632 Messages and Papers of the Confederacy. Telegraphic Service (Continued): Merging of, in postal service dis- cussed, 307. Tennessee: Act providing for holding Con- gressional elections in, vetoed, 324- Admission of, into Confederacy re- ferred to, 117. Appropriation to pay interest on money borrowed from banks in, recommended, 154, 255- Confederate Constitution, adoption of, by, anticipated, 117. Conspiracy in, discussed, and rec- ommendations regarding, 498. Convention with Confederate States, 99. Joint resolution of, transmitted, 153. Martial law in Department of East, proclaimed, and orders regard- ing, 224. Military operations in, 448, 4S3. Troops of, resolutions of thanks ten- dered, 421, 427. Tennessee River, operations on, 245. Texas: Act authorizing acceptance of vol- unteer regiment from, in service of Confederate States vetoed, 160. Cotton Bureau in, referred to, 530. Courts in, discussed, 78. Military operations in, 482. Railroad in, construction of, re- ferred to, 256. Troops of, resolutions of thanks ten- dered, 337, 430, 480, 481. United States armies defeated on coast of, 345. Texas Rangers, resolution of thanks tendered, 337. Thanks of Congress. (See Resolutions of Thanks.) Thanksgiving Proclamations. (See Fasting and Prayer.) Thomas, Richard, case of, referred to, 3°3- Tishomingo Creek, Miss., battle of, re- ferred to, 499. Tobacco: Rations of, for Army referred to, 455- Vessels in Chesapeake Bay for ex- porting, referred to, 195. Toombs, Robert, member of Presiden- tial notification committee, 30. Topeka Constitution. (See also Le- compton Constitution ; Wyan- dotte Constitution.) A constitution adopted by a convention representing the antislavery population of Kansas which met at Topeka in Octo- ber, 1S55. This convention adopted the boundaries as fixed by the Kansas-Ne- braska bill, prohibited slavery in the Ter- ritory after July, 1S57, and prescribed qualifications of suffrage in the Territory. The convention was dispersed by Feder- al troops. The Territory was not admit- ted into the Union under that constitution. Torpedoes discussed, 204. Trans-Mississippi, Army of, money expended in payment of, referred to, 504. Trans-Mississippi Department: Act fixing salaries in, referred to, 53 6 - Appropriation for, recommended, 515. Contracts for supplies to be paid for in cotton in, referred to, 505. Discussed, 377. Estimates of appropriations for, transmitted, 515. General administration of, referred to, 447, 517. Means of communicating with, re- ferred to, 516, 518. Military operations in, 38S, 530. Money forwarded to, referred to, 401. Postal service for, recommenda- tions regarding, 377, 379. Transportation Facilities discussed, and recommendations regarding, 81, 139. I5 1 ! 2 36, 249, 295, 492, 533, 536.
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