532 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



provision is made for the office, and for paying the man who 

 has been employed under the Law to fill it. 



The Chairman. If the Chair understands the facts of the 

 case, this was a special service for which the appropriation 

 was made; and the service and office expire with the ex- 

 haustion of the appropriation. The amendment would not, 

 therefore, be in order under the rule established. 



Mr. Haven. Allow me to say one thing further. When 

 the Secretary of the Navy called the attention of the House 

 to this matter 



[Loud cries of " Order ! " " Order ! "] 



The Chairman, Does the gentleman appeal from the de- 

 cision of the Chair? 



Mr. Haven. I do ; and I desire simply to say that ever 

 since I have been in this House 



Mr. Phelps. I rise to a question of order. There is an 

 appeal pending, and no debate is in order. 



Mr. Stanton. I desire to make a suggestion. This is in 

 continuation of works which have already been commenced. 

 These observations have been carried on for a series of years. 



[Cries of " Qaestion ! " " Question ! "] 



The Chairman. The question is, "Shall the decision of 

 the Chair stand as the judgment of the committee?" 



The question was taken, and the decision of the Chair was 

 not sustained ; there being, on a count, only thirty-one in the 

 affirmative. 



The Chairman. The question is on the amendment sub- 

 mitted by the gentleman from ISTew York, [Mr. Haven.] 



Mr. Stuart, of Michigan. I move to amend the amend- 

 ment of the gentleman from !N"ew York, [Mr. Haven,] by 

 increasing the appropriation one dollar. 



I have moved the amendment merely for the purpose of 

 enabling me to ask one or two questions, to which I ask the 

 attention of the gentleman from New York. There is now 

 an officer employed by the Smithsonian Institution whose 

 duty it is to receive and to make all these meteorological 

 calculations, and to report upon them. Reports are sent from 

 all the different military stations in the country to him. He 

 is employed at present in getting out a work upon this sub- 

 ject at the expense of the Smithsonian Institution. What I 

 want to know is, whether these are the same services upon 

 which Professor Espy is employed? 



Mr. Haven. I can only answer the gentleman by refer- 

 ence to the documents. I know nothing of the computa- 

 tions of the Smithsonian Institution ; but I doubt not the 

 gentleman is correct in what he states. 



