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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bill now under consideration. The latter, he argued, was based on the false assumption that the States in rebellion are out of the Union. Mr. Blow, of Missouri, spoke in favor of emancipation, and of its beneficial effects upon the country; but as to the question of suffrage, his State must be left to settle it in her own way, and he was content that Louisiana and Arkansas should have the same privilege. Mr. Edgerton, of Indiana, said that John Brown received more respect in this House than the patriotic men who made our system of Government, and bequeathed it to us as a priceless heritage. He remarked he had always been an anti-slavery man, but the bill before the House failed to commend itself to his approbation, on the ground of constitutionality, policy and expediency. Miscellaneous. Thirteen regiments of cavalry are to be raised in Missouri, and the draft thereby averted. The Confederates are reported to be purchasing small schooners to run the blockade
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Jeter, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Semmes, from the Finance Committee, reported back with the recommendation that it ought not to pass, House bill to provide for the immediate payment of arrears due the army and navy. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Wigfall, from the Military Committee, reported back Safter adjourned. House of Representatives. The House met at the usual hour, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Peterkin. Senate amendments to House bill to establish a foundry and arsenal in the valley of Deep river, North Carolina, and to House bill to amend the thirteenth section of the act to reduce the curHouse bill to amend the thirteenth section of the act to reduce the currency, &c., approved February 17, 1864, were concurred in. Mr. Lyon, of Alabama, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the following bills: A bill further to provide for the regulation of taxation on banks and bank notes, and for the confiscation of such notes in the hands of alien enemies.--Ordered to be printe
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
be issued by existing laws had been exhausted, authorized the issue of an additional $90,000,000; but it was shown that the treasury had not, by $50,000,000, issued the amount authorized. It was further shown that, owing to the derangement of the Treasury Note Bureau in consequence of the advance of the enemy in South Carolina, the bill, if passed, could not be executed, it being impossible that the Note Bureau could be got in operation before the 1st of April next. Senate bill to abolish the offices of post quartermasters, post commissaries, etc., with House amendment, was taken up. The House amendment struck out so much of the bill as provided for abolishing post quartermasters and quartermasters engaged in the collection of the tax in kind. The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed. On motion, by Mr. Wigfall, the Senate resolved into executive session. House of Representatives. The deliberations of this body were conducted altogether in secret session.
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
51 Clerks and deputy clerks of the superior courts, ordinaries and deputy ordinaries, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, constables, tax receivers, county treasurers, coroners, jailors and surveyors--132 each — making a total of1,584 Governor, State-House officers, judges and clerks of supreme courts, senators, representatives and solicitors270 Justices of inferior courts660 Deputy clerks of inferior courts264 Total8,229 Senate amendment to House bill increasing the compensation of marshalHouse bill increasing the compensation of marshals, criers, jurors and witnesses, was concurred in. [The amendment merely provides that the increased compensation shall only continue until January 1st, 1866, instead of until otherwise provided by law, as the House bill provides.] Senate bill to authorize the Ordnance Bureau to manufacture alcohol, and Senates bill to amend the law in relation to impressments, were referred to appropriate committees. The House insisted upon its amendments to Senate bill to amend the law for the
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rewith, said officers are required to impress transportation and subsistence, under existing laws, whenever the same can be obtained. The Commissioner of Exchange is to be solely responsible for the management, transportation, shelter and subsistence of prisoners from the point of delivery until they arrive at their parole camp, and he is authorized to make all proper arrangements to meet this responsibility. " Mr. Semmes, from the Committee on Finance, reported back, with amendments, House bill to levy additional taxes for 1865 for the support of the Government. The bill and amendments were ordered to be printed. Mr. Oldham, from the same committee, made a minority report on the same bill; which was also ordered to be printed. Mr. Wigfall, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to authorize the Secretary of War to assign to duty at every hospital in the Confederate States a disabled military officer, not below the rank of first lieutenant, who shall have the e
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
t Monday in October as the time of the regular meeting of Congress was taken up; and, after debate. On motion, by Mr. Wigfall, the bill was informally passed over. Senate bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to receive specie from the several States of the Confederate States, and use the same for the benefit of said States, was considered and passed. Senate bill regulating the destruction of property under military necessity, as amended by the House, was taken up, and House amendments were concurred in and the bill passed. The following is the bill, which awaits the approval of the President to become the law: "The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That hereafter, whenever cotton or tobacco, military or naval stores, or other property of any kind whatever, which may aid the enemy in the prosecution of the war, may be in an exposed position, where it would be liable to seizure and removal by the enemy, the general officer command
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
in order to give the members of the Senate an opportunity to be introduced to him. When the President resumed the chair, the order of the day, being the Senate bill imposing taxes for the support of Government, was taken up and amended, and discussed till the hour of adjournment. Evening session. The entire evening session was taken up in perfecting the bills imposing taxes for the current year. House of Delegates. The House met at 11 A. M. Mr. Bouldin called up House bill ordering the sale of certain bonds and stocks held by the State, in order to facilitate the payment of the expenses of the State Government. Mr. Bouldin indicated, in some remarks, that the action of the House on the bill would indicate whether the House should consider it expedient to go on with the consideration of the tax bill to levy taxes for the support of Government. The bill was discussed at length, and several propositions were before the House as amendments to the bi
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
tment for cotton purchased by W. J. Hutchins and other agents. Mr. Perkins, having the floor, favored the passage of the bill. A motion to refer to the Committee on Ways and Means was rejected. Mr. Herbert, of Texas, withdrew the substitute offered by him, and the bill of the Committee on Claims was amended by the addition of a clause appropriating $3,000,000 for the purpose indicated, and passed — years, 60; nays, 3. The Speaker laid before the House Senate amendments to House bill for the relief of bonded agriculturists, which were not concurred in, the Speaker stating that the Senate, in amending the House bill by striking out the first section, had stricken out the enacting clause, thus defeating the bill altogether. Also, Senate amendment to the bill to authorize the appointment of assistants to the Register in signing bonds, providing that the act shall expire in thirty days after the next meeting of Congress, was concurred in. Senate bill continuing in
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
finally taken up as it came from the Senate, with amendments, and passed. Mr. Hunter, of Berkeley, submitted a preamble and resolutions expressing indignation at the murder of Captain John Y. Beall, of Jefferson county, Virginia, a regularly commissioned officer of the Confederate States navy, and requesting the Virginia representatives in Congress to urge upon the Executive the adoption of some retaliatory measure for the said murder. The preamble and resolutions were adopted unanimously after some strong remarks from the author of the resolution. He said he died as only a true Southron could die, and his noble old mother, Virginia, would enshrine his name among the martyrs of this war, as one she will not willingly let die. Mr. Staples, of Patrick, called up House bill No. 101--a bill conferring upon the General Assembly the power of a convention. The hour of 3 P. M. having arrived, the Speaker's hammer fell, and the House took recess until half-past 7 P. M.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Friday, March 3, 1865. Mr. Johnson, of Missouri, introduced a bill to appropriate money to pay the Missouri State Guard. Referred. House bill to authorize the Secretary of War to purchase a percussion cap machine, and House bill making an appropriation to pay for the same, were considered and passed. House bill to change the mode of filling vacancies among commissioned officers of companies, battalions and regiments, was considered and passed. House bill authorizing the promotion of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates for distinguished valor and skill, or for peculiar competency and general merit, was passed. House bill to provide for the payment of the amounts due certain officers and privates who are prisoners of war was considered and passed. The Committee on the Judiciary were discharged from the further consideration of the resolution relative to taking a census of the people of the Confederate States
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