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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-FOURTH DAY--SATURDAY, December 17, 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 15, 1864.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to certain transfers of appropriations required in connection with the service of his Department.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
The Chair laid before the House another message from the President; which is as follows, viz:
Richmond, Va., December 15, 1864.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War relative to the increase of the amount to be appropriated for the purpose for which he has already submitted an estimate.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
The Chair laid before the House another communication from the President; which was read as follows, viz:
Richmond, Va., December 15, 1864.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit for your information a communication from the Secretary of State, covering further copies of his correspondence with our commissioners abroad, referred to in my message of the 7th instant.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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The message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The Chair laid before the House another communication from the President; which was read as follows, viz:
Richmond, Va., December 15, 1864.
To the House of Representatives:
In response to your resolution of the 23d ultimo, I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of War, which conveys the information requested in relation to the sale of cloth and clothing to officers of the armies in the field under the act of February 17, 1864.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The communication and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on the Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments and Military Transportation.
The Chair also laid before the House a Senate bill (S. 132) "to regulate the supplies of clothing to midshipmen of the Navy;" which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
The House resumed the consideration of unfinished business, viz:
The bill "to amend an act entitled 'An act providing for the establishment and payment of claims for a certain description of property taken or informally impressed for the use of the Army,' approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four."
Mr. Dupré submitted the following amendment (in the nature of a substitute):
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
"That the act entitled 'An act providing for the establishment and payment of claims for a certain description of property taken or informally impressed for the use of the Army,' approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be continued in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, east of the Mississippi River, and until the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, west of the Mississippi River; and all claims of the description mentioned in said act not presented to the agent therein provided prior to the dates above specified, at the respective places mentioned, shall not be entitled to the benefits of said act."
Mr. Foster called the question; which was ordered, and the amendment was agreed to.
The bill was engrossed, read a third time, and passed, and the title was read and agreed to.
Mr. Foster moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.
The motion was lost.
The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished business, viz:
The resolution of Mr. Turner, "tendering negotiations for peace and a mitigation of the horrors of the war."
Pending which,
Mr. Cluskey moved to reconsider the resolution of the Senate in relation to a recess.
The morning hour having expired,
The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole to consider the special order of the day, viz:
The bill "to provide more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency,"
Mr. Clopton in the chair; and having spent some time therein, the committee rose and reported, through their Chairman, that they had
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had the matter under consideration and had come to no conclusion thereon.
Mr. Cruikshank, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported as correctly enrolled
On motion of Mr. Sexton,
The House adjourned.
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