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Ing 11,000 voyages per year are now waiting to pass along this new route and
that the direct benefits to these ships in time and money saved will constitute
an unusually large return on the cost. This is in addition to the general and
very real benefits to agriculture, industry, and commerce, which are estimated
to be more than $30,000,000 per year.
 The canal will make it no longer necessary for life and property to be sub-
jected to the hazards which beset navigation in the longer and dangerous
passage through the Straits of Florida. In time of war it will provide the
vital necessity of a route for our commerce, protected from enemy attack
which would gravely menace shipping in the straits. It will afford a connect-
ing link between the intracoastal waterway systems of the Atlantic seaboard
and the Gulf of Mexico, and it will do more than any other one thing to pro-
mote and develop the economical interchange of agricultural and industrial
products between the seaboard and interior sections of the United States.
 Desired by Phillip II of Spain when all known North America was under
 his dominion, advocated by President Jackson in the early days of our coun-
try, sought for many years by the agricultural and commercial interests of the
Nation, approved by all appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, it
has remained for you, Mr. President, with vision and courage, to launch this
great undertaking and by so doing to express the determination of our people
to solve their material problems and evidence their faith in the future of our
country.
 With all good wishes,
 Sincerely and respectfully,
 DuNcAN U. FwLrocmL
 Those whose names are inscribed on the token are the following:
 Members of the Senate: Henry F. Asburst, Nathan L. Bachman, Josiah W.
Bailey, John H. Bankhead, Ale W Brkley, .TeodJ 3.re_. Bilbo, Hugo L.
Black, Homer T. Bone, Fred H. Brown, Robert J. Bulkley, Edward R. Burke,
James Byrnes, Arthur Capper, Hattie W. Caraway, Dennis Chavez, Tom
Connally, Marcu A. Coolidge, Royal S. Copeland, Edward P. Costigan, James
Cousens, James J. Davis, William F. Dieterich, Vic Donahey, J. Ryan DUffy
Duncan U. Fletcher, Walter F. George, Ernest W. Gibson, Carter Glass, Thomas
P. Gore, Joseph F. Guffey, Pat Harrison, Carl A. Hatch, William J. Bulow,
Har Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Louis K. Murphy, Key Pittman,
Mllar E. Tydings, Carl Hayden, Rush D. Holt, Hiram W. Johnson, Henry
W. Keyes, M. M. Logan, Augustine Lonergan, Francis T. Maloney, George
McGill, Kenneth McKellar, Charles L. McNary, Jesse H. Metcalf, Sherman
Minton, A. Harry Moore, Matthew M. Neely, John H. Overton, James P. Pope,
George L. Radcliffe, Robert R. Reynolds, Joseph T. Robinson, RiC ard B.
e J., Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Morris Sheppard, Henrik Shipstead,
Ellson D. Smith, Frederick Steiwer, Elmer Thomas, Elbert D. Thomas, John
G. Townsend, Jr., Park Trammell, Har S. Tr Frederick Van Nuys,
Robert F. Wagner, David I. Walsh, aB-Uron K ?Wleeler.
 Governors of States: James V. Allred, Governor of Texas; Tom Berry,
 Governor of South Dakota; Henry H. Blood, Governor of Utah; Louis J.
 Brann, Governor of Maine; R. L. Cochran, Governor of Nebraska; M. S.
 Conner, Governor of Mississippi; Frank E. Cooney, Governor of Montana;
 Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of Connecticut; James M. Curley, Governor of
 Massachusetts; George H. Earle, Governor of Pennsylvania; John C. Ehring-
 haus, Governor of North Carolina; J. M. Futrell, Governor of Arkansas; Bibb
 Graves, Governor of Alabama; Theodore F. Green, Governor of Rhode Island;
 Clyde L. Herring, Governor of Iowa; Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois;
 Edward C. Johnson, Governor of Colorado; Olin D. Johnson, Governor of South
 Carolina; Richard Kirman, Governor of Nevada; H. G. Kump, Governor of
 West Virginia; Ruby Laffoon, Governor of Kentucky; Philip F. La Follette,
 Governor of Wisconsin; Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York; E. W.
 Marland, Governor of Oklahoma; Clarence D. Martin, Governor of Washing-
 ton; Hill McAlister, Governor of Tennessee; Paul V. McNutt, Governor of
 Indiana; Leslie A. Miller, Governor of Wyoming; B. B. Moeur, Governor of
 Arizona; Floyd B. Olson, Governor of Minnesota; Guy B. Park, Governor of
 Missouri; George C. Peery. Governor of Virginia; C. Ben Ross, Governor of
 Idaho; Dave Sholtz, Governor of Florida; Clyde Tingley, Governor of New
 Mexico; Walter Welford, Acting Governor of North Dakota.
 The national associations: The National Gulf-Atlantic Ship Canml Associa-
 tion, Charles P. Summerall (president), Walter F. Coachman, Jr., Sumter L.