Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT protempore. The Chair has received, and been requested to lay before the Senate, a memorial of the Legislative Council of the Territory of NewMexico, set: ting forth that General James M. Carleton and others have purchased a land grant in Taos county, in that Territory, usually known by the name of the Rio Grande grant, and are seeking to have the title to that land confirmed in them; that this will do great injustice to many of the settlers who are upon this grant, who are nu o merous, and who have made improvements on the land, and they pray Congress to confirm the title to these lands in the actual settlers, and not regard this grant. If there be no objection, this memorial will be received and referred to the ComPrivLandClms. Mr. RAMSEY presented the petition of Josephine Slocum, widow of Martin N. Slocum, late 2nd lieutenant 6 5th regiment U.S. (colored) infantry, praying for a pension for herself and mine r children; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. POLAND presented 7 petitions of officers of the U.S. Army, praying for an increase of pay; which were referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. CHANDLER presented the petition of citizens of the town of Wheeler, Steuben county, NewYork, 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. MORGAN presented the petition of the manufacturers of white lead, red lead, and litharge, praying that the duty on the articles manufactured by them may be placed 2 cents per pound higher than on the raw material; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also presented the petition of citizens of East Bloomfield, NewYork, 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. He also presented the memorial of saw manufacturers, remonstrating against the increase of the duty on steel as proposed by House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also presented 7 memorials of consumers of steel, remonstrating against the increase of the duty on steel as proposed by House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes; which were referred to the ComFinance. He also presented the memorial of citizens of NewYork, remonstrating 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, and against the enactment of any law compelling all national banks, wherever locat ed, to redeem their notes in NewYork, or prohibiting national banks from paying or receiving interest on bank balances; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. WADE presented the petition of citizens of Erie county, Ohio, praying for a specific duty of one dollar per gallon on all importations of wine; did was referred to the ComFinance. He also presented the petition of citizens of Licking 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. WADE. I present also the petition of George Arnold, late major of Ohio volunteers, for the passage of a law giving to soliers who have lost their discharge papers the bounty to which they are entitled upon proof of their service and identity and of the loss of their discharge. I think the ComMilAffrs ought to look into this subject. It is a great hardship I know upon soldiers who by the accidents of war have lost their discharge papers that, as the law now stands, they cannot supply that proof by any other means, although they }. evidence perfectly satisfactory. I think that equity and justice demand that a law should be passed to remedy this evil. I move the reference of this petition to the ComMilAffrs . The motion was agreed to. Mr. FESSENDEN presented the petition of Thomas E. Dudley,]" the 1st collection district of the State of SCarolina, praying for compensation for services rendered as asst assessor in that district; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. JOHNSON. I present the petition of Thomas B. Devereux, of NCarolina, stating that he invested a fund in confederate bonds under particular circumstances set forth in the petition, and asking that under the pecu liar circumstances of that investment he be indemnified to the extent of $8,000, which he lost. I move its reference to the ComClaims. It was so referred. Mr. SHERMAN presented the petition of citizens of Erie county, Ohio, praying for a specific duty of one dollar per gallon on all importations of wine; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. ANTHONY presented the petition of Benjamin W. Ham, cashier of the Providence National Bank, of Providence, RhdIsland, praying that certain taxes alleged to have been erroneously paid under a decision of the Treasurer of the th.States and the ComrIntRev may be refunded; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SUMNER presented the petition of Alphonso Dorn and.H. Cross, employees at the Executive Mansion, praying for an addition of 20%. on their present pay: which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. TRUMBULL presented the petition of Charles Robidou, of Alton, Illinois, praying for services rendered as secret policeman in the army of the Cumberland; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. CRAGIN presented the petition of Jacob C. Wentworth, of Somerworth, NewHampshire, praying that a pension may be granted him on account of a disability incurred while a landsman on board the U.S. frigate Colorado; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. MORRILL presented the petition of Henry Addison and H. D. Cooke, of George town, DistCol, representing that an inequality of taxation was imposed on the cities of Georgetown and Washington by the act of July 26, 1866, entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a jail in and for the DistCol, ” and praying for the repeal of that portion of the act making the inequality; which was referred to the ComDistCol. Mr. HOWE presented the petition of O. E. Dreutzer, of Wisconsin, praying for compensation for services rendered as consul of the U.S. at Bergen, Norway, from the 5th of November, 1865, to the 26th of May, 1866; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. GRIMES presented the petition of the McGregor Western Railway Company, praying for a grant of land in alternate sections to enable them to extend their road from the terminal point in O'Brien county, Iowa, via Yank ton, to a point on the Union Pacific railroad; which was referred to the ComPubLands. PAPERS WITH DRAWN. On motion of Mr. SAULSBURY, it was Ordered. That Colonel Benjamin S. Compton have leave to withdraw from the files of the .his petition and papers, praying for compensation for 782 bales of cotton, which he alleges were seizedby a military expedition under the command of Brigadier General Ransom, shipped and to the port of Memphis and sold on account of the Government of the U.S. On motion of Mr. NESMITH, it was Ordered, That Robert W. Dunbar have leave to withdraw from the files of the Senate his memorial cousequetonc beeof reimbursed for damages sustained in a revocation of his appointment as afogredn, t to take charge of public property at Port Or in Oregon. PERSONAL EXPLANATION.