The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1864., [Electronic resource]

Confederate Congress.

Senate.

Mr. Walker, of Alabama, introduced a bill providing that the compensation and mileage of members of Congress for the second year of the Second Congress shall be the same as are now allowed by law for the first year of said Congress. Referred to the Finance Committee.

Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, offered a bill to amend the several acts now in force on the subject of impressments, and to define what is "just compensation."--The bill, besides repealing the present laws, provides for vicinage appraisement, and declares that market value is "just compensation." It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate bill to regulate impressments and punish lawlessness, together with another Senate bill on the subject of impressments, was postponed till Monday.

House joint resolution proposing a joint committee of the two Houses of Congress respecting the exemption of State officers from the military service of the Confederate States was taken up, and, after some remarks in opposition by Mr. Graham, of North Carolina, and Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, was laid on the table.

On motion, by Mr. Hill, the Senate resolved into secret session.

House of Representatives.

The House took up and passed a bill, reported from the Committee on the Judiciary, to increase the salaries of all the district judges of the Confederate States to $5,000 per annum, and that where the salary shall now exceed that sum it shall not be diminished.

Mr. Russell, from the Judiciary Committee, reported back the bill to compel those persons who are liable to military duty, and have left the Confederate States to avoid the same, to return to the Confederacy. Ordered to be printed and made the order of the day for Saturday next.

Mr. Perkins, of Louisiana, made a report from the Committee on Rules.

Pending the report, the House, on motion of Mr. Russell, of Virginia, went into secret session.

The doors being opened, Mr. Watson, of Mississippi, entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which was laid on the table House joint resolution in relation to the exemption of State officers from the Confederate service.

On motion, the Senate adjourned.