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Show SURVcYiNG THE ISLES. President Sends Message to CongTess Recommending Board of Survey. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The President today sont a messago to Congress recommending recom-mending that provision bo made for tho appointment of a board of survey to superintend tho National surveys and explorations ex-plorations to bo made In the Phlllpjpno Islands, and that appropriation be made from time to tlmo to meet tho necessary expenses of such Investigation. It Is probablo that tho survey would not bo complotcd In a less period than that of eight or ten yenrs. but ho suggests that It should bo begun In tho near future. |