The Legislature.
In the Senate, Mr. Douglas offered a joint resolution to construe the recent military bill to mean that, until the companies now in service have been filled, the organization of new companies is in contravention of the policy adopted by the General Assembly, and instructing the Governor not to accept any new companies until those already in service are filled up. House resolution providing for the trial of Judge Pitts for disloyalty, was taken up and agreed to; and a further joint resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee to prepare and commend a course of proceeding against the recusant official. The Senate passed House bill ‘"to provide for the assumption and payment (by Virginia) of the Confederate States war tax."’ A bill was introduced to authorize the making of field artillery and purchase of small arms. The bill for connecting the Manassas Gap Railroad, near Roseburg, with the Winchester and Potomac Road, near Winchester, was passed. The bill to organize and call out certain military forces for the defence of the State, was discussed.
