416 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL

 DOCUMENT NO. 137 (FILES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE),
 MAY 15, 196
 CoMxxucaTox FROM SmNIATo FUWCHEB T To TH SBCRETAR or
 COMMERCE
 Coxxaenc
 Under date of May 15, 1936, the following communication was
 addressed by Senator Fletcher to the Secretary of Commerce:

 UNrrm STATlB SmNAT,
 May 15, 1936.
 Hon. DAmEa C. Rors,
 Secretary of Commerce, WaUMngton, D. 0.
 Mr Drax M. SzcesrAzY: In the matter of the Florida Canal, statements have
 been made purporting to be taken from an economic survey of this project made
 by the Department of Commerce, which are to the effect that the Department has
 reported the project to be economically unjustifiable. I have studied the report,
 and I cannot draw any such conclusions from the findings set forth therein.
 As I understand the matter, the Department made a statistical survey, without
 reference to the cost of the proposed project, and that this statistical survey was
 made at the request of the War Department, to be used as one of the bases upon
 which they might determine the justification of the project.
 Sincerely yours,
 DmVoas U. FrzTCHm

 DOCUMENT NO. 138 (FILES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE),
 MAY 18, 1936
 CoMMUNICATION Faox THm SzCBiARY or CoMMEacE TO SENATOR


 Under date of May 18, 1936, the following communication was
 addressed by the Secretary of Commerce to Senator Fletcher:

 DPAUrTM ONT or CoxMMRC,
 OrMS or THa SBusrAEa ,
 Wo.Mngton, May 18, 1936.
 Hon. Duncan U. Fra mcn,
 United States Senate, Waat ton, D. 0.
 My Dm&a Smciim FrarwHm: In reply to your letter of May 15, I am informed
 by the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce that Its eco-
 nomic survey of the Florida ship canal was made at the request of the Chief of
 Engineers of the War Department for use by the Army engineers in their study
 of the canaL In its survey of the economic phases of this project the Bureau
 did not pas upon the economic justification of the canal as related to the cost
 of construction.
 Very sincerely,
 DANIL C. Romm,
 Secretary of Commerce.

 DOCUMENT NO. 139 (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, MAY 30, 1936), MAY
 22, 1936
CoMMuNioATnoN FROM RIEB ADMIm& F. B. BAssErr, RErnED, To
 ABM ExoINE s BoARD or REVIEW
 Under date of May 22, 1936, Rear Admiral F. B. Bassett, United
States Navy, retired, addressed the following communication to the
Army engineers board of review at Ocala, Fla.: