Posted on 02/28/2023 4:46:27 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 27.
After the failure of the second Finance Conference Committee to agree, and the report of the fact, an effort was made to induce the House to recede. This the House refused to do, and a new Committee was asked for.
The conscript bill will come up to-morrow in the Senate, with the House amendments. It would have been taken up to-day, but the Peace Democrats asked for a day's delay, saying they wouldn't filibuster; but as they failed to make speeches against it when it was in the Senate before, they want an opportunity to do it now. There is thought to be no doubt of its final passage.
THE PAY OF THE SOLDIERS.
A joint resolution was introduced in the Senate, to-day, giving construction to the acts of Congress relative to the payment of troops, by providing that privates shall be paid from the time that they were individually enrolled -- not, as heretofore, from the time their regimental organizations were completed, and they were mustered in.
MISSOURI EMANCIPATION.
There is little or no hope for the passage of the Missouri Emancipation bill this session. Mr. NOEL, its ablest friend, is sick, and it will be impossible to pass it against the determined opposition of the Democrats, who threaten to fillibuster, if necessary to defeat it.
THE NOMINATIONS FOR GENERALS.
The Senate Military Committee had under consideration, to-day, the nominations of Major and Brigadier-Generals, communicated to the Senate, yesterday, and reported favorably upon -- all but six or seven. Those not acted upon will not be confirmed, but will be allowed to fail. The Committee have also under consideration the promotions and appointments in the regular army, numbering in all about five hundred, and will soon report them to the Senate for their confirmation.
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