Skip Skip PETITIONS AND Memorials. The PRESIDENT protempore. The Chair has received and been requested to present to the Senate the petition of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company, through their president, respectfully asking Congress to reduce the impost duty on iron rails used for railroads to 1/2 of a cent per pound in gold; on steel rails for railroads to one cent per Eou.nd in gold; on iron tires and axles to one of a cent per pound in gold; on steel tires and axles to one cent per pound in gold; and on all frogs, crossings, and plates made of steel, and used exclusively for railroads, to one cent per pound in gold. As the committee having charge of this subject have reported a bill, this petition, if there be no objection, will be received and laid upon the table.Mr. LANE presented a memorial of Demp sey Reece, praying to be relieved from any further performance of his contract to carry the mail on route No. 12008, between Newcastle and Mechanicsburg, in indiana; which was referred to the ComPostOffices. Mr. WILLEY. I offer the memorial of certain citizens of WestVirginia, asking Congress to propose for ratification to the several States an amendment to the Constitution substantially to the effect that no inequality among citizens on account of birth, race, color, previous inequality, or previous non-residence beyond the preceding year, shall be made or recognized by the laws of the U.S.; also to remove, by immediate legislation, any such inequality from the DistCol, the Territories, and the ten unrestored States, and to take all necessary measures for peace, order, justice, and the security of life, liberty, and property in the same. I ask its reference to the JtCom on Reconstruction, It was so referred. Mr. WILLEY. I also offer the memorial of certain citizens of WestVirginia, praying Congress to refrain from 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 also praying Congress to refrain from the enact.ment of any law compelling the national banks to redeem their notes in NewYork, or prohib iting national banks from paying and receiving interest on bank balances. that this memorial be referred to the ComFinance. It was so referred. Mr. BUCKALEW presented 2 petitions of journeymen cigar makers and manufacturers of cigars of the 2nd and 4th congressional districts of Pennsylvania, praying for a specific tax of 5 dollars per 1,000 on domestic cigars, and that the present tariff on imported cigars may remain unchanged, and that Congress will alter the present system of stamping by selling the stamps to the manufacturers at 5 oper 1,000, and increase the penalty for violating the internalrevenue laws; which were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SUMNER. I present the petition of the artists of Boston, in which they ask for the imposition of a specific duty on imported oil paintings of $100 each, with an addition of ten%. on the excess of value above $1,000 each. They say that this will increase the revenue of the Government and afford a needed protection to native art. In presenting this petition I deem it my duty to say that while I.with its object I doubt seriously whether the petitioners do not ask for too large a specific duty on foreign pictures. I ask its reference to the ComFinance. Mr. FESSENDEN. I think it had better be laid upon the table. All matters of that sort relating to the tariff should now be laid amendment to the Constitution of the on the table, because the committee have reported on the subject.