Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. ANTHONY presented the memorial of Edwin M. Snow, M. D., of Providence, RhdIsland, remonstrating against the passage of the JtResolution (S.R.No. 88) providing quarantine regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of Asiatic cholera, and praying that a thorough investigation of quarantine regulations may be instituted, with a view of retorming alleged flagrant abuses existing in some of our principal seaports, in order that. a uniform system of quarantine may be established, founded upon the true nature of diseases; which was referred to the ComCommerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. WADE presented the petition of Joseph L. Smith, and others, praying for an appropriation for the establisment of an industrial normal school in the DistCol; which was referred to the ComDistCol. Mr. SUMNER presented a petition of white and colored citizens of Pennsylvania, praying that the Constitution of the U.S. he so amended that there shall be no legislation within the U.S. against any portion of the inhabitants on account of race or color, and that all such legislation now existing be declared void; which was referred to the JtCom on reconstruction., Mr. CLARK. I offer the petition of the officers of the saving s banks in ilanchester, NewHampshire, in which they say that their institutions are created for the purpose of receiving small sums of the poor, and loaned for the sole benefit of the depositors, and they go on to say: "It is the belief of your petitioners that Congress did not intend to tai the small savings of the poor, averaging to eachde ositorin theseinstitutions only about 200: ollnrs when theydo not tax the accumulatedproperty of the rich; and further, that said tax throws not only an unusual, but in the present prosperouse ondition of our country an unnecessary, liurden only upon the poorer classes of the community, and createsa discrimination against the laboringe assesas compared With those of allluent circumstances contrary to the whole spirit and intent of the internalreveno act, and contrary to equity and justice." I ask that this petition may be referred to the ComFinance. It was so referred. Mr. KIRKWOOD presented a tition of citizens of Linn count, Iowa, praying that a pension may be grante to Mrs. erusha Wilter, widow of Dr. Amos Wilter, late surgeon of the 7th regiment Iowa infantry, but who was not regular] mustered into the service; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. HOWE presented a petition of citizens of Wisconsin, praying for the enactment of just and equal laws for the regulation of interState insurances of all kinds; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. JOHNSON. I present the petition of David L. Swain, a citizen of the State of NCarolina, stating what he supposes to be a grievous oppression of that State in consequence of the manner in which the tax imposed upon the State was levied. He goes into a statement to show how disproportionate will be the amount to be paid by that State in its present condition in comparison with the other States that have not been in rebellion, and he asks whether the act of 1862 cannot be repealed or modified so as to meet the grievance. I move the reference of the petition to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. REPORTS BE COMMITTEES.