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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
oved to strike out the preamble.--Agreed to The title was then amended so as to read: "A bill to relieve the army of incompetent, unqualified. and disabled officers." Mr. Barnwell reported a House bill making appropriations for the support of the Government, and for certain deficiencies and other purposes therein mentioned. Passed. On motion of Mr. Johnson, the Senate took a recess until 6 o'clock P. M. House of Representatives.--The House met at 11 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Read. The House resumed the consideration of the bill laid over in the morning hour yesterday, which is as follows: The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, That hereafter the Quartermaster-General and the Chief of Ordnance shall be Brigadier-Generals in the Provisional Army. The question was upon the passage of the bill, upon which the ayes and noes were ordered, with the following result — ayes 28, noes 26. Mr. Chambers, of Miss, from the Military Committee, repo
The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
nt stage of proceedings, was a regularly constituted Synod Rev. Mr. Leavenworth took the ground that it was, and Rev. Dr. Read entertained a different opinion. Pending the discussion and without coming to any definite conclusion.-- Th meeting a collection for the Evangelical. Tract Society was taken up, amounting to the handsome sum of $300. The Rev. Dr. Read said the exercises of his Church had been regularly maintained except for a season during the summer. The interest Episcopal Church, was invited to take a seat in the body of the Synod as a corresponding member. Also, on motion of Rev. Dr. Read, a similar invitation was extended to Rev. Mr. Peterson, agent of the Petersburg Evangelical Tract Society. On mhere had been fifty or sixty conversions at a protracted meeting in his Church, under the ministry of Rev. Messrs. Stiles, Read, Lyburn, and others. Upwards of fifty men from his church were in the army; but his congregations had received incr
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Stolen and Deported slaves. (search)
all call up a bill to organize a Supreme Court. I think it high time the Judicial Department of the Government be thoroughly organized, for it has been a limping concern long enough. Mr. Maxwell introduced a resolution, which was adopted, fixing the hour of 12 M, for the assembling of the Senate. On motion of Mr. Semmes the Senate went into secret session to consider the Report of the Secretary of the Navy. House of Representatives. --House met at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Read. The Chair announced that when the House adjourned yesterday it had under consideration the resolution offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Foote.) which would be taken up and disposed of. Mill Swann, of Tenn., submitted the following, in lieu of the resolution of Mr. Foote, which was agreed to: Resolved, That the committee heretofore appointed to inquire into the action of Commissaries and Quartermasters, in reference to their transactions, inquire into and report
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
day was first in order, being the bill to authorize the acceptance of troops from Kentucky and Missouri for a term of service less than three years, reported back from the Committee on Military Affairs with the recommendation that the committee be discharged from its further consideration. The bill was sustained by Messrs. Foote, of Tenn., Largan, of Ala., and Smith, of Va., and opposed by Messrs. Miles, of S. C., Read, of Ky., and Vest of Mo. The question being called and sustained, and the committee discharged, the vote was then taken on the motion that the bill be laid upon the table. On this motion the ayes and noes were ordered and resulted — ayes 46, noes 37. So the bill was laid upon the table. Mr. Read, of Ky., moved a reconsideration of the vote with a view to recommit the bill to the Military Committee. Pending this motion. On motion of Mr. Kenner, of La., the House went into secret session on the unfinished business before the Committee of the Whole.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
airs be instructed to inquire into the propriety and expediency of repealing so much of certain resolutions touching certain points of maritime law and defining the position of the Confederate States in respect thereto, as declares "that a central flag covers enemies goods, with the exception of contraband of war;" and report by bill or otherwise. The Senate resolved itself into secret session. House of Representatives--The House met at 12 o'clock, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Read. Mr. Kennu, of Ga., moved to suspend the rules with a view to allow the following resolution to be considered: Resolved, That the further consideration of all questions; reports, bills, and resolutions be suspended until the currency and tax bills are acted upon; and that immediately upon the reading of the journal each morning the House will proceed to the consideration of those questions. The motion to suspend the rules was agreed to, and the question recurring upon the
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the Florida. (search)
all's bill was adopted in lieu of the Senate bill — ayes 13, nays 10. On motion of Mr. Hill, the bill was amended by adding a section prohibiting the impressment of supplies for a family, etc. The further consideration of the subject was then informally postponed, and a motion to adjourn over until Monday agreed to after which the Senate went into secret session, and soon after adjourned. House of Representatives.--The House met at 12 o'clock, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Read. The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the President, enclosing an act passed by the Legislature of South Carolina for guaranteeing the bonds of the Confederate States, to which special attention was directed. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. The Chair also laid before the House joint resolutions of the Senate, tendering the thanks of Congress to Capt. Raphael Summer, and the officers and crew under his command, for gallant services in the destruc
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
the subject of the disagreement of the two Houses in relation to the Senate bill amending the act providing for the public defence made a report, and the report was concurred in. The bill increasing tailors' fees for keeping and supporting prisoners was passed. Also, an act authorizing the Court of Appeals to hold its sessions at other places than Lewisburg. Pending the discussion of a bill, the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates--The House met at 11 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Read. The bill incorporating the Richmond importing and Exporting Company was taken up, read a second and third time, and passed. The bill restricting the cultivation of tobacco, as amended by the Senate, was taken up and passed. [The bill, as it now stands, restricts the cultivation, in any one year, of more than 2,500 plants to each hand between the ages of 16 and 55 years, actually engaged in the cultivation of the crop; and no one planter is allowed to cultivate more than 80,00
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
endment, to come in after the above amendment, as follows: "That all assessments of property, money, or credits, shall be made according to their value in Treasury notes of the Confederate States." As a substitute for the amendment of Mr. Clarke, Mr. Gray, of Texas, offered the following: "And that the property of all other persons who refuse to exchange their gold or silver for Treasury notes at par, or who demand larger prices in Treasury notes for produce, manufactured goods, or other property, than their market value in specie, shall also be assessed at the market value of such gold or silver, or other property, in Treasury notes, and tax paid on that valuation." This substitute was laid on the table. A motion was then made by Mr. McLean, of N. C., to lay the amendment of Mr. Clark on the table, but was lost. On motion of Mr. Chambliss, the words "or credits," in Mr. Clark's amendment, were stricken out. On motion of Mr. Read, of Ky., the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congressional Summary. (search)
. The bill referred to the Committee on Claims, to authorize the issue of bonds to subscribers to the produce loan in certain cases, was reported back, with a recommendation that it do not pass. The same committee also reported a hill to provide for the payment for horses which die from wounds received in battle or are permanently disabled in the Confederate service. Substitutes for the bill of the Committee were offered by Messrs Boteler, of Va., and Read, of Ky. The measure was advocated by Messrs Boteler, Chamb, Baldwin, Read, and others, and opposed by Messrs Knan and Clarke, of Ga. The House finally adopted the substitute offered by Mr. Read of Ky., which provides payment for horses killed in action, or permanently disabled, or unavoidably captured by the enemy. An amendment to the substitute, which was also agreed to, fixes the maximum valuation of horses so lost at $200. In the evening further reports from the same committees were received and acted upon.
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The capture of the U. S. Cushing. (search)
The capture of the U. S. Cushing. Lieut Chas. Wediend. C.S.N., who destiny of the Cushing at Portland, Saturday, and who lately commanded the Tacony, is a native of Reverend Ms. He entered the U. S. Naval Academy in and graduated with honor in 1860. After the wounding of the lament Huger the Maltes at New Orleans. Lieut. Read, being the Executive officer command and gallantly fought the vessel. He was slap on the Arkansas memorable engagement with the Yankee Mississippi floor and bore a His in the Florida from Mobile, and according to Northern papers who given command of the tender to the Florida, with which be captured the Tacony. She bring a he turned present the crew to her.
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