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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 --EIGHTH DAY--TUESDAY, December 15, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Duncan.
Mr. Boyce moved that the Special Committee on the Currency have leave to sit during the sessions of the House.
Mr. Trippe moved to amend as follows, viz: That the Special Committee on the Currency be authorized and requested to sit during the sessions of the House.
The amendment was agreed to, and the motion prevailed.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, the Secretary of that body; which is as follows, viz:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have disagreed to the amendment of this House to the joint resolution of the Senate (S. 16) entitled "Joint resolution in relation to the public printing," ask a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and have appointed Mr. Phelan, Mr. Burnett, and Mr. Hill the managers at the said conference on their part.
On motion of Mr. Boteler, leave of absence was granted his colleague, Mr. Baldwin, who had been called to the field by military necessity.
The Speaker announced that he had appointed the following members as the special committee on the claims of deceased soldiers against the Government, viz:
Messrs. Clark of Georgia, Singleton of Mississippi, Miller of Virginia, Simpson of South Carolina, and Foster of Alabama.
On motion of Mr. Chilton, chairman of the Committee on Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments, he was excused from further service on said committee.
The Speaker appointed Mr. Foote a member of the committee in place of Mr. Chilton, excused.
Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which had been referred a Senate bill to be entitled
The question being on postponing the bill and placing it upon the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
The bill having been read as follows, viz:
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That no person liable to military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such service, nor shall any substitute be received, enlisted, or enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States, and that all laws heretofore passed permitting or allowing persons liable to military service to furnish substitutes for the same, or authorizing the acceptance, enlistment, or enrollment of any such substitute in the military service, be, and the same are hereby, repealed,
And the question being on the amendment of the committee, which is as follows, viz:
Strike out after the words "Confederate States," in the fifth line, the words "and that all laws heretofore passed permitting or allowing persons liable to military
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service to furnish substitutes for the same, or authorizing the acceptance, enlistment, or enrollment of any such substitute in the military service, be, and the same are hereby, repealed,"
Mr. Conrad moved to amend the amendment as follows, viz: Add the words
And all persons who have furnished such substitutes, as well as such substitutes, shall be liable to military service.
Mr. McLean moved the previous question; which was ordered, and the amendment of the committee was agreed to.
The question then recurring on agreeing to the amendment of Mr. Conrad,
Mr. Conrad demanded the yeas and nays;
Which were ordered,
Yeas: Bell, Boteler, Boyce, Breckinridge, Horatio W. Bruce, Burnett, Conrad, Conrow, Currin, Curry, Elliott, Farrow, Foote, Freeman, Gaither, Goode, Gray, Hartridge, Holcombe, Johnston, Lewis, Lyon, Miller, Perkins, Preston, Russell, Singleton, Vest, Villeré, and Welsh.
Nays: Arrington, Ashe, Ayer, Bridgers, Chambliss, Chilton, Chrisman, Clapp, Clark, Clopton, Collier, Crockett, Dargan, Davidson, De Jarnette, Foster, Funsten, Garnett, Gartrell, Graham, Hanly, Hilton, Kenan of Georgia, Kenan of North Carolina, Machen, McDowell, McLean, McQueen, Miles, Moore, Pugh, Sexton, Simpson, Smith of North Carolina, Staples, Swan, Trippe, Wright of Tennessee, and Wright of Texas.
So the amendment was lost.
The bill having been ordered to a third reading,
Mr. Singleton offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the bill and amendments be referred back to the Committee on Military Affairs, with instructions to report a bill embracing the following points, viz:
Mr. Garnett moved to lay the resolution on the table.
The motion prevailed, and the bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Miles moved to amend the title of the bill as follows, viz: Strike out after the words "Confederate States" the words "and to repeal all laws permitting or authorizing the same."
The amendment was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Chilton, the rule requiring the bill to lie over for two days was suspended.
The House then proceeded to the consideration of the special order of the day; which was the preamble and resolutions offered by Mr. Foote on Friday last in regard to the employment of certain persons in civil offices to the exclusion of others and to the great detriment of the public service.
On motion of Mr. Garnett, the preamble and resolutions were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
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Mr. Gartrell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which had been referred
A bill to be entitled "An act to amend an act to regulate impressments," approved March 26, 1863,
reported the same back, with the recommendation that it do pass with sundry amendments.
The bill having been read as follows, viz:
And the question being on agreeing to the amendments of the committee, which are as follows, viz:
The first, second, third, and fourth amendments of the committee were agreed to.
The question recurring upon agreeing to the fifth amendment of the committee,
Mr. Gray moved to amend as follows, viz:
Mr. Gray moved that the bill and amendments be recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Foster demanded the question; which was ordered, and the motion to recommit was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Hilton, the bill and amendments were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Menees moved that the House insist upon its amendments to the joint resolution of the Senate entitled
The motion was agreed to, and
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The Speaker appointed Messrs. Menees of Tennessee, Preston of Virginia, and Gartrell of Georgia as committee on the part of the House.
On motion of Mr. Miles,
The House adjourned until 12 o'clock m. to-morrow.
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