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Confederate Congress.first Session.Senate.
Friday, April 4, 1862.
Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, from the Finance Committee, asked, on behalf of the committee, to be discharged from further consideration of a memorial from citizens of Texas in relation to the confiscation laws, and propounding certain questions therein contained.
He said that the subject matter of the memorial properly belonged to the Judiciary Committee, and he therefore asked this reference to be made; and it was accordingly ordered.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported back the House bill "to receive into the Confederate service, a regiment of volunteers for the protection of the Texas frontier," with recommendation that it do not pass.
Owing, however, to the absence of both the Senators from Texas, he asked that the bill and the report lay on the table for the present.
So ordered.
He also reported back, with an amendment, the House bill to encourage the manufacture of saltpet
House of Representatives.
Friday, April 4, 1862.
The House convened at 11 o'clock, and its session was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Moore, of the Presbyterian Church.
Journal of yesterday read.
Mr. Goode, of Va., stated that his colleague, Mr. Holcombe, had been called home on urgent business, and he asked leave of absence for him; which was granted by the House.
Mr. Baldwin, of Va., asked leave to present a memorial; which, without being read, was appropriately referred.
Mr. Miles, of S. C., moved that the resolution offered by him several days ago, to allow the Military and Naval Committees to report at any time during the open session, be taken up and considered.
The motion prevailed, and the resolution was taken up and agreed to.
The Speaker announced that the question before the House was the unfinished business of yesterday, viz: The Arkansas contested election case.
Mr. Smith, of Va., being entitled to the floor, addressed the House at
Richmond markets,April 4, 1862.
There is so little doing that the prices are hardly more than retail quotations.
All necessaries are inordinately high.
The Military Executive proposes to restrict the maximums of a good mary articles sold at the markets.
The order to this effect leaves them quite high enough.
Beef is certainly higher than it ought to be; yet it is not included in the list of regulated articles.
Money is superabundant and seeking investment, in the absence of means