Mr. Davis and the Confederate Senate have fallen out very
bitterly. The last Message of the Southern President in effect throws severe blame on Congress for want of promptitude in supplying both men and money. The Senate in secret session retorted the blame on Mr. Jefferson Davis, but in a report from which the " seal of secrecy " has been since removed asserted that he had not asked for either till long after the need had arisen, and maintained that they had themselves originated many measures for which he had not even asked (like the appointment of a commander-in-chief) " with a view to the restoration of public confidence and the energetic administration of military affairs." They accuse Mr. Davis of abusing his power to exempt from military service, state that "the whole military material of the country, as far as legislation is concerned, is absorbed by the Conscription Acts," and that only exempted persons, boys under seventeen and men over fifty, remain to be used up ; and they declare that the military reverses of the Government have impaired its credit to such an extent as to " destroy the saleability of any of its bonds." The address is signed by five members of the Senate—Mr. Orr, Mr. Semmes, Mr. Graham, Mr. Caperton, and Mr. Watson.
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