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y for Mr. Davis and others, and the restoration of habeas corpus, was rejected upon the ground that House resolution upon the same subject, passed prior to the receipt of Senate resolution, had been laid over unnoticed by the Senate. By Mr. Lee.--A resolution, which was agreed to, that the pay of the pages of the House be three dollars per diem. Mr. Robertson moved his resolutions relative to general amnesty be taken up and referred to the Committee on Schools and Colleges. Mr. Stearns, of Henrico, offered the following as a substitute for Mr. Robertson's resolutions: "Whereas the people of Virginia recognize the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land; and that they are prepared to uphold and defend the same as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States; therefore. "Resolved, That we most earnestly but respectfully recommend that the President of the United States grant full and complete pardon to all persons now confined