Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALs. Mr. SUMNER presented a petition of citizens of Massachusetts, praying for an amendment of the tariff so as to protect American labor to the extent of the difference of the cost of capital and labor here and abroad, with the addition of the taxes paid by our industrial products from which the foreign articles are Free; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also presented a petition signed by many authors and editors of the U.S., praying for the passage of an international copy right law; which was referred to the ComForRel. Mr. HENDERSON. I desire to present the proposition of Mr. Frederick Peck, who says that he has collected about 2000 plants in several States of the Union, and he proposes to donate the collection to the Government of the U.S., to be deposited in the mu seum of the Dept of Agriculture. It is a very valuable botanical collection, and should it be accepted it may form the nucleus, as he says, around which may be gathered in the future a botanical collection of all the plants of the U.S. I present it, and ask that it be referred to the comAgriculture. It was so referred. Mr. POMEROY presented a petition of citizens of western Kansas, prayin for an appropriation to build a bridge over the Republican river or for the abandonment of a portion of the Fort Riley reserve; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. HARRIS presented the memorial of Sal mon B. Colby, praying for compensation for wood destroyed near Forts Stevens and De Russy, by the fire of the Union troops in repel ling the enemy during the rebel raid in.lulfv 1864; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. LANE, of Indiana, presentedn Fem?“ rial of the Indiana Soldiers Association: ; favor of the enactment of a national militia law; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. SHERMAN presented.a petition of citizens of Guernsey county, Ohio, praying that a i pension may be granted to Mrs. Amarilla Cook; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. KIRKWOOD presented a memorial of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of a grant of lands to aidin the construction of the Iowa Central railroad; which was referred to the ComPubLands. Mr. MORRILL presented the memorial of Charles S. llsley, late a captain in the 15th Maine infantr, and subsequently a captain in the 5th NewYork heaVy artillery, praying to be allowed the 3 months pay proper authorized by the act of Congress, asse March 8, 1865; which was referred to the ComcClaims. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.