TOBY MORRIS COLLECTION
LEGISLATIVE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory

Box 18: Post Office and Civil Service - Veterans Affairs (1957 - 1958)

F 1: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Insurance.

Discussion of H.R.4959; "To amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance act of 1954 to provide for insurance to be granted thereunder to certain employees of States whose positions are financed entirely from Federal funds" (John Bell Williams - Mississippi), and S.1693; "To amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 to provide for insurance to be granted thereunder to certain employees of States whose positions are financed entirely from Federal funds" (James O. Eastland - Mississippi).

F 2: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Insurance.

Discussion of S.2127; "To amend section 3 (d) of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, relating to the reduction in amounts of insurance of persons over the age of sixty-five" (Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina).

F 3: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Loyalty.

Discussion of H.R.981; "To protect the national security of the United States by permitting the summary suspension of employment, and dismissal, of civilian officers and employees of the Government, and for other purposes" (Francis E. Walter - Pennsylvania), and S.1411; "To amend the act of August 26, 1950, relating to the suspension of employment of civilian personnel of the United States in the interest of national security" (Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina).

F 4: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Mail Delivery.

F 5: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Mail Delivery.

Discussion of H.R.7910; "To revise the laws relating to the handling of short paid and undeliverable mail, and for other purposes" (Tom Murray - Tennessee).

F 6: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pay.

F 7: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pay.

Discussion of H.R.2462; "To adjust the rates of basic compensation of certain officers and employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes" (John Lesinski - Michigan), and S.734; "To revise the basic compensation schedules of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes" (Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina; and Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon).

F 8: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pay.

Discussion of S.27; "To increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department" (Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina; William Langer - North Dakota; Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon; Milton R. Young - North Dakota; Hubert H. Humphrey - Minnesota; Pat McNamara - Michigan; and Warren G. Magnuson - Washington), H.R.2474; "To increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department" (James H. Morrison - Louisiana), and H.Res.249; "Providing for consideration of H.R.2474, a bill to increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department" (T. Ashton Thompson - Louisiana). Correspondence and clippings.

F 9: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Pay.

Discussion of H.R.3342; "To adjust the compensation of officers and employees of the United States, and for other purposes" (Katharine St.George - New York). Correspondents include Katharine St.George.

F 10: Post Office and Civil Service,Committee on (1957). Pay.

Discussion of H.R.9590; "To increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the postal field service, and for other purposes" (Edward H. Rees - Kansas).

F 11: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.4; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (James H. Morrison - Louisiana).

F 12: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.169; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Ed Edmondson - Oklahoma).

F 13: Post Office and Civil Service (1957-1958). Pensions.

a. Civil Service pensions. Discussion of H.R.607; "To provide for increases in annuities of annuitants under the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended" (James C. Davis - Georgia).
b. Resolution from the National Association of Retired Civil Employees.

F 14: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R.3525; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma).
b. Correspondence "A - L."

F 15: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Pensions.

a. Discussion of H.R.3525; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuities from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma).
b. Correspondence "M - Z."

F 16: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (no date). Pensions.

Discussion of H.R.3525; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma). Also Toby Morris materials.

F 17: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1956-1957). Pensions.

F 18: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions.

a. Discussion of S.72; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Frank Carlson - Kansas).
b. Correspondence and clippings.
c. Report No.1848 (S.72).

F 19: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (no date). Pensions.

Discussion of S.713; "To increase annuities payable to certain annuitants from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes" (Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon; Wayne Morse - Oregon; John O. Pastore - Rhode Island; James E. Murray - Montana; and Mike Mansfield - Montana).

F 20: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postage Rates.

General correspondence "A - L."

F 21: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postage Rates.

General correspondence "M - Z."

F 22: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postage Rates and Postage Pay.

Discussion of H.R.5836; "To readjust postal rates and to establish a Congressional policy for the determination of postal rates, and for other purposes" (Tom Murray - Tennessee).

F 23: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postal.

F 24: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postal Pay.

General correspondence "A - L."

F 25: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Postal Pay.

General correspondence "M - Z."

F 26: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Postal Pay.

Discussion of H.R.9645; "To increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department" (James C. Davis - Georgia).

F 27: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions.

Correspondence "A - L."

F 28: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions.

Correspondence "M - Z."

F 29: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Rural Carriers.

F 30: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Rural Carriers.

a. Discussion of H.R.3782; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance for rural carriers" (James G. Polk - Ohio), H.R.5143; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance payable to rural carriers" (F. Jay Nimtz - Indiana), and H.R.5552; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance payable to rural carriers" (Robert H. Michel - Illinois).
b. Correspondence "A - L."

F 31: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Rural Carriers.

F 32: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Rural Carriers.

Discussion of H.R.6209; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance payable to rural carriers" (James H. Morrison - Louisiana), and S.70; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance payable to rural carriers" (Frank Carlson - Kansas; and Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina).

F 33: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1958). Rural Carriers.

Discussion of S.3050; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance for rural carriers, and for other purposes" (Ralph W. Yarborough - Texas; and William Proxmire - Wisconsin), and H.R.6371; "To increase the equipment maintenance allowance for rural carriers, and for other purposes" (Charles O. Porter - Oregon).

F 34: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (no date). Union.

Discussion of H.R.6; "To amend section six of the act of August 24, 1912, as amended, with respect to the recognition of organizations of postal and Federal employees" (George M. Rhodes - Pennsylvania), and S.194; "To amend section 6 of the act of August 24, 1912, as amended, with respect to the recognition of organization of postal and Federal employees" (William Langer - North Dakota).

F 35: Post Office and Civil Service, Committee on (1957). Wage Board Employees.

Discussion of S.25; "Relating to effective dates of increases in compensation granted to wage board employees" (Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina).

F 35b: Printing, Joint Committee on (1957). General.

Includes correspondence on disposition of noncurrent and obsolete publications. Form letter from Carl Hayden.

F 36: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Arkansas Basin.

F 37: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Billboards.

F 38: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Billboards.

Discussion of S.963; "To provide for the control of certain advertising on federally owned or controlled lands adjacent to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and to encourage such control on other lands adjacent to such National System" (Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon), and H.R.3977; "To amend the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, for the purpose of restricting the use of billboards and other outdoor advertising displays along the National System of Interstate Highways" (Robert Hale - Maine).

F 39: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Bruces Eddy Dam.

F 40: Public Works, Committee on (1957-1958). Flood Control.

Discussion of S.497; "Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes" (Dennis Chavez - New Mexico; Robert S. Kerr - Oklahoma; Pat McNamara - Michigan; Richard L Neuberger - Oregon; W. Scott Kerr - North Carolina; and Prescott Bush - Connecticut).

F 41: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Great Plains Administration.

Discussion of S.2908; "To establish a Great Plains Administration; to provide for the control of drought conditions in the Great Plains region; to provide for the more effective conservation, development, and use of the resources of the Great Plains; to provide for the administration of Federal programs in such region so as to meet more effectively the distinctive needs and problems of the region; and for other purposes" (John A. Carroll - Colorado).

F 42: Public Works, Committee on (1958). National Rivers and Harbors Conference: General.

F 43: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Niagara River.

Discussion of H.R.4294; "To authorize the construction of certain works of improvement in the Niagara River for power and other purposes" (William E. Miller - New York).

F 44: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Oklahoma Water Resources.

F 45: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Buildings: Clippings.

F 46: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Public Buildings.

Discussion of H.R.4660; "To repeal the Public Buildings Purchase Contract of 1954, to require certain distribution and approval of new public building projects, and for other purposes" (Robert E. Jones - Alabama). Correspondents include Robert E. Jones.

F 47: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Public Buildings.

Discussion of S.2261; "To amend and extend the Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of 1954, as amended, the Post Office Department Property Act of 1954, as amended, and to require certain distribution and approval of new public building projects, and for other purposes" (Dennis Chavez - New Mexico; Pat McNamara - Michigan; Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon; W. Kerr Scott - North Carolina; John A. Carroll - Colorado; Edward Martin - Pennsylvania; Francis Cawe - South Dakota; Thomas H. Kuchel - California; Norris Cotton - New Hampshire; Roman L. Hruska - Nebraska; and Chapman Revercomb - West Virginia).

F 48: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Public Roads: General.

F 49: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Public Roads: Billboards.

Discussion of H.R.9821; "To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways" (George H. Fallon - Maryland).

F 50: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Public Roads. Billboards.

Discussion of S.3414; "To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Highway Act approved June 29, 1956, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways, and for other purposes" (Albert Gore, Sr. - Tennessee; John A. Carroll - Colorado; Wayne Morse - Oregon; Mike Mansfield - Montana; Ralph W. Yarborough - Texas; John O. Pastore - Rhode Island; William Proxmire - Wisconsin; Hubert H. Humphrey - Minnesota; Richard L. Neuberger - Oregon; James E. Murray - Montana; John F. Kennedy - Massachusetts; Dennis Chavez - New Mexico; Pat McNamara - Michigan; Warren G. Magnuson - Washington; Henry M. Jackson - Washington; Frank Church - Idaho; Frank A. Barrett - Wyoming; Thomas H. Kuchel - California; Chapman Revercomb - West Virginia; and Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. - Missouri).

F 51: Public Works, Committee on (1958). Public Works Bill.

Discussion of S.3231; "To check the growth of unemployment by providing for Federal assistance to States and local governments for the construction of needed public works and public improvements" (Albert Gore, Sr. - Tennessee).

F 52: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Surplus Commodities.

Discussion of H.R.8797; "To amend the act of September 30, 1950, to provide for free distribution of certain surplus agricultural commodities and cotton for bedding to victims of major disasters, and for other purposes" (George S. Long - Louisiana). Correspondents include George S. Long.

F 53: Public Works, Committee on (1957). Tennessee Valley Authority.

F 54: Public Works, Committee on (1957-1958). Tennessee Valley Authority.

Discussion of H.R.4266; "To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, and for other purposes" (Clifford Davis - Tennessee), and.1869; "To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, and for other purposes" (Robert S. Kerr - Oklahoma; Lister Hill - Alabama; Albert Gore, Sr. - Tennessee; Estes Kefauver - Tennessee; John Stennis - Mississippi; James O. Eastland - Mississippi; and John J. Sparkman - Alabama).

F 55-73: Questionnaires (1957). National Federation of Independent Business: Ballots #226 - 244.

F 74: Rules, Committee on (1957). Banking and Currency Committee.

Discussion of H.Res.85; "Authorizing the Committee on Banking and Currency to conduct studies and investigations, and to make inquiries, relating to the operation of the monetary structure of the United States" (Wright Patman - Texas).

F 75: Rules, Committee on (1957). Budget.

Discussion of H.Res.170; "To amend the rules of the House to limit expenditures for fiscal year 1958" (John H. Ray - New York).

F 75b: Rules, Committee on (1957). Legislative Reorganization Act Amendments.

Includes correspondence re: S. 1585, to amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to provide for more effective evaluation of the fiscal requirements of the executive agencies of the U.S. Correspondents include John L. McClellan.

F 75c: Small Business, Select Committee on (1957-1958). General.

Includes correspondence on the Small Business Investment Act and problems of small business. Has form letters from Wright Patman. Also includes committee print "How to Obtain Financing Under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958: Questions and Answers in Simple Terms."

F 76: Small Business, Joint Committee on (1957). National Federation of Independent Business: General.

"Report on Activities of the National Federation of Independent Business"

F 77: Small Business, Joint Committee on (1957). Committee Hearing: General.

F 78: Un-American Affairs, Committee on (1958). Internal Security Act.

Discussion of H.R.9352; "To amend the Internal Security Act of 1950, and for other purposes" (Francis E. Walter - Pennsylvania).

F 79: Un-American Affairs, Committee on (1957). "Operation Abolition."

Campaign against the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

F 80: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1958). Appeals.

Discussion of H.R.9722; "To amend the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957 to provide a court to which appeals may be taken from the Board of Veterans' Appeals in the Veterans' Administration, and for other purposes" (John P. Saylor - Pennsylvania).

F 81: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Artificial Limbs.

General. Correspondents include Lister Hill.

F 82: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1958). Benefit Payments.

Discussion of H.R.72; "To amend section twenty-one of the World War Veterans' act, 1924, to provide for the disposition of certain benefits which are unpaid at the death of the intended beneficiary" (Olin E. Teague - Texas). Correspondents include Olin E. Teague.

F 83: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Chiropractors.

Discussion of H.R.2178; "TO authorize the appointment of doctors of chiropractic in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration" (Edith Nourse Rogers - Massachusetts).

F 84: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Committee Materials.

a. "Synopsis of Benefits Available to Veterans and Their Dependents."
b. "Summary of Veterans' Legislation Reported"

F 85: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1958). General Correspondence.

F 86: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). G.I. Bill: General Correspondence.

F 87: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). G.I. Bill.

Discussion of H.R.266; "To amend the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 to make the educational benefits provided for therein available to all veterans whether or not they serve during a period of war or of armed hostilities" (Kenneth B. Keating - New York), and H.R.926; "To provide that, notwithstanding the termination by Presidential proclamation of the period within which veterans of service subsequent to June 27, 1950, may accrue eligibility for wartime benefits, such period shall not terminate while individuals may be inducted for training and service in the Armed Forces" (Edith Nourse Rogers - Massachusetts).

F 88: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Headstones.

F 89: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Health Care.

F 90: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Hospitalization.

Discussion of H.R.58; "To amend Public (Law) No. 2, Seventy -third Congress, so as to impose additional requirements on certain veterans seeking hospitalization or domiciliary care in Veterans' Administration facilities" (Olin E. Teague - Texas).

F 91: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Housing.

a. Discussion of H.R.4602; "To encourage new residential construction for veterans' housing in rural areas and small cities and towns by raising the maximum amount in which direct loans may be made from $10,000 to $12,500, to authorize advance financing commitments, to extend the direct loan program for veterans, and for other purposes" (Olin E. Teague - Texas).
b. Committee on Veterans' Affairs, "Improving Operations of Direct Loan Program."

F 92: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Housing: Interest Rates.

F 93: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: Disability.

Discussion of H.R.52; "To provide increases in service-connected disability compensation and to increase dependency allowances" (Olin E. Teague - Texas).

F 94: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: Disability.

Discussion of H.R.4221; "To amend part III of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a) to liberalize the basis for, and increase the monthly rates of, disability pension awards" (Edith Nourse Rogers - Massachusetts).

F 95: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions: General.

Includes discussion of H.R.2201; "To grant a pension of $100 per month to all honorably discharged veterans of World War I who are sixty years of age" (Earl Wilson - Indiana), and H.R.5408; "To provide for the recognition of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of veterans of World War I of the United States of America in the presentation of claims under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration" (Paul A. Fino - New York). Also mentions H.R.5531, S.1407, S.Res23, and H.R.52.

F 96: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions: Spanish-American War.

Discussion of H.R.358; "To increase the monthly rates of pension payable to widows and former widows of deceased veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection" (Barratt O'Hara - Illinois).

F 97: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: Spanish-American War.

F 98: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: Spanish-American War.

Discussion of H.J.Res 147; "Placing certain individuals who served in the Armed Forces of the United States in the Moro Province, including Mindanao, and in the islands of Leyte, Luzon, and Samar after July 4, 1902, and their survivors, in the same status as those who served in the Armed Forces during the Philippine Insurrection and their survivors" (Eugene Siler - Kentucky).

F 99: Veterans` Affairs, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions: Survivors Benefits Act.

Discussion of H.R.3260; "To amend the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits act to provide that all retired members of the uniformed services who served not less than twenty-five years on active duty and who thereafter die shall be considered to have died service-connected deaths" (James B. Utt - California), and S.2000; "To amend the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivors Benefits Act to provide that all retired members of the uniformed services who served not less than twenty-five years on active duty and who thereafter die shall be considered to have died service-connected deaths" (John J. Sparkman - Alabama).

F 100: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: Widows.

Discussion of H.R.3658; "To liberalize certain criteria for determining eligibility of widows for benefits" (B.F. Sisk - California).

F 101: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Pensions: World War I.

Discussion of H.R.4435; "To increase the rate of pension of certain widows of World War I veterans and the annual income limitations governing the payment of pension to widows and children of such veterans" (Olin E. Teague - Texas).

F 102: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957-1958). Pensions: World War I.

F 103: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957-1958). Physician Salaries.

Discussion of H.R.6719; "To provide certain adjustments in organization and salary structure of the Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration" (George S. Long - Louisiana).

F 104: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1957). Veterans Preference: Veterans' Preference Act of 1944.

F 105: Veterans' Affairs, Committee on (1958). Veterans of Foreign Wars: 5-Point Program.

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TOBY MORRIS COLLECTION LEGISLATIVE SERIES Box and Folder Inventory

TOBY MORRIS COLLECTION
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Box and Folder Inventory