Show PRESIDENT PLANS TRIP DOWN TIlE THE MISSISSIPPI May hw is 18 j S I lii III planning u n or tH font Coni trip next fall fail the tho MUnh D ii ph 11 i vu VO I r from flOm point n t In I U 10 bId i or at to 10 it t will trill If Jimile IM bi with tha tho member of ut the land waterways s who ho vito hilts till thu will lie lin h gu ats of ot ofu Ih hi u LukiN L to Lilt Hie ChulL t nop I I noo will willI I Oy ttO buy 10 for fop Canton to nt at atI I rill nil the UI dedication ot of f the tho no 30 tho thu roy voy voyo 0 riO o down the lIu will It If Itro 1 ro hiting I prevent tallow Callow Im ho r nn an invitation imke tile tha trip roo from n a fr of t 1 I t fI Ii CI I luMI hUM has tent ent to 10 ho state oe U U fi the tho fallowing totter batter IJ D I C May 1 16 1 iDOl 1907 My I Dour Governor L have hl ro re rethe the invitation kindly sent nent to me mo the tho of or Arkansas Illinois Iowa lown Kansas 1 lit nn 11 a Maine I hIt Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ol South Dakota Tennessee Ot Texas iti 11 asking me 1110 to accompany tilO Iho Inland waterways III R commission COlli mission nil for tOI fora ft n trip on the Iho Mississippi so o that I may to o myself olt with cot tain fl ten fen of ot lie tho situation which the com Coin commission mission 1111 lon lias been hOttI appointed to tt consid consider con er or 1 I deeply appreciate al these th Be Lot Let lQ mo ute Hay suy a IL special Ip word wOld of ap op appreciation predatIon of the Invitations which conIc como from tho thai governors of 01 Malno Florida Florid and Oregon Ore nil alt ot of whom al oh although though the thu stales of or which they ar are Iro governors are aro not on tho tile Mississippi river 1101 their realization of tho thu Im bill Importance of Improving this hits great na nn national Lionel highway because of tho the toiL that easy nod cheap transportation thereon Will mean to nil iii tile th Union Others Othere of ot the tho governors who ho h lot Inn uc written mo tOo dwell upon the fact that thal the tho of tho the west feel fed a ht l loCUli Interest In the tho project of or tub Im Itt Improvement provement of If other navigable rivets rivers because POCO LItO they thc think t such Improve Improvements I bOOts ments will help the tho solution of ur many problems Attaching to railway trans transportation Tho basin of nf the Mississippi sippi taken n its a 11 whole who from front the gulf to the tho th Rr great at lakes from tile the Alio Aile to the tho agricultural empire that lint men ren have ever eret 1 Ol cultivated and an ItO equally great gNat system of or water Itel highways Is It needed to tl supply an nn Inadequacy of ot land carriage for tor the tho products of cit this regIon something unforeseen oc occurs occurs curs to tl make mo tao alter my toy tn plans I In lit Intend tend tonti ml to tl accompany the thc members JIS oC oh the Inland waterways commission COOl missIon Roll on ona onI a I thru 01 ui four days s trip at lit tho titu be hie beginning ginning of Ir t next October down the thu Mississippi I RI nl river from some som point In middle Illinois or at Iowa to 10 Memphis I J foci feel that the tle problems before the commission concern vitally not only 1111 the people of or the Mississippi valley villi but hut th the of our entire country 11 1 J I can do 10 lo to forward rapid II d 1 solution sal U I I lit of tho thOse o out s ami en il the proper UI allon I 00 of or our picat I am Rind Indeed to do |