OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, CHAIRMAN MRS. MARIAN E. MARTIN
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CONFERENCE OF THE MINORITY.
?ebruary 7, 1922.
Mr. H. B. Ayres, Battle House, Mobile, Ala.
My dear Mr. Ayres:
I am in receipt of your letter of the 3rd
inst., and I wish it were possible for me to be present at the meeting of the Highway Department. I have been away from the Senate so much in the last few months on account of being a member of the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments that I feel that now the Conference has adjourned I should get back to my congressional duties. Mr. lord's proposal to develop Muscle Shoals is now before the Senate, and I am doing the very best I can to secure favorable action, so you can see that it is impossible for me to leave Washington at this time.
.ith kindest regards, I am Cord ioi t w in