The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-14


rates as follows:-
On all sugars syrups, &C., not above No. 49, Dutch
standard. 41-1O0 cents per pound
On all sugars, syrups. &c. above No. l3 and not
above No. 49, Dutch standard 75-1O0 cents per
pound.
On all sugars above No. lG. Dutch standard. four
cents per pound.
tits thought by those we'll informed on the subject
that in making the duty all grades of sugar below
No 10 uniform there will be little or no inducement
for coloring. The committee. therefore, in view OF
this fact. took no action the propositions sub
mitted to them looking to the introduction of the
polariscope or the application Of chemical tests.
SURVEYS IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HUM
PHREY IN OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN RE-
GENTLY RECOMMENDED By THE NATIONAL
ACADEMY.
The Secretary of War transmitted to the Senate to-
day letter from General Humphrey. Chief of Eng-
neers respecting surveys in the Territories west Of
the Mississippi River and the changes recently
nended to Congress by the National Academy of
Sciences concerning the methods and the character
of those surveys and the manner of carrying the
work The Secretary of War quotes from letter which
he transmitted tothe National Academy of Sciences
while this matter under consideration by it, in
which he said it believed be the interests
of the West under the Engineers Department. shall
continue to the full extent that Congress may be will
ing to grant appropriations therefor Since a
thorough survey of the West, of any kind will in
volve millions of dollars and since the plan proposed
by the National Academy, if adopted, will prevent
the prompt supplying of the War Department with
the maps which requisite for its economical adj
mnstration and for the use of the officers in the
field the Secretary invites the especial consideration
Of the Senate to the communication of the Chief Of
Engineers, with the recommendation that the appro-
priation for military surveys shall remain hereto
FORE General Humphrey in reviewing the plan of
the Academy, says
1t assumes first, that the government is already
making rgdly exact geodetic triangulaion the
interior well along the coast, and calls it a
geodetic system. 1t then attaches to its geodec
tenn Typographical system and land parceng sys-
of equally rigid exactitude the geodetic sys-
tenn. Should the government adopt this recommends.
ton scores of years would elapse and hundreds Of
millions Of dollars would be expended before
the survey could be completed. That survey
of an extended area aiming at the highest degree of
accuracy should be rigdly exact, geodetc survey,
is evident to ALL but what practical public good is to
be attained by the enormous expenditure that such a
system Of survey requires is not evident. Under
the plan Of survey now carried by the War De-
partment which is geodetic as well as topographic,
the survey of the whole interior region would be
completed in ten fifteen years at cost of not
ceeding 000 and with all the accuracy that the
wants Of the War Department and newly settled
The General after further remarks, SAYS
The coast survey was organized for the survey of
the coast solely and because OF the danger to
navigation in approaching it, In like manner the
the Pacific Ocean devoived upon the engineer depart
ment because it legitimate part of its duty
much 80 as it was the duty of the coast survey to
include in its operations the Pacific coast soon
that territory was acquired
The typographical land part Of the survey of the
coast survey west of the Mississippi River has been
mostly limited far as it has gone to strip
along the Pacific Ocean, the of which in square
miles is not known to this department. but it cannot
be very great. Omtting it from the calculation and
deducug the areas OF the surveys of the War and In
terror departments to date we have an approx
mate balance of to be surveyed west of the
hundredth meridian, $4,000 square miles. At the
estimated rate of cost of coast survey Topography
this area would be about s475 900 OOO At the rate OF
cost Of topography in the late survey-namey, S125
per square mile the cost would be about $102 600
At the rate of cost proposed by General Comsock
proper cost Of the States admitted into the
Union prior to 1860, emitting the States before
toned the cost of survey of the balance $4,000
square miles west of the one hundredth meridian
would be either $23 456 900 $42 49, 900 depending
the cost of establishing the standing points Of the
s,lrveywhether by astronomical by triangulation
methods-the estimated cost of survey being in the
first case SAL and in the latter $50 per square
mile.
The General concludes by saying that in the view
of his department, no such survey Of our Western
lands contemplated in any of the foregoing
statements of costs of survey would be warranted
this time, would it be warranted for many years
to come. No department of the government requires
such a survey for its business do the settlers on
our public domain require it.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE REPRESENTATIVES, AT THE
WHITE HoUsE-THE PRESIDENT TAKEN TO
TAsK-opposITIoN TO THE poIYGAsIy ACT OF
1862.
committee of the Woman Suffrage Convention.
Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Williams the two
latter of Utah. called upon the President this morn
ing and presented memorial and other papers in
relation to female suffrage. and charging that
the President had ignored the women of
the country in his annual Message. They
also called the attention of the President the
decision of the Supreme Court in relation to polyga-
marriages and to the effect of enforcing the act
of 1862, and said it would make thousands of
outcasts and their children icgitimate. The Pr ST.
dent said he was deeply impressed by what had
been said, and requested that Mrs. Williams
and Mrs. Wells make out statements in writing
and submit them to him. He wanted all the
information on the subject he could procure.
They promised to do this, and the President
then asked them how he could them. The
reply by vetoing any bill to enforce the act
1862" In to the memorial and the remarks
said
you say have ignored the women of the country
in my annual Message. / will carefully consider
what you have said and the papers you have pre-
scented to me. In my next Message viii act accord
ing to the dictates OF my conscience and the best
light have"
Ex-suPERvIsING ARCHITECT MULLErT ASKS FOR
MORE.
g Al,1,a
Senate petition from a. d. Mu1ett asking a refer
TO the Court of Claims of his claims for plans
specification and superintendent of work upon the
State Department buildings. in the Post Office
Department and on the District of Columbia Jail
while he was supervising architect of the Treas
ury Department. This work. he claims. was outside
of the legitimate duties of his position but under
strict construction of the law he is authorized to
present claim without legislative action the sub