The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-29
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Opposition 20 Further work By the I.
American Navy.
NV YORK. March IA special to

American Navy
NEW YORK. March 21.-A special TO
the Tribune from Washington says.
The superintendent Of the Coas; sur
vey appeared before the Naya. Com
u4-lsz " -Ae H1.sz ID opposition 20
the proposed appropriation 90 enable
-ll N-sy Deg-l-L-sA- ~ continue Us
surveys % the new IlsI-Lr possessions
L-st years naval ul--, approved D. the
President on Marc 81, au-l.r.ZlL the
navy o make surveys OF The iEper-
fec-.y known PARIS CI the coasts AID
harbors Of the Philippine archipelago
and the Islands o. CuJa and PJI-J H.
co. with -heir bordering keys and wa
tiers and minor outlying Islands On
the same day the President signed the
suudry civil bill. which provided for
the coast survey OF the Treasury De-
partmelt, with an Appropriation Tor
every expenditure requisite for and in
cideut 70 the survey Of the coasts OF
The United States and Of the coasts IN
der the Jurisdiction Of the United
States" Both departments were thus
authorized in direct terms 10 enter the
same field Of work, which they pro-
ceeded 10 90.
The Navy now has two vessels en-
gagged in making surveys in Cuba. one
in the outlying Islands eastward Of
Porto Rico. one in the Hawaiian ISL
auds and one at Guam, and orders have
been issued for the preparation OF six
OF the naval vessels in Philippine va
ters 10 begin the surveys OF those va
tiers. The Coast and GeOdetic Sun
has one vessel engaged in making sur
veys on the south coast OF Porto Rico
TnH
far no case has arisen in which vessels
OF the two departments have surveyed
the same ground, and there has been
no actual duplication OF the field
work. But under the provisions OF the
revised statutes, sections 431 and 432.
the Navy has been for years surveying
in all parts Of the world. and has been
Issuing charts Of Cuba, Porto Rico.
Gram, Hawaii and the Philippines,
while the Coast Survey has been lin
tied TO the shore line OF the United
States. However, in 1898. the Coast
Survey published a chart OF Cuba made
up from Spanish sources, which had
already been made available % the
Government and the people Of the Unit
cd States in a Navy Department char.
years earlier.
About the same time, and before the
Treasury Department had done any
surveying in the West Indies, the Coast
Survey chart No. go of the Island OF
Porto Rico was published in practical
duplication OF Navy Department
chart No. 1,00l, which has been on is
sue by the Photographic Office since
1897 and had the latest information in
corporated into It; in the same year.
and before the Treasury Department
had done any surveying in the Ha-
Waiian Islands, Coast Survey chart No.
400 of the Hawaiian Islands was pub
lished, duplicating Navy Department
chart No. 1,36S, which had been issued
by the Photographic Office since 1898;
and again in 1900, and without ever
having done any surveying whatever
at the Island of Guam, the Coast Sur
vey republished in chart No. 4.202 the
information that IS represented In Navy
Department chart No. 1,74S, which the
Hydrographic Office has been issuing
since 1896, and which is now subject to
extensive alterations found necessary
through recent naval surveys.
To avoid further duplication, Con-
gress will probably confine the opera
tions OF the Coast Survey TO the Main
land of the United States. II has been
found that to enable the Coast Survey
TO do the work will compel the repair
of the older vessels Of the Coast Survey.
the building or purchase OF new ones
and large sums 70 man them, as the
work Is essentially shipwork.