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Show AuotUer -rcnl Kullroud Nelirnr. Washington, 111. --Tlio Hen a to com-mdleo com-mdleo on railroads this morning j heard O. K. Owen, civil engineer, in ! advocacy of the bill providing for a 'government survey to extend from Austin, Texan, to the harbor of Topo-1 t lovuiiiio, (tn tlio Gulf of California, Willi a view to determining the ad van- j tagea of this mute for an intor-oceanic , railroad. Lant year the engineer department n'lnjrted favorably on ; the prop.isiliou to appropriate $2.j1fKJ for thin purjVwo, and Mr. Owen today to-day informed the committee that after the adjournment of congress l'rei-denl l'rei-denl Grant directed tho secretary of stiitc to communicate with the Mexican Mexi-can government to ascertain whether it would object lo the proponed survey beiu' extended over ils territory, and in ri piy the Mexican authorities havu given a-biiraneefl that they will not , only permit bul wclcomo and asi.it Hilcli survey. I |