The PRESIDENT protempore. The rule requires it. Mr. MORGAN Presented a petition of the Adams ExPress Company, praying for the issue to that company of Treasury notes in place of the notes lost by it by the sinking of the steamer Bio Rio, March 22, 1863; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. MORGAN. I also Present the petition of all the sugar refineries in NewYork, in which they rePresent that there is invested in the U.S. some 35 million dollars of capital in the sugar refining business, and that it employs about 9,000 men. They state that the existing laws make a discrimination against their manufacture, equiva lent to 3/4ths of a cent a pound. They also state that there is a discrimination in favor of Louisiana sugar which works greatly to the refiners' disadvantage. They therefore ask that the tariff bill now under consideration may be so amended as to relieve the refiners from this discrimination, and submit a detailed list of rates of duties to which, in their opinion, they are entitled. I ask that this petition may be referred 46 the ComFinance. It was so referred. Mr. YATES Presented a memorial of citizens of Illinois, remonstrating against the enactment of any law that will curtail the Present circulation of legal tender notes; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. YATES. I also Present the petition of John Mathers, of Illinois, praying, 1st, for the repeal of the act of Congress authorizing a reduction of the currency; 2nd, the repeal of the act creating national banks; 3rd, the redemption of bonds bearing interest with legal tender notes, and the prohibition of the SecyTreasury from issuing additional bonds; 4th, to prohibit the Secretary from converting bonds bearing interest in currency to bonds bearing interest in gold; 5th, to make greenbacks a legal tender in fo. interest upon, and redemption of, all bonds; 6th, to cause the SecyTreasury to distribute gold used in the redemption o currency or bonds equitably; 7th, to give the people a safe, uniform, and permanent national currency. I move its reference to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to.Mr. MORRILL Presented the petition of E. B. Litchfield, President of the StPaul and Pacific Railroad Company, praying for a grant of the same number of acres of j per mile to that company as was granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and the same sum in money or bonds as was granted to the Union Pacific Railroad ofor that portion of the line of said road lying east of the Rocky mountains; which was referred to the ComPacificRR.Mr. TRUMBULL Presented a petition of R. J. Oglesby, Governor of. Illinois, and others, for the restoration of S. Livingstone reese, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, to the active list; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. REPorts of COMMITTEES.