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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 --SIXTY-THIRD DAY--THURSDAY, February 6, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Right Rev. Bishop Early.
Congress then resolved itself into secret session.
SECRET SESSION.
Congress being in secret session,
On motion of Mr. Owens, the name of Mr. Sanderson was substituted in place of that of Mr. Ward upon all committees of Congress of which Mr. Ward was a member.
Mr. Seddon presented joint resolutions of the general assembly of Virginia; which were read as follows, to wit:
Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That our Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States be requested to use their utmost efforts to procure the passage by Congress of a law authorizing and limiting impressments for the military service of the Confederate States, and providing for the payment to the owner of land and personal property such losses and damages as his property may have sustained while in the possession and use of the Confederate States of America.
Resolved, That the clerk of this house forward without delay a copy of the foregoing resolution to each of our Representatives in the Confederate Congress.
Mr. Seddon also offered the following resolution; which was read and agreed to, to wit:
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and they be instructed to inquire and report what legislation may be requisite to effect the objects therein designated.
Congress then proceeded to the consideration of the unfinished business of the morning hour; which was the consideration of the proviso offered by Mr. Wigfall to
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A bill to provide for local defense and special service.
On motion of Mr. Waul, the further consideration of the same was postponed for the present.
Mr. Avery, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred
A resolution relating to the claim of the steamer Mary Patterson, reported the same back, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the resolution lie on the table; which was agreed to.
Mr. Avery, from the same committee, reported back unfavorably
A bill supplementary to and amendatory of an act for the relief of the State of Missouri,
Asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that the bill lie on the table.
On motion of Mr. Vest, the consideration of the report of the committee was postponed for the present.
Mr. Ochiltree, from the same committee, to whom was referred the report, of Colonel McIntosh of the battle of Chustenahlah, reported the same back, with the recommendation that it be printed; which was agreed to.
Mr. Harris of Mississippi moved to postpone the further consideration of the business of the morning hour, for the purpose of considering his motion to reconsider the vote by which Congress refused to order to be engrossed for a third reading
A bill to provide for the connection of the Richmond and Danville and Greensboro Railroads with the North Carolina Railroad.
And upon which, at the instance of the State of Mississippi, he demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded; which are as follows, to wit:
Yea: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, 7.
Nay: Arkansas, Florida Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina, 6.
So the motion to postpone prevailed.
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Mr. Harris called the question, and the question being,
Shall the call for the question be sustained?
Mr. Toombs, at the instance of the State of Georgia, demanded that the yeas and nays of the whole body be recorded thereon; which are as follows, to wit:
Yea: Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, 9.
Nay: Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 3.
Divided: Louisiana, 1.
So the demand for the question was sustained,
And the question recurring upon the motion of Mr. Harris to reconsider,
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, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, 8.
Nay: Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 3.
Divided: Louisiana and South Carolina, 2.
So the motion to reconsider prevailed.
Mr. Oldham, from the Committee on Engrossment, reported as correctly engrossed and enrolled
A resolution in regard to the transfer of certain Indian trust funds to the Confederate States.
A message was received from the President, by the hands of his Private Secretary, Mr. Josselyn, informing Congress that the President has this day approved and signed
A resolution in regard to the transfer of certain Indian trust funds to the Confederate States.
Mr. Smith of Alabama moved to amend by adding to the end of the bill the following, to wit:
Be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to employ the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the completion of a railroad from or near Demopolis, Alabama, to Meridian, Mississippi, in such manner and on such terms as to him shall seem proper.
Be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to expend the sum of one million of dollars in completing a railroad connection between Selma, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, in such manner and on such terms as to him shall seem proper.
On motion of Mr. Ochiltree, 500 extra copies of the reports of the various battles, inclusive of the report of Major-General Polk of the battle of Belmont, [were ordered to] be printed.
Mr. De Witt moved to reconsider the vote on the passage of
A bill to compensate Sydney S. Baxter for certain services therein named.
Mr. Ochiltree offered
A resolution relative to the publication of certain military bills passed by the Congress;
which was read and laid on the table.
On motion of Mr. Monroe, all amendments to the bill to amend the sequestration act, etc., were ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Jones of Alabama,
Congress adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
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