The PRESIDENT protempore presented a communication from the may or of the city of Washington; which was reby the Secretary, as follows: Wssmsoroiv Cirr. D. o. Maroas Orrien, Crrr HALL, January 6. 1866. Sm: I have the hopor. in compliance with an act of the Councils of this city, approved December 16, 86"), to transmit through you to the Senate of the U.S. the result of the election held on Thursday. 2lst December, ” to ascertain the o)iiiion of the people of Washington on the question o negro. 2u1ifrfllc, "at which the vote was6, 6, segregated as o ows: Against cgro suffrage. 6, 591 For negro l suffrage. 35 Maiority against negro suffrage. 6. 36this vote, the largestwith but 2 exceptionsever polled in this cit. couclusively shows the unanimityof sentiment of the people of Washington in opposition to the extensionof the right of suffrage to that class: and that its integrity maybe properly a prencipatd by the Senate, I give the aggregate of the vote castat the 5 elections immediately preceding for mayor: No others, in addition to this mine riof 35, are to be found in this community wofavort o extensionof the right of suffrage to the class and in the manner proposed. exceptingthosewho have already memprialized the Senatein its favor and whoI with but little association, less sympathy, and no community of interest or aflinity with the citizens of Washington, receive here from the General Government temporary employment, and having at the national capital a resience limited only tot eduration of a residential term. claim and invariably exercise the eleo active franchise elsewhere. The people of this city, claiming an independence of thought and the right to express it, have thus given a grave and deliberate utter aneoinanun exaggcrated way to their opinion and fooling on this subject. This unparalleled unanimity o sentiment which pervades all classes of this communit in opposition to the extension of the right of suffrage to that class engenders an earnesthope that Congress, in according to this expression of their wishes the respect and consideration they would as individual members yield to those whom they immediately represent. would abstain from the exercise of its n disolute power and so avert an impending future apparently so objectionable to those over whom, by the fundamental law of the land, they have " exclusive jurisdiction.” h much respect, I am, sir, your own and the Senatesobedientsrrvzint, RICHARD WALLACH. MW. Hon. L. F. S. Fosrsn. President of the Senateof the U.S.