Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. SUMNER. I offer the petition of J Thorn Smith, of Washington, in which he asks Congress to present to the States for their aproval amendments to the Constitution of the U.S., namely, paragraph 1st, section 2, article 1, after the word “ Legislature, " insert, “provided, that no citizen of the U.S shall be disqualified as such elector on account of race or color;” 2ndly, paragraph one, section 4,article 4,after the word “Government, ” insert “to every inhabitant thereof between the ages of 5 and 20 onc years, the privilege of a free, common English education;” and 3rd, so to amend attic e 12 of the amendments to the Constitution as to elect the President and VEEP by a direct vote of the people without distinction of race or color. Asthis subject is now pending before the Senate, I move that the petition lie upon the table. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer the petition of Edward Jenkins, of Ho erstowu, Maryland, in which he sets forth that owns a soldier in the Army of the Union, having volunteered in An giist, 1868, and served in the Army until he was wounded and discharged for disability; that the Government gave all the soldiers in his regiment $100 bounty, but they withheld it from him because he was at one time a slave, and he asks for a remedy on account of the withholding of that bounty. I ask the reference of this petition to the ComMilAffairs and the Militia. It was so referred. Mr. WILSON presented the petition of Mary E. Walker, M. D., praying for comen sation for services rendered by her to the government during the late rebellion; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. GRIMES presented a petition of members of the engineer corps of the Navy of the U.S., praying that all engineer officers now ranking or who may hereafter rank with commissioned officers of the line, may be commissioned, and that 1st asst engineers may rank with lieutenants and 2nd asst engineers with masters; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. Mr. JOHNSON. I presentainemorial from F. P. Salas, who represents himself to be a subject of Spain, in which he states that many years ago, upon a shipment consigned to him from Havana, a general cargo, he aid the duties then exacte to the amount O $2,924, and that he was afterward called upon, after the lapse of 7 or 8 cars, to pay the further sum of $624 24, and he asks to be relieved from thd payment of that sum.