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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Confederate States Congress. Tuesday, January 20, 1863. Senate--The Senate met at 12 o'clock--Hon R. M. T. hunter in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Duncan, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting resolutions from the Legislature of Alabama and South Carolina in relation to the guarantees of the war debt. Also, a communication from the Hon. Secretary in relation to certain coin taken from the banks of New Orleans. Mr. Yancey introduced a bill to regulate the action of the Secretary of the Navy. The bill provides that hereafter the Secretary of the Navy, in pronouncing an approval of a sentence of court-martial, shall do it without injurious reflection upon the court and in terms of respect for that body. Mr. Yancey said his attention was drawn to the necessary of some law upon the subject by a recent publication of the Secretary of the Navy in his official