Confederate Congress.
Senate.
Saturday, December 31, 1864.
The Senate met at 12 o'clock M.
Mr. Barnwell, from the
Committee on Finance, reported a bill to authorize the
Postmaster-General to draw and use the amounts of Confederate money deposited with Government depositories by the various postmasters throughout the country.
On motion, by
Mr. Barnwell, the Senate adjourned.
House of representatives.
The
House met at 11 o'clock, and was opened with prayer by
Rev. Dr. Minnegerode, of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Johnson, of
Virginia, moved a reconsideration of the joint resolutions, passed by the
House on Friday, explanatory of the act relating to the pay of clerks, with a view to making some verbal amendments.
The question recurring on the passage of the resolutions, they were lost.
Yeas, 27; nays, 30.
On motion of
Mr. Echols, of
Georgia, the vote was reconsidered and the joint resolutions again referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
The
House took up and considered the bill, reported from the
Committee on the
Quartermaster and Commissary Departments, to protect the
Confederate States against fraud;
Pending the consideration of which the
House adjourned.
