Hugo F. Srb [RG4217.AM]

HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID

RG4217.AM: Hugo F. Srb, 1900-1975

Papers: 1930-1973
Dodge, Dodge County and Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska: Legislator
Size: 10.0 cu.ft.; 10 boxes

BACKGROUND NOTE

Hugo F. Srb, son of Frank and Lizzie Srb, was born August 4, 1900, at Dodge, Nebraska. He graduated from Wayne State College and the University of Nebraska Law School. Srb was elected to the Nebraska Senate in 1931 and again in 1933. He served as Secretary of the Senate in 1935 and then as Clerk of the Legislature from 1937 to 1969. Hugo F. Srb died on December 13, 1975. He is buried next to his wife, Francis Grace, in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, Nebraska.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of ten boxes of papers relating to Hugo F. Srb’s career in the Nebraska Legislature. The papers include subject files, legislative files, correspondence, publications, reports and newspaper clippings. The materials in the collection date from 1930 to 1973. The collection is mostly unprocessed, but an inventory is available.

Note: See the photo component [RG4217.PH] and the audio component [RG4217.AU] for related materials.

INVENTORY

Box 1 – Subject files (mostly clippings), A-E
Folder

1. Attendance
2. Appropriations – 1930s
3. Appropriations – 1940s
4. Appropriations – 1950s
5. Appropriations – 1960s
6. Appropriations – 1970s
7. Treasurer’s Report 1951-56
8. Agriculture
9. Bill Drafting
10. Boys’ State
11. Bicentennial News Clippings, etc.
12. William Jennings Bryan
13. Constitution – Misc. Articles on State & National
14. Capitol Building
15. Burbach, Senator Jules W. Constitutional Revision & Recreation Committee
16. Constitutional Amendments
17. Comparison
18. Course of a Bill
19. Clerk, Duties of
20. Constitution of Nebr.
21. Constitution of the US
22. Constitution of US & Bill of Rights
23. Constitution – Committee to Restore the Constitution
24. The Council of State Governments Meeting – October 4, 5, & 6
25. Council of State Govt’s Correspondence
26. Changes Recommended
27. Civil Defense
28. Conclusions
29. Richard Childs – Speech, etc.
30. Courts – State & Federal (US Supreme Court & Others)
31. Democracatics – Republican State & National – Elections
32. Democracy
33. Districts
34. Educational Television
35. Economics
36. Employees & Employment
37. Efficiency

Box 2 – Subject files (mostly clippings), E-N
Folder

1. Elections (Campaign) 1930-1940-1950; Nonpartisan Election
2. Endorsements
3. Elections – 1960’s
4. Elec. 18-yr-olds – Voting Elections
5. Elections – Depth Report 1966
6. Elections 1970s
7. Remarks – H.F.S.R.B. 10-23-53 (Comparative Analysis of Expenditures of Two Legislative Systems)
8. Exp Legislative Expenditures
9. Expenses – Cost of Lawmaking
10. 1972 – Elections
11. Forms
12. Highways
13. History of Nebraska
14. Hi-Y
15. History of a Bill in the Legislature (Extra Copies)
16. In-depth Report – School of Journalism
17. Investigation
18. Intergovernmental Cooperation Comm.
19. Judiciary
20. Legislators – Individuals – Misc. Info
21. Legislative Council
22. Labor Dept.
23. Length of Sessions
24. 1950 – Recommendations Committee on Legislative Processes
25. Critique on Lobbyists – Extra Copies
26. League of Women Voters – “Facts” etc.
27. Letters to Editors
28. Motor Vehicles – Safety Patrol
29. Misc.
30. Non-Partisan vs Partisan
31. National Legislative Service Agencies
32. New Orleans – Legislative Service Conference
33. Norton, John N.

Box 3 – Subject files (mostly clippings), N-T
Folder

1. Senator George W. Norris
2. Grand Forks, N. Dakota; Fritz Nelson
3. North Dakota
4. Other States Studying Unicameral
5. Taiwan China Unicameral
6. Other States & Countries – Studying Unicameral for Their State
7. Other States – Rules, Etc.
8. Organization
9. Oddities & Misc. Clippings from Other States
10. Opinions – Studies
11. Excerpts from Kansas City Star (Re: Unicameral System)
12. Public Power
13. Public Power – Clarence Davis Article
14. Petition, Right of
15. Petitions & Memorials
16. Political Platforms
17. Presiding Officers (Rules)
18. Printing
19. Population
20. Reapportionment
21. Re-Districting
22. Representation
23. Rules
24. Rules – Leg. Council. (Introduction of Bills)
25. Roll Call
26. Railroads
27. Article on Unicameral – Hugo F. Srb – Published in Nebraska Law Review – 1961
28. Speeches – Legislature
29. Scrap Book
30. Sundry Claims
31. Schools & Universities – Also Mekoto an Education
32. Seating Arrangement in Chamber
33. Statistics – Dates, etc.
34. State Seal
35. State & Federal Relations – John Calhoun – Virginia
36. State Initiative
37. Stamps
38. Taxes – 1940s
39. Taxes – 1950s

Box 4 – Subject files (mostly clippings), T-Z; Chronological files, 1930-1946
Folder

1. Taxes – 1960s
2. Taxes – 1970s
3. Treatise on “Legislature”
4. Taxation – General
5. Nebraska Unicameral Legislature vs. Bicameral
6. Vocational Education
7. Voting Equipment
8. 1930
9. 1931
10. 1932
11. 1933
12. 1935
13. Duties of the Clerk of the Legislature
14. Unicameral System 1937
15. 1938
16. 1939
17. Miscellaneous 1939
18. 1940
19. 1941
20. 1942
21. 1943
22. 1944
23. 1944 Spec. Session
24. 1945
25. 1946

Box 5 – Chronological files, 1947-1956
Folder

1. 1947
2. 1948
3. 1949
4. 1950 – No Session
5. Forms 1951
6. 1951
7. 1952
8. 1953
9. 1954
10. Hugh Butler
11. 1955
12. Attention 1955 Budget Comm.
13. 1956

Box 6 – Chronological files, 1957-1968
Folder

1. 1957
2. 1958
3. 1959
4. 1960
5. 1961
6. 1962
7. Governor’s Conference 16 Jan. 1962 – Civil Defense – Resources Management
8. 1963
9. 1963 – Special
10. Budget Committee Records 1963
11. 1964
12. 1965
13. New Jersey Talk on Unicameral – April 21-66
14. 1966
15. 1967
16. 1968

Box 7 – Chronological files, 1969-1973; Miscellaneous clippings
Folder

1. 1969
2. 1969 – 80^th Session – Clerk’s File
3. LB 208 – Re: Estates 1969 Session
4. 1970
5. Recommendations – Upcoming Session 1970
6. Daily Work Sheets & Bills 1971
7. 1971
8. Bills Legislative 1971
9. 1971
10. 1971 – Full Page Clippings
11. 1971 – After Session – Review by Lincoln Journal
12. Pre 1972 Session (Interim)
13. Committee Hearings 1972
14. Specific Amendments 1972
15. 1972 Work Sheets
16. 1972 Summary of Bills (End of Session)
17. 1972 Session
18. Documentary Film 1972 Session – Hearing
19. Pre 1973 Session
20. 1973 Session
21. 1973 Session – List of Bills
22. The Legislative Insurance Investigation Committee – Hugh B. Ashmore
23. Reference Lists – Requests for, Etc. Michigan – et al (Unicameral)
24. Nebr. State Gov’t Chart
25. Distribution Material Comparison in Separate Pile
26. Foreign Visitors Heard From
27. From Mrs. Bill Johnson
28. Legislative Fiscal Analysis

Box 8 – Miscellaneous clippings; Working draft of book on history of the legislature
Folder

1. Talk (Speech) Written & Delivered by H.F.S.
2. Dodge Criterion – Misc.
3. FBI
4. Misc. Interesting Articles
5. Money – Nat’l Debt – Inflation, Etc. Taxes
6. Money – Interest Rates & Financing – House Buying, etc.
7. Nebraska Clippings – General – Political, etc. (Not Book)
8. No Fault Insurance
9. National & International (War & Peace) & (Misc.)
10. Populist Surge
11. Schools & Uni.
12. Science
13. Editorials, Etc. Misc.
14. The Time Has Come – Series by K. Ross Toole
15. Odell Hanson
16. Rough Drafts
17. 1931
18. 1933
19. 1934
20. 1937 Session
21. 1937
22. 1939 Session Bills
23. 1941 Bills Introduced
24. 1961
25. 1965 – Outline
26. 1969
27. 1970
28. 1971 – Annual Sessions – 90 & 60 Day Limits
29. Comments – 1971 Newspaper Articles
30. Accountability
31. Agriculture Committee Members 1937 thru 1969
32. Appropriations
33. Attendance
34. Author – Information Concerning HFS (The Author)
35. 3 Branches of State Gov’t
36. Conclusion
37. Comparison
38. Conclusion – Appraisal After 30 Yrs
39. Comparison
40. Constitutional Amendments – No. Passed – No. Defeated
41. Committees
42. Charts – Sunday Claims Summary 1939 & 1941
43. Charts – Bills Vetoed by Governors
44. Chart Bills No. Introduced 1^st 20 Days No. Passed
45. Re: Capitol Bldg
46. Districts
47. Early History
48. Economy
49. Forward
50. Governor’s
51. Index to History Files
52. Index to History Files/Reports: (Legislative Council)
53. Introduction
54. Legislative Resolution 107 – Legislative Council
55. Lobbyists
56. Non-Partisan vs Partisan File No. 2
57. Senator Norris – Speech on One House Leg.
58. Notice of Hearing
59. Publishers
60. Preface
61. Representation
62. Salaries
63. John P. Senning (& Elizabeth)
64. Special Sessions
65. Salaries
66. Salaries
67. Table of Contents
68. Title
69. University Press
70. Women in Legislature
71. Unicameral Publications

Box 9 – Correspondence, 1934-1935
Folder

1. Nebraskaland Magazine – June 1964
2. Correspondence, 1934-35

Box 10 – Miscellaneous publications
Folder

1. Nebraska Legislature Rosters and Directories
2. “State Action” and the 14^th Amendment – A Study of Judicial Misinterpretation
3. The One-House Legislature – Senning
4. Postcards
5. Printed Envelopes
6. “Behind these Doors is the Story of Nebraska’s Unicameral”
7. A Look at Your Unicameral
8. Transmission – Northern Natural Gas Company – No. 1 1969
9. Newspapers
10. Nebraska Department of Health 1972-73 Annual Report
11. A Handbook of Government – Lincoln & Lancaster County, NE
12. Seeing Lincoln
13. Report of the Nebraska Constitutional Revision Commission – Sept 24, 1970
14. John B. Stetson University Bulletin Debate Handbook – Oct 1937
15. Opportunity – The American Right
16. Lincoln City Guide
17. One House for Two – by A.C. Breckenridge
18. Nebraska Legislative Manual 1937
19. Nebraska Legislative Manual 1879
20. House Proceedings
21. Constitution of the State of Nebraska
22. The Capitol – Lincoln, NE
23. November 1940 American Czech Magazine
24. Harper’s Magazine – Nov. 1964
25. A Visitor’s Guide to the Capital of Nebraska
26. American State Legislatures in Mid-Twentieth Century
27. Nebraska on the March – August 1965
28. The American Legion – Cornhusker Boys’ State
29. Nebraska Electric Farmer – February 1965, Harper’s Magazine – Nov. 1964
30. A Visitor’s Guide to the Capital of Nebraska
31. American State Legislatures in Mid-Twentieth Century
32. Nebraska on the March – August 1965
33. The American Legion – Cornhusker Boys’ State
34. Nebraska Electric Farmer – February 1969

Subject headings:

Legislation — Nebraska
Legislators — Nebraska
Nebraska — Politics and government
Politicians — Nebraska
Srb, Hugo F., 1900-1975

Revised TMM 06-06-2019