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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 --TWENTY-SECOND DAY--SATURDAY, January 2, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Minnigerode.
Mr. Perkins, from the Committee on Ways and Means, to which had been referred a Senate bill (S. 160) to authorize the appointment of a Third Auditor of the Treasury, reported the same back, with the recommendation that it do pass.
The question being on postponing the bill and placing it on the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative, and the bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Perkins, from the same committee, to which had been referred A bill relative to duties on imports,
reported the same back, with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it do lie upon the table.
And it was so ordered,
Mr. Perkins, from the same committee, reported
A bill to authorize the cancellation of certain Confederate States bonds and the substitution of other bonds for them;
which was read a first and second time.
The question on postponing and placing on the Calendar was decided in the negative, and the bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Perkins, from the same committee, also reported
A bill to authorize the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury west of the Mississippi;
which was read a first and second time.
The question on postponing was decided in the negative, and the bill being under consideration,
Mr. Jones moved to amend that part of the first section which reads as follows, viz: "with a salary ofthousand dollars," by filling up the blank with the word "three."
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. Villeré moved to reconsider the vote just taken, by which the amendment was agreed to.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
The bill was then engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Graham, from the same committee, to which had been referred
A bill appropriating $100,000 for the use and benefit of the Cherokee Nation,
reported back the same, with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
It was so ordered.
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The Chair announced the appointment of Mr. Smith of Alabama in place of Mr. Barksdale, and Mr. Lewis of Georgia in place of Mr. Wright, as temporary members of the Committee on Printing.
Mr. Graham, from the Committee on Ways and Means, to which had been referred a communication from Rev. Benjamin Holder in relation to a discovery for preventing the counterfeiting the Confederate notes, reported the same back, with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on Patents.
It was so ordered.
Mr. Graham, from the same committee, to which had been referred
A bill to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the receipt of counterfeit Treasury notes by public officers,"
reported the same back, with the recommendation that it do pass.
The question on postponing the same was decided in the negative, and the bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Machen, from the same committee, to which had been referred the memorial of Rev. J. C. White, praying to be refunded a portion of Confederate tax improperly assessed, reported back the same, with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on Claims.
It was so ordered.
Mr. Machen, from the same committee, to which had also been referred
A bill to allow the tax in kind of cured bacon to be commuted in certain cases,
reported the same back, with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it do lie upon the table.
It was so ordered.
On motion of Mr. Jones, the forty-second rule was suspended, requiring bills to lie over for two days, awaiting motion to reconsider.
Mr. Swan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which had been referred
A bill to provide for placing in the military service persons claiming to be citizens of the United States,
reported back the same, with the recommendation that it do pass.
The question on postponing the bill was decided in the negative.
The bill having been read as follows, viz:
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all white male persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, claiming to be citizens of any of the States or Territories of the United States, who shall be within the limits of the Confederate States upon or after the first day of May next, shall be subject to military duty under the laws now in force, or which may be hereafter enacted, to provide for the public defense: Provided, That the President may exempt from the operation of this act such persons as he may deem proper,
Mr. Baldwin moved to amend the bill by striking out the following words:
Provided, That the President may exempt from the operation of this act such persons as he may deem proper.
Pending which,
The morning hour having expired,
Mr. Miles moved that the Calendar be postponed, to allow the consideration of the bill reported from the committee.
The motion to postpone was agreed to.
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A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary; which is as follows, viz:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed, unanimously, a joint resolution of the following title, viz:
In which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
Mr. De Jarnette, by unanimous consent, introduced the following resolution; which was unanimously adopted, viz:
Resolved, That Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill be entitled to a privileged seat in this Hall.
Mr. Chilton submitted the following amendment (in the nature of a substitute for the bill under consideration):
That all white male persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, not prisoners of war, resident in the Confederate States, and who shall continue so to reside on or after the first day of February next, shall be liable to military service in the Army, without regard to any claim of nonresidence or alienage which they may set up: Provided, however, That the President may, upon considerations of equity and justice, or of public necessity, exempt any of such persons: Provided further, This act shall not be construed so as to repeal the exemption acts now in force.
Mr. Swan demanded the previous question.
The demand was seconded.
And the question being on the amendment of Mr. Baldwin,
It was decided in the negative.
The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. Chilton,
Mr. Chilton demanded the yeas and nays;
Which were ordered,
Yeas: Arrington, Baldwin, Boteler, Burnett, Chambliss, Chilton, Chrisman, Clapp, Clopton, Conrad, Conrow, Curry, Dupré, Elliott, Farrow, Foote, Foster, Freeman, Funsten, Goode, Hanly, Hartridge, Kenan of Georgia, Lander, Lewis, Machen, Martin, Miller, Preston, Read, Singleton, Swan, and Wilcox.
Nays: Ashe, Boyce, Bridgers, Eli M. Bruce, Horatio W. Bruce, Dargan, Davidson, De Jarnette, Gaither, Gardenhire, Garland, Gray, Heiskell, Hilton, Holcombe, Johnston, Jones, Kenan of North Carolina, Lyon, McDowell, McLean, Miles, Perkins, Ralls, Russell, Sexton, Smith of North Carolina, Staples, Strickland, Vest, Villeré, Wright of Tennessee, and Wright of Texas.
So the amendment was agreed to.
The bill was then engrossed and read a third time.
And the question being,
Shall the bill pass?
Mr. Conrad demanded the yeas and nays.
Mr. Heiskell called the question.
Pending which,
Mr. Elliott, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported as correctly enrolled
And the Speaker signed the same.
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Mr. Kenan of Georgia, by unanimous consent, presented a copy of the resolutions of the legislature of Georgia, affirming the constitutional right of Georgia troops in the service of the Confederate States, who were tendered by the governor in response to requisitions of the President, to elect their own officers; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
And the House,
On motion of Mr. Kenan,
Adjourned until 11 o'clock a. m. Monday.
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