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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 --WEDNESDAY, January 13, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dalton:
Mr. President: The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed an enrolled bill, I am directed to bring it to the Senate for the signature of their President.
Mr. Sparrow presented a communication from various division and brigade commanders, submitting a plan for the reorganization of the Army; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Caperton submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire what salary is payable to the judges of the district courts of the Confederate States, in Virginia, by reason of the second section of the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the late act of the general assembly of Virginia by which the salaries of the judges of the supreme court of appeals have been increased from three thousand dollars to five thousand dollars, to take effect and be payable from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; and to report a bill for such increase of the salary of the judges of the said district courts of the Confederate States in Virginia as shall make their salaries equal to that paid under said act of the general assembly to the said judges of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia.
Mr. Caperton presented the memorial of the Virginia Volunteer Navy Company, praying an amendment of the law creating a volunteer navy, and also an appropriation of money to aid in the purchase and equipment of vessels; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Mr. Clay, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bills; which were severally read the first and second times and ordered to be printed:
Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (S. 181) for the relief of William M. Bowles, Richard Bowles, and others, reported it without amendment.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill last mentioned; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.
Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.
The said bill was read the third time.
Resolved, That it pass, and that the title thereof be as aforesaid.
Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.
Mr. Hill, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution of the general assembly of the State of Georgia, asking that the appointment of all impressment officers in that State liable to conscription may be revoked, and that citizens not liable to
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military duty may be appointed in their stead, reported favorably thereon.
Ordered, That the resolution lie upon the table.
Mr. Caperton, from the committee, reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled
A bill (H. R. 88) to continue in force the provisions of an act therein named.
The President pro tempore having signed the enrolled bill last reported to have been examined, it was delivered to the Secretary of the Senate and by him forthwith presented to the President of the Confederate States for his approval.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:
Richmond, January 13, 1864.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit for your information a communication from the Secretary of War, covering a copy of "Major-General Hindman's report of his operations while in command of the Trans-Mississippi District."
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The message was read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion by Mr. Clark,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 158) to organize forces to serve during the war.
The question being on agreeing to the following amendment proposed by Mr. Burnett, as amended, viz: After "eighteen hundred and sixty-two," section 9, line 7, insert the words
or who may have employed substitutes at a price not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, shall be paid back a pro rata amount of the sum so paid by him, based upon the time his substitute has served and the time the principal would have had to serve had he been in the service,
On motion by Mr. Burnett,
Ordered, That the said amendment lie upon the table.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by striking out the word "act," section 9, line 6, and inserting "acts," and by inserting after "eighteen hundred and sixty-two," in the seventh line of the same section, the words "and the first of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,"
On motion by Mr. Orr,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Brown, Burnett, Clark, Clay, Dortch, Haynes, Henry, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Johnson of Missouri, Oldham, Semmes, Sparrow, and Wigfall.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Caperton, Hill, and Orr.
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On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by striking out the second clause of the tenth section, as follows:
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by inserting as the second clause of the tenth section the following:
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by striking out the words "Ministers of religion," section 10, line 9, and inserting in lieu thereof the words
Every minister of religion authorized to preach accenting to the rules of his sect, and who was, on the sixteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and has been since, in the regular discharge of his ministerial duties,
On motion by Mr. Clark, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting after "religion" the words "over thirty-five years of age,"
On motion by Mr. Orr,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Brown, Burnett, Clark, Dortch, Henry, Johnson of Missouri, Maxwell, and Simms.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Caperton, Clay, Haynes, Hill, Hunter, Jemison, Johnson of Georgia, Orr, Semmes, and Sparrow.
On the question to agree to the amendment proposed by Mr. Sparrow,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by striking out the words "one editor of each newspaper, and the employees in newspaper establishments," section 10, lines 10 and 11, and inserting in lieu thereof the words
one editor of each newspaper established and being published on the sixteenth of April, eighteen trend red and sixty-two, and which has been so published regularly since that time, and such journeymen printers as such editor may under oath declare are indispensable for printing said newspaper,
On motion by Mr. Maxwell, to amend the proposed amendment by striking out the words "one editor of each newspaper,"
On motion by Mr. Clark,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Burnett, Dortch, Jemison, and Maxwell.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs Caperton, Clark, Clay, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Johnson of Missouri, Orr, and Sparrow.
On motion by Mr. Clay, to amend the proposed amendment by
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inserting after "eighteen hundred and sixty-two" the words "who was owner or editor of a newspaper at that date,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
The amendment as amended was then agreed to.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by striking out, section 10, lines 11, 12, 13, and 14, the words
and physicians and apothecaries as now provided by law, and upon the terms and conditions, and in the manner provided by the act in relation to exemptions, approved eleventh October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
and inserting in lieu thereof the words
one skilled apothecary in each apothecary store, who was doing business as such apothecary on the sixteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and who is now, and has been, doing business since that time,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by inserting at the end of the tenth section the following:
all physicians who now are, and for the last seven years have been, in the actual and regular practice of their profession,
On motion by Mr. Clark, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting after "physicians" the words "over the age of thirty-five years,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Dortch, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting after "physicians" the words "and dentists,"
It was determined in the negative.
The amendment as amended was then agreed to.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the bill by inserting at the end of the tenth section the following:
teachers whose schools are composed of not less than twenty male students, and who are now engaged, and have been continuously engaged, in teaching for three years next preceding the passage of this act,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Burnett,
The Senate resolved into executive session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 30th ultimo) the nominations of W. R. Holcombe, W. D. Hardy, M. R. Campbell, Oliver S. Porter, Matt. E. Manly, James B. Johnson, David S. Goodloe, G. C. Conner, Charles Edwards, R. J. Reid, R. T. Harris, Daniel B. Hatch, S. M. Howard, William E. Beasley, W. F. Miller, Green L. White, William A. Pugh, Crenshaw Hall, T. H. Colcock, W. Hemmingway, Charles W. Lewis, T. S. Warren, John A. Matthias, S. B. Clowney, A. L. Peel, H. G. Gwyn, Thomas W. Miller, Volhey Ellis, Alex. W. Loving, William H. Keller, A. C. Bailey George P Brown, George M. Wright, B. McFarland, A. F. Claywell, L. F. Bakewell, Lovic Pierce, jr., B. F. Chastain, Henry H. Way, T. A. Jeffords, James H. Merrimon, R. N. Harris, J. D. S. Newell, Jesse B. Pye, Henry H. Dinkins, John A. Jones, J. O. Waddell, Lawrence Baker, A. C. Hickey, W. B. L. Reagan, H. B. Tompkins, James J. Searcy, Jedediah Waldo, W. G. Kisling,
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J. T. Keesee, John W. Pearson, E. Bertus, J. B. Fitzpatrick, Brice A. Wilson, J. P. Williams, James A. Byrd, R. B. Peebles, John J. Winston, John T. Gregory, W. McR. Jordan, Robert T. Hubard, W. R. Bedell, E. Bourges, John R. Youree, John A. G. Hiatt, Rich Ferguson, W. A. Hopson, George Dawson, Samuel Wilson, Henry S. Figures, J. T. S. Reid, L. N. Davies, S. W. Wardlaw, Henry Hudnall, Thomas H. Allen, James H. Williams, Rufus Brittain, W. W. Alexander, Thomas B. Cook, M. S. Cleveland, William F. Price, Orville Ewing, Rich. W. Freeman, Thomas W. Hoffman, William F. Ogden, John L. Blain, G. J. Buchanan, Edward A. Martin, William M. Smith, J. C. Small, D. D. Walton, Benjamin M. Smith, James F. Grief, Joel W. Marshall, W. S. Sawrie, J. A. Robertson, E. J. Kursheedt, Lot M. Jones, D. C. Green, Francis A. Boyle, John C. Anderson, D. R. Dunlap, D. Rankin, B. H. Eppes, jr., L. J. Gaines, Allan Talbott, B. McMullen, J. J. Evans John A. R. Imboden, R. Lindsay, W. G. Newman, Robert T. Penick, H. C. Bradford, C. C. Wertenbaker, Robert B. Hurt, John F. Waller, Thomas Gaillard, William L. Faison, N. T. Johnson, L. Mitchell, J. W. Kendall, W. W. Jackson, W. T. Charles, Augustus Owen, S. C. De Bruhl, John G. Gittings, W. L. Le Conte, William H. Laughter, Janes D. Vaughan, William L. Peters, C. W. Graves, Irving Root, Henry E Allen, John W. Barry, James O. Owens, L. R. Stark, S. D. Davies, W. J. Milner, Michael M. McGee, J. A. August, Benjamin L. Perry, E. A. Warren, G. W. Anderson, Samuel S. Owen, M. T. Bass, F. S. Findlay, A. R. Greigg, William R. White, John M. Ferris, B. W. Arnold, F. Philips, John S. Tutt, W. P. McCarty, O. P. Sydenstricker, C. W. Wyatt, T. F. Powell, G. W. Smitheal, B. F. Parker, Thomas B. Fowler, William French, Edwin P. Starr, S. G. Worth, B. F. Smith, Charles A. Raine, Charles C. Ivey, Thomas E. Winn, C. D. Waters, J. R. Rogers, George Millard, C. B. Paslay, A. T. Stennis, J. G. Clarke, to be adjutants, with the rank of first lieutenant, reported, with the recommendation that all of said nominations be confirmed.
The Senate proceeded to consider said report; and in concurrence therewith, it was
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to their appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.
The following messages were received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. Harrison, his Secretary:
Richmond, January 13, 1864.
To the Senate:
Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate Dosier G. Herbert, of Mississippi, to be captain in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, under act approved October 11, 1862.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The message was read.
The Senate proceeded to consider the nomination of Dosier G. Herbert, to be captain; and it was
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to his appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.
Richmond, January 12, 1864.
To the Senate:
Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate Edward Ivy, of Louisiana, to be lieutenant-colonel of artillery, under act approved January 22, 1862.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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The message was read.
The Senate proceeded to consider the nomination of Edward Ivy, to be lieutenant-colonel of artillery; and it was
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to his appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.
The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. Harrison, his Secretary:
Richmond, January 13, 1864.
To the Senate:
Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
War Department, Richmond, December 8, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:
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I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.
The message was read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion by Mr. Burnett,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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