned lands. Seventy-seventh
Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by B. Frank Whelchel.
F 23 Puerto Rico (1935, 1937, n.d.).
a. Booklet: Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture and Commerce: "Puerto Rico -- the Mountain Paradise of Tropical
America" (1935).
b. Statement: "Definite Action on Puerto Rico."
c. Statement: "The Puerto Rico Independence-Referendum Bill."
d. Statement: "Similarities between the Philippine Independence Act and the Proposed Puerto Rico Independence Act."
e. H. R. 4885: To provide for a constitution and independence for Puerto Rico, if desired by its people. WC Bill.
Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
f. Miscellaneous clippings.
F 24 Puerto Rico (January - February 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Kenneth Kaufman.
F 25 Puerto Rico (February - March 1937).
a. Correspondence.
b. Census of Population: Puerto Rico (1935).
F 26 Puerto Rico (February - March 1937).
Correspondence.
F 27 Puerto Rico (March - May 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Santiago Iglesias.
F 28 Red River Project (1938-1939).
a. Correspondence.
b. Speech: WC: "Red River Dam" (May 19, 1938).
c. Statement: WC: "The Red River Dam" (January 20, 1939).
d. House Document 541: Denison Reservoir, Texas. Seventy-fifth Congress: Third Session (1938). Includes maps.
e. House Report 2353 (H. R. 10618): Comprehensive Flood-Control Plans and Works for Reservoirs, Levees, and Flood
walls. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by William M. Whittington.
F 29 Red River Project (1938-1939, n.d.).
a. Poster for Red River Dam Celebration.
b. Miscellaneous clippings and Congressional Record excerpts.
F 30 Red River Project (n.d.).
a. Notebook.
b. Miscellaneous speeches and speech fragments.
F 31 Revenue Bill (1932).
a. Correspondence.
b. Bill excerpts: concerns Manufacturers' Excise Tax (pp. 225-230).
c. House Reports 708 (H. R. 10236): The Revenue Bill of 1932. Seventy-second Congress; First Session (1932). A bill by
Charles R. Crisp.
F 32 Revenue Bill (1932).
a. Speech: Jed Johnson, Sr.: "Sales Tax: Unfair, Undemocratic, Unscientific, Un-American, and Absolutely
Unconscionable" (Mar. 10, 1932).
b. Miscellaneous documents and clippings.
F 33 Revenue Bill (1932).
Congressional Record excerpts.
F 34 Revenue Bill (1932).
Congressional Record excerpts.
F 35 Rivers and Harbors, Committee on (1941).
H. R. 5093: Providing for equalization of taxes in counties where there are government-owned lands. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
F 36 Roads, Committee on (1926-1930).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Lew Wentz.
b. H. R. 7572: Granting consent to Texas and Oklahoma and Grayson and Bryan counties to build free highway bridges.
WC Bill Seventy-first Congress; Second Session. (Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Bill).
c. Extension of Remarks: William P. Holaday: "Transcontinental Hard-Surface Highways" (May 28, 1928).
d. Remarks: Tasker L. Oddie: "Sixth International Road Congress" (July 1, 1930).
e. Brief: Oklahoma and Texas: Before the committees on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the Senate and House
concerning Red River bridges.
f. Paper: Thomas H. MacDonald, Bureau of Public Roads: "The History and Development of Road Building in the United
States" (Oct. 6, 1926).
F 37 Roads, Committee on (1930).
a. H. R. 7967: Authorizing Texas and Oklahoma to operate a free highway bridge across the Red River between Denison
and Durant. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1930). (Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Bill.)
b. H. R. 7968: Authorizing Texas and Oklahoma to operate a free highway bridge across the Red River between Gainesville
and Marietta. WC Bill. Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1930). (Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Bill.)
c. House Report 853 (H. R. 7968): Bridges across the Red River between States of Texas and Oklahoma. Seventy-first
Congress; Second Session (1930).
d. Hearings (H. R. 7008, 7967, and 7968): Red River Bridges. Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1930). (Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Committee.)H. R. 7008 by Jed Johnson, Sr.
e. Public Law 110 (H. R. 7968). Seventy-first Congress (1930).
F 38 Roads, Committee on (1930).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 39 Roads, Committee on (1931).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 40 Roads, Committee on (1931-1932).
a. Correspondence.
b. Report: "U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and its Work" (May, 1932).
c. Speech: Carl Hayden: "Emergency Highway Construction" (Mar. 21, 1932).
d. Speech: William W. Hastings: "Good Roads Legislation" (Feb. 27, 1932).
e. Speech: Will M. Whittington: "Emergency Highway Construction: H. R. 9642" (Feb. 27, 1932).
f. Report of the Conference on Rail and Road Transport (July 29, 1932) A publication of the Ministry of Transport of Great Britain.
g. H. R. 9642: "A bill to authorize supplemental appropriations for emergency highway construction, with a view to
increasing employment." (1932).
F 41 Roads, Committee on (1933).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include U. S. Good Roads Association.
F 42 Roads, Committee on (1933).
a. Pamphlet: R. M. Davis: "Proposed Transcontinental Highway" (Apr. 24, 1933).
b. Memorandum: Thomas H. MacDonald, Bureau of Public Roads: "Proposed Public Works Legislation" (June 8, 1933).
c. Memorandum: U. S. Department of Agriculture: concerns public highways and related projects (June 23, 1933).
d. Memorandum: Thomas H. MacDonald: "Special Provisions for Highway Projects Financed in Whole or in Part under
Section 204 of National Industrial Recovery Act" (June 29, 1933).
e. Memorandum: Thomas H. MacDonald: "Memorandum to District Engineers" (June 30, 1933).
f. Memorandum: Thomas H. MacDonald: "To all District Engineers" (July 21, 1933).
g. Press Release: U. S. Department of Agriculture: "Wallace Apportions $30,000,000 for Roads in Forests and Public
Lands" (Aug. 4, 1933).
h. Memorandum: Thomas H. MacDonald: "Revision of Section IV of Special Provisions" (Aug. 28, 1933).
i. U. S. Department of Agriculture: "Rules and Regulations for Carrying Out the Provisions of Title II of the National
Industrial Recovery Act for Constructing Public Highways and Related Projects in Accordance with Provisions of the
Federal Highway Act."
j. U. S. Bureau of Public Roads: Statement concerning Federal Funds for Highway Construction Authorized by the National
Industrial Recovery Act (Oct. 6, 1933).
k. Remarks: Tasker L. Oddie: "Federal Aid Highway Appropriations" (Feb. 9 and 10, 1933).
l. Public Law 67 (H. R. 5755): An act to encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide
for the construction of certain useful public works. Seventy-third Congress (1933). A bill by Robert L. Doughton.
m. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary: Certificate by the Secretary of Agriculture of Deduction from
and Apportionment of the Appropriation of $400,000,000 Made by the Act of June 16, 1933.
n. Proposed Bill for Congress [1933]. Submitted by William R. Tate and Ralph Louis Ellis. Concerns building a
transcontinental highway as a memorial to World War veterans.
o. Clippings.
F 43 Roads, Committee on (1934).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Stanley Draper, U. S. Guyer, William J. Holloway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and U. S. Good Roads Association.
F 44 Roads, Committee on (1934).
a. "List of Unsafe, Dangerous, and Narrow Bridges" in Oklahoma (Jan. 9, 1924).
b. Report: Thomas H. MacDonald, Bureau of Public Roads: "Progress in Highway Construction under Federal Public
Works" (Feb. 23, 1934).
c. California Department of Public Works: "California Highways and Public Works" (Apr. 1934).
d. Harlow's Weekly (May 19, 1934). Article on highway funds shortage.
e. Release: American Road Builders' Association: "Legislative Bulletin" (May 29, 1934).
f. Harlow's Weekly (June 16, 1934). Article on WC Bill.
g. "Road Builders' Notes:" American Road Builders' Association (June 19, 1934).
h. Harlow's Weekly (June 23, 1934). Article on Oklahoma highway construction.
F 45 Roads, Committee on (1934).
a. "The United States Good Roads Bulletin," XXIII, No. 1 (June, 1934).
b. Bureau of Public Roads: "Uniform Motor Vehicle Administration Registration, Certification of Title and Antitheft Act."
c. Bureau of Public Roads: "Uniform Motor Vehicle Operators' and Chauffeurs' License Act."
d. Bureau of Public Roads: "Uniform Motor Vehicle Civil Liability Act."
e. Bureau of Public Roads: "Uniform Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act."
f. Bureau of Public Roads: "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways."
g. Remarks: Will M. Whittington: "Emergency Highway Construction Most Generally Satisfactory of all Federal Public
Works" (Apr. 5, 1934).
h. Speech: Carl Hayden: "Highway Construction Pays Its Way" (Apr. 11, 1934).
i. Speech: WC: "Emergency Construction of Public Roads" (May 11, 1934).
F 46 Roads, Committee on (1934). H. R. 8781.
a. H. R. 8781: To increase employment by authorizing an appropriation to provide for emergency construction of public
highways and related projects. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934). Introduced print; reported print;
Union Calendar print.
b. H. R. 8781. Printed Senate amendments to bill.
c. H. Res. 365: To resolve House into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of H.
R. 8781. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
d. Hearing (H. R. 8781): Emergency Construction of Public Highways. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
e. House Report 1044 (H. R. 8781): Emergency Construction of Public Highways. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
f. House Report 1390 (H. Res. 365): Consideration of H. R. 8781. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
g. House Report 1923 (H. R. 8781): Conference Report Authorizing Appropriation for the Emergency Construction of
Public Highways. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
h. Senate Report 1179 (H. R. 8781): Construction of Public Highways. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
i. Public Law 393 (H. R. 8781). Seventy-third Congress (1934).
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