Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233)
Chapter 14. Records of the Judiciary Committee and Related Committees
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Records of the Judiciary Committee
and Related Committees from Guide to Federal Records in the National
Archives of the United States, 1789-1988
Committee Records discussed in this chapter:
- Committee on Patents (1837-1946)
- Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (1893-1946)
- Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (1795-1868)
- Committee on Revision of Laws (1868-1946)
- Committee on Freedmen's Affairs (1866-75)
- Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (1893-1927)
- Committee on Woman Suffrage (1917-27)
- Impeachment Records
- Committee on the Judiciary (1813-1986)
Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (1893-1927)
Jurisdiction and History
14.45 The Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic was made a standing committee in 1893 (53d Congress) after having been a select committee since 1879 (46th Congress). Its jurisdiction covered subjects relating to alcoholic liquor traffic, including the manufacture, distribution, and sale of intoxicating beverages in the States, Territories, and Government-owned buildings and land such as the District of Columbia, Indian reservations, and military bases. It was abolished in 1927 (70th Congress).
Records of the Select and Standing Committees on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, 46th-69th Congresses (1879-1927)
| Record Type | Volume | Congresses (Dates) |
| Minute Books | 2 vols. (select) | 51st-52d (1889-93) |
| Docket Books | 3 vols. (select) | 47th-52d (1881-93) |
| Petitions and Memorials | 22 in. | 46th-47th (1879-83), 49th-54th (1885-97), 60th (1907-09) |
| Committee Papers | 24 in. | 46th-48th (1879-85), 51st (1889-95), 53d (1893-95), 60th (1907-09), 69th (1925-27) |
| TOTAL: | 2 ft., 3 in. and 5 vols. (5 in.) |
14.46 The petition and memorial files contain petitions requesting the appointment of a commission to study alcoholic traffic and praying for prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and distribution through interstate commerce of alcohol in the United States and in various locations under federal authority and its export to certain countries.
14.47 The committee papers are thin and usually consist of printed bills, resolutions, and committee reports. Records of the 69th Congresses contain a transcript of an unprinted hearing (69A-F2). The bill file for the 60th Congress contains printed hearings on H.R. 22007, H.R. 12405, and H.R. 12406.
14.48 Additional records on alcoholic liquor traffic may be found in the records of the Judiciary Committee, which received petitions and memorials and held hearings on the subject, both before and during the life of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic.
Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to the Records of the United States House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition (Doct. No. 100-245). By Charles E. Schamel, Mary Rephlo, Rodney Ross, David Kepley, Robert W. Coren, and James Gregory Bradsher. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989.
