The Virginia Attorney General says that he also dressed in Blackface

Approached by a reporter while he was heading to the Senate chamber, Mr. Fairfax was only saying, "God is good."

Just after eleven o'clock in the morning, Mr. Bagby left the room and acknowledged the meeting between Mr. Herring and Caucus. Half an hour later, Mr. Herring took note of the rumors circulating since Tuesday: he had been makeup for a party in the 80s.

The two most senior leaders of the Senate, both white, of the Senate. questions avoided.

"Glad to see you," said a reporter Senator Thomas K. Norment Jr., a Republican who is the majority leader in the Senate, while he was heading to a meeting room less likely to An hour after Mr. Herring's statement.

"It's a beautiful day today," Sen. Richard L. Saslaw, Democratic leader, who accompanied Mr. Norment.

The two men then headed for a room.

Mark L. Keam, a delegate for the North Virginia Democrat, said lawmakers were stunned and did not know who would run the state.

"Uncertain," said Mr. Keam, questioned about the atmosphere here.

million. Bagby suggested Democrats stick with their African-American colleagues.

"The black caucus is not shy," Bagby said Wednesday afternoon. "We speak."

Mr. Mr. Herring was admitted on the sixth day of a growing political crisis in Virginia, where the past personal conduct of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and now the Attorney General, was reviewed. thorough. National television teams have been installed in front of the masters' building since Saturday and state police began to protect Mr. Fairfax.