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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, May 11, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
Mr. Wigfall (by leave) introduced the following bills; which were severally read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs:
Mr. Caperton submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the tax law of the seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as to provide that no one shall be liable to the penalty thereto provided for a failure to deliver his tithe in kind when the articles taxed were the products of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Mr. Burnett, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4) to provide means of transit across the Mississippi River for members of Congress residing west of said river in going to and returning from the Confederate States Congress, reported it with an amendment.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the said bill; and the reported amendment having been agreed to, the bill was reported to the Senate and the amendment was concurred in.
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Ordered, That the bill 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. Burnett, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Capt. E. B. Vaughan, submitted an adverse report.
The Senate proceeded to consider the said report; and in concurrence therewith,
Resolved, That the prayer of the memorialist be rejected.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Wigfall on the 6th instant relative to the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus; and
On motion by Mr. Maxwell,
Ordered, That they lie upon the table.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolution submitted by Mr. Johnson of Arkansas on the 4th instant, fixing a day for the adjournment of the present session of Congress; and
On motion by Mr. Orr,
Ordered, That it be transferred to the Secret Legislative Calendar.
On motion by Mr. Orr,
The Senate Resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
On motion by Mr. Oldham,
Ordered, That the Hon. Landon C. Haynes and the Hon. Gustavus A. Henry have leave of absence from the sessions of the Senate until Wednesday, the 25th instant.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolution submitted by Mr. Johnson of Arkansas on the 4th instant, fixing a day for the adjournment of the present session of Congress.
After debate,
On motion by Mr. Graham, that the resolution lie upon the table.
It was determined in the negative.
On the question to agree to the amendment reported from the Committee on the Judiciary; to wit:
Strike out the words "sixteenth day of May, instant."
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Semmes, to fill the blank in the resolution with "sixth day of June next,"
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Caperton, that the resolution lie on the table.
It was determined in the negative.
On motion by Mr. Burnett,
Ordered, That the resolution be transferred to the Open Legislative Calendar.
On motion by Mr. Wigfall, that the vote on passing the bill (S. 16) to fix the time for the assembling of the Congress at its next regular session, and to authorize the President to convene the Congress at any place other than the seat of government, be reconsidered,
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On motion by Mr. Wigfall,
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Baker, Burnett, Hunter, Johnson of Missouri, Semmes, and Wigfall,
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Barnwell, Caperton, Dortch, Graham, Hill, Jemison, Johnson of Arkansas, Maxwell, Oldham, Orr, Sparrow, Walker, and Watson.
So the Senate refused to reconsider the vote on passing said bill.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
The Senate resolved into executive session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the nomination of F. M. Green, to be colonel of the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment; and that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 5th instant) the nominations of Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, to be general; Brig. Gens. W. B. Bate, Robert F. Hoke, to be major-generals; Cols. A. T. Hawthorn, H. B. Granbury, C. W. Sears, W. F. Tucker, Alpheus Baker, John B. Clark, jr., to be brigadier-generals; Thomas J. Blackmore, Robert L. Robb, John W. Jones, W. B. Chambliss, B. F. Williams, H. M. Lane, John H. Martin, Gaston Meslier, J. C. Herndon, William M. Forrest, George A. Wardlaw, William P. Dearing, Douglas H. Cooper, George W. Stafford, E. W. Pettus, jr., William T. Mason, A. Flournoy, jr., C. C. Whiting, Dixon B. Hall, William H. Harris, R. J. Manning, William J. Steuart, J. H. Martin, Charles T. Pollard, George W. Brown, H. C. Armstrong, to be aids-de-camp, with the rank of First lieutenant; and of G. A. Henry, W. D. Pickett, F. R. Lubbock, Charles S. Venable, Charles Marshall, J. P. Johnson, Samuel W. Melton, William H. Palmer, to be lieutenant-colonels; Henry Ewing, Thomas W. Newton, Willis F. Jones, L. Masters, John Blair Hoge, John W. Riely, W. N. Starke, to be majors; S. H. Buchanan, Charles S. Morgan, John T. Bearden, L. D. De Saussure, Frederick Nash, jr., T. B. Heiston, H. H. Bein, C. R. W. Radford, William Palfrey, William H. Harman, S. P. Duncan, Jos. C. Haskell, G. St. L. Grenfell, Richard Walke, Jos. W. Duncan, J. T. Parrish, to be captains in the Adjutant-General's Department, 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.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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