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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
roduced a bill, which was referred to the Finance Committee and ordered to be printed, providing for the issue of $500,000,000 of coupon bonds in sums not less than five hundred dollars, payable in twenty years, and bearing interest of six per cent., payable semi- annually. The coupons when due to be a legal tender for all debts due in dollars or other money, and a refusal to accept the same when tendered to act as a discharge of the indebtedness in payment of which they are offered. Mr. Davis, of N. C., offered a resolution, which was passed, calling on the President, if not inconsistent with the public interest, to furnish the Senate with copies of General Whiting's reports in relation to running the blockade at Wilmington, N. C. At 1½ o'clock P. M., on motion of Mr. Brown, of Miss., the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Conrad offered a resolution that the President be requested to inform the House what amount of cotton has been exported from the Confederate State
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Latest from the North. We have received the following summary of news from the Baltimore Gazette, of the 8th inst. The Yankee Congress. The first session of the 38th Congress commenced in Washington on Monday. In the Senate the credentials of several newly-elected Senators were presented. Mr. Davis made an earnest opposition to the admission of Senators from West Virginia, contending that, constitutionally, there was no such State as West Virginia, and therefore there could be no Senators from such a State. By a vote of thirty-six yeas to five nays the Senators (Messrs Willey and Van Winkle) were admitted to their seats. The House of Representatives was organized by the election of Schuyler Colfax as Speaker on the first ballot. He received 101 votes; Cox, 42; Dawson, 12; Mallory, 10; all others, 17. Necessary to a choice, 92. The Speaker, on assuming the chair, declared himself in favor of "crushing out the rebellion" by all the means within the power of the Go