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Show LETTER Fffli SENATOR ON MOTOR CORPS i TRAIN I The ;irnn motor transport which Sfl to arrive here on August 15th is now nresl ol i heyenne, according to the latest lat-est word received There is now no I hope of having the train remain more than over night in this citv, as the schedule has been approved by the secretary of war and cannot be ! changed Concerning this fact, a letter was i received this morning by President John S Lewis of the Merchants of Ogden from I nitcd States Senator Reed Smoot, who worked earnestly in Hie Interest! ol this city, and Is as lullOWS "1 nited Statei Senate August 1 Dear Mr. Li wis I wish to acknowledge acknowl-edge receipt of your telegram of Ug-list Ug-list 2nd; 19X9 relative to the schedule of the transcontinental army motor transport corps "In answer will state ihat I Imnv dlately got in touch with the offlt r at ihe war department having this Schedule IB Charge, and endeavored to !, re the schedule changed as it was originally announced On August 2nd,' lM'ti srni mi ihe following telo-1 im, whic h I now affirm : I "'War department states whole ChedUle has been approved by secre-j i df war. and advertised according-' according-' I y, therefore impossible to revise it. Department Hrst assured me whole j da would be -pent in Ogden I was very much surprised to cc Lhe information conveyed in your tele-j gram that the schedule had been ( 'changed, so thatthe army transpor, j would spend only a night in Ogden. instead in-stead ol .i day and a night, as was i ginally announced. At the time I v. .is endeavoring to have the department depart-ment change the routing so as to in ! elude Ogden They informed me they j had changi d the routing in such a v a 0 it., lude Ogden. and permit the transport unit to spend a day there 1 i Immediately notified you to that ef j fi . l "It seems the whole schedule was . . nn hanged, which was approved by the ecretary of war. and th- new plan advertised along the whole route, thus making it impossible to again change It l regret that they could not impend a da in ocden. for I believe i ha I this would hae done as much to advertise the state as any other one thing |