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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 --FOURTEENTH DAY--TUESDAY, May 17, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Minnigerode.
Mr. Dupré moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate bill (S. 25) "for the relief of the widow and heirs of the late Brigadier-General Leroy A. Stafford, of the Confederate States Army," was passed.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
The Chair laid before the House a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the House, transmitting a copy of the report of J. D. B. De Bow, general agent of the produce loan for the State of Mississippi, on the condition of Government cotton contiguous to the Mississippi and its tributaries.
On motion of Mr. Chambers, the communication and accompanying document were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
The House then resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday; which was the joint resolution for the relief of John D. Southerland.
The pending question being on ordering the joint resolution to third reading,
It was decided in the negative.
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So the joint resolution was lost.
Mr. Heiskell, from the Committee on Claims, to whom had been referred the memorial of Capt. R. Press. Smith, reported back the same with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration, and that it do lie upon the table; which was agreed to.
Also, the memorial of Arthur Morgan, with the same recommendation; which was also agreed to.
Mr. Perkins, from the Committee on Rules and Officers of the House, to whom had been referred the resolution of Mr. Foote to change the rule relating to secret sessions, reported back the same with the recommendation that it do not pass.
Mr. Perkins also submitted a written report from the committee on that subject; which, on motion of Mr. Heiskell, was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
Mr. Foote demanded the yeas and nays; which were ordered.
Mr. Hilton moved the previous question;
Which was ordered,
Yeas: Ayer, Bell, Boyce, Horatio W. Bruce, Cruikshank, Dupré, Echols, Farrow, Foote, Fuller, Gaither, Gilmer, Lamkin, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, Murray, Orr, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Smith of North Carolina, Turner, Whitfield, and Witherspoon.
Nays: Akin, Anderson, Atkins, Baldwin, Barksdale, Blandford, Bradley, Branch, Eli M. Bruce, Burnett, Chambers, Chilton, Clopton, Colyar, Conrad, Dickinson, Foster, Funsten, A. H. Garland, Gholson, Goode, Hanly, Hartridge, Heiskell, Hilton, Holder, Holliday, Johnston, Keeble, Lyon, Machen, Marshall, McCallum, McMullin, Menees, Miles, Montague, Moore, Perkins, Push Rives, Russell, Sexton Shewmake, Simpson, Singleton, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Swan, Triplett, and Welsh.
So the resolution was not adopted.
The morning hour having expired,
Mr. Chambers moved that the consideration of the Calendar be postponed; 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, with amendments, a joint resolution (H. R. 3) providing for the appointment of a special committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on the subject of impressments.
They have passed a bill (S. 28) to amend an act entitled "An act creating the office of ensign in the Army of the Confederate States:" in which bill and amendments I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
I am also directed to communicate to this House a resolution of the Senate in respect to the adjournment of the present session of Congress.
Mr. Holliday, from the Committee on the Commissary and Quartermaster's Departments, to whom had been referred a series of resolutions on the subject of impressments, reported back the same with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from their further consideration, and that they be referred to the Special Committee on Impressments; which was agreed to.
Mr. Heiskell, from the Committee on Elections, to whom had been referred
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A bill "to amend an act of this Congress entitled 'An act to provide for holding elections of Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States in the State of Tennessee;'"
reported back the same with the recommendation that it do pass with the following amendment:
Strike out the second section; which reads as follows, viz:
"That in all elections held for the State of Tennessee, while any two of the districts thereof, or in case of vacancy, while the district in which the vacancy occurs, are held by the public enemy, or a majority of the counties of such districts are so held by the public enemy, elections shall be held as well out of as in the State, according to the seventh section of said act,"
and insert in lieu thereof the following, viz:
"That in all elections held under said act, polls shall be opened in the camps of the army as well out of as in the State, and the elections shall be conducted otherwise as provided in said act, as amended by this act."
The question being on postponing the bill and placing it on the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
The amendment of the committee was agreed to, and the bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
The title was read and agreed to.
Mr. Barksdale, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported
A bill "to amend an act entitled 'An act to reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of Treasury notes,' approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four;"
which was read a first and second time.
Mr. Moore moved to postpone the bill, print it, and make it the special order for Friday next, 1 o'clock.
The motion was lost.
The question recurring on postponing the bill and placing it on the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
Mr. Swan moved that the bill be postponed until Friday next and printed.
The motion was lost.
Mr. Atkins moved to amend the bill by striking out the words "first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, east of the Mississippi River, and until the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, west of said river," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five."
Pending which,
Mr. Dupré, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Superintendent of Public Printing, until otherwise provided for, be authorized to enter into private contracts for the printing ordered by this House, for which such allowance shall be made as the Committee on Printing may determine to be equitable, to be paid out of the contingent expenses of the House;
which was adopted.
A message was received from the President, by Mr. Harrison, his Private Secretary, noticing the House that on the 13th instant the President approved and signed the following act entitled
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certain officers and employees in the civil and legislative departments in Richmond.
Also, that the President to-day approved and signed the following joint resolutions entitled
On motion of Mr. Machen,
The House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock.
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