Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALs. The PRESIDENT protempore presented the memorial of John Jacobi, late chaplain of Kaloraina hospital, praying for compensation for loss of property by fire at that hospital on the 24th O December, 1865; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. SUMNER. I offer the petition of Jo seph Taylor, of Baltimore, in which he says that he fervently prays and beseechcs congress to take into consideration the suffering condition of over 20,000 journeymen cigarmakers in the U.S., and he asks Congress to increase the duties on imported cigars to 3 dollars per 1,000 and 50%. advalorem; and also to reduce the nty 0n Havana tobacco 18 and 3 quarter cents perpound. Imove the reference of the petition to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer a.petition of cigarmakers of Massachusetts, in which they set forth at length their grievances from the ins quality of the laws regulating the cigar trade of t a U.S., and they ask remedies, which they set forth at length, to the end that they may be relieved from the evils comlained of, and they say at the end “ the only casible plan is to put a didacttaxon the leaf, for which your petitioners will ever pray.” I move the reference of this petition also to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer a etition, numerously signed by citizens of An over, in Massachusetts, prayin Congress to impose such conditions uponta rebel States as shall punish treason, at. least with ineligibility to 0thee and loss of power, and reward loyalty with confidence and honor; and which shall demand, as an evidence of sincere loyalty and good faith on the part of those States, the abolition of all distinctions, in their constitutions and laws, on account of color or race. As that subject is now pending before the Senate, I move that this petition lie on the table. The motion was agreed to. Mr. KIRKWOOD presented a etition of citizens of Keokuk, Iowa, praying tiir the passage of a general bankrupt law; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. GRIMES. I present the petition of officers and late officers and seamen of the Mississippi flotilla, who represent that they entered the public service at the commencement of the war and continued in it until its close, and that they have not received that proportion of prize money resulting from cap tures made by the flotilla that they were cu titled to under the laws when they entered the service, nor such an amount as was received by those who were associated with them in the same service upon the Atlantic ocean, and praying for relief. I move that the petition be referred to the ComNavAffrs. The motion was agreed to. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.