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A letter from Senator Carl Hayden, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, requesting Senator Maybank's interest in hearings to be held on proposals to amend the cloture rule.

Correspondence concerning a number of loans approved of for Rural Electrification projects in numerous South Carolina counties. Included are a number of applications for REA projects throughout the United States.

Correspondence concerning legislation to expand social security by providing an increase in benefits and broader coverage.

Correspondence concerning legislation for Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood. Alaska and Hawaii eventually obtained statehood in 1959.

A letter containing an article written in opposition to inaction in congress concerning legislation to extend the statute of limitation for the prosecution of spies and saboteurs from three years to ten. Special concern is given to the trial of Alger Hiss, who was accused of being a Soviet spy and convicted of perjury on January 25, 1950.

Correspondence concerning general tax legislation and requests for a reduction in taxes.