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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 --FIFTY-FIRST DAY--MONDAY, January 9, 1865.
OPEN SESSION.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Duncan.
The Speaker announced the following as the special committee of five to inquire into the subject of relieving from taxation, for the year 1864, districts, towns, and counties exposed to the depredations of the enemy, under the resolution of Mr. De Jarnette, adopted on Saturday, viz:
Mr. De Jarnette of Virginia, Mr. Anderson of Georgia, Mr. Conrow of Missouri, Mr. Foster of Alabama, and Mr. Orr of Mississippi.
The House then took up the bill "to authorize the consolidation of battalions, companies, and regiments."
Mr. Conrad moved to amend the fifth section so as to authorize the President to drop from the rolls all officers without commands and all supernumerary staff officers, instead of declaring that all such officers, if not assigned to duty within sixty days, shall ipso facto, and without the direct action of the President, be dropped from the rolls.
Mr. Hilton called the question; which was ordered, and the amendment was lost.
Mr. Conrad moved to strike out the fifth section, which provides "that all officers not assigned to duty within sixty days after the passage of this act, except prisoners of war, shall be dropped from the rolls;" which was not agreed to.
Mr. Hanly offered an additional section, providing that when the whole number of troops in an army from any one State was not large enough to form a battalion, they shall, with their consent, be transferred to some other army where there are other troops from the same State.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. Cluskey offered an additional section, providing that in the consolidation companies from one battalion shall not be consolidated with companies from another battalion; that parts of companies shall not be consolidated with parts of other companies, and that parts of the same regiment or battalion shall not be consolidated into different brigades. Each regiment shall retain its name and colors.
The question was ordered on the adoption of the amendment,
Mr. Snead offered an additional section, providing that officers of the present organization who may be retained in the same grade in the consolidated commands shall hold their rank from the date of their old commissions, but if assigned to duty in any other grade, they shall rank from the date of their new commissions.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. McCallum offered an amendment providing that if, at the
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time of the consolidation, any company, battalion, or regiment shall have 30, 150, or 300 men, respectively, present for duty, it shall not be consolidated.
The amendment did not prevail.
Mr. Foster moved that the bill be recommitted.
Mr. Miles moved to lay the motion to recommit on the table; which motion to lay on the table prevailed.
Mr. Moore moved to reconsider the vote by which the additional section offered by Mr. Hanly in relation to the transfer of troops from one army to another, when there are not a sufficient number in the first to form a consolidated battalion, was incorporated in the bill.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
Mr. J. M. Smith offered an amendment providing that there shall be no further consolidation after that provided for by this act shall have been consummated, except by further legislation; which was adopted.
Mr. Hanly moved to reconsider the vote by which the House, on Saturday, rejected the amendment of Mr. Anderson, prohibiting the officers thrown out from joining an army on the opposite side of the Mississippi River from the army in which they are serving, unless they reside on the side to which they propose to go.
The motion to reconsider prevailed.
The question recurring on agreeing to the amendment of Mr. Anderson,
The yeas and nays were ordered, and the amendment of Mr. Anderson was agreed to by the following vote, viz:
The bill was then engrossed and read a third time.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The yeas and nays were ordered,
Yeas: Akin, Anderson, Barksdale, Batson, Baylor, Blandford, Eli M. Bruce, Horatio W. Bruce, Chambers, Chilton, Clopton, Colyar, Conrad, Conrow, Dickinson, Ewing, Foster, Funsten, Garland, Gholson, Goode, Hatcher, Hilton, Holliday, Johnston, Lamkin, Lyon, McMullin, Miles, Montague, Moore, Pugh, Rives, Russell, Shewmake, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, and Wickham.
Nays: Atkins, Baldwin, Bell, Bradley, Branch, Burnett, Chrisman, Cluskey, Clark, Cruikshank, Darden, Dupré, Echols, Elliott. Fuller, Gilmer, Gray, Hanly, Herbert, Holder, Keeble, J. M. Leach, Lester, Logan, Machen, Marshall, Meness, Norton, Orr, Perkins, Sexton, Snead, Triplett, Turner, Vest, Villeré, and Wilkes.
So the bill was passed.
Mr. Hilton moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, and called the question.
Mr. Snead demanded the yeas and nays;
Which were ordered,
So the motion to reconsider prevailed.
Mr. Marshall moved to recommit the bill to the Military Committee.
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Mr. McMullin moved that the House adjourn.
Mr. Miles demanded the yeas and nays thereon; which were ordered, and the motion was lost.
Mr. Miles moved a call of the House, with a view to have a full vote on the motion to recommit the bill.
The yeas and nays were ordered, and the call of the House refused by the following vote:
Mr. McMullin moved that when the House adjourn to-day it adjourn to meet at 12 o'clock to-morrow.
Mr. Akin moved to lay the motion to adjourn on the table, and called the question.
Pending which,
On motion of Mr. Chilton,
The House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock.
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