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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, January 18, 1865.
OPEN SESSION.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dalton:
Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed bills of the following titles; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate:
And they have passed Senate bills of the following titles:
Mr. Walker submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the privilege of the floor of the Senate be extended to Captain Raphael Semmes, Confederate States Navy, during his stay in this city.
Mr. Sparrow submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the President of the Confederate States be requested to communicate to the Senate the information asked for in the resolution of the Senate adopted on the seventeenth day of November last as to the number of persons in each State exempted from military service by reason of being claimed as State officers; and also the further information, in response to the resolutions of the Senate of the ninth day of November last, as to the number of exemptions and details for express, telegraphic, and railroad companies, etc., which the chief of the Bureau of Conscription stated, in his letter communicated to the Senate in partial response to said resolutions, was then being procured.
Mr. Oldham (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 162) to amend an act entitled "An act to impose regulations upon the foreign commerce of the Confederate States to provide for the public defense," approved February 6, 1864;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr. Maxwell submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the pay due to prisoners in the hands of the enemy to be drawn by parties properly empowered to draw the same.
Mr. Johnson of Missouri, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 310) amendatory of the act entitled "An act to provide for the organization of the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency of Indian Affairs, to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indians therein, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," approved April 8, 1862, reported it without amendment.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the said bill; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.
Ordered, That it pass to a third reading.
The said bill was read the third time.
Resolved, That it pass.
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Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.
The bills received this day from the House of Representatives for concurrence were severally read the first and second times; and
Ordered, That the bill numbered 308 be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and the bill numbered 336 to the Committee on Finance.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 20) construing the act of January 30, 1864, increasing the compensation of certain officers and employees of the Government; and
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until Monday next.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 229) to provide more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency; and
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 156) to provide for the reorganization of companies, battalions, and regiments in certain cases; and
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
Ordered, That the further consideration thereof he postponed to and made the special order for to-morrow, at half past 12 o'clock.
Mr. Burnett submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the President be respectfully requested to furnish to the Senate the amount and kind of subsistence and clothing furnished to officers on duty in the city of Richmond for the last twelve months, with a table showing the names of the officers supplied, and the duties to which they are assigned.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dalton:
Mr. President: I am directed by the House of Representatives to communicate to the Senate intelligence of the death of the Honorable Simpson H. Morgan, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, together with the proceedings of the House thereon.
Mr. Wigfall submitted the following resolutions; which were considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That the Senate has received, with deep sensibility, the message from the House of Representatives announcing the death of the Honorable Simpson H. Morgan, late a Representative from the State of Texas.
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to communicate a copy of the foregoing resolution to the family of the deceased.
Resolved, That, in token of respect for the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn.
Whereupon,
The Senate adjourned.
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