§ MR. HOGAN (Tipperary, Mid)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether, in view of the decision of the Ottawa Conference to recommend a complete survey of the route of the proposed Pacific cable and the conflicting estimates of the cost of such survey that have been published, he has any official information at his command upon which a trustworthy estimate may be based?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY,) Nottingham, E.The only information at my command is that which is contained in the "Charts and Sailing Directions" published by the Admiralty, and in a Report, published by the Government of the United States, of a survey of the Pacific between California and the Hawaiian Islands undertaken by American ships in the years 1891 and 1892.