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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, December 9, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
The Hon. Allen T. Caperton, from the State of Virginia; the Hon. Clement C. Clay, from the State of Alabama; the Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, from the State of Georgia; the Hon. Augustus E. Maxwell, from the State of Florida, and the Hon. James Phelan, from the State of Mississippi, severally attended.
The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the annual report of the Attorney-General.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Orr (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 146) to authorize the creditors of the Government to receive their dues in eight per cent. Confederate bonds, and for other purposes;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Orr submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire if any and what additional legislation is necessary to protect the rights of citizens against the arbitrary, unjust, and needless impressment of provisions, under orders from the Commissary-General; and whether additional efficiency in that department may not be secured by increased energy, industry, and effort, by officials, to make purchases for the subsistence of the Army. And that the committee do further inquire whether additional officers in that department, of the rank of captain, have been recently appointed and assigned to duty in the several States, as district or division commissaries; by whom, and under what law, if any, such appointments have been made.
Mr. Orr submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire whether the construction given by the Secretary of the Treasury to the act supplementary to an act to provide for the funding and further issue of Treasury notes is authorized by said act.
Mr. Johnson of Arkansas (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 147) relating to the transfer of skeleton regiments for recruitment across the Mississippi River, and transfer of companies to the regiments of their own States, and to consolidation and disbandment;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Johnson of Arkansas (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 148) relating to exchanged or paroled Confederate prisoners, who may have been, or may hereafter be, captured by the enemy west of the Mississippi River;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Johnson of Arkansas submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of organizing and strengthening the Trans-Mississippi Department by the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of War, with proper quartermaster, commissary, and ordnance or other bureaus, as a means of giving efficiency to the defense of the States and Territories west of the Mississippi River.
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Mr. Johnson of Arkansas submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appointing an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to be ex officio treasurer for the Trans-Mississippi Department, with other proper subordinate bureaus, for the settlement and payment of outstanding accounts, and for other purposes, and whose office and location, and that of his subordinates, shall be in the Trans-Mississippi Department; with a view to the efficiency of the defense of the States and Territories west of the Mississippi River.
Mr. Johnson of Arkansas (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 149) to regulate the commencement and sitting of all future sessions of Congress;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Phelan (by leave) introduced
A joint resolution (S. 16) in relation to the public printing;
which was read the first and second times and considered as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment being made, it was reported to the Senate.
Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.
The said resolution 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. Brown submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the memorials, petitions, resolutions, bills, and reports referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs at the last session, and not finally acted on at that session, be taken from the files of the Senate and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
On motion by Mr. Barnwell, from the Committee on Finance,
Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of the Treasury be printed.
On motion by Mr. Barnwell, and by unanimous consent,
Ordered, That 50 additional copies of the said report be printed for the use of the different Departments.
On motion by Mr. Oldham,
Ordered, That the President pro tempore appoint a member on the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Peyton; and
Mr. Clark was appointed.
On motion by Mr. Brown,
The Senate adjourned.
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