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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress (search)
Confederate Congress Senate. Monday, March 17, 1862. The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill offered by Mr. Philan, of Tennessee, for the prohibition of raising cotton during the year 1862. Mr. Oldham, of Texas, made a stirring speech against filtering away the time of the Senate in useless discussion, and urged that the bill be referred, which was done. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, introduced a bill repealing an act of the Provisional Congress, and enacting as a substitute a bill providing that the pay and allowances of deceased soldiers shall be handed over first to the widow, if any, or to the child or children, if any, or to the father, or mother, or brother. Upon proper certificates being shown, it is provided that the Second Auditor of the Confederate States Treasury shall liquidate all such claims. Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, thought this whole bill to be wrong, because it was not the province of Congress to prepare any law of descent or make