Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.Mr. LANE. I desire to Present the petition of Mrs. Margaret A. Itussell, praying for compensation for certain lots of sugar taken by our Army at Wicksburg, in July, 1863. I know nothing in reference to this case except the facts stated in the petition. I move its reference to the ComClaims. It was so referred.Mr. COWAN Presented a petition of members of the bar of the city and county of Phil. adelphia, praying for an increase of the salary of the judge of the U.S. district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania; which was referred to the ComJudiciary.Mr. MORGAN. I Present a memorial of surgeons' stewards, paymasters' stewards, and others, who have served in the U.S. Navy during the rebellion, in which they state that by the laws and regulations existing during the rebellion, and in force at the Present time, their services were not credited to the States to which they severally belonged in the quota of men furnished for. suppression of the rebellion; 2nd, that they did not receive the State or Government bounty, not being enlisted; 3rd, they were appointed under the rules of the Navy Dept and selected for their several grades by special qualifica.tions for the position occupied, and their term of service was not for a specified time, depending on the exigencies of the service; that the remuneration was at rates long established and before the advance of prices of all the necessaries of life and the depreciation of the currency, and is altogether inadequate to the support of themselves and families; that the enlisted men received both State and Governoment bounty and further received an increase of pay in 1864, while these memorialists equally shared with them the dangers and privations of the naval service and have received neither bounty nor increase of pay. Under these circumstances they ask the consideration of Congress. I ask the reference of this memorial to the ComNavAffrs. It was so referred. Mr. SAULSBURY Presented the petition of Joaquin dePalma, praying for compensation for property taken from his family by U.S. troops under the command of GenlSherman at Winnsboro, SCarolina, on the 21st of February, 1865; which was referred to the ComForRel. Mr. SHERMAN Presented 4 petitions of citizens of Ohio, praying for the passage of House bill No. 718, to provide increased reve nue from imports, and for other oposes; which were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SUMNER Presented 3 petitions of citizens of Philadelphia, praying for such an amendment of the Constitution of the U.S. as will prohibit legislation in any State making a distinction among the citizens thereof on account of color, race, or birth; which were referred to the JtCom on Reconstruction. He also Presented the petition of Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, praying for an investigation into the contract made under an act of Congress with the SecyState in 1845, for the manufacture of stereotype plates for the volumes of the Statutes at Large, and for the supply of copies of the same, which contract, it is alleged, is ofaffected by the proposed codification of the laws; which was referred to the ComPrintg. PAPERS WITH DRAWN. On motion of Mr. HARRIS, it was Ordered, That Frances Ann McCauley, have leave to withdraw from the files of the Senate her petition and accompanying papers, praying for compensation for judicial services performed by her late husband, Ioaniel S. McCauley, as consul general at oli. in the Barbary States, and Alexandria, in Egyp REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.