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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journal of the Confederate Congress --FIFTY-THIRD DAY--SATURDAY, January 25, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Baker.
Congress then resolved itself into secret session.
SECRET SESSION.
Congress being in secret session,
Mr. Hale moved to suspend the regular order of the day, for the purpose of taking up for consideration
A bill to provide for recruiting companies now in the service of the Confederate States for twelve months.
The motion was agreed to.
And the bill was engrossed, read third time, and passed.
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb offered the following resolution, to wit:
Resolved, That the Secretary of Congress cause twenty-five hundred copies of the proceedings of Congress upon the occasion of the death of the Honorable John Tyler, together with the addresses delivered and the funeral discourse of the Right Reverend Bishop Johns, to be printed in pamphlet form for the use of the House.
Mr. Harris of Missouri moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Printing.
The motion did not prevail.
And the question recurring upon the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Curry, at the instance of the State of Alabama, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
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Yea: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, 8.
Nay: Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina, 3.
Divided: Louisiana and Texas, 2.
So the resolution was adopted.
Mr. H. C. Burnett introduced
A resolution relating to secondary testimony to be taken in cases pending in courts under the sequestration act;
which was read and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Conrad, from the select committee of three to whom was referred a resolution of inquiry as to the means by which the secret proceedings of this Congress are made public, and to report what legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent the same, reported the following order, to wit:
That this Congress do order that all persons, except the members and officers of this body, be excluded from all the rooms and offices thereof, except from this Hall, during the public sessions of the body, and half an hour immediately preceding such sessions.
Mr. Venable moved to lay the report on the table, and called the question; which was seconded, when Mr. Conrad, at the instance of the State of Louisiana, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
Yea: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, 8.
Nay: Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas, 5.
So the motion to lay on the table prevailed.
A message was received from the President, by the hands of his Private Secretary, Mr. Josselyn.
Mr. Kenner introduced
A bill to authorize certain financial arrangements at the Treasury; which was read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Mr. Johnson of Arkansas presented the letter of the Secretary of War in relation to certain negroes captured from hostile Indians by General McIntosh; which was read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Brooke introduced a bill supplementary to an act entitled "An act [sic.]; which was read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Davis introduced
A resolution relating to furnishing the Army with gloves;
which was read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Rhett introduced
A bill to compel direct importations from foreign countries;
which was read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commercial and Financial Independence.
Upon motion of Mr. Venable, the injunction of secrecy was removed from the report of the Naval Committee on the case of Capt. [Lieut.] B. W. Hunter.
Mr. De Witt introduced
A bill for the benefit of J. C. Apple;
which was read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr. Macfarland introduced
A resolution relating to the claim of the steamer Mary Patterson;
which was read and, together with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr. Brockenbrough introduced
A resolution relating to colonels, lieutenant-colonels, majors, quartermasters, and commissaries serving without commissions;
which was read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Boteler presented the memorial of Captain McGraw; which was referred to the Committee on Claims, without being read.
Mr. Staples, from the Committee on Military Affairs, by unanimous consent, reported and recommended the passage of
A bill, to increase the pay of chaplains in the Army;
which was read first and second times and, on motion of Mr. Barnwell, was placed on the Calendar.
On motion of Mr. Conrad, the special committee to whom was referred the resolution of inquiry as to the means by which the secret proceedings of Congress are made public, etc., were discharged from the further consideration of the subject.
Congress then proceeded to the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday; which was the motion of Mr. Toombs, as modified by himself, to strike out all of the first section of a bill to amend the sequestration act, etc., except the last sentence of the same.
Mr. Pryor moved to reconsider the vote on the passage of
A bill to provide for the granting of furloughs in certain cases.
Mr. Orr, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled
An act to appropriate $850,000 to pay for ordnance, ordnance stores, and equipments;
An act to establish an assay office at New Orleans; and
An act to authorize the change of the names of vessels in certain cases.
The Chair presented a communication from the President, transmitting to Congress a letter from the Secretary of War and the Quartermaster-General
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in response to a resolution of inquiry from the Congress; which was, together with the accompanying documents, referred to the special committee of one from each State to inquire into frauds in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments.
On motion of Mr. Monroe, an amendment presented by Mr. Memminger to an act to amend the sequestration act, etc., was ordered to be printed for the use of the House.
On motion of Mr. Conrad,
Congress then adjourned until 12 o'clock m. on Monday.
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