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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 --THURSDAY, January 28, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dalton:
Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed, without amendment, a bill and joint resolution of the Senate of the following titles:
And they have passed the bill of the Senate (S. 172) to increase the compensation of certain civil officers and employees in the President's office and in the Executive Departments at Richmond for a limited period, with amendments; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.
Mr. Semmes submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed, until otherwise ordered, to furnish the heads of the Executive Departments, respectively, copies of all bills, resolutions, reports, and other documents ordered by the Senate in legislative session to be printed: Provided, That those documents ordered to be printed in secret legislative session shall, before delivery, be sealed up and marked "Confidential" and shall be delivered by the Secretary to the heads of Departments in person and to no one else.
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Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be communicated to the head of each Executive Department.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported
A bill (S. 208) to provide compensation for officers who may heretofore have performed staff duty under orders of their superior officers;
which was read the first and second times and ordered to be placed upon the Calendar.
The Senate proceeded to consider the amendments of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 172) to increase the compensation of certain civil officers and employees in the President's office and in the Executive Departments at Richmond fore limited period; and
Resolved, That they concur therein.
Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 194) to organize bodies for the capture and destruction of the enemy's property, by land or sea, and to authorize compensation for the same, reported it without amendment.
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
Ordered, That when the Senate adjourn it be to meet at 11 o'clock to-morrow.
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
On motion by Mr. Clay,
Ordered, That the Committee on Commerce be discharged from the further consideration of the bill (S. 184) to establish a bureau of foreign supplies.
Mr. Clay, from the Committee on Commerce, reported
A bill (S. 209) to establish a bureau of foreign supplies;
which was read the first and second times and ordered to be printed.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 92) to tax, fund, and limit the currency.
On the question to agree to the first amendment reported from the Committee on Finance,
On motion by Mr. Oldham, to amend the amendment by inserting after the first section thereof the following:
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It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Semmes, to amend the amendment by inserting, after "dues," section 1, line 11, the words "or other purposes,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Henry, to amend the amendment by striking out the words "noninterest-bearing," section 1, line 1, and by inserting after "notes," in the same line, the words "not bearing interest,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Hill, to amend the amendment by striking out the words "first day of January," section 2, lines 4 and 5, and inserting "fifteenth day of July,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Jemison, to amend the amendment by striking out of the second section the following provisos:
Provided, however, That in liquidation of all contracts with the Government made between the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the date of the passage of this act, and to be executed in the Confederate States, except public securities, payments in the new issue of treasury notes shall be made at the rate of one dollar of said new issue for three dollars due under said contracts: Provided further, That the interest on all public securities, the pay of officers of the Army and Navy, and of soldiers and seamen, and the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees of the Government in all its departments, shall be paid in the new issue of Treasury notes at par.
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Hill,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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