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amending an act fro the organization of the General Staff of the Army was taken up. It gives a Quartermaster General the rank, pay, and allowances of a Brigadier General. Mr. Clark offered as a substitute: "Giving the Quartermaster General, Commissary General, and Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate States, and the Chief Officer of the Engineer Corps of the Army the rank, pay, and allowances of Brigadier Generals." The measure was debated at length by Messrs Clark, Sparrow, Clay, Henry, Wigfall, and others. The amendment was disagreed to and the bill passed. The Senate then went into Executive session. House of Representatives.--House met at 11 o'clock. Mr. Foote, of Tenn, by consent of the House, introduced the following resolutions: Resolved. That the President be requested to cause estimates to be made out at the War Department, and sent to this House, of the expense necessary to be incurred in the establishment of complete military defenc