Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS. Mr. RAMSEY presented the petition of Ben jamin Franklin, ate aprivate in company H, 2nd Minnesota cavalry, who lost bot hands and both feet while absent from his regiment on a furlou h, praying for a pension; which was reform to the ComPensions. Mr. HOWE presented 2 petitions of citizens of Wisconsin, praying for an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Fox river, in that State; which were referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. FESSENDEN presented a petition of 264 glass blowers, and others, employed in the glass manufacturin business in the 3rd congressional district O Pennsylvania, praying for an increased tariff on imported g assware to protect their labor and prevent the serious injury to and suspension of their business threatened by the large orders for foreign glassware being filled under the present insufficient tariff; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. CLARK presented the petition of Lou isa Baird, praying for compensation for her interest in the steamboat Sovereign, which she alleges was seized and sold at Cairo, Illinois undera decree of confiscation of the U.S. district court for that district; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. JOHNSONpreseuted the petition of N. S. Davis, and 19 other medical Gentlemen, representing themselves to be a committee appointed by the American Medical Association, recently in session in Baltimore, praying that the medical and surgical history of the late war, prepared in the office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, as a work of great use to the public and to the medical profession, be printe by the Government; Wiich was referred to the ComPrintin. Mr. WISSON presented the petition of Bre vet Brigadier General S. D. Sturgis and other officers of the U.S. Army stationed in Texas, stating that they understand the act authorizing an increase in the commutation of officers rations expired on the 1stof may, 1866, and praying for its renewal; which was referre to the ComMilAffrs . On motion of