Congressional Summary.
In the
Senate, Friday, a bill from the house regulating Congressional elections in certain Indian nations was passed.
Also, a House bid to displace from the
Quartermaster's and
Commissary's Departments all clerks liable to military service, and to authorise the detail of such disabled soldiers as may be necessary for service in the offices of Quartermasters or Commissaries.
A Senate sill to confer upon the
Chief of the
Bureau of Ordnance the pay, and
Brigadier-General in the P. A., was discussed and rejected.
The
House bill, passed early in the session, repealing certain clauses of the Exemption act, was taken up, and amended by the substitution of the 13th and 14th sections of the
Senate Exemption bill, (rejected yesterday,) less the paragraph exampling The bill as amended was passed.
The Senate then resolved into secret session.
In the
House, the greater portion of the morning session was spent in considering reports from the
Committee on Printing.
A number of bills received from that committee were acted upon and passed.
The committee on Flag and Seal reported the following bill, which, after some discussion, was agreed to:
The Congress of the Confederate States of America de chact that the goal of the
Confederate States shall consist of an equestrian portrait of
Washington, (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the
Capitol square at
Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the
South, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat, and rice,) having around its margin the words, "Seal of the
Confederate States of America, 22d Feb. 1863, together with the motto:
[With God for our leader, we will conquer]
The
House then went into secret session, and took up the Tax bill for consideration.