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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
r. Brown, the Senate adjourned. The House was opened at 12 o'clock with prayer by Rev. Mr. Jeter. The House at once resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Curry in the chair,) and took up for consideration the resolution of Mr. Miles, of South Carolina that so much of the President's message as refers to the subjects of currency and taxation, and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, be referred to a joint committee of the two Houses, said committee to consist on the report a bill levying a tax upon real and personal property according to the value of such property." On this amendment the ayes and noes were called and resulted — ayes 42, noes 14. The original resolution as thus amended was agreed to. Mr. Miles, of S. C., offered a resolution to refer the different subjects embraced in the message of the President to the appropriate committees. Mr. Foote, of Tenn., offered an amendment, to instruct the Military Committee to report a bill, as earl