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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ll Passed.--When the Senate adjourned on Saturday, it had under consideration the proposition of Mr. Paxtonto lay the bill authorizing the issue of Treasury notes on the table. The Senate refusing to lay on the table, Mr. Thomas, of Fairfax, proposed to amend by inserting $100 instead of $10, as the smallest amount for which the notes should issue. Mr. Douglass proposed $50, which was accepted by Mr. Thomas. Mr. August, Mr. Logan, &c., opposed the amendment, and Mr. Thomas, Mr. Rives, &c., advocated it — the latter contending that the issue would be unconstitutional, and the former maintaining the reverse. The amendments were rejected — ayes 14, noes 27. Mr. Paxton moved that the vote by which the amendment of Mr. Brannon was ordered to its third reading, be reconsidered. Lost. The question then recurred on the passage of the bill as amended, when it was adopted by a vote of ayes 39, noes 1--Caldwell. Bill Reported.--A bill to authorize the Treasurer