Show to survey the ph flippines lip pines the president has sent a message to congress recommending that provision be made tor for the appointment of a board of survey to superintend the national surveys and explorations to be made in the philippine islands and that appropriation be made from time to time to meet the necessary expenses of df such investigation it is probable that the survey bould not be corn com plated in a less period than that of eight or ten years but he suggests that it should be begun in the near tu fu ture |