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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 --ONE HUNDREDTH DAY--TUESDAY, March 7, 1865.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 7]
ONE HUNDREDTH DAY--TUESDAY, March 7, 1865.

OPEN SESSION.

The Chair laid before the House a message from the President; which was read as follows, viz:

Richmond, Va., March 6, 1865.

To the House o[ Representatives:

In response to your resolution of the 23d ultimo, I herewith transmit for your information a communication from the Secretary of War, covering a copy of Gen. John B. Hood's report of the operations of the Army of Tennessee while under his command.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Sexton moved that the report be printed; which motion prevailed.

A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary; which is as follows, viz:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill and joint resolution of the following titles, viz:

• S. 35. Joint resolution providing for donations to the Treasury of the Confederate States: and
• S. 219. An act to regulate the payment of clerks employed at the post-office in the city of Richmond;

In which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

And they have passed bills of this House of the following titles, viz:

• H. R. 244. An act to provide for the settlement of certain matters of account growing out of purchases of property, as alleged by the purchasers, for the use of the Government. by Payne & Co., in the State of Texas:
• H. R. 294. An act to secure to sick and wounded officers the same rights and privileges in obtaining leaves of absence as are now provided by law for soldiers obtaining furloughs;

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• H. R. 295. An act authorizing hospital accommodations for treatment, including subsistence, to certain officers and soldiers resigned, retired, or discharged;
• H. R. 343. An act to be entitled "All act providing for the auditing and payment of properly authenticated claims against the Cotton Bureau in the Trans-Mississippi Department;"
• H. R. 404. An act further to amend the act to provide an invalid corps, approved February 17, 1864;
• H. R. 407. An act to construe and declare more explicitly the meaning of an act to increase the compensation of the heads of the several Executive Departments and the Assistant Secretary of War and the Treasury and of the Assistant Attorney-General and the Comptroller of the Treasury and other officers therein named, approved June 14, 1864;
• H. R. 408. An act regulating the compensation of Government officers, clerks, and employees in the city of Petersburg;
• H. R. 410. An act making an appropriation for the construction and repair of railroads for military purposes for the year 1865;
• H. R. 258. An act to amend the act of February 7, 1863, so as to allow commutation to soldiers for the war who have received no furlough; and
• H. R. 406. An act to amend the acts to regulate the assessment and collection of taxes in kind.

The two last bills with amendments: in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

The President of the Confederate States has notified the Senate that on the 2d instant he approved and signed the following act, viz:

• S. 163. An act to authorize the appointment of additional officers in the Engineer Corps.

Mr. Lyon, manager on the part of the House, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill "to levy additional taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five for the support of the Government," submitted the following report:

The committee of conference on the part of the House of Representatives on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. 379) "to levy additional taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty five for the support of the Government," beg leave respectfully to report:

That they have met the managers on the part of the Senate, and, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend, and do recommend, to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House of Representatives do recede from their disagreement to the amendment of the Senate, and agree thereto with the following amendment, viz: Strike out all after "That," section 1, line 1, and insert as follows:

"That in addition to the taxes levied by the act approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four', entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act to lay taxes for the common defense and carry on the Government of the Confederate States," approved twenty-fourth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,' there shall be levied for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, on the subjects of taxation hereinafter mentioned, and collected from every person, copartnership, association, or corporation liable therefor, taxes as follows, to wit:

• "I. Upon the value of all property, real, personal, or mixed, of every kind and description not hereinafter exempted or taxed at a different rate, eight per cent. The value of the property taxed under this section shall be assessed on the basis of the market value of the same or similar property in the neighborhood where assessed in the year eighteen hundred and sixty; and it is hereby declared that all the property and assets of corporations, associations, or joint stock companies, whether incorporated or not, shall be assessed and taxed in the same manner and to the same extent as the property and assets of individuals. The tax on such property and assets to be assessed against and paid by such corporations, associations, or joint stock companies: Provided, That no bank or banking company shall be liable to pay a tax on deposits of money to the credit of and subject to the checks of others: And provided further, That the stock or shares representing property or assets in corporations, associations, or joint stock companies shall not be assessed or taxed as property under this act; but the dividends derived therefrom shall be subject to be taxed as income under existing laws.

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• "II. Upon the amount of all gold or silver coin, and upon the amount of all moneys held abroad, or bills of exchange drawn therefor, promissory notes, rights, credits, and securities, payable in foreign countries, and upon the value of all gold dust or gold and silver bullion, valued in specie, twenty per cent; and upon the value of gold and silver wares, plate, jewels, jewelry, and watches, valued on the basis of the value of such property in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, ten per cent.
• "III. Upon the amount of all moneys, except those mentioned in paragraph two, bank bills. Treasury notes, and other paper issued as currency, on hand or on deposit on the day of the approval of this act, five per cent.
• "IV. Upon the amount of all solvent credits, except those mentioned in paragraph two, five per cent: Provided, That all the bonds and stocks issued by the Confederate States, or by any State, and all loans to the Government of the Confederate States, shall be exempt from taxation, except as to the interest payable thereon, which shall be taxed as income under existing laws: Provided further, That the interest on the bonds, stocks, or obligations of the Confederate States, or of any State, shall not be taxed as income in cases where the acts under which they were issued contain a stipulation that the interest thereon shall be exempt from taxation.
• "V. Upon profits made by buying and selling merchandise, effects, or property of any description, or money, gold, silver, stocks, credits, or obligations of any kind, at any time between January the first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and January the first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten per cent in-addition to the tax on such profits as income; said profits to be ascertained by the difference between the price paid in Confederate Treasury notes, including all costs and charges, and the price realized in the same currency: Provided, That if the objects of sale were purchased at any time since January the first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, this additional tax shall attach on the profits realized on the sale thereof during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
• "VI. Upon the amount of profits exceeding twenty-five per cent made during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five by any bank or banking company, insurance, canal, navigation, importing or exporting, telegraph, express, railroad, manufacturing, mining, dry dock, or other joint stock company, of any description, whether incorporated or not, twenty-five per cent: Provided, That this tax shall apply to individuals and partnerships engaged in trade or in any business or employment enumerated in this paragraph, as well as to corporations or joint stock companies: Provided further, That individuals and partnerships who have not been assessed or who have not paid for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four the tax of seventy-five per cent imposed on the excess of profits over twenty-five per cent for that year shall be assessed and required to pay, during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, twenty-five per cent on the excess of profits over twenty-five per cent realized during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
  • "Sec. 2. The property, the income, and moneys of hospitals, asylums, churches, schools, colleges, and charitable institutions shall be exempt from taxation under the provisions of this act or any other law. All property within the lines of the enemy shall be exempt from taxation so long as it remains within such lines, but any income derived therefrom shall be taxed as income under existing laws. The exemptions enumerated in paragraphs one, two, and three of section five of the act entitled 'An act to levy additional taxes for the common defense and support of the Government.' approved seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, are hereby reenacted. Household furniture, when the value does not exceed three hundred dollars on the basis of the value thereof in the year eighteen hundred and sixty: wearing apparel: goods manufactured by any person for the use and consumption of his family, including slaves; poultry, fruit, and the products of gardens, when said poultry, fruit, and products are raised for the family of the producer, and not for sale: corn, bacon, and other agricultural products which were produced in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and necessary for the taxpayer's family, including slaves, during the present year, and in his possession on the day of the approval of this act, shall be exempt from taxation.
  • "Sec. 3. That the taxes on property for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, imposed by this act, shall be assessed as on the day of the passage of this act, and be due and collected on the first day of June next, or as soon thereafter as practicable. The additional taxes on profits for the year eighteen

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    hundred and sixty-five shall be assessed and collected according to the provisions of existing laws in regard to the assessment and collection of taxes on incomes, and all the taxes imposed by this act, as well as the taxes on incomes and profits, and the specific tax, and taxes on sales, shall be payable in Confederate Treasury notes of the new issue, or in the certificates of indebtedness authorized by an act entitled 'An act to reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds,' approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at par, without any allowance for interest: Provided, That at least one-half of said taxes shall be paid in Treasury notes, as aforesaid: And provided further, That the tax for the increased pay of soldiers shall be paid in Confederate Treasury notes of the new issue only. And it is hereby enacted that the certificates of indebtedness authorized by the said act of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty four, may be issued for debts contracted prior to the passage of said act. And the agent of the Treasury for the Trans-Mississippi Department be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the certificates of indebtedness provided for in said act of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for debts contracted prior or subsequent to the passage of said act, in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and that all the certificates above mentioned shall be received in payment of said taxes, in like manner and to the same extent as the certificates originally authorized by the said act of seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, subject to the provisions above mentioned.

  • "Sec. 4. That upon all the subjects of taxation mentioned in this act and the act approved seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act to lay taxes for the common defense and carry on the Government of the Confederate States," approved twenty-fourth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,' there shall be levied and assessed for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, an additional tax, in money, equal to one-eighth of the amount of the tax on the same subjects imposed for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five by this act and the said act of seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; which tax shall be payable in Confederate Treasury notes of the new issue only, and shall be assessed and collected at the same time with the other taxes; and the money arising therefrom shall be first appropriated to the payment of the increased compensation of the soldiers of the Army: Provided, That this additional tax shall not be construed to apply to or to increase the tax in kind.
  • "Sec. 5. Any taxpayer, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be allowed to pay into the Treasury, in advance, such sum or sums as he may choose on account of taxes to accrue against him, and to obtain therefor an unassignable certificate of such payment.
  • "Sec. 6. Congress having intended by the act of the seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled 'An act to levy additional taxes for the common defense and support of the Government,' as amended by the act of fourteenth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to impose said additional taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four only, the said act of seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as amended, in so far as it can be construed to operate otherwise than as thus intended, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. And all the taxes imposed by this act shall be paid without any discount or credit for the value of the tax in kind or the income tax, and all the taxes on incomes and profits, under existing laws, shall be paid without any credit or deduction of the ad valorem tax.
  • "Sec. 7. That when property, real or personal, has been injured or destroyed by the enemy, or the owner thereof has been temporarily deprived of the use thereof, or, in the case of real estate, of the means of cultivating the same, by the reason of the possession or proximity of the enemy, the assessment on such property may be reduced in proportion to the damage sustained by the owner, or the tax assessed thereon may be reduced in the same ratio by the district collector, on satisfactory evidence submitted to him by the owner or assessor.
  • "Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasury, on the recommendation of the boards of police, county courts, or such other county, district, or parish tribunal as may be prescribed by the State collectors, respectively, transmitted through said collectors, is hereby authorized to suspend the collection of taxes now due or imposed by this or any other or future act, in those districts where depredations have been committed by the enemy, in cases of individuals in such

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    districts where, in his judgment, the resources of the taxpayer asking such suspension have been so seriously damaged or destroyed as to render the payment of taxes impossible or excessively oppressive; such suspension to be revocable at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Treasury."

Mr. Barksdale moved that the report be postponed until to-morrow, made the special order for 12 o'clock, and printed.

Mr. J. M. Smith called the question; which was ordered, and the motion of Mr. Barksdale was lost.

Mr. Snead called the question; which was ordered.

The question being on agreeing to the report of the committee of conference,

Mr. McMullin demanded the yeas and nays;

Which were ordered,

And recorded as follows:
• Yeas ... 34
• Nays ... 32

Yeas: Anderson, Atkins, Baldwin, Baylor, Branch, Horatio W. Bruce, Chambers, Clark, Conrad, Darden, Dickinson, Dupré, Funsten, Gaither, Gilmer, Goode, Hanly, Hartridge, Hatcher, Holliday, Lyon, Machen, McCallum, Miles, Miller, Moore, Murray, Sexton, Simpson, Snead, Triplett, Villeré, Wilkes, and Witherspoon.

Nays: Barksdale, Batson, Blandford, Bradley, Burnett, Carroll, Chrisman, Clopton, Cruikshank, De Jarnette, Ewing, Fuller, Gholson, Herbert, Johnston, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, Marshall, McMullin, Perkins, Pugh, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Russell, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Smith of North Carolina, Staples, Wickham, and Mr. Speaker.

So the report of the committee was agreed to.

Mr. Hanly moved to reconsider the vote just taken.

The motion was lost.

On motion, the bill reported from the committee was ordered to be printed.

The following messages were received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. 379) to levy additional taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five for the support of the Government.

The Senate have agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (S. 166) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide and organize a general staff for armies in the field, to serve during the war," approved June 14. 1864.

The Chair laid before the House a bill of the House (H. R. 258) "to amend the act of February 7, 1803, so as to allow commutation to soldiers for the war who have received no furlough," which had been returned from the Senate with the following amendment:

Strike out, in line 2, "eighteen hundred and sixty-five" and insert in lieu thereof "eighteen hundred and sixty-three."

The question being on concurring in the amendment,

It was as decided in the affirmative.

The Chair laid before the House

A bill (H. R. 406) "to amend the acts to regulate the assessment and collection of taxes in kind,"

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which had been returned from the Senate with the following amendments:

• 1. In line 3, section 8, after the word "crops," insert the following: "except peas and ground peas consumed by his stock in the fields where grown."
• 2. Add as section 11 the following:

  "That the penalty for the nondelivery of the tithe of cotton and tobacco shall be five times the estimated value of such tithe."

The question being on concurring in the amendments of the Senate,

It was decided in the affirmative, on each amendment, respectively.

The Chair also laid before the House a Senate joint resolution (S. 35) "providing for donations to the Treasury of the Confederate States;" which was read a first and second time.

On motion of Mr. Clark, the rule was suspended requiring the joint resolution to be referred to a committee.

The joint resolution was read a third time and passed, and the title was read and agreed to.

The Chair also laid before the House a Senate bill (S. 219) "to regulate the payment of clerks employed at the post-office in the city of Richmond;" which was read a first and second time.

On motion of Mr. Sexton, the rule was suspended requiring the bill to be referred to a committee.

Mr. Gholson moved to amend the bill by adding the following, viz:

Provided, That the provisions of this act shall also apply to the city of Petersburg.

Mr. Gray moved to amend the amendment by adding the words "and to all other cities in the Confederacy;" which was agreed to.

Mr. Colyar moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendment of Mr. Gray was agreed to; which motion prevailed.

The question recurring on agreeing to the amendment,

Mr. Blandford demanded the yeas and nays;

Which were ordered,

And recorded as follows:
• Yeas ... 27
• Nays ... 28

Yeas: Blandford, Carroll, Chrisman, Clark, Cluskey, Conrad, Dupré, Fuller, Gray, Hanly, Hartridge, Herbert, Holliday, Logan, Marshall, McMullin, Miles, Murray, Perkins, Pugh, Rogers, J. M. Smith, Smith of North Carolina, Snead, Staples, Swan, and Villeré.

Nays: Atkins, Baldwin, Batson, Baylor, Bradley, Branch, Horatio W. Bruce, Clopton, Colyar, Darden, Dickinson, Ewing, Funsten, Gaither, Gholson, Goode, Johnston, Keeble, Machen, McCallum, Ramsay, Russell, Sexton, W. E. Smith, Triplett, Wickham, Wilkes, and Mr. Speaker.

So the amendment to the amendment was lost.

The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. Gholson,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The bill was read a third time and passed.

Mr. Gholson moved to amend the title by adding the words "and the city of Petersburg."

The amendment was agreed to, and the title as amended was read and agreed to.

The Chair laid before the House a communication from Hon. Ro. H. Whitfield, member from Virginia, announcing his resignation as a member of the House; which was read and laid upon the table.

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Mr. Clark, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes the two Houses on the bill (S. 166) "to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide and organize a general staff for armies in the field, to serve during the war.' approved fourteenth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four," submitted the following report:

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on Senate bill (S. 166) "to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide and organize a general staff for armies in the field, to serve during the war.' approved fourteenth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four" have met in free conference, and have agreed to recommend, and do hereby recommend, to their respective Houses as follows:

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House and agree to the same with the following amendments: In line 2, strike out the word "four" and insert "three," and at the end of the section add: "Provided, That the pay of aids-de-camp of the rank of first lieutenant of cavalry shall be the same as now allowed by law."

• JOHN B. CLARK.
• M. W. CLUSKEY.
• FREDK. W. M. HOLLIDAY.
  Managers on the part of the House of Representatives.
• LOUIS T. WIGFALL,
• JAMES L. ORR.
• A. E. MAXWELL.
  Managers on the part of the Senate.

The question being on agreeing to the report,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Clark moved to reconsider the vote just taken.

The motion was lost.

On motion of Mr. Anderson, the Speaker was authorized to appoint an additional manager on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill "for the relief of bonded agriculturists in certain cases."

Mr. Miles, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill "to diminish the number of exemptions and details," submitted the following report:

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. 350) "to diminish the number of exemptions and details," have met, and, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend, and do recommend, to their respective Houses as follows:

• 1. That the House recede from its disagreement to the first, third, fourth, and fifth amendments of the Senate and agree to the same.
• 2. That the House recede from its disagreement to the second amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment to wit After "laborers" insert employed in the Niter and Mining Bureau in localities where slave labor can not with safety be employed."
• 3. That the House recede from its disagreement to the sixth amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with the following amendment, to wit: Strike out all of the amendment after the word "employed," in lines 4 and 5, and that the Senate agree to the same as amended.

• W. PORCHER MILES,
• F. B. SEXTON,
• J. L. PUGH.
  Managers on the part of the House of Representatives.
• JAMES L. ORR.
• A.T. CAPERTON
• H C BURNETT,
  Managers on the part of the Senate.

The report was agreed to and, on motion, ordered to be printed.

On motion of Mr. Darden, leave was granted him, upon leaving copies, to withdraw from the files of the House the memorial and

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accompanying papers of the president and superintendent of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad.

On motion of Mr. Gilmer, leave was granted him, on leaving copies, to withdraw from the files of the House the petition and accompanying papers of Maj. N. E. Scales.

Mr. Wickham presented a series of resolutions adopted at a meeting of Sturdivant's artillery battalion; which were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Cruikshank, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported as correctly enrolled

• H. R. 266. An act to amend post route No. 1649, in the State of Georgia;
• H. R. 288. An act authorizing the promotion of officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates for distinguished valor and skill, or for peculiar competency and general merit;
• H. R. 320. An act to change the mode of filling vacancies among commissioned officers of companies, battalions, and regiments;
• H. R. 395. An act to regulate the compensation of the State collector of Virginia;
• H. R. 397. An act to provide for the payment of the amounts due certain officers and privates who are prisoners of war;
• H. R. 398. An act making an appropriation for the purchase of a purcussion-cap pressing machine; and
• S. 180. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the procuring, aiding, and assisting persons to desert from the Army of the Confederate States, and for other purposes," approved January 22, 1864.

And the Speaker signed the same.

Under a suspension of the rules, Mr. Chambers, from the Special Committee on Impressments, to whom had been referred

A bill "to provide for taking testimony on claims for the value or for the use and services of slaves in certain cases,"
reported back the same 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.

Mr. Machen submitted the following amendment:

In line 18, after the words "Confederate States," insert the following: "Provided, That in no case of death from disease shall payment be made unless it shall be proved that the disease of which the slave died was contracted by reason of exposure in the service of the Government."

Pending which,

Mr. Atkins moved to lay the bill and amendment on the table.

No quorum voting,

Mr. Carroll moved a call of the House; which was ordered.

Upon the call of the roll the following gentlemen answered to their names:

Messrs. Atkins, Baldwin, Batson, Baylor, Blandford, Branch, Horatio W. Bruce, Carroll, Chambers, Chrisman, Clark, Clopton, Cluskey, Colyar, Conrad, Conrow, Cruikshank, Darden, Dickinson, Dupré, Elliott, Ewing, Farrow, Funsten, Gaither, Gholson, Gilmer, Goode, Gray, Hartridge, Hatcher, Herbert, Holliday, Johnston, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, Lyon, Machen, Marshall, McCallum,

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McMullin, Miles, Perkins, Pugh, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Russell, Sexton, Simpson, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Smith of North Carolina, Staples, Triplett, Turner, Villeré, Wickham, Wilkes, and Witherspoon.

A quorum being present.

On motion of Mr. Atkins, all further proceedings under the call were dispensed with.

Mr. Darden moved that the House adjourn.

The motion was lost.

The question recurring on the motion to lay the bill and amendment on the table,

Mr. Atkins demanded the yeas and nays;

Which were ordered,

And recorded as follows, viz:
• Yeas ... 25
• Nays ... 36

Yeas: Atkins, Batson, Baylor, Blandford, Branch, Carroll, Chrisman, Clark, Conrad, Conrow, Elliott, Ewing, Gray, Hatcher, Johnston, Lyon, Machen, Marshall, McCallum, Pugh, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Smith of North Carolina, Triplett, and Wilkes.

Nays: Baldwin, Horatio W. Bruce, Chambers, Clopton, Cluskey, Cruikshank, Darden, Dickinson, Dupré, Farrow, Fuller, Funsten, Gaither, Gholson, Gilmer, Goode, Hartridge, Herbert, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, McMullin, Miles, Perkins, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Russell, Sexton, Simpson, Snead, Staples, Turner, Villeré, Wickham, and Witherspoon.

So the motion was lost.

The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. Machen,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Conrad submitted the following amendment:

In line 7, strike out the word "employed" and insert the word "impressed."

Mr. Atkins called the question; which was ordered.

Mr. Atkins moved that the House adjourn.

The motion was lost.

The question being on the amendment of Mr. Conrad,

Mr. Blandford demanded the yeas and nays: which were ordered.

Mr. Burnett moved that the House adjourn.

The motion was lost.

The yeas and nays are recorded,

And are as follow viz:
• Yeas ... 93
• Nays ... 35

Yeas: Atkins, Baylor, Branch, Burnett, Carroll, Clark, Cluskey, Conrad, Darden, Ewing, Gray, Hatcher, Johnston, Keeble, Lyon, McCallum, McMullin, Pugh, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Smith of North Carolina, Swan, and Wilkes.

Nays: Baldwin, Batson, Blandford, Eli M. Bruce, Horatio W. Bruce, Chambers, Clopton, Conrow, Cruikshank, Dickinson, Dupré, Fuller, Gaither, Gholson, Gilmer, Goode, Hartridge, Herbert, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, Machen, Marshall, Miles Perkins, Ramsay, Rogers, Russell, Sexton, Simpson, Staples, Triplett, Turner, Villeré, and Wickham.

So the amendment of Mr. Conrad was rejected.

Mr. Marshall moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed.

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Mr. Atkins demanded the yeas and nays thereon;

Which were ordered,

And are recorded as follows, viz:
• Yeas ... 31
• Nays ... 30

Yeas: Atkins, Batson, Blandford, Branch, Eli M. Bruce, Burnett, Carroll, Clark, Cluskey, Conrad, Conrow, Darden, Ewing, Gray, Hatcher, Johnston, Keeble, J. T. Leach, Lyon, Machen, Marshall, McCallum, McMullin, Pugh, Russell, Sexton, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Staples, Swan, and Wilkes.

Nays: Baldwin, Horatio W. Bruce, Chambers, Clopton, Cruikshank, Dickinson, Dupré, Fuller, Funsten, Gaither, Gholson, Gilmer, Goode, Hartridge, Herbert, J. M. Leach, Logan, Miles, Perkins, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Simpson, Smith of North Carolina, Snead, Triplett, Turner, Villeré, Wickham, and Witherspoon.

So the bill was indefinitely postponed.

Mr. Atkins moved to reconsider the vote just taken.

Pending which,

Mr. Rogers moved that the House adjourn; which latter motion was lost.

Mr. Chambers demanded the yeas and nays on the motion to reconsider.

The yeas and nays were not ordered, and the motion to reconsider was lost.

A message was received from the President, by Mr. Harrison, his Private Secretary, notifying the House that on the 4th instant the President approved and signed

• H. R. 319. An act more effectually to prevent and punish absenteeism and desertion in the Army.

On motion of Mr. Rogers,

The House adjourned until 11 o'clock to-morrow.

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