New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-05
Nem.l)ork paitp Gribune.
THE COAST SURVEY.
The ny. TnSaae.

Conepoasenee Of Tho n. Tribune
WASHINGTON Sept. LIST 1883.
communication appears in 7As TrbsS, headed The
Coast Survey" and signed @ W b in which ii is aver
red that your Coesponien, in his letter Of the
asth does gross Injustice 10 the s Coast Survey and rs
head Prof Bache al his charges against the work and M
Baehe being foul SANDER according Mr.. g W. l
made no charge against the Of the Coa Survey Tor
il has not seen the light and neither any other man.
can pronounce upon the character merits ofs work until
is completed and published Neither did attack the char
acer of Prof Bsche for he gentleman for whom enter
tain the warmest feelings OF respect made charges or
attack whatever stated that Professor Bache en-
camped with the Secretary Of War the White Noun
ans Perhaps he pursue the Coast Survey well there
as in Washington but marveed at his altitude 80 far
above the coast Now il notorious that payments or
appointments can be made in the Army or Navy, or
in the civil list without a law authorizing the lat
ter and defining the pay Of the former but strange
and startling may Prof Bache has been tor years
on this Coast Survey which should have been done by our
idle Navy with a high salary ts6OoO and unlimited and
uncontrolled powers touching appointments and the pay OF
his sppointees Prof Bache is bio,herinaw Of Robert
J Walker and near relative Of Geo NJ Dallas and when
Mr. Walker Secretary Of the Treasury add Mr. Dallas
Vice President Prof Bache invested with these extra
ordinary powers under the Treasury Department when the
work should have been committed TO the Navy. Prof
Bacne, Pcon IN, efP'e'~~ efo ''' "
members Of Congress and of political magnaes all over the
land that the moment question is ra sed about tho
Coast Survey word said about It. up starts some volua
teer in Kendall Green does &c. w B." and denies
what has never been charged and eaborstes puff on
Prof Bache and ire Coast Survey The thing should be
looked into and venture the assertion, that should the
next Congress examine into the Coast Survey they per
haps may it viii be found to have been all along one
of the most expensive and harmless humbugs extant
costing millions which could have been saved 10 the
Treasury had the Coast Survey been committed to the
Navy Department would have been in any other eoun
try Our Naval Officers are idle and Competent and
in these piping times of peace, il W, d have given
them employment Why is IL that Prof Bsche is con
santy gazeted as the White Mountains, at watering
places and at Washington in winter Does the Coast
Survey run up the White Mountains and through watering
places What the pus extraordinary from time TO
time of Prof Bache and the Coast Survey Is there not
some quack medicine herel some Old Jacob Townsends
sarsaparla or Shermans ozenges or Brandreths pills
Prof Bache cerfes his own accounts and exhauss the
heavy appropriations without "le hinlrance" Should
not Congress apply limit guago to this immense
leakage of our Treasury Prof Bache il Aanked and sur
rounded by political fraternity almost nvunerable but
that it may be preserved ncoupble, let Congress look
into the matter and fix some limit landmarks 10 this ex
tensve and expensive Coast Survey where man takes
approprations large and hmtless the Ocean and ex
ponds them he peases mountains and minons OF hs
own I'D.