Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Mr. YATES presented 2 petitions of citizens of Illinois, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased reve nue from imports, for other purposes; which were ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. WILSON presented 3 petitions of officers of the U.S. Army, and 7 petitions of officers of the Army and Marine corps of the U.S., praying for an increase of pay; which were referred to the ComMilAffrs .Mr. WILSON. I also present the petition of John H. Cunningham and a large number of other persons employed in the Government Printing Office, 119 of whom have been in the public service in the Army, praying that the benefits of the JtResolution now pending before Congress giving 20%. additional pay to clerks, mes sengers, &c., may be extended to them. I move the reference of this petition to the ComFinance, which I believe has the subject under consideration. The motion was agreed to. Mr. CHANDLER presented 2 memorials of citizens of Michigan, remonstrating against the passage of any act authorizing the curtailment of the national currency, or a return within a limited time to specie payments, and against compelling national banks to redeem their notes in NewYork; or prohibiting national banks from paying or receiving interest on bank balances; which were referred to the ComFinance. He also presented a memorial of Charles J. Gallagher, late a private soldier in company G, 1st Michigan Veteran volunteer cavalry regiment, praying that he may be allowed the amount paid by him for transportation from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also presented a petition of citizens of Michigan, praying for an appropriation for the construction of certain piers and a lighthouse at the entrance of Thunder Bay river into Thunder bay; which was referred to the ComCommerce. He also presented resolutions of the Cham ber of Commerce of Milwaukee, in favor of a ship canal across the StClair flats; which were referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. RAMSEY. I present a communication in the nature of a petition from some ladies who represent themselves as folders in the postoffice Dept, claiming that they have been omitted in the JtResolution which has been i." by the HoRep providing for increased compensation to the civil employees of the Government, and asking to be embraced in that resolution. I move its reference to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER presented a petition of citizens of Pennsylvania, remonstrating against the passage of any act authorizing the curtailment of the national currency, or a return within a limited time to specie payments, and against compelling national banks to redeem their notes in NewYork, or prohibiting national banks from paying or receiving interest on bank balances; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SUMNER. I also present the petition of the Pennsylvania Anti Slavery Society, signed by their president, James Mott, by their corresponding secretary, Benjamin C. Bacon, and by their recording secretary, E. M. Davis, in which they earnestly pray Congress to prepare such an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to be presented to the several States for ratification, as will forever prevent any distinction in the right of suffrage on account of race or color. I ask the reference of this petition to the JtCom on Reconstruction. It was so referred. Mr. SUMNER. I also present 11 petitions from citizens of NCarolina, who call themselves “loyal colored citizens of NCarolina, ” in which they ask Congress to pass into a law the bill introduced into the HoRep on the 13th of december, 1866, by Hon. THADDEUs STEvens, of Pennsylvania, to establish civil government in NCarolina, or to pass some bill similar in character, so that civil government may be speedily established on a thoroughly loyal basis, and NCarolina restored to her former relations in the Union. I ask the ref. erence of these petitions to the JtCom on Reconstruction. They were so referred. Mr. JOHNSON presented a petition of Joseph Humphries, representing that he was a gunner's mate on board the U.S. schooner Shark when she was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia river on the 10th of September, 1846, and praying for compensation for the losses off. by him in consequence of that disaster; which was referred to the ComClaims.Mr. HARRIS presented 6 petitions of citizens of NewYork, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes; which were ordered to lie upon the table. He also presented the petition of Thomas Little and others, pensioners, praying for a modification of the pension act of June 16, 1866; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. SHERMAN presented a petition of citizens of Ohio, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to.; provide increased revenub from and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. WILLIAMS presented resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon, instructing the Senators in Congress from that State to use their influence to prevent the repeal of the act of July 4, 1864, and the substitution of an assay office in Oregon for the branch mint provided for in that act; which were ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. MORGAN presented a petition of citizens of Lancaster, Erie county, NewYork, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.