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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, April 9, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McDonald:
Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed a bill (H. R. 31) to provide for the relief of officers and soldiers who have been irregularly introduced into the military service of the Confederate States; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.
And they have passed the bill of the Senate (S. 98) in relation to the public printing, with an amendment; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate
Mr. Mitchel submitted the following resolution for consideration:
Resolved, That the Secretary of War he directed to furnish to the Senate, in secret session, at as early a day as practicable, so far as may be in the power of the War Department at this time, a statement of the troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department, showing the divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, batteries, and independent companies, the strength of each and the aggregate of the whole, with the State from which each comes; also the amount of ordnance, with their class and size; also the extent of deficiencies, if any are stated, of small arms, ammunition, ordnance stores, or clothing of any class.
The Senate proceeded to consider the said resolution; and
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, to amend the same by striking out the words "Secretary of War be directed to furnish" and inserting "President be requested to cause to be furnished,"
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On motion by Mr. Johnson of Arkansas,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Barnwell, Burnett, Caperton, Clay, Davis, Dortch, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Maxwell, Oldham, Orr, Phelan, Semmes, Sparrow, Wigfall, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Baker, Brown, Clark, Johnson of Arkansas, Mitchel, and Peyton.
The resolution as amended was then agreed to.
Mr. Brown presented the petition of third assistant engineers in the Confederate States Navy, praying for an increase of their annual pay; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Mr. Sparrow (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 114) to confer upon the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadier-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion by Mr. Barnwell,
The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
The following message was received from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McDonald:
Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed the bill of the Senate (S. 43) for the relief of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McDonald:
Mr. President: The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed two enrolled bills, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of their President.
Mr. Dortch, from the committee, reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the following titles:
The President pro tempore having signed the enrolled bills last reported to have been examined, they were 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. Clark,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 18) to lay taxes for the common defense and carry on the Government of the Confederate States.
On motion by Mr. Johnson of Georgia, to amend the amendment reported by the Committee on Finance by inserting after "prescribed," section 10, line 40, the words
Provided, That the Government shall be bound to furnish to the producer sacks for the delivery of such articles of grain as require to be put in sacks for transportation,
It was determined in the affirmative.
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On motion by Mr. Yancey, to amend the reported amendment by striking out, section 10, lines 36 and 37, the words "in merchantable order,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Yancey, to amend the reported amendment by striking out the words "articles thus described," section 10, line 34, and inserting:
wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, rice, peas, beans, cured hay and fodder, sugar, molasses of cane, wool, and tobacco, thus to be paid as a tithe in kind, in such form and ordinary marketable condition as may be usual in the section in which they are to be delivered, and the cotton in such manner as hereinbefore provided,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Caperton, to amend the reported amendment by inserting before "fodder," section 10, line 6, "stripped,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Clay, to reconsider the vote on agreeing to the last-mentioned amendment,
It was determined in the affirmative.
The Senate proceeded to consider the said amendment; and
On the question to agree thereto,
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Phelan, to amend the reported amendment by inserting after "fodder," section 10, line 6, the words "which fodder, due under this act, shall be stripped from the stalk by the producer,"
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Phelan, to amend the reported amendment by striking out the word "twenty," where it occurs in the thirty-eighth and forty-eighth lines of the tenth section, and inserting "fifty,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Yancey, to amend the reported amendment by striking out, section 11, lines 9, 10, and 11, the words "four bushels of corn for every one hundred pounds of pork which he may have thus contributed by way of tithe" and inserting:
the corn or other grain or provisions named in section ten which may have been used in the feeding of said pork, in a deduction to be made from the tithe of said articles which he is required to pay; and if the assessor and taxpayer disagree, the same means of ascertaining the amount to be allowed shall be resorted to as is provided in section ten in case of disagreement as to amount of crops raised,
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Clay, Mitchel, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Baker, Barnwell, Brown, Caperton, Clark, Davis, Dortch, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Maxwell, Oldham, Orr, Peyton, Phelan, Semmes, Sparrow, and Wigfall.
On motion by Mr. Phelan, to amend the reported amendment by striking out "seventy," section 11, line 8, and inserting "sixty," and by striking out, in the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth lines of the same section, the words
for which he shall receive the value of four bushels of corn for every one hundred pounds of pork which he may have thus contributed by way of tithe, and also the
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price paid by him for the salt used in curing the same, at the rate of one bushel for each one thousand weight of pork, and also one-tenth of any money which he may have paid for the purchase of the swine thus fattened and slaughtered,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Haynes, to amend the reported amendment by inserting after "pork," section 11, line 9, the following proviso:
Provided, That the farmer, planter, or grazier shall be paid by the Confederate Government one-tenth of any moneys which he may have paid for the purchase of the swine thus fattened and slaughtered, if actually produced by him,
On motion by Mr. Haynes,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Haynes and Hunter.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Baker, Barnwell, Brown, Caperton, Clark, Clay, Davis, Dortch Henry, Hill, Johnson of Georgia, Maxwell, Mitchel, Oldham, Orr, Peyton, Phelan, Semmes, Sparrow, Wigfall, and Yancey.
On motion by Mr. Yancey, to amend the reported amendment by inserting the following independent section:
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Caperton, Clark, Dortch, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
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Messrs. Baker, Barnwell, Clay, Davis, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Maxwell, Mitchel, Oldham, Orr, Peyton, Phelan, Sparrow, and Wigfall.
On motion by Mr. Semmes, to amend the reported amendment by inserting the following independent section:
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Semmes, to amend the reported amendment by inserting at the end of the sixteenth section the following proviso:
Provided, That the tax on naval stores, flour, wool, cotton, tobacco, and other agricultural products of the growth of any year preceding the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, imposed in the first section of this act, shall be levied and collected only for the present year,
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Maxwell, to amend the reported amendment by striking out of the eighth section the words
All incomes received during the year, between five hundred dollars and fifteen hundred dollars, shall pay a tax of five per cent on their amount; and all incomes received during the year, between fifteen hundred dollars and ten thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of ten per cent on their amount. All incomes received during the year, between ten thousand dollars and fifteen thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of twelve and a half per cent on their amount; and all incomes received during the year, of more than fifteen thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of fifteen per centum upon their amount,
and inserting in lieu thereof the words
All incomes received during the year, amounting to fifteen hundred dollars, shall pay a tax of five per cent; all incomes received during the year, exceeding fifteen hundred dollars and not over ten thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of ten per cent on such excess; all incomes received during the year, exceeding ten thousand dollars and not over fifteen thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of twelve and a half per cent on such excess; and all incomes received during the year exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, shall pay a tax of fifteen per cent on such excess, it being intended hereby that, except as to the excess in each instance, there shall be paid a tax according to the foregoing graduation,
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Clark, to amend the reported amendment by inserting the following independent section:
It was determined in the negative.
On the question to agree to the amendment reported by the Committee on Finance, as amended,
It was determined in the affirmative.
No further amendment being made, the bill was reported to the Senate and the amendment made as in Committee of the Whole was concurred in.
Ordered, That the amendment be engrossed and the bill read a third time.
The said bill as amended was read the third time.
Resolved, That it pass with an amendment.
Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the amendment.
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On motion by Mr. Clay, that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the report (No. 9) of the Committee of Finance on the bill (H. R. 18) to lay taxes for the common defense and carry on the Government of the Confederate States,
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Maxwell,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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