Research Notes

Senate Reporting
Scope and Content Note: Galley proof of a biographical sketch of Mr. Preston; Material on the following topics: attempts to get more accurate newspaper reports on the Senate, methods of admitting reporters to galleries or the Senate floor, method of supplying stationery to the press gallery, investigation of pressures on low-paid reporters, debates over reports of secret sessions; photostat of a reporter's gallery admission card.

Liberties of the Press and Privileges of the Senate
Scope and Content Note: Speech of C. Pinckney (1800, March 5) in reference to liberty of the press in respect to Senate privileges; speech of Mr. Tracy (1800, March 5) upholding Senate privileges; citation of Wm. Duane of the Philadelphia General Advertiser for slandering the Senate; photostat of letter requesting admission to Senate Press Gallery (circa 1838-1839); photostat of column attacking Senators from New York Daily Express (1839, January 5); material in reference to charges of corruption brought by the Washington Daily Times (1846) and Washington Union (1847); various materials in reference to opening the Senate to the public, 1790-1861.

Filibusters

Part 1
Scope and Content Note: Army appropriation bill (1879, June); amending U.S. election laws (1891, January); repeal of Purchasing Clause of the Sherman Act (1893, October); Aldrich Vreeland Financial Bill; amending Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1951, June).

Part 2
Scope and Content Note: Administration shipping bill (1915, January); defeat of administration's armed ship bill (1917, February-March); deficiency appropriation bill (1919, March); Dyer anti-lynching bill (1922, November-December); Boulder Dam (1927, February); amending closure rule (1949, March)

Technicalities of Senate Conduct and Business; Miscellaneous Clippings and World War I Notes
Scope and Content Note: Material on the following topics: Consideration of the resolution that a state of war existed between Germany and the United States, the British war mission in Washington, declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, what constitutes proper conduct of Senators and proper business of the Senate; clippings in reference to the rejection of Floyd H. Roberts for a federal judgeship.

Political Conventions and Presidential Elections
Scope and Content Note: Statistical materials referring to U.S. Presidents and Vice-Presidents; statistical materials in reference to Republican and Democrat national political conventions, down to the first administration of Mr. Eisenhower; miscellaneous materials in reference to the electoral college and third parties.

Amendments to the Constitution

Miscellaneous research notes and clippings

Correspondence, 1916-1955

Articles and addresses, 1933, undated

Memorabilia

Scrapbooks

1880, 1914, 1917, 1935-1937

1908-1936

1916, 1922, 1935-1939

1917-1922, 1938

1921, 1925, 1933-1950

1923-1934

1939, 1944