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This man has been regularly and continuously employed; 

 and you will find, in the cases referred to, that the Secretary 

 of the Navy has made the reconmiendations of which I have 

 spoken. You will find, by referring to page 112, that this 

 appropriation of ^2,000 a year was not only made for that 

 year, but for the year previous. In the act of the last ses- 

 sion at page 221, you will find that the same appropriation 

 was made, and in the precise way in which it has been made 

 in every particular case, I now offer this amendment, be- 

 cause my friend from Georgia, [Mr. Stephens,] who is my 

 colleague upon the Committee of Ways and Means, told me 

 that he had always attended to it, and he intrusted it to my 

 hands now. I wish to perform that trust faithfullj^ as it is 

 an appropriation which I think ought to be made. It is 

 certainly one which has been adopted as an amendment to 

 this bill for the last half dozen 3'ears. 



The Chairman. The Chair would inquire whether the 

 oflEice was established by law? 



Mr. Haven. Certainly; and this man is in the employ- 

 ment of the Government. He is now engaged in making 

 a report. 



Mr. Phelps. I differ with the gentleman as to the fact 

 whether the office was established by law. I admit that in 

 two or three naval appropriation bills an amendment was 

 passed making provision for the prosecution of meteoro- 

 logical surveys, but those appropriations were only made 

 from year to year. There is no such officer provided for 

 by law. His term of office expired the 1st of July, and 

 there is no law providing for the continuation or further 

 prosecution of these meteorological surveys. It is for these 

 reasons that I raise the question of order. 



Mr. Haven. I will not say whether I am right or wrong 

 in reference to this matter; but I do say that for a series of 

 years appropriations have been made from year to year for 

 this purpose, contained precisely in the same words as my 

 amendment. This man is in the public employment 



Mr. Smith, of Virginia. Will the gentleman say whether 

 the ofiice of Mr. Espy, who used to be called the Storm 

 King, is an ofiice created by law? 



Mr. Haven. The question which my friend from Virginia 

 puts me has reference to the designation of the man that 

 fills the office — Storm King, as he says — rather than to the 

 employment in which he is engaged. I cannot say whether 

 there is such an officer as the head of a bureau of meteoro- 

 logical surveys, but I do understand that the law has made 

 provision for this office. I have pointed to the place where 



