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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 --THIRTY-FIRST DAY WEDNESDAY,--December 14, 1864.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Jeter.
The Chair laid before the House a message from the President; which is as follows, viz:
Richmond, Va., December 12, 1864.
To the House of Representatives:
In response to your resolution of the 18th ultimo, I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of War, which conveys the information requested so far as the records of his Department enable him to furnish it, and states the reasons which make it impracticable for him to reply more definitely as to the amount of money expended in payment of the army of the Trans-Mississippi Department since the assignment of Gen. E. Kirby Smith to the command of the department.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
The Chair laid before the House another message from the President; which is as follows, viz:
Richmond, Va., December 12, 1864.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the additional amount necessary to be appropriated to meet the estimated expenses of the Department of Justice for the half year ending June 30, 1865.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Mr. McCallum and Mr. Vest asked and obtained leave to have it recorded on the Journal that if they had been present on yesterday when the vote was taken on the bill "to regulate the pay and mileage of members and the compensation of officers of the Senate and House of Representatives" they would have voted in the affirmative.
The House proceeded to the consideration of the special order; which was the 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 bill (S. 135) "to provide for the remission of the penalty for nondelivery of tithes of bacon due in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four;" which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Nash, their Secretary; which is as follows, viz:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have adopted a resolution in regard to the adjournment of the two Houses of Congress.
The Senate have passed a bill and joint resolutions of the following titles, viz:
In which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
The House then resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Clopton in the chair, on the bill "to provide more effectually for the redemption and reduction of the currency;" and having spent some time therein, reported to the House, through their Chairman, that they had had under consideration the bill referred to them, and had come to no conclusion thereon.
Mr. Perkins, under a suspension of the rules; asked and obtained leave to have printed sundry amendments to the pending bill.
On motion of Mr. Colyar,
The House adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock m.
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