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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, November 9, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
Mr. Garland presented a resolution of the general assembly of the State of Arkansas, suggesting certain amendments to the act of Congress of February 17, 1864, entitled "An act to organize forces to serve during the war;" which was read.
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Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and printed.
Mr. Garland (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 86) fixing the salaries of certain civil officers in the Trans-Mississippi Department;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Hill submitted the following resolutions; which were considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire and report what additional legislation, if any, may be needed to secure prompt payment of dues to the Army.
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the receipt, in payment of taxes and other public dues, of certificates and stated accounts given by the authorized agents of the Government for property and supplies impressed or purchased for the use of the Army and the Government.
Mr. Sparrow submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the President be requested to communicate to the Senate--
Mr. Orr submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire and report if any and what additional legislation is necessary to secure to the owner or hirer a credit upon the amount of their taxes equal to the tithe produced by the hirer, provided such discount does not exceed five per cent.
On motion by Mr. Orr,
Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate cause to be bound, for the use of the Senate, 28 copies of the Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States
Mr. Henry 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 repealing that clause of the act to organize forces to serve during the war, approved seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which exempts from military service one person as overseer or agriculturist on each farm or plantation upon which there are now, or were on the first day of January last, fifteen able-bodied field hands between the ages of sixteen and fifty; and also the whole of section eleven of said act, which provides that the President be authorized to grant details when, in his judgment, justice, equity, and necessity require such details.
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On motion by Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs,
Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of War be printed.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow, and by unanimous consent,
Ordered, That 200 additional copies of the report of the Secretary of War be printed for the use of the Senate.
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
Ordered, That the report of Robert Ould, agent for the exchange of prisoners, be printed.
Mr. Henry submitted the following resolution for consideration:
Resolved, That it is a sound policy on the part of the Government of the Confederate States to impress, or hire with the consent of the owner, as many negro slaves as the public necessity may require, for any number of years, or during the war to be employed in all positions in the Army, except as soldiers in the field, upon paying the owners thereof a just compensation; and that it has the constitutional power to do so.
The Senate proceeded to consider the said resolution; and
On motion by Mr. Henry,
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion by Mr. Hill,
The Senate adjourned.
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