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ency of suspending the interest claims the prn-
| cipal Of which has already been paid.
MIR. STANLEY objected. He said il was inn
proper to interfere with the subject while the Sc
lect committee has II IN charge.
LETTERS TO FOREIGN NAVAL STATIONS.
Mr.. BRIGGS asked leave to Introduce joint res
olution, which was read for information: That the
Secretary of the Navy be authorized TO send under
the frank of his Department, private letters and pa
pers addressed TO officers and men belonging TO the
navy employed ON foreign stations.
Objection was made to the introduction of the
resolution.
The House then adjourned.
The following papers were to-day presented un-
By Mr.. HENRY: The petition of William Hill,
Rayal Earle, and one hundred and fifty 1--we other
citizens OF Windham county, Vermont, that sla-
very and the slave trade be prohibited by law in
all the Territories of the United States.
Also, the petition of the same persons, that no
State may hereafter be admitted into the Union
whose constitution does not expressly prohibit sa-
very.
Also, the petition of the same persons, that the
seat OF the General Government be removed unless
all laws authorizing slavery and the slave trade in
the District Of Columbia be repealed
Also, the petition Of the same, that persons here
after claimed fugitive slaves shall, only in the
State where the claimant resides, be delivered to
the person claiming them but upon the finding OF
jury -
ture OF New York in favor of the reduction of letter
postage, and also for a law of Congress making
newspaper postage free in each county where the
same is printed. Referred to the Committee on the
Post Office and Post Roads
BY Mr.. SACKETT: The petition Of three hun
dred and sixty citizens of Pultneyville, Wayne
county, New York in favor Of the improvement Of
Pultneyville harbor, on Lake Ontario. Referred to
the Committee on Commerce.
BY Mr.. TAYLOR: The petition of r. G. Weight
man, John w. Maury, Franck Taylor, George x
Thomas Parker, and forty others, citizens of Wash
ington, praying Congress to enclose and improve
certain public grounds therein named. Referred to
the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
BY H. ID. MOORE The petition from Thomas
w, Vaux and other citizens OF Philadelphia city
and county, praying for the establishment and pro-
lection of freedom in the Territories of the United
States. Referred to the Committee on Territories
BY Mr.. HOWE: The petition of Robert Patter-
son and one hundred and ifty-four others, citizens
OF Mercy county, Pennsylvania, praying Congress
to establish an agricultural bureau in one Of the
neutrality-suspicious. of the Government at Wash
ington. Referred.
Also, the petition of John Robinson and twenty
three Others officers and soldiers OF the war OF 1872
and other citizens of the county of Lawrence Penn
sylvania, praying Congress to extend 10 them the
same Hberahty that has been extended to the off,
GERS and soldiers Of the Mexican war. Referred.
Also, the petition of James Scott and forty eight
others, citizens of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania,
praying Congress to provide by law, that whenever
person shall be arrested fugitive slave in any
State other than that in which he is alleged to be
held to service, he shall not be delivered to the
claimant or his agent, except upon the finding of a
jury that he is the slave of the claimant Referred
Also, the petition of William Smith and twelve
others, citizens of Venango county, Pennsylvania,
praying Congress to repeal all laws by which
slavery or the slave trade is authorized and sane
toned in the city of Washington the District Of
Columbia; and that in the event of their n-repea
the seat of the national Government may be
moved to some more suitable location. Referred
Also, the petition Of Daniel Gregg and fifty six
others, citizens of Venango county, Pennsylvania,
praying Congress to abolish slavery and the slave
trade in all the Territories belonging to the United
States. Referred.
BY Mr.. SCHERMERHORN: The memorial Of
officers of the United States army stationed in the
Territory Of Oregon asking for an increase Of their
pay and allowances.
Also, the memorial of John F. Schermerhorn,
praying for reimbursement of advances made as
commissioner to the Six Nations of Indians; and
also for mileage as such commissioner
The petition of eighty seven citizens of Pttsford,
county of Monroe, New York, asking that the rates
of duty on foreign iron, which were collected under
the tariff act OF 1916 at the time of its enactment
be made specific.
By Mr.. BRIGGS: The petition of Dudley b. Full
Ter Co., and Others merchants in the city of New
York, praying that the rates of duty upon foreign
iron, which were collected under the tariff act of
1886 at the time ofits enactment, be now made spe
CHIC, SO that their interest may be shielded from
the ruinous fluctuations growing out of the present
ad valorem system.
Also, the petition of ]. +. Mackie and others,
merchants Of the city of New York, for the same
Referred to the Committee Of Ways and Means.
By Mr.. NELSON The petition of Thomas j.
Wilcox and other citizens of Rockland county, New
York, the subject Of cheap postage. Referred TO
the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.