Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files, 1926-1942 (continued)
F 1 Roads, Committee on (1934).
a. H. J. Res. 258: Joint Resolution to provide for the allocation of funds for the construction of roads, bridges, and
grade-separation projects in Oklahoma. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
b. H. R. 8668: A bill to increase employment by authorizing an appropriation of not less than $400,000,000 to provide for
emergency construction of public highways and related projects. WC Bill. Seventy- third Congress; Second Session (1934).
c. H. R. 8702: A bill 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).
d. H. R. 9896: A bill for the utilization of the recreational areas of the U. S. by a national parkway connecting the national
parks. WC Bill. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
e. Hearings (H. R. 7312, H. R. 7345): Roads. Seventy- third Congress; Second Session (1934). Both bills by Jeff Busby.
f. Hearings (H. R. 8096): "Roads." Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934). Both bills by William M. Whittington.
F 2 Roads, Committee on (1934).
Miscellaneous documents, clippings, and Congressional Record excerpts.
F 3 Roads, Committee on (1935).
a. Correspondence.
b. Memorandum: Bureau of Public Roads: "Emergency Relief Highway Funds" (Jan. 18, 1935). Concerns expenditures
under Hayden-Cartwright Act of 1934.
c. Letter: Henry Wallace: "Certificate of Apportionment of the Sum of $400,000,000 for Highways, Roads, Streets, and
Grade-Crossing Eliminations Pursuant to the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935: (June 3, 1935).
d. Memorandum: Bureau of Public Roads: For District Engineers concerning grade crossing program (June 5, 1935).
e. Memorandum: Bureau of Public Roads: "Work Relief Highway and Grade Crossing Improvement Projects" (June 7, 1935).
f. Press Release: National Emergency Council (?): Concerning grade crossing work (June 10, 1935).
g. Pamphlet: "Rules and Regulations for the Construction of Public Highways and Related Projects under Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935" (July 12, 1935).
h. Release: Division of Applications and Information: "Grade Crossing Rules and Regulations" (July 12, 1935).
F 4 Roads, Committee on (1935).
a. Press Releases: WC: concerning road projects.
b. "Report to the President of the United States from the Acting Executive Director of the National Emergency Council" (1935).
c. Booklet: Highway Research Board: Progress Report of the Project Committee on Stabilized Soil Road Surfaces (1935).
F 5 Roads, Committee on (1935).
a. House Report 386 (H. R. 4301): Emergency Construction of Public Highways. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First
Session (1935).
b. H. J. Res. 42: Joint Resolution to provide for the designation of a highway from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to Fort
Myers, Florida, as a memorial to William Howard Taft. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). by Frank Charles Kniffin.
c. H. J. Res. 73: Joint Resolution to provide for the designation of a highway from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to Fort
Myers, Florida, as a memorial to William Howard Taft. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). by John Ridley Mitchell.
d. H. J. Res. 106: Joint Resolution providing for improvement of rural roads. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
A bill by Thomas Albert Jenkins.
e. H. J. Res. 139: Joint Resolution for the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Washington- Lincoln
Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Harry Luther Haines.
f. H. J. Res. 302: Joint Resolution to provide for the designation of a road along the Salmon River as the Robert Fechner
Trail. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Compton Ignatius White.
g. H. J. Res. 326: Joint Resolution for the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Dixie Memorial
Highway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Joe Starnes.
h. H. J. Res. 395: Joint Resolution designating U. S. Highway 66 as the Will Rogers Highway. Seventy-fourth Congress;
First Session (1935). A bill by Wesley E. Disney.
F 6 Roads, Committee on (1935).
a. H. R. 62: Providing for the paving of the Glass Mill Road in Georgia. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A
bill by Malcolm Connor Tarver.
b. H. R. 63: Providing for the paving of the Stephens Gap Road in Georgia. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
c. H. R. 64: To provide for the extension of Federal aid in highway construction to rural free-delivery routes and star-mail
routes. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Malcolm Connor Tarver.
d. H. R. 160: Authorizing the survey, location, and construction of a highway to connect the northwestern part of
continental U. S. with British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Territory of Alaska. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session
(1935). A bill by Anthony Joseph Dimond.
e. H. R. 1432: For the utilization of the recreational areas of the U. S. by a national parkway system. WC Bill.
Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
f. H. R. 2074: To amend the Rural Post Road Act of 1916. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by James
Willis Taylor.
g. H. R. 2731: To increase employment in the agricultural areas and to improve the rural post roads of the Nation not
included in the Federal aid or State highway systems and to create the Administration of Rural Post Roads. Seventy-fourth
Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by William Albert Ashbrook.
h. H. R. 2861: To authorize the further improvement of the Rural Free Delivery mail roads and to aid in relieving
unemployment throughout the country. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Robert Thompson Secrest.
i. H. R. 2903: To provide that the prevailing rate of wages be paid to laborers and mechanics employed in the construction
of Federal-aid highways. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Richard Joseph Welch.
j. H. R. 3011: Authorizing appropriation of funds for construction of a Federal highway from Fort Tilden, New York, to the
border of Connecticut. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by William Frank Brunner.
k. H. R. 3438: To provide that Federal funds apportioned to the States for highway construction for the fiscal years ending
June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, not need by matched by State funds. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A
bill by Theodore Christianson.
l. H. R. 3988: To authorize the further improvement of Rural Free Delivery mail roads and to aid in relieving
unemployment throughout the country. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Robert Thompson Secrest.
m. H. R. 4121: To amend the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by
Albert Thomas Jenkins.
F 7 Roads, Committee on (1935).
a. H. R. 4301: To increase employment and reduce highway and railway intersection hazards by providing for emergency
construction of public highways and related projects. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
b. H. R. 5233: To authorize an appropriation for the Eastern National Park-to-Park Highway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First
Session (1935). A bill by John Marshall Robison.
c. H. R. 5436: To provide for the construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session
(1935). A bill by Aaron Lane Ford.
d. H. R. 5441: To provide for the construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session
(1935). A bill by Daniel Rayford McGhee.
e. H. R. 5446: To authorize an appropriation for an Eastern National Park to Park Highway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First
Session (1935). A bill by James Willis Taylor.
f. H. R. 5796: To amend the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 to provide funds for highway construction. WC
Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
g. H. R. 6013: To provide for the construction of the Big Thompson Canyon Highway. Seventy-fourth Congress; First
Session (1935). A bill by Fred Nelson Cummings.
h. H. R. 6200: To authorize the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads to investigate and report on traffic conditions.
Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Edith Nourse Rogers.
i. H. R. 6861: To extend the provisions of the Federal Highway Act to the Territory of Alaska, to enlarge the legislative
power of the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Anthony
Joseph Dimond.
j. H. R. 6960: To authorize the further improvement of rural post roads and to aid in relieving unemployment.
Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session (1935).
k. H. R. 8855: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on traffic conditions. Seventy-fourth
Congress; First Session (1935). A bill by Edith Nourse Rogers.
l. S. 1374: An act authorizing the survey, location, and construction of a highway to connect the northwestern part of
continental U. S. with British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Territory of Alaska. Seventy-fourth Congress; First Session
(1935). A bill by Charles Linza McNary.
m. Public Resolution 11 (H. J. Res. 117): Making appropriations for relief purposes. Seventy-fourth Congress (1935).
F 8 Roads, Committee on (1935). Miscellaneous documents and clippings.
F 9 Roads, Committee on (1934, 1936).
a. Correspondence (1936). Letters to or from include highway associations and Scott Ferris.
b. Hearings (H. R. 8096): Roads. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934).
c. Letter from United States Good Roads Association. (1936).
F 10 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. Minutes: Meeting of WC, et al., with Bureau of Public Roads (Jan. 10, 1936). Concerns regulations for work in Oklahoma.
b. Resolution: South Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association (Jan. 13, 1936). Concerns increased
appropriation for road work.
c. Roster: North American Gas Tax Conference: officers and committees (May 15, 1936).
d. Remarks: Joseph T. Robinson: "Legislative Accomplishments of the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1936" (June 20,
1936).
F 11 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. Reprint (American Highways Jan. 1936): Will M. Whittington: "Federal Obligations in Developing a Highway System."
b. Public Roads (U. S. Bureau of Public Roads publications), XVI, No. 11 (Jan. 1936).
c. Concrete Highways and Public Improvements, XVII, No. 2 (Mar.- Apr. 1936).
d. The Earth Mover, XXIII, No. 6 (June, 1936).
e. Diario de los Debartes de la Comara de Diputados del Congreso de los Estado Unidos Mexicanos (July 7, 1936). WC remarks.
f. Booklet: T. E. Steiner: Proposed Transcontinental Super Highways in the United States (1936).
g. Booklet: Highway Research Board: Second Progress Report of Project Committee on Stabilized Soil Road Surfaces (1936).
h. Annual Road Report: Ohio Rural Letter Carriers Association (1936).
F 12 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. Report: Elmer A. Lewis: "Laws Relating to Federal Aid in Construction of Roads" (1936).
b. Hearings (H. R. 11687): Roads. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
F 13 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. House Report 2136 (H. R. 10591): "Investigation of Traffic Conditions." Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
b. House Report 2371 (H. R. 11687): "Federal Aid for Highways." Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
c. House Report 2902 (H. R. 11687): "Amend the Federal Aid Highway Act." Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session
(1936). Conference Report.
d. Senate Report 1976 (H. R. 11687): "Federal Aid for Highways." Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
e. H. Res. 484: Resolution for consideration of H. R. 11687. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
f. H. J. Res. 479: Joint Resolution directing Secretary of War to determine right-of-way for coastal defense highway
between San Francisco and Monterey. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936). A bill by John Joseph McGarth.
g. H. J. Res. 542: Joint Resolution creating a Superhighways Commission. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session
(1936).
F 14 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. H. R. 9967: For the relief of property of owners in street improvement district 70 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Seventy-fourth
Congress; Second Session (1936). A bill by Percy Lee Gassaway.
b. H. R. 10591: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on traffic conditions. WC Bill.
Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936).
c. H. R. 11326: To amend the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session
(1936).
d. H. R. 11583: To improve and complete the Cordell Hull Highway in Tennessee. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second
Session (1936).
e. H. R. 11687: To amend the Federal Aid Highway Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second
Session (1936).
f. H. R. 12722: To aid the several states in making certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second
Session (1936). A bill by Archibald Hill Carmichael.
g. H. R. 12745: To aid the several states in making certain toll bridges on the system of Federal-aid highways free bridges.
Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936). A bill by Archibald Hill Carmichael.
h. H. R. 12961: To provide for the location and survey of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south highways.
Seventy-fourth Congress (1936). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
i. Public Law 686 (H. R. 11687). Seventy-fourth Congress (1936).
j. Public Law 768 (H. R. 10591). Seventy-fourth Congress (1936).
F 15 Roads, Committee on (1936).
a. Miscellaneous documents, clippings, and Congressional Record excerpts.
b. Federal funds appropriated to highway programs (various states) since Mar. 1, 1933 as of Aug. 31, 1936.
c. Release: Concerned with federal funding of road projects in Oklahoma's Third District. [1936].
d. Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Good Roads Pay Their Way." (Apr. 13, 1936).
F 16 Roads, Committee on (January - February 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include W. B. Bankhead, Wesley E. Disney, Ernest Lundeen, George Mahon, Melvin J. Maas, Sam Rayburn, Elmer J. Ryan, A. J. Sabath, Morris Sheppard, and Harry S. Truman. Topics include legislation, conventions, and WC article in Scribner's. Includes clippings and petition.
F 17 Roads, Committee on (February - March 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Francis H. Case and Harold Knutson. Topics include legislation, regulations, projects, conventions, and WC article in Scribner's. Includes clippings, resolutions, and typescript of hearings.
F 18 Roads, Committee on (March - April 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Arthur Lewis Miller, J. Hardin Peterson, Robert T. Secrest, J. Buell Snyder, and Lloyd C. Stark. Topics include legislation, regulations, and projects. Includes resolutions.
F 19 Roads, Committee on (April - May 1937).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Charles J. Colden, Harold G. Hoffman, Charles Kramer, Harry W. Nice, Karl
Stefan, and Otha D. Wearin. Topics include legislation and regulations. Includes clippings.
b. H. R. 7650: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on traffic conditions. Seventy-fifth
Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Edith Nourse Rogers.
c. Veto Message of Harold G. Hoffman, governor of New Jersey. Re: opposition to the proposal to divert highway funds for
the purpose of unemployment relief (1937)
F 20 Roads, Committee on (May - June 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Richard M. Atkinson, Ira Walton Drew, H. P. Fulmer, A. H. Gasque, John W. Gwynne, Dewey W. Johnson, William Lemke, Bert Lord, John Luecke, Alfred N. Phillips, Jr., Morris Sheppard, Elmer Thomas, Otha D. Wearin, and Compton I. White. Topics include legislation and projects. Includes resolution.
F 21 Roads, Committee on (June - October 1937).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Richard M. Atkinson, George A. Dondero, Carl Hayden, A. P. Lamneck, Bert
Lord, Robert Luce, Earl C. Michener, Matthew M. Neely, H. H. Schwartz, Lindsay C. Warren, and Compton I. White.
Topics include legislation and meetings. Includes clippings.
b. Booklet: Automobile Manufacturers Association: "Automobile Facts and Figures" (1937).
c. American Automobile Association Legislative Bulletin. (Dec. 1, 1937).
d. American Automobile Association news release [1937]
F 22 Roads, Committee on (October - December 1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Lewis L. Boyer, B. J. Gehrman, John L. McClellan, James W. Mott, Thomas O'Malley, Nat Patton, Hugh Peterson, Jennings Randolph, Robert T. Secrest, A. J. Sabbath, John Sparkman, Karl Stefan, Lindsay C. Warren, and Will M. Whittington. Topics include legislation and meetings. Includes clippings.
F 23 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. Statement: WC: Concerning continuing federal highway aid to states misappropriating gasoline taxes (Feb. 6, 1937).
b. Liberty (Mar. 27, 1937). WC article on highway safety on page six.
c. Statement: WC: "Gasoline Tax Diversion Law Approved" (May 23, 1937).
d. "Amendment to Be Offered to Relief Appropriation Bill."
F 24 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. Membership list (Jan. 14, 1937).
b. Chairman's Docket (Feb.17, 1937).
c. Meeting Minutes (May 6, 1937).
d. Roll call vote on Cartwright Amendment (June 1, 1937). Includes notes and letter.
e. Meeting (Aug. 3, 1937). Statements; copy of H.R. 7373 on toll bridges.
f. Resolution: Ohio State Senate: Memorializing enactment of H. J. Res. 204, creating a superhighways commission.
g. Resolution: Lassen County, California, Board of Supervisors favoring expedited program for topographic mapping of U.
S. (Apr. 5, 1937).
h. Resolution: Sonoma County, California, Board of Supervisors favoring expedited program for topographic mapping of U.
S. (Apr. 14, 1937).
i. Release: American Motorists Association: New Jersey diversion of highway-tax moneys (Apr. 24, 1937).
j. Release: Statements of F.D.R. concerning congressional highway programs (Nov. 29, 1937).
F 25 Roads, Committee on (1937). Papers presented by Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief, Bureau of Public Roads.
a. No title: American Railway Engineering Association, Chicago (Mar. 17, 1937).
b. "The Trend of Modern Highways:" American Society of Civil Engineers, Detroit (July 21, 1937).
c. "What Is Expected of Our Highways?:" American Association of State Highway Officials, Boston (Sept. 27, 1937).
d. "Report of the Department of Highway Finance:" Highway Research Board (Dec. 2, 1937).
e. "Asphalt in Relation to the Highway Improvement Programs:" National Asphalt Conference, Memphis (Dec. 7, 1937).
f. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, 1937.
F 26 Roads, Committee on (1937). Bureau of Public Roads materials.
a. Release: "State Motor-Carrier Tax Receipts -- 1935" (Mar.1937).
b. Release: "State Motor-Vehicle Registrations -- 1936" (May, 1937).
c. Release: "State Highway Mileage Built -- 1936" (July, 1937).
d. Release: "State Highway Mileage -- 1936" (July, 1937).
e. Release: "State Highway Income -- 1936" (Aug. 1937).
f. Release: "State Highway Expenditures -- 1936" (Aug. 1937).
g. Release: "Disposition of Receipts from State Imposts on Highway Users -- 1936" (Aug. 1937).
h. Release: "Disposition of State Motor-Fuel Receipts -- 1936" (Aug. 1937).
i. Release: "Disposition of State Motor-Carrier Tax Receipts --1936" (Aug. 1937).
j. Release: "Disposition of State Motor-Vehicle Receipts -- 1936" (Aug. 1937).
k. Release: "State Motor-Carrier Tax Receipts -- 1936" (Aug.1937).
l. Booklet: U. S. Department of Agriculture: "Construction of Private Driveways." Miscellaneous Publication No. 272.
m. Booklet: Mildred A. Wilson, comp.: "Bibliography on Highway Lighting." U. S. D. A. Miscellaneous Publication No. 279.
n. Booklet: "Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads."
o. Preliminary Report to Congress on Study and Research of Traffic Conditions and Measures for Their Improvement
(March 23, 1937).
F 27 Roads, Committee on (1937). Congressional Intelligence, Inc., materials.
a. "Legislative Service:" V, Nos. 27-31, 33-34, 50-52.
b. "Trends:" V, Nos. 28-29, 31, 51-53.
c. "Administrative Service:" V, Nos. 28-29, 31, 33-34, 50-52.
F 28 Roads, Committee on (1937). Publications.
a. Booklet: Vincente Cortes Herrera: The Panamerican Highway.
b. Booklet: Edna Trull: Borrowing for Highways. New York: Dun and Bradstreet.
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