TOBY MORRIS COLLECTION
LEGISLATIVE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory

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Box 9: Questionnaires - Ways and Means (1949 - 1950).

F 1: Questionnaires (1949-1950). National Federation of Small Business.

Ballots #154-172.

F 2: Resolutions (1949-1950). National.

Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the States at its Tenth Biennial Session in Chicago and a Statement on Legislative Policy adopted by the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

F 3: Resolutions (1949). Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Association of Cleaners and Dyers, Caddo County Farmers Union, Seminole Chamber of Commerce and the Business and Professional Women's Club of Pryor.

F 4: Rules, Committee on (1949). Appropriation Bills.

Discussion of S. Con. Res. 18 which provided for the consolidation of the general appropriation bills.

F 5: Rules, Committee on (1949-1950). Committee Rules.

F 6: Rules, Committee on (1950). Dams.

Discussion of H.Res. 483 to authorize the Committee on Public Works to determine a policy to govern the use of public land acquired in the course of the construction of flood control dams.

F 7: Rules, Committee on (1950). Postal Services.

Discussion of H. Res. 547 to create a select committee to investigate the curtailment of postal services.

F 8: Small Business, Committee on (1949). General.

Address of Arthur R. Kirby, chairman Military Store Committee, American National Retail Jewelers Association before the 40th annual convention of the New Jersey Retail Jewelers Association, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 26, 1949.

F 9: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1948-1949). Abolition of Committee.

F 10: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1949).

Booklet: 100 Things You Should Know About Communism.

F 11: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1949-1950).

a. "The Men the Commies Hate Most," American Legion.
b. Correspondence.
c. Peace Petition.

F 12: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1949). International Security Act.

Discussion of H.R.9490; "To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes" (John S. Wood - Georgia).

F 13: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1950). Internal Security Act.

a. Discussion of H.R.9490; "To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes" (John S. Wood - Georgia). Correspondents include Harry S. Truman.
b. Document No.708 (H.R.9490).
c. "A Resume of the Internal Security Act of 1950."
d. Press release for Sept. 22. 1950.

F 14: Un-American Activities, Committee on (1950). Internal Security Act.

Discussion of H.R.9490; "To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes" (John S. Wood - Georgia). Correspondence and clippings.

F 15: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Benefits.

Discussion of H.R.4540; "To provide a more satisfactory program of benefits relating to active service in the armed forces of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II, and for other purposes" (Bernard W. Bearney New York).

F 16: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949-1950). Committee Materials.

a. House Committee Print No.302; "Title I, Public Act No. 2, 73rd Congress, and laws supplemental thereto, as amended, granting benefits to veterans and their dependents."
b. Correspondence, including John E. Rankin.
c. House Committee Print No. 317; "Summary of the rights and privileges of veterans and dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion."
d. House Committee Print N. 298; "Housing laws relating to veterans."
e. Circular No. 48.

F 17: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Disabilities.

Discussion of H.R.1267; "To amend the Veterans Regulations to provide additional compensation for World War II veterans who suffer the loss of the use of a creative organ" (John Bell Williams - Mississippi), and H.R.2490; "To amend subparagraphs (k) and (l) of paragraph II, part I, Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, to provide increased compensation for certain specific disabilities" (James F. Lind - Pennsylvania). Correspondents include John E.. Rankin.

F 18: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Disability.

Discussion of H.R.5598; "To increase compensation for World War I presumptive service-connected cases, provide minimum ratings for service-connected arrested tuberculosis, increase certain disability and death compensation rate, liberalize requirement for dependency allowances, and redefine the terms `line of duty' and `willful misconduct'."

F 18b: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1949). Disability.

F 19: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Education Loans.

Discussion of H.R.3295; "To direct the Veterans' Administration to repay certain educational loans made to veterans of World War II, and for other purposes" (Ken Regan - Texas). Correspondents include Charles A. Plumley.

F 20: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Education/Training.

Discussion of H.R.1966; "Establishing a procedure by which the Administrator may assure veterans full educational and training opportunities commensurate with the tuition charges by educational and training institutions, and for other purposes" (James H. Morrison - Louisiana), and S.1150; "Establishing a procedure by which the Administration may assure veterans full educational and training opportunities commensurate with the tuition charges by educational and training institutions, and for other purposes" (Joseph R. McCarthy - Wisconsin; Warren G. Magnuson - Washington; and Robert A. Taft - Ohio).

F 21: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Education/Training.

H.R.2042; "To amend title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, to clear the authority of the Administrator to negotiate rates of compensation for training in certain institutions" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 22: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Education/Training.

Discussion of H.R.6273; "Relating to education or training of veterans under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (Public Law 346, Seventy-eighth Congress, June 22, 1944)" (James T. Patterson - Connecticut).

F 23: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949-1950). Education/Training.

Discussion of H.R.6401; "Relating to education or training of veterans under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (Public Law 346, 78th Cong., June 22, 1944)" (Olin E. Teague - Texas), and S.2596; "Relating to education or training of veterans under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (Public Law 346, 78th Congress, June 22, 1944)" (Robert A. Taft - Ohio; Elbert D. Thomas - Utah; James E. Murray - Montana; Claude Pepper - Florida; Lister Hill - Alabama; Matthew M. Neely - West Virginia; Paul H. Douglas - Illinois; Hubert H. Humphrey - Minnesota; Garrett L. Withers - Kentucky; George D. Aiken - Vermont; H. Alexander Smith - New Jersey; Wayne Morse - Oregon; Forrest C. Donnell - Missouri; Walter F. George - Georgia; Irving M. Ives - New York; Estes Kefauver - Tennessee; Scott W. Lucas - Illinois; and Brien McMahon - Connecticut).

F 24: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Education/Training.

Discussion of H.R.7380; "To assure that expenditures under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, as amended, for education and training yield a proper return both to the veteran and to the Nation as a whole" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 25: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Education/Training.

Resolution from the National Association of State Approval Agencies.

F 26: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Family Allowances.

Public Law 771 (S.4071; "To provide allowances for dependents of enlisted members of the uniformed services, to suspend certain provisions of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, and for other purposes" (Millard E. Tydings - Maryland)).

F 27: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Family Allowances.

Discussion of H.R.9260. "To provide family allowances for the dependents of enlisted men in the Armed Forces of the United States" (Gerald R. Ford, Jr. - Michigan), H.R.9262; "To provide family allowances for the dependents of enlisted members of the Armed Forces of the United States, and for other purposes" (Carl Vinson - Georgia), and S.3986; "To provide family allowances for the dependents of enlisted members of the Armed Forces of the United States, and for other purposes" (Millard E. Tydings - Maryland).

F 28: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949-1950). General.

F 29: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949-1950). Health Care.

a. Correspondents include Carl Albert.
b. Resolution from the American Legion.
c. Resolution from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

F 30: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Health Care.

Discussion of H.R.5965; "To provide for the construction of certain Veteran's Administration hospitals, and for other purposes" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 31: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Health Care.

Discussion of H.R.6217; "To provide greater security for veterans of the Spanish American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection, in the granting of out-patient treatment by the Veterans' Administration" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 32: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Life Insurance.

Booklet, The Penalty of Prominence.

F 33: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Life Insurance.

Discussion of H.R.2994; "To amend certain provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended" (Edith Nourse Rogers - Massachusetts).

F 34: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Loans.

F 35: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Medicine and Surgery Department.

Discussion of H.R.3208; "To amend the act entitled `An act to establish a Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration,' approved January 3, 1946, to provide a more accurate nomenclature for certain classes of persons specified therein" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi), H.R.3209; "To amend the act entitled `An act to establish a Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration,' approved January 3, 1946, to provide for the appointment of dental specialists, and for other purposes" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi), H.R.3210; "To amend section 7 (a) of the act entitled `An act to establish a Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration,' approved January 3, 1946, to establish the `chief grade' in the Dental Service, and for other purposes" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi), and H.R.5210; "To amend the act entitled `An act to establish a Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration,' approved January 3, 1946, to provide for the use of qualified optometrists for out-patient eye care" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 36: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1948). Merchant Marine Veterans.

F 37: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Pensions.

Public Law 359, 78th Congress (H.R.4115; "To give honorably discharged veterans, their widows, and the wives of disabled veterans, who themselves are not qualified, preference in employment where Federal funds are disbursed" (Joe Starnes - Alabama).

F 38: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Pensions.

a. H.R.2217; "To dispense with the maximum income requirements necessary to establish eligibility for pensions for widows and children of veterans of World War I" (W.G. Stigler - Oklahoma).
b. H.R.2218; "To provide that pensions shall be extended to the widows and children of deceased World War II veterans on the same conditions as they are now extended to the widows and children of deceased World War I veterans" (W.G.Stigler - Oklahoma).

F 39: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.2681; "To provide pensions for veterans of World War I and World War II based on non-service-connected disability and attained age, and for other purposes" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 40: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.2953; "To provide that the pension of a helpless child of a veteran shall not be discontinued on such child's marriage" (James W. Trimble - Arkansas).

F 41: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.4617; "To liberalize the requirement for payment of pension in certain cases to veterans and their widows and children" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi).

F 42: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Veterans Administration.

F 43: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1950). Veterans Administration: Reorganization.

a. Resolution from the Executive Committee of the American Legion.
b. Resolution from the American Legion Auxiliary No. 35.
c. Resolution from the American Legion Auxiliary No. 256.
d. Resolution from the American Legion Post No.131.

F 44: Veterans Affairs, Committee on (1949). Tuberculosis.

Discussion of H.R.2008; "To create a presumption of service-connection for World War II veterans in certain cases of tuberculosis disease" (Henry D. Larcade, Jr. - Louisiana), H.R.4492; "To establish for individuals who served in the Armed Forces during World War II a presumption of service-connected disability in the case of tuberculosis existing within three years after discharge from such forces" (Harley O. Staggers - West Virginia), and H.R.5329; "To create a presumption of service-connection for World War II veterans in certain cases of tuberculosis disease and neuropsychiatric disease" (William J. Green - Pennsylvania).

F 45: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Child Desertion.

Discussion of H.R.4057; "To prohibit utilization of the facilities of interstate or foreign commerce in connection with the desertion or abandonment of dependent children, and for other purposes" (Tom Steed - Oklahoma).

F 46: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Drugs (Addictive).

F 47: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pension.

Correspondence "A - Bl" and clippings.

F 48: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "Bo - Co" and clippings.

F 49: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "Cr - G" and clippings.

F 50: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "H - L" and clippings.

F 51: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "Ma - Mac" and clippings.

F 52: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "Mah - N" and clippings.

F 53: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Correspondence "O - R" and clippings.
b. Speech of Hon. Paul Stewart, "A Solid Front for Old Age Pensions" from the Congressional Record (79th Congress).

F 54: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Correspondence "S" and clippings.
b. National Pension Guide, April 1949.

F 55: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

Correspondence "Tu - Y" and clippings.

F 56: Ways and Means, Committee on (1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions Agency Correspondence.

F 57: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. American Pension Committee general correspondence.
b. Comet, the Washington Pension Report, August 11, 1948; March 22, 1950; December 20, 1950..

F 58: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

General colleague correspondence including Schuyler Otis Bland, Thurmond Chatham, J.R. Farrington, John E. Miles, Louis C. Rabaut, Edward H. Rees, and Carl D. Perkins.

F 59: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948-1949), Social Security and Old Age Pensions: General Welfare Federation of America.

a. Correspondence and clippings.
b. National Pension Guide, January 1949; November 1948; and October 1948.
c.H.R.3732.
d. S.1227.

F 60: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: General Welfare Federation of America.

a. Correspondence and clippings.
b. National Pension Guide, January 1949; February 1949; July 1949; August 1949; December 1949; March 1950; October 1950.

F 61: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: House Petition Forms and Lists.

F 62: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: House Petition.

Correspondence "A - G" from various members of Congress.

F 63: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: House Petition.

Correspondence "H - M" from various members of Congress.

F 64: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: House Petition.

Correspondence "N - Sh" from various members of Congress.

F 65: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: House Petition.

Correspondence "Si - Y" from various members of Congress.

F 66: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: Toby Morris Materials.

a. Correspondence and clippings.
b. "Old Age Pensions Better Than Old Age," Toby Morris, Congressional Record, October 5, 1949.
c. "A Reasonable, Uniform, American, Old - Age Pension," Toby Morris, Congressional Record, February 10, 1949.

F 67: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: National Constitutional Council.

F 68: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: Townsend Legislation.

a. Also includes discussion of H.R.2135; "To provide every adult citizen in the United States with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age 60, and also covering total disability, from whatever cause, for certain citizens under 60; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever-expanding market for goods and services through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ratio to the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits to be carried by every citizen in proportion to the income privileges he enjoys" (John A. Blatnik - Minnesota), and H.R.2136; "To provide every adult citizen in the United States with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age 60, and also covering total disability, from whatever cause, for certain citizens under 60; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever - expanding market for goods and services through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ratio to the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits to be carried by every citizen in proportion to the income privileges he enjoys" (Homer D. Angell - Oregon).
b. Correspondence "A - H" including Homer D. Angell, and John A. Blatnik.

F 69: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: Townsend Legislation.

Correspondence "J - Y" and clippings.

F 70: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions. Toby Morris Materials.

Also includes discussion of H.R.2620; "Providing a direct Federal old-age pension at the rate of $60 per month to certain citizens 60 years of age or over" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma), and H.R.2410; "To amend the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620) by adding a new title thereto to be known as title XIV, and for other purposes" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma).

F 71: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949). Social Security and Old Age Pensions: Data concerning H.R.2620.

House Concurrent Resolution No. 8.

F 72: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R.2620.
b. Correspondence "A - G" and clippings. Correspondents include Wilburn Cartwright.
c. Extension of remarks of Toby Morris concerning social security and old age pensions.

F 73: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R.2620.
b. Correspondence "H - N" and clippings. Correspondents include Robert S. Kerr.

F 74: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R.2620.
b. Correspondence "P - S" and clippings.
c. National Pension Guide, March 1949; April 1949.

F 75: Ways and Means, Committee on (1949-1950). Social Security and Old Age Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R. 2620.
b. Correspondence "T - Y" and clippings.

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