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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-FOURTH DAY--MONDAY, January 27, 1862.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume I]
FIFTY-FOURTH DAY--MONDAY, January 27, 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,

A message was received from the President, by the hands of his Private Secretary, Mr. Josselyn.

Mr. T. R. R. Cobb moved that Congress proceed to the consideration of the motion of Mr. Barnwell to reconsider the vote by which the resolution instructing the Committee on Printing to report a bill for the immediate publication of the Journal of the Convention and the Journals of Congress was passed.

The motion was agreed to.

And the motion to reconsider being under consideration, Mr. Avery, at the instance of the State of North Carolina, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:

• Alabama--Yea: Messrs. Curry, Chilton, Hale, McRae, and Jones.
• Arkansas--Yea: Messrs. Johnson and Garland. Nay: Messrs. Thomason and Watkins.
• Florida--Yea: Messrs. Ward and Owens.
• Georgia--Yea: Mr. Hill. Nay: Messrs. Toombs, Howell Cobb, Foreman, Crawford, Bass, T. R. R. Cobb, and Kenan.
• Kentucky--Yea: Messrs. Monroe, H. C. Burnett, Johnson, Ford, Thomas, and White.
• Louisiana--Yea: Messrs. Perkins, De Clouet, and Conrad. Nay: Mr. Kenner.
• Mississippi--Yea: Messrs. Harris, Brooke, Orr, Bradford, Barry Harrison, and Campbell.
• Missouri--Yea: Messrs. Peyton, Conrow, and Freeman. Nay: Messrs. Clark, Harris, Vest, and Bell.
• North Carolina--Yea: Messrs. Davis, Avery, Smith, Ruffin, McDowell, Venable, Morehead, and Davidson. Nay: Mr. Puryear.
• South Carolina--Yea: Messrs. Barn well and Boyce. Nay: Mr. Rhett.
• Tennessee--Yea: Messrs. House and Jones. Nay: Messrs. De Witt and Thomas.

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• Texas--Nay: Messrs. Reagan and Waul.
• Virginia--Yea: Messrs. Seddon, Hunter, Macfarland, Pryor Bocock, Scott, Brockenbrough, Russell, Johnston, Staples, and Walter Preston. Nay: Mr. Rives.

Yea: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. 8.

Nay: Georgia, Missouri, and Texas, 3.

Divided: Arkansas and Tennessee, 2.

So the motion to reconsider prevailed.

Mr. Perkins offered as a substitute for the resolution of Mr. Cobb, the following, to wit:

Resolved, That the Committee on Printing inquire what is the best mode of preserving the Journals of Congress.

Upon which Mr. Waul, at the instance of the State of Texas, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded; which are as follows, to wit:

• Alabama--Yea: Messrs. Smith, Curry, Chilton, Hale, and Jones.
• Arkansas--Yea: Messrs. Johnson, Rust, and Garland. Nay: Messrs. Thomason and Watkins.
• Florida--Yea: Messrs. Morton, Ward, and Owens.
• Georgia--Yea: Mr. Hill. Nay: Messrs. Toombs, Howell Cobb, Foreman, Crawford, Bass, T. R. R. Cobb, and Kenan.
• Kentucky--Yea: Messrs. Monroe and Thomas. Nay: Messrs. Johnson, Ford, and White.
• Louisiana--Yea: Messrs. Perkins, De Clouet, and Conrad. Nay: Mr. Kenner.
• Mississippi--Yea: Messrs. Harris, Brooke, Orr, Barry, Harrison, and Campbell. Nay: Mr. Bradford.
• Missouri--Yea: Messrs. Peyton, Conrow, and Freeman. Nay: Messrs. Clark, Cooke, Harris, and Bell.
• North Carolina--Yea: Messrs. Davis, Smith, Ruffin, McDowell, Venable, Morehead, and Davidson. Nay: Messrs. Avery and Puryear.
• South Carolina--Yea: Messrs. Barnwell, Memminger, and Boyce. Nay: Mr. Rhett.
• Tennessee--Yea: Mr. House. Nay: Messrs. Jones, De Witt, and Thomas.
• Texas--Nay: Messrs. Reagan, Waul, and Ochiltree.
• Virginia--Yea: Messrs. Seddon, Hunter, Macfarland, Bocock, Scott, Russell, Johnston, Staples, and Walter Preston. Nay: Messrs. Pryor, Rives, and Brockenbrough.

Yea: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 8.

Nay: Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas, 5.

So the substitute was agreed to.

And the question being upon the adoption of the substitute, the vote was taken, and the same was adopted.

Mr. Orr, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled

An act to provide for recruiting companies now in the service of the Confederate States for twelve months.

Mr. Venable moved to postpone the consideration of the unfinished business, for the purpose of concluding the call of the States.

The motion did not prevail.

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Congress then resolved itself into executive session; and having spent some time therein, again resolved itself into legislative session.

The Chair presented certain estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury; which were referred to the Committee on Finance, without being read.

Congress then proceeded to the consideration of the unfinished business; which was the motion of Mr. Toombs to strike out all but the last sentence of the first section of a bill to amend the sequestration act, etc.

Mr. Orr, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled

An act for the relief of the State of Missouri.

Mr. Staples offered the following resolution; which was read and agreed to, to wit:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to furnish to Congress an estimate of the amount proper to be paid to James Lyons and Sydney N. Baxter, for services rendered the Government in investigating charges against persons confined as prisoners in the city of Richmond.

Congress, on motion of Mr. Walter Preston,

Adjourned until 12 o'clock m. to-morrow.

EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Congress being in executive session,

The following communications from the President were laid before Congress by the Chair, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, viz:

I nominate the persons named in the annexed list, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Lieutenants for the war.
• Thomas B. Mills, of Alabama; William A. Kerr, of North Carolina; Samuel W. Averett, of Virginia; H. B. Claiborne, of Louisiana; Hilary Cenas, of Louisiana; William C. Whittle, jr., of Virginia; John Grimball, of South Carolina; Wilburn B. Hall, of Georgia; George A. Borchert, of Georgia.

  The above are now masters and acting lieutenants in the Navy.

• Arthur D. Wharton, of Tennessee; Thomas L. Harrison, of Virginia; James L. Hoole, of Alabama; Edmund G. Read, of Virginia; Sardine G. Stone, of Alabama; William Van Comstock, of Louisiana; Richard F. Armstrong, of Arkansas; James E. Fiske, of North Carolina; J. H. Comstock, of Arkansas; Thomas L. Dornin, of Virginia; James L. Tayloe, of Virginia; Francis L. Hoge, of Virginia; Charles W. Read, of Mississippi; John H. Ingraham, of South Carolina; William A. Hicks, of Mississippi; Albert G. Hudgins, of Virginia; Charles K. King, of Virginia; Joseph D. Wilson, of Florida.

  The above are now acting masters in the Navy.

I nominate the persons named in the annexed list, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

• Lieutenants in the Navy.
• John H. Parker, of Virginia, late a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
• Nicholas H. Van Zandt, of the District of Columbia, late a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
• Charles J. Graves, of Georgia, late a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
• Walter R. Butt, of Virginia, late a lieutenant in the United States Navy.

• Surgeon.
• Charles F. Fahs, of Virginia, late a surgeon in the, United States Navy.

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• Assistant surgeon.
• James E. Lindsay, of North Carolina, late assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.

• Assistant paymaster.
• Richard L. Mackall, of Virginia.

MARINE CORPS.
• • Captain.
  • Robert Tansill, of Virginia, late a captain in the United States Marine Corps.
• • First lieutenant.
  • Thomas S. Wilson, of Missouri, late a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
• • Second lieutenant.
  • James F. Claiborne, of Louisiana.

Mr. Avery, at the instance of the State of South Carolina, moved to reconsider the vote by which the nomination of J. E. Lindsay, to be a surgeon in the Navy, was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

The motion was agreed to, and the nomination was then laid on the table.

Mr. Macfarland, from the Committee on Commercial Affairs, to which was referred the nomination of R. H. Lawton, to be collector of the port of Richmond, reported the same back, with the recommendation that Congress advise and consent to the same.

The report was agreed to, and Congress advised and consented to the nomination.

Congress then resolved itself into legislative session.

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