Legislation

Postmaster General Robert Hannegan (third from the left) and other unidentified men watch as President Harry S. Truman signs the postal pay raise bill.

President Harry S. Truman signs legislation regarding the rate of postage of domestic air mail, with Postmaster General Robert Hannegan looking on. A group of unidentified men stand behind them.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Government Workers Pay Raise Bill. Standing, left to right: Representative Edward H. Rees; James B. Burns, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees; Senator Harry F. Byrd; Representative Jennings Randolph; Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper; Luther C. Steward, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees; Senator Sheridan Downey; Harry B. Mitchell, President of the United States Civil Service Commission; Representative Henry M. Jackson; and Arthur S. Flemming, United States Civil Service Commissioner.

President Harry S. Truman signs the Administrative Procedure Act. Left to right: Congressman John Gwynne (R-Iowa); Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, Charles E. Long, Jr.; Representative of the Attorney General, Ashley Sellers; Representative of the American Bar Association, Carl McFarland; Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada); Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Hatton W. Sumners (D-Texas); Congressman Francis E. Walter (D-Pennsylvania).

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Surplus Property Act in the Oval Office of the White House. Standing behind President Truman are Senator J. William Fulbright (left) and Assistant Secretary of State William Benton (right).

President Harry S. Truman signs legislation providing for health programs for government employees. Standing behind Truman are (left to right): Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, Public Health Service; Harry B. Mitchell, President, Civil Service Commission; and Watson Miller, Administrator, Federal Security Administration.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs a bill regarding immigration and naturalization for Filipinos and East Indians in the Oval Office of the White House. Standing behind President Truman are (left to right): Representative John Lesinski of Michigan; Antonio Gonzalez, President of the Philippine Inter Community of the Western States; J. C. Dionisio; Joseph R. Farrington, Delegate from Hawaii; Representative Emanuel Celler from New York; M. O. A. Baig, First Secretary of the Indian Agency General; J. J. Singh, President, India League of America; Dr.

President Harry S. Truman signs an act regarding the control and development of atomic energy. Standing behind President Truman, from left to right: Senator Tom Connally, Senator Eugene Millikin, Senator Edwin Johnson, Senator Thomas Hart, Senator Brien McMahon, Senator Warren Austin, and Senator Richard Russell.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs H.R. 4590, the Silver Bill. Standing behind President Truman, from left to right: Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Edwin Johnson; Senator Abe Murdock; Senator Elbert Thomas; Senator Eugene Millikin; Senator Patrick McCarran.

President Harry S. Truman signs a bill amending an act regarding bankruptcy laws in the Oval Office of the White House. Among those standing behind President Truman are Senator James Huffman (fifth from the right) and Representative Martin Gorski (right). Others are unidentified.