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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 --TENTH DAY--SATURDAY, November 19, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Baker.
On motion of Mr. Clopton, leave of absence was granted his colleague, Mr. Pugh (detained from his seat by indisposition).
Mr. Blandford moved that the rule be suspended limiting the Committee on Military Affairs to one member from each State, to enable the Chair to appoint another member to that committee.
The motion prevailed, and the Chair appointed Mr. Wickham of Virginia a member of the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Perkins, from the Select Committee on Reporting the Debates of the House, submitted a report; which was read and, on motion, laid upon the table.
Mr. Staples, from the Select Committee on the Subject of Exemption of State Officers, submitted a report and the following resolution:
Resolved, That a joint committee be appointed, to consist of one member from each State on the part of the House and such number as may be appointed by the-Senate, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the number of officers in each one of the several States exempted by existing laws from military service in the armies of the Confederate States, for the purpose of carrying on the government of such States, and if the number so exempted be larger than the public necessity shall seem to require, that the committee prepare and report to the House an address appealing to each one of said States so to modify their respective exemption laws as to render liable to military service all able-bodied men between eighteen and forty-five years of age whose service in their several offices may be temporarily dispensed with without detriment to the government of such State.
The question being on postponing the resolution and placing it on the Calendar,
It was decided in the negative.
The following messages were received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill (S. 103) to amend an act entitled "An act to organize forces to serve during the war," approved February 17, 1864; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House, viz:
The morning hour having expired,
Mr. H. W. Bruce moved that the Calendar be postponed; which motion prevailed.
Mr. Blandford called the question; which was ordered, and the resolution was adopted.
Mr. Staples moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopted.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
The Chair laid before the House a Senate bill (S. 103) "to amend an act entitled 'An act to organize forces to serve during the war,'
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approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four;" which was read a first and second time.
On motion of Mr. Clark, the rule having been suspended requiring the bill to be referred to a committee, the bill was read a third time and passed, and the title was read and agreed to.
Mr. Miles moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
The Chair laid before the House a Senate bill (S. 96) "to extend the time within which holders of Treasury notes of the old issue may exchange the same for notes of the new issue;" which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Also, a Senate bill (S. 100) "to amend the act to provide an invalid corps, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four;" which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On motion of Mr. Blandford,
The House adjourned.
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