New-York tribune., 1875-08-06
creasing tho expenses Of the Centennial Commission
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC

| DISCUSSION.
| Closely connected with tho advantages OF thu
celebration for the instruction Of own people
and the general advance Of science. is the
opportunity 1t affords to tho Government Of
calling to the front as jurymen, as members Of in
ternational congresses, and managers Of various
deparimcnts the mon Of learning, of science and art
and the experts in every branch of giving to them
the prominence too seldom accorded to them in our
actual politics, but which is clearly due to them on
such an occasion, the promoters of our national
progress and tho trIcst expOnens of DObest cu-
ture. This is the essential if Congress and the
Government are resolved that the thoIOughness Of
their management at Philadelphia shall retrieve the
national misfortune experienced at Vienna. OF that
story the truth disclosed in the official record is
known only to the Government, but upon the ques-
tiOn how far sOme members or the original COmms-
sion appointed to represent the American Govern.
ment in that assembly of nations wero fair repre-
sentatives of science art aud culture, of
the ordinary standard Of American responsibility,
sone idea may be- got from the language of the Chief
Commissioner Of his estimate Of their character
and of their serespcct AT the time when he selected
them for nomination to the State Department.
He said, and the statement was under oath: -
have repeatedly stated TO different Assistant Com
nssioncrs when appointed them that held in my
hands the power of SUSPENSION which ! would not
fail to exercise at Vienna if had good reason TO be-
lieye them guilty of any impropiety"
With effective arrangements for bringing together
in friendly conferences and cong the scientists
Of America aud those Of Europe, il is possible to i'm
prove and develop feature introduced at Vienna in
a manner that in this particular will give an easy
pre;;nDence to the Exhibition at Philadelphia over
| all its predecessors
TO this interesting branch of the Exhibition, in
which il easily be made to excel, without cost
or trouble to the Centcnn8l Commission. | will
again refer and give fully the substance Of tho
suggestions this point. made moro than year
| ago at Vienna, for the consideration OF the Cow
eminent and the Commission
Tho special plan of procedure then proposed was,
! think approved by Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian
Institution and the general idea has already been
prominently introduced by the Centennial COmmis-
sion in their last report pp. 1926, inclusiye it
may be hoped that thoir arrangements by a series
of international congresses. " FOR the discussion OF
important matters, to which either the Exhibition
itself gives rise which might be specially selected
~ subjects of international interest" will form .
prominent and most successful feature in the Cen
tennial programme.
! The plan suggested for tho congresses was briefly
TO the effect that tho Smithsonian Institution should
! be asked to decide upon a list OF subjects, and then
| to submit the consideration of each to the chief
should be convened at Washington. That if the
idea was approved, such experts should DO made
committee to prepare programme. select and invite
the proper persons throughout the world and assume
! tho entire charge and responsibility for the holding
of the Congress- and tho reporting of It's pr0ceedngs
| leaving to the Centennial Commission no other care
| in the matter than to furnish proper hall. with
proper attendance, and arrange the sittings Of tho
congresses in such manner that those OF cognate
! f.,t
| of our foreign guests.
SUBJECTS SUGGESTED FOR INTERNATIONAL DISCUS
SION.
Among the subjects suggested as worthy Of inter-
national discussion werc Education in its various
branches, International patent right and copyright
agriculture and horticulture, forestry. wines. fish
culture medicine including the cholera aud
gerry; music engraving. architecture. mining. teIe-
graphy photography in its application to astronomy
art-miseums and art-oXchanges; prehistoric re-
mains. especially i'll America; metcoroiOgy, inter-
national law reform. municipal and sanitary re-
forms, hospitals; education of the blind, the deaf.
and dumb, &C., apart from the special congresses
which the representatives of separate branches Of
art and industry might desire t0 assemble
Professor Henry, i'll view of the beneficial result to
science aud civilization that should flow from
gres,es inauguratod by experts, and assisted
by those of Europe asked whether the Governments
might not properly detail one or ships to bring
to shores the most eminent Of foreign scientists
who should do us the honor TO lend their assistance
INTERNATIONAL PATENT PROTECTION.
One of the International congresses at Vienna. that
on the question of "patent protection" commanded
much attention in Germany and England. and the
adoption for the first time by the inventors and
manufacturers of different nations of a series of pro-
positions nearly approaching the doctrines embodied
ia system increased the promise of q favor
able issue to the negotiations which were then PEN
ding for an international convention on the subject
between Austria. Hungary and the United StatOs.
The Congress resulted in permanent organization
with various branch associations, and if invent
ors appreciate the progress already made they will
max haste to push their advantage at Philadelphia.
and make common cause with thor friends in Eu-
rope in demanding an international system that will
give to an inventor i'll country protection
throughout tho world.
| In these two particulars tho Centennial Ceiebra-
ton may easily excel those of London, Paris and
Vienna: in congresses composed the ablest scien-
fists of the world and discussing worldwide ques-
tons. aid in tho ability to mako their Park mina-
ture world giving to our unravelcd couEtTynen
the delight of seeing bits of each country in
sion. the visitor to the Prater hit Of Japan.
Fairmoun is admirably fitted for such an exhibition.
with its 1900 acres borrowed from an
cient homesteads and shaded by ancestral trees.
Tho pleasing variety of its surface, tho
beautiful landscape, from its hills and pateaHX and
the waters of the Schuylkill combine to afford All
vantages which, if improved. must make the outside
surroundings of tho Centennial buildings more at
tractive by far than wero tho grounds in London,
Paris or Vienna.
HE TARIFF DIsADvANTAGTOUS FOR FOREIGN pIS-
PLAY.
There u one point and that of great importance.