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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-EIGHTH DAY--SATURDAY, December 10, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Moore.
Mr. Dupré moved to suspend the rules, to enable him to introduce a bill.
Upon a division of the House it was found that there was no quorum present.
Mr. McMullin moved that there be a call of the House, and the motion was agreed to.
Upon a call of the roll the following gentlemen answered to their names, viz:
Messrs. Akin, Anderson, Baldwin, Batson, Boyce, Bradley, Branch, Bridgers, Eli M. Bruce, Burnett, Chambers, Chilton, Chrisman, Clark, Clopton, Cluskey, Colyar, Cruikshank, Darden, Dickinson, Dupré, Echols, Ewing, Farrow, Foster, Fuller, Gaither, Garland, Gholson, Gilmer, Herbert, Holliday, Keeble, Kenner, Lamkin, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Logan, Machen, McCallum, McMullin, Miller, Montague, Moore, Norton, Orr, Perkins, Pugh, Ramsay, Read, Rogers, Sexton, Shewmake, Simpson, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Smith of Alabama, Staples, Triplett, Villeré, Welsh, Whitfield, Wickham, Wilkes, Witherspoon, and Mr. Speaker.
A quorum having answered to their names,
On motion of Mr. McMullin, all further proceedings under the call were dispensed with.
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Mr. Dupré, under a suspension of the rules, introduced
A bill "to provide for the printing ordered by either House of Congress;"
which was read a first and second time.
On motion of Mr. Dupré, the rule requiring the bill to be referred to a committee was suspended, and the bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed.
The title was read and agreed to.
The House then proceeded to the consideration of the special order; which was a bill (H. R. 242) "to provide, for sequestrating the property of persons liable to military service who have departed, or shall depart, from the Confederate States without permission."
Pending the consideration of which the morning hour expired.
The Chair laid before the House a Senate joint resolution (S. 18) "authorizing the appointment of a commissioner to Brazil;" which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The Chair announced the following gentlemen as the Special Committee on Conscription, viz:
Messrs. Geede of Virginia, Clopton of Alabama, Ayer of South Carolina, Rogers of Florida, and Dupré of Louisiana.
The House then resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Clopton in the chair, on a bill "to provide more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency;" and having spent some time therein, the committee rose and, through their Chairman, reported that they had had under consideration, according to order, the business referred to them, and had come to no conclusion thereon.
Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported
A bill (under a suspension of the rules) "to amend an act entitled 'An act to organize forces to serve during the war,' approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four;" which was read a first and second time.
On motion of Mr. Miles, the bill was ordered to be printed and made the special order, from day to day, after the last special order.
The House again resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Clopton in the chair, on the bill "to provide more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency;" and having spent some time therein, the committee rose and, through their Chairman, reported to the House that they had had under consideration the bill referred to them, and had come to no conclusion thereon.
On motion of Mr. Foote,
The House adjourned until Monday at 12 o'clock m.
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