Scope and Contents

Contains bills and resolutions, articles by Samuel Russell, Jr. on politics, taxes and trade, and other topics, National Bureau of Standards reports and documents on weights and measures, Supreme Court briefs, fiscal relations within the United States, records on the Mayfield case. Most materials dated 1902 to 1930; others probably created between 1904 and 1954.

Scope and Contents Contains articles and papers of Samuel Russell, Jr. and others on weights and measures, women's suffrage, U.S. Congress bills and resolutions, scales and standardization, coinage and financial systems, war and its revenues, international relations and peace treaties (Germany, Japan, Turkey, etc.), World War I, the Armenian genocide, American Indian defense, trade and marketing systems, railroads, prohibition, the U.S. Constitution, tariffs and taxation, elections, executive powers, the...