Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.Mr. EDMUNDS presented 2 petitions of citizens of Vermont, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes; which were referred to the ComFinance. Mr. FESSENDEN presented a petition of merchants of Wilmington, NCarolina, praying for a change in the internalrevenue laws; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SHERMAN presented 32 petitions from citizens of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Wisconsin, praying for the imposition of an increased duty on flaxseed; which were referred to the ComFinance, He also presented a petition of citizens of Erie county, Ohio, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue, from imports, and for other purposes; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. HENDERSON presented a memorial of citizens of Johnson county, Missouri, praying that Congress will not provide for any further curtailment of the national currency; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. RAMSEY. I present a memorial of merchants of the city of StPaul, Minnesota, protesting against the passage of any act authorizing the curtailment of the national currency, or having in view the return, within a limited time, to specie payments. They respectfully represent that the further reduction of the vol ume of currency at present would prove highly injurious to the banking, manufacturing, and mercantile interests of the country, and would entail suffering upon nearly every member of the community; and they express the opinion that if such currency shall now be contracted we are near the time when the lawful obligations of citizens cannot be met. They also ask Congress to refrain from the enactment of any law compelling all national banks, where ever located, to redeem their notes in NewYork, or prohibiting national banks from pay iIng or receiving interest on bank balances. move that this memorial be referred to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER presented a petition of citizens of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, interested in woolen manufactures, praying for relief under the existing tariff; was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer the petition of loyal citizens of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and adjoining counties of eastern Virginia, without distinction of color, in which they ask Congress to remove the antiRFG now existing in Virginia, which deprives them of exercising the right of the elective franchise and all other rights guarantied to them as citizens. I understand that this petition, which is signed by a respectable number of names, is the forerunner of a much larger petition from the same community and for the same purpose. I move its reference to the JtComReconstruction. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer the remonstrance of Rev. George H. Washington, and 275 other colored citizens of Boston, against the admission of Nebraska as a State with a constitution which disfranchises citizens on account of color. In this petition the signers dwell particularly on the dangerous character of such an admission as an entering wedge to that of the rebel States. I also offer a similar remonstrance from Lieutenant Charles L. Mitchell, late of the 5 5th regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, and now a representative in the Massachusetts General Court, a colored citizen, with other colored citizens of Boston. As this subject is now before the senate I move that these remonstrances lie on the table. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer the petition of the NewEngland Emigrant Aid Company, a corporation under the laws of Massachusetts, in which they ask indemnification for property of theirs to the amount of $25,000 unlawfully destroyed at Lawrence, in the Territory of Kansas, by a mob acting under the direction of one Samuel Jones and in the presence of one Donaldson, said Jones and Donaldson being there respectively as deputy marshal and marshal of the U.S. for that Territory, and the said Jones being also a territorial sheriff, and declaring said mob to be their official posse, the same being also declared by the then territorial Governor, Wilson Shannon, his protection having been invoked against the unlawful violence threatened by said mob, and having been refused by him on the ground that it was the legally constituted posse of the U.S. marshal and sheriff of Douglas county. This case was before the Senate some years ago, but to the best of my knowledge there was never any action upon i.t. It is a historic case. The parties interested in it at the time were generous and patriotic; they lost what they could not afford to lose, and they now wish to have it returned. They have asked me to request the Senate to have their memorial printed for its better consideration. I therefore, in presenting it and moving its reference to the ComClaims, move that it be printed for the use of the Senate.