Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. HENDERSON presented a petition of citizens of Missouri, who were soldiers in the recent war, praying that those who entered the military servxce 1n the early part of the war may be placed on the same footing in regard to bounty as those who entered at a later period, which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. ANTHONY presented the petition of Anne E. Huntington, widow of Hiram Hun tington, late a member of company A, 14th regiment RhdIsland heavy artillery, (colored) praying for a pension; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. HOWARD presented a memorial of the Board of Trade of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, praying for an appropriation for the purposeot constructing a breakwater at Marquette arbor in Lake Superior; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. LANE, of Indiana, presented a petition of citizens of Indiana, praying for the equalization of the fpay and bounty of the soldiers in the service of the U.S. during the rebellion; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also presented the petition of Kennedy OBrien, praying for an increase of his pension; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. WILSON presented the petition ofJames G. Colman and several hundred other colored citizens of Savannah, Georgia, praying for a change in the laws so as to secure the right of suffrage to all persons without distinction of color, for the granting of homesteads to the freedmen, and for the erasure of the word white” from the naturalization law of March 26, 1790; which was referred to the JtCommee to inquire into the condition of the socalled confciilcrate States. Mr. TRUMBULL. I have received a memorial of the American Free Trade League, addressed to the Senate and HoRep, in which they set forth at some lengthfliat a protective tariff, or a tariff for the purposes of protection, is unjust and oppressive to the masses of the fpeople, and opposed to the great principes o civil liberty; and they ask that in the uture legislation of Congress, in providing for raising a revenue by the impositien of duties the principle of protection Tie abandoned. I move its reference to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.