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Memphis Daily Appeal
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
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US Congress proceedings: Senate passes bill requiring guarantors for military substitutes and rejects Yancey's bill on apportioning brigadier generals (3-15); House adopts Alabama's Foster resolution for engineer reconnaissance of Cumberland and Tennessee rivers for fortifications.
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In the Senate to-day, a bill was passed providing that all persons who may hereafter furnish substitutes, shall guarantee the fidelity of the substitute.
The residue of the day's session was occupied in discussing a bill introduced by Mr. Yancey, to regulate the nomination and appointment of brigadier generals, so as to apportion them among the several States. The bill was rejected. Yeas 3, nays 15.
In the House, Mr. Foster, of Alabama, submitted a resolution instructing the Secretary of War to send a corps of engineers to make reconnaissances of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, with a view to the erection of fortifications, which was adopted
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senate bill on substitutes passed; yancey bill rejected (yeas 3, nays 15); house resolution adopted
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Senate passed bill requiring guarantors for fidelity of military substitutes; discussed and rejected bill by Mr. Yancey to apportion brigadier generals among states; House adopted resolution by Mr. Foster of Alabama to send engineers for reconnaissance of Cumberland and Tennessee rivers for fortifications