Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists principally of testimony from the Rochester individuals who claimed Gibbs had withheld money due them from a legal case. This includes testimony given at a March 12, 1913 hearing held by the Senate Finance Committee to investigate the qualifications of Gibbs for the commissioner position.

The testimony is either typescripts of oral testimony or affidavits used as exhibits in the hearings. The records also include a small amount of correspondence, clippings, and telegrams relating to the Gibbs nomination.