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Guide to the Records of the U.S. Senate at the National Archives (Record Group 46)

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Chapter 7. Records of the Committee on Commerce and Related Committees, 1816-1968

Records of Committees Relating to Commerce, 1816-1988 from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States

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Committee records discussed in this chapter:

• Commerce and Manufactures Committee (1816-25)
• Commerce Committee (1825-1946)
• Manufactures Committee (1825-1946)
• Pacific Railroad Committee (1863-73)
• Railroads Committee (1873-1921)
• Pacific Railroads Committees (1889-1921)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard Committee (1879-1921)
• Mississippi River and Its Tributaries Committee (1879-1921)
• Interoceanic Canals Committee (1899-1946)
• Fisheries Committee (1884-1921)
• Industrial Expositions Committee (1899-1921)
• Standards, Weights, and Measures Committee (1909-21)
• Interstate Commerce Committee (1887-1946)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (1947-61)
• Commerce Committee (1961-68)
• Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee (1958-68)

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Records of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, 1879-1921

7.43 According to historian George H. Haynes, it was said in 1917 that this committee had the dubious distinction of never having met in its (then) 38 years. There is no evidence to show that the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard ever convened before its termination in 1921, and, not surprisingly, few papers were ever referred to it. The records, 1879-93 with gaps (1/2 in.), consist of papers relating to the proposed construction of a canal to unite the Missouri and Columbia Rivers (46A-H24), and a few printed reports. There are also a few petitions and memorials received by the select committee, 1872-79, which preceded it.

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Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition (Doct. No. 100-42). By Robert W. Coren, Mary Rephlo, David Kepley, and Charles South. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989.