Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT protempore. The Chair has received and been requested to Present to the Senate the petition of George W. Staples, praying for an amendment of the law relating to national banking associations. The peti.tion, sets forth that it is the practice of the banks in the city of NewYork to certify to the checks of many persons, brokers princi. pally, doing a large business with the banks when those persons have no funds in the bank, and that such a practice is of very disastrous effect upon the " and upon the public, stockholders and others. He prays for a law that shall subject to penalties officers who thus certify when there are no funds in the banks. This petition, if there be no objection, will be received, together with the bill accompanying it, and referred to the ComFinance. Mr. POMEROY Presented a resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation to enable the Dept of agriculture to make a scientific investigation of the disease among the cattle of that and adjoining States, commonly known as the “Spanish fever;” which was referred to the ComAg, and ordered to be printed. Mr. MORGAN Presented a petition of merchants of NewYork, praying for amendments to the warehouse bill, approved March 16, 1866, requiring goods, wares, and merchandise deposited in bond in any bonded warehouse to be withdrawn for consumption in one year or be subject to an additional duty of ten%., so as not to subject tea, coffee, sugar, spices, and the raw produce of the East Indies to the additional duty of ten%.; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also Presented a memorial of the direct ors and stockholders of the Dorchester Union Freestone Company of NewYork city, remon strating against the tax of 4 dollars per ton on imported building stone; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also Presented a petition of the gaugers employed at the customhouse, port of NewYork, praying for an increase of compensation; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. DAVIS Presented the petition of Parker.Qu.in.ce”, praying for compensation for services as collector of internalrevenue in NCarolina; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. CONNESS Presented a petition of citizens of Petaluma, California, praying for the passage of an act for the settlement and determination of the titles to the streets, alleys, squares or plazas, and lots on the public lands in that city; which was ordered to lie upon the table, a reported. bill covering the case having been. Mr. WILSON Presented a petition of officers of the Army and Marine corps of the U.S., praying for an increase of pay by restoring the commutation of the Army ration to 50 cents; which was ordered to lie on the table. He also Presented 3 petitions of seamen, firemen, coal passers, and maines, praying for a bounty of $100 a year, or 8 and 1/3rd dollars per month for each month of service; which were referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. CHANDLER Presented a memorial of a committee of the National Association of State and City School Superintendents, held in the city of Washington; DistCol, praying for the establishment of a national Bureau of Education; which was referred to the ComJudiciary. He also Presented a petition of employees in the Executive Depts of the Government, praying that the tenure of offices now held in the civil service by all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who were permanently disabled by wounds received or by diseases contracted in the service of the country during the late war may be changed so as to continue during good.which was referred to the ComJudiciary. Mr. CATTELL Presented a memorial of the officers of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, remonstrating against the repeal of the law, which allowed the importation, duty free, of all books, maps, &c., intended for public libraries, colleges, and other literary institutions; which was ordered to lie upon the table, the Senate having acted upon the subect. Mr. LANE Presented a petition of employees in the Executive Depts of the Government, praying that the tenure of offices now held in the civil service by all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who were permanently disabled by wounds received or disease contracted in the service of the country during the late war may be fixed to continue during good behavior; which was referred to the joint select Committee on Rotrenchment. Mr. ROSS Presented a resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the establishment of a daily mail route from Troy to Leaven worth in that State; which was referred to the ComPostOffices. He also Presented a resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment to certain non-commissioned officers and privates of company G, 8th regiment Kansas Veteran volunteers, of the extra bounty to which they were entitled under the terms of their enlistment, and which they failed to receive through the fraud or negligence of an officer of the U.S.; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also Presented resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of an increase of the pensions to the surviving soldiers of the war of 1812; which were referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. YATES Presented the petition of Nancy A. Stocks, widow of Reuben Stocks, private company K, 18th regiment, Illinois volunteer infantry, praying to be allowed a pension; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN Presented the petition of Susan Ten oWilliamson, widow of Captain Charles L. Williamson, U.S. Navy, praying to be allowed a pension; which was referred to the ComPensions. He also Presented the petition of Charles S. Woodruff, praying to be indemnified for certain U.S. bonds and a compound interest note, which he alleges were accidentally destroyed by him in the burning of certain old letters; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. NORTON Presented a resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of a triweekly mail route from Man kato, in Blue Earth county, through Medalia and Jackson, to Sioux city, in Iowa, via Spirit lake; which was referred to the ComPostOffices. Mr. SHERMAN Presented a petition of merchants of New?. praying that tea, coffee, sugar, spices, and the raw products of the East and West Indies may not be subject to the additional ten%. duty if they remain in bond over one year, and that when withdrawn for consumption they shall only pay duty on the actual amount withdrawn; which was referred to the ComFinance. PAPERS WITH DRAWN.