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"Proceedings in Congress for a day or two past have been of little interest. Mr. Foote has opened with incendiary shell on Mr. Benjamin, because he says Mr. B. will organize the Supreme Court to suit himself; a number of fresh financial schemes have been submitted; and Mr. Miles has introduced a bill authorizing the President to reduce to the ranks officers who permit themselves to be surprised, which would be excellent, if Mr. Davis did not suffer so much when any one else is wounded." - Charleston Mercury, Dec. 24, 1863

"There was an animated discussion in the Senate yesterday, on the organization of the Supreme Court." - Charleston Mercury, Jan. 31, 1863

"A Supreme Court is being organized, and Congress is considering, in secret session, the propriety of sending Commissioners to France for the special object of bringing about an alliance. Judge Monroe, of Kentucky, hopes to become one of the Judges of the Supreme Court." - Charleston Mercury, March 19, 1862

Now tell me, non-seq. If the Congress was conspiring to supress the court bill, why did they debate it several times? And if the Davis Administration was so against it, why was JP Benjamin attacked for trying to push the court bill through? The answer is simple: Davis supported the court but the majority of Congress did not.

"Proceedings in Congress for a day or two past have been of little interest. Mr. Foote has opened with incendiary shell on Mr. Benjamin, because he says Mr. B. will organize the Supreme Court to suit himself...

Why would the secretary of state organize the supreme court?

"There was an animated discussion in the Senate yesterday, on the organization of the Supreme Court."

From the records of the confederate congress:

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 3) to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States.

On the question to agree to the amendment proposed by Mr. Clay, viz:

Add the following independent section:

"Sec. 6. That sections forty-five and forty-six of an act of the Provisional Congress entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America," approved sixteenth March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same are hereby, repealed,"

After debate,
On motion by Mr. Semmes.
The Senate resolved into executive session.
The doors having been opened,
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
The Senate adjourned.
It couldn't have been too spirited if the congressional record didn't record it. And note that the senate adjourned without any action on it that day. Or during the next session. Or the one after that. Or the one after that. Etc. etc.

Apparently not. The matter had not been mentioned in the court since March 11, where the matter was placed on the calender, and would not be brought up again until March 26 when discussion on the matter was postponed at the request of Senator Semmes. The it remained unmentioned until September where discussion was postponed yet again.

If the Congress was conspiring to supress the court bill, why did they debate it several times?

It was debated hardly at all. Discussion of it was killed almost every time it was brought up on the floor. Why didn't Davis or his allies fight for it. That is, assuming that they really wanted it in the first place.