Text this: New Madrid Floodway, Missouri. Letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated July 11, 1952, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on a review of reports on the lower Mississippi River, with a view to determining whether improved flood protection should be provided for in the New Madrid Floodway, Missouri, requested by a resolution of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, adopted on April 18, 1951.