Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. SUMNER presented the petition of citizens of NewYork, praying that no State may be admitted as n governin partner in the Union without ade uute security being obtaineda ainst an renewe attempt to secede, &c.; which was reerred to the JtComReconstruction. He also presented a petition of citizens of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, praying for the adoption at such an amendment to the Constitution as will forever prevent any State from making any distinction in civil rights and privileges among the naturalized citizens of the U.S. residing within its limits, or among persons born on its soil, on account of race, color, or dese ent; which was referred to the JtComReconstruction. e also presented a petition of citizens of the U.S. residing in Richmond, Virginia, Ralei h, NCarolina, Mobile and untsville, labama, journalists, editors, and publishers, praying for the adoption of an international copyriht law by this Government and that of Great ritaiii; which was referred to the ComForRel. He also presented a similar petition from citizens of Massachusetts, NewHampshire, and NewYork; which was referred to the ComForRel. Mr. WADE presented 5 etitions of citizens of Ohio, representing that t ie wool growers in Ohio are not sufficiently protected against for; eign importations of woo, and praying for an increase of duties on imported wool; which were referred to the ComFinance. Mr. NESMITH presented 3 petitions of citizens of Oregon, praying for the establishment of a mail route between Dalles, Wase o county, Oregon, and Boise City, in the Territory of Idaho; which were referred to the ComPostOffices. Mr. RAMSEY presented a petition of citizens of Pierce county, Wisconsin, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Red Win, Minnesota, to River Falls, Wisconsin; which was referred to the ComPostO iiices. Mr. KIRKWOOD presented resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of grantin to the Iowa branch of the Union Pacific railroad the same aid, under like restrictions and limitations, as has been granted to the Kansas branch of that railroad; which were referred to the ComPacificRR. He also presented resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the establishment of a national Bureau of Education; which were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. WILSON presented a petition of officers of the U.S. Army, praying for an increase of pay; which was reerred to the ComMilAffr and the Militia. He also presented the tition of Austin Bingham, and others, late 5 ares belonging to the estate of the late G. W. P. Custis, deceased, who by his will were to receive from the estate a comfortable subsistence during their lives pra ng to be allowed a title of ten acres of land each on the Arlington estate socalled, in consideration of the terms of the will; which was referred to the ComJudiciary. Mr. VANWINKLE presented the petitidn of D. B. Allen, agent of the Ocean Steamship Line running between NewYork and SanFrancise o, via Panama, praying for compensation for services rendered to the postoffice Dept by that line in the transportation of the U.S. mail during the years 1864 and 1865; which was referred to the ComPostOffices. He also presented a petition of citizens of WestVirginia praying for the establishment of semi annual terms of the U.S. district court in the city of Parkersburg, in that State; which was referred to the ComJudiciaryn. Mr. w LLIAMS presented 2 petitions of citizens of Oregon, praying for the establish men of a mail route from Portland to Silver ton, in that State; which were referred to the ComPostOffices. Mr. CRESWELL prdsented the petition of Messrs. Sehley and Emery, of Baltimore, Maryland, praying that a pension may be nted to Mrs. Agnes W. Laughlin, widow ofWilliam Lau hlin, late of company C, 3rd Maryland cava ry, who was drowne by the sinking of the U.S. steamer I orth America, in the month of December, 1864, while absent from his regiment on a furlough on account of sickness contracted in the service; which was referred to the ComPensions. He also presented the petition of George P. Remsberg, praying for an appropriation for the supportan education of his son, Charles Reme ber, who lost his right arm bv a volley fired by 51c rovost guard in the public street in the city of p Frederick, Maryland, on the 13th of April, 1865; which was referred to the ComcClaims. Mr. SHERMAN. I present 5 etitions from persons engaed in mining, manu actures, commerce, agricu ture, and the mechanic arts, in which they relate that the excise tax is disproportionate to the customs duties on many similar European products, so as not only to striAmerican products of the protection intened to be given to them, but to offer direct and large premiums upon the importation of foreign articles a result not contemplated when the existing revenue laws were framed. They complain that many branches of industry have been suspended by this state of affnirs, and they remonstrate against any alteration in the present rates of duties on imports which shalrlead to large importations of the products of forei manufactories. They claim that manyo the internal duties are much larger than the corresponding duties on imported articles, and that alterations should be made to put them at least on an equality with the labor of foreign countries. They complain also that the fluctuation and variation in the amount of the circulating medium is so great, there being no law fixing it, tends to derange all their business calculations, so that they cannot entpr into any business with the certainty that their values will not he suddenly changed by this fluctuating financial policy. I ask the reference of these petitions to the ComFinance. They were so referred.