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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-NINTH DAY--MONDAY, January 11, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Edwards, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Speaker laid before the House resolutions of the Georgia legislature "expressive of the determination of Georgia to prosecute the present war with the utmost vigor and energy;" which were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Swan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which had been referred
A bill for the benefit of citizens and noncombatants seized by the enemy,
reported the same back and asked that the committee be discharged from its further consideration and that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
It was so ordered.
Mr. Smith of North Carolina, by unanimous consent, moved that the special committee to investigate the outrages of the enemy in North Carolina be authorized to send for persons and papers.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Atkins, by unanimous consent, offered the following resolution; which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That Major-General John C. Breckinridge be invited to a privileged seat on this floor during his stay in this city.
The House then resumed the consideration of the special order; which was the bill repealing existing and regulating future exemptions from military service.
The question being on the call of the question by Mr. Foster,
It was decided in the affirmative.
The question recurring on the motion of Mr. Clapp to recommit the bill,
Mr. Collier demanded the yeas and nays; which were not ordered, and the motion to recommit was agreed to.
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The House then, on motion of Mr. Jones, resolved itself into secret session; and having spent some time therein, again resolved itself into open session.
Mr. Hilton moved to reconsider the vote by which the House ordered the bill repealing existing and regulating future exemptions from military service to be recommitted.
Mr. Davidson, by unanimous consent, offered the following resolution; which was adopted, viz:
Resolved, That the Committee on the Commissary and Quartermaster's Departments be instructed to report a bill providing for the allowance of rations to the soldiers on detailed service, at Government prices.
Mr. Russell offered the following resolution; which was adopted, viz:
Resolved, That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to this House what progress has been made in the collection and distribution of "tax in kind" under the act approved twenty-fourth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, together with such information relating to the practical operation of the law as may be possessed by the Quartermaster's Department, in charge of the subject.
On motion,
The House adjourned until 11 o'clock to-morrow.
SECRET SESSION.
The House being in secret session,
The Chair laid before the House the bill (H. R. 86) to provide for holding elections for Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States from the State of Missouri; which had been returned from the Senate with sundry amendments.
The amendments having been read as follows, viz:
Strike out all of the first section after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"That the elections for Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States from the State of Missouri may be held as follows, until the legislature of said State shall otherwise direct: That each voter shall be allowed to vote one ticket containing the name of one person for each one of the seven Congressional districts of said State, and the persons receiving the highest number of votes for the respective districts shall be commissioned as Representatives by the governor of said State."
Strike out, in line 3, section 2, the word "April" and insert "May,"
Mr. Vest moved that the rule be suspended requiring the bill and amendments to be referred to a committee; which motion was agreed to.
And the question being put,
Shall the House concur in the amendments of the Senate?
It was decided in the affirmative.
Mr. Vest moved that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the bill.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Pugh moved to suspend the rules, to enable him to offer a resolution.
The motion was not agreed to.
Mr. Singleton moved to suspend the rules, to enable him to offer a resolution.
Mr. Lyons demanded the yeas and nays thereon; which were not ordered, and the motion was agreed to.
Mr. Singleton offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That for the remainder of the session of this House no member shall speak more than once, nor longer than thirty minutes, upon any bill, resolution, or proposition which may come before it, unless he has introduced the same or reported it from a committee, in which case he shall be allowed ten minutes for reply.
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Mr. Hilton moved to amend the resolution by striking out the word "thirty" and inserting "twenty."
Mr. Foster called the question; which was ordered.
Mr. Lyons demanded the yeas and nays; which were not ordered, and the amendment was not agreed to.
The question recurring on the resolution.
Mr. Foster called the question; which was ordered.
Mr. Conrad demanded the yeas and nays;
Which were ordered,
Yeas: Atkins, Boteler, Boyce, Bridgers, Chambliss, Chrisman, Clapp, Collier, Conrow, Crockett, Currin, Dupré, Ewing, Farrow, Foote, Foster, Freeman, Gaither, Gardenhire, Gartrell, Heiskell, Hilton, Jones, Kenan of Georgia, Kenan of North Carolina, Lander, Lewis, Lyon, Machen, McDowell, McLean, McQueen, Menees, Munnerlyn, Pugh, Singleton, Smith of Alabama, Smith of North Carolina, Strickland, Swan, Trippe, Vest, Villeré, Welsh, Wilcox, Wright of Tennessee, and Wright of Texas.
Nays: Baldwin, Eli M. Bruce, Horatio W. Bruce, Burnett, Chilton, Clopton, Conrad, Curry, Davidson, De Jarnette, Elliott, Garland, Garnett, Goode, Graham, Gray, Hanly, Hartridge, Holcombe, Johnston, Lyons, Martin, Miller, Moore, Perkins, Preston, Russell, Simpson, and Staples.
Two-thirds of the members present not voting in the affirmative, the resolution was not agreed to.
The House then resumed the consideration of the special order; which was the bill to tax, fund, and limit the currency.
Mr. Conrad moved to amend the resolution of Mr. Lyon to recommit the bill with instructions as follows, viz: Strike out "fifty" and insert "sixty-six and two-thirds;" add after the word "circulation" the words "with the privilege to the holders of exchanging the balance for notes of the new issue."
Pending which,
Mr. Garnett presented a proposition on finance; which was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Chilton also submitted a proposition on finance; which was ordered to be printed.
And the House,
On motion of Mr. Wright of Texas,
Resolved itself into open session.
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