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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Confederate States Congress. In the Senate, yesterday, the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. J. L. Burrows, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Maxwell, of Florida, presented the credentials of his colleague, the Hon. James M. Baker, re elected to the Senate for six years. Mr. Clark, of Mo., entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which was rejected the bill providing for the return to the Trans--Mississippi of persons captured there and paroled or exchanged in the East. Mr. Dortch, of N. C., presented the proceedings of the 37th N. C. regiment, reenlisting for the war. On motion of Mr. Dortch, a seat in the Senate was tendered to Gen. Braxton Bragg. House bill to authorize the payment and mileage of members of the second Congress of the Confederate States, was reported favorably from the Judiciary Committee and passed. From the same committee were reported adversely the bill to prevent trading with the enemy; the bill to authorize the Confe