ELMER THOMAS COLLECTION
LEGISLATIVE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Box 1

Box 1: Ways and Means, Committee on, 1900 - Depression. Democratic National Committee Releases, 1930

F 1: Ways and Means, Committee on, 1900.

Topics include money law and legislation.

F 1B: Foreign Relations, Committee on, 1905.

Topics include the American National Red Cross law and legislation.

F 2: General, 1904.

Topics include coinage law and legislation.

F 2B: Judiciary, Committee on the, 1916.

Topics include United States officials and employees accidents.

F 3: Judiciary, Committee on the, 1917.

Topics include the American National Red Cross law and legislation.

F 4: Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Committee on, 1916.

Topics include United States Shipping Board law and legislation.

F 5: Rural Credits, Joint Committee on, 1916.

Topics include agricultural credit law and legislation.

F 6: Ways and Means, Committee on, 1916.

Topics include taxation law and legislation.

F 7: Judiciary, Committee on the, 1918.

Topics include soldiers civil status law and legislation.

F 8: Judiciary, Committee on the, 1919.

Topics include the American Legion law and legislation.

F 9: Naval Affairs, Committee on, 1920.

Topics include the United States Navy appropriations and expenditures for 1921.

F 10: Banking and Currency, Committee on, 1923.

Topics include agricultural credit law and legislation.

F 11: Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Committee on, 1921.

Topics include United States appropriations and expenditures.

F 12: Federal Farm Loan Bank Board, 1923.

Topics include agricultural credit.

F 12B: Indian Affairs, Committee on, 1921.

Topics include the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs appropriations and expenditures.

F 13: Public Lands and Surveys, Committee on, 1923.

Topics include public lands leases on the Red River (OK) and Red River boundary dispute.

F 13B: Agriculture Committee on. Congressional Speeches by Elmer Thomas, 1924.

Topics include agricultural statistics, agricultural economic aspects, and farm produce marketing.

F 14: American Tobacco Company, 1925.

Topics include the American Tobacco Company, Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, Ltd, and the tobacco industry.

F 14B: Banking and Currency, Committee on, 1924.

Topics include the Federal Reserve Act amendment. Correspondents include Hampton Pitts Fulmer.

F 14C: Congress, 1924.

Topics include tariff law and legislation, immigration law and legislation, military bounties law and legislation, postal service salaries, and independent regulatory commissions appropriations.

F 15: Claims, 68th Congress, n.d.

Topics include Claims vs. United States. Correspondents include Elmer Thomas.

F 16: Congressional Directory, 1923.

F 17: General Correspondence, 1924.

Topics include practical politics in Oklahoma, money, Muscle Shoals (AL), Farmer-Labor Progressive League Convention, El Reno (OK). Correspondents include Elmer Thomas and J. Luther Langston.

F 18: Indian Affairs, Committee on, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928.

Topics include Crow Indians, Kiowa Indians of Oklahoma, Comanche Indians of Oklahoma, Apache Indians of Oklahoma, Chickasaw Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, Delaware Indians, Kansa Indians, Ponca Indians, Seminole Indians, land titles, Indian claims, and Kaw Indians.

F 19: Military Affairs, Committee on. Muscle Shoals, 1925.

Topics include Henry Ford, nitrates, fertilizer, nitrogen, and Muscle Shoals (AL).

F 20: Public Lands, Committee on, 1923-1924.

Topics include Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians, and Red River oil lands.

F 21: Reorganization of the Executive Departments, Committee on, 1923.

Topics include the United States Congress Joint Committee on Reorganization.

F 21B: Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government, Joint Committee on, 1924.

F 21C: Ways and Means, Committee on. Revenue Act, 1924.

Topics include income tax. Correspondents include R. Walton Moore.

F 22: Agriculture, Committee on, 1927.

Topics include the United States Federal Farm Board.

F 22B: Education and Labor, Committee on, n.d.

Topics include education law and legislation and federal aid to education. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and William Edgar Borah.

F 23: Federal Trade Commission, 1927.

Topics include electric power law and legislation.

F 23B: Finance, Committee on, n.d.

Topics include alien property in Germany. Correspondents include Robert L. Owen.

F 24: General, 1924, 1926, 1927.

Topics include the Democratic Party (U.S.), law and legislation, Jefferson Day, and Robert L. Owen.

F 25: General Correspondence, 1925-1926.

Topics include the Democratic Party and the 1924 income tax in Oklahoma.

F 26: Gore, Thomas Pryor, 1917, 1920, 1926, 1934.

Topics include the Tomb of the Unknowns (VA), excess profits tax, voting record.

Correspondents include Thomas P. Gore (speeches).

F 27: Indian Affairs, Committee on, 1925-1926.

Topics include the Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians, Apache Indians, Ojibwa Indians, Potawatomi Indians, Papago Indian Reservation (AZ), Pottawatomie Indians, oil proceeds, Red River, Indian claims, and Chippewa Indians.

F 28: Indian Affairs, Office of, 1926-1927.

Topics include mineral lands, oil proceeds taxation, and National Popular Government League Forum.

F 29: Military Affairs, Committee on, 1926.

Topics include the Fort Sill Military Reservation.

F 29B: Military Affairs, Committee on, 1924 - 1926.

Topics include military training law and legislation.

F 30: Pensions, Committee on, 1927.

Topics include military pensions.

F 31: Public Buildings and Grounds, Committee on, 1926.

F 32: Public Lands, Committee on, 1926-1927.

Topics include the Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians, Apache Indians, and oil proceeds. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge (executive order).

F 33: Public Lands and Surveys, Committee on, 1926.

Topics include oil proceeds.

F 34: Rules, Committee on, n.d., 1926.

Topics include decentralization in government and bureaucracy. Correspondents include Theodore E. Burton and Elmer Thomas (speech).

F 34B: Thomas, Elmer. Legislation, 1925-1926.

F35: Ways and Means, Committee on, 1926.

Topics include alien property claims in Germany.

F 35B: Ways and Means, Committee on, n.d., 1926.

Topics include taxation.

F 36: Agriculture, Committee on, 1924-1928.

Topics include Calvin Coolidge, tariff, agriculture law and legislation, and farm relief. Correspondents include William A. Oldfield.

F 37: America First Foundation, 1928?

Topics include the America First Foundation and patriotism.

F 38: Appropriations, Committee on, 1929.

Topics include the United States Congress appropriations and expenditures.

F 38B: Appropriations, Committee on. Interior (1930), 1929.

Topics include the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs appropriations and expenditures.

F 38C: Appropriations, Committee on. National Defense. Correspondence, 1927-1928.

Topics include military education and United States Army Reserves.

F 39: Banking and Currency, Committee on. Correspondence, 1928.

Topics include banking law and legislation and bank failures.

F 40: Claims, Committee on, n.d.

Topics include Claims vs. United States.

F 41: Claims, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include Security National Bank of Lawton (OK).

F 42: Commerce, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include the United States Merchant Marine, flood control on the Mississippi River, fires, Lawton (OK), and the Federal Emergency Relief Fund.

F 43: Congress. General, 1928.

F 44: Finance, Committee on, 1927-1928.

Topics include taxation.

F 45: Finance, Committee on, 1927-1928.

Topics include taxation of amusements and foreign loans to France.

F 46: Finance, Committee on. Financial Data, 1927-1928.

Topics include the United States Dept. of the Treasury, exports, imports, public debts, tariff, and United States appropriations and expenditures.

F 47: Foreign Relations. General, 1927-1930.

Topics include the United States Navy, war, tariff, external debts, military policy, Treaty of London, and Herbert Hoover (speech).

F 48: Foreign Relations. Great Britain, 1927-1928.

Topics include the Pan American Conference in Havana (Cuba).

F 49: Foreign Relations. Italy, 1926-1928.

Topics include fascism and Albania. Correspondents include Benito Mussolini.

F 50: Foreign Relations. Russia, 1928.

F 51: General, 1926-1927.

Topics include Howell Heflin and elections law and legislation in Oklahoma.

F 52: General Correspondence, 1928.

Topics include practical politics in Oklahoma and Medicine Park (OK).

F 53: Indian Affairs, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include Cherokee Indians, Five Civilized Tribes, Winnebago Indians, Kansa Indians, Shoshonean Indians, Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Indians in California, Indians in Oklahoma, Kaw Indians, and Arapaho Indians.

F 54: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, 1927-1931.

Topics include public utilities law and legislation.

F 54B: Interstate Commerce, Committee on. Federal Coal Commission, 1928.

F 55: Judiciary, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include district courts. Correspondents include American Bar Association.

F 56: League of Nations, 1929.

Topics include James A. Reed. Correspondents include Ramsay McDonald and Aristide Briand.

F 56B: Military Affairs, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include United States Army promotions.

F 56C: Military Affairs, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include the United States Army appointments and retirements, United States Navy appointments and retirements, and the United States Marine Corps appointments and retirements.

F 56D: Naval Affairs, Committee on, 1927.

Topics include United States Navy pay allowances, etc.

F 56E: Naval Affairs, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include Guy Swan.

F 57: Oklahoma. Data, 1928.

Topics include Tulsa (OK) appropriations and expenditures in 1927 and Oklahoma appropriations and expenditures in 1927.

F 57B: Pensions, Committee on, 1928.

Topics include Blaine E. Davis.

F 58: Post Office, 1928.

Topics include postal service postmasters.

F 59: Public Works, Committee on, 1928?

Topics include flood control on the Arkansas River.

F 60: Speeches, 1927-1928.

Topics include Andrew Jackson, bureaucracy, and Lord Hewart (Chief Justice of England). Correspondents include Claude G. Bowers and Louis Ludlow.

F 60B: Thomas, Elmer, 1927.

Topics include the swearing in of Elmer Thomas.

F 61: Agriculture. Federal Farm Board, 1930.

Topics include the United States Federal Farm Board appropriations and expenditures for 1930, surplus agricultural commodities, and Alexander Legge. Correspondents include Herbert Hoover, John A. Simpson, and Alexander Legge.

F 62: Agriculture. Federal Farm Board. Democratic National Committee Releases, 1930.

Correspondents include Elmer Thomas and William A. Ayres.

F 63: Agriculture. Federal Farm Board. Federal Farm Board Releases, 1930-1931.

Topics include cotton, wheat, acreage allotments, drought, and feeds.

F 63B: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on. Federal Farm Board, 1930-1931.

Topics include Huey P. Long, John A. Simpson, William E. Borah, Farmers' Union, commodity exchanges, manganese, cotton, stock-exchange, wheat, petroleum, and Alexander Legge.

F 64: Agriculture. Federal Farm Board, 1930 - 1931.

Topics include the United States Federal Farm Board and farm produce marketing.

F 64B: Agriculture, Committee on. Federal Farm Board. Alexander, Conover and Company et al, 1930-1931.

Topics include United States Bureau of Animal Industry, National Livestock Marketing Association, Producers Livestock Commission, and National Order Buying Company.

F 65: Agriculture. Oklahoma. Bryan County, 1928 - 1929.

F 66: Agriculture. Oklahoma. Drought, n.d.

F 66B: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on. Panhandle A & M Experiment Station, 1930.

Topics include the Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College of Goodwell (OK).

F 66C: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on. Oklahoma Pecan Experiment Station, 1929-1931.

F 66D: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on. Wheat for Relief. 1926, 1928-1930.

Topics include farm produce marketing, food relief, American surplus agricultural commodities, and wheat. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge and Lawrence D. Tyson.

F 67-68: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, 1930-1931.

Topics include Arthur Mastick Hyde, United States Federal Farm Board, agricultural credit, cattle, drought relief, farm produce, marketing, tariff, and British Columbia. Correspondents include the Democratic National Committee (U.S.).

F 69: Appropriations, Committee on. General, 1930-1932.

Topics include public works appropriations and expenditures for 1931, United States executive offices appropriations and expenditures for 1932, and United States Independent offices appropriations and expenditures for 1932.

F 70: Appropriations, Committee on. Indian Affairs Amendments, 1930-1931.

Topics include Creek Indians and education of Indians.

F 71: Appropriations, Committee on. LaFollette Resolution, 1930.

Topics include public welfare and drought.

F 72: Banking and Currency, Committee on, 1930.

Topics include Chase National Bank, land banks, money, and stock-exchange.

F 73: Campaign, 1930.

F 74: Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1929-1930.

Topics include Chamber of Commerce of the United States, railroads rates, aeronautics, farm produce, marketing, courts, daylight saving, forestry, Mediterranean fruit-fly, United States Patent Office, United States Armed Forces pay allowances, etc., automobile insurance, reclamation of land, Inter-American Highway, public lands, and roads.

F 74B: Claims, Committee on. Johnson, Charles B., 1930.

Topics include Charles B. Johnson.

F 75: Claims: Common. Lyman, L. Miller, 1920-1930.

Topics include mining and mineral resources law and legislation for 1920 and leases.

F 76: Commerce, 1930.

Topics include Henry Ford, United States Foreign Agricultural Service, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, chain stores, Treaty of Versailles in 1919, World War I reparations, American economic assistance to Italy, stock-exchange, roads, money, credit, and rubber tires. Correspondents include Edward E. Brown (speech) and Louis T. McFadden.

F 77: Commerce, Committee on. Maternity and Infancy Bill, 1929-1930.

Topics include public health and child welfare.

F 78: Commerce, Committee on. Petroleum, 1931.

Topics include petroleum products prices, petroleum imports, and oil recovery.

F 79: Congress, General, 1930.

Topics include the telephone system law and legislation and the Hoover administration.

F 80: Depression. Bills, Correspondence, etc., 1926-1931.

Topics include the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Cities Service Company, unemployment, and federal aid to highway construction.

F 81: Depression. Clippings, 1930.

Topics include Manuel Herrick, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Texas Corporation, Indian Refining Company, farm produce prices, stock-exchange, tariff, public debts, national banks (United States), unemployment, international trade, United States Army alien labor, James H. Lewis, and Ruth Hanna McCormick.

F 82: Depression. Democratic National Committee Releases, 1930.

Topics include F. Edward Hebert, Republican Party (U.S.: 1854-), unemployment, tariff law and legislation, United States appropriations and expenditures, John Q. Tilson, Robert H. Lucas, and farm relief. Correspondents include the Democratic National Committee (U.S.), Joseph W. Byrns, David H. Kincheloe, and William H. King.

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