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contained in it; and I should be pleased if you would allow the report to be with- 

 held from Congress till its second session, at which time the year 1852 would be 

 embodied in it. 



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 recommendations 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 session, 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, because 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 faithfully, 

 as it is an appropriation which I think ought to be made. It is cer- 

 tainly one which has been adopted as an amendment to this bill for the 

 last half dozen years. 



The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would inquire whether the office was 

 established by law? 



Mr. HAVEN. Certainly; and this .nan is in the employment 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 meteorological 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 ques- 

 tion of order. 



Mr. HAVEN. I will not say whether I am right or wrong in refer- 

 ence to this matter; but I do say that for a series of years appropria- 

 tions 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. WM. SMITH, of Virginia. Will the gentleman say whether the 

 office of Mr. Espy, who used to be called the "Storm King," is an 

 office 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 can not say whether there is such an officer as the head of 

 a bureau of meteorological surveys, but I do understand that the law 

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

 provision is made for the office, and for pajdng the man who has been 

 employed under the law to fill it. 



