Box 24

Correspondence concerning rivers and harbors legislation including a South Carolina River Basin Act (introduced by Senator Maybank), the Broad River project, anchorage project for Charleston, water treaty between the United States and Mexico, Santee-Congaree project, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Beacer-Mahoning River project, Buckingham Landing Dam, repair of the Charleston Navy Yard, the Edisto River, and Yadkin Pee Dee.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of the Saunders Memorial Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, in compensation for losses sustained as a result of the failure of the United States Army Engineer Corps to carry out the terms of an option to lease the hospital to the United States for the duration of the war.

Correspondence concerning legislation to regulate the power of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

Correspondence concerning small business legislation including the promotion of small business to support the war effort and facilitate their adjustment to civilian and peacetime operations. Correspondents include Senator James E. Murray, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business.

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation (the Murray-Wagner-Dingle Bill) to institute government health insurance. Constituents on the whole vigorously opposed the measure.

Correspondence concerned with amendments to a Federal ballot for soldiers serving overseas.

Correspondence primarily concerned with subsidies provided to certain industries.

Correspondence concerning tax legislation including a tax on the transportation of food products, deductions for the blind, the requiring labor unions, farm cooperatives, and other non-profits to file financial reports, the tax on cosmetics, sales tax, an extension for filing taxes, exemptions for rural electric cooperatives, the Federal Tax Commission, and a general need for the simplification of income tax returns.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3687 and S. 1426) proposed by Senator Maybank to repeal the tax on oleomargarine.