Confederate Congress.
Senate.
Friday, January 20, 1865.
Prayer by
the Rev. Dr. Read, of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Semmes, from the Finance Committee, reported a bill extending the jurisdiction of the
Tax Collector of the
State of Mississippi to
Eastern Louisiana.
Passed.
Mr. Semmes, from the same, reported back, with amendments,
House bill to establish an office of deposit in connexion with the Treasury Department.
The amendments provide that there shall be only one pay depository in each State, and strike out the section exempting deposits from taxation.
The amendments were agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported a bill, which was passed, suspending until the second Monday after the meeting of the next session of Congress that clause of the conscript law which declares that the reserve forces shall not perform military service out of the
State in which they reside.
Mr. Sparrow, from the same, reported adversely to the resolution relative to taking a census of all the plantations and farms in the
Confederate States.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of the substitute offered by the Military Committee for
House bill to consolidate companies, battalions and regiments, which, after a debate and discussion of several hours, was agreed to.
Mr. Garland moved that the further consideration of the bill be postponed till Monday next.
Pending this motion, the Senate, on motion, by
Mr. Henry, adjourned.
Note.--The Senate's agreeing to this amendment must not be understood as passing the bill.
The
House consolidation bill, as amended (by this substitute), has yet to be considered and passed.
House of Representatives.
The
House met at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Patterson, of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Logan, of
North Carolina, offered a resolution to allow agents of the tax in kind rations in addition to pay and allowances.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr. J. M. Leach, of
North Carolina, offered the following:
‘
"
Resolved, That the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus is one of the great bulwarks of Freedom, and ought not to be suspended exception extreme cases, where the public safety imperatively demands it: That the people of the
Confederacy are engaged in a great struggle for Liberty, and no exigency now exists requiring its suspension."
’
Mr. Leach asked the yeas and nays, which were ordered, and resulted as follows:
Yeas.--
Messrs. Anderson,
Bell,
Boyce,
Branch,
Clopton,
Colyar,
Cruikshank,
Darden,
Foster,
Fuller,
Garland,
Gilmer,
Lamkin,
J. M. Leach,
J. T. Leach,
Lester,
Logan,
Marshall,
Miles,
Murray,
Orr,
Ramsay,
J. M. Smith,
W. E. Smith,
Turner and
Wickham--26.
Nays.--
Messrs. Akin,
Baldwin,
Batson,
Baylor,
Blandford,
Bradley,
H. W. Bruce,
Burnett,
Chrisman,
Clarke,
Cluskey,
Conrow,
De Jarnette,
Dupre,
Ewing,
Farrow,
Gaither,
Gholson,
Goode,
Gray,
Hanly,
Hatcher,
Herbert,
Hilton,
Holden,
Johnston,
Keeble,
Lyon,
Machen,
Moore,
Norton,
Perkins,
Read,
Russell,
Sexton,
Shewmake,
Simpson,
Snead,
Staples,
Triplett,
Villere,
Wilkes and
Mr. Speaker--43.
So the resolution was lost; and, on motion of
Mr. Russell, it was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
On motion of
Mr. Staples, of
Virginia, the
House adopted a resolution that the Committee on Ways and Means be instructed to report a bill requiring the receipt of four per cent. certificates in payment of taxes due in 1864, though not tendered until subsequent to January 1, 1865.
The
House passed, by a vote of sixty-three yeas to sixteen nays, a Senate bill extending the time which allows the
President to transfer the
State reserves from one State to another, as the public safety may demand it.
Pending the consideration of the exemption bill, the
House adjourned.
