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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following: Senate bill "to allow army missionaries rations, and in certain cases forage to post chaplains," with slight amendments. Amendments adopted and bill passed. Senate bill to authorize the Secretary of War to negotiate with the Governors of States for slave labor. The bill was amended so as to prohibit the payment of higher wages for the hire of such slaves than is allowed by law to privates in the army and passed. Mr. Baldwin, of Virginia, offered a bill fixing the salary of the State Collector for Virginia at one-tenth of one per cent. on the amount collected, not, however, to exceed seven thousand dollars per annum. The bill passed. The Committee on Military Affairs resuming their reports, reported back, with verbal amendments, Senate bill to modify and amend the act to regulate the destruction of property under military necessity and to provide indemnity therefore. The amendments were concurred in an
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and Messrs. Anderson, Foster and DeJarnette appointed managers on the part of the House. A bill for the relief of Alexander Kinney was reported from the Committee on Ways and Means and passed. Mr. Miles, of South Carolina, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to authorize the President to organize a volunteer force in Richmond and Henrico county for temporary service; such forces not to be carried against their will beyond the interior line of defences, nor required to serve beyond the time for which they volunteered. Passed. Mr. Hartridge, of Georgia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill to amend the act to impose regulations upon foreign commerce, &c. Passed. The House then resolved into secret session. When the doors were re-opened, Mr. Baldwin, of Virginia, from the Committee on Impressments, reported back, favorably, the bill to amend the laws regulating impressments. Pending the consideration of which the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ns adopted by the Nineteenth battalion Virginia artillery. On motion of Mr. Blandford, the House resolved into secret session. The doors being opened, Mr. Baldwin, of Virginia, from the Special Committee on Impressments, reported a bill "to provide for the establishment and payment of claims for certain descriptions of prssed in like manner as is provided in the case of forage, etc., in the act of which this is an amendment." The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Baldwin also reported a bill "relative to the impressment of slaves," with a recommendation that it do pass. The bill was passed — yeas, 33; nays, 29. The Chair lents. (First Amendment. --Insert after Houses the words "sine die." Agreed to. Second.--Strike out "Wednesday, the 8th," and insert "Saturday, at 2 P. M."] Mr. Baldwin moved the consideration of the resolution and amendments be had in secret session. Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Blandford, the House resolved itself into s
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars reward. (search)
pressing cap pressing machine." Mr. Lyon, of Alabama, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a bill "to amend an act to reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds," approved February 16, 1864. Passed. Mr. Baldwin, from the same committee, reported a bill for the relief of the Treasury-Note Bureau. Passed. Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, from the Committee on Claims, reported a bill for the relief of David Moore, Daniel Moore and Mrs. Mary R. Alexande President by refusing to pass the bill, as follows: Yeas.--Messrs. Atkins, Clopton, Cruikshank, Farrow, Fuller, Gilmer, Gray Herbert, Holliday, J. M. Leach, Logan Ramsay, Simpson, Smith of North Carolina, Wickham--15. Nays.--Anderson, Baldwin, Barksdale, Batson, Baylor, Blandford, Bradicy, Branch, Burnett, Carroll, Chambers, Chrisman, Clark, Colyar, Conrad, Conrow, Darden, De Jarnette, Dickinson, Ewing, Funsten, Gaither, Gholson, Goode, Hanly, Hartridge, Hatcher, Johnston, Lyon, Mach
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The first Abolition petitions to Congress were a memorial of Quakers, praying the abolition of the slave trade, presented by Mr. Fitzsimmons, of Pennsylvania, on the 11th of February, 1790, and a memorial to the same effect of Quakers, of New York city, presented by Mr. Lawrence, of New York. Mr. Hartly, of Pennsylvania, seconded by Mr. White, of Virginia, moved the reference of the first petition, which was opposed by Messrs. Stone, of Maryland; Smith, Tucker and Burke, of South Carolina; Baldwin and Jackson, of Georgia, who were in favor of its going to the table. Messrs. Fitzsimmons and Hartly, of Pennsylvania; Parker, Madison and Page, of Virginia; Lawrence, of New York; Sedgwick, of Massachusetts; Boudinot, of New Jersey; Sherman and Huntington, of Connecticut, favored a reference. Those who opposed it expressed the fear that action indicating an interference with this kind of property would sink it in value and be injurious to a great number of citizens, particularly of the S
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The question being, shall the bill pass? Mr. Darden demanded the yeas and nays, which were ordered and recorded as follows: Yeas.--Baston, Bradley, E. M. Bruce, H. W. Bruce, Carroll, Christian, Clark, Cluskey, Conrad, Conrow, De Jarnette, Dupre, Elliott, Ewing, Funsten, Gholson, Goode, Gray Hartridge, Hatcher, Heiskell, Holliday, Johnston, Keeble, Lyon, Machen, Miller, Moore, Perkins, Read, Russell, Sexton, Swan, Triplett, Villere, Wilks, Mr. Speaker. --Yeas, 36. Nays.--Anderson, Baldwin, Barksdale, Baylor, Blandford, Branch, Burnett, Clopton, Colyar, Darden, Farrow, Fuller Gaither, Gilmer, Hanley, Herbert, J. M. Leach, Marshall, McCallum, McMullen, Miles, Ramsay, Rogers, Simpson, J. M. Smith, Smith of N. C., Snead, Staples, Turner, Welsh, Wickham, Witherspoon.--Nays, 32. The following is a copy of the bill as passed: Whereas, The Confederate States are invaded, and the public safety requires the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the Congre
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rk, one thousand copies of the address were ordered to be printed for circulation. A message was received from the President, returning, without his approval, a bill to provide for the payment of arrears now due to the army and navy, and stating his objections thereto. The question being shall the bill pass notwithstanding the objections of the President, it was decided in the affirmative by the following vote: Those who voted in the affirmative were-- Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Baylor, Blandford, Branch, H. W: Bruce, Christian, Clark, Clopton, Cluskey, Darden, Dupre, Elliott, Farrow, Gaither, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Hanly, Hartridge, Herbert, Johnson, Keeble, Machen, Marshall, McCallum, McMullin, Perkins, Pugh, Read, Rogers, Russell, Simpson, J. M. Smith, Triplett, Turner, Villere, Wickham and Witherspoon--39. Those who voted in the negative were-- Messrs. Barksdale, Batson, Bradley, E. M. Bruce, Carroll, Colyar, Conrad, Conrow, De Jarnette, Dickinson, Ew
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, chairman; Raymond, of New York; Blair, of Missouri; Kasson, of Iowa; Voorhees, of Indiana; Farnsworth Spalding, of Ohio; Higsby, Wright, of New Jersey. On Banking and Currency.--Messrs of New York, chairman; Har; Culver, of Pennsylvania, land, of Ohio; Harding, of Kentucky; Lynch, of Maine; Devrees, of Indiana; Randall, of Pennsylvania; Hubbard, of West Virginia. District of Columbia.--Ingersoll, of Illinois; Dumont, of Indiana; Davis, of New York; Baldwin, of Massachusetts; McCullough, of Maryland; Colt, of Missouri; Walker O. Mercer, of Pennsylvania; Sharkland, of Kentucky. On the Judiciary.--Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa, chairman; Boutrell, of Massachusetts; Francis Thomas, of Maryland; Williams, of Pennsylvania; Woodbridge, of Vermont; Morris, of New York; Rogers, of New Jersey; Lawrence, of Ohio, and Cook, of Illinois. The House refused to suspend the rules for the admission of a resolution giving Southern members the privilege of t
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Court of conciliation — Sine die Adjournment. (search)
Court of conciliation — Sine die Adjournment. --The following business was disposed of by this Court yesterday: The suits of Cross vs. Grubbs & Williams, Baldwin vs. Adams Express Company, James & Briggs vs. C. Hennington, and Cohen vs. Myers, were dismissed. In the case of Daniel Hunt vs. G. B. Sloat, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $130.62 and interest and costs. Clutter vs. Ferguson & Thompson. Case removed from the docket, to be hereafter discharged by Judge Green. The Court being ready finally to adjourn sine die, took occasion to spread upon its records its acknowledgments to Major-General Alfred H. Terry for the courtesy shown by him in his intercourse with them, and their thanks to the clerk, deputy clerk and sergeant for their uniform kindness and attention; and to express to the practitioners at their bar their gratification in the retrospect of their professional and social relations which have existed between them.
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
e Southern humorist, Hooper, make a cherished book in the library of every lover of genuine American fun. The original of this capital piece of humor lived to be nearly seventy years of age. He is said to have been a man of generous nature and many weaknesses. He was most respectably connected, and at one time possessed of great wealth, which he recklessly wasted. It is not mentioned whether he ever held any office in the quartermaster or commissary way, but such talents could not have been lost to his country. And so Suggs is dead; and we shall never look upon his like again. Would that poor Hooper could have lived to preach his "funeral!" But he, too, has gone; and with him has perished one of the truest humorists in the South--one of the most promising of its young writers--one of the most genial of its noble natures. In the death of Hooper, and of J. G. Baldwin, author of the "Flush Times," Alabama mourns two as gifted and generous spirits as the South could boast.
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