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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
n the Capitol Vice President Stephens called the Senate to order. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Seeley of the 2d Baptist Church. The Secretary proceeded to call the roll, the following Senators answering to their names Alabama Messrs. Yancey and Clay, Florida, Messrs. Maxwell and Baker; Georgia, B. H. Hill, Kentucky H. C. Burnett, Louisiana, T. J. Semmes Mississippi, Messrs Brown and Phelan, Missouri Jno. B. Clark, North Carolina, Messrs. Davis and Dertch; Tennessee, London C. Haynes; Texas, Messrs. Wigfall and Oldham; Virginia, Messrs, Hunter and Preston--17. The absentees wire Messrs. Johnson and Mitchell of Arkansas; J. W. Lewis. of Ga.; Wm. E. Simms, of Ky.; Ed. Sparrow, of La., R. L. Y. Peyter of Mo., Messrs. Barnwell and Ott, of S. C. G. A. Henry, of Tenn. Mr. Yancey, of Ala., gave notice that he could move an amendment to the rules of the Senate tomorrow, by striking out the 43d and 46th rules, and inserting in item of the latter the following: "All legislative sessi
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yellow fever. (search)
Clerks in the Departments. We fully concur in the opinion expressed by Senator Wigfall, in the last Congress, when it was proposed to withdraw from the clerical force of the Government all the young men subject by age to military duty, (numbering, possibly, a hundred in all,) and place them in the army, supplying their places with infirm old men, that the laborious duties of that position require men of physical strength and endurance, and could not be efficiently performed by any other. The Senator added that a proposition to convert the Departments of the Government into hospitals for the old and infirm could not received his support. The confused and intricate accounts, documents, and figures, daily poured in upon the Departments, which are often written in chirography which requires the keenest eyesight to interpret, and a practiced expert to arrange, are not likely to become anything but "confusion worse confounded" if taken from hands accustomed to unraveling them and co