Email Record: Louisiana-Texas Intracoastal Waterway. Letter from the Secretary of War. Transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated July 5, 1939, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and an illustration, on reexamination of Louisiana-Texas Intracoastal Waterway with view to determining advisability of providing a suitable connecting channel between this Waterway and Barroom Bay, Tex., requested by resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted January 24, 1939.