Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files, 1926-1942
F 1 Roads, Committee on (1937). Publications.
a. Program: Western Association of State Highway Officials Fourteenth Annual Conference, Denver (July 20-24, 1937).
b. Booklet: National Safety Council: "Accident Facts -- 1937 Edition."
c. Bulletin of the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses. No. 109 (Jan. - Feb. 1937) and No. 114 (Nov.-
Dec. 1937).
d. Concrete Highways and Public Improvements. XVIII, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr. 1937) and No. 3 (May - June, 1937).
e. Harlow's Weekly. XLVII, No. 26 (Jan.2, 1937); No. 40 (Apr. 3, 1937); and XLVIII, No. 7 (Aug. 14, 1937).
F 2 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. Excerpts from Speeches: J. Buell Snyder: "National Highways" (February 2); "Our National Defense" (February 19); and
"Bituminous Coal Stabilization Problem" (March 11, 1937).
b. Remarks: Robert T. Secrest: "The Motorist Girds for War" (Apr.14, 1937). Contains copy of WC's article in Scribner's
Magazine.
c. Address: Frank T. Sheets: "The Highway of Tomorrow" (Apr. 14, 1937). Greater New York Safety Council Meeting.
d. Radio Broadcast: Henry A. Wallace: "State Road Planning Survey". (May 11, 1937).
e. Extension of Remarks: WC: "Earmarking Funds for Road Construction in the Relief Appropriation Bill" (May 21, 1937).
f. Remarks: WC: "The President's Road Message and How It Would Affect the Highway Program" (Nov. 30, 1937).
g. Remarks: Dewey W. Johnson: "Federal-Aid Highways" (Dec. 9, 1937).
h. "Cartwright Amendment for Additional Highway Funds." 1937.
i. Congressional Record: Earmarking funds for Road Construction in the Relief Appropriation Bill speech by WC. (1937).
j. Status as of February 8, 1937, of Motor Reform Legislative Campaigns, Initiated by Accident Prevention Conference.
F 3 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. Hearings (H. R. 7079, H. J. Res. 204, H. J. Res. 227): "Roads." Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
b. Hearing (S. J. Res. 106): "Transcontinental Highway Commission." Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
c. House Document 370: "Message from the President Transmitting and Suggesting Legislative Remedies for the Economic
Improvement of the Nation." Seventy-fifth Congress; Second Session (1937).
d. H. J. Res. 204: Joint Resolution creating a Superhighways Commission. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A
bill by Jennings Randolph.
e. H. J. Res. 227: Joint Resolution creating a Transcontinental Superhighways Commission. Seventy-fifth Congress; First
Session (1937). A bill by Jennings Randolph.
f. H. J. Res. 361: Joint Resolution making appropriations for relief purposes. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
Bill, plus amendment offered in the Senate by Henry Styles Bridges.
F 4 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. H. R. 57: To provide for the paving of Stephens Gap Road. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by
Malcolm Connor Tarver.
b. H. R. 58: To provide for the paving of the Glass Mill Road. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by
Malcolm Connor Tarver.
c. H. R. 1554: To extend the provisions of the Federal Aid Highway Act to the Territory of Alaska, to enlarge the legislative
power of the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Anthony Joseph Dimond.
d. H. R. 1964: To authorize an appropriation for the Eastern National Park-to-Park Highway. Seventy-fifth Congress; First
Session (1937). A bill by James Willis.
e. H. R. 4298: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
f. H. R. 5371: To furnish employment by providing for emergency construction of public highways. Seventy-fifth Congress;
First Session (1937). A bill by John Little McClellan.
g. H. R. 5475: For the relief of property owners in street improvement district 70 in Shawnee. Seventy-fifth Congress; First
Session (1937). A bill by Lyle H. Boren.
h. H. R. 6277: To authorize an appropriation to provide a program for elimination of hazards at railroad grade crossings.
Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Dewey William Johnson.
i. H. R. 6705: To provide that federal highway funds shall not be payable to any state which does not prescribe certain
minimum safety rules for the operation of motor-vehicle lights. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by
Joseph Anthony Gray.
j. H. R. 6798: To extend the provisions of certain laws to the District of Columbia. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; First
Session (1937).
F 5 Roads, Committee on (1937).
a. H. R. 7079: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
b. H. R. 7110: To authorize an appropriation to reimburse Decatur, Illinois, and certain property owners for the cost of
improvements on U. S. 51 in Decatur. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Hugh McPheeters Rigney.
c. H. R. 7184: To eliminate grade crossings. Seventy- fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Dewey William Johnson.
d. H. R. 7373: To make certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Samuel
Francis Hobbs.
e. 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.
f. H. R. 8044: To authorized the construction of a highway from Vicksburg to the U. S. Waterways Experiment Station.
Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill by Daniel Rayford McGehee.
g. H. R. 8307: To amend the Federal Aid Highway act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A bill
by Bert Lord.
h. H. R. 8308: To amend the Federal Aid Highway Act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937). A
bill by Bert Lord.
i. H. R. 8667: To promote interstate commerce by making certain interstate bridges toll free. Seventy-fifth Congress;
Second Session (1937). A bill by Newt Virgus Mills.
j. H. R. 8712: To amend the act of June 16, 1936, amending the Federal Highway Act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-fifth
Congress; Second Session (1937). A bill by Robert Low Bacon.
k. S. J. Res. 106: Joint Resolution creating a Transcontinental Superhighways Commission. Seventy-fifth Congress; First
Session (1937). A bill by Matthew Mansfield Neely.
l. S. 978: An act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the District of Columbia. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session
(1937). A bill by William Henry King.
m. Public Law 286 (H. R. 7373). Seventy-fifth Congress (1937).
F 6 Roads, Committee on (1937, 1938).
a. Miscellaneous documents and clippings. Ira Finley, et al., on committee meetings, Veterans of Industry of America,
projects, legislation, etc. Includes draft bills and meeting notes. See correspondence to "Better Roads Magazine" from C. M.
Nelson., and Resolution from the National Highway Advisory Council.
b. Correspondence and pamphlet regarding safety issues.
F 7 Roads, Committee on (January 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Lewis L. Boyer, John L. McClellan, Jennings Randolph, Harry R. Sheppard, and various highway and contractors' groups and associations. Topics include request, committee meetings, and legislation. Includes clippings.
F 8 Roads, Committee on (February - March 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Harold L. Ickes, J. Walter Lambeth, John L. McClellan, and various highway groups. Topics include superhighway system, other legislation, and projects. Includes clippings.
F 9 Roads, Committee on. (April 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Clarence Cannon, William Green, Edward A. Kelly, Raymond S. McKeough, Arthur W. Mitchell, Thomas J. O'Brien, A. J. Sabath, and J. Buell Snyder, and various highway groups. Topics include legislation. Includes clippings and memoranda.
F 10 Roads, Committee on. (April - May 1938).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Dewey M. Johnson, John E. Miller, John O'Connor, and various highway
groups. Topics include legislation and projects.
b. Report: American Institute of Steel Construction: "Elevated Highways."
c. Calcium Chloride Association News (Spring, 1938). Various articles on highways and road construction.
d. Press Release: National Safety Council: Highway safety (Apr. 28, 1938).
F 11 Roads, Committee on. (May 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Thomas R. Amlie, Frank R. Havenner, Carl Hayden, Scott W. Lucas, Jennings Randolph, H. H. Schwartz, Karl Stefan, and various highway groups. Topics include legislation. Includes data on road work in WC's district.
F 12 Roads, Committee on (May - August 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include John F. Dockweiler, John L. McClellan, Sam Rayburn, Will Rogers, Elmer Thomas, and various highway groups. Topics include legislation and projects.
F 13 Roads, Committee on (September - December 1938).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Karl Stefan and highway groups. Topics include legislation and projects. Includes program, clippings, and reports.
F 14 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. Press Release: American Road Builders' Association: concerns highway illumination (Jan. 25, 1938).
b. Release: National Highway Users Conference: "Hayden Cartwright Act for 1940-1941" (Jan. 25, 1938).
c. Presentation: American Automobile Association: House Committee on Roads hearings on federal aid authorizations
(Feb. 1938).
d. Resolution: Carver County, Minnesota, Board of Commissioners: Hayden-Cartwright Bill Support (Feb. 8, 1938).
e. Releases: National Highway Users Conference: Superhighways (Mar. 3, 4, 11, and 16, 1938).
f. Release (?): "Laws and Appropriations Relating to Federal Aid in Construction of Roads: Proposed Provisions" (Mar. 15, 1938).
g. Program: Nebraska Good Roads Association (Oct. 10-11, 1938).
h. Resolution: National Old Spanish Trail Association: H. R. 10140 by WC [1938].
F 15 Roads, Committee on (1938). Department of Agriculture materials.
a. Release: U. S. Department of Agriculture: "Certificate by the Secretary of Agriculture on Apportionment of the
Appropriation of $1,000,000" (for highways) (Dec. 29, 1938).
b. Release: U. S. D. A.: Certificate of Deduction from and Apportionment of various federal highway appropriations (Dec.
29, 1938).
c. Release: Bureau of Public Roads: "State Motor-Fuel Tax Receipts -- 1937" (May, 1938).
d. Release: Bureau of Public Roads: "Motor-Fuel Consumption -- 1937" (May, 1938).
e. Release: "Apportionment of Highway Funds for the Fiscal Year 1940."
f. Public Roads, XVIII, No. 12 (Feb. 1938).
g. "An Action Program to Advance Safety on the Highway." A paper presented by Thomas H. MacDonald (Jan. 17, 1938)
F 16 Roads, Committee on (1938). Committee materials.
a. Materials concerning H. R. 10140.
b. Hearing lists, addresses, notes, etc.
F 17 Roads, Committee on (1938). Congressional Intelligence, Inc., materials.
a. "Legislative Service:" VI, Nos. 2 and 6.
b. "Trends:" VI, Nos. 1-2, 5-6.
F 18 Roads, Committee on (1938). Publications.
a. Booklet: T. E. Steiner: "The Highway of Tomorrow Made Possible by the Ideal of Today." Fourth edition.
b. Highway Research Abstracts, No. 49 (Apr. 1938).
c. Concrete Highways and Public Improvements, XIX, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr. 1938).
d. American Highways, XVII, No. 2 (Apr. 1938).
F 19 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. List of number of "Hayden and Cartwright Speeches" mailed from various locales around the country.
b. Speech: Brooks Feltcher: "Mr. Steiner's Superhighway Dream" (May 5, 1938).
c. Address: Willard Chevalier: "What about Federal Aid?:" American Road Builders' Association, Cleveland (Jan. 1938).
d. Address: WC: "Federal Aid and Federal Road Legislation." Nebraska Good Roads Association, Norfolk (Oct. 11, 1938).
e. Speech: WC (?): Diversion of gasoline tax revenue (n.d.).
F 20 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. House Report 2094 (H. R. 10140): "Federal Aid for Highways." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
b. House Report 2261 (H. Res. 486): "Consideration of H. R. 10140." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
c. House Report 2523 (H. R. 10140): "Amending the Federal Aid Road Act." Conference Report. Seventy-fifth Congress;
Third Session (1938).
d. Senate Report 1794 (H. R. 10140): "Federal Aid for Highways." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
e. H. Res. 477: Resolution to consider H. R. 10140. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
f. H. Res. 486: Resolution to consider H. R. 10140. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by Adolph
Joachim Sabath.
F 21 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. H. R. 8838: To amend the Federal Aid Highway Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session.
b. H. R. 8887: To designate U. S. 6 as "Grand Army of the Republic Highways." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session
(1938). A bill by John W. McCormack.
c. H. R. 9389: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
d. H. R. 9505: To provide for financing certain self- liquidating public works, to provide additional facilities for the national
defense. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (2938). A bill by Jennings Randolph.
e. H. R. 9666: To provide for new federal automobile toll highways. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by
Elmer W. Wene.
f. H. R. 9977: For the relief of California for flood damages to roads, etc. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A
bill by Alfred James Elliott.
F 22 Roads, Committee on (1938).
H. R. 10140: A bill to amend the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
F 23 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. H. R. 10238: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1939. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by Clarence Cannon.
b. H. R. 10519: To provide that half of the federal highway funds be applied to secondary and feeder roads. Seventy-fifth
Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by John Hosea Kerr.
c. H. R. 914: To make certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by Ulysses
Samuel Guyer.
d. H. R. 10932: To provide for the construction of certain privately financed self-liquidating highways. Seventy-fifth
Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by Clarence Frederick Lea.
e. S. 3211: To provide for the formulation of a plan for the construction of certain through highways in the U. S.
Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill by Kenneth Douglas McKellar.
f. S. 3309: To amend the Federal Aid Highway Act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938). A bill
by Carl Hayden.
g. Draft Bill: To operate a National Highway Safety Committee and an Advisory Board thereto. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth
Congress; Third Session.
h. Public Law 584 (H. R. 10140). Seventy-fifth Congress (1938).
F 24 Roads, Committee on (1938).
a. Miscellaneous clippings and documents.
b. Analysis of Roll Call in House of Representatives re: Cartwright Amendment to Relief Bill earmarking $150,000,000 for highways.
c. Correspondence from WC to various individuals with attached "Progress in Fact Finding Highway Planning Surveys" by
E. E. Hilts of U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.
F 25 Roads, Committee on (1938).
Miscellaneous Congressional Record excerpts.
F 26 Roads, Committee on (January - February 1939).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include William B. Bankhead, Lindley Beckworth, Richard Thompson Buckler, Leland M. Ford, Franck R. Havenner, and various highway groups. Topics include highway tax diversion, meetings, and legislation. Includes resolutions.
F 27 Roads, Committee on (March - April 1939).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Robert F. Jones. Topics include superhighways and other road projects. Includes resolutions, report, and copy of Oklahoma State Legislature bill on state road system.
F 28 Roads, Committee on (May 1939).
a. Correspondence. Topics include road projects.
b. Booklet: National Safety Council: "Traffic Safety Service."
F 29 Roads, Committee on (June - November 1939).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include James V. McClintic and various highway groups. Topics include legislation and projects.
F 30 Roads, Committee on (1939).
a. Release: National Highway Users Conference: "Federal Tax on Gasoline Should be Eliminated" (Mar. 8, 1939).
b. Report: Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority of Michigan (Mar. 15, 1939).
c. Speech: WC: "Appropriations for Indian Road Work" (Mar. 16, 1939).
d. Radio Address: WC: "Plans for Future Highway Improvement" (May 29, 1939).
e. Extension of Remarks: WC: "The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Highway Building" (Oct. 13, 1939).
f. Statements: WC: various statements on Indian road projects [1939]. Typescripts.
g. Is Motor Transportation Subsidized? -- by H. E. Stocker. National Highway Users Conference (August 1939).
h. Automobile Facts and Figures - a booklet by the Automobile Manufacturers Association (1939).
i. Federal Legislation and Rules and Regulations Relating to Highway Construction - a booklet by the Federal Works
Agency (1939).
j. Accident Facts - a booklet by the National Safety Council (1939).
k. Highway Costs: A Study of Highway Costs and Motor Vehicle Payments in the United States - a booklet by C. B. Breed,
Clifford Older, and W. S. Downs submitted to the Association of American Railroads. (Jan. 30, 1939).
l. Highway Costs and Motor Vehicle Taxation - a booklet containing the Report of Special Committee to the Illinois
Highway Users Conference (Mar. 18, 1939).
F 31 Roads, Committee on (1939).
Committee materials: various lists, form letters, notices, notes, etc.
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