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CONEEDERATE CONGRESS.

CONEEDERA TIE CONGRESS.
SENATE.
MONDAY, January %, 1865.
Prayer by tho Rev. DR.. Burrows, OF
the Baptist Church.
Mr.. Garland offered . resolution, which
WAS agreed to, that the Committee on
the Judiciary be instructed to inquire
into the expcdiency and propricty of
creating new Executive Department of
the Government Of the Confederate States,
to be styled the Homo Department, to
which shall be entrusted the development,
management and control of the internal
resources Of the Confederate States.
Mr.. Haynes offered resolution, which
was agreed to, that the President furnish
the Senate, in secret session, with state~
inents showing the number Of commits
stoned officers, non-commissioned officers
and privates on the muster rolls of the
army, now liable to military duty; the
number, rank and file, now present for
duty the number Of officers and pri-
Yates absent from duty with and with
out leave; the number now in the hospi'
tails ana absent on sick leave the number
of troops on detached service, with a
statement in what the service consists
the number of persons detailed, on what
necessities and for what objects and the
number of officers and privates who have
been killed or have died of disease, and
the number rendered unfit for service in
the field by reason Of wounds or sickness.
The Senate refused to pass House joint
resolution to extend to the employees Of
the Medical Directors Office and the
Transportation Office the benefits of the
act Of S0th January, 1864, increasing the
compensation of the employees in the
civil and executive Offices in Richmond.
Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, entered q mo-
ton to reconsider the vote.
Senate bill, with House amendments,
to amend the law providing for an in
valid corps was passed. The bill OK
tends the benefits of the invalid corps to
all officers and men who may have re-
signed in ignorance of the passage of the
law; and authorizes the President to re-
appoint officers to the grade from which
they resigned to enable them to be put on
the retired list, such officers to have me-
dical certificates of continued disability.
The Settle resumed the consideration
On the previous day, Senate substitute
for this bill had been adopted.
On motion, by Mr.. Baker, the vote
adopting the substitute was reconsidered,
and after various additional amendments
to the substitute, it was again adopted
in the following form:
BILL TO AUTHORIZE THB CONSOLIDATION
COMPANIES, BArrAL1oNs AND kEolxkxTs.
" The Congress Of the Confederate States Of A.e-
RIGA do enact, That whenever any companies which
are now in the service shall be so reduced as to
humber less than thirty-two men, rank and file,
present and for duty, and when it shall be proved,
to the satisfaction Of the Secretary of War, or of
the general commanding the department q the
army in which said companies may be serving that
they cannot be recruited to that number within
a reasonable time. the general commanding said
department army may, under general eulations
to be issued by the Secretary Of War, consolidate
euch companies
"sEcTI0x :. That new companies may be organ
ised from the non-commissioned officers and pri-
Yates Of the companies thus consolidated, if they
arc from the same State, having the number, rank
and fls now fixed by law; and the commissioned
Officers Of said companies thus organized shall be
one captain and one drst and second lieutenant;
and the non-conmissioned officers, four ssrssants
and four oorporals.
"SkcrIoS 5. That companies if they are from the |
same State, may be organized into battaions and
regiments; and the officers for companies, battaons
and regiments shall be Immediately designated and
placed on duty by the general commanding the de-
p.fment or the army in which the companies before
consolidation may have been serving. Oficers thus
designated shall continue to serve until officers shall
be appointed by the President by and with the adj
vice and consent Of the Senate and all selections of
officers made by the general to command said new
organizations, or appointments by the President |
therefor as herein provided, shall be from the com.
missoned officers Of the companies, batta,ions or |
regiments from which the new organizations were |
formed, or from such non.commissioned officers Or
ptivates thereof a. may have been distinguished
Tor metitosious and soldiery conduct or for valor
or skill and the certificate Of the colonel command
Ing Tie battaliono regiment in which said non-com
anissioned ofcers or prvates may have served that
they have been 70 distinguished If approved bv thu
brigade and division commanders, shall be sufficient
proof thereof.
"sEcrIosA. That officers Of the companies. bat.
ta'aons and regiments which may bs disbanded. a,
herein provided. and who may not be selected and
appointed - required BY this act, shall be dropped
lron the soils As supernumerary officers but such
ofnoessmay, within reasonable time, to be dxed
~ 0eusrl Orders to BE- issued by the Secretary Of
was, - 70 troops in the States east Of the Assis
S'pp' river. aud By tho general commanding the de-
Ds1nens vest Of the Mississippi river as to troops
!. 1a' organise themselves into companies, batta-
1'es M regiments, the officers to which shall he