Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT prolempore. The Chair has received and been renested to present to the Senate the petition of Alexander. Atocha, in which he refers to his claim against Mexico now pending before the Court of Claims, and suggests reasons why, under present laws and the regulations of that court. no adequatejustice can be there done the petitioner, and he asks therefore for further reief. If there be no objection, this petition will be received and referred to the ComForRel. It was so ordered. Mr. wlLSON. I resentthepetition of Rev. William H. Lee, an several hundred others, citizens of the DistCol, asking congress to strike out the word “white” from the qualifications for suffrage in the DistCol. I move its reference to the ComDistCol. Mr. WADE. Let it lie on the table. The committee have already reported a bill on that subect. Mr. WILSON. As the committee have reported on the subject, I change my motion, and move that the petition lie upon the table. The motion was a eed to. Mr. SUMNER. presenta petition of residents of the DistCol, calling upon Congress to declare null and void all laws and parts of laws which make qualilications or distinctions on account of color. I also have a 2nd petition of the same character. One of these is signed. I understand, by the editors of one of the leading journals of this city, and all the persons in their employ. I ask the reference of these 2 petitions to the ComDistCol. It was so ordered. Mr. LANE, of Kansas, presented a petition of enlisted men of company G, 8th regiment U.S. Veteran volunteers, praying for the paymentto them of $400 each, being bounty money alleged to have been lost through the carelessness or fraud of H. G. Loring, late recruitin officer, holding a commission as major in the fth regiment U.S. Veteran volunteers; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. CLARK presented the petition of G. M. Gouler, widow of Charles Gouler, late a pzrivate soldier in company F, 9th regimentNewHampshire volunteers, who was drowned in the Delaware river on the 24th of October, 1864, while absent from hospital on leave, praying for a pension; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. WILLIAMS presented the petition of Kate Pettit, praying orreliefforinjuriesulleged to have been received by her in July last while wulkin on the sidewalk in the city of George town, DistCol, in consequence of the carelessness of the driver of a Government aim, which was referred to the Committee on lmS PAPERS WITHDRAWN and REFERRED. On motion of