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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 --SECOND DAY--TUESDAY, August 19, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Bishop Early.
Mr. Foote moved that the rules be suspended to take up for consideration his resolution in relation to secret sessions.
The motion was lost.
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Mr. Chilton offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That whenever any matter is about to be brought before the House, or at any time during the consideration of a subject, which in the opinion of any member should be discussed and acted on with Closed doors, it shall be in order for any member to move for a secret session, which motion shall be immediately disposed of without debate. But it shall not prevail unless a majority of the members present shall vote in favor of it. Whenever a motion shall be made to go into secret session, and it shall be voted down, it shall not again be in order to renew said motion in the same stage of proceedings on the same subject.
The rules were suspended, and the resolution was taken up.
Mr. Perkins demanded the question.
The question was ordered;
When,
Mr. Foote called for the yeas and nays.
The call being seconded, the yeas and nays were ordered,
Yeas: Ashe, Aver, Batson, Bell, Boteler, Boyce, Breekinridge, Bridgers, Eli M. Bruce, Chambliss, Chilton, Chrisman, Clark, Clopton, Collier, Cooke, Currin, Curry, Dargan, Davidson, Dupré, Elliott, Farrow, Foote, Foster, Gaither; Gartrell, Goode, Graham, Gray, Hanly, Hilton, Hedge, Holcombe, Holt, Lander, Lyon, Marshall, McLean, McRae, Menees, Miles, Munnerlyn, Pugh, Read, Russell, Sexton, Singleton, Smith of Alabama, Smith of North Carolina, Strickland, Vest, Welsh, Wright of Georgia, Wright of Texas, and Mr. Speaker.
Nays: Conrow, Ewing, Harris, Heiskell, Herbert, Johnston, Jones, Kenan of Georgia, Lewis, Lyons, Machen, Perkins, Ralls, Swan, and Trippe.
So the resolution was agreed to.
The Chair laid before the House a message from the President; which is as follows, to wit:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States:
I herewith transmit for your information the report of the Secretary of the Treasury and accompanying estimates, to which reference was made in my message of yesterday, and invite your careful attention to the statements and recommendations contained in them.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
which, together with its accompanying documents, was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Jones, the House went into Committee of theWhole on the message of the President, Mr. Curry being in the chair; and having spent some time therein, on motion of Mr. Heiskell, the committee rose, and through their Chairman reported that they had had under consideration the matter referred to them, and had come to no conclusion thereon.
On motion of Mr. Heiskell, the injunction of secrecy was removed from the proceedings of the House on the passage of the bill further to provide for the public defense.
And on motion of Mr. Chilton,
The House adjourned until 12 o'clock tomorrow.
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