Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT o tempera presented a memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana, praying for the establishment of a branch mint in that Territory;which was referred to the ComFinance, and ordered to be printed. He also presented a memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana, praying for the alteration and extension of the southern boundary of that Territory,which was referred to the ComTerritor, and ordered to be printed. He also presented an address of colored citizens of Chica 0, Illinois, dated April 23, 1866. expressive of their gratitude to the Senate and HoRep for the passage of the civil rights bill recently vetoed by the POTUS; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. JOHNSON. I present the petition of Mary Good, an aged lady of Baltimore, who states thather daughter, an only child, on whom she de ended for support, was killed on or about the 16th of Au est, 1865, by a shot fired by a sentinel intende ip have been aimed at a dese rter from the military service of the U.S. She states that she was wholly dependent on this daughter, and thinks she has made out a case for the interposition of congress, either to vote her a sma 1 sum of money in gross to support her, she being upward of 70 years of age, or to give her a pension. I move the reference of the petition to the ComPensions. The motion was agreed to. Mr. MORGAN. I present the memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of NewYork against the proposed tax of 5 centsper, pound upon cotton. I ask that the memorial e referred to the ComFinance, and inasmuch as the subject is one of very considerable interest at this time and as this memorial contains some valuable information in relation to the importation of cotton into Liver 001 for several years from India, Egy t, and razil, I move that it be printed forte use of the Senate. The motion was agreed to. Mr. COWAN presented a etition of me chanics and laborers in manu acturing establishments, praying for such an adjustment of the tariff of duties on imports as will afford ample protection to the In or and industry of the countr; which was referred to the comFinance. Mr. SUMNER presented the petition of Hopestill Bigelow, praying to be allowed 11 years back pay, claimed to be due him as a pensioner of the war of 1812; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer the petition of H. W. Johnson president of Dickinson college, Carlisle, lennsylvania, asking, in the name of 4 million freedmen who now call for education, that education which slavery a, and in the name of a still larger number being taken u offipomwhitioa, " who need that instruction which slavery withheld, and finally in the name of justice, humanity, and religion, asking that free education be secured to all the children of the U.S. I do not know that there is any committee of this body to which this petition can be, with any particular propriety, referred, but the ComJudiciary is that to which all petitions go which have no othernatural destination, and I therefore move its reference to the ComJudiciary. The motion was agreed to. Mr. YATES presented a petition of citizens of Illinois, praying for an increase of the duty on importations of foreign wool; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also presented a memorial of women of Illinois, praying that universal suffrage and enfranchisement may be granted withoutregard to sex; which was referred to the JtComReconstruction. Mr. NYE presented the memorial of Richard Chenery, praying for compensation for beef cattle furnished for the use of destitute and suffering Indians in California, in the years 1851 and 1852, under contract with the then Indian commissioner for the northern district of that State; which was referred to the ComIndAffrs. PAPERS WITHDRAWN. On motion of