The PRESIDENT protempore. The unfinished business will be laid aside by common consent instead of losing its place, if there be no bjcction. The question is on the motion oft e Senfrom hdIsland. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, lain ComWhole, proceeded to consider House bill No. 667. It provides that the provision of section 4 of the act to amend an not entitled “An act to establish and equalize the grade of line officers of the U.S. Navy, ” approved July 16, 1862, requiring that no officer in the naval service shall be promoted to a higher grade upon the active list until he has been examined by a board of naval surgeons and renounced physically qualified to perform all his duties at sea, shall not be construed to up l to and exclude from the promotion to which e would otherwise be regularly entitled any officer in whose case such medical board shall report that his physical disqualification was occasioned by wounds received in the line of his duty, and that such wounds do not incapacitate him for other duties in the grade to which he shall be promoted. The rate of pay of officers of the Navy on the retired list and not on duty nor retired on furlough pay, in cases where such rate of pay has not heretofore been fixed by law, is to be 1/2 of the pay to which such officers would be entitled if on duty at sea. The pay of clerks of navy yards, of clerks to commundants of navy yards, and of clerks to naval store keeers is increased 25%. upon their present salaries, from the commencement of the present fiscal year. The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine corps to allow, subject to the approval of the SecyNavy, such credits for losses of property and funds as have occurred during the late rebellion and as shall occur hereafter, and which shall appear to them by such vouchers and testimondy as they shall require to have been occasionc by accidental circumstances, or a condition 0 things over which the officers had no coritrol and for which they are not justly respon sib e. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a 3rd reading, read the 3rd time, and passed. PAPERS WITHDRAWN. On motion of Mr. DAVIS, it was Ordered That Augustus Hubbell have leave to withdrawliis petitionand other papersfrom the files of the Senate.